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What's up with the way Scandinavians stand in line for the bus?
- Thread starter Taki
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...an-miracle-brutal-truth-denmark-norway-sweden
I extrapolated a bit but very educational.
Weirdly enough Swedes commonly hug as a greeting. It goes against our whole socially awkward thing. I live abroad now and people simply don't hug here, it's a more intimate thing.
Yeah suicide rates are a bit high, in Finland especially. That article compares Sweden to China though so make if it what you will.
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Someone already posted it but it bears repeating:
The people in the pictures are NOT queuing. I can't speak for all Scandinavians but Danes generally hate standing in line. We will when necessary but there is no cause to do so until we see the bus approaching. Only then will we form a line whick looks just like in other countries. Until then people just spread out in the area by the bus stop. If it's a long bus where every door is both exit and entrance, then the line looks like the extreme photo with people several metres apart.
The gif with the girl in red is NOT a personal space reaction. Look at their heads. They've spotted the bus on the horizon and are slowly moving to their queue positions.
Also the part about never taking a seat next to someone in the bus if free double seats are available is completely true. The only people who disregard this unspoken rule are old, lonely people, junkies and drunkards.
Went out to dinner with a friend recently. Through a neighborhood with lots of restaurants. Most of them were full or almost full. We could have gotten a table. In the end we found a restaurant that was nearly empty. Only three others apart from us. Two of them in a separate room. We had all the space in the world and silence apart from the subdued background jazz. It was bliss. Food was luckily great. Came back from Tokyo a month ago. People there regularly queue infront of restaurants. That would never happen in Denmark. No available tables? We leave and find another restaurant.
Temperatures: from around 18 degrees celsius it's t-shirt, shorts and sandals.
The people in the pictures are NOT queuing. I can't speak for all Scandinavians but Danes generally hate standing in line. We will when necessary but there is no cause to do so until we see the bus approaching. Only then will we form a line whick looks just like in other countries. Until then people just spread out in the area by the bus stop. If it's a long bus where every door is both exit and entrance, then the line looks like the extreme photo with people several metres apart.
The gif with the girl in red is NOT a personal space reaction. Look at their heads. They've spotted the bus on the horizon and are slowly moving to their queue positions.
Also the part about never taking a seat next to someone in the bus if free double seats are available is completely true. The only people who disregard this unspoken rule are old, lonely people, junkies and drunkards.
Went out to dinner with a friend recently. Through a neighborhood with lots of restaurants. Most of them were full or almost full. We could have gotten a table. In the end we found a restaurant that was nearly empty. Only three others apart from us. Two of them in a separate room. We had all the space in the world and silence apart from the subdued background jazz. It was bliss. Food was luckily great. Came back from Tokyo a month ago. People there regularly queue infront of restaurants. That would never happen in Denmark. No available tables? We leave and find another restaurant.
Temperatures: from around 18 degrees celsius it's t-shirt, shorts and sandals.
Can't speak for the others but in Denmark they are very strict. Even if you marry a Dane it will take years to get citizenship. Being hard on immigration is the new black among the political parties.
Oh I get it now. Yeah, if I lived somewhere filled with people who can't process even the most basic of interactions without resorting to rudeness and name calling as you're demonstrating here then yes, I suppose I would also try to keep as much distance between everyone else as possible.
I quoted the best parts of the response to that article:
"We Finns have a great sense of humour and Michael Booth's piece was a good laugh. "
This has been the best thread on ERA. A new high has been set!
I've actually been looking at cost of living there. (It's actually quite high for food and stuff) :(
Maybe that's why they stand so far apart: Food prices are so high it forces the majority of citizens to eat Taco Bell causing constant explosive flatulance.
The article I linked to does mention Scandinavians have one of the largest individual footprints in the world so it makes since they'd try to claim as much space around them as possible I guess.
There is few in Helsinki so basically it doesn't exist in Finland.