8 culture shocks after moving from Sweden to the USA 

They never take theiir shoes off, so maybe thats why its not so nesesary there ;)

True words. We want to take care of our shoes.

Shoehorns are amazing! I am working on an extra long design and will have the local smith make it for me. It will be glorious!

@@soulis1000 I grew up in the US. Never wore shoes in the house.

I'll start using them when I am 80 and too stiff to bend down.

We and the Japanese then. I wounder if the Japanese use shoehorns as well...

Shoes indoors is a crime against humanity in Sweden.

A crime against Jantelagen.

@@michaelpettersson4919 most Europeans don't wear shoes indoors...

I'm Swedish and I never use a shoehorn. I think it's easier to take shoes off the regular way.

Given what shoes cost here we should get a shoehorn with every purchase over 500kr. I have two at home, guests might need a horn too!

This. At least employees in Sweden get a wage it's possible to live on and won't be forced to work two or three jobs. (I know there are people who do work several jobs here as well, but it's not the norm for low paying jobs.)

Im sure the staff gets paid a lot compared to what they get in America. They dont really pay normal service jobs that well. That's why here in Denmark you can be in a nice house/flat with a nice car on a waiters salary. Even working at MacD you could be doing well. This is so not the case for Americans. Hence the tipping system that no one else use... 😉

@@ebbhead20 The same applies in Sweden.

Also if you look at it from a work environment view shorter opening hours also means people don’t have to work all the time. If you’re used to the opening hours it’s honestly quite easy to plan accordingly. Knowing myself I would probably waste too much time in the grocery store if I knew it was open all the time, I’d not be as careful and forget stuff. Because you know it’s open any way. Where I live only the grocery stores, one cafe and some pizza places are open on Sundays. Even on Saturday’s the opening hours are limited for those stores who are closed st Sunday’s, most of them close at 14.00. Does it sometimes cause a bit of stress? Sure. But it also ensures that the workers have their days off and that we can have a bigger variety of stores. It also makes it possible for small businesses to operate.

that's not the point. One can have a decent work/life balance getting paid nicely while the business makes good profit, too. The problem in USA is they give in to greed. Both employee and employer.

Det där var nästan en Göteborgare 🤣🤣🤣!

Hahahaha! xD

Herregud vilken bra vits! Nu blidde jag glad.

kul ATT se dig. Lär henne inte fel svenska ! !

Fun fact: I talspråk är "Kul å se dig" faktiskt en korrekt uttalsvariation, och det mer ursprungliga sättet att uttala ordet. Detta "att" är nämligen grammatiskt ett helt annat ord än "att" i meningen "jag tycker att det är kul"! Källa: språket i p1

😅 Special gift boxes for christmas!

For that reason I keep my shoehorn under my pillow.

I upgrade my shoehorn with a red dot sight and tactical grips. Makes all the difference.

Kalles also works as a weapon, at least on Americans

#skohornshögern

@@dixonqwerty do you have license for those things?

😂

Lugn nu Svensson

@@Sebbe40 Det var väldigt bra för en jänkare..;D

Det lätt bättre än när jag säger det 😀😀😀

Instämmer, lät 100%!

Mathilda Hogbërg

Sweden is much better...

Mnidse Amgrdo 🇹🇱🇹🇱🇺🇸🇺🇸

Almost as good, but in the opposite direction, was when Locum did a campaign to show how empathy was one of their core values, or something like that - by replacing the o with a heart. And the L was in lowercase. l❤️cum. Oops. XD I think there’s still images from that campaign floating around on the internet.

@@suntiger745 That´s not acceptable anywhere. How did they make that stupid mistake?

@@johan.ohgren I don't know. I was working as a postman at the time, and there was a magazine we distributed that had that ad as a full page on the back cover. Highly amusing. XD

Yeah, like how Mötley Crüe and Motörhead are ACTUALLY pronounced motley crew and motorhead!

@@T1hitsTheHighestNote haha, oh, I was sooo old before I realized it wasn't supposed to be "mötli kry" 😂

Nice to hear us Scandinavians aren't alone in wondering about the curse of the meaningless umlauts. 😂 Welcome to Gävle, I grew up there. Not a bad place, and it smells like Gevalia.

@@T1hitsTheHighestNote Since "ö" is an actual letter in our alphabet anyone insisting on writing an "ö" are just begging to have it pronounced. Motörhead gets no exception...

My favourite misuse of ö is the heavy metal band "Tröjan". Pronounced in Swedish it sounds very un-metal.

I'm lazy with shoes too! I use crocks

I'm a Swede who have my shoes permanently tied, but I never use any shoehorn lol

@@timothykarlsson3126 I have like ten pairs of crocs and I wear them when it's not winter and I'm not going to walk a lot.

@@DaP84 if I don't use a shoehorn I either ruin the heels of my shoes or scratch up my thumbs.

@@BlueEagle3 You only wear them when it's not winter? Amateur!

Migrationsverket did remember, - why do you think she was sent back? Clearly her shoe horn aversion was a major contributer to this decision. #savetheshoehorn

or ursäkta .. men växa upp under 1970 talet gör det , ibland slinker det ord ur mej som ingen svensk avänder sedan 30 år

We don't use flags that much in Sweden. I think that's more an American thing having flags everywhere, including the Christmas tree… 🤣

@G-TYPE No. Maybe a few are, but far from a majority. They are loud, though.

@@johnnyrosenberg9522 i actually have these really old flag strings in my Christmas tree with the Swedish flag, very retro! Don't know when and why they went out of fashion, it's so cute and the Swedish colours looks so good with the green and the red! 😄

Flags in sweden is more of a summer cabin thing. I feel like. Or some people have them in their... I think the english word for koloni is allotment???

@G-TYPE bruh lmao stfu. Ye cuz american flag culture is the only acceptable flag culture in the world...

I really doubt "matsvinn" is a big factor in the lack of variety in Swedish supermarkets. The three main reasons (which are connected) are infrastructure, size of domestic market and market players. To start with the later, we have a few very big producers with lots of brands within different product segments. To these oligolpolists, introducing new brands will only increase their costs without adding much value. The second reason is that the Swedish market is realtively small so it's much harder to launch a profitable new brand that can compete price wise with existing products. If you can attract 0.1% of the US population with a product with small profit margins, you got yourself a viable business. If you sell to 0.1% of the Swedish population, you will go bust. And lastly, many Swedes like small supermarkets within walking distance while a larger proportion of US shopping is done in vast supermarkets with more shelf space which makes it easier to stock more brands.

In large parts of the United States, there are strict zone laws. Which means that they can not set up small shops in / near residential areas. When the store is located in a special store zone, it only makes sense to have a large store, because the customer base is larger. And as a buyer, you have to take the car there and then you buy many goods at once. Then you want a store with a large selection.

Spoon?...

@@CrescentofGems Sorry, I meant harpoon.

She should be a champion for the Swedish PEOPLE instead. Our people are being replaced with people from mostly the Middle East and Africa, by the globalists and traitors in the Government and ALL other authorities including the military AND Migrationsverket/FOLKUTBYTESVERKET. And in two of her list, number 1 and number 3 she makes "Multicultural" propaganda, as in EVERY commercial today in Sweden, and I suppose it is the same in every other western country. Mostly black man on white woman.

Even if the US did put an ä in the name, Americans would still pronounce it as an a. Scandinavians would wonder what was going on, though. 😂 If it were to be the right pronounciation, they would have made it Yevahlia. 😂

Hm. I disagree with the letter. Gevalia is a brand name and latin for Gävle, so it doesn't make sense to actually change the brand name and turn it in to a nonsense word. And ë is used in some languages, which actually makes the word less Swedish.

@@phrike7588 Citroën

Det har väl också mycket att göra med att det bor lite mindre människor i Sverige än i USA

No, small town stores aren't open as many hours as big city stores because of economics, not some feel good family concern.

Wow. People actually commented your groceries? That's not fun to hear for someone who's afraid of cashiers noticing what you buy. Like "Oh, he's buying beer today again. Is he a drunk?" :D I usually just want a smile and get through quickly. But we have a very upbeat cashier in my store that says "Ha en trevlig kväll!" and it shocks me every time because i'm not used to it :). It makes me happy tho.

@@phrike7588 I have only met this one cashier in my whole life who has done this. I have always thought it was an unwritten rule amongst cashiers not to comment on what customers are buying, This guy was always keen on socialising.

Whenever I buy pizza in sweden the guy talks so much lmao. I say no onion pls he says "ayy extra onion boss yes?"

Some people PREFER working later hours. It allows people to stay home during the day with young kids but still make money by working later when the other spouse gets home. It allows for part time work. It allows people who are working during the day…to actually shop without rushing. Some people like to stay up very late and sleep in till noon or later, and shop later. And usually 2nd or 3rd shift workers get paid a premium ABOVE the 9-5 shift. We are not socialists in America, nor do we want to be. If you CHOOSE to work or shop later, you can. No one is forcing you. It’s called freedom.

"Force you to be nice" If a worker is anything worse than neutral, that's a bad thing. Wtf are you talking about. People hate Walmart workers for a reason--they are not typically nice OR helpful. I don't see the issue with a store wanting their employees to do their jobs properly. You don't have to slave away for the customer, but courtesy and respect are mutual things. - former retail worker & tutor

@@yourneighborhoodxenos I know. “Force you to be nice”…what a BS statement from a professional victim. First of all, all people, whether they’re bosses, workers, or customers, should be nice, without “being forced”. I’ve shopped in Europe and compared to the US, it’s downright depressing. The people have no warmth amongst each other. Strangers avert their eyes from each other on the street, there is no such thing as small talk amongst strangers there. I guess generations of socialism and communism does that to people. I mean if that’s their culture, go for it. But do they really think bosses “force people to be nice”? What, do they think people walk around with handguns at peoples heads threatening them to say “how”s it going” when a customer walks in?

Further more: in Sweden you have a much more positive work-spare time relationship which means you don't have to work 2 or 3 minimum wage jobs just to get around. You can thank strong unions for that.

@@swisschalet1658 some people PREFER to have their kids in daycare or school for about 150$ a month, work 9 to 5 and actually have family time together at evenings. That's freedom too!

as a swede i have noticed that other swedes are so "nice" they begin conversations with me in english.. until i ask where they are from and it turns out, they too are swedish.. to which i reply "så varför talar vi engelska" (so why are we speaking english). before the pandemic, this happened to me three times during a 1-2 year span, at a bars and one time after i crashed my bike.. yes, the cyclist behind me asked in english if i was ok..

Its a countryside thing yes, for me living in a bigger city my whole life you don't say hi to strangers unless its your neighbors that you meet just outside your place.

For all the things complaining about cultural appropriation. It is that it mimics the culture and does so poorly that it offends people. It wouldn't hold up in court but you can always scare the company with negative backlash of progressivism. Also she did say it right the first AND last time, while the ä is long she said the whole name slowly. It's all up to dialectics.

I mean it's not really cultural approriation to use swedish grammatic characteristics wrong on a product from a swedish company. It's just stupid and ignorant. Had they used it on an american product without any connection to sweden and claimed that it was a swedish product, or those grammatic characteristics to be their idea, then it would of been CA.

@@the_Pons Fair enough on the good explanation on why it wouldn’t work; but I do want to mention, again, that I absolutely was not serious 😄

Motörhead

Alienerad är ett ord 😅

@@BjoernKarlsson Hade inte hört det på svenska tidigare. 🙂🤷‍♀️

I get "forgetting words in a pinch" situation, which happens to most multi-lingual, but basically avoiding Swedish as a native is a bad road to follow

Försök med "fjärma", "alienera" eller "göra främmande" till exempel.

I was wondering if they think those flame things are exotic? And that the old package was a bit dull? (I totally agree with Megan on this!)

Is it possible to find some contact info for this part of the company? I wanna be a grumpy grandma an email them everything Meagan said. Yes, I’m slowly becoming that kind of person. 😇

It looks horrendous with the umlauts! Like a cheap knock off. But what I really want to know is if Gëvalia tastes the same as proper Swedish Gevalia? Because when I tried some other Swedish brands in the U.S. it felt like the recipe had been adjusted.

Agree, the opening always give me a big smile.

They are not umlauts, gosh darn it :) They are not even diacritical marks. They are just glyphs :)

In Nacka, Sweden they have put up Sweden's first "hej-zoon" signs at one place! ;D

It is to make you realize how much the government robs you. Zero to 10 % is definitely better though than the highway robbery of 25% in Sweden.

Might be she can't afford a new car. Sometimes you look for a second hand car, and the 15 cars close to you within your budget are all with a manual transmission.

Atleast they have freedom of speech and the right to defend themselves.

@@soulis1000 lol - every time I point out the decline of the American Empire someone like you, often an American, feel the need to make themselves feel better by saying nonsense like that or comparing America to 3rd world countries like Brazil, Africa, etc. The bar for success in America is now so low. It is just sad. This is exactly why America is continuously declining. But this is good news to the world. Hopefully America will decline to the point where it will end its worldwide warmongering and instead start fixing its countless domestic problems.

@@_-martin-_ And you need to make yourself feel better by complaining about the US? Sweden is kind of messed up too, and there is no country without problems.

@@soulis1000 Ha ha, there you go again with the need to compare to try diminish Americas severe problems instead of committing to the facts. Compared to America, Sweden has no real problems to deal with. In fact, none of the Scandinavian countries have any critical issues to deal with - this is why Scandinavia is constantly awarded the most happy people in the world. Also, it is not about feeling better it is about educating people like you on the pain and suffering that America is causing our world. Post World War 2, America decided to be the self elected policeman of our world but in reality only to service its own interest by starting conflicts and illegal wars to steal resources (oil, minerals, etc.). As a European, and in particular as a Scandinavian, I raise my voice because we are the ones suffering directly from Americans foreign policies. For example, in recent decades we have suffered massive refugee streams from the Middle East, desperate people fleeing from their home region made highly unstable by Americas constant warfare. Now that Americas military complex is almost done with the Middle East, it has already moved on and started warmongering China. It is unbelievable. At this point it is clear to any rational human that America has turned into a corrupt oligarchy ruled by the elite billionaire class and the military complex. America will keep declining until it gets money out of politics, if ever. But don't take my word for it, to understand the nature of US's illegal warfare, try listen to the great American Benjamin Ferencz, the last surviving prosecutor of the Nuremberg trials, who is a strong fighter against Americas warfare post WW2. He criticises his own country telling it to "make law, not war". What we need in this world is more trade corporation and not war. What we need is for America to stop its constant warfare and instead start helping its own people rebuild America. This way the world would become a better place.

how is that frustrating? 😅 man Swedish antisocial culture is so puzzling and sad sometimes