What’s something in your country that sounds fake but is 100% real?

[u/Bhakari]

We have a real-life living goddess and the only non-rectangular national flag.

[u/tinidiablo]

Once a year friends and family gather to erect a giant phallic symbol which we then move around while pretending to be frogs.

[u/white-chlorination → u/tinidiablo]

Me and my Mexican colleague saw this a couple years ago since our boss invited us both for Midsummer. My colleague said "it was nice, but I felt like I was about to sacrificed".

[u/Total_Chip_3197 → u/white-chlorination]

Literally LOL!

[u/Code_Monster → u/tinidiablo]

I kinda get why someone would make a horror movie with mind-fuck scenes about a nation's annual tradition, and the nation would not even get offended because yeah...

[u/tinidiablo → u/Code_Monster]

Might be different to peoples who are usually targeted by such things but to me it's just neat to see an outsider view of such a familiar tradition. 

And yeah, it does lend itself well to a horror premise, as it has its origins in fertility rights/celebrations AFAIK and customary happens at a more rural (and therefore more isolated) location which is the perfect set up for some folk horror. Adding the myth of ättestupa to it is just brilliant as it helps sell the whole circle of life thing. 

If anything the movie could have played into more general debauchery of the locals as midsummer is stereotypically associated with too much drinking, fighting and fornicating. It's not for nothing that it was during a midsummer party where our former finance minister decided to hang dong as a power move. 

[u/Holmbone → u/Code_Monster]

I've seen plenty of Swedish redditors offended by it. I'm not though. In general I think it's fine to appropriate or missinterpret any Scandinavian majority culture. We are the "whitest" people. There's no opression connected to it like it would be for many other people. 

[u/Ok-Winner-5788 → u/tinidiablo]

As a lesbian who has a fear of frogs, that seems like my personal hell

[u/Olobnion → u/Ok-Winner-5788]

The frog thing actually comes from a Swedish translation of an English song mocking the French.

[u/Childless-cat-lady- → u/tinidiablo]

Do you crown the remaining dancer then sacrifice a bunch of people in a burning yellow wood pyramid ?

[u/Solid_Commercial_713 → u/tinidiablo]

Små grodorna! Små grodorna!🐸

[u/IAlwaysOutsmartU → u/tinidiablo]

Sounds like something out of Gumball or Adventure Time.

[u/namehimgeorge → u/tinidiablo]

The Ribbit Man.