Politics in general, Sweden especially. I've decided what party I would vote for in like 3 countries and I'm watch British and American politics to - I love comedy and improv and I often watch politcal comedy from other countries. I basically squee at political debates and know embarrassingly much about it.
Not much since the Netherlands hasn't been on my radar a lot - but I googled a tiny bit and; Very alike Sweden in some sense, especially with the way the state is structured - we're a monarchy to and have several different parties. I would probably vote for D66 or SP because I'm an idealist and VERY left-wing. We also have issues with a far right party in Sweden, so I would be very against the PVV. It's based around one person here too - but he hit the wall/is on sick-leave because of psychological problems which means our PVV are kind of out of control at the moment.
A person from our PVV is speaker of the house and well... very racist. (He recently said that Jews, and Sami people - who are our Native people are not Swedes.) In this clip A person from our left-most party in the "Riksdag" holds a speech.
She starts speaking without addressing him as "Sir speaker". In Sweden we call each other by the informal "you" and without titles. Having to use a title is a very, very big deal in Sweden. When He starts interrupting her and tells her that "We say sir Speaker" she respond "You're not my speaker of the house" but in Sweden it sounds way more awesome and can also be interpreted as "You do not speak for me". I feel like Netherland's politics are very similar to the ones I'm immersed in but a degree more liberal reactionary, there are animal rights parties and such in Sweden too, but not big ones. So this is a rant I did after a bit of googling so if I'm very wrong I apologize.
No I don't but I'm very, very intrigued, please tell me more.
There's a video game company called Paradox Interactive (they make various political strategy games), and on their forums many people create political games where a group of people act as a parliament of a nation. It's very fun, and there is lots of drama. I'm not very active in the game I'm in, though. I should change that.
Haha. I only spent a year in the US, but it was the year the Green Bay packers won the super bowl. I loved seeing everyone be so happy. But I did defend people who slagged off the vikings, 'cause I'm Swedish and Minnesota is full of Swedish descendants. There are still people in Minnesota that speak Swedish. I know - I've spoken to one.
And Sweden has opened up to that. We have a much beloved show were Americans of Swedish descent get to come to Sweden and learn about their heritage in a summer camp environment. And this Christmas there was a Christmas special where they celebrated Christmas in Sweden Fun fact, you might be (kind of) Swedish since until 1905 (I think) Norway was a part of Sweden and the Norwegian harbor Is closer geographically to some provinces in Sweden. So if the only thing recorded is which harbor your ancestors left from... But it doesn't really matter since most farmers and such didn't really have a strong national identity back then. And Finland was a country that Sweden owned for a while and treated horridly. l Almost every Swede has American relatives though most are not in touch. That is one reason why I really loved being in Wisconsin, it was different but at the same time similar. The nature was like Sweden in so many ways and the culture to. It was nice to see.
Yes, from what I understand of my heritage, my ancestors actually moved from Sweden to Finland during this period, although through the ensuing generations, they took on a more Finnish identity (surname Lahti, spoke Fin, etc). So if we go back far enough, I do have Swedish blood, which I love, because my biggest sports hero is a Swede (Niklas Lidstrom).And Finland was a country that Sweden owned for a while and treated horridly.
http://www.svtplay.se/allt-for-sverige i don't know if you can watch it outside Sweden but there it is.
Aww, that is amazing. I love Nordic history, because it is really full of power-structures and wars. Fun fact - countries with most wars against each other? Sweden-Denmark.