Poll: Thoughts on Sweden
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My grandpa's from Sweden and I still have some family there so I guess it's a cool place. I also got the awesome blond hair genes from that side of the family too, so I guess I'll thank Sweden for that.
To be honest there's a LOT of things I don't like about the way our culture is structured, or our laws, and society. If I could, I'd change most of everything. While there are aspects I like, friendly people, sometimes, most everyone I've met has been very immature, and lacking in self-discipline, self-knowledge and an inability to take responsability for their own actions, and percieve the correlation between cause and effect, in more advanced ways than is thaught in physics.
Having said that though, I suspect this isn't unique for Sweden, and I heard someone say once "If you were born anywhere on the planet, at any time between now and the dawn of humanity, how likely is it to be better?" Keeping that in mind I'd say I'm lucky, I'm not a patriot in any sense of the word, and as much as I may dislike how most everything works here, I'd dislike it more almost anywhere else.
When it comes to the people though, I believe that people are still people, no matter where they were born, or where they live. I don't believe people in Sweden are nicer, better or, for that matter, dumber, than people anywhere else in the world, so regarding that I won't say anything.
Having said that though, I suspect this isn't unique for Sweden, and I heard someone say once "If you were born anywhere on the planet, at any time between now and the dawn of humanity, how likely is it to be better?" Keeping that in mind I'd say I'm lucky, I'm not a patriot in any sense of the word, and as much as I may dislike how most everything works here, I'd dislike it more almost anywhere else.
When it comes to the people though, I believe that people are still people, no matter where they were born, or where they live. I don't believe people in Sweden are nicer, better or, for that matter, dumber, than people anywhere else in the world, so regarding that I won't say anything.
Actually Swedish is Finland's second language, we are bilingual so we speak Finnish and Swedish. This island in Finland, called Ahvenanmaa (I don't know what it's called in English -_-'), speaks Swedish only. People in Norway speak Norwegian, it's similar to Swedish but it isn't the same language.Sneaklemming said:
We don't speak Hungarian, it's only a part of the Finnish language family. ^^
But yeah, Tromsø is a place worth visitng! I've been there a few times and the place is lovely, and the people speak really good English there.
I've never met any Swedes... well my step mom is Swedish but from the US so it doesn't really count.
However, I know Sweden is a nice country, you have good music, and on top of all that we never hear about you. This leads me to conclude you have your shit generally together and your heads out of your ass, which is more than I can say for the US.
However, I know Sweden is a nice country, you have good music, and on top of all that we never hear about you. This leads me to conclude you have your shit generally together and your heads out of your ass, which is more than I can say for the US.
Our (the US) problem certainly isn't funding, but where it is going. We have the biggest military bugdet in the world, all the most advanced doo dads, and somehow the soldiers always get put last in line. Fucking stupid if you ask me.Sulu said:
I chose the never met option, then saw your post. I think I have someone from sweden on my XBL friends list... can't remember though.Demented Teddy said:
Oh my fucking god! Tell me about the accent. I've been training on removing that for years. Thus it only sounds all right when i sing and speak to me friends... For some reason, but as fast as i talk to someone i don't know it turns into a gibberish of "i's" and strange "j's"... and i sound like a insecure 12 year old.TheNamlessGuy said: