The Swedes, on the other hand, if asked to describe the good people of Denmark, might depict the Danes as happy-go-lucky people who, for better or worse, wear their emotions on their sleeves. Due to their proximity to continental Europe and their direct interactions throughout history with the French and Germans, Danish people are also often perceived as possessing a bit of an elitist attitude toward their fellow Scandinavians across the water in Sweden and Norway.
Perhaps the current state of relations between the people of Denmark and their counterparts in Sweden is best epitomized by hostilities that erupted on social media between official government Twitter accounts managed by the Danish Foreign Ministry on one side and the Swedish Communications Unit on the other.
Fortunately, cooler heads prevailed, and the hurling of insults came to an end. While probably done in good fun and certainly entertaining, this very public exchange of barbs and ribbing does validate the notion that the rivalry between the Danes and Swedes, while certainly not rising to the level of centuries past, does still exist.
Sometimes non-Scandinavians mix up countries in the region. For much of the Viking Age, the nations of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, as they are known today, did not exist yet. Instead, Scandinavia was comprised of competing chieftains and warlords, some more prominent than others, who vied for land, power, and wealth. The Vikings are often perceived as ultraviolent people whose ruthless ways terrorized all of Northern Europe during the Middle Ages. However, what is often overlooked is that in addition to their raids against foreign people in faraway places like the British Isles and France, the Vikings also waged war against each other.
To say that Denmark and Sweden are historical rivals would be a vast understatement when looking at the number of conflicts between these two Scandinavian countries.
In fact, as far as recorded history goes, no two countries have gone to war against each other more often than Denmark and Sweden. Numbers vary according to scholarly interpretation, but by some accounts, the Danes and Swedes have gone to war an astonishing 30 times since the 15 th century this is near twice the number of hostilities between England and France. Now we're back. The Swedes, then known as Varangians, or Rus stayed true to their pagan ways for the longest out of the three until early 12th century.
The Local. In the meantime, like us on Facebook and Twitter for features, guides and tips on upcoming events. OK so I put it out there. I hear Taggart's on again! The Italians — Most of the stereotypes are positive, but mostly because of the food. The Swedes are, he says, "highly adept at insulating themselves from each other". Even ahead of the US. Danes do tend to feel that they get value for money, but we should not overlook the fact that the majority of Danes either work for, or receive benefits from, the welfare state.
They nominally dislike the English, but I have yet to meet an Irishman who really loathes the English. Like the Swedes, they embraced privatisation with great enthusiasm even the ambulance service is privatised ; and can seem spectacularly unsophisticated in their race relations cartoon depictions of black people with big lips and bones through their noses are not uncommon in the national press.
On Denmark's high taxes and what Danes get for it. The Danes of course also have highest taxes in the world though only the sixth-highest wages — hence the debt, I guess.
Unlike most Bulgarians I dislike Russians, they have great culture but are cold introverted and reserved people that never smile. Further reenforcing this notion is the idea that a larger number of the greatest Vikings of the day were Danish there were, of course, great Vikings from Norway and Sweden as well. The English also have a poor reputation in tourist traps, such as Amsterdam and Ibiza, for being loud-mouthed, obnoxious drunks.
As to Americans, I lived in NYC for 7 years and that city is certainly not friendly, probably like most capital cities. However, once they get drunk they starting and approaching women. Many of them do weight training and workouts, and it is more and more common for them to lift heavy stuff themselves, e. How can they afford all those expensively foraged meals and hand-knitted woollens?
We are annoyed that they do not understand any Norwegian, while we understand Swedish perfectly. Found inside — Page 40I do not for a moment think that the Danes can produce any more.
The Government of Sweden have also taken much interest in the dairying industry there Even without getting into the deeper differences between countries like Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Iceland, you'll discover that not all Scandinavians are blonde-haired blue-eyed Vikings. For example, Aarhus, the second biggest city in Denmark, hosts a famous event called 'Kapsejladsen' - an annual boat race at the Aarhus University park - where thousands of people occupy the park and drink beer all day.
The Maypole is a tall pole that is typically painted, wrapped with ribbons, and decorated with flowers. New world servers for nordic [Norway, Sweden, Denmark] Discussion. Funny, honest and some almost obscene, the questions were all about the bizarre customs of the Danish people.
Television in Denmark is rubbish, Finnish men like a drink - and Sweden is not exactly a model of democracy. Actually, I have lived in Denmark — on and off — for about a decade, because my wife's work is here and she's Danish.
But it is interesting to see how a person who has all great-grandparents from the same area of Norway or Sweden could have diverse, non-Scandinavian results. Is this the Viking attitude or what? Swedes are considered to be great neighbours by most Danes. The average worker not only pays 30 percent of her or his income in visible taxes, but, additionally, close to 30 percent in hidden taxes.
The Danes, meanwhile, have long enjoyed predicting a horrible doom for Sweden. Norwegians are considered racist. Well, except, both consume lots of dairy products and celebrate Christmas.
This tradition has been there for many decades. All rights reserved. Some Danes say that wearing black is simply a trend because black clothes look very classy and create a slimming effect therefore many Danish designers focus on the cut rather than the colour.
Hear this Swede attempt to speak Danish! E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] Found insideEighteen essays explore interactions among Swedish and Norwegian immigrants to America, focusing on themes of friendship and competition through the lenses of identity, language, religion, and politics. Found inside — Page 89Would not their places of refuge be my tem. In that condition what should we think of Sweden , Denmark , or Holland , or whatever Denmark, Sweden, and Norway have a complicated relationship.
Denmark is the ugly stepsister of Scandinavia. Perhaps the Danes' dirtiest secret is that, according to a report from the Worldwide Fund for Nature, they have the fourth largest per capita ecological footprint in the world.
Only , — it would appear rather greedy and irresponsible — people cling to this breathtaking, yet borderline uninhabitable rock in the North Atlantic.
Just make sure that you are physically and mentally strong enough, and remember to treat her as an equal. When they start feeling comfortable and brave, let them do the rest. They, oddly, have some mixed respect for the Czechs, who have resisted German aggression. What do we Swedes really think about our neighbour in the south?
Swedes are people from Sweden or historically Svealand. Lots of summer holidays in Denmark. The article gives an impression that the essentially same, primordial Swedish "ethnos" has existed from the Roman Iron Age. The income tax is about — top measures are just over Neutral feelings from most ofWestern Europe, negative feelings from Germans who consider them backwards, and not always the representing the best image of German-speaking people and admired by Eastern Europeans a throwback to the Hapsburgs.
As a spokesperson I interviewed at the Danish centre-right thinktank Cepos put it, they effectively work until Thursday lunchtime for the state's coffers, and the other day and half for themselves. Read also: Why are you wearing black? This book offers a wide variety of disciplinary and scholarly perspectives to the study of mortality, and it offers in-depth analyses that can serve health professionals, policy makers, statisticians, and researchers.
Posted by 5 days ago. Found inside — Page 35On the other hand , most Danes think that referendums in the three other This is the kind of thing you'd likely hear if you ask a foreigner what they know about Swedish people. Both countries practised an authoritarian and egalitarian form of social democracy. Both were serious about the equality of women: one of the few parts of the British image of the two countries that is entirely accurate is the excellence of the childcare arrangements and the genuine widespread agreement that being a parent is one of the most important things anyone can do.
The strains first started towards the end of the 80s, when the money ran out for both economies. The ruling Social Democrats practised quite rigorous austerities — in many ways the Swedish Social Democrats are far to the right of the British Tories, just as Swedish Conservatives can seem far to the left of much of the Labour party in their concern for social cohesion.
The economic crunch overlapped with a great rush of refugees from the Balkan war and the two together led to considerable tensions: there were riots in some provincial towns, and a deranged sniper who had himself been mocked as a foreigner at school because his mother was German and his hair was dark started shooting dark-skinned people at random in Stockholm.
That crisis passed, but the tensions only went under the surface. Refugee immigration continued, increasingly from the Middle East and Somalia. The new immigrants concentrated in satellite towns built around the big cities in the 60s. They did worse at school and in the labour market. Official Sweden largely ignored the problem. Combined with our romanticised idea of Copenhagen from our childhood memories and the fact that during our last years in Geneva both of us had been working with Denmark and Danish institutions professionally, well, Copenhagen just felt like the right choice.
They are allowed to do many things on their own and are not so overprotected. This time though, the choice of a French school in a Danish environment somehow led to the expat identity Paula had tried to avoid in Geneva.
This came as a great surprise to her. Wanting to settle in and get integrated with Swiss society, they chose to live in a less expat-dominated neighbourhood. So when she moved to Denmark, feeling that she was moving home, back to Scandinavia, she never imagined getting an expat identity here.
So what is it like to be a Swede in Copenhagen, which despite the add-on French expat identity, Paula still is? The formalities took no time at all and I am able to communicate with everyone.
Speaking slowly and clearly and adapting some of my words, I manage perfectly. What came as a surprise was the difference in tone, where she finds that Danes can be very direct in the way they speak to each other.
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