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"Still not over the American woman who was super surprised to see so many men walking around with strollers and generally looking after their children alone during her travels through the Nordic countries."

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[-] ch00f@lemmy.world 25 points 22 hours ago
[-] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 21 hours ago

All scandinavians has those (fjรคllkniv, morakniv,...) but the finnish are portrayed, in Scandinavia, as the most isolated/laconic people,the most "manly" ones, hence the knife. Swedes were portrayed as the gayest in the nineties at least (very "woke"), and so on. It's just cultural stereotypes.

[-] Pelicanen@fedia.io 2 points 4 hours ago

There is also a Swedish stereotype that Finnish people always have knives and that they take them out when they're drunk.

[-] Mothra@mander.xyz 5 points 10 hours ago

Thanks for these insights, TIL.

...I want a Scandinavian boyfriend now, these knives are really nice!

[-] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 1 points 3 hours ago

When you go into the outdoors don't you have knives too? I don't know how to do anything without one

[-] Mothra@mander.xyz 2 points 2 hours ago

I'm not much of an outdoors person myself however I do own two foldable knives. Indoors I tend to use kitchen knives and the retractable blades sorts which is actually stationery but yes we agree blades are incredibly useful

However having said that easily half the people I know don't own any blades that cut, not even in their kitchens.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 hours ago

In sweden you'll get a viking who do the dishes, and has a knife ๐Ÿ˜

[-] Mothra@mander.xyz 1 points 4 hours ago

๐Ÿค” hm... I guess that works too

[-] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Swedes were portrayed as the gayest in the nineties at least (very "woke"), and so on.

Also because the way their version of the "Scandinavian language" is very flamboyant

[-] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 18 hours ago

And norwegian is like happy people joking friendly. Can't imagine one of them actually being angry ๐Ÿ˜

[-] Delphia@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

Except on their anchovies.

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