swedish

Swedish means Northern Europe Sometimes it refers to the people of Sweden, a country on the Scandinavian Peninsula , and sometimes it refers to people who speak the Indo-European language group, North Germanic language group, East Scandinavian language group, Swedish . They are also very close to Danes , Norwegians , Icelanders , and Finns . As explanations regarding Swedish nationality are explained in more detail in Swedish documents, the explanation here will focus on language, ethnic identity, origins, and history, encompassing Swedish ancestry.

Sweden has a population of about 13 million, of which about 8 million live in mainland Sweden , and about 290,000 Finns of Swedish descent live in neighboring Finland . There are about 90,000 Swedes living in Norway. Traditionally, Sweden and Norway are the same Northern people, but they are divided into East Scandinavian and West Scandinavian languages, respectively.

Today, the most common Swedish living in Sweden is the United States , with more than 3.91 million Swedish Americans , with more than 1.2 million Swedish immigrants to the United States between 1885 and 1915.[1] At the same time, Canada immigration has been immigrated to more than 340,000 Swedish Canadians, especially in Quebec and Ontario . In Mexico, there are Swedish immigrants in Baja California , Sonora and Silkworm Boreon . At the time, Sweden, like Norway, had a high level of literacy, so Swedish immigrants were less difficult than other European immigrants.

The Swedishes are mostly Luther Church Shinto after the Reformation . However, the Swedish Swedish Swedish people tend to think of Protestantism as a traditional culture due to the secularized influence of Europe today, and Swedish Americans are much more religiously conservative than this.[2]



Swedish ancestors, who spoke East Scandinavian languages ​​in the past, advanced into present-day Russia, founded the Rus Kagan state , and are also famous for serving in the Varangian Guard in the Eastern Roman Empire .[3] It was before the Swedish identity was established yet, but what is certain is that the Swedish ancestors who lived in Swedish territory at the time prospered by dominating the trade that connected the Black Sea , the North Sea , and Scandinavia with rivers.

Today, the Swedish people have also settled in Spain with more than 90,000 people , and more than 10,000 people have settled in Thailand .[4] There are about 1,300 Swedishes in Korea.

Swedes speak Swedish , but most Swedes speak English . In addition to the influence of Sweden's curriculum, there are many Swedishes who can speak German and French . There are many people in neighboring countries who can speak Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, and Russian.

Around the 9th century AD, Norse was divided into the Western Scandinavian language group and the East Scandinavian language group . After the 12th century, the languages ​​of Denmark and Sweden began to diverge, becoming the origins of medieval Danish and medieval Swedish around the 13th century AD. Medieval Swedish developed around the Kingdom of Sweden , but like other Scandinavian languages, it was found to have changed and developed under the influence of Low Germanic language and Christianity.

Among these Norse people, those who went to present-day Eastern Europe differentiated into the Rus, and those who went to Western Europe differentiated into the Normans.

It is thought that the medieval Norsemen often had the upper hand in wars against the Sami people in the north and the Finns in the east . There are records of people who traveled to Scandinavia in the middle ages or the Norsemen themselves that many of the slaves had flat faces, so it can be said that many Uralic peoples were absorbed during the Vikings ' life in Scandinavia . However, since the Middle Ages, the Swedes often established friendly relations with neighboring Uralic peoples and did not force serfdom on the Finns , so it is difficult to describe the Swedes as harsh invaders or conquerors. To be precise, this is because the Finnish farmers were so poor and the land was so barren that there was nothing to exploit even if they tried. However, there were many cases of conscription in wars such as the Great Flood and the Great Northern War . Likewise, the Finnish farmers had to be scraped together because the population was small.

In the 80s and 90s, before overseas travel became common globally, it was a big player in the global tourism industry. In addition to the fact that Swedes have high national income and prices, Sweden's cold winter weather also played a role. At one time, Thailand's Phuket and Pattaya were in the spotlight as national tourist destinations in Sweden. During the 2004 South Asian earthquake, a significant number of foreign tourists, including locals, died on the beach in Thailand after being swept away by the tsunami, and a large proportion of them were Swedes. The 2004 South Asian tsunami is said to be the largest number of Swedish deaths overseas since the Battle of Poltava during the Great Northern War .

Originally, it was famous in Europe for the stereotype of being very chilly, to the point where even Germans would give up , but they do not serve meals to guests. After Swedengate became widely known, the prejudice that it was stingy and mean-spirited became more firmly established. However, this is from a foreigner's perspective, because individualism has been established in Sweden for a relatively long time and they do not want to interfere in each other's personal lives, such as eating.

Just like the stereotypes that Asians have towards Western white people, the average European has the image of Swedes as tall, blond, handsome men/beauties.

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