Brit Reacts to American girl and Swedish guy Reacting to Swedish stereotypes! 

I think a lot of Swedes do enjoy a little bit of small talk in the right circumstances, but we have an enormous respect for personal privacy. You don't want to bother people as they go about their day, and a when you're commuting or whatever you just wanna get home, not talk to random strangers. But it varies a lot.

If you look into a classroom of Swedish 7-year-olds, there are a lot of blonde children there. If you gather the same people together when they are in their 30s, not as many are blonde anymore. My passport says I'm blond and blue-eyed, but my eyes are gray and my hair has turned dark blond, almost brown. Regarding muted colors on clothes, one winter evening I stood at a busy subway entrance in Stockholm and waited for a friend who was late. I decided to count every person who had a jacket that wasn't a dark, drab color. I stood there for 30 minutes and counted to 2. An orange jacket and a red one. One of them was a child

Swede here, strawberry blond with blue eyes and freckles. Both my kids are gingers with blue eyes.

Ok i guess i fit within the typical image of Sweden since i'm blond with blue eyes 🙈😅

Since blonde hair is so common in the Nordic countries we tend to only count people with near white hair as blonde. The more common dark blonde hair we tend to call mousy or light brown and is often seen as "boring" since it's so common. After travelling the world I have come to realise that what we call mousy/light brown, the rest of the world calles blonde. And then most of us are blond...

Well, I'm a natural curly/wavy mahogany haired Swede with green eyes.

Personally I think it's a familiarity thing, the more you get to know someone the small talk increase I think, as in we don't randomly start talking to strangers much, but if we're introduced to someone and the more we get to know them the ice kind of melts I guess.

Im a Swede and i have Brown eyes, light skin and Brown hair.

As a Swede I think we are kind of reserved unless we're in a situation that naturally invites socializing. Like I would never speak to a stranger on the steet or on the subway unless I had a reason to. We kind of have this thing where we avoid eye contact on the public transportation at all cost. I don't know how many times I've read commercial signs I didn't really care about just to let my eyes rest somewhere that wasn't were other people were 😂

I am from sweden, I've got a dirty kind of blonde hair color and straight hair at the outer layer, while the inner layer of my hair is brown and curly. My eye color changes between blue, grey, green and hazel. Also worth noting that I can get any kind of blue, from dark/ocean blue to light/icy blue. In other words, I never know what color my eyes are unless I look in the mirror or someone tells me. Because they change frequently. Even mornings and evenings can be different. Edit: I just got interested so I googled my eye color changing etc. Found out that a lot of people with hazel eyes appear to change eye color. The reason for this is just a trick of the light. I suppose that means I've got hazel eyes but depending on the light they can look blue, grey or green. It also depends on if my pupils are widened or not as this can affect how the light reflect of your eyes. About 5% of the worlds population have this eye color. Brown eyes - 79% as the most common. Blue eyes - 8 to 10% Hazel eyes - 5% Grey eyes - 3% Green eyes - 2% Violet eyes (result of albinism) - < 1% Heterochromia (people with 2 different eye colors) - < 1% as the most rare. I just thought this was interesting so I included it in the comment.

We have a saying in Swedish: if she's blond and browned eyed, she's Swedish. If she's blond with blue eyes, she's of Polish descent.

Late to the party but I had to comment about the hunting thing. In Sweden we love to hunt and fish, it's very common to be a part of a hunting crew, it's also a way to control the animal populations so they don't get too crowded. But it gets more common the more north you go, not south as in the US. Since most of our forests are north it's also very common for city people to join a hunting crew and go up north for the hunting season. Some people buy a whole elk to freeze and save for the whole year. Though it's hard to buy it as a non hunter since most hunting parties split the meat on the people involved.

Great video, always intresting hearing what people from other countries think about Sweden. Brown haired, blue eyed swede here.

Chestnut brown hair and hazel blue eyes. My eyes are mainly blue, but they also have green and even brown in them. They also shift a lot with the light, sometimes looking more blue and sometimes more brown etc.

I think Oskar was pretty incorrect when it came to the small talk question, we have a thing in Sweden about people looking through their doors to make sure their neighbors aren't around so they can avoid small talk, at bus stops you'll see there are two meter spaces between people and everyone is trying not to make eye-contact because that will lead to annoying small talk. As a people we hate small talk

If you ever visit sweden for more than a couple of days there are plenty of tourist fishing boats all along the west coast. They take you out to spots that usually get some catches. You usually get to prepare the fish for cooking aswell.

There is a lot of us that love the winter .

I have darkbrown hair and blue green eyes, immigrants often ask me where I am from and look very disappointed when I answer with the Swedish city I am from... I've even had people insist on questioning where my parents are from like somehow it's unbelievable that I am fully Swedish but not blonde and blue eyed. 😅😅

When I was born my hair was black that gradually became lighter until I was blond as a toddler before it got darker again. I still probably count as blond most of the time but it varies a lot. My eyes are multicolored and somewhat dark but still (usually) registers as blue/grey.

I am a Swede and have blue eyes, I was born with blonde hair but now as an adult my hair are more light brown, in summertime bleached blonde by sun. In northern more rural parts of Sweden were I live we eat a lot of caught fish and hunted game. Also wild berries and mushrooms.

I had blonde hair as a child. Almost white. Turned dark brown/black in my teens. Greenish eyes with specks of yellow.

Tall(194cm), blue eyed, dark blonde swede here, In the summer I eat herring and potatoes for lunch atleast 4 times a week in the summer, I do hunt with my dad and uncle in autumn, mainly deer. I think we swedes are very seasonal, especially the further north you get. Here where I live (kiruna) the sun don't set in the summers, and the sun sets around 12 in the winters and the temperatures range from -30 in the winter to 20 in the summers Most of the stereotypes are generally true, but of course there are exceptions and the stereotypes dont match all swedes

1:45 …blue eyes and naturally blonde hair lmaooo💀

My partner is Swedish and he has brown hair and blue eyes. His hair used to be blond when he was a kid. Our two children also have blond hair and blue eyes. (I am a Finn with brown hair and green eyes.)

I have blue eyes and when I was younger my hair was blond. Now it’s a boring light brown with hits of grey. I’m born in the north of Sweden and I lived most of my life there. In the summer it never gets dark and in the winter it’s never light outside. Well..one or two hours in the middle of the day there’s is light, but then you are inside working.

I've been fishing lots of times with my husband and I've followed him when he's been hunting moose, I'm not allowed to hunt because I have no license but I'm allowed to follow him hunting. And he hunts with our dachshund named Smilla and she hunts hare, deer and fallow deer. Every summer my husband goes to northern Norway for sea fishing and then he fishes for cod and halibut. So it's a lot of hunting and fishing for my husband. However, I have never been on a sea fishing trip because it is too far away, it takes 24 hours by car to northern Norway and they are gone for 10 days, I only fish at home here where we live. We live in a small town in the Dalarna region by Sweden's seventh largest lake Siljan, we have a view of lake Siljan from our farm, a very beautiful view with the mountains in the background. So I fish in Siljan and other small lakes in the surrounding forests and then I fish for perch, pike, whitefish and rainbow trout.

chesnut-collored hair (90cm+ long) and green/gray/blue eyes was born > 7-8yo blond with blue eyes. family tree is swedish spanning back to1699.

I do in fact have blue eyes, but I'm a ginger so I'm not fully confirming that :)

Last summer I was camping beside a lake far away from nearest house. Suddenly 3 young foreigners came to fish for the first time in their lives. (So they said.) After a while one of them called me. "Hello!! Hello swedish man! HEEELP!!! I caught a snake!!! What shall i do!!!" I helped the guy unhook it and it turned out he caught an eel. Hard to get whith a casting rod. Very good to cook and eat. But he wanted me to let the eel go. Dont think he ever fished again. The kid was traumatized. :D

I'm swedish and I have blond hair and blue eyes 😋

I have brown hair and brown eyes. One of my sisters has brown hair and blue eyes and the other dark blond hair and green eyes😊 My grandparents on the maternal side came to Sweden from the Netherlands and France after World War 2.

In the north of Sweden where I’m from we do hunt & clean the game (elk mostly) at home, or buy a whole cow from a nearby farm so we have meat for a year. So basically what she said.

I have blue hair and blonde hair, but not blonde enough to fit the stereotype. It was much lighter when I was younger but now it's dark blonde, and it's what most people with blonde hair have. There are a few people who actually have hair as light as people who bleach their hair but it't not common. For the small talk part I think the stereotype refers to making small talk with people you don't know, which I think is very true, and as for colours of clothes I think it's true for swedish fashion. Like look at Swedish high fashion brands and they will mostly have neutral colours but young people will still wear colour

I have sligly darker blonde hair and my eyes are more a mix of green and blue. But of course, when I was a kid I had really light blonde hair. It gets a little bit darker with age. Conservative clothing style I think is more in smaller towns and suburbs. In central Stockholm, where I live, you can wear what ever you like and nobody will care. I really like to wear colourful clothes, but it's really hard to find. If you go to clothing stores you see a lot of colours in the women area but in the mens area it's mostly black, grey och dark blue. It's not common to talk to people you don't know, but I often do that. Most people actually appreciate it.

Swede here, I got brown eyes and my hair is brown/orangish when I was younger. The blue eyes whent to my brother. Mostly wearing neutrals is accurate, I would say It's more common with stronger colors during summer.

I had chestnut brown hair and dark brown eyes (as very little I was dark blond), my sis had dark brown hair and greenish brown eyes (we´re getting older), our mum reddish chestnut brown hair and blue eyes (half of her family was redheads with a lot of freckles) and my dad had black hair and clear light blue eyes and a lot of pigment in the skin, chocolate brown skin in summer. No blonds at least 3 generations back and we are Swedish/sami back to the middle of 1400. For clothing I say it depends on the feeling of the day and what occasion it is, wedding, funeral, dinner with friends or just staying at home. Swedish food, real "old" Swedish food is quite alike all over the country, maybe not Skåne in the deep south because it once belonged to Denmark. Köttbullar, palt, pölsa, fish - puddings, fried or smoked, smoked pork or moose heart, grytor (stews)... I can not speak for the southern part but my husband hunts and we eat a lot of moose meat and we fish in the river. We live in the countryside (not many towns up here) and I grow a lot of veggies and I pick a lot of mushrooms and berries in the forest. We also buy a whole lamb or pig once and a while, better meat. I do almost all of our meals from scratch and bake most of our bread because I think it is healthier.

Swedish food is called Husmanskost. If you come here in the summer, you could first visit the beautiful green area with museums Djurgården (restaurants Godthem or Ulla Winbladh for husmanskost) or take a ferry to Waxholm (and maybe the archipelago for sunny summer days by the sea)to eat some fried herring with mash plus the best ice cream, or a ferry to södermalm and gamla stan. Restaurants with Swedish food isn’t that common but Kvarnen (the windmill) and Pelican on söder makes good husmanskost. And in Östermalm (near to where the ferries depart for waxholm) there is an old covered market from the 19th century, with all the salmon and Swedish food you can eat, but it’s a bit expensive. But it’s worth a visit.

Darkblond/ light Brown hair, almost black eyes and very tall. Swedish since at least 400 years back 😂

My hair color is similar to the guy in the video and you are exactly right: it was blond when I was a kid and then it turned darker with age. My eyes are blue-green-gray-ish.

Brown but eye colour is changing depending on color of my clothes and surronding light so sometimes they are blue, but I also have green, grey etc

Scandiinavia (and Minesota) got the highest % of blond people in the world Go to a swedish rock club, everyone wears black, and its not only the rockes that do so, so yeah, black is the most common color, however In summer theres a little bigger mix

As a boy i was blonde and blue eyed, now its brown and blue-grayish!

to answer the question regarding eye and hair color, most people i see do have blue eyes and dark blonde hair! i, personally, have naturally (what's considered) rat brown hair and blue eyes. both my parents have blue eyes, but my mom has dark brown hair, while my dad is a redhead. i think, however, that blue eyes and blonde/brown hair is more common, unless one parent isn't swedish :)

A blend of green,blue and brown eyes and blond hair😊

Ice blue eyes, very blonde, really pale skin, tall and high cheek bones... I'm the Swedish stereotype. I wear clothes with a lot of color though. My whole family is hunters (both mom, dad and siblings) and i'm the next in line to follow. It's really common to both fish and hunt here in the North of Sweden.

I'm half swede and norweigan from sweden. I got dark brown hair and green eyes :) My brother had blond hair as a kid and now in his 20th he have brownish hair insted. But his eyes are dark brown.

When I was young I had super blond hair, but as I grew older my hair went darker and darker so now I have brown hair and Blue eyes. Same goes for my brother. I definitley think there are a lot of Blue eyed people in Sweden

I am blond with blue eyes, but I am dark blond with a mixed eye color. Sort of blue/grey with a little soft green

When i was younger i was out fishing sometimes but i only caught some seagrass and after a while i stopped going out fishing 😂

Im from Sweden. My hair color is Light brown and I have Hazel eyes. I was born with really really blonde hair.

Strawberry blonde and blue eyes for 46 years, I recently discovered a few grey/white strands so soon there will be a change

statistically Finland has the most blond, blue-eyed people in the world. I have brown hair and blue eyes, my son has blond hair and golden brown eyes, so it's all random mixes. My brother is ginger. We have it all in my family.

dark brown (what's left of it) with steel blue eyes and close to half a meter of beard

You should watch a video about the Swedish archepelago outside stockholm (skärgården) Also a video about medival day on Gotland

A swedish woman with brown hair and greengray eyes, born with pitch black hair. I know so many people that have very many colors, I have not felt comfortable in more loud colors like ever while growing up but I am starting to feel more comfortable in louder colors. (Kind of funny that I say that while sitting in a black and white hoody with camoleggings, so not very colorful😅)

I am Swedish and are blue eyed

They are right about that seasons will affect our mood and interaction with others. Once it gets dark most time of the day for months on end its not unusal that when spring has arrived your neighbor comes out with a new baby coz you haven’t seen them 6 months 😂

I started out super blonde, but over time my hair has become mousy brown. My eyes are green. Yes our party mood definitely depends on the season and day. The colour of our clothes are a bit bland, but that's because we, as a people, don't like to stand out to much (i.e. we don't want all the attention that that creates) with black being the dominant colour. Swedish home-cooked food is delicious but a bit on the salty side and not too many strong spices, but we have been greatly influenced by other cultures' foods the past 50 years or so and have started using a lot more spices in our cooking. In Sweden it is the opposite of America, the people who hunt and fish the most can be found in the north where there still is wilderness. Generally though most Swedes get their food from the grocery store. I think Swedes are like most Northern Europeans when it comes to small talk. More in Southern Sweden than in the north.

Am almost 100% Swedish according to a DNA test and I have green-brown eyes and brown hair (with a few grey/white strands of hair nowadays). About the meatballs - my youngest kid definitely fulfill that stereotype. He can easily eat them twice a day seven days a week. 😂😂 Me, I couldn’t, but I do miss my late grandmothers home made meatballs. Best meatballs I’ve ever had to this day. Tried fishing out at sea with my grandfather when I was a kid in his tiny fishing boat. So relaxing. Never gone hunting myself but have had meat stew from moose that my brother-in-law shot. So delicious. 😋 So true that stereotypes can’t be about everyone in the whole country. It depends on where you’re from, your personality and background/upbringing etc For example, I’m quite outgoing but my husband is not. And our upbringing’s are a bit different plus he’s from a small town and I’m not, plus our personalities are a bit different as well.

I have reddish hair ( was bright ginger when I was little) and brown with a hint of green eyes but both my siblings are blonde with blue eyes

if you come to sweden definitely go fishing try to get perch .clean put on a barrel with a lot of salt overnight go out in the forest pick juniper twigs and smoke the perch then potatoes and a cold sauce wonderful

Haha yes the guy in the video is a typical Swede :) blue eyes here, dark blond / light Brown hair.

I think meatballs as a food is being over-emphasized, we don't eat it THAT often. It will usually have a place at the table during a feast with a bunch of different foods, and we do eat it every few weeks but its not that crazy of a staple-food.

I’m swedish and have hazel eyes (Brown green) and I would say Brown hair but I’ve been told by others that it is more like light Brown or even blond.😅

I'm swedish and I have redishbraun hair and green/yelloish eyes .

I have naturally brown hair, though I did have blonde hair when I was little (Like a lot of kids). My family all have blue eyes, I have central heterochromia (Blue, green and yellow/orange), my dad had green eyes, but they faded to grey-blue with age.

I have green eyes, my ex husband has blue eyes and our children have blue, green and grey eyes. My hair was blonde when I was a child, but it grew darker by the years. At 30 I had dark brown hair. When my daughter was 6 years old, they were 5 girls in her class with long blond hair and blue or green eyes.

I also have blue eyes, and lighter brownish hair. I was never blonde as a child but my twin sister was and her hair is not blonde anymore. 😅 I think blue eyes is actually (or at least was) the most common eye color in Sweden.

Im swedish and i have kind of blueish green eyes and have mostly different shades of blonde with a little bit of dark hair.

Brown hair, blue eyes here :) Dad had blonde/red hair and blue eyes

Fishing is very common here, especially in the summers but it happens in winters too. And some people like to eat what they caught. I like to eat what I caught, even if its not the best and biggest fishes, some people only cook the really nice fishes like rainbow salmon etc. The problem tho is that our east sea, the baltic and many of our lakes are polluted so you are not supposed to eat fish from them more then once a month. But I mean how often is it summer? As you said there is something special with eathing something you caught yourself. So I tend to eat some fishes every summer. About hunting tho: outside of stockholm it is very common to hunt, or at least know someone that hunts as a hobby. In fact even tho we are 10 million people we kill around 100 thousand moose every year, because they would take over the woods if that wasnt the case. and we kill even more boar. So its common to eat boar, deer and moose meat. I mean its not as common as cow or pork, but its not uncommon.

I’m a swedish and both me and my twin have blue eyes and blond hair 😂

I am blue eyed and have brown hair. I had golden blonde hair when I was a kid, but it turned brown during puberty. My husband have green eyes and dark blonde hair. His hair was almost platinum blonde when he was a kid. Our children are a mix, our oldest daughter follows my husband with green eyes and hair that has gone from platinum to dark blonde and our youngest will probably follow me since she has blue eyes and was born with golden blonde hair. Our youngest and I am also a lot fairer in skintone and has freckles, while our older daughter and my husband are medium skin toned and tan really beutifully.

My natural hair colour is blond (dye it dark red for a couple years now), and I have blue eyes

Lightbrown/dark blonde and hazel eyes (brown/green, it is what it is)

I starded very blond, changed to middle blond at age 10-15. Our school children do not fika. Fika means coffee and a bun or cake.

I have brown hair and brown eyes. And all my siblings have the same😂

yay another vid :)

I’m from Sweden I have green eyes and brown / blond hair my hair is blond at the bottom and brown at the top I didn’t color it

As a swede. My eyes are greenish grey and bronze like hair

My father livs in London,i live in the north of sweden.

Swede here - I've got dark-blonde hair and blue eyes :)

I have blue. I was blonde as a child, then it turned more brown and now started to get blond again (grey)😂

I was born blonde as you can be. But from puberty and on I've slowly turn dark blonde and then brownish. I also have blue eyes. I am of Swedish/Finnish decent, with some Baltic genes. But somewhere between 50-80% of Swedes are blonde, no one is really counting :P

If you want to live in Sweden 🇸🇪 you have to like two things!...Sports and Nature. Everything evolves around Nature, following seasons, traditions and Sports. Everyone is more or less into sometime of sport and an average Swede is generally very Healthy and aware.

The guy is actully "Blonde" Blonde doesnt mean yellow hair, we got Blonde brown hair also! I grew up as a Yellow haired boy but turned light/Blonde Brown at age of 10 or so

Well, eh.. I have blue eyes and.. well.. grey and blonde hair... You can fish in central Stockholm if you like. It's allowed, and there's fish. Smalltalk in Sweden is called "coldtalk" (kallprat) or "deadtalk" (dösnack)... That's how much we like smalltalk... 😊 Seriously, we can smalltalk, but we can also be quiet with someone without it being weird.

I'm a blue-eyed blonde, but I colour my hair red and have for 13 years ;)

hunting and fishing are big in sweden hunting might be a bigger oftime thing but most of us know how to take care of the catch!

I’m swedish and have dark blonde hair and blue eyes. 😊

I have naturally light brown/brown hair and blue eyes and have dyed blonde highlights but my sister was born with super blonde hair and blue eyes but with time her hair has become darker (she's a teen now) so she's dark blonde now but most of my bigger family don't have blonde hair but i think all of us have blue or green eyes. Blue eyes are actually about 50% of all people and then green and brown are about 25% each so blue eyes are the most common

I am tall, blue eyed and have honey blonde hair, so yes, I think I fit the stereotype.

Im a Swedish brunette with hazle eyes >.< A lot of people have blue eyes but not as many as the steriotype makes it up to be. Love your content and genuine interest in our culture, language and history!

I’m swedish and i have naturally blonde hair and blue eyes

I used to be blonde as a child with sky blue eyes, but as I grew up my hair started to become more red-blonde and my eyes are blue-greyish

Swede, Blonde and blue eyes. But we have all the colours of hair and eyes. We have it all :D I live close to water so I love fishing =)

I'm dirty blonde with blue/grey eyes... Since you already know: World friends, you can possibly watch: American tried the WEIRDEST Swedish words for the first time !!, I feel like that's enough of the title- and that video is funny-

I am blue eyed and blond, live in Sweden...but I am from Iceland...

I definitely had blue eyes and blonde hair as a child, then it started to get darker and darker from my tweens and now I'm a mousy brown. My eyes can look blue in the right lighting but I'd say they're gray. Regarding the small talk, I think it's probably more out of politeness and a fear of awkward silence that I feel compelled to small talk. I genuinely hate it, though. Like, if my mum calls me to chat and doesn't have a specific thing she wants to talk about, she knows the call won't be long 😂 I always wear earbuds when I'm out on the town by myself to avoid people asking for signatures or donations.

As a swede in my mid 20's I'll say that there are few things i hate more than small talk 😅