You Know You're Swedish When...
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1. IKEA is home away from home
2. You secretly love the Eurovision Song Contest to pieces
3. Whenever discussing international problems you always, without exception state that “why don’t you do it like we do it in Sweden?”
4. You get guilty conscience from throwing things in the dustbin that could have been recycled.
5. You find the ads for Coca Cola during Christmas completely useless since no one would consider drinking any other soft drink than “julmust” during Christmas anyway.
6. Making fun of Norway is a national institution. And vice versa.
7. You have been accused of being from Switzerland. Repeatedly. (Det här händer sååå många gånger. Inte hjälper det heller att vi har en Schweizisk utbytesstudent på skolan)
8. You constantly have to point out that not EVERYONE in Sweden is blonde; in fact you add that most people are not.
9. You find it OBVIOUS that a mile is 10 kilometers.
10. You think it’s perfectly normal to pay over 50 % of your income in taxes.
11. You go to the downtown during a Sunday and don’t expect to meet a single soul during a 30-minute walk.
12. You think it’s completely normal to at least have studied one year of German, one year of French and one year of Spanish.
13. You know almost every other country in the world as well as most capital cities, or have at least studied this for a Geography test.
14. Every time you see a Swedish brand/actor/company/phone/car/furniture store you feel compelled to point that out to your friends (with badly hidden pride in your voice).
15. You find teenage moms shocking and very strange; because you don’t know anyone who had a child before 25, and you thought that was young. (Seriöst, de flesta här gifter sig när de är 20-22)
16. People say your name in fifty different ways, but no one can get it right.
17. You just love to ‘fika’, and know that it is an activity that is meant to last for hours and is not the equivalent of going for a coffee.
18. You instinctively spot ‘Swedes’ from a distance just based on looks and what they’re wearing. (Jag gjorde faktiskt det en gång, i mataffären. Det bara syntes på dem)
19. You have absolutely no idea what is meant by” Swedish massage” that keeps being advertised as a hot item in spas all over the world. (Folk har frågat mig ett flertal gånger vad Swedish massage är och jag har fortfarande ingen aning)
20. You feel bad if you’re not outside on a sunny day.