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Originally Posted by Gnist
So it is not only the Danes then. I find it depressing. I don't give a damn if I have to spice up my Swedish with Danish to make a Dane understand, it's not like he is superior to me anyway. What I find to be really annoying is when they prefer to be citizens of the world and speak English to me, just because it would be too much of an effort, or too much of a nuisance, to acknowledge that there is ethnocultural relatedness, and that we actually could learn some interesting things about that relatedness by sticking to what we are.
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Its pretty simple to me. My English is better than my Swedish. In a conversation, the point is communication, so one chooses the language one is mutually best in.
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Originally Posted by Gnist
Are the roles reversed in these two cases, if we compare Danes to the Portugese? I think Danes act like underdogs when they pretend to not understand, it comes off as petty little brother complex to everyone I know.
"Don't come here and think that we will accept Swedish in our country, because you screwed us over in history. We used to dominate you, and the rest... we'd like to forget about it, OK?"
Well how mature of you, is what the Swede thinks, just so that you know it. And you act the same when you are in Sweden, you citizens of the world.  |
I dont really know if it has such historical/inter-ethnic aspects.
The end part of this video (around 2:30) probably says a good deal about how many Danes feel about Swedes (so you will have to attempt to understand Danish to see it)
I have not really had deep considerations to it, men jeg snakker ikke specielt godt svenska, hvis du 'fatter'. These days I am not in Sweden much, so I dont encounter Swedes much. So it is not a big problem.
I can inform you, that in everyday life I see Danes talking Danish to Swedes and vice versa a lot. The other day I was in the bus, and a woman asked the driver something in Swedish, and he replied and spoke with her in Danish. Another example, is that on the TV some weeks ago (I have forgotten in what relation now), a Swede was interviewed in Danish.
A lot of the time on the TV, there will be Danish subtitles when a Swede talks though
