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Re: The Swedish Number – Talk with a Random Swede

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Post by trentmb »

nxcho wrote: post #63
exabrial wrote: post #16

Anyone try this yet? I've always wondered what Swedes think about IKEA in America...

As a Swede currently living in California who also has visited IKEA in several different countries I can report that the general experience of visiting IKEA is pretty much as stressful and disorienting here as in Sweden. There are some local variations in the product portfolio both due to different standards like in bed sizes and kitchen and cultural differences. You cannot find a cheese slicer in my nearest IKEA and…

> experience of visiting IKEA is pretty much as stressful and disorienting here as in Sweden

Weird- I visited an IKEA with four friends and it felt much like a theme park. There was a cafeteria and everything.

Granted, our 5th friend--whiskey--was there too.

Re: The Swedish Number – Talk with a Random Swede

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Post by bjourne »

exabrial wrote: post #16

Anyone try this yet? I've always wondered what Swedes think about IKEA in America...

IKEA is owned by former Nazi and famous tax evader Ingvar Kamprad. IKEA is actually a Dutch non-profit(!) foundation. It's part of a very intricate scheme to minimize the tax burden of the owners. IMHO, Kamprad has been exploiting Sweden's good will abroad (and maybe reputation for quality?) but he doesn't give a whole lot back. They do sell good and cheap furniture though. :)

Re: The Swedish Number – Talk with a Random Swede

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Post by _lbaq »

nxcho wrote: post #63
exabrial wrote: post #16

Anyone try this yet? I've always wondered what Swedes think about IKEA in America...

As a Swede currently living in California who also has visited IKEA in several different countries I can report that the general experience of visiting IKEA is pretty much as stressful and disorienting here as in Sweden. There are some local variations in the product portfolio both due to different standards like in bed sizes and kitchen and cultural differences. You cannot find a cheese slicer in my nearest IKEA and…

Ingvar Kamprad now moved home to Sweden, probably to spend his last year. All other still apply.

http://www.svd.se/ingvar-kamprad-flyttar-hem

Re: The Swedish Number – Talk with a Random Swede

#84

Post by Dutchie »

nxcho wrote: post #74
tricolon wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Finn here. How else are you supposed to slice cheese?

Knife i guess or buy factory sliced. Most cheeses in america is a bit to soft to slice with a cheese slicer anyway.

American cheese? Does that relate to real cheese as Pizza Hawaii compares to an actual Italian pizza?

Re: The Swedish Number – Talk with a Random Swede

#85

Post by vkou »

Snargorf wrote: post #58
megalodon wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The far-right in Sweden have a habit of creating fake accounts in the purpose of spreading racist propaganda.

Or maybe it's a form of harmless-but-pointed civil disobedience by people who don't want their society to merge with those of the Middle East.

Much like how blackface is a harmless-but-pointed take on American race relations?

Re: The Swedish Number – Talk with a Random Swede

#86

Post by kalleboo »

nxcho wrote: post #63
exabrial wrote: post #16

Anyone try this yet? I've always wondered what Swedes think about IKEA in America...

As a Swede currently living in California who also has visited IKEA in several different countries I can report that the general experience of visiting IKEA is pretty much as stressful and disorienting here as in Sweden. There are some local variations in the product portfolio both due to different standards like in bed sizes and kitchen and cultural differences. You cannot find a cheese slicer in my nearest IKEA and…

> You cannot find a cheese slicer in my nearest IKEA

Hmm, they sell them at the one closest to me (in Japan) [Yes I'm a Swede)

Re: The Swedish Number – Talk with a Random Swede

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Post by vkou »

T-A wrote: post #76
anteht wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please provide links to the data and numbers in that case.

Official Swedish statistics: http://www.statistikdatabasen.scb.se/pxweb/en/ssd/START__BE_...

Malmö

Foreign born persons | Population

102,047 | 322,574

Foreign background | Swedish background

139 240 | 183 334

Seems pretty normal for a cosmopolitan city. Doesn't look like Atilla the Hun is at the gates, either.

The equivalent for New York City[1] is:

Foreign born persons | Population

3,136,592 | ~8,344,000

[1] http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/nycdata/population-geography/fore...

Toronto [2], on the other hand is ~49% foreign-born. Vancouver is 45%.

[2] http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2007/12/05/a_city_of_unmatch...

Re: The Swedish Number – Talk with a Random Swede

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Post by interfixus »

dracht wrote: post #73
megalodon wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The far-right in Sweden have a habit of creating fake accounts in the purpose of spreading racist propaganda.

The Swedish left has gone completely off the rails, to the point where merely addressing a demographic shift gets you accused of spreading "racist propaganda". When the Swedish authorities cover up mass sexual assaults because they were committed by a particular group, that's not propaganda, that's just good work - we wouldn't want those imaginary SS divisions to take advantage of such inconvenient realities.

This whole issue appears to be virtually unknown outside Scandinavian circles - and to some degree inside Sweden, whose print and broadcast media are to all intents and purposes heavily censored.

I had a Swedish girlfriend for a while. She moved to Denmark, where I live. And within a month changed her entire outlook on the demographics of her native land.

It is actually getting serious. Artists are jailed for their work in Sweden these days. Malmø is going out of control. The country is in a downward spiral of violence and chaos, and in deep, deep denial.

The merest mention of these issues automatically trigger the full brunt of rightist extremism accusations. And a predictable loss of karma points.

Re: The Swedish Number – Talk with a Random Swede

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Post by distances »

jdmoreira wrote: post #68
raitom wrote: post #15

Can't wait to see what /b/ will do with that.

I'm not Swedish but I'm living in Sweden. This past weekend, my girlfriend, who is Swedish, wanted to participate in this phone number thing. I told her it was a terrible idea and I had to show her /b/ to convince her.

Shame. other people seem to have had lovely connections with the service, like Karl mentioned in another comment: https://medium.com/@carlheath/stories-from-the-swedish-numbe...

Re: The Swedish Number – Talk with a Random Swede

#90

Post by stenl »

interfixus wrote: post #54
hk__2 wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you have some numbers on that?

Yes, and so do you. Sweden actually does have a statistics bureau. And they do make statistics. They just wrap them up real discreet. Native swedes are becoming a minority in Malmø, the third largest city in Sweden, and apparently home turf for one of the Brussels bombers.

Oh come on. 16% of the population is foreign-born, of which half are Europeans. Of the top ten immigrant countries, only one is arab (Iraq), and they constitute 1.3% of the population. The many Syrians who came last fall are not in the statistics yet, but will likely also amount to less than 2%.

In Malmö, less than 30% are foreign-born, and the largest group is (unsurprisingly) Danish, along with Iraqi and former Yugoslavia.

http://www.migrationsinfo.se/demografi/fodelseland/

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