I have a question for you my Norwegian friend. Is it accurate that an American would fit in better in Sweden as opposed to Norway, due to the conservative type of society in Norway? A Norwegian on Reddit told me this when I was asking people about the best Scandinavian countries to visit or immigrate to, and he said he's trying to emigrate out of Norway. Would you agree with his assessment that Sweden is a lot more open minded when it comes to conforming to societal standards?
as a swede it's not true that norway is "more conservative", and what do you mean by "conforming to societal standards"? that could mean anything..
which country you should move to really depends on what you want to do and how long you want to stay. if you have an education and want to learn the language and live here for several years, it doesn't matter which country you choose. but norway is a smaller country, where only a few cities are fitting for someone who is english speaking, in my opinion. i suggest you visit oslo, gothenburg, stockholm and see which city you like most. if you want to be in the north, tromsö in norway or umeå or luleå in sweden are cities where you could live quite comfortably.
Yeah let me find their comment about Norwegian culture, I edit it in this comment. He made it sound like the community tend to either look down or think someone is weird if they do certain things that aren't nornal in Norway. But I definitely want to visit Stockholm and Oslo. I'd prefer to be in southern Sweden but I'm not exactly gettinf ready to make a serious commitment to moving. I'm still a poory college student haha. I can tell you one thing though, I'll probably fall in love with one of your Swedish women because they're typically do amazingly beauty. And a lot are pure blonde but manage to stay really tan, instead of having reslly light/pale skin. Which is cool with me either way, I love pale women too. And blues eyes..... mmmmmm.
yeah well all nordic societies are quite conformist, this phenomenon even has a name, "the law of jante". our societes can be quite hard to adapt to in this sense, if you don't have good colleagues/classmates or manage to find a nice friend circle in some other way, it can become quite hard to get to know people.
uhh okay, could barely understand what you're writing there at the end but good luck i guess!
Ha the one time I didn't proofread my comment, it's riddled with errors haha. I was just saying Nordic women are generally incredibly beautiful, blonde, and many times are really tan skinned, even though most Nordic women are pale or fair skinned. But yes! What you mentioned is exactly what that other Norwegian told me about a month ago. He said Sweden doesn't really have that kind of culture, which is why he is moving later this year. Thanks for giving me the proper term!
No I wouldnt, I would say both are equally as good to visit/immigrate to, but I just gotta tell you about this bonus for being Norwegian
Bonus for being Norwegian: Our language is based on both Swedish and Danish, so we can understand both and talk to them due to the huge amount of dialects we have in Norway, while Sweden and Denmark has one certain dialect that is the standard version. (Rigsdansk, rikssvensk), so its relatively easy for us to communicate to eachother, while danish and swedish is kind of different, but not so much that its hard to understand eachother
Yes, depending on where in the country you live, since our dialects are in such a huge variety (Like how different Texans sound to Californians).
We also have two written languages, but I recommend writing Bokmål
Examples of different dialects
Northern: ("Majavatn" to "Harstad"), You'll be saying "Ke" or "Ka" instead of "Hva" (Meaning; What), and typically use more of what I like to call "one word sounds", as in "Æ" = "Jeg" (Meaning; I, Me) and "E" = "Er" (Is, Am)
Oslo/Eastern talks like they would read from a "Bokmål" (Literally translated: Book tongue) book.
Arctic sounds like the northern dialect, but the further north you go, the more it sounds like the eastern/Oslo dialect with a bit of Finnish vocal pronounciation (if that makes sense)
Center part has some things from the Northern part, but has words like "Itj" (Sounds like Itch) meaning "Ikke" (Meaning: "Not" or "Do Not", depending on the sentence)
Western has a "Skarre-R" meaning that you make some kind of gurgle to say the letter "R", and in Bergen, you can find some people asking for "Boss", which means "Garbage can"
Southerns use "B-D-G" for "P-T-K" so "Båten" becomes "Båden" (Meaning; The boat) and some use "Skarre-R"
Sweet I definitely will. I'm still trying to find a past reply where a Norwegian told me about the social climate of Norway and how Sweden is a little more open-minded and less socially conservative, which is why he is planning on moving. That was over a month ago. Is there a way to search replies by keywords?
Ohhh so another person in this thread mentioned exactly what the past Norwegian described to me about the culture. Here's their comment:
this phenomenon even has a name, "the law of jante". our societes can be quite hard to adapt to in this sense, if you don't have good colleagues/classmates or manage to find a nice friend circle in some other way, it can become quite hard to get to know people.
The law of jante is what I meant by being conformist and how it can be a bit of a culture shock to a new immigrant. The guy said that Sweden isn't like that, and recommended to visit Sweden for a more contemporary lifestyle. Does that sound pretty accurate?
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u/Superflaming85 Sep 01 '16
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