Simple Swedish Podcast - #330 - Nordiska stereotyper (samtal med min mamma)

Episode Date: June 22, 2026

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Hello, there, welcome to another anew a episode of Simple Swedish podcast. And in this episode, so comes my kare-mourt, so my mother, also my mama. And we are about Nordicca stereotypes, So, so stereotypes are on and our

non-bronists so it will we're we're talking about if swanskary are self-uptagna politically

correct moralists and on Norskan are Czechs hurt-bulls that just are just gillar and go

on tour in Fjellan and are Danskarns really just bar cacksigga alcoholists

are Finland are the desamvaria, that's the bas-du and the islendingana are the innavlady patriots. Yeah, that we

talk about today. And, little background, because my mom is a norc fast, yeah, she came to

Sweden when she was six years So she is upvuxen in Sweden, but she is still very very stolt over to be Norsek. And she utalarer Norge, for that it is so man say it on Norseka. But in other, so I'm sorry, don't know you for it.

So she came to Sweden on 60thalet for that. for that there was more big job in Sweden. And her father was a biggare. So it was therefore, so it can be good just to get a little background for to understand this, the same thing, better. So, yeah,

Her dad got a little book with rollia about Swedka and this here this has we are we swanskare on Norskan but it

it visor that they have it about us also so it was a little that we talked about witsar a wits is a really

a really history so, an shemned history and we We've talked about, German, and you why? you know how

you know how you can't? And you're up, and they're up and they're upnaqar and say, how were it now? Now, now, now it's not all so

so. And we have you have a little, like, storebror, little, dynamic, but between

but it's has changed little then Norway they were very they were very when they hited oil, but it comes much of that

that, that Sweden and Norway were in Union from till 1905 and then was Norway, from Sweden, for it was, like,

it was, like, it was in the Union. So, they were, like, free. So, that was a little background, so that you can't understand the sametale better.

It is, you, a little more than, with, with, very good, upning. You can, so-clart, hit transcriptet, if you are pod-supporter.

I'll leave an link to that. And I have a gratis course for how you over, heard, heard,orstowals with poddard. And I'll leave a link to the gratis-kursen also. But now, I think I that we listen on the sametal. Yeah, so, I think we were

We should talk about about about stereotyper, or maybe more specifically, Nordish for it's cool to include

to findland in the whole, and they're, technically not Scandinavs. But they're kind of a little in the family, or, or what say you? Yeah, but so is, so it.

Sweden has also, I've got it's the same in the same one of the same one. Yes, I think about it, not as that Sweden was the same land, but it's more that we were in the same land. And then, yeah, the city was in Sweden. But I don't know, you're all right, so clear. We were same land.

Yeah. But it could be... It maybe... Finland are they think of, because they're very glad they're their own land. Yeah. But I thought in all the fact that it would be interesting to talk with you about it, because you are Norsek, and I am, therewith, half-norsk.

Gratiss. Yeah, thank. But you are, you're born in Norway, and... Yeah. Can you can you can you about your background when it comes to Norway and Sweden? Yeah. On 60thal, he had upbuilded himself. And when he was ready with the education,

so we'd go to Sweden for there found it very good on job. He had upbilled himself to bigmestery, and they'd screak after bigg people. We were to Sweden to Sweden, we'd there for that way to Sweden. When we were to fly to Sweden, then he'd a little rosa book, a little rosa book, where there stood a lot of roll-gible histories of Swedes. Yeah.

Yeah. Who did he? He got that book of? because two of his sister-and had before, my father-bror had to Sweden before, and my father-bror had been in Sweden and, I mean, heard a little bit of histories when the Germans were the Normans.

And then it was about same stories, but it was over-in-vents. Yeah. Okay, so we talked about 60-tall here. That was when your family, then, then, then, then, then, two of his sister had, you know, had two of his sister's, then, had been to be in Sweden, so, so, his sisters, so, your father, they had, they had to flyer because of and that's a lot of your

but he had already family and children. We were three-sticcarskara. And on that time so there wasn't not so much job in Norway, not a big job that he had to so, it was, but in Sweden they were, like, they screak after the work.

Right, for 60thal, then was it was it was it was economic boom in swed? Yeah. Yeah. So, then, then, so, do you know, from Norway to Sweden? But, but, okay,

I'm a little newfiken, then you said that he, he, he got a book of his brother, where there stood a rollia histories of, and, and it, so, so,

you know anything on how, how people saw on the time, in Norway, how they saw in that time, for now, now is just Norway a very rich land, but on that time

was, well, Sweden, much ricker than Norie? Yeah, I was just four years when we flewtah Yeah. I was, or five and a half when we came to Sweden,

but when we flew from northern Norah, Nore, But I come you don't know But then I've got I've seen to Norway I've seen on Sweden as storebror Or, I'm going to see on Norge as Lillebror

So that we have always been The Lilla That's like, like, and be And, yeah. Yeah, I'm And be tax-same. And be tax-same? Yeah. Yeah, for what then?

Yeah, well, Sweden helped in Norway little bit, under the war, but so. But there were, there were some, some, some, that also sat there were there, I've also, I have understood that, that, that,

Sweden was, like, neutral, like, was, so, but there was also help from Sweden,

the, the, with the swanskars for doing in Norway, but, so, the same time, it's, the Germans, and the to go through Sweden for to take in in Norway. Right, yeah. For the Tisker could go on the swenka-jerkers.

Yeah, and use it. But now, I think that we're just a bit more from the spore. Yeah, but it's interesting things that, which, is related to the same, and the same is the same, so, and so, and so, and so, yeah, especially with the people, for, Sweden, have, well, have 10 million in-voners, and Norway, Denmark, Finland, have, well,

about 5 million, bar, then. I can not that, I know that, I know that nor do you have, five. I think, Norway has about five, Denmark has about five, Finland has about five million and sweden have ten. So it's like the the strong land in the

and it that is in the middle. So, but what... ...we know what... What...what stereotypes Normen have, on the And the swanical, if you're If you're If you're still-you-svests,

And then, you were, you're So, that, you know, knew the best about all thing, and was out in the world and rudded so much And was very strong when it It's the technology and music and so on. So, it's clear, for a set of a way, has, you

Norgo, or, Sweden has been Norgo, Norway, I think, but now is it's the it's the way, but what you're going to what you're, for, for, to example, music, so

well, Sweden is very very, actually, in the world, yeah, so. But, Norway has, you, have, you,

got on, when it comes to economy, to example. Norge, hit, you, oil and a very rich land. it was in Norge

quite a fairerals with Sweden. Yeah, it has been out of war, and, yeah, hindratt that it was economically

on, much on the ground of the and that it didn't go and up so many

industries and so. Now I'm not I'm really very ducting on Norse-historic when it about the development of and services.

But I know that we have had aluminum as an exportvara. And then the first export is our nature. Now say I

Vora'an the whole time. Now say Voraan the time. But it's for that I'm very Norse.

Yeah. You have, you're always been a stolt Norsh. Yeah. So, So now it's more tourism

That landet is interesting for Other people to come to be And it's a bit of a stereotype Also That Just nature And one stereotype that we have in Sweden is that

That you know that That you know about and be in the nature. That you go on tour. To go on tour is a stereotype. And it is a bit of we're not sure. We're not even of

berg in Norway. Fjell... Fjell is well a lot of berg... Fjell is a very a berg... that's high, with snow on top. that's so it's so it's so it's

so, we were pretty small, that we were always out on tour on the So it's a stereotype that is, so, no, no,

no ruck without, no. So, so, so it's a stereotype that Norse- that Norsechers in the, and that's the sturoping then, so, so.

Yeah. What are what have swenks for stereotypes of the Norskar more? No, but that they're chekka and glad. And, yeah, yeah, it's very much of it. Norma men are cheked, glad, hurt-puller

much out in the nature. I've also understood that Normen are New-riched ego-they have they've been a Yeah, that's a thing that I,

that Normen are We think that they're Rika and it they are they well And all things are very dear

in Norway High prices And that they're Bort Shemned Are it Is it's a stereotype that they're borshemned? Bortshemned is that you bexed up and has everything. So that you have all thing.

And therefore, you're a little studdly, a little arrogant. And then, then say you that you're, that man is botched. Yeah. What I have understood, without exactly it's the time, now, now for the normen

got them not have them have not always, but as said, now. And the omvended role is that the Swanskana come over to

Norge for to work. And then is so that Norm Mennel will not take shitjobben but it

can't do the the Yugoslaverna and Finner came to Sweden and did

on 60-70 talet So now, now, now has the normener's the real estate. You know, not really like little bit more, then. No, but, maybe, maybe, you can't get to come and job at us. Yeah, just it. Yeah. Take our shit job.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And the stereotypes in Norway, it was that the swenks are a little studdlyga, that it's a little arrogant, and... Self-uptogna moralists, yeah. I've heard also that other Scandinavs think that the Sweners are a little... little, a little, maybe not like, and so...

I think that it is going to be changed. For that, yeah, but both the Swenks and other Nord-Bor, we are very much out of reser in the world. We have it got stelt, we are out-builded, we are good-spilled, we can, we are of the word of the same, and we are of the and we're like, we're, like, see the world.

They're not not many bligham people, but they're newfickna and social so I think that in all the fact, in all the different, the sun on the whole people. But it's clark,

come to Norga or Sweden and met, in some, the same, And the normally, then, then the normal men, then, then they're more more than the social abetal bit, little bit. Sweskare. And norman.

And I can think, if you come to Sweden and met the typical, the typical, the Normanen. Yeah. Say you, are you norman, on the women also? Norsk-or. I don't know, actually. But norm-mennen is a whole-folk-folk. people. If they're a Norse, then a Norse-k woman, it's a Norse.

It's why I like to say Norse-Karer. For that, then it's a... ...sumann, for that... ...for the time was all men, men, men, over all. But now, now, I'll also be on to change, and lov. If we take... ...stereotyper of... ...norskare, norm-men...

...they go on tour, they're Czech... they're checka. How is that you how could you forklare the word that you're cheque? Glad and trevly, maybe. Yeah. But it's not more than glad and trevileg. Hurtig?

Yeah. Hurt-bull. A lot. It's a little extra energy and enthusiasm. But it has also a little negative clang, sometimes. Can't a little negative clang in avonshucan's

on. Yeah. For that it's a positive. It can't, like, it can't got over to be too much, that's too much, that's probably, it's a negative clang.

But from the beginning, glad and cheque, check is, it's a trevly, and... Yeah, it doesn't be negative. Energy smitten. It's well more positive,

I'm, yeah. So, and... And, and, I'm, maybe, more, but more, more, but more

more correcta. Correcta. Correcta, yeah. A little more P.K., also politically correct. Maybe. You're a little

redder, that, it was, I was, I said it on, on, on, that,

that, that, that, this, this, maybe, though, And Norsehorses, a more, a more nationalism.

Norskhar is a little more nationalistic, but not nationalistic in a negative remark. No, precisely. We are stolt over our flagged, we are stolt over our land, and we shames not for it. But we also welcomeer others. So it's no racism, or... No, it's no racism in it.

just, and the land and the flag. Stolteathe. Mm. Mm. How... How...

...fired man national law in Norway, in Norway, yeah. It's a day and night. Mm. So, Norway has,

something to fire. Mm. We have, you... ...the Migh ...the Bifriety

May, also, 17th, May. Yeah. Yeah. But, even the... Scytna mai. It's interesting. It's about that we have to

fire, as we are, what are you? We are, we are freehieten and that we are a own people who are on us, that we are free. We have lived in union many, many years, and it was no, self-valled union. But when we we were brought given to of Denmark we decided we we should be a

we should be a so then 18th May 17th May 1814 and began write the national

staggarned and the national staggars and and then it took it a more years to even we could up out some

hundred years not really but not really but almost. So, then then, then, then, a little, a little bit of

Denmark in the beginning of 1800s, when when Sweden won a war against Denmark, and then would Denmark give Norie to

Sweden, but Norie was It would it not be a little, and it was a little, and it was a little bit, but it was a little bit of Sweden, so it was a union with Sweden, and the union and the union, it held from the beginning of 1900s. 1905. And then, and then 5, yeah. And then, then, did Norway, total self-stendliness, so that's, so that's, you

I'm on the 17th, and that's a very big day. What do you? Yeah, but all clad up their nationaldrector, and men in their nationaldrector, and go out on the gaits with flags, and all schools have an orchestra, so all schools go out with a big placat, and their orchestras, and their elever,

out with flags, and sings and stoyers, and... and stooges and stoyer, and it's the and party and and in Sweden, how do we, national day in Sweden? I don't know if you

want to hang up the Swedish flaggars, hissed, yeah. Yeah, then have you Cunga-Huset something in for say,

but I think there are many many lenders that are more than what Norga do. Frank, those that they're the first place. Yeah, it's a very big in Norway.

In the city of the May. But if we go to other Nordic countries, you had to have some article. What, what stood it in it? Well, it's quite long. You don't need to say, but you can say what you have... No, but it's...

Svskar, they've, they've, they've got a forefrogan in the Nordic-lander's, and, eh, it's not so much for their own. There's also very much carelake. And even if you hackers on one other, so stand you tight, when lenders out-ifron criticiserer or hooters. So, Svansker are self-uptoged moralists, and Danskerns are cacksy-alkyolists. Normen are new-hurt-bulls, Islannings are inavlated patriots,

and Finner are deprimerated, unsamvargarer. Okay. Let's we take them one-on-one. We have already gone through Sweden and Norway a deal. But what stood it about the Dancers? It stokely that they were...

Caxical alcoholists. Yeah, okay. So... So, for I have I, that we have a stereotype, that they drink is a lot of alcohol. Yeah, especially oil. Specialed oil, yeah. It's maybe most oil, that we think, that the Dancers drinker. Are it so, do?

Like, they drink, they drink, not to breakfast, but lunch. Yeah. So, it will you, oil, have I understood. But, but do they drink them so? oftener. Yeah, I don't know. Because I think they're just more lappened. They have a little more of-slappened. They're a little more a've got a very much set to alcohol. Precisely, so in, in Spain, so, so, so, you're also, maybe an oil to lunch, but

but, but you're just a little one oil. And when you drinker, so you don't, in in Sweden, it's not so often, but when you drinker you, so drinker, while in a little more, like, I'm a little more, culture, alcohol culture, so maybe you're not, but you're not so like much. No, I think I'm still.

But, yeah, we have in all the same stereotype, The daniskskern, that they drinker much, but they're not if they drinker, in all the then they're still that they were cacksy, stymn, they're, though? Yeah, they're a little more continental. They're, like, our port to other than Europe, and they're a granite with Germany. So they're a little more exotic and continental, than we a little longer up here in northern but that they're that they're katsy

yeah I think I'm but it's maybe the oil that they can't be able to smelpsing is that you have a little more

self-fetroending you can you want more you want to take more place and and vogue talk more

hear as more and so and I think that my my my experience of And then-dansk are more... they're more...

they're more... They're a little more laid-back and a little more laid-back instilling to the life. Yeah, not so strict as we other. But it must be a bit of that they actually live on

the place they do. Nair to Thuskland and a little more... We sit, you not with Europe as they do, so that they're geographically. I can think about that they're to do with it. Yeah. That they're...

For that we can't share in Sweden is a little stella, really social, whereas in Denmark it's very easy with the social. Also, and yeah, they're a little more laid-back, a little more chill, instilling to life, and... So then, then, I don't

they're not if they're actually we that's just we can't get it, or they're feel like they're more self-fetroending. Yeah, but if we am fere us with them

so, it's sure. Yeah, they have a little more self-fetroending, so then they'll be a lot. And it's maybe on that they drink oil to lunch

every day. Or, or so drink them oil to lunch for that they're more laid-back. It's... it's the is the... What's the...

What's the... ...what's... ...the is the finnars, that they were deprimerated? Yeah. Finnare are deprimerated, ...eansan varriar. Yeah.

What do you, do then, then? Um... Um... Yeah, but... I have, you know, ...and I have a few Finnska friends. Yeah. And I think,

I think, I think, that they are very... low-mailded. They are, they're a little and little inbunded. I have, a,

a compi pair, where she is Spaniorska and Hanne Finne. And it's, like, all the different personilities on them two. It's a night and day. Yeah, it's a night and day. He's a finn and she's a Spanish

woman, and she's a Spanish, yes, it. Yeah. It's to say, so that they're not a pair for it doesn't. Yeah, you know,

you know, who you're talking about. Yeah. And they're well very stereotyped if I can put up

so. Lodmeld, what is that when you when you're low-meld? Yeah. Then you

are therselymot. Also, the otherstattens are gaping and skriekig and high-lud and here I see me

and take place and a low-melled person It's still and a little inbund, and is not so much, no. Studer more and maybe thinks more than to be out-agrengerating. Lodgmeld. Yeah.

And are they deprimerated, then? It's well... Yeah, it's the question. It is kind of so, if you're upfatted, as you're low-meld and back-dragan. I don't actually not, but I holden the same. I'm not that I'm not, that Finland are a little bit taken, a little more low-melded. I'd say that they, they drinker, maybe more. And they drinker, well, also, more stark, stark, stark, great things.

Yeah. It's Kosken, Gorva, and Knieven. And Knieven. Yeah, this one of the first the fiends, the fiends, the kosken, corva and the kniven. And what are they? What are they with it? No, I don't know. Shire it in the chet. Yeah.

And they bastes, so clear, also. Yeah. I've heard that they bring up to about 42 days per year in a bastu. Oh, oh, oh, oh, yeah. More than a month. Yeah. And this this lot, Bada Basti. They were a little like a lot, they were a lot, they were a little, they were a little, they did the song. And they did it, they did it, they'd like to bathe bastu.

And that they do, well, also. Yeah, well, I mean, also, my venina, who is Finnish, she and I have been, and they have a bastu in their besta and they've been a few times in the week and and every time I are there so, then we're basta if we're sover over. It's a very stereotype that

stymes and stymes. And even another colleague that's, they're also a bastu, actually. I'd also say that a stereotype is that they're they're a little harder a little tougher than us other

and so. Yeah, they're a little more seeked work. Then I have actually a little an little article here that's on Finnska,

on Finner. They like to bear knivar for to bellowed homosexual overgrap. They are quite homophobic.

It is is, a b-product of their which is the that finn't means not that finxia and isca

and summarist begore by 43 old-of- all the protrained the chasel. They are also quite good

on hockey. It is also a macho sport. Yes, so it is well an stereotype about that they're macho and therefore

are homophoba and doesn't and I like to and I think that they're in they're in factu they've got more macho but that I actually not. No, it's a foredom

Yeah, but it's a fordome, yeah. Formoda, yeah. We don't really. Finner have you marredomers if they're Tvingas converser with his best friend. Yeah, it's also a thing that

they're teased, I mean. People I have a stereotyp about the swenkshire, that we are anti-socialal and not so much, and especially not with fremlings, and we must drink alcohol for to talk with fremlings. And it's It's the but I think it's still, it's even more in Finland, I think I

think I. And then they're they're in brevied so it's also an reason to that they're

a little more macho culture and have and have the can't have the they must you actually

have actually They're just, not just, not just, not just, they're like, like, so, um, so they're, they're, who are, must, who, um, who are, must, who, um, that, um, to, are, um, to, from, so, that, to – we're not – – our russing is the – the – the never – – the – – – – the Scandinavian, then, then, then, then, then,

then, started as a land, so has, like, the, like, the, the , sort of, so, so,

so, then we, fincampen, yeah, what is it? Yeah, when the Swanska and Finner mout,

you can say that that the people and finn't one of us, till we're the world's, and shudder one of us. So, no other can't slough, it's just I, who can slough my gran'er. Yeah, and... ...inan we got with in NATO,

so had the Sweden and Finland a... ...forswars-alliance, so it says also a... And we have, we have, we have been the same land, from 200 years ago. But, yeah, so it was a little about Finland. And we have a another Scandinavian land that you don't talk about, so,

because it's so little, but we have in Iceland also. And what stood it about Iceland? Islenninger are inavlade patriots. So, when you, when, when you're, when you're, when you're, it's, it's a lot of my family. So, yeah, it's a, they're, so, so, so little people. There's so few people there, it's, well, like, two, three hundred thousand in the whole land. Yeah, but it's, no, 300,000, little daryct, to them, actually, now for the time. And it's, like, so, so Malma.

Yeah, and in Sweden. And Malme was a land. So I know that there is a app. Or it's maybe not a app. I've heard that there is a lot. If you're trying, if you're trying to, if you're trying to go to appen and so see, are we slacked?

Oh. Yeah, for that you can be able to, is it okay, that I datea this person? Yeah. Oh, oh, is it so? So, oh, oh, I didn't know, I didn't know if it's not. No, but there is something in this, so far that they're innav-ladded patriots. If it, to even have you heard it somewhere?

I don't know. I don't know. I thought it was on Instagram or YouTube or something. No, but are they not more than type 300,000 people? It's not much. Max? Yeah. What have you for it? Have we have we have you for it? Have we hear you not so much about Iceland. We have you have been on Iceland. So what can you say about Iceland? They have also an really, very much lot. They are certainly very stolted. I think that they have same type of like the Normen, but they're not their national day, they're notherst one, or what can it be,

no one thing. But they're, they're not really, they're it's kind of yeah, if you can't if you can't sometimes you, then they're better their their sprach is

nearer Fon-nodiscan than the other Scandinavish-Sproken Scandinavian Sprokennavish-Sprokens URSprok our Sprook

our Sprook our Sprook from Fonodiscan but they've has changed very much, but Icelandicans is still quite like phonodiscan. But I don't know, we have not so much more

stereotypes of Iceland. No. Iceland has, you national 17 June, I see. What I think, it was that Islenniners, when they get a new foretell or a new pril, like, data, and all this, then they'll,

they've got their own word for this. for this. They not just, they're not just, or the word of itself, they're together to put it on its own set. Just it. So they, they're, they're in their own word for police, to example, that I don't remember what it was, but, yeah, we have just imported the word, police, and the word, all, all different words. But, meanwhile they, they, they, they have some like a kind of a small comitre that's

new words of, yeah, yeah, it's words of, of all new things and and foretellers. Yeah, so

it was a little , little about stereotypes in Norden. Yeah. Norden, and the Scandinavish

lenders, well, strict, the Scandinavish lenders are, in Sweden, Nor, Denmark. And then, when we

We're about the Norden, we we're we're Finland and Iceland in it also. I like to talk about some sort of Nordish family. We are very really, we're

really, really doctigued in the, many, many, the Nordic countries. Which, what syriper are there when it

comes to sport and the, Normmen are winter sporter. But, but Maybe, I'm a skiders, yeah.

Yeah, I'm a good with a swed, and he was really sturd and frustrated when Norger slug Sweden in football. Because that's, it's a lot. But skiders, yeah, it's a norges' thing. Yeah, but I've always been good on. It's the history that we are a vana to go on tour, on the fielet. But hockey, but hockey, hockey is, you, Sweden and Finland. Yeah, definitely. And has Denmark, have

sport? Handball, they're great-ductive in handball. Yeah. But it's even Iceland, Norway and Sweden. All those four lenders are really good-ductive in handball. Finland has,

no, actually, only, hockey and... Now, ring your telephone. Oh, my day. I have really, hockey and... Now, you're you?

I put it on, I'm sorry. Now, now it was almost... Hockey and skisers. Yeah, it was, I must be... I'm just to say, and then... And then just about it'll be on. I'm going up and forklare then. Hockey and skidore are they duktier in.

Which are? Finner. And some... some free-idrotters. Yeah, hockey is always to look at. And, Sweden and Switzerland, it's really to look at when they're

when they're playing against Russia. They are, they're, they're, like, hard, brutal, and are fulet, and the Swenksks are more on can more on,

maybe, for that there's that there's can be more more hardhent and brutal than the rissan in hockey it was at all

the fact that the the one the I'm still yeah have you seen it when they have you seen it when they're

I didn't so much on hockey I think they're they're hard they're just they're hard Yeah, so yeah, but it was interesting to talk about Nordical stereotypes. So, yeah, thank for that you were with and talking about it.

Jetsukul, thank you for all for that I could be with.