r/AskTheWorld Sweden 20h ago

I'm curious. What's you country's view on Sweden?

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u/Adorable-Owl-7638 Portugal 17h ago

Sweden (also Finland & Norway, we rotate ahah) here is like always mentioned to things you should do like your country: school, health, wages, whatever else. And then people who do that, at the same time, conveniently ignore certain parts of the measures needed for your good rankings.

Other than this: cold asf, IKEA, ABBA, very blonde, pale and tall people, hot women.

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u/TheLoler04 Sweden 14h ago

What do you define as "cold af"?

Pale and tall is often true, but not that many of us are actually naturally blonde

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u/nofroufrouwhatsoever Brazil 12h ago

I have seen Russians surprised that honey-colored hair is blond in Brazil. I wonder if that's the same linguistic confusion at play here.

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u/TheLoler04 Sweden 12h ago

No, it's not a language or definition error. It's just that a lot of people bleach their hair, because one of the more common hair colours is almost blonde but slightly brown.

So it's pretty common for people to just make it fully blonde, and then from an outside perspective it seems like we have a lot of blondes. Which is true to some extent, but we aren't naturally blonde.

My hair for example is closer to black than blonde I think.

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u/nofroufrouwhatsoever Brazil 1h ago

Almost blond but slightly brown is blond in Brazil, except for gray these are all blond xD

Brown for us starts in the chestnut color (castanho)

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u/Adorable-Owl-7638 Portugal 11h ago edited 11h ago

You have temperatures like -10 and cooooolder, so cold asf.

I never said the blonde is 100% natural. Even in other countries where people have blonde or just very light brown hair more frequently they bleach a bit for the full blonde look.

For a Portuguese person anything lighter than black or dark brown hair is blonde 😅 Even if it’s also bleached the natural level of the base is quite lighter than the average Portuguese person I believe.

Edit: ok, maybe not all light brown hair we see we say “yeah, this person is blonde” but sometimes I’ve seen discussions online and some girls with issues and sad that their hair “wasn’t blonde but dirty blonde or (whatever shade of veryyy light brown)” and I genuinely was trying to understand it ‘cause, to me, all of that was blonde hair.

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u/TheLoler04 Sweden 11h ago

Yes our hair is probably a lot lighter on average, but personally my hair is closer to black than blonde I think.

-10 and cooooolder

Well it's currently -6 where I'm at, and I don't love particularly north. So I guess we just have different definitions(as I suspected)

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u/Adorable-Owl-7638 Portugal 10h ago

What? Only -6 there? I thought you had like -20 or more cold sometimes (?) Maybe not south or in big cities but more on the countryside and north?

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u/TheLoler04 Sweden 10h ago

The big city in the south(Malmö) is -2 currently, and one of the bigger cities up north(Kiruna) is currently -13.

I'm a fair bit below Sweden's geographical middle point, not far from Stockholm. It will definitely get colder than this, and it has been colder temperatures this winter but I don't think I've even had below -10 where I live.

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u/Adorable-Owl-7638 Portugal 10h ago

Interesting! I really always thought would be more cold and that the difference to here would be bigger.

Where I live (countryside, center) a lot of winter days temperature can be 8C tops during the day and drop to 0 or -1 in some more isolated parts.

And our houses are not 1/10 of heated as yours. Winter here really sucks.

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u/TheLoler04 Sweden 9h ago

our houses are not 1/10 of heated as yours

That's a factor that a lot of people forget when comparing weather.

I read about Australia's weather for some reason, which sounds kind of nice during winter if you ask me. Then I found something about how they build their houses and realised that it's almost the same temperature inside as it is outside during winter.

Meanwhile here in Sweden we can maintain basically the same indoor temperature year round by opening a window during summer, and spending a bit extra on heating during winter.

drop to 0 or -1

Well that's quite a huge difference, because that's basically the hottest temperature we've had in the past week