Sweden: true or false

1. SWEDEN: TRUE OR FALSE?

2. All Swedish people look like this:

3. FALSE! This is how Swedish people look like:

In fact, 12% of Swedes are migrants or
refugees

4. Favorite Swedish food is rotten fish

5. TRUE! It is called “Surströmming” – “sour herring”

(and it smells as bad as you can imagine)

6. All people in Sweden are rich

7. FALSE! They have high wages, but equally as high taxes

(and they always complain about it)

8. Swedish people are always sad and melancholic (because of taxes)

Swedish people are always sad and
melancholic (because of taxes )

9. FALSE! They are on the 5th place on the rating of the most happy people in the world

(after Danish, Norwegian, Swiss and Dutch
people)

10. Swedes are very polite and always use the Swedish equivalent of «Вы» when they see a person for the first time

11. FALSE! They are polite, but they always use “du” – Swedish for “you”

12. All Swedes are sexually liberated

(this is a still from “The Dreamers”)

13. TRUE! Most Swedes love to make love I get naked!

TRUE! Most Swedes love to make
love I get naked!
This is their way to get closer to the nature

14. Swedish men are very tough and they never spend time with their kids (just like the vikings)

15. FALSE! They even have a paternity leave, which is called “pappaledig” (“papa’s vacation”)