Facts about Sweden
1. Swedes do not come to visit without a call.
2. Sweden is divided into 21 districts - flax (LDN).
3. Each district has its own dialect. When I was in college, we had a math teacher who carted and twisted the letter "r." At the time, I thought it was just a speech defect, but when I was in southern Sweden, in Malmz, I realized it was a dialect.
4. Swedes do not like to cook at home, so they often arrange a family trip to all sorts of pizzerias, burgenkings and McDonalds.
5. The most popular dish in Sweden is kebab pizza. There is even one site that identifies pizzerias that sell the most delicious kebab pizza.
6. All of Sweden's pizzerias position themselves as exclusively Italian, but I've never met an Italian working in them. They are usually Arabs or Kurds.
7. Apartment buildings do not have their own washing machine. This is due to the fact that in the houses of HOA there is a special washing room in which you can wash, dry and iron laundry by record. This is done to save electricity.
8. In the status of the social network, for example, on Facebook, the Swedes usually write about all sorts of trifles, it looks very funny and naive. Kevin Lundell, for example, writes, “There’s going to be an Idol pizza with my wife tonight — how cool.” In general, write everything that happens in life.
9. There are two languages in Sweden: easy and difficult. As a rule, 70% of the population do not use “difficult” words in spoken language and often do not even know the meaning of these words. And if you learn a few words and put them in a sentence, everyone will think you're a super-erudite person. On the note, “difficult” words, translated into Russian, include: “objectively”, “subjectively” ... That is, those words that we use in everyday life.
10. Tolstoy’s novel also exists in a difficult and easy translation.
11. I once translated our saying into Swedish: “Free cheese is only in a mousetrap” and said it in front of everyone in the company. The effect was overwhelming, everyone started clapping, and someone even recorded on their phone. After that, I started flaunting sayings everywhere.
12. The Swedes are a very sporting nation. Often it turns out that a person is over 80, and he will not give 50.
13. Swedes are centenarians. Often this is due to a measured, stress-free lifestyle and ecology.
14. If you decide to quickly organize a business and rent a room, then it is not so easy. Everything is being done slowly. With our pace of life (when you need everything at once), it will not be easy to get used to it.
15. Swedes are obsessed with ecology.
16. Swedes are also very protective of animals. There was a case when someone killed a sparrow in the woods with a wind rifle and it was noticed by one of the passers-by - a person was given 6 months in a correctional colony and a fine.
17. In Sweden, it is not customary to immediately enter the university after graduation. As a rule, first they go to work, and then in 20-25 years they enter the university.
18. In Sweden, 25-30 years is not an age. You can often meet students of all ages at the university desk.
19. At the age of 18, young people try to separate themselves from their parents and live separately, as almost everyone can afford this.
20. In Sweden, alcohol is controlled and sold exclusively by the state. Alcohol is not sold to people under 20 years of age. Also, if you come in for the third time in a day, you are likely to be denied a purchase, citing the fact that “you are too frequent” – this is how the state controls alcohol consumption. For the record, one alcohol store is designed for 20 thousand residents, while we have one tent with sip for 200-400 people.
21. Movies in theaters are watched in the original with subtitles.
22. Most Swedes are afraid to go to Russia because of the mafia.
23. If you've been on probation and signed an employment contract with your employer, it's almost impossible to get fired from your job, even if you've done something out of hand - so strong is the Swedish union.
24. The Swedes are a very kind and responsive people. If you have a problem, and at work they learned about it, then this becomes a problem for the whole team.
25. Till the age of twenty, teeth can be treated for free. The most interesting thing is that you can make an appointment almost every week, for all sorts of reasons - whether it's to remove a stone or just whiten your teeth.
26. Swedish, Norwegian and Danish are very similar.
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