Common behaviour

How much do our parents control our lives at home / outside?

The amount of control our parents have over us vary in different homes, but we probably have a lot more freedom compared to many other countries. Although our food is controlled by the school, as the government provides ‘free’ food in all swedish schools

General rules

Swedes are very polite people, and also quite shy. In general we never share our opinions if we don’t know what everbody else thinks first. Together with that, of course, we have few unwritten rules. If someone stands at a bus stop, you DO NOT enter it before that person has left. Doesn’t matter if it’s raining or if there’s thunder. We also like to queue a lot, since we believe in order and discipline. If we have a reason to line up, god knows we’ll do it. We also have this other thing that is probably the most Swedish thing you’ll ever hear: Lagom.

Lagom means “not to little, nor to much”. It’s just lagom. If there are two versions of something we’ll make sure to have a lagom verision of it as well. We are very equal up here. We have equality parties, equal pay (almost). We have even in recent years started to use the word “hen”, which is a hybrid between the word for him and her. To summarize, we are relatively gray and lack common interest in practicing our culture, but in exchange we are polite and rarely get in to conflicts