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It's really too bad they didn't mention the 3-point seat belt. Not only was it a Swede that invented it, but the company he worked for (Volvo), allowed the patent to be open, so anyone could install it in their cars without paying hefty fees. Because of that, it became standard in every car and as a result, it has saved millions of lives all over the world from road accidents.

Sweden had Avicii also. Never forgotten.

I think you accidentally misheard when he spoke about where in Sweden most people live - the majority of people who live in Sweden live in the south, not the north. I think he said "most Swedes live in the southern part of the country" and I think you said you heard "no Swedes live in the southern part of the country" 😅

Scandinavia: Denmark, Norway, Sweden Nordic countries also include: Finland, Iceland.

The heck did he say about the Swedish meatballs being soaked in a sauce with "Worcestershire Sauce"? o.O As a swede I don't think I've ever used that on my meatballs

Dynamite was invented to help people with building and mining. But some people unfortunately saw other areas of use.

Greta Garbo was not of Swedish descent, she was Swedish born and raised and then moved to Hollywood. She is burried in Stockholm Mickey Mouse is boring, Donald Duck is relatable. Also, in 1959 when they started showing Disney on Christmas eve it was the only time of the year when you could watch a cartoon at all. That's why people gathered for it in the start, now it is just tradition. Greetings from Sweden.

Allemansrätten - The right to roam. Traditionally mentioned in the medieval county laws (so the notion is most likely older than that), it means no one owns nature, and everyone is free to enjoy it. You are free to collect materials and berries, and even camp anywhere (exceptions are made for private properties close to buildings) for a couple of days.

It surprises me that H&M is rarely mentioned in these videos. Together with IKEA it must be one of Sweden’s most well-known exported brands.

Vikings from all of Scandinavia came to Britain, the Majority were Norwegians but there are sources of Danish and Swedish vikings in England and France as well. Vikings from all of Scandinavia did also sail East, epecially down to Miklagård and Serkland but the majority were Swedish. Swedish vikings were often reffered to as "The Rus" by the finnish and baltic states. The word "Rus" can be translated to "Men who row" and even taken from a place in eastern Sweden called Roslagen or the Finnish name for Sweden "Routsi". The name "Russia" actually means "The land of the Rus", and the Rus of the time were Swedish vikings. It is speculated if Russia and Belarus got their modern names from the old territory "Kievan Rus" that reached big parts of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, and even further. Swedish vikings did rule Kievan Rus for a long time so historians are discussing if the word "Rus" originally orginated from Scandinavia

The Swedish music export is really big as well. Cheiron studios in Stockholm with Denniz Pop ( May he rest in peace) and Max Martin stands behind many big pop songs and groups, beginning in the '90s: The Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears, Westlife, Boyzone, Robyn , NSYNC. After that Max Martin have collaborated with a lot of famous singers and bands. And the Swede still has a major influence of the international pop industry. Since 1998, Martin has written or co-written 25 Billboard Hot 100 number-one hit songs.

Koenigsegg is also Swedish which is groundbreaking car developer.

Disappointed he didn't mention the Kanelbulle (cinamon rolls/buns) for famous foods, which even has it's own day every year!

Mixing in Greta Garbo as an American with swedish heritage together with Emma Stone and Wahlberg...Greta Garbo was born in Sweden, the others were not! Really bad research in that video you watched 😄

Swedish meatballs are NOT typically seasoned with allspice and nutmeg. Both spices are fairly rare in Swedish foods, especially compared to Britain. Everyone has their own favorite recipe of course, but salt, pepper and onions is the basic seasoning.

22:16 The Ericsson Globe, or Globen as we commonly call it, was renamed The Avicii Arena in honour of the late Swedish DJ Avicii. RIP

Another fun fact that we swedes love is that on the new years we watch the movie Ivanhoe. And the acter Sam Neill takes to twitter for his confusion at the annual tradition.

Not the best "about Sweden video"! Missing a lot that should have been included some examples: Music: Max Martin, Avicii, Roxett ... Inventions: Three-point seatbelt, Celsius Temperature Scale, Ultrasound, Gamma Knife ...Companies: H&M, Volvo, Ericson, IKEA, Electrolux.Tetra Pak

Greta Garbo was Swedish, not just by heritage. ;)

Don't forget Sabaton! One of the world's biggest metal band right now. Check them out. Sweden also has the world's oldest military unit that's still active, Livgardet (the Royal Guard). While checking out Sabaton, listen to their song "Livgardet".

Half way through and they have covered music and famous people, and still not one word of our most famous person - producer Max Martin. Confused.

You have Carl Erick Wickman born in Våmhus, Sweden. He emigrated to Hibbing, Minnesota and founded Greyhound bus i 1913.

Hi there from Sweden! most of us live in the south, you just didn't listen properly. You should come and visit!

As a Swede whose moved to Denmark, I've crossed the Öresund bridge several times. Mainly by train, but also by car. The views are stunning, but when it's just the start of your biannual 7 hour trip to Stockholm, you kinda forget to look it at. But I used to always look for this specific boat that had gone aground close to the bridge and laid there for a couple of years. 😅 I remember thinking it was strange no one moved it, and the suddenly it was gone. Personally I prefer the views from driving through Sweden, seeing the mountains and nature of the different regions. The Swedish nature is one of the things I miss the most, beside my family. A funny thing about the Öresund bridge though, there was a time when I remember a boat was stuck next to it and it laid there for a couple of years. I used

The Öresundbridge in the beginning that you saw that connects Sweden with Denmark you'll not only drive over the ocean but will also be driving under the ocean aswell, check it out

One correction. The 80something% lives in cities. Is a sometimes deliberate misunderstanding. While that figure comes from our government statistics. It concerns 'tätort' vs 'glesbygd' - there are no real translations into English for those concepts. So I take it for this video it's just misstranslation. Tätort - includes cities... But also any rural village with a population over 199 (this is not a typo). And everything between. So your rural farming village miles and miles from anywhere. Is part of that 80+% lives in 'cities' As is all the sleepy small towns. Because it all counts as tätort. Pretty much unless you have miles and miles, not to the nearest town, but the nearest neighbour. You are part of those 80+% who lives 'in cities'. When someone who don't know the definitions behind the statistics. Or want to make out that rural areas are less deserving or desirable. So you bandy that figure about to make it seem like you are not excluding more than half of the population and only care about Stockholm Göteborg and Malmö.

Would definitely recommend visiting Sweden, I go there (Stockholm) several times a year and cheap to travel to from London. I have been across the Öresund bridge and is amazing. You can also take the train on under the Öresund as well

He said Most swedes lives in the southern part.

I live in Malmö, in the very south of Sweden and from where I live I can see both the bridge to Copenhagen, Denmark and Turning Torso, the skyscraper that shows in the beginning of the video. It’s a lovely place. It has a 5 km long beach where thousands of people go every day in the summer. Big city but with a friendly and casual feel. Very continental due to the closeness to the rest of Europe and its many immigrants. I love it!

One of the most popular computer games was developed in Sweden, Minecraft, but also program like Skype and the old game pinball dreams.

The thing with donald duck is not only that it was a tradition to air it on christmas. It was also the only time ever you could watch a cartoon on swedish tv for a long period of time when there were only 1-2 channels available, so it was a BIG deal for children

It's a very random video. Jonna Jinton is impressive, but I do think we can present someone a little bit more famous than that...

Sweden is a small country but number 3 in the world of inventions and patents 🥳💪🇸🇪

Finland is not part of Scandinavia, it is however part of the Nordics which also includes Iceland. Scandinavia is Denmark, Sweden and Norway.

I have to say that it is entertaining seeing you react to things about our country. There are some things that is not exactly as it is at times. But overall it's at least close enough :D

The research on that video...sheesh. "Ericsson does more than sell phones". Ericsson stopped selling phones arpund 2001 for favor of a joint venture with Sony. Sony Ericsson was completely separate from Ericsson for 20 years. Sony Ericsson stopped producing phones a long time ago.

Sometimes the Nordic and the Scandinavian countries are seen wrongly by foreigners interchangeably, but in fact, Scandinavia is only Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, while the Nordic countries also include Finland, Iceland, and the Faroe Islands, and sometimes also Greenland is included since it belongs to Denmark.

Yes, it's true. The whole country grinds to a halt at 3 p.m. on Chrismas eve, when everyone settles down to watch Disney on TV. It's not only Donald Duck. It's shorts cartoons with other Disney characters as well. Not only that, but it's THE SAME cartoons every year! I guess that we Swedes are crazy sticklers for traditions. Speaking of food. One very traditional dish (especially in the nordic parts) is "surströmming". It's actually fermented herring and, yes, it smells like it sounds. I've never eaten it, but those who like it says it's delicious. I've never gotten past opening the can. There is a saying: If you want to be sure to clear a room, open a can of "surstömming".

As someone said below, it was mostly the Danish Vikings that conquered Britain. You have something called "Danelagen", that is where most of the Danish vikings ended up living. Swedish vikings went east, and what some doesn't know is that Swedish vikings were actually for about 200 years the personal guard of the east roman (Byzantian) emperor in Constantinople (the old Nordic name was "Miklagard" for Constantinople), called "Väringagardet". The word has its roots in old Norse language spoken at the time so it is hard to translate. One possibility is that the base word "Vär" comes from a word that ment "trohet" (in English, faithful), possibly because the swore an oath of elegance to the emperor. Just some fun extra facts. :)

Start to love this videos, as a Swed its cool to see what other people think of us.

Okay it’s update time people. Stefan Lövén was indeed our Prime Minister up until the fall of 2021, ahead of the mandate ending, and Magdalena Andersson became the first ever female Prime Minister (or Statsminister as we call it) in Sweden until the next Vote last September when Ulf Kristersson of the Moderate Party took over.

Fantastic reaction! :)

Great reaction!

About Donald Duck - at this time we didn’t have cartoon films. Therefore it was like party when you could look at this and therefore one sent it in the very particular day of Christmas.

Now when you have learned so mutch about Sweden, you need to come here😊

Slightly old, but mostly true (compared to many other similar)! Concerning Donald Duck. I personally almost never look at TV since 1978 (except during the period with children), except "the duck" at Christmas Eve! I have seen the program almost every Christmas since the early 60s.

They often miss to tell that Skype was swedish born and raised, too. Since then it's been sold.

Grayhound bus company in the US was founded by a swede.

I have taken the train across the bridge many times. :) You can go to Copenhagen from Malmö in about 30 minutes. There is a ship wreck beside the bridge. The may have moved in now.

I live in Malmo/Sweden and closest to different countries. And 2 times a month we drive over the bridge to Denmark / Copenhagen. Driving there only takes about 15-20 minutes, it's not a long way. we shop there, go to restaurants, dance etc We are close to quite a few countries to drive to😊

An other great invention from sweden is... bluetooth :) named after a historical viking i think.. named Harald Blåtand --->blåtand means bluetooth :)

We also look at an old black and white english program called ”Dinner for one” on New years eve. And on New years day we watch the film Ivanhoe (from 1982).

If you don’t want to venture out in the Swedish northern wilderness there is Stockholm Ice bar close to the central station in Stockholm where the bar and glasses are made of ice from the same river as the ice hotel. An annex of sorts to the hotel

I was shocked when I found out that Mickey Mouse are the most famous in the world of the Disney characters. I always thought Donald Duck was the main star.

U forgot about EUROPE, THE only Swedish band that has over 1 billion wiews on youtube "not even ABBA has it " on The Final Countdown video , I was there on the 22nd of September last year at GRÖNA-LUND when they resieved the award .

Scandinavia most commonly refers to Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. In English usage, it can sometimes also refer more narrowly to the Scandinavian Peninsula (which excludes Denmark but includes part of Finland), or more broadly to all of the Nordic countries, also including Finland, Iceland, and the Faroe Islands

Nobel invented the dynamite for easier mine work/ tunnel work since Sweden is a mining country. But ofcourse some people figured out that you could use it in warfare aswell.

The Snowman

2:34. Öresundsbron. Öresundsbron in Swedish and Øresundsbroen in Danish is part bridge and part tunnel. Half of Öresundsbron is a bridge and the outher half is a tunnel. The bridge half is on the Swedish water side and the tunnel side is on the Danish water side. The approximately 4 km (about 2.49 miles) closest to Denmark consists of a tunnel, as the span of a high bridge would be a danger to aircrafts at Kastrup Airport in Copenhagen. So the island of Pepparholmen was created to connect the bridge with the tunnel.

They missed that the borough Bronx in New York City is named after a Swede called Johan Bronk who they believe came from the province of Småland. About Donald Duck on Christmas back in 1959 there was only 1 tv-channel in Sweden and when something American like Disney was broadcasted is was something very special! When i grew up in the '80s in Sweden we only had 2 tv-channels and whenever Disney was on you can bet we wanted to watch! The speaker is correct saying it's very much a ritual thing something you just do cause you always have! Around Christmas there's always one network who broadcasts the Home Alone movies here as well!

About Donald Duck or as we call him Kalle Anka :) its just tradition to sit down before Christmas dinner and watch Kalle Ankas Jul ( donald ducks X-mas ) with the whole family! after the show ends we usually open presents for an hour or so then sit down to have dinner around 6 pm.

The bridge and the view is beautiful. I from Sweden and love going over to Denmark🤩

Dynamite good uses are mining, building, clearing land and making tunnels for safer traveling. Making Railroads is one of the biggest good uses of dynamite.

About the bridge to Denmark.......before the opend it for traffic, people could buy tickets so they could walk on it. Me ans a friend of mine did that and it was awsome! At the pylons there was a couple that got married at the same time. After that I've been gooing there by train a few times and also in car. The view is great! You can see the whole bridge when you're flying to Copenhagen. I did that a couple of times and its awsome to see it from the sky!

Dynamite is used for blast rock. You use it for blasting areas so you can build house there.

The Vikings are described as terrible pirates which is partly true but the biggest part of the vikings were farmers and fishermen! Which is seldom mentioned.

Yes, Danes and Norwegians travelled west to the British isles and further. I’m apparently from Norwegian Vikings who went to live in Scotland for 700 years and then moved to Finland and then Sweden. A mix.

Dynamite is used in many construction sites to remove big rocks for example....

I was born 80, and for my family it's been ingrained in our DNA at every xmas evening its Donald Duck time and no one can miss it,. we all cuddle down in something warm with something good to eat hamsandwish or something and some glög. And then watch it even tho we seen it 50 times before ^^

The Donald Duck program on Christmas actually have the English title "From all of us to all of you" and was part of a Disneyland TV-series originally. Perhaps more interesting to you is the fact that in Sweden, we view a sketch by the English comedian Freddy Frinton at New Year every year... the same one!

You can move mountins and make Subways with dynamite... And The sauce for the meatball is : veal stock, heavycream, ansjovis, blackcurrant gel, salt,blackpepper and bayleafs. Thickend with flour. I ad a little butter att the end to make it shine

We got our kitchen table from IKEA - when they had 1 (or possibly 2?) store(s) worldwide!

I can't find the link to the original video... it was supposed to be in the description. Candy Cross is also Swedish among other things.

The bridge... I do it 15 times a month(airport/malmö)... and still it makes me amazed.... every time. I have done it for the last year. And I am sorry to say... I know do not have any thing to do with it but it is Carl Linné. U should se Jonna Jinton... she is amazing.

Donat duck is so cool in sweden his name is kalle anka

The vikings that went to England and Scotland, and for a while ruled England, was Danish vikings. The Norweigan vikings went to Iceland, Greenland and Canada.

The Gun Tower on the Merrimack. Lighthouse, Wrench, Computer Mouse, GPS

Home made meatballs in my house in half pig and half cow. Fine chopped onions and ströbröd ( our main housewife must in the kitchen.) Ströbröd is fine breadcrumbs that we use as a healthy alternative for panko. But in meatballs its delish and some egg.

About the trash.. Countries actually pay Sweden to take their trash.😆

I live in Malmö where the bridge start from, take about 20 min to Copenhagen, or we can take the train over the bridge

Dynamite was actually invented because it was safer than what they used back in the day and he mixed it with mud or something like that and it made it less likely to explode

Sweden is the best country in the world.🇸🇪

Concerning the log cabins. During the period talked about, Finland was a part of Sweden. Just saying ;)

Mining, clearing smal hills to make roads. Some stuff made easer from dinamite

Dynamite was meant to be used for mining

Ok so the Christmas tradition is because that was one of the few times back in the day kids got to see cartoons ok tv. My mom remembers it being the best part of the day. So we grow up watchin it each year and it on the tradition goes... It is always the same episodes every year plus two new cartoons coming out soon.

the view really is amazing ! yet if you are scared of being able to see the water... hmm i see why its a bit scary... i've been driving on this bridge several times throughout my life as i am from denmark myself and have family in sweden ... even our trains travel across this bridge... if you wanna go to Malmö or Göteborg by train.. you'll have to cross this bridge.

The bridge is kind of cool, but it's an even better experience to sail under it

The bridge been driving there so much i lost counting. I live in Malmö sweden but copenhagen is our night life. Malmö,Sweden central station to Copenhagen(capital) central station, Denmark takes just less than 30 min.

What happened with the video? The audio is heavily out of sync, starting from 04:55

People are to fixated on the word "taxes". Its doesnt really matter how much tax you pay. What matters is how much you get out of what your left with. My taxes are 2-3 times higher that an Americans... but I pay 500 bucks rent for a three room apartment in a major city while working 80% at a job that requires 0 education or experience while a person in a similar job in the states cant afford a two room apartment anywhere in their country. When I payed for EVERYTHING, rent, insurance, food, utilities, public transport etc I still have over 60% of my paychek in the bank... This is my salery AFTER taxes, I still have 60% of THAT money afer I payed for everything. Which is better? Would you rather have 1 million dollars at 40% tax or 500k tax free? One is 40% taxe the other is 0... the 500k must be a better deal... right? The tax is not the problem, what you are left with decides if its a problem or not. Rich is not the numbers of 0s on your bank account, they mean literally nothing wihtout a reference point. Being Rich is having *buying power*. if you make a BILLION dollars a month and only pay 1% tax, youre still poor if a loaf of bread cost you 900 million. Youd be way richer if you made 100k, payed 50% tax and a loaf of bread was 2 bucks. Here is another example. I went to the ER about 6 months ago with chest pains. lets break it down. I went in by ambulance. stayed for three days. While there I had: -Three meals a day +fruits -Two EKGs -One 24hour EKG -10 blood tests total -A Cardiologist attending me -A General Resident doctor attending me -Two nurses attending me I then got a ride hom. From what Ive heard and read, just an ambulance in America is 3-5000 dollars. I payed 40 bucks. And I was reimburced three days later by the insurance automatically provided me though employment Yes, I have a tax of around 60%... But I still have more money than I need while only working 4 days a week and being sick cost me literally nothing at all as opposed to living in a country there Id have had to work twice as many hours to afford an appartment half the size of the one I have today and where IF i fall ill, the ambulance alone would be puting me in debt. And there is also something called "Högkostnadsskydd" (literally translate to "High Cost Protection" meaning that if you for whatever reason is put on long term treatment or medication, you only pay the first 100 bucks or so, then you dont pay for anything beyond that point Which is better? I prefer my high taxes, thank you. EDIT Yes, I know youre from the UK, not America. I also know the UK isnt nearly as horrible as the states in these matters. I just have a way better knowledge of American economics than yours which is why I used them as an example.

Vikings were Norsemen who went on raids. Norsemen who didn't go on raids were just "Norsemen". Viking roughly translates to something along the lines of "Pirate". The Vikings that invaded England were a mixture of mostly Danish (I think), Norwegian and Swedish Norsemen, who united and were led by Danish kings. While Danish and Norwegian vikings usually travelled west and throughout Central Europe, Swedish Vikings travelled east. Among other things, Swedish vikings became royal guards (Varangians) for various royal houses but most famously the Byzantine Empire. They also founded a kingdom in modern day Ukraine and Russia called Kievan Rus, which eventually along the centuries became modern day Russia.

About christmas traditions up in the north of scandinavia, if you want you can choose what you want to watch on traditional television. Another interesting fact about sweden Minecraft.

The views from that bridge are amazing, fyi :)

Our city busses also uses food trash to run their motors. It’s called “biofuel” 🤪 // Sweden…. And yeah, as mention I every other comment, this video missed out A LOT!

The thing with Donald Duck is that there were almost no cartoons of that type in 1959 and until the nineties in the, at first, only channel and then just two state owned channels. When commercial tv was allowed that stopped with loads of cartoons but the tradition of Donald Duck survived to this day.

We have invented or popularized lots of more things not in the video. Ball bearings, 3 point seatbelts, rolling seatbelts, regular cars with turbos, Saab 99 Turbo was the first regular petrol car using a turbo, TCAS traffic avoidance system mandatory in all commercial aircraft is a Swedish invention as is Skype, now the conferencing backbone of Microsoft teams, Spotify, Minecraft, Volvo cars, Koenigsegg, Scania and Volvo buses and trucks are well renowned Swedish brands. We are also one of the world's largest weapons exporters and music exporters as mentioned before.

We also have the legendary stories of Beowulf and Arn the knight templar. 😊

Not to forget the young GRETA THUNBERG the most famous climat activist in the world who has spoken in FN, EU and so on!

as a Swedish Viking i wanna apologize for T-Swift... and abba make me wanna puke...