05-03-2016, 10:50 AM
Hey!
I'm from Norway!
I want to start of by saying we're probably some of the worst people in existence! ^^
Here's why:
#1. Oil - The money we gained from finding oil in Nordsjøen spoiled us. Now that the oil is pretty much redundant, we're struggling with finding new ways of supporting our immense resource consumption. Also all this money has pretty much gone to our heads and the idea of having a lot of money has stuck as some sort of privilege to a lot of us, and of course we're not privileged!
#2. Cold hearted - While the nation is very divided on this topic, I'd still say we're pretty cold hearted. Especially towards immigrants, this is of course also related to our mentioned "privilege". Though, I don't want to shame us all - there are a lot of kindhearted norwegians as well. You're just gonna have to lure them out.... with some really smelly fish or something, I dunno.
#3. "Russen" - This is the graduating class of highschool in Norway. These kids are awful! Of course not everywhere, but since it's worse in the bigger cities - you can pretty much expect them to be a fucking menace. I was "russ" myself ofc (if you want to hear about that shit, feel free to ask. I got a few stories to tell). Thing is, these kids get their parents to fund their buses. That's not the worst though, but when the buses cost up to 3 million NOK, I'd say it's pretty crazy. Especially when these kids don't get their buses insured and it goes up in flames.
I'm pretty sure I have more more things to mention to make you hate every single one of us. ^^
But! I have also some fun cultural stuff to mention besides the negative ones.
For example, we like to see our nation as the "younger sibling" of both Denmark and Sweden.
This is basically because after the black plague (which wiped half of us out at that time) Sweden and Denmark pretty much took our lands as their own. We're still kinda salty about that, therefore we like to celebrate every single time we beat them... in basically anything.
This feud is mostly directed towards Sweden, since that's the only country of those two who's given us any attention back related to this.
Though, I really doubt they give as many fucks about it as we do. Cus we're known givers of fucks about this.
I am not sure if this is known or not outside of Scandinavia, but we norwegians swear and curse a lot. This isn't something I've given much thought, since I've been this way my whole fucking life. But! When I noticed how rarely my non-norwegian friends cursed, it sort of occured to me. Ofc, not everyone is like me (du-uh), but you can look at it this way: The further north in Norway = More swearing and cursing.
At the top of Norway, you can basically forget trying to translate the swearing because it won't make any sense in your language (and that's for certain).
As mentioned earlier, northerners curse more than southerners. This is because northerners are fundamentaly more angry and a LOT more grumpy. Though this is also were you'll most likely find the more kindhearted norwegians. Southerners don't have time to be angry and grumpy. They're busy counting their money, being condescending and pretentious. A stereotype is that they like acting posh, when they're not actually wealthier than anyone else, in any way.
We have another "form" of norwegian as well, called "Nynorsk" which translates to "new-norwegian". It sucks, it's confusing and it's a fucking headache. People who speak this language have ordered a one-way ticket to hell. This "language" mostly originates from the southwestern parts of Norway.
Norwegians don't like norwegians!
We have tons of jokes about danes and swedes (none about Icelanders, we love them too much) because we like swedes and we mostly like danes, even though we don't understand shit of what they're saying.
BUT! If you hear a norwegian trashtalk about other norwegians, he/she ain't fucking joking. Nope, we don't joke around when it comes to our hatred towards our fellow countrymen.
There are few positive things to say about my people, but the country itself is beautiful.
Here have some pictures.
![[Image: tumblr_n0p2tbP2JD1si4lseo1_500.png]](https://40.media.tumblr.com/21ea1fa18770c7b9cef016d5526315f0/tumblr_n0p2tbP2JD1si4lseo1_500.png)
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Sorry for the giant post! I'm pretty sure I have more stuff to mention, but this'll do for now.
Don't be afraid of asking though, if you wish. ^^
I'm from Norway!
I want to start of by saying we're probably some of the worst people in existence! ^^
Here's why:
#1. Oil - The money we gained from finding oil in Nordsjøen spoiled us. Now that the oil is pretty much redundant, we're struggling with finding new ways of supporting our immense resource consumption. Also all this money has pretty much gone to our heads and the idea of having a lot of money has stuck as some sort of privilege to a lot of us, and of course we're not privileged!
#2. Cold hearted - While the nation is very divided on this topic, I'd still say we're pretty cold hearted. Especially towards immigrants, this is of course also related to our mentioned "privilege". Though, I don't want to shame us all - there are a lot of kindhearted norwegians as well. You're just gonna have to lure them out.... with some really smelly fish or something, I dunno.
#3. "Russen" - This is the graduating class of highschool in Norway. These kids are awful! Of course not everywhere, but since it's worse in the bigger cities - you can pretty much expect them to be a fucking menace. I was "russ" myself ofc (if you want to hear about that shit, feel free to ask. I got a few stories to tell). Thing is, these kids get their parents to fund their buses. That's not the worst though, but when the buses cost up to 3 million NOK, I'd say it's pretty crazy. Especially when these kids don't get their buses insured and it goes up in flames.
I'm pretty sure I have more more things to mention to make you hate every single one of us. ^^
But! I have also some fun cultural stuff to mention besides the negative ones.
For example, we like to see our nation as the "younger sibling" of both Denmark and Sweden.
This is basically because after the black plague (which wiped half of us out at that time) Sweden and Denmark pretty much took our lands as their own. We're still kinda salty about that, therefore we like to celebrate every single time we beat them... in basically anything.
This feud is mostly directed towards Sweden, since that's the only country of those two who's given us any attention back related to this.
Though, I really doubt they give as many fucks about it as we do. Cus we're known givers of fucks about this.
I am not sure if this is known or not outside of Scandinavia, but we norwegians swear and curse a lot. This isn't something I've given much thought, since I've been this way my whole fucking life. But! When I noticed how rarely my non-norwegian friends cursed, it sort of occured to me. Ofc, not everyone is like me (du-uh), but you can look at it this way: The further north in Norway = More swearing and cursing.
At the top of Norway, you can basically forget trying to translate the swearing because it won't make any sense in your language (and that's for certain).
As mentioned earlier, northerners curse more than southerners. This is because northerners are fundamentaly more angry and a LOT more grumpy. Though this is also were you'll most likely find the more kindhearted norwegians. Southerners don't have time to be angry and grumpy. They're busy counting their money, being condescending and pretentious. A stereotype is that they like acting posh, when they're not actually wealthier than anyone else, in any way.
We have another "form" of norwegian as well, called "Nynorsk" which translates to "new-norwegian". It sucks, it's confusing and it's a fucking headache. People who speak this language have ordered a one-way ticket to hell. This "language" mostly originates from the southwestern parts of Norway.
Norwegians don't like norwegians!
We have tons of jokes about danes and swedes (none about Icelanders, we love them too much) because we like swedes and we mostly like danes, even though we don't understand shit of what they're saying.
BUT! If you hear a norwegian trashtalk about other norwegians, he/she ain't fucking joking. Nope, we don't joke around when it comes to our hatred towards our fellow countrymen.
There are few positive things to say about my people, but the country itself is beautiful.
Here have some pictures.
Sorry for the giant post! I'm pretty sure I have more stuff to mention, but this'll do for now.
Don't be afraid of asking though, if you wish. ^^