A Swedish Film?

[gary13136]

According to some people, the typical Swede is blond, blue-eyed, sex-crazy, and often kill themselves.

OK, I admit it - I'm a 100% stereotypical Swede. All I need to do now to fulfil the cliché is to shoot myself when I come home from work this evening

Don't pull the trigger! Three out of four is a fairly good average.

[call_e]

Well i got to admit, we swedes are usually pretty afraid of contact with other people.
i don't know the situation in the countryside but here in Stockholm that is usually the case.
for example: you are waiting for the bus all by yourself and suddenly someone else appears who are also waiting for the bus.
the swedes typical reaction in this moment is to get paranoid and sceptical against the newcomer, and they would probably feel very uncomfortable.
and the person arriving at the bus-stop would most likely feel the same thing about the other person.

[StefL]

Well i got to admit, we swedes are usually pretty afraid of contact with other people.
i don't know the situation in the countryside but here in Stockholm that is usually the case.
for example: you are waiting for the bus all by yourself and suddenly someone else appears who are also waiting for the bus.
the swedes typical reaction in this moment is to get paranoid and sceptical against the newcomer, and they would probably feel very uncomfortable.
and the person arriving at the bus-stop would most likely feel the same thing about the other person.

You're only too right - I guess that's why all of us who live in Stockholm love to visit Gothenburg on the other side of the country where everyone's cheerful almost to the extent of being a cliché and it's impossible to be on the same bus stop, bus or street car as someone else without being dragged into a conversation. Or so we like to think at least

[Struan]

for example: you are waiting for the bus all by yourself and suddenly someone else appears who are also waiting for the bus.
the swedes typical reaction in this moment is to get paranoid and sceptical against the newcomer, and they would probably feel very uncomfortable.
and the person arriving at the bus-stop would most likely feel the same thing about the other person.

But is this distrust borne out of a sense of insecurity? Like you fear the newcomer is going to mug you or something? Or is it simply a natural reaction to strangers because everyone keeps mostly to themselves?

[call_e]

for example: you are waiting for the bus all by yourself and suddenly someone else appears who are also waiting for the bus.
the swedes typical reaction in this moment is to get paranoid and sceptical against the newcomer, and they would probably feel very uncomfortable.
and the person arriving at the bus-stop would most likely feel the same thing about the other person.

But is this distrust borne out of a sense of insecurity? Like you fear the newcomer is going to mug you or something? Or is it simply a natural reaction to strangers because everyone keeps mostly to themselves?

I think that it has to do with something that flows through the very veins of our society, something people are born and raised into.
People over here aren't necessarily afraid of being mugged but rather just of the insecurity one might feel among strangers, that you are uncomfrotable among people who you arenät very close with.
We are insecure by nature and we are quick to excuse oureselves for things that aren't even our own fault, like bumping in to someone at a subway station and such.

[intrige]

that you are uncomfrotable among people who you arenät very close with.

Haha, I also have that sometimes. That : ' mark(button) is just beside your : ä letter, button.. Oh.. you get it right? I have a æ on in it's place. Arenæt XD I guess I am a little bit to tired right now.. O.o

[call_e]

that you are uncomfrotable among people who you arenät very close with.

Haha, I also have that sometimes. That : ' mark(button) is just beside your : ä letter, button.. Oh.. you get it right? I have a æ on in it's place. Arenæt XD I guess I am a little bit to tired right now.. O.o

oh i'm sorry a didn't even notice that
haha guess i do that sometimes.

[intrige]

oh i'm sorry a didn't even notice that
haha guess i do that sometimes.

Nothing to be sorry for

[Wolfchild]

for example: you are waiting for the bus all by yourself and suddenly someone else appears who are also waiting for the bus.
the swedes typical reaction in this moment is to get paranoid and sceptical against the newcomer, and they would probably feel very uncomfortable.
and the person arriving at the bus-stop would most likely feel the same thing about the other person.

But is this distrust borne out of a sense of insecurity? Like you fear the newcomer is going to mug you or something? Or is it simply a natural reaction to strangers because everyone keeps mostly to themselves?

Ah ha! A society made to order for a twelve year old predator who lives off of it but must always stay under its radar. Whenever she moves to a new place, no one would ever get too nosy. Tomas has said that this story could take place anywhere - and indeed it could - but then perhaps nowhere would be so believable as in Stockholm.

[lombano]

Ah ha! A society made to order for a twelve year old predator who lives off of it but must always stay under its radar. Whenever she moves to a new place, no one would ever get too nosy. Tomas has said that this story could take place anywhere - and indeed it could - but then perhaps nowhere would be so believable as in Stockholm.

Maybe culturally, but any very large city would also be a suitable habitat...