So on Maundy Thursday (Skjærtorsdag, right before Easter), a lot of Norwegians undergo a mass migration over to Sweden to perform what is known as "harryhandel" (harry being a derogatory word meaning something like "tacky" or "tasteless"), to essentially buy cheap consumables. For Norwegians this day is a holiday, but not for Swedes. We even have a reality TV show in Norway revolving around harryhandel.
Lol honestly this video surprised me. I was expecting more like those joke books both swedes and norgigense have about each other. Nice to see we can be honest about this. Yes I know my spelling sucks. Many words I don't normally type 😂
I thought those kinds of 'holidays' were just practiced in south America, is fun to see how similar people are regardless of where they are from, everyone loves to get prods at cheaper prices )))
It is very cheap compared to some other countries. As for being open and social, no way. I always get weird looks when I say good morning to everyone or sit next to someone on a nearly empty bus and try to strike up a conversation. In my culture you talk to everyone and it not uncommon to randomly meet someone on a bus and go to the pub for a drink. Even gone to the movies with a random guy I met after we started talking about the marvel movies on the ferry lol
smoker696969 It depends on where you live in Sweden (and Norway for that matter). While it might be true for the larger cities like Stockholm, it doesn’t always apply for smaller places. In smaller towns it’s common to say hello even to strangers. I believe this is true almost everywhere in the developed world. The larger the place, the more anonymous you are and the less likely you are to interact with a total stranger.
@@budisoemantri2303 I was surprised how cheap Singapore was when I went there, I heard a lot about it being expensive but prices were similar to sweden for accommodation, food and drinks. I know housing and cars are expensive but didn't buy any real estate or vehicles during my visit. ☺️
Sweden and Norway are like siblings, we can make fun of eachother but still love and respect eachother! I have never met any rude or unfriendly norwegians! Much love from Sweden.
That is exactly how i see norweigans and danes. Worked in both denmark and norway and i prefer norway, the nature is fantastic and i am a bit jealous the way they celebrate 17 May.
Det mest Skandinaviska med den här videon var att alla verkade vara lite besvärade över att bli intervjuade 🙂 Jag gillar Norge och hejar på er i alla sporter förutom när ni möter Sverige då förstås 😊
100% enig där !!! När jag jobbat ute i Europa är det många länders folk som är avundsjuka på att Sverige och Norge är så lika och har så lätt att förstå varandra...inte bara spåkmässigt.
Video idea: Travel to Sweden and Denmark and ask them about what they think about Norwegians, using your original languages, which will be pretty fun I think
lol norwegians arent allowed to travel outside norway...i think theyre in some lockdown of some sort. they can travel internationally but then theyd be quaratined when they get back or something like that. ;)
@@fantasticfox175 no, it would be fine:) swedes and norwegians understand each-other (if the dialects get in the way, then they can just speak standard norwegian/swedish and it would be okay). Danes understand norwegians, but no one understand danes tho lol. That’s why it's good that all three countries can speak English fluently
Prices in Stockholm where tourists usually go are much higher than in the rest of the country I'd say... so the border towns where norwegians shop are much cheaper than in Norway but maybe not Stockholm as much... but still cheaper.
Erik Actually, the supermarkets in Stockholm and the other major cities are even cheaper than most small towns, especially in the North. I grew up in Gothenburg, lived in several villages in the North for ten years after high school, lived in Stockholm now for the past two years. I’ve never spent this little on groceries and essentials as I do right now, and Gothenburg was cheaper too. Not as a percentage of my salary, but just in the amount of SEK. Logistics is expensive. Housing is expensive in Stockholm, everything else is equally cheap or even cheaper of your day-to-day living compared to the rest of the country.
@@erik.... I live outside of Uppsala, and Ica here is one of the most expensive in the whole country.. It's cheaper to take the car 4 mil and buy food at another Ica 😅 And it's a place where it lives like around 4.000 people.. It's crazy.
@@Therran91 I'm not surprised, I'm baffled how people in the major cities have some weird idea that everything must be cheaper everywhere else. I had to pay more for swimming, clothes, hygenic products, newspaper delivery, gasoline (yes, per liter), car maintanence, broadband, basically everything you don't normally buy online when I was living in the North. The only thing that is significantly more expensive here in Stockholm is housing and eating out at some places. It's like they don't realize how logistics work. Distributing stuff to one million people on 1 000 square kilometers is much easier than one million people living on 300 000 square kilometers.
I was surprised to hear that they thought Sweden was beautiful. A lot of our cities have a very industrial look I feel. When I look at Trondheim for example I think it looks so much more beautiful than anything in Sweden. It looks like something I'd spend hundreds of hours building meticulously in a city builder game.
As a Canadian person I can say that I love Sweden and Norway. Both are two wonderful countries and Swedes are very nice fellas. Lot of Love from Canada 🇨🇦
musicfan28- Friendly greetings from the USA! What's up? I've been to Canada once. Nice place. I bought a couple Cuban Cigars and smuggled them back in to the USA. Haha. Oh, they were $15 each but my father and I each smoked one, anymore tho, I don't smoke even Weed unless offered, because smoking is terrible for you.
Right back at you! We generally have a pretty great view of Canada (maybe too great?) and mostly love everything about you except ice hockey. I might have made Canada my sworn enemy after some particularly devastating losses.. ahem. It faded in a day or so :)
Just nice to know norwegians has jokes about swedes in the same line as danes do about swedes. before the bridge between denmark and sweden a long running joke in copenhagen was "keep copenhagen clean, follow a swede to the ferry" :D
Actually It's the same jokes...You only replace swede with norwegians in the joke or the other way around. I have cousins in Norway and we used to tell jokes all night long...
It is interesting that only 30 years ago Swedes would go to Norway to shop because food was so cheap there. My family would always stock up on sugar and cheese.
@@flameofazazel598 No, the Swedish crown was worth more than the Norwegian crown back then, the opposite is true now. How strong the economy is in general also play a part.
@@flameofazazel598 It all comes down to oil. Denmark gave some of the North Sea to Norway back in 1965 and made a terrible mistake doing it. A lot of those places given had a bunch of oil and in the 70'ies oil rigs/platforms got a lot more efficient and it became profitable drilling for oil in the sea. Norway used to be the poorest of the Scandinavian countries, but after the oil business of which 50% percent was owned by the Norwegian government, the country slowly got better economy.
Really? Maybe the government give you tickets for its. In Italy only until Middle school is free after that you pay your lunch. High school and University have low prices for students.
@@nettitus Not sure how Norway is in general but I've heard they have to bring lunch. In sweden you get it until University, then you have to bring food/buy.
@@NthreeE Maybe in Norway the government pay your lunch until you will study in high school. In any case I know that Swedish and Norwegian government give to any student a minimal salary like help to pay the bills and others things. But students need to make all exams and be regular in the studies. Is so really ? In Italy give you only a scholarship if you have lower income of a threshold and you have made all exams required in time.
@@NthreeE By law the schools only need to provide lunch for their students during their time in the mandatory part of the school system so from the age of 6 to 16. By the time you choose to go to a College eller University its entirely up to the school if they want to pay for your lunch or not with tax money, and as more and more municipalitys are failing with their economy, free lunches are disappearing from schools everyday in order to save money.
As predicted, people who have been to Sweden the most are also the most positive, while those who have never been there have the most preconceptions. It’s the same everywhere in the world really.
Sweden and Norway is like brothers, we cant really express our love for each other because that would be embarrassing, so we do care. I do still consider Sweden the older brother weigh down with following rules and paying more attention to how we are seen. To me Norwegians seems more free and happy than we are.
KL15. Tusen takk ! :) Ja. Svensker og Nordmenn er søsken :) Og vi har søskenkjælighet til hverandre ! :) :) :) Dere svensker er også fantastiske mennesker !!!!!!! :)
@@Halvor1970 born and raised in Toronto Canada… family originally from India about 50 years ago! Have been all throughout Europe but not Sweden yet… hopefully soon!
Jag känner att jag som svensk måste tacka för de fina kommentarerna i denna video, varit flera gånger i Norge och har bara bra saker att säga om detta fina land och dess invånare! Tack Norge! (Danmark och Finland, älskar er också)
Last I was in Oslo, they were selling t-shirts with nine flags on them, one Swedish and the rest Norwegian. Caption was: "Hvilken en er feil?" or some such. It is a friendly rivalry.
I have such a T-shirt with 5 sweedish and 1 norwegian flag. And the text is : Finn 5 feil ( finde 5 errors), I love that T-shirt, it was bought in sweeden beleve it or not, and i also Love Sweeden and sweeds.. (they are so sweet), and my ecconomie Hurts now, from not being able to go there and shop consumibles.
Since theres a Scandinavian Defense pact between Norway, Sweden and Denmark, you are pretty right in the fact that scandinavians will fight together :)
@@jimmywayne983 never heard about it I know for sure Sweden wold help Norway if needed but they have Nato in there Back. so i am not Sure we need to But We Do have a Cooperation with The Finns.
@@PierreSimonsson Too complicated a system for me to explain in full in this comment section, but you can take a look here for some general info, its a complicated system since some are Nato members and some are EU members, its a union with no limits on extend of cooperation And its in place instead of the planned but failed defense union that was in the process after ww2. Denmark and iceland actually voted and wanted a Nordic military union over Nato :) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_Defence_Cooperation and the failed en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavian_defence_union
@Scallawag I fully agree, a scandinavian or nordic union would be a economic powerhouse. I as a Dane have so much more in common with my scandinavian and nordic brothers ans sisters than with greece and bulgaria. We have a more equal welfare and quality of life and our national economy is for all nordic countries in the +, whereas in EU only 7 or 8 of the 27 countries have a + on their national balance. Culture, history and language also binds us together. and for the scandinavian 3, we also have our monarchy tied together through generations.
Aww! Nu vill jag ju åka till Norge! Ni är ju så gulliga 🇳🇴. Vi gillar er med! Har varit rätt mycket i Norge men nu var det länge sen. Vi ses när Corona lugnat sig!
I live about 100 km from the Norwegian border. I look on Sweden and Norway like siblings. We love to pick a little on each other like a brother and sister. And i think the constant ”competition” between the countries is a very good thing. One thing is for sure, if Norway ever will need help. We will be there. I saw how a lot of Swedish people acted when Breivik did what he did. That really affected Sweden to. We sent help to Gjerdrum a couple a months ago. And i know Norway have helped us in similar situations. Like siblings do. So this heart from Sweden is for you Norway!❤️
BP. Lillebror eller storebror ! Det er vel litt hvordan man ser det, eller regner det når det gjelder Norge og Sverige :) Vi har mer penger enn dere ! Men dere har et større land enn oss igjen :)
There is an analogy. Swedes are the Scandinavian equivalent of Germans, Norwegians are the Americans, and the Danes are Southern Europeans... One thing that I really like about us Scandinavians (it also extends to the other Nordic countries) is that we can be fierce rivals in sports, but if your own country is out of the game, you always enjoy the success of your neighbors. We're like siblings...
As a Norwegian, I think the relationship between Sweden and Norway is a brotherly one. We don't agree on everything, and we can get into pretty hefty fights and arguments about things, but when it comes to it, we have each other's backs and support each other.
Norge för mig har alltid varit underbart❤️ Tänk om tiden kunde gå tillbaka till när jag träffade Heidi från Oslo och brevväxlade med hon..Norge är fantastiskt 🇸🇪
Älskar Norge och norrmännen! Norway is probably the most beautiful country I've ever been to. There is a special bond between us, that is why there are so many bad jokes about the other side. Love from Stockholm.
Haha, som svensk blir man glad när man hör våra kära grannar prata så snällt om oss. Ni är ganska ok också Norge, man förstår er tillochmed när ni pratar till skillnad från dom där danskarna. 😁
@@fordhouse8b Så fan "vi" gjorde. Det var den sosseledda regeringen. (Mina föräldrars föräldrar röstade heller aldrig för att socialisterna skulle ta över landet.)
As a swede working at the border where most norweigans go shopping i can say that there are idiots from all countries sweden,norway,denmark and finland but there is a loot more good hearted people! Usually the older people from norway are the nicest people i meet in an average day! We all say we hate eachother but under the hate we secretly love eachother instead! (AND i will say that norway has a much prettier landscape then sweden!)
You Swedes always trying to put Finns in the same club with us, as if Finland means the same for Norwegians and Danes, the only Scandinavians with a connection with Finns are Swedes, they are foreign to Danes and Norwegians.
Norway and Norwegians have very little contact with Finnland and Finns. They are just like aliens to us. Much of it is because we are not ethnically related and we cannot understand each other languages. That said, we have nothing against each other as peoples. We simply just doesn't belong - and never have. But we have a lot to learn from Finns about how they are organizing their country. A truly modern democratic country based on logic and reason.
@@idk-mi1kl Wrong interpretation. That smile and chuckle is a common way in Scandinavia for a girl to relieve some peer tension and signal that you're not more full of yourself and your story than warranted by the random on-cam situation. She's reading the reactions of the interviewer and responding to that. Seems like a pleasant and lovely girl next door to me.
This is well edited! I assume you approached someone and then asked them all your questions, then on to the next person. But then you edited it, so that we hear everyone's answer to the first question, and then everyone's answer to the next question. Both in terms of hearing the range of opinions on each question and in terms of learning Norwegian, this rearrangement is brilliant. Thanks for the video. As a native English-speaker, I am trying to decide whether I want to learn Norwegian, Swedish, or Danish. It's not really practical to try to learn all 3. Swedish has the most native-speakers, but I've heard that Norwegian (Bokmål) is easier to understand than Danish, if you're Swedish and easier to understand than Swedish, if you're Danish. Takk igjen.
@@irondasgr I gave your comment an up vote. That’s sound advice. What you couldn’t know is that I already speak German at the B2 level. My goal is to speak German, Spanish, and French at C1. (A1 = beginner. C2 = almost bilingual.) I would like eventually to have more than a superficial understanding of Swedish or Norwegian. Norway with its mountains and fjords is a country I definitely want to explore. As an outsider, I wish Sweden, Norway, and Denmark would adopt a common Standard Scandinavian language. I think that would have many advantages for all 3 countries. But apparently, Swedes, Norwegians, and Danes are content to switch to English, when they can’t understand each other.
@@alwaysuseless I understand. Since you speak German the Dutch choice would be supreme. But of course you know what you need. It's just that (as a language teacher myself) it always feels really a pity to listen to someone to want to put so much effort just for a trip and then nada. Unfortunately Norwegian speak only the Norwegians and only in Norway. I'd like to learn some Swedish myself but I always come around when I think "what on earth are you going to do with this ability?" Just watch Sa ska det lotta? Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to worth the price...
@@irondasgr For a first trip to Norway, I will probably know only a few basic expressions like Hello, Yes, please, No thank you, Where is the restroom? In other words, I'll have to rely on Norwegians understanding English. For my first trip to Germany, I had had 2 years of German at university, but had forgotten, for example, how to use the familiar address. The much younger nephew of a friend I made found it very funny to be addressed, in effect, as Sir. You go with what you've got. For the next couple of years, I'll be mainly focused on the big 3: German, Spanish, and French.
@@alwaysuseless Of course, it's a great feeling this of belonging and inclusion when you find yourself in a foreign country of which the language you speak. I have studied Italian and this last Christmas I spent it in Rome. I was there for 15 days and at some point I realized that I was in the bus and had people asking me for direction. Italians. In a couple of cases, indeed, I knew how to answer effectively and it was as weird as much as magnificent. In just a fortnight I was already turned into a "vero Romano". I wish that you enjoy the greatness of this sentiment too in Norway sometime.
I am swedish and I am absolutely in love with norway and norweigans, the jokes we have and the competition mindset is just for fun! We get along worse with denmark and finland....
Neuroleptika. Do you swedes come out worse with Danes and Finns ? No shame to be from Finland for us Norwegians at least ! Then the Finns also have a lot to be proud of ! :) Both Norway, Sweden and Finland have achieved a lot !!! Then it's worse with the Danes ! What do they have to be proud of ??? Red sausages ??? Danish people are probably just as jealous of you Swedes as us Norwegians !!!
As a Canadian I went to Sweden for a week a few years ago and I found it unsettling. Bars closed really early, everyone was trashed by 11:30 and people weren't friendlier once they were drunk. The food scene was also super disappointing. I have a distinct memory of a woman falling on the cobblestone street with her bags of groceries right next to me and I stopped to help her pick them up and asked if she was okay, she was not impressed I stopped to help her. She seemed shocked I assisted to help and shooed me away angrily. As a Canadian I was taken aback by that. Sweden felt unnatural and dystopian and the people seemed pretentious, fearful and standoffish. Watching this video I was wondering if Norwegians picked up on this or if their culture was the same. I had been to Iceland many times and Denmark once and I found the people to be more jovial and unrestricted in the way they expressed themselves and more similar to how people are all over the world. I left Sweden without hearing one child laugh, cry, shout or even a dog bark. It was all very suspicious. I'm sure there are lovely people there but the overall vibe was off-putting. I would like to see Norway but I don't want a do-over of the experience I had in Sweden.
I think scandinavians are alike in many ways. Remember that a few experiences isn’t necessary representative of the entire population, although you definitely described elements of it
I'm lucky I have good friends in Norway and have been there many times. If you are from the USA watching this . Some thing you may not know . Norway and Sweden have the highest standard of living in the world.
En stor skillnad som jag upplever mellan nordmenn och svenskar är att nordmenn inte litar lika blint på staten och media som svenskar gör. Det är ofta lättare att prata om tabubelagda eller kontroversiella ämnen med en norrman än med en svensk. Samma med danskar och finnar i detta avseende.
есть ли много русских в Свалбарде? Почему? Если я вспомню хорошо, это место где иностранцы по всему миру могут жить и работать без визы, и после, вокруг 5 лет (мне кажется), им дарят право остаться в стране навсегда, и они затем могут перемещаются на юг, в континентальную Норвегию где климат мягче? Are there a lot of russians in Svalbard? Why? If I remember well, it's a place where foreigners around the world can live and work without visa, and after, like 5 years (I think), they are given the right to stay in the country forever, and can then move south, in continental norway where the climate is milder. (norwegian, with the help of google translate, so be careful not to take it as an example:) Er de mye russ på Svalbard? Hvorfor? Hvis jeg husker riktig, det er et sted hvor utlendinger over hele verden kan bo og jobbe uten visa, og etter, rundt 5 år (jeg tror), de gis rett til å bli i landet for evig, og de flytter sør, til kontinental Norge, hvor klimaet er mildere.
Nothing. Most likely the vast majority of norwegians has never visited Svalbard, any less met any russians living on Svalbard. The norwegians that travels to Svalbard usually travel to Longyearbyen, not barentsburg. Norwegians in the north tend to have a positive view about Russia and russians because of the local historical connections between the inhabitants of Finnmark. Norwegians in the south tend to have a negative or neutral view on Russia and russians. THe reason many have negative views towards Russia is because of Putin and russian politics.
The Norwegian (and Swedish) word for "child" is "barn". I have heard that it is "bairn" in Scotland. A connection? Norwegian fisher people have reportedly been a conduit of mutual influence in language between Norway and Scotland (and not just the Vikings).
Norway and Scotland have both similar beutiful landscape. Norwegian whisky is not so good, ha, ha. In Norway (Oslo) they get "dritings", in Scotland they get "drunk". Happens frequently.
Vi elsker også dette landet som nå stiger frem og hele det Norske folket! Med stor kjærlighet fra Sverige. Vi älskar också detta landet som nu stiger fram och hela norska folket. Med stor kärlek från Sverige 🇸🇪🇳🇴❤️💃🕺👑😍
Vi älskar vår vackra granne i väster. Så vackert land, så vacker kultur (brunost tex). Norge och vi har en lång tradition av att berätta vitsar om varandra, men det gör vi av kärlek. I
Martin Ahlman. Tusen takk :) Vi Nordmenn ønsker alle dere gode og snille svensker, alt godt i fremtiden :) :) :) Heia Sverige og Norge sammen til evig tid ! :)
Visiting Sweden is like going to a magical fairy tale country where everyone talks like they're in a children's movie and all the candy is super cheap. I love it. And of course old school Swedish death metal is really good.
i used to live in Sweden, Never heard any of my swedish friend talk negative about norwegians, but they don't talk positive either. that sound weird but it seems to me they don't care. But they often talk about denmark, danes, danish language...etc in a funny and negative way.
Love back to Norway from Sweden! \o/ See you like the great sibling you like to mess with sometimes (with all the Norwegian jokes) but only love deep down :) And love to the Danes as well \o/
I haven't spend any real time in Norway or with any norwegians but I hope to someday. We have to stick together and help eachothers as brothers and sisters. I'm glad to see that these people have the same feelings towards swedes as I and many swedes has towards them.
@@Wings_of_foam Det handlar mest om vana och hur mycket du utsätts för språket. Kör Duolingo i en månad och titta lite på svenska tv-serier så kommer det snart att vara nästan lika lätt för dig som andra norska dialekter.
The foreign girl says that Sweden is a nice place because there are a lot of foreign people there. I find that to be a very interesting comment. It would be like saying that I like Germany because there are a lot of Turks there.
She never said she liked Sweden *because* there are a lot of foreigners, she just stated a fact. The question was "What do you think of Sweden?" and she simply replied that it's a nice and friendly country and that there are a lot of foreigners here.
Den stora skillnaden är hur fan norrmän kör bil. Det där med planerad körning är något som de inte har förstått ännu. Man får helt klart vara på sin vakt när man kör i Norge och framförallt i Oslo området. Annars som före detta arbetare (tömrer) i Norge så har jag nära på bara bra saker att säga om våra grannar. Lite dyrt land men väldigt härliga människor.
