Eight myths about Swedish women revealed
Published: 27 Apr 12 17:16 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/40522/20120427/
Do you know a Swedish woman? Or are you a Swedish woman? In that case you have probably come across some of the more popular myths that stick to these legendary creatures like flies to honey.
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Therefore, The Local has compiled a small list of preconceived ideas about our homeland’s goddesses of the north, handy for those who are meeting – or wanting to meet -women from this neck of the woods.
Whether you want to keep this as a record for future reference or whether you want to prove us wrong – here is where you find out. And don’t forget- you heard it on The Local – so it must be true.
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yuck
If your mission was to increase registered users by annoying readers so much that they had to comment: then bravo. Mission accomplished.
It's a bit of fun for goodness sake and not meant to be in depth reporting..
Move to Holland and chill..
(kidding, I knew it already)
Shouldnt she really know better?
Thanks!
Dating and engaged only? Marry her and watch the cold set in. When was the last time you saw a Swedish couple (who had been together over 2 years) holding hands? Affection is socially defined in Sweden. It is okay to be demonstrative if you are young or new love but after that, Arctic chill.
And those who scream, "mine is not like that," there are exceptions to every generalization. Since I live in Småland maybe my experience is the exception but, for my region it seems to be the norm. However, I hope your experience stays warm.
Could not agree more. Who wrote this? A horny teenager?
Just lost a reader - deleting shortcut .......Now
zooden, you missed the 3rd option of shower!
Slow news day in Sweden?
I agree what a pathetic article. Does the Local still think its the 1960's ?
I presume that a number of readers have learned English as a 2nd language, and based on my reading of many posts for many TL articles, there appears to some inability to spot or appreciate humour, and it often appears to be more urgent to them point out a typo on line 36 than to to comment on the content of a story, even a story that might have a title such as: 'Breivik escapes custody with 12 kilos of weapons grade plutonium'
About Swedish girls, there are a lot of standards. But it is just like anywhere in the world. There are gorgeous girls and there are not so pretty. Some are cold, some are warm, some are rude, some are nice, some are quite open minded, some are quite racist. I guess if you come here looking for girls, you have to spend a while trying to understand Swedish way of thinking so you can avoid cultural shocks, which is the reason why there are so many bitter guys (I think).
I don't really have much more to say, I came here for other reasons than the girls. My girlfriend comes from the same country as me so cultural shock is not something I had to deal with.
@DiegoP - you are right. Part of the problem is that Swedes generally LOOK like other Europeans (especially Dutch and German) but tend to have very different outlooks on issues/life - I still contend it is at least partly a linguistic divide that causes the psychological divide.
As a final chuckle I still think Swedes are easier to understand the motivations/thoughts of than Finns LOL
Norwegians are, of course, the most normal and level-headed of humanities families :-)
You missed the point with the article, buddy. And the article is spot on.
#23 @ Abe L
Only unattractive low quality Swedish men go for for Thai or South American women. Swedish guys generally want to be with their own kind, somebody who is culturally close to them.