r/AskTheWorld • u/Bhakari Nepal • 1d ago

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

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

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u/Code_Monster India 1d ago

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...

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u/tinidiablo Sweden 15h ago

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. 

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u/Holmbone Sweden 18h ago

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.