Well not me but my wife is going on a Scandanavian tour + Finland from Korea next week. Is there anything she should know about before going. I’ve been to Europe myself a few times but not the northern part and I’m just worried bout her even though it is relatively safe up there.
That said, anything she should know good or bad? local customs? warnings? tourist traps?
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The original was posted on /r/sweden by /u/BobbyBacala9980 at 2023-07-25 06:55:33+00:00.
BobbyBacala9980 (OP) at 2023-07-25 07:59:25+00:00 ID:
jtcwpbpHonestly, I can’t disagree… come World Cup time the Swedish WAGs always get me…
Quick Question: Do Scandanavians share the same ethnicity? I don’t know much about northern Europe. Are they pretty much the same ppl more or less separated by borders?
Axxx69420 at 2023-07-25 08:05:46+00:00 ID:
jtcx66gYes basically. You won’t notice that much of a difference as a foreigner. There’s just slight differences in culture that you might notice.
andre-lll at 2023-07-25 08:06:29+00:00 ID:
jtcx84cI’d probably say that we are more or less the same people. We all see ourselves as brothers and would fight for each other, same with Finland.
ravyalle at 2023-07-25 08:05:20+00:00 ID:
jtcx4yjIts pretty much the same ethnicity in northern and central europe but people do look sliiiighly different in different countries, its pretty cool. I for example am from germany originally but always immediatey get spotted because i dont really look like the average swede. We are all caucasian but the faces are different somehow. I have even noticed some differences between eg sweden and denmark
Common-Wish-2227 at 2023-07-25 09:11:11+00:00 ID:
jtd1z1eWe fucking aren’t Caucasians! Please. That entire terminology is bullshit. We’re north Germanic.
Paws_On_Keyboard at 2023-07-25 08:15:16+00:00 ID:
jtcxv6oYes, except the sámi in the north, though they were there before modern borders and cross all three countries. Then of course we have had a lot of immigrants in later years.
TheWolfwiththeDragon at 2023-07-25 08:23:53+00:00 ID:
jtcyijeAs a Swede, our sense of ethnicity is much more based on language and nationality. Since Swedes, Danes, Norwegians and Icelandic are all descendants of the same Norse people, we are all very similar. We can also understand each others’ languages fairly well.
The odd one out is Finland, since their linguistic roots are completely different from any other Nordic languages. Swedish is more closely related to Persian or Hindi than it is to Finnish! Despite us being neighbours. But Finland was part of the Swedish empire for 700 years so there has probably been quite some mixing between the two.
There is also the Sami people to the north, which are a semi-nomadic group of people not ethnically or linguistically connected with the Norse. If you ever see reindeer herding while traveling here, it is run by them as that’s their privilege.
BTW, as the term ”Scandivania” is sometimes only used to refer to some of the countries in the region, you could just use the term ”The Nordic countries” to refer to Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Iceland all together. Explanation.
BobbyBacala9980 (OP) at 2023-07-25 08:49:58+00:00 ID:
jtd0f0jWow a lot of info to unpack here. I always assumed Finland was apart of Scandanavia until I did research for this trip. Watching that youtube link… thanks!
kadunkulmasolo at 2023-07-25 09:31:17+00:00 ID:
jtd3fsrNo offense or anything but since I have seen you calling it “Scandanavia” several times in this thread (so its unlike to be a typo), I feel like I need to point out that the actual spelling is Scandinavia with an i.
BobbyBacala9980 (OP) at 2023-07-25 10:59:25+00:00 ID:
jtdan47Duly noted… thanks!
Rising_Spirit at 2023-07-25 09:55:56+00:00 ID:
jtd5bo6Finland is similar culturally but not in terms of language
MawrtiniTheGreat at 2023-07-25 11:46:41+00:00 ID:
jtdf6lxThe Finns (and the Sámi) are originally north Siberian nomadic steppe people, originally more culturally similar to say the stereotypical medieval Mongolians than to the old Norse/current Scandinavian cultures. However, thousands of years of proximity and hundreds of years of Swedish rule has brought the Finns culturally a bit closer to the rest of us. The language is still completely different from the Scandinavian languages.
The Sámi are still a lot closer to their original roots, although in a modernised form the last hundred years (less horseback archers, more snowmobiles for herding deer). Here is an example from early 20th century: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File%3ASaami_Family_1900.jpg
gullijan at 2023-07-25 08:06:16+00:00 ID:
jtcx7jiYeah, people in Sweden, Norway and Denmark share the same ethnicity. We also understand each others language but I have to say I struggle with Danish (am Swedish).
BobbyBacala9980 (OP) at 2023-07-25 08:42:38+00:00 ID:
jtczvvvI always assumed that Finland was Scandanavian too… until I googled info on this trip for my wife…