#swedes

[willietheguy]

Can any Swedes translate? Also, my therapy is listening to Willie’s laugh 😂😂

[illustratus]

After the battle – The Swedes in Poland in 1655 by Henryk Pillati

[mapsontheweb]

Areas inhabited by Estonian-Swedes in 1855

[petsincollections]

Young man sitting on a bed with a cat, Akeley, Minnesota, ca. 1910

American Swedish Institute

[trueysonmyass]

[jeffurlan]

Beautiful Stockholm, Sweden 🇸🇪😍

📷 @swedenpic

[antrea]

[24.03.19] vs. toronto maple leafs (c: len redkoles)

[ruokasooda]

https://www.aftonbladet.se/podcasts/ab/program/1291

Eurovision and Melodifestivalen specialized journalists Tobbe Ek and Markus Larsson weren’t too happy about Finns not granting any televotes for Loreeen. Few quotes from Aftonbladet’s (one of the largest daily newspapers in Sweden) Eurovision podcast:

Ek: ”The reason is that Finns are jealous. They are collectively jealous at us Swedes and that led them not voting for us.”

Ek: ”How is it even possible that Finns think there were ten better songs than Loreen? That’s shameful.”

Larsson: ”The Finns gave points even for Germany over Loreen. That’s sick. Says lot about Finnish understanding about music and about their taste.”

Ek: ”I’m fucking furious.”

Larsson: ”Dumbass people.”

Ek: ”Finland was only country where Sweden didn’t get any points from the people. Shame on you Finland, it serves you right you didn’t win!”

Larsson: ”I agree! F*ck them!”

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This is nothing new to us finns, swedes have always treated us like this. And it just culminates to eurovision which fucking sucks. I hope this gets spread out bit more so people can see under the polished picture sweden has put out.

I personally voted for germany and other 9 countries that in my own opinion had better songs than sweden, this type of articles just give so icky and bad feeling over everything. There are bad loosers in the world, but swedes seem to be really sore winners. Nothing seems to be enough they need it all. We already gave 12p by jury, but then again our jurys team leader was born in sweden so theres big conflict of interest in that. I think they know it was not pure win and are trying to pin the bad feeling into us.

[youngroyalsconnections]

Hello my love! Thought I'd send you an ask and see how we get on!

I'm looking for a Swedish person that I can ask about Valborg as it's the setting for a little something I'm writing. If any Swedes have five mins to spare to message me, I would be super grateful!

Tysm for your service to the fandom xx

Swedes👀!!!

[kemetic-dreams]

As far back as Ben Franklin's time some had a very narrow view of what America should be.

Benjamin Franklin, in 1751, referring to the Swedes, French and other Europeans as insufficiently white, and expressing his growing annoyance at the German immigration boom:

[W]hy should the Palatine Boors be suffered to swarm into our Settlements and, by herding together, establish their Language and Manners, to the Exclusion of ours? Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs any more than they can acquire our Complexion?

Which leads me to add one Remark, that the Number of purely white People in the World is proportionably very small. All Africa is black or tawny; Asia chiefly tawny; America (exclusive of the new Comers) wholly so. And in Europe, the Spaniards, Italians, French, Russians, and Swedes, are generally of what we call a swarthy Complexion; as are the Germans also, the Saxons only excepted, who, with the English, make the principal Body of White People on the Face of the Earth. I could wish their Numbers were increased. And while we are, as I may call it, Scouring our Planet, by clearing America of Woods, and so making this Side of our Globe reflect a brighter Light to the Eyes of Inhabitants in Mars or Venus, why should we, in the Sight of Superior Beings, darken its People? Why increase the Sons of Africa, by planting them in America, where we have so fair an Opportunity, by excluding all Blacks and Tawneys, of increasing the lovely White and Red? But perhaps I am partial to the Complexion of my Country, for such Kind of Partiality is natural to Mankind.

The much younger Alexander Hamilton, perhaps the nation’s most famous and politically influential immigrant (he was born in the Danish West Indies and came to New York as a teen), also went on to express anti-immigrant tendencies. He supported the Alien and Sedition Acts, which helped consolidate power for his own political party. And in a series of pseudonymously-written essays, he warned of the dangers of absorbing and especially naturalizing too many foreigners.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/rampage/wp/2015/08/28/founding-fathers-trashing-immigrants/

[willietheguy]

Best hair on the team goes to the Swedes

Please tell me you get the gif of Jungwoo AKA the member with the best hair loll

[l00k4tm4m45c415]

Michaela Augustsson

[vintage-russia]

Swedish girls in Swedish costumes,Saint Petersburg (1890s)

[skilasophia]

On Vacation with Your Parents

We’re holding hands in the back of the van as

Van Halen’s 1984 blasts from the speakers (high treble)

As your father reeks of sweat;

Not uncommon for Highland Ranch, CO

Residents (or so I hear).

Your mother seems to like my words and

She’s impressed with my femininity,

Or maybe it’s my devotion to her closeted son.

We arrive at Lake Klara;

Celebrating Midsummer with industrial swagger

(if only the alcohol…

[poolparty13]

I’m OBSESSED with this.