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That's actually why he introduced the Nobel peace Prize, he invented dynamite to be used to make tunnels, in the mining industry and was quite appalled when it was also used in war, so he didn't want his name associated with it, so he donated his entire fortune to be used for the Nobel Prize. Dynamite was just one of hundreds of inventions he was behind.

I'm from England but I lived and worked in Sweden back in the early 70's. I then lived and worked in the USA in the late 70's. All countries have both good and not so good aspects to life - I enjoyed my time in both countries - but personally I enjoyed life in Sweden more. Nowhere is perfect. However, I found then that the Swedes were closer to the Brits in that they put greater value on their work/life balance, valued their community care/public health systems and were generally more appreciative and showed greater care for the environment compared to my experience in the USA. I've been to both countries recently - still felt the same to me!

Lets put it like this. As a swede, i have not found anything that attracts me more than the stuff we have here in the nordics. I guess that says something.

(Swede here) So, about that movie (Midsommar) it basically is a caricature of a few of our cultural quirks. Pretty much everything it is "oh, so THAT is what they misunderstood!" (they get very little right, but they are close enough iin the core that you can trace what they (intentionally) misunderstood/turned to eleven). Imagine if MAD Magazine would try to describe 4th of July, and you get the gist of how it is.

Swedes is one of the happiest people on earth yes.

I live in Sweden and I couldnt imagine living anywhere else. I just love it! There are so many beautiful places here and I got so much left to see.

Loved your comments. You should watch Jonna Jintons Life in sweden.

Yeah baby, Sweden represent! 🇸🇪🇸🇪 No, we don't kill people during Midsommar 😂 Sweden isn't a perfect utopia, but it's better than the US for anyone that isn't a multi-millionaire. To quote a beloved Swedish prog-band, Sweden is a country "where everyone has it well, and no one gets too big".

Why the hell would he not mention that we have the most islands in the world? Allemansrätten would translate to all men's right. Amazing how "land of the free" doesn't even have something so basic... It's not silly, it's perhaps ironic. But his brother died before him and people thought it was him, so he saw the negative reaction due to inventing dynamite, so he created the Noble price. The fact that you see basic common sense stuff as utopian says a lot about your country. More Swedish and Nordic reactions please!

If you book a room at the ice hotel for a few nights, you also get a normal warm room as they don't want you to sleep more than one night in the cold. But if you only sleep one night you get a warm place for all your stuff and the toilets and showers are in a separate building. You get warm clothes and a warm sleeping bag for your ice room.

Free to roam is taught from the day you are born basically. First rule is to make sure you leave the place you visited in a better shape than you found it. Pick up trash, if any, dont break healthy trees etc. It's in our dna.

Sweden have the most islands in the world. It's around 270.000 islands. Stockholm is build on 14 islands. You will survive inside the Icehotel in Jukkasjarvi. It's minus 2 to minus 5 C in the rooms. On the beds they put Reindeere hides and you sleep in a sleepingbag.

3:49 He actually made the Nobel Prize just because dynamite was used for bad things.

@StefanThyron might have an interesting perspective for you, he’s a US citizen who moved to Sweden and just got his Swedish citizenship a while ago.

One thing to add is safety, 7 years old children walk or ride their bikes to school by themselves even in areas that are by some labeled as no go zones. Parents leave their strollers with a baby outside on the sidewalk when going for a fika at a cafe...

The movie Midsummer sucks, has NOTHING to do with the real midsummer celebration in Sweden.

They forgot that we have the biggest music writers and are a country of inventors like Spotify and I think Pirate Bay was thought up by a swede, Minecraft, all morse recent invensions but Ikea is an example of an oljerika one. Speaking of design the classical Coca-Cola bottle was designed by a swedish immigrant in USA. He might have been second generation but entrepreneur ship is in our blood.

Sweden is a beautiful country with a rich history. Alot of places of historical interest to visit if you wish. The contrasts between the northern part and the southern part are sharp. The arcepelago consists of 220 000 islands . The nature of Sweden is very beautiful and we have many beautiful national parks and recreation areas with hiking trails. The coastline all around Sweden is very beatiful. I recommend that you come to Sweden and experience the country. I am a swede myself and wish you welcome to my country. Welcome to Sweden!

Of course we have organized crime, rasism, greedy companies, social gaps, shady politicians and everything else modern countries have to deal with. Less than the US for sure, but it's still there. But we also have a lot of nice stuff like universal healthcare, free school, a relatively robust social security system, a better voting/election system and so on. Not like wealthy people aren't trying to dismantle the welfare state, but that's neither here nor there.

We are verry happy🎉 no stress, if You get sick, or loose the job👍

It's more like the big brother. Finland used to be a part of Sweden for very long, and it doesn't have much history without Sweden. There has been alot conflicts back and forth between the Scandinavian countries (I think Sweden and Denmark holds some kind of record for most wars fought between two countries). But Norway gained independence from Sweden in the early 1900s.......Haha yeah I wanna adopt you both. I live in the southern parts and haven't seen the northern lights. We can see it here sometimes too, but I always miss it. I got the mushrooms. Let's venture north.

I'm Swedish and I'm from Hälsingland, the landscape where the movie "Midsommar" takes place and I thought it was a really stupid crap film (which was also not filmed here but in Hungary. One thing I like here is that all children in Sweden who need it have the right to free glasses and free medicine, plus free meals in kindergarten and school. And l Iove our law about freedom to roam,. I live in a village near a lake and forest so we can pick berries (blueberries, lingonberries, cloudberries etc) and mushrooms (golden chanterelle, boletus edulis etc) and fish for fish (perch, pike, brown trout, rainbow trout, char , zander etc) as much as we want.

German here. While many people might think that Indonesia with 17500 Islands has most Islands, there are many other countries with more. Sweden is in fact Nr. 1 in the world with 267570 Islands. Next is Norway with almost 240000 then Finland with 178000 Islands (lets face it, the entire Northern European region is the most islands region on the planet), Canada: 52500 Islands and the US with 18000 Islands, next is then Indonesia with 17500 ...

Swede here. Both good and bad things. But also more of what things you value. One thing many foreigner complain about (specially younger ones) our alcohol laws If you are unable to plan ahead few days ..or even few hours, Yes it may be a problem You can "only" buy stronger alcohol 12 hours per day, after those open hours you must go to a pub to get it. Personally I have never had problem with it, just buy and keep it at home when you are close to run out, buy more. always have a stock and refill it when need. Cold and darkness during winter is also something we complain about It is what it is, nothing anyone can change, so I dont really get the fuss about it. dress warm when go out. we have street lights and lightbulbs so it is not we wander around in complete darkness, sit in a dark room from Oct to April..as some make it sound like. Migrants and gang violence is an other hot topic. Yes crimes have gone up a lot during last 10 years but still very low compared to US and most other none EU countries. Majority of all violence happens between gangs, if come as tourist, you wont be a target not even normal regular swedes is involved, unless unlucky bystander. Taxes and things are expensive. As we do pay a lot in Tax, we dont have many bills that many other countries have, as we already paid for it by Tax. It may sounds it is free, but it is rather pre-paid. As everyone pay towards same goal, it work same as insurance but cost of have it is less. No one plan to have a heart attack, but we all know it can happen to anybody so everyone pay Tax that go to healthcare to those unlucky that needs it. No nobody ever think like Americans, if I pay but never get an heart attack..I must try to get my money worth ..by doing what ..stab yourself?!? People do have fire insurance, none lit their house on fire to get their money back?? Weird mind set . Almost everything about Sweden, is by 99% about Stockholm only. Yes as it is capital, things are more expensive, yes rents are higher, yes it is around 50 years que to get an apartment from government queuing system. other parts of Sweden do not have these problems. ( I live up north, big 3 room apartment for 300'ish US dollar per month) For being a capital, rents and cost of living is "low", compared to London, New York, Oslo, Tokyo It is like tourists make an guide for US and only talk about New York, after spent 1 week in Manhattan.

As a swede, it is difficult to answer if we have the dream here. Born and raised here and can't really compare it to other countries. So what I'm trying to say, it all depends on what you compare it to. At the core we are very lagom (also a bit reserved at first) and we have the "Law of Jante" steering us in the right way. It's a different way of living, but who can say it's "the right" one? :)

To us Swedes it's paramount to invite Americans to our Midsummer festivities or we would all go hungry 😉. You're delicious 😂

I can adopt you . Bring mushrooms and i will show you the northern lights and the ice hotel 😂

You can camp anywhere, 2 summers ago when me and my "sambo" a term for the partner you live with, its like being married but without the marriage. had vocation we slept in the car a whole week, we slept at different beaches everyday, we did this to be able to save money, Btw we have around 4-5 weeks of vocation in sweden every year.

Just for the non-Scandinavians Allemansrätten functionally means "The Right to Roam", yes, but that isn't a literal translation. A literal translation would be: "The Everyman's Right/The Every Man's Right" Which is somewhat telling about our part of the world I think. It is every man-, or woman or what-have you's right to roam in nature. Not without consequences for bad behavior obviously, but the basic right of people to freely roam their surroundings and partake of nature's beauty and bounty shouldn't be denied to people. Maybe I'm just being patriotic and silly, but there's a certain profound fundamental respect for your fellow humans in that concept if you ask me.

Me: Walks on private land. Owner comes running with gun yelling '''Are you trying to steal my mushrooms????''

One strange detail about Sweden's right to roam is that it is referenced in the constitution, but never defined anywhere! This is probably because by defining it, you must also limit it. As things stand, people are free to do things as they see appropriate: things that may be perfectly acceptable in one area might very well be unacceptable in other places. So it is best to not define the right to roam. Further, this right can be traced back through history to the viking age! Not bad of a bunch of people to come up with a right that is still valid almost a thousand years later! And to finish off: the English expression "the right to roam" is a bit misleading as a translation fo "allemansrätten". The Swedish legal tradition that is "Allemansrätten" also gives you the right to pick nuts and berries (unless forbidden by law), the right to camp, and the right to use fallen twigs/branches/trees as wood to make a fire. Very likely this has come about so that people could travel from one village to another, without having to carry several day's worth of food and water.

I think we are happier than You, but of course it is not perfect!

8:07 Not really, we are only the 4th happiest country in the world. Finland, Denmark and Iceland is above us.

I am from sweden,there Are many youtubvideos out there,it take me to long time to explain,buy Elisabeth 68 year old from gothenburg ,sweden😊

The dinamite was to blow up mines ore to make room for citys and roades. And when Alfred Nobel found out that war and kill people with his dinamite he edvented the peaice prise to make god for the bad his dinamite did to peole. Love from Sweden and sorry for bad englich spelling.

What you see in the film is not a lie. But, we have problems here as well. As any country in the world.🙂

Not weird at all, dynamite was intended for mining and demolition not war, the inventor of cars are guilty of all car accidents ?

I love mushrooms from a Swede

Nobel was trying to make reparations for his work in the weapon industry

There are of course bad stuff in Sweden like in every country. But compered to the US at the moment I would be very very concerned about fact controling how my own country is doing before I'm flying high above the clouds and giggeling over Sweden.

Why is it strange to have someone who invented dynamite establishing the Peace Prize? He didnt invent wars, to the contrary, he wanted the dynamite to be used for other important human developments issues. Where would our globa infrastructure today be if we wouldnt have had dynamite clearing the way for roads, railways, housing anf construction and so on and so forth. So by intalling the Peace Prize he said, use this wisely and not for war. Right? :-) But gosh how beautiful you are though :-) Lucky husband indeed! :-) Greetings from the Land of the Free, i.e. Sweden ;-)

Uh so... the "right to roam" does not cover private gardens.... You can't walk into my garden and steal apples or flowers. Private large forested areas, maybe, unless it states strictly off limits. Or if you ask for permission. I feel like this is important to set right, because too many "misunderstand" this.

All-mens right to forage, coffee breaks, Midsummer, Ice hotels etc. all over the Skandinavia. That is more like selling vid than true...

Elite. If you know you know.

It´s not perfect. There are gangwars with shootings and explosions.

08:06 im Swedish and no lol, i want to move away from here i cant bare the weather/climate and the materialistic-ness(?)

Tjejen verkar ha totalt noll koll på vad hon tittar och lyssnar på. Riktigt dåligt inslag. Det är nog bättre dom håller sig till sin egen hemstat.

Couldn't watch the whole video

5:08 I'm never gonna watch the movie because al my friends that have watched it didn't like it because it destroys our holiday 😭😭😭😭 *don't watch it react to the real thing*

do scotland next !

Yea the highlights here is correct but the BIG downside is that we have 20% immigrants in this country. And therefore an extreme high killing per capita.

The lady is just mumbling,can't hear what she's saying,annoying 🤬

What are you? 13 yo?

"Lagom" is the best 🎉

There is one time of year where cities go empty. And i really mean empty, no cars no bicycles no pedestrians. That day is midsummer eve. Doesnt matter who you are or where you come from, everyone makes it out to the countryside or people will gather up in parks if they dont have anywhere to go on the countryside. Im sure you can google something like swedish midsummer empty streets and you will see.

In all the 5 Nordic countries it is very "easy" to have a good life. People trust each other. I think that is the outstanding character for all 5 countries. Repeat: There is trust...❤

As a Swede i can only agree to everything in this clip. But there is so much more!

Dynamite is mostly used when building things. Tunnels, roads etc❤

Of course there are bad things in Sweden, just like in all other countries, but the fine and the beautiful outweigh the worse in a nice way. It all depends on what you want to see, right? The residents may seem a little shy at first and have difficulty communicating with new people. But it passes quickly. We love our long country. Look up more films about Sweden on youtube and you will soon want to come here and experience it for yourself, I promise you, you will not be disappointed.

I don't think it's strange that the man who invented dynamite also gives out the peace prize. The dynamite made you get through mountains as he wanted, he never said it was to be used to blow up safes. So I don't understand what you meant with your comment =)

If you haven't already you should react to Jonna Jinton to get a good glimpse of the north of Sweden.

Its all True match more goodwill then bed.but in reasent years Therese has benen a wave of criminal acts

The crickets was because of the mushrooms? Because if not, it was summer and you never see the lights in the summer😅

Yes.. sweden isnt an utopia, its a hard working country.. that got its whealt by being higly competetive on the global market! But.. swedish midsumer then, go to Minesota, to a small village with 5-6 generation swedes that still do celebrate this! But the Nordic lite.. I have watch it ones in my life.. I prefere to be inside and watch my firewood burning.. and its warm! There is a lot of tourist traps.. all ower the world, dont go for it, take a time and learn more about ones traveling area.. or buy a charter trip! Now you have been to Alaska.. its kinda the same as Scandinavia in winter, done that! Hope you didnt need to sleep on ice beds?

Finnish people are happier than us swedes 😢

sweden have over 300000 lakes

I can say sweden is a great country for vampire.

Just ask

"If you come in peace". That just shows you one of the ways the US has gone so wrong. Thinking about defending your property because someone walked through your woods is so far removed from the Swedish consciousness that it's not even a concept that would enter your mind. It's surreal.

This was by the department of tourism, but yeah, it’s mostly like that

If you want to know more about Sweden I very much recommend Geography Now Sweden 👍🏻

We dont throw out old people from the mountain as i hope you understand,Da ?

We can trade, am moving to the states! And I am taking my fika etics with me!

good bye and thank´s all the fun. Liked your videos. T: Pahis

8:06 nah dawg🙃

I am still waiting to hear any English-speaking narrator pronounce Swedish names correctly. First of all - IKEA is pronounced "ee-ke-ah" and nothing else. Some research would really be advised before producing videos like this one.