Toivo Why would only Swedish people watch these? Too see what other people think about us? When in the video do we get an American’s opinion?

Because you get to know in what way Americans stereotypes Swedes

Toivo But we didn’t get any American views of Sweden? Only swedes explaining obvious stuff to Americans?

I'm Swedish, but other people also watch these videos. Though, let me tell you its actually hilarious for someone like me who can understand everything on a spiritual level. Especially the kinds of videos where other people react to Swedish related things :3

I just love so see vids of people coming to Sweden and see what they know about Sweden before they came just gets shot down. There is sooo much talk about Sweden that is not even close to the truth. Like the word Viking, there is no word Viking that the "Vikings" used. Closest you can get to it is "North Men". The same with Berserker, closest means "Bear Pelt". That was for special honour guards or special worriers. Sorry, I really love the "Viking" stuff, and yes, I do watch the TV Serie. I´m only human

Raul Castellanos True

not really, im swedish and dont know a single person who goes to ikea if its not to buy furniture

@@jjean1808 I go there to just check it out and eat lunch

I’m from Canada but I’m living in sweden with my swedish husbands & I like how they all wanted to say Wikings instead of Vikings

@@motheringmateo3750 Do you have several husbands?

Ludvig Bjellebeck I think all the Nordic countries can relate to that

stockholm have 45 minutes less day december 21. I live in northern Denmark

Ludvig Bjellebeck svenska människorna är gay. finland is best

That's how it is right now.

Is almost like that for danes.. I go to work When is Dark and I get home When is Dark

I think they sounded less fluent than the average Swede.

I'm gonna be honest, I've never shopped at IKEA, but there is one out in Tempe, Arizona USA so I'm going to check that store out. Love Team Sweden. you don't forget where you come from that's what I respect about your country, and your hockey team

My roommate thinks majority of Swedish Men, and Women are Blondes, oh brother, Oliver Ekman Larsson's not a blonde, oh boy, and I rarely stereotype about people and their countries, that's like saying Spanish women are dark haired, not true. Geez, lol.

Blonde, Brunette, Redheads don't matter to me, I'm more into the culture than anything else.

they all play in the US / Canada and all live there, so of course there won't be any broken english lol

Good idea. I’ll try to respond like that from now on.

We were in L.A. in the audience in a recording of "The Voice" in 2019, and a guy walked around with his microphone on stage to get the audience pumped up for the show. He came to our side and asked where everybody was from, and we screamed "Sweden!!", he immediately bashed us (for him, jokingly) for IKEA! He asked us why we had to have such difficult assembly instructions, that he would never buy anything at Ikea because of their instructions.. blablabla.. 🙄 Anyway, everyone else in the audience thought it was funny.. 🤔 Two backstage employees, that happened to be Swedish, had heard that and reacted with "wtf?😂". They found us in the exit que afterwards and chatted with us to make sure we weren't deeply offended. They said they were going to "confront" him later.. 😂

@@designstinamarshmallow9868 I would have had a hard time not responding that, yes it takes at least some intelligence and practicality to follow an instruction on how to screw two pieces of wood together.

Im from norrland but live in stockholm. So i get the same thing. Love to reply "underskatta inte kyla, har känt personer som frysit till döds" (rough translation: dont underestimate the cold. I knew people who froze to death). The look on their faces is priceless

I get the same thing but it’s about warmer weather. But you are a latina, you should love warmer weather and should be more used to the heat. ERHM NO! I live in Sweden and have been all my life 😂 I love snow

I'm from Yorkshire and lived in Stockholm for a while. Somehow Leeds always feels much colder even though it isn't!

Hello there, how are you doing?

Exactly like I've met Canadians and most live out here where I'm at in Arizona USA. I gotta tell you they don't miss Canada up there the ones I've spoke to they like it out here where I'm at because of the warm weather.

see thats my knowledge of hockey thought he played for new york rangers!

Gabe sounds like an American.

Don't worry, dude. Henrik Lundqvist does play for the New York Rangers!

How sad

he definitely has an accent still e.e

Tillymea Ström you’re saying it like you’re not from sweden.

Boy, have times changed. 😊

The Vikings also had a town in England called "Jorvik" later called York, in America a city was named New York.... :)

London is from the word Lunden.

yes very true and all other scandinavians claim that sweden never had vikings and that swedish vikings never did anything big lol so stupid.

The people in the area now called Russia called the viking raiders "Rus men" alot of the Vikings stayed behind started settlements. That's kind of what Vikings did and setting up triad routes. So they became Russians. Now, i'm not saying that Russians are of Scandinavian decent. Some probably are, and there is a mix between Scandinavian and Slavic dna. The scholarly consensus holds that they were originally Norse people, mainly originating from Sweden, settling and ruling along the river-routes between the Baltic and the Black Seas from around the 8th to 11th centuries AD. They formed a state known as Kievan Rus', which was initially a multiethnic society where the ruling Norsemen merged and assimilated with Slavic, Baltic and Finnic tribes, ending up with Old East Slavic as their common language.

@@anklepick9524 How about Scarborough, sounds a lot like Skaraborg to me?

all swedes do honestly lol (including me)

If I ever were to move to another country I would also visit IKEA if I got homesick

MetalHead Glöm inte Koenigsegg världens nya snabbaste pruduktions bil

Don´t forget the Computer Mouse, the LCD-screen! GPS also was Swedish origin, but tricked out of the inventor´s control by "smart" lawyers.

Kristofer Sj nah not the ”hövdingar”

@@elliothopkinss yes, it was actually invented by the costume designer of Richard Wagner's, for his opera "Der Ring des Nibelungen" from 1876

Kristofer Sj WHAET?

@@elliothopkinss nope they newer had horns

@@Jockeb91 actally they have found one viking with horns on his helmet

Swedish humility from the traditional attitude of "let's not think we are better than anyone". Common view is if you have a too big ego it tends to come back to bite you in the ass.

Ingen fattar förutom svenskar haha

Räggaree, Räggare

There were ceremonial helmets like that earlier in Scandinavian history.

Yeah, Landeskog has been in the US since his teens. You'd never know he's Swedish by his accent, and Lundqvist, Backstrom, and Kronwall have been there so long they've almost lost it too.

Dave David it's weird how that works tho because Daniel alfredsson and the sedin twins have been in North America for years but still have a fairly noticeable accent

Some people don't want to lose it. being basic isn't unique

Ryss mygg I assume nobody wants to lose it but I don't think it's something they can control

Some of their accents are pretty revealing as to where in Sweden they're from as well. Fredrik Claesson has exactly the same prosody that he (being from Stockholm) has in Swedish - look at the video where he translates hockey terms. Bäckström also has that nasal and almost kinda whiny twang that characterises an accent from Gävle, while Henrik Sedin's Northern Swedish accent shines through in his English too.

He does our Head and shoulders commercials so... Close enough?

That's not entirely true. I grew up in the 70s and 80s and we had The Muppet Show on Swedish television regularly, as a childrens show.

@@dracopticon7788 Whoa! Had no idea. Thanks. Growing up in the 90s I never saw him - except on American shows

Simple farmers with a desire for adventure, huh? Not too many other people traveled the world like the Vikings did back then, remember this is not too far from the age of the Roman Empire. They traveled, looted, fought and traded all the way from north America to Constantinople. Few other people can claim to have done that until the age of colonization. And regarding the helmet, it's true the vikings did not have such helmets. Though there have been plenty of cases where soldiers have worn horn helmets. Just google "Teutonic Helmet". So "useless in battle" must be disputed, psychology, as you said, must play a role here. Sun Tzu said that wars are a moral contest that are won before they are fought. Looking intimidating surely played a big role, important enough even though they risk having a disadvantage in the actual combat.

The "teutonic helmets" with ornaments were most likely for ceramonial purposes. There is a version of a turkish helmet with a single pike on the top that they supposedly used to charge their enemies with. In most cases helmets in battle has been for protection only, and in most cases they prioritze seeing your enemy rather than intimidating your enemy or using your helmet it to fight with... they had far more efficient weapons wielded by hand to do that, as I'm sure you know.

The helmets with the hornes is from the bronze age

Triggered

Sabat Sabotskij yes you are absolutely right. Was just pointing out that that such helmets actually have existed (for various reasons) but as we all know, contrary to the myth the Vikings never used such helmets.

Good choice...

No, they have an accent. If you are not a complete degenerate you can hear it.

Opus Dei was just acknowledging that lundqvist and landeskog have near perfect American accents. I recognize that all of them have a degree of Swedish accent, but it’s their English that I’m complementing for not sounding as much like their native language. Most athletes who come to the states for a short time still have heavy accents. Landeskog nearly sounds more American than some of the people around me

Man I'm Swedish, and I was thinking the exact opposite.

stephen moore landeskog completely sounds American

JHaras right, I feel like they have quite strong accents.

There were ceremonial helmets like that earlier in Scandinavian history.

The Swedish Chef sounds a lot more Norwegian than Swedish

Atzy What do you mean?

Well if you are complaining that its too cold outside you get the classic: "are you not viking?"

That's what's so funny are the Swede's reaction to the Chef....that it has nothing to do with Sweden or Swedish culture, However, the character is rumored to be based on Lars Backman, a real Swedish chef that Jim Henson based his character on. Supposedly Jim Hensen had seen a failed TV pilot show with Lars where he was throwing spoons and pots etc...out of frustration. Lars claims that he looked like that Chef back in the day. Jim Henson never admitted to this, but it seems to be the case.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_B%C3%A4ckman

Aabir Nawaz IKR

dude he is an old man

Schampo killen

Please do not pick but was that real interview? I thought it was a joke or parody.

Very true.

Yoma Rosado21140 LOL X3

Ipad*

They have humility, something Americans can't even spell.

dude... you call urself a swede but never been to ikea? not okey man!

Hello, can we be friends?

@Per Capita The team is named after the island Djurgården which is part of our capital Stockholm. On that island we have a lot of museums, one amusement park name gröna lund (the green grove) and our zoo named Skansen. Stockholm has 3 different teams that call the city home and comes from different parts of the city. Djurgården IF, Djurgårdens idrottsförening (sports association). AIK, Allmänna idrotts klubben (general sports club) and Hammarby IF.

@Per Capita no problem. Stockholm kommer alltid först oavsett lag

Simon Burton 🙋

Jag

Det finns många svenskar

Nä

No, absolutely no swedes would watch a video about sweden.

skrivbok I love winter!

Well, we're all different... myself, I am looking for work in the LA area. I'm done with Sweden.

From Luleå... I get depressed everytime it isn't snow outside xD

skrivbok Landsförädare!!

Vad är ditt problem, egentligen?

XpRtNoScOpEz most swedes don't have accents when speaking english

Wrong, a shit ton of Swedes suck at English.

indeed. luckily, not one of them :p

As a swede I have to disagree. I'm not saying he's bad at English, but you can still hear an accent. Swedes generally have a decent English vocabulary, but they suck at pronunciation and grammar (at least that's my experience from living in Stockholm).

Impulse true but the younger generation are hella fluent with barely any accent at all because of influence of American social media.

no too many immigrant atm

You mean: Sweden is bäst. =D

Du menar Sverige är bäst

Sweden is a joke

Bark yea

Emila Aleksandra ja tätähän ei kukaan tienny

ku kuitenki yhtä pohjosessa ollaa

Hello, can we be friends?

Cliev Teutonic helmets

Some Vikings did as a psychological way to scare off enemies, these helmets inspired later knights to design theirs similar.

No. This was made up by 19-th century authors.

Hjalmar J not vikings dumbfuck. Just teutons.

Timpas Tofflor Dumbfuck? This just took a turn to the worse. Can’t you have a normal conversation on the internet these days? What did I do to deserve being called that? Dumbfuck isn’t even a real word...

Atleast he said" with hot chocolate" lol

Yannis C. Say whatever you want

Only country to be proud is finland

Must suck

Fredo Sinsemilla what the fuck are u talking about

Biltema körv ä gött

What what I think so

They pronounce it like americans for some reason. That's not how we say it here in Sweden

You're absolutely right about how we swedes pronounce IKEA! 👍🏼

Woiller- Relic That’s your opinion

Woiller- Relic Its too different to compare. I really like both in different situations.

Because english isn’t swedish people’s first language? *sigh*

I´m a swede myself, and we all speak fairly good english, but viking is a word we often mispronounce. I dont know why! Sure, english is not our first language, but why do so many swedes say one particular word wrong so often, that is what I query.

Isn't the english word "Viking" only spelled with a 'V' because it's an anglicization of the original word?

the origin of the word "viking" is unclear and very much debated. some think it comes from the word "wijk", but again, it's debatable :)

But even if it was spelled with a W, it would still be pronouced as a V in scandinavia, even during the viking era...I think...