I read on a website (www.sweden.se) which said the following:
- Sweden has gone from a farmer, poor country very fast. It took us about 3 generation to go from a third world country to one of the most advanced nations in the world.
- Swedes are charactarized (real) as nationalistic, proud and friendly.
- Swedes are charactarized (false) as 100% blonde, drunken suiciders and middle classes.
Other facts about Sweden which is discovered at various places:
- In 1870-1890, Sweden had 2,2 million inhabitants. Now, 130 years later, the population has grown with about 450%.
We are nowadays about 9-10 million.
- Most Swedes at the age of 15-20 has a grandfather/grandmother who lived through the old farmer era. Nowadays, peoples grandparents are modern cityfolks.
- Swedish language is known for borrowing words from other languages such as Acceptera (accept), existera (exist), lunch, rival, shampoo etc etc.
But words other languages has borrowed from Swedish is words like Moped, Lingon, Smorgasbord and sloyd (slöjd).
- The worlds richest man is Swedish. Ingvar kamprad, the founder of IKEA. Yes, he is richer than Bill Gates. Not very much, but the procentages are more for Mr Kamprad.
- Sweden still have big influence in United States.
Places like New Sweden, Maine, Little Sweden(Lindsborg), Illinois, and Sweden, Ohio.
There is over 15,000 places with Scandinavian names in the United states.
- Swedens capital Stockholm has the least toxic outlet of gas in the entire world, accompanied with the Icelandic capital.
- Norway and denmarks population together equals Swedens.
- Sweden is almost twice as big as Germany in size, but our population covers just about 10%-15% of the German.