Avoid a culture shock in Sweden. Understand Swedish culture and cultural differences. Learn how to celebrate Swedish traditions. Find out how Swedes behave in everyday life. Swedish food, music and fashion. Everything that’s weird and wonderful when you interact with Swedes. Pitfalls, dating tips and how-to guides. Get to know Swedes and Swedish culture.
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To get a better understanding of a nation’s culture, it can be helpful to observe their “drunk vs sober way of behaving”. Differences in behavioural patterns of Swedish people in the state of being sober compared to being … Read more
When you have a coffee break in Sweden, during work or leisure time, chances are high your Swedish colleague or friend will eat a kanelbulle, cinnamon bun. Also known as cinnamon roll or cinnamon snail. You … Read more
Swedes live in a culture, where, before marriage or even sexual intercourse, the two prospects ideally conduct certain interactions in order to display and assess one another’s mate- or date-ability. This process is internationally know … Read more
There is some traditional food in Sweden you should definitely try, because it’s really delicious. Then there is Swedish food which is rather disgusting, but you should try, because you might want to join the conversation about how … Read more
Learn the benefits (and drawbacks) of working in Sweden or for a Swedish company. Things to know when you are at work in Sweden Apart from weekends, holidays and sick leave days, Swedes go to … Read more
Anyone who says Swedes lack passion is wrong. Swedes have just concentrated it in very specific areas, like minimalistic home decoration, drinking games, midsummer celebrations and practicing silence. Yes, Swedes may come along as shy. Whether in the … Read more
Swedes don’t miss any opportunity to celebrate their traditions. The five most common ones are Easter, the Swedish National Day, midsummer, the crayfish party and Christmas. Easter – Påsk When: March/April Why: Celebration of the resurrection … Read more
In this post I’d like to focus on the party habits of those Swedes in the typical party age, say between 20 and 35. An age when most Swedes live in a place they don’t have … Read more
There are some stereotypes about Swedes which I would like to refute and some I’d like to confirm. Rumor has it that “Swedes get naked whenever possible and that they have sex with everyone who … Read more
Surprise: Swedish culture is different from yours. But you probably already expected that. Something I particularly like about Sweden and the Swedes, is their honesty. Or, at least, their attempt to be as honest and … Read more
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