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Stumbled upon this from another community, do you agree? (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago (12 children)

Swede here. We all speak English. Heck - my kids use English whenever they're speaking about games or Youtube anyway.

Come to think of it. We should just drop Swedish altogether.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago (9 children)

The last time I went to Systembolaget I said "hej" to the cashier who replied "you're from Finland aren't you?"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Last time I went to Systembolaget they refused to sell anything to me because of my obviously Finnish accent. Luckily the nearby ICA had no problem in selling me some folköl. My Swedish is passable, it is just obviously from wrong country.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

they refused to sell anything to me because of my obviously Finnish accent

Skitsnack, you're just joking or they thought you were drunk.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I was sober, on my way to Åre - buy some beer, buy some groceries from nearby store. Just to get by for a week of off piste.

It's just the casual Swedish racism.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So what reason did they say to you when you went to the checkout with your drinks?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

As I understood my Swedish was so off that they couldn't trust my Finnish passport or driving licence to be trustworthy. They claimed they could not verify my age.

I was in over 40 in this exchange.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Did they think the majority of Finns who go through Pakkoruotsi remember anything more than "jag heter homopeter"? 😂 Still seems weird, Systembolaget has always accepted my US driver's license (this was additionally before "real ID"; it basically was like McLovin's fake ID), despite the fact that they're not supposed to accept anything other than a passport for people from outside of the EU. And I looked young then, barely 20 years old.

I would have fought them harder instead of taking folköl instead. Regardless, sorry that happened to you, Finns are our brödrafolk, and it's a shame if the cashier forgot that.

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