Archive for 'Culture'
15 Scary Swedish Creatures Posted by Marcus Cederström on Oct 24, 2013
Halloween isn’t really a Swedish holiday. In fact, it hasn’t been until the last few years that Halloween has really made any sort of appearance in Swedish culture. Of course, just because there aren’t a bunch of witches and wizards running around looking for treats on October 31, doesn’t mean there aren’t witches and wizards…
Making friends as an adult in Sweden Posted by Katja on Sep 17, 2013
Friends are something universal right? No matter if you are American, Swedish, Danish or Japanese you have your close circle of friends and then there are the other people you enjoy spending time with now and again who you call acquaintances. But when did you actually meet your close friends? This is something that has…
Swedish sport morals Posted by Katja on Aug 24, 2013
Sweden, Denmark or Norway, they are all a part of Scandinavia, sort of the same thing but with different flags. Of course it is hard to know all the differences between countries, especially if you live geographically far away from the countries in question. Many Swedes probably also think along the same line however, not…
The Swedish holiday is celebrating it’s 75th anniversary Posted by Katja on Aug 23, 2013
Hasn’t Sweden become well renowned for it’s laws about receiving paid holiday all over the world? Have the rumours become larger than life about exactly how many weeks people in Sweden actually get? This blogpost will try to sort some of these questions out and put Sweden in comparison to other countries in the world…
“Ja må han/hon leva” the Swedish birthday song Posted by Katja on Aug 21, 2013
Here comes a blogpost which can help you in your celebrating somebody’s birthday, in Swedish of course. Just a couple of phrases, a simple but very well known tune and the very repetitive lyrics to the Swedish birthday song. To help you get everything right there is a video at the bottom of the page…
Homosexuality in Sweden Posted by Katja on Jul 15, 2013
I am very proud of my country for lots of reasons. In many ways equality has come very far in Sweden and that is the image we portray to the outside world. People in other countries usually don’t have any lack of praise for Sweden, and Swedish politicians want Sweden to take on a world…
Svenska flaggans dag – the Swedish flag’s day (national day) Posted by Katja on May 30, 2013
In one sense we should be grateful it rained on the 5th of June 1893, since that was one of the reasons the 6th of June became the Swedish national day. Arthur Hazelius – one of Sweden’s most successful advertisers was hosting a big spring party in his newly built museum at Skansen on the…