trollnystan said:
<spoiler=snipped to a spoiler>My father was Swedish and I was born and raised here so I guess that makes me:
-blonde (I was blonde as a kid, does that count?)
-blue-eyed (Sorry, hazel eyes)
-really tall (I'm 167 cm so no?)
-polite (actually I am)
-private (this too. I've had to train myself to not freeze when being hugged)
-damn socialist (well, I prefer it to capitalism so I guess yes...)
-nudist (so not me. Unless I'm at at home with the blinds drawn, then I prance around in my undies =P)
-sexy (the only people who've told me that I am have been lecherous old(er) men, drunkards and, oddly enough, lesbians trying to get into my pants. Oh and my friends but they don't count.)
-arrogant (I've got too low self-esteem for that, but yeah we're arrogant)
My mother on the other hand was Irish so then I'm also:
-drunkard (don't drink at all. Have them in the family though, and my father was one)
-friendly (I think I am. But in all honestly, the majority of Irish people I've met are mean by my standards)
-believe in and talk about fairies and the like in everyday conversation (my grandmother would have probably disowned me if I did)
-Catholic (I was raised such, but I no longer consider myself that)
-eats potatoes (this is big in both Ireland and Sweden. Good lord, how I hate potatoes)
-great sense of humour (I can find something funny in practically everything. I don't know if that counts. I do enjoy Irish black humour)
-good looking (I've yet to met an Irishman face-to-face who I found attractive. Who didn't have a parent from somewhere else anyway)
Wow. That was long. Sorry about that =o
TL;DR Swedes = sexy, blonde, statuesque, polite bastards. Irish = Friendly drunks who see fairies dancing in their potato patch.
Never feel bad about making thorough posts. It's always good for the forums.
All in good spirits: The Finnish stereotypes about Swedish people aren't perhaps the most balanced gender-wise: Swedish girls are hot and cute, whereas Swedish guys are flimsy and feminine metrosexuals, who have self-tanned themselves to orange, wear white sailing clothes, sing drinking songs and so on.
Swedish-Finnish on the other hand are often referred to as "bättre folk", even by themselves, so it's not that serious.
I've never really got what the Swedish stereotype about Finns is, other than that we're supposed to be some kind of primitive woodsmen? Which doesn't make all that much sense.
