Ever wonder what other nations think of yours?

In Norway, we stereotype Brits as generally super polite and sweet, but apparently other people stereotype them as the opposite lol.
Also fun to see how the way Americans consider themselves and their country to be often differs from what most Europeans think.

Where are you from, and do you have any stereotypes about Norway or Norwegians? Dying to know lol.

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AnukBinary · M

Where I'm from us Americans see Norwegians as bad ass descendants of Vikings😂

ajoite · 51-55, F

That was the Swedish or what was known as Sweden then, they were the naughty Vikings

NorthernRoses · 22-25, F

@ajoite: No, that was mostly us Norwegians. Look at a map, and you see just how little contact Sweden has (and had) with the open ocean; the sea-faring vikings were mostly from Denmark and Norway. Even the name is rumored to come from Norway (Vikin having been a place in Norway, -ng ending meaning "person from ____").

ajoite · 51-55, F

@NorthernRoses: No no I have many books about it, the Swedish were the bad ones and the Danes and Norwegians were the nice Vikings mostly, you've made me think my books are lying to me, which they might be, can't get my books until tomorrow but I'm off to google 😬

ajoite · 51-55, F

@NorthernRoses: RIGHT! I've spent alot of time looking into this and Swedish Vikings definitely came to England, not Wales, not many Vikings came to Wales, they missed us and went to Ireland.
Can't find you a good sentence from a book or webpage but you can look at " Swedish Vikings in England" by Sven B.F Jansson
It gets a bit complicated because most Vikings were referred to as Danes, no matter where they were from, also I didn't know that the Swedish Vikings founded Russia, well there you go, unless of course the Swedish tourist board is lying to me 🤔