American Reacts to Norwegian King Harald's Speech: Norway is One 

we are extremely unified in norway, but that doesnt mean we should stop talking about unity. we need to keep it up and nothing is perfect so we always talk about improving, because there is always something to improve on

I don't know if anyone else have said it, but doesn't really matter I'll say it anyway. Our majesty's King Haralds speech was made during a royal gardenparty that housed roughly 1 500 guests, that was picked from a diverse representation of Norways population, in celebration of his and Queen Sonjas 25th year anniversary of their reign as our royal head of state. And the fact that they choose to do this in celebration of their reign instead of inviting other royal families, world leaders and "important" celebrities is why many of us love them.

Man this speech always makes me cry a bit, so powerful, timeless and still relevant. Lenge leve kong Harald 🙌

Regarding the attacks on 22 July, 2011. This was propbably since WW2, the most defining moment of our country and values in our recent history. There is a very emotional and heartfelt speech made by the king at the time, I would very much recommend watching. It is by all means a heavy and difficult subject to tackle, but it does very strongly shows the values and spirit of our country and people.

Thank you for your reaction! "Yes, we love this country" (ja, vi elsker dette landet) is our national song. The kids' parade was taken from our national day, 17th of May, celebrated this way every year across all of Norway. Our king is a really good king, one of the people. Look up some videos about the celebrations of 17th of May and also look up the song "Til Dovre faller". This song was written for Norways 200 years celebration of our constitution and we had much celebrations that year. Love from Norway ❤️

Have a look at the norwegian national day 17th of May, our day of constitution - where hundreds of thousands children is marching and celebrating our country, all over the country.

This speech always gives me a tear or two, we love our "grandfather"

I would say it is just a reminder to us all. Not just Norway. We should all try to be like this.

It's a very profound speech and he made us all proud of having him as our king when he held that speech. As a member of the LGBTQ+ community myself, I am so happy we are seen and acknowledged by our king and he stresses that we are a part of Norway just like everyone else. Norway is definitely a progressive country when it comes to LGBTQ+ issues but just this summer, there was a horrendous shooting attack at a gay bar in Oslo, leaving two people killed and ten injured and that shows that we still need to fight for acceptance and tolerance although the majority of the Norwegian population is supportive of LGBTQ+ rights. As long as there is homophobia out there leading to such criminal acts and discrimination, we need to keep fighting. The Utøya terrorist attack is another horrible day that reminded us that although Norway is a safe country for the most part, terror can happen even here. A young politician from my hometown was killed in that terrorist attack and I love how Norway responded to the attack by standing together as one nation in mourning but also reminding ourselves that love is stronger than hate.

The king never exaggerates, he just tells the facts

I highly recommend you to react more to the attacks that occured 22 july 2011. It was a truly heartbreaking event that affected everyone, almost 1 in 5 knew someone directly affected

May 17th Norway celebrate it's constitutional day. Unlike many other countries we don't celebrate it with military parades since our national day has little to do with violence, we make it about the kids, freedom and democracy. On the beginning of May 17th the majority of Norwegian dress up it suits, dresses and national outfit called Bunad. During the morning there is a parade for children in every city and village, even in other countries around the world(including the US). The kids get's to have a lot of fun, eat ice cream and hotdogs. While many grownups celebrate it with their friends and start the day with champagne breakfast. During the day we have a second parade where kids and grownups go together, representing their sport, political party, work place and the list goes on. "Yes, we love this country" is the national anthem of Norway.

The King is known for making speeches, most famously his new year speech broadcasted every year on TV. He does so, to reminds us to be vigilant in our pursue to maintain peace and prosperity by keeping values, tolerance, respect, love for one another and our self. Even in peaceful times it's very important to be reminded, so we wont lose it. When you forget and loose the importance of human value, it things will go array fairly quickly, it will be hard if not impossible to get it back. Everything will be a bloody down hill from there. He is telling everyone to be kind, and to show compassion."

Immigration isn't a problem in Norway, but we have had problems with refugees and how to integrate them. But this isn't something that is unique to Norway, most if not all countries who took in a good amount of refugees have struggled with this

"Ja vi elsker dette landet" is the title, and the first line in the Norwegian national anthem. :)

You should definitely react some kind of documentary on the 22 July attack on Utøya. It was done by Anders Behring Breivik, who didn’t agree with Norway’s immigration laws.

If you're interested in the norway attacks in 2011, I'd recommend the netflix movie "22. july". ... I will never forget that day, and that movie is .. difficult to watch for me. Heartbreaking. Infuriating. Not sure how it would be for other nationals, but I'd recommend the movie regardless.

That video you saw where the Norwegian royal family was called "poor" compared to other European royal families may have given a somewhat incorrect impression. They are humble and grounded, indeed, but they are also very privileged. They live in a palace, they have a large staff, they are tax/state funded (as opposed to what that video suggested), they have limousines and yachts and holiday homes. Also, the Norwegian King Harald was second cousin to the late Queen Elizabeth II, so his family were always royal, also before they came to Norway. Our current Crown Prince Haakon is therefore third cousin to the current King Charles III. Fun fact: King Harald has said that America is his second home, as he spent much of his childhood in the U.S. During much of WWII, the Norwegian royal family lived in the White House in Washington D.C., as Franklin D. Roosevelt's guests.

Great video! I have to ask, do you plan to visit Norway someday? If that’s the case, do you think you’re going to make a vlog about it? That would be fun, especially after watching your react to different stuff about Norway, and then to see your experience being there compared to your reactions. :D

This is why i love my country

I’ve been waiting for this one man! So happy you reacted to this! Love these videos. I always love to see what people of other countries think of Norway❤️

I didn't use to be a patriot, but this channel have made me one!!! :)

Watching this speech now still makes me emotional and definitely proud for being an Norwegian

The 2011 attakk was like Norways 9/11. There where a bit of contreversy the next yeares.😢

"ja vi elsker" our national song translates to "yes we love(this country)"

Every country have these challenges: Racism, misogyny, discrimination against the LGBTQ+ community, inequality in pay between men and women etc. If you compare Norway with the rest of the world we come out looking great. But even though Norway is a well-functioning democracy, it will always be a struggle to reach the progressive ideals king Harald talks about.

Most of Norway is pretty progressive, but as everywhere, there is a very vocal minority who don't like anything different.

The Norwegian King is extremely loved by the norwegian people. We loves his funny jokes, his personality, his statements, his world views and so on. The quickest way to be unpopular in Norway is to talk badly about him. First of all, this is my personal view, but Norway is very unified. In common we are very open-minded and inclusive. Yes it's true that we are somewhat reserved and hard to get close to, but that doesn't mean we don't approve of different cultures, genders, races, sexual/romantical preferences, religions, and so on. I said above what the quickest way to be hated in Norway was, but the second quickest way is to not be open-minded. In general we frown and look down upon people stating racism and other kind of hate based on any kind of backstory a person might have. What the king wanted to highlight here is that this inclusive thinking is getting more and more crucial every year, even every day. We are receiving more and more immigrants, we are affected by more and more cultures, however this doesn't mean we are different from them or loosing our ancestral history and such. We are evolving and unifying for the common good. He wanted the immigrants to know they are welcomed and that their background doesn't matter.

Please do a video about the sami people in Norway

Love your enthusiasm for Norway and our culture! You should definitely pay us a visit 😊

At the time of the King's speech we had experienced a significant influx of especially Syrian refugees due to the civil war. In the beginning of the refugee crisis Norwegians were very open-hearted and considerate, and so was the tone of the politicans and media outlets. But towards the last half of 2015 and onwards there was a lot of negative talk about refugees in general, often tilting towards racism in my opinion. This was perhaps most blatant on social media platforms like Facebook. "Ja, vi elsker" means "Yes, we love" and is the Norwegian national anthem, so your guess was correct!

Why the king was describing Norway's harsh, but precious nature first: It is because the challenges people often faces in nature in Norway always have caused solidarity (as a coping-mechanism). You never know when YOU are going to be the one who is lost at sea or on stuck on a freezing cold mountain (requiring a search party). In Norway even rich people need the rest of us from time to time.. So that possibility tend to motivate sensible people to consider: kindness, community and care!

To unify and to be openminded is a constant process. Something a country has to work on continuously

MOST norwegians are very tolerant and inclusive. But it’s the angry minority that shouts the loudest

oh, it's just pandering. skip

I don’t know if I am allowed to put the link here (or if someone already have), but the entire speech (about five minutes long) has been released on RU-vid by NRK («Norwegian national broadcasting»). English subtitles are available in that video. In case you are interested (and I am allowed), here is the link: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zvB0jZKRKrk.htmlsi=mSwfaJEAYSztq2Lh You don’t get all the scenery and the music in it, but you get some more «context» for the exerpts in the video you react to - although those exerpts can be said to be the most «powerful» parts of the original speech. Nice reactions, as always 🤗

We love our King but not our current goverment. As a military veteran i was proud to wear the Norwegian flag on my uniform.. Please just fund the military to protect our way of life. Keeping in mind What happened When Hitlers troops indaded us & occupied Norway for 5 long years. To our current politicians never forget our past!! Long Live The King 🇳🇴

King of Norway is the head of state. He has veto rights on new laws. He is also the defender of the constitution and any changes to it will have to be accepted by him. He is also the head of the military and when in the military you actually learn that the military is loyal to the king for the most part. He is a defender of democracy because of these things. If any radicalized and anti democratic is formed and want to take Norway in a direction that is against the constitution its the Kings job to stop them by military force if necessary and make sure a democraticly elected governement is reintrodused and our rights as written in the constitution is protected. One example is when Norways king in ww2 rejected the wish to surrender by our elected officials and also rejected the German reich puppet regime in Norway.

The Parade you're seing in this vid, is the celebration of Norways Constitution Day, 17th of May. Norways Birthday ✨✨ And we celebrate by going dressing up in our finest clothing and gathering all over the country and celebrating. We call it the "childrens day", it's a reminder to what we are as a country, and to celebrate our freedom, and also remember those who built what we have today and the importance of standing together for the future. Regarding the 2011 attack of the headquaters of the parliament and later the summercamp of the labour youth - Norwegians did something that was exeptional. We made silent demonstrations and went to the streets of all the cities in Norway. We were standing together. In Oslo, at least 200 000 people (1/3 of Oslos population) were gathered in the streets. There were held a big concert by the government, where the people were silently singing, chanting and holding up red roses. And this only 3 days after the biggest terrorist attack in peaceful times in Norway. I remember some journalists were astounded by the "lack" of guns and military in the streets, that the government and the royal family was out and about in the streets after something like this. Or as one of the friends of the survivors said, 16 yrs old Helle: "If one man can spread so much hatred, imagine how much love we all can create when we unite."🤔🤔🙏🙏💗💗💕💕💞💞

May 17th is our day of constitution, like your 4th of july. We dress up in our best clothes or Bunad ( en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunad ) and sing "Ja vi elsker dette landet" eat a lot of ice cream and hot dogs and have a parade with flags, kids and bands from all schools through our towns. In Oslo it passes the castle where the royal family is out on the balcony, waiving their hands for all the kids passing in the parade.

Long live the king and Queen. And to "Ha Sarpsborg." I dont agree. He have other roles/jobbs, like admiral in the navy, and general in the airforce. Also everything they own, we own(kind of). so we must do the same for him. he could be payed 10 mill € for all i care. Still Worth it. 🙂

The Norwegian King has always given the best speech in Norway❤❤❤ he is including everyone in Norway regardless religion ore what country you are born in!!! It's not unusual we hate the new year speech from the leader of the government but the King he is always triumphing Whit his words to gathering all Norwegian to one big family ❤❤❤ i am not going to talk down the government but for years with different leadership the leader's have made them self looking bad in to MANY ways😢 i understand you are looking from an American angle! But you need to look better because it's humongous difference between people in Norway! This is not about skin color ore religion!!! You need to look more closely because you will really wondering how come it is like this in a Norway!!!!!

You should really dive deeper in to 22. july 2011. Worst tragedy to happen in Norway in recent times or maybe in it's entire history

Great reaction Tyler! Another topic to look into? How the vikings influenced the English language: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-He2p5wNKMas.html, there are several more videos on the subject.

We have in Norway a strong welfare system. That also makes us attractive to some people that want to come here and who dont want to contribute but only recieve. This things very easily makes polarization within a population. Still i wouldnt call this a huge problem here. Right now we have bigger issues with our neighbours in the east.

sorry, the integration process has not been perfect. it has created A-LOT of hostile thoughts among norwegians.. the general thought is that muslims should leave their culture behind when they come here.. this is based on the thought that we have a very liberated female view here and the muslims bring their own female view with them. this muslim view does not match with our own and therefore many are sceptical to muslim religious values.. this is one of the major things that drives our cultures apart.. i have studied cultural difference and i understand how difficult it can be to adjust to foreign cultures, but when you seek asylum because your domestic culture wants to kill you (because you disagreed) you should know better than to make your new culture submit to the same bullshit.. if you want a better life you should live it.. i welcome you all to norway, but you have to respect our way of life just like we would respect yours if we came to you.. you have to adapt to the people you live with if you want to earn their respect...

Just some constructive criticism: The more you pause and put your own input into this, the less the emotional and intellectual value the source content has. I'm not saying that you aren't doing good feedback, its just that the video speaks for itself, you should try to reduce the pauses and instead summarize your opinions at the end of the video, or at least keep the inputs short.

Neo should sue for copyright. Everybody knows he's the One. Also, Norway has more money than the Kardashians, so yeah.

5:00, funny you ask. I think that the norwegian population are really proud of our culture and identity, and our king is trying to awake that national pride again. Btw, in an european survey, Finland and Norway had the highest % of people willing to defend their country,

Wouldn't say equality has been an issue, but after Anders Breivik who was behind the attack expressed his ''Nazi'' minded feeling about Norway going away from being Norwegian due to all the Immigrants coming into the country and ''ruining'' the Country. Norway has always been amazing at being inclusive, open minded and having equality...but as we all know it can always be better so this was a reminder to the people to not forget who we are and how we should behave

I know U have much to comment on during any video, but U have to stop stopping the video all the time, couse U miss some of the content as a whole when U stop’n go all the time, and its a bit annoying, since we also want to see the video, but U use 20-30 minutes an a 5 min video

Unfortunately, there is intolerance among people in all countries. Many Norwegian is proud of this speech, but not everyone agrees with this message. If so, the message would probably not be given.

It's easy to get caught up in ourselves in the modern world. Sometimes, we all just need a little reminder about what's important in life. Love and compassion. Great vid, as always, Tyler! Keep it up!

The unedited speech is much better and more impactful. I hope you look it up.

«Yes, we love this country» = «Ja, vi elsker dette landet» is Norway's national anthem🇳🇴

LGBTQ+ and Racism They have been topics for a few years now. First in the US, then everywhere else. I think Norway being so progessive is exactly the reason why these topics are so relevant. The more progressive the country, the easier it is for victims to talk about abuse. I do not think Norway has a big problem with racism or bigotry. There are still campaigns in media where people talk about experiencing such. The King might have felt this was important to address.

I feel proudness when I see this video 😁 Back in 2011 attacks we fight the hate with love and we were fight this horrible act with showing how good the people of Norway are ❤️ We are fighting for rights of freedom for all everyday because some fighting against it like the man whos behind the attack in 2011. Im proud to have Harald as our king 🥰 Long live the King 🥰

At this point, you might as well get an undergraduate degree in Norway.

You have become a true Norwegian friend 🇺🇸🇳🇴Welcome to Norway 😀

I'm not pro monarchy at all really. But even I have to admit that having someone apolitical that the people can rally around as a living symbol of the nation is not without value. Our king is a decent man.

When they said we needed to pull ourselves together, they did not reffer to unification, but rather to get our shit together.

Finaly you Watch this ^^ i cry every time. Hope king lives forever and ever.❤

The deputy major of Oslo, who was interviewed, was born in Sri Lanka, and was also a survivor of the 2011 attack. Although most Norwegians are progressive, and Norway is quite progressive compared to most other countries, you don't need too many rascists or bigots to cause problems. There was another attack this summer targeting Pride were two people was killed.

17 May is the most beautiful thing about Norway. You should check it out

You're very reflected! Good content videos. "Yes, we love this country" is our anthem. And yes the parade is a holiday every year as 4th July. 17mai is out national day

His grand fatter was a Prince in Denmark, his wife english royal family (grand daughter of Victoria, daughter of EdwardVII). Norway had a referendum, when we split from Sweden, where the Norwegians people chose to have a monarchy. Then prince Carl was asked if he wanted to be king of Norway, he did and took the name Haakon. Just2a little historie.

I love my King and I agree with him on most things. The whole "Norwegians believe in "allah", "god" and nothing" thing is a big no-no. Norwegians are atheists, we know better. We even have a saying "believe is something you do in church, you either know or you don't know" (because we don't go to church, we don't "believe", we either know or don't know). On the whole "diversity" thing he needs to relax, because if we want total diversity we also need rapists, murderers, people who do things to kids and so on, and no one wants that, so stop with the diversity for diversity's sake. On equality: we are the single most egalitarian country in the world, we have equality, what people want however is equal outcome, which is not good for anyone. Imagine a guy not wanting to work gets the same salary as someone who puts in 80 hours per week to get his company up and running, hell no.. He is still my King and I'll give my life for him any day of the week, don't get me wrong.

I love your Norway videos, but sometimes find it extremely difficult to watch. As I am a Norwegian stuck in America. I can’t leave due to my children being born here. Thank you for giving me back a little peace of my home !

King harald’s grandparents was also royal

You need to react to a video about 22. July

The thing about kong Harald V that i love and probably my fellow norwegians is that he unifies without predjudice, and he unifies our country in a divide that elections might give, political changes and in dark days like the 2011 attacks, he is a great person to listen to whenever there are national crisis, and so on, as he does not speak to only one party, or only unify one group, but he always unifies our people he is no doubt the greatest king Norway has ever had, and to be fair, his father the peoples kong Olav V and grandfather the unfier to fight back against the Nazis kong Haakon VII were great kings as well, but Harald has this aura that unifies Norway all the time Lenge leve kong Harald

I find great amusement in the irony that norwegians were pretty "progressive" in terms of racism and immigration. And the political party that was most against the immigrants was the "progress party". And btw, "yes, we love this country", or as we know it "ja vi elsker", is our national anthem. Also, our national day is the 17th of May. Which is probably a very good thing to react to next. It is our liberation day when norwegian representatives gathered to sign our constitution at Eidsvoll in 1814, while we were still in the union with sweden. It was our declaration of independence. A day we celebrate by letting the people, and specifically the children, march proudly through the streets as we gather for hot dogs and ice cream and wear our (horribly impractical in some cases, but) beautifully traditional bunad.

I love how you Enjoy Norway🤩 You are welcome to visit🥰

This speach not only for Norwegians, but also a way of leading the rest of the world by example =) It's showing that we have more equality than most, and we are more happy because of it.

I think one of the reasons he made that speech is because of what happened in the US at the time, with division increasing among the people and fascists rising to power. King Harald was basically saying "We will NOT go down that path". That's my take on it, anyway.

I think this kind of speech can only be made by a Monarch. A strong speech by the King, love to all Norwegians from the UK.

I'm from Canada and the thing I've always loved about this speech is that he mirrors some of what I've been saying about immigration for years. There are maybe half a dozen countries in the world that everyone has heard of and will migrate towards (US, UK, China, etc). For everyone else, either you have family there or you've done research and want to live there. As such, in many ways it's the immigrants who are the real Canadian (or Norwegians). They CHOSE to be here. Everyone else just happened to be born here.

Beautiful speech. He is kind of the grandfather of Norway, and we love him very much.

Norway really is a wonderful country despite the Brevik attacks and the occasional terror attack. The 17th of May is a uniting day and peaceful, without any military as she says in the video. (I live in Sweden…known by Norwegians as the country with the world’s most beautiful neighbour!)

I heard this speech at the time it was aired, back then. I have been living Norway for decades, this is my home and my people. I feel and always felt kind of personal pride over all our achievments. Winning the Olympic gold medals,, or Magnus Carlsen winning the chess games. I have always felt this way, our kings speech was just a confirmation of what was already in our hearts. That we all are Norwegians, this is my country too and above all a confirmation of that he is my king too.

you better know more about norway 22 11. and watch the movie. its a big deal for us.

He is showing how diverse the landscape is to draw a parallel to the diversity of people

14:10 yeah that's correct

When the King of Norway holding a speech everybody listens. He keeps the country as one, united and with freedom. He is the only one that makes me proud of living in this country. King Harald is a king that i look up to and we are so blessed to have such a king. king Harald has chosen the same motto as his father : Alt for Norge! meaning All for Norway

A couple of things: - One of the major reasons this got so much attention, is that it is a 70 year old man saying it. Norway is fearly progressive and open, but there is also oposition to it, and alot of the oposition is in the older generation - A reason it was so relevant was that the organisation SIAN (roughly: stop islamic influence on norway) was getting bigger in this time. They are an organisation that publicly shouts hate and burns the koran. - 17. of may is our 4th of july, but the main celebration is as you saw for and by children - Yes we love is norways national antham

Let's put it this way: We needed the reminder. Keep up the good work, dude! Sincerely TheWorldsMoralMiddleFinger

He doesnt exagerate the conditions of norway. Its becouse norway is thin, but long. The summer in the South is not the same summer in the North. The winter at the coastline is not the same as the winter inlands

You are cool man

ALSA VOR MANGE ER NORSK HER

I just love our king because he is not afraid to say what he is thinking. And he is a very unique person. Gud bevare kongen❤🇳🇴

"Yes, we love this country" is our national anthem, and we actually know and understand the lyrics. It doesn't translate that well, so it sounds a bit cheesy in English. We are doing pretty well on equality, but of course we have our fair share of bigoted and backwards people here, too. And they are every bit as loud and obnoxious here as they are everywhere else in the world. Anders Behring Breivik is, like Timothy McVeigh, a Christian Nationalists. He actually said he was inspired by the "heroic" acts of McVeigh. Most of the people he murdered were young teenagers. It went viral world wide because it was so unthinkable that something like that could happen here. I used to work in two of the government buildings that were bombed that day. A lot of people who were out driving when the news hit talked about how they had to stop their car to absorb the shock. Especially when the second attack (on the summer camp) hit. Those kids were from all over the country. I was already out of my mind by then, because I had worked and had many a beer after work with a lot of wonderful people who still worked in those government buildings at the time. Thank God the bomb didn't go off as early in the afternoon as he had planned. There would have been a lot more victims of the bombing then. The main government building (where the Prime Minister's offices are) was eviscerated all the way up to the 7th floor, and my "my" ministry was located on the 5th, 6th and 7th floors... I can safely state that the entire country was in shock and mourning for a long time.

Im a norwgian. And we are leeding in unity. But we have a increase of hate criminality and right extremist. And a fright of the new! We dont answar with violance. Yes we love this country is our national anthem. And we do our best to live up to it. We dont have military parades. 17. May childran and grownups are maching with song and music. And in Oslo this train of people are travling to the castle to vave to the king and his family.

Like any country, Norway have the same percent of people who think immigrants or people not having the same skin colour have the same rights, and that they can't call themselves Norwegian. It's a global issue we don't escape... I wish this speech effected more people to change their viewpoint.

Love our Royalties, they have always been there for Norwegians, every generasion, Haakon who did not succomb to the Nazis during WW2, Olav who was known as the peoples king and now Harald. His son Haakon is also already loved.

Norway loves to portray them selves as progressive, open minded, and tollerant, but to some extent this is just political symbolism. The majority of ethnic white Norwegians are good people, BUT as a Norwegian POC, indigenous, brown, Asian, and 3rd gender queer, I can say there's still along way to go in terms of equality for all, and a more open and tolerant empathic society in regards to sexual minorities, as well as POC thanks to patriarchy and religous brainwash. Especially now that alt far right radical Nazis and populists are on the rise. Even in our parlament and some of our politicians are openly and clearly right wing in mind, and speech. Even though not as bad an in America in terms of racism, which was founded upon illigal European immigration, theft of land, colonialism, genocide, and slavery, Norway does have a alot of social issues like racism, and hate crimes in general towards POC and LGBTQ+. Been so many incidents latetly in the news. Many white Norwegians wants to deny and invalidate this fact to make them selves feel better, as well as a form of gaslighting. And I think everyone knows someone who's either racist, homophobe, or both. Depending on where you live geographically I'd say it's better in the bigger cities, and urban areas, but again it can vary from person to person. And I'll be as bold as to say that it's far worse now than when I was a kid due to the internet and social media. Suddenly everyone got a voice and a place to voice their fake news and conspiracy theories as well as hate speech. Back in the day you had to say that shit to the person's face, or write a letter. And even though Norway is by far one of the safest plaes in the world, it's not safe to be LGBTQ+. I know people, even my self included, that has been beaten up in public for being gay, death threats, tho public harrasment, and verbal and physical attacks are more common. You don't go out alone at night if you're clearly and openly gay in certain areas of town or in the city. Back in my home town it was really bad. You felt like the circus had arrived in town whenever you ventured outside, because that's how people treated me. Trauma survivor of a life time of relentless bullying and discrimination that's still happening to this day everyday I show my brown LGBTQ+ ass in public I face racism and homophobia in various degrees regardless of gender, age or ethnicity. At least our government and police takes hate crime seriously, so in that perspective we have some sort of protection. The US election of Trump made the world a worse place than before and you still see the consequences of this in Norway, and Europe in it's treatment of sexual, religious, and ethnic minorities. Norway is not an utopia, unless you're cis hetero white, priviliged and entitled as well as rich, which by far most people aren't. Or if you conform and firt the stereotypical norms set in place by society. Outwardly they may claim or act like they are liberal, but behind the four walls of their own home, they could sit and be the most hateful humans. Seen this in person, and experienced this my self. Why? In the fear of sounding old fashion. Nobody wants to be that guy. Many are also cherry picking when it comes to whom they hate and discriminate. Iceland in comparison are way better and more liberal and progessive than Norway. I APPLAUD YOU FOR THIS VIDEO AND THIS REACTION! Thank you!

Norge er oss ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿

King mentioned that we need to keep together not because we don’t but because we can always do better :)

The parade is every year on 17th may. Norway national day. yes we love this country is the Name for the national song

I moved here 20 years ago and this speech makes me cry every time.

Norway is a multi cultural country... for everyone and for everybody. The video you are watching that people are walking with flags and wearing our National attire or costume "Bunad" and the national anthem is the "Ja Vi elsker dette landet" (Yes we love this country) Usually the King render his speech every Christmas. Regarding the 2011 attack in Oslo its a Norwegian guy name Breivik and you can be watch in Netflix July 22 is the title. You've reacted to a lot of videos about of Norway, maybe its time for you to come and visit the country. ;-)