{"id":344,"date":"2010-01-19T07:35:54","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T11:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/?p=344"},"modified":"2010-01-19T07:35:54","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T11:35:54","slug":"fjortisar-and-emos-in-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/fjortisar-and-emos-in-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Fjortisar and Emos in school"},"content":{"rendered":"

During the last couple of years a term <\/em>has entered the Swedish school, actually two. The first is \u201cFjortis\u201d <\/em>and the second \u201cEmo\u201d<\/em>. Apart from starting endless fights, these terms have given many youths, who are searching for friends or themselves, a place to belong.<\/p>\n

\u201cFjortis\u201d<\/em> originally comes from the Swedish word \u201cfjorton\u00e5ring\u201d <\/em>which means \u2018fourteen year old\u2019. It was used to describe the adolescent behavior of teenagers (ton\u00e5ringar) <\/strong>a couple of decades ago and the term then progressed to a word which you would tease somebody with. Nowadays it has become something different; the English equivalent of the word would be an air head. A \u201cFjortis\u201d <\/em>is an airhead who has blonde hair, big breasts and is always thinking about being really thin. They are also stupid and have a shallow personality. This was at least the view a couple of years ago. That has changed somewhat because \u201cFjortisar\u201d <\/em>now have any colored hair, any sized breasts but usually follow fashion to 100% and can also be boys. You do not even have to be stupid, only act stupid. This has even progressed to calling certain kinds of music \u201cFjortis musik\u201d<\/em> <\/strong>and dressing in a certain way you can be classified as a \u201cFjortis\u201d<\/em> or \u201cEmo\u201d<\/em>. <\/span><\/p>\n

The term \u201cEmo\u201d <\/em>comes from the English word emotional; an\u201cEmo\u201d <\/em>is typically somebody who cuts themselves, wears goth-like clothing, lots of black make-up and is depressed,\u00a0 usually wanting to commit suicide. A common phrase heard in every junior high school is \u201cHan\/hon \u00e4r Emo, kolla han\/hon har kuttat sig sj\u00e4lv!\u201d This means \u201cHe\/she is an Emo, look he\/she has cut himself\/herself!\u201d (NOTE: Kuttat<\/em> comes from the English verb to cut<\/em>, after adding an a <\/em>it becomes a commonly used verb. Sig<\/em> sj\u00e4lv<\/em> literally means oneself, herself, himself or itself, but translated back and forth the best English word would be him-or-herself in this case.) By wearing certain clothes or make-up (smink) <\/strong>teenagers in high schools can be shouted after in corridors, and in some worst cases picked on or bullied etc. <\/span><\/p>\n

A fear of being contaminated by a person with emo looks has become common! What does this say about understanding and empathy? How are youths going to become tolerant in adult society if they can pick somebody out from a crowd and say they hate them at the age of 13? This goes for not only teenagers but adults, although of course adults don\u2019t behave quite this way, but there is still the disguised dislike for somebody who is different than you-<\/span><\/p>\n

I doubt this is only occurring in Sweden… or is it? <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During the last couple of years a term has entered the Swedish school, actually two. The first is \u201cFjortis\u201d and the second \u201cEmo\u201d. Apart from starting endless fights, these terms have given many youths, who are searching for friends or themselves, a place to belong. \u201cFjortis\u201d originally comes from the Swedish word \u201cfjorton\u00e5ring\u201d which means…<\/p>\n

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