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Laura Skov's avatar

Agreed. We seemed to have lost a sense of restraint. Also, a sense of public decorum, although that is hard thing to talk about without sounding ancient!

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Annexes's avatar

I did a brief internship in Stockholm and was housed with a bunch of international students. Whenever somebody managed to make a Swedish friend, it would make rounds through the entire building and everybody would be like 'how did you do it?!'. The Swedes are friendly people, but only after you get to know them. My favorite joke that I picked up while I was there was about the Finnish, who are apparently even worse: 'How do you know a Fin likes you? When he looks at *your* feet instead of his own.' That kind of summed up making friends in Scandinavia for me.

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