Hello Swedish friends! I hope you’re all well (:
So, I’m a young Portuguese guy and I was wondering what Swedes should think of Portugal and the Portuguese. I did some research, but found almost nothing. So I decided to ask here.
I’m very curious to hear your answers! (:
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The original was posted on /r/sweden by /u/mikke_and_i at 2023-10-05 15:50:26+00:00.
Dirac_Impulse at 2023-10-05 17:36:39+00:00 ID:
k3lq5uhSouthern Europe = Poor and chaotic in the Swedish mind. It dosen’t matter if it’s true or not, it’s how Swedes view the world.
When covid was spreading like a wildfire in northern Italy (which is more or less on a northern European level of development) and, unknown to everyone at the time, already had started to spread in Sweden, our top governmental epidemiologist basically said “oh, but that’s… like… Italy… you know (not a real developed functional state like Sweden, Denmark, Germany or the Netherlands)”.
Southern europeans are viewed as… well… maybe not outright lazy but at least ineffective.
I of course speak generally and not every Swede hold these views, but I would say that they are a part of our cultural understanding of the region.