AMERICAN REACTS TO SWEDISH HIGH SCHOOL! 🤯 HOW DOES IT COMPARE TO US?
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AMERICAN REACTS TO SWEDISH & SCANDINAVIAN SCHOOL! How does their education system compare to the USA? Swedish school vs american school
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What about africa
@@stephenxnifemiqr9642 or Australia??
In most schools you can choose lactose free alternatives
I’m Swedish
@@stephenxnifemiqr9642 Africa is a continate!!!
"Where's the security guards? And where are the metal detectors?"
"Honey, this is a school not a prison".
I’m watching someone getting mind blown by my everyday life. It's funny
I agree 😂
Yee, i have the same feeling.😂
FR
It wasn't a foreign language, it was the local language, english is the foreign language there.
Home schooling is very, very rare anywhere outside the US. It can only happen if your parent or home tutor is a certified teacher at your grade level or above. Kids in Scandinavian countries, plus Netherlands & Belgium, are fluent in English as a second language. Here in Kenya, kids speak their local language to grade 1, add Kiswahili at grade 2, add English at grade 3, and begin either French or German at grade 5 or 6. My kids each spoke six languages fluently by grade 7. BTW, you mention the "old" school building. The school I attended from 8-13 in London was in a building built in 1670. My youngest son's school was founded in 909. (Not 1909, 909!)
well, people tried homeschooling during the lockdown and it was a complete mess, so much so that reopening schools was all the way on the top of the list 😂
@@raistormrs I'm in the UK and have six grandchildren...three of whom have been home-schooled at some time or another (excluding the lockdown element), but only one of whom still is (albeit for not much longer)...I do see that in many respects though that home-schooling has certainly widened their educational horizons and benefited them overall...they compare well to their "socialising" comrades!
@@cogidubnus1953 that may be so for some, but what about those parents who are, let's say, not the smartest cookies in the jar, or worse, the "because" parents as i like to call them, you know, the type of parent that answers every question with the same, because that's how it is, answer. there are a lot of kids that had to basically figure things out themself since their parents were useless. well, you could count that as "widened horizon" i guess...😅
And nobody (almost) can afford a certified teacher in Scandinavia for homeschooling.
The School in the earlier reaction is the oldest in Uppsala, founded 1246 current building from 1869.
We in Sweden and most other countries find it important that children and young people, not only eat healthy, but also get a good relationship to food.
Det är viktigt att barn äter ordentlig mat. I engelska skolor brukar dem servera skräpmat.
@@nordscan9043 Engelska skolorna är privatskolor så det är annorlunda där, men om du kollar på kommunala skolor så är det strävan efter bra mat och delat med olika grönssaker, vitaminer, proteiner och kolhydrater.
@@oneonone8855 Jag pratar I’m kommunala Skolor I England.
Unlike the US, where high school is basically a continuation of primary school, high schools in the Nordic countries (can't speak for the rest of Europe) are more profession oriented. Which means that students basically choose their initial career path in grade 9.
Say for instance that you want to work in the transport sector (trucks, bus or taxi), you simply choose a high school that have that program.
Or if you want to get into the medical profession, nurse or doctor, then you choose a school with a medical program.
These programs are in turn then a foundation for higher learning in collage or university.
Also. The reason you didn't see any footage of a classroom is most likely due to it being her next to last day in school. So, no classes. 🙂
Not in Finland. Here we choose to go to either vocational school or theoretical one.
"There's no such thing as a free lunch." - random U.S. citizen, probably
"Hold my fika." - Sweden
Tax dude, tax. There is no such thing as a free fika
@@andersmalmgren6528 still a better option than going around hungry.
Millions of free lunches dispensed every day in the UK!
Mindblowing is that going to highschool is free of charge. So money doesnt decide where you go. The better grades make it possible to get into better schools. So you knowledge is prioritized not your wealth
This is not socialism. That is the mistake that American make.
28C = 80F
Socialism with free market is still socialism
@@andersmalmgren6528 do your home work. Socialism is about owning the means of production. Nothing to do with what you see in the video
@@andersmalmgren6528 There's no such thing as a "free market" anywhere.
@@deadNightwatchman that is correct. But there are markets that are much less regulated than our Swedish.
From what I'm picking up, in the US socialism can mean:
- social
- government takes better care of the citizens than happens in the US
- stuff I don't like
- stuff I don't understand
- combination of any or all the above
That just looks like a normal meal to me - not 5 star, just good healthy- I am sure they would probably have a choice of oat milk or almond milk if they cannot drink dairy.
We have thing called lactose free milk.
And lactose free other dairy products.
A lot of people are lactose intolerant. Of course there are oat milk etc.
Here in Finland the rye milk is a new thing too.
@@sarimikkila4574 my son was allergic to milk protein as a kid. That mean no diary products at all.
There is actually coz a lot of people in Sweden either have lactose or gluten allergies
13:13 No socialism as far as the eye can see. Sweden is a liberal democracy with a free-market capitalist economic system like the USA. It's all about what you spend the tax SEK/USD on.
@@Profeliator Socialism is a political ideology, in Sweden represented by the Left Party. The Social Democrat Party is not socialist, but on the left-wing like the Left Party. Free-market capitalism is an economic system used in all OECD countries like the USA & Sweden. "Socialism" is not the opposite of "capitalism" - like comparing apples and dolphins.
Called socialdemocracy
@@gabrielarcari4460 No, the political system in Sweden (and the rest of the western world) is liberal democracy. There is a political party on the left wing called The Social Democrat Party.
@@gindrinkersline3285 no. they havent been a left side party since the 70s...
@@Ailasor 3 parties in the Swedish parliament on the left wing: "The Left Party" (former "The Left Party The Communists"), "The Social Democratic Workers Party", and "The Environmental Party The Greens". Just because you feel that your particular flavour of left-wing ideology is not represented in parliament does not mean that there is no left-wing. 😉
"everyone is bilingual?" Yeah, the only ones in the world that does NOT speak 2 languages is the ones that has english as their main language xD Everyone else learn another language at school, usually english, but some (like Morocco learn French) learn another language.
Two is kinda minimum in Sweden.
English is obligatory but in midschool a third language is optional and in highschool a forth one.
If one of your parents or you have another mother's tongue and it's spoken in your home you have the right to be taught that language from kindergarten. That right is even stronger if that language is one of our minority languages i.e. Samic, Finnish, Meänkieli or Romani.
Or 3 minimum in Finland...we gotta study Finnish, English and also Swedish...
@@ratyjoona wait do you still have to? I had just assumed it was regional, some regions close to the boarder learning swedish makes alot more sense than close to the russian border or even Helsinki area.
@@JohanHultin I think it's still obligatory. Swedish is Finland's second official language.
About the school looking old, I went to a high school that was founded in the early 17th century
In Europe we graduate when we finish school not every year like we survived that year lol
12:25 The sign says:
"Today's lunch contains:
Fish fillet hake
coconut cream
onion, lemon, garlic
Vegetarian - Non vegan!
Vegan - special food in the kitchen!"
Edit1: And yes, of course they've got lactose free milk. The outrage that would be if they didn't. 😁 And you can also get special food if you are allergic to something else like nuts. Also, you can get special food if you are like gluten intolerant.
Edit2: 14:57 Yeah, that is why the rest of the world look at USA and think: "Land of the free? Yeah, in some ways. But..." This lady is probably turning 19 the year this vid was shot. And you can get a driver's license at 18, so usually the ones born early in the year got to drive everyone else where ever they wanna go. Some 20 years ago, that lunch trip to McDonald's was not unusual. 😊
land of the free is not about school lunches. It is about being able to start your own business and things like that.
@@danielabatabogdanov8586 Which you can also do in Finland, France, Sweden, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, England, ...
... what countries are there where you _can't_ start your own business? I'd have some ideas, but I don't know any where it's explicitly forbidden.
hey, thanks for the translation :)
Sweden isn't socialist, although socialism isn't inheritly bad.
Yes it is
@@person3538 No, it isn't. Literally only people that actually know what socialism is that say it's bad.
@@HeadGodoftheGodCouncil As a concept, it might not be horrible, but in execution it will never work.
Yes it is .
Fun fact: The food isn't just free, you get paid to go to school.
you are lying.. its payed by tax. Somebody pays for everything.
@@danielabatabogdanov8586 You get an allowance of 1250 kr every month from the Swedish government if you go to school after 9th grade.
@@the_obamium_bender9312Yeah, your parents has the money until 9th grade
@@kitten_0078 Ever heard of CSN?
@@the_obamium_bender9312 Oh yeah my fkn bad... well actually ur parents have control of the money. That's what I meant... when I went 7th or 8th grade i got like 500 kr /50$ the rest they helped me with food and clothes then after 9th grade I had full control of the money.
The school is an old factory building, which is why it is so angular and without decorations.
They pay loads of taxes in the Scandinavian countries to pay for stuff like this it could never happen in the United States people would say it was Communist.
32% is not LOADS. Unless you are in the upper tax bracket but you have earn a lot for that.
Meanwhile, people outside the US say that the US is plenty socialist with it's rich, just not with the middle class (as far is it exists) and the poor.
And I'm fairly dang certain that the wide-spread ''government trying to help it's tax-paying citizens when needed and possible = *EVIL COMMUNISM!!!!!!!!* '' didn't happen by coincidence. That's rich people making sure that nobody questions why a CEO would earn 300 times what the guy on the factory floor (who's actually producing whatever the company sells!) gets.
for school lunches you cna choose Milk, water or Juice usualy, and i even think most schools today have "Laktosfri" Milk, wich is Milk without Lactose, quite popular in sweden.
Everu school have to serv meals to All stundens and teachers. IF you have allergis they make a unic lunch for you. As someone that was and is alergic to eggs, frut, vegteblse, milk and outher things I got my own food for that and they had to make shoore that I ate all the things I needed without the things you are alergic agenst (some things tasted like shit so they were removed from my persinal menu)
You have so much to learn, keep on watching to broaden your perspective.
People that has allergy or can not eat something, are given special food that suits them. You have to register that something is not ok though in order to get that.
I used to lie that I had alergies because the school food sucked 🤣🤣🤣
in Europe we have schools older than the us
climbing not recling 😂
The food at their school looks so much like the food at my school in Finland. It is "buffet style" but you are not allowed to take as much as you want. For example, if there are meatballs on the menu, you are allowed to take maybe max. 6 of them? And yes, food is free at school thanks to taxpayers paying for most of it. Free until high school, and relatively cheap in university. At my uni, I paid 1,60 euros or so, but the government paid the rest of it. And of course, that was the normal option, there also is a "better" food option that costs a bit more, maybe 4 euros? I often went for that if the basic option was not that appealing :D
For Sweden, you may not take as much as you want of the most popular things (like meatballs) but you can always take more of the potatoes, vegetables and "knäckebröd".
@@cynic7049 Yeah, depends here too. And also on demand...like if you are last group and there's a lot left etc. etc.
The people that are lactos, allergic, there will always be food, lactos milk or whatever to them. I live in sweden
YOU SHOILD REACT TO WHEN SWEDES GRADUATE HIGH SCHOOL!! ITS SO DIFFERENT AND YOU I THINK YOU WILL BE SO FACINATED❤️❤️
Oh your reaction to our free lunches was absolutely hilarious 😂
Dressing codes doesn’t exist in Sweden, you could literally wear a bikini top to school and no one could say anything to you
So interesting to see how you react. Will keep an eye out for more videos from Sweden
Hehe i used to travel 1 h to school everyday, At one point we lived so much out in the middle of nowehere, that the busdriver kept overlooking me, cause there isnt usually anyone who got onto that busstop and so he had to back up to get me. - northern swede
12:27 I’M SORRY THIS REACTION IS PRICELESS 😭
Oh wow it’s a bit surreal seeing my old high school on youtube, if anyone has any questions I can respond to them I guess
I live in sweden.It's pretty good here
In sweden we dont have and school buses we have public buses and if you are in “grundskolan” which it’s like elementary school and middle school and live very far away you can get like a transport in like a mini bus or van to school. But if you don’t you have to like walk to school or like take the bike ( which it’s most common to take you bike) or like take a public transport or like take your car.😅
I think the school system in Norway in terms of years and levels. Here at least we have English from the first or second year of primary school and finis your first year of high school. You also have your third language through all of middle school and the first two years of high school (third as well if you don’t have it in middle school).
In Norway we also have to learn two different writing systems which is annoying. The Scandinavian countries also usually understand each other in our native languages though some confusion can occur. 😅
The Norwegian school system:
Barneskole/primary 1-7 starting the year you turn 6.
Ungdomsskole/ middle school 8-9 starting the year you turn 13.
Videregående/ high school 1-3 again if you’re going to take higher education or 1-2+ 2 if you some specific lines, starting the year you turn 16.
Where I am we started learning English in the third year of primary and then you study it for 10 years
Thank you for breaking this down for us.
Well I went to a Swedish high school in a small town in the late 1990's and we sure didn't have that kind of a lunch buffet. It was mostly just bland boiled potatoes and some barely cooked sausage, never fried, only boiled sausage. Don't remember any vegetables/salad at all. I was very picky with food back then also so I ate just bread and a bowl of yoghurt with corn flakes that for some reason always was an option. Don't know if things changed in the last 25 years or if I just happened to grow up in a poor town with limited school funding. 😄
Of course we could leave the school on the breaks. I remember in 4 to 6th grade were a class mate lived just next to the school and we sometimes went home to his house and played video games on the longer lunch breaks.
At the beginning of the school year u inform your schools principal about your allergies so that the can make special meals for you and theirs always a vegetarian or vegan option
I have a school that take me 5minits to that shcool but I choset a school in an outher city. So it takes me 1,5 houer to get to school. 💚💚
celsius should be easy to relate too, 0 degrees = freezing water (it may snow that day etc) 100 degrees = boiling water (human body= circa 37degrees)
Why are shoulders bad to see? They only connect arms to the body 🤨
You clearly haven't had the best sex of your life yet 😀
Regarding the buses and travels; we don’t have school buses in Sweden, you just use the regular pubic transportation bus/subway/train etc. However, most students don’t live very far away from their school, I would say that the students in my high school averaged a 20 minute bus ride
It’s actually a law to go to school if you not sick you need to go to school you can be home schooled it’s because all children must have the right to learn and that’s why it’s freee to
In my school(in France), we could go in and out as we wanted, they checked ours bags but that was it, so on Fridays afternoon or when we had missing teachers we would go ice skating or swimming or getting ice cream too lmaoo good memories were made, that's for sure !
As an adult Swede I miss school lunches so much, I didn't appreciate what I had! :(( Bamba
Bamba är livet
@@evelinaberlin864 MATSAL
climbing & harness :)
14:41 As a lactose intolerant I can tell you that there are in many cases a lactose free milk or milk substitute that we could choose. May vary from different schools tho…
The thing about people that need special food or maybe youre lactos, you get to write all your allergies on a note and give it to the Lunch lady and you get special food in every kind of school thats just the standard
If you are alergic to something in the food you are going to get other food thats safe for you for free. 💚💚
react to baltic countries, those are one of the beautiful ones.
We have some beautiful spots in Sweden too😘
Also, our neighbor on the west side, Norway, is STUNNINGLY beautiful. And equally stunningly expensive 😬.
4:22 im actually riding my bike home from school in like 3 hours lol
The thing about lactose intolerant: right besides the normal milk there's lactose free milk and butter, cause we get bread every day, even if it's mostly hard, when we have soap then we have soft bread as well.
In sweden we have high taxes wich makes school+lunch, healthcare free
So true.
14:47 they do make their food aswell and as healthy. Btw about that food pyramid all schools most follow that rule which is good.
Pretty sure i'ts not allowed to homeschool in Sweden.
yes they allow
If you have dietary restrictions the school will take care of that, so you will get served special food without your allergenic, this includes lactose free milk
I am a white guy and holy stuufe look at that cafeteria. Yes we had to have what the cafeteria serve and I remember the square pizza servings. Free school meals for all kids we are growing they need good healthy meals I will accept a rise in my taxes ti make sure kids have healthy meals. Of course something kids will eat I was a pickey eater as a kid.
04:57
It is illegal to be home-schooled in Sweden.
Im from Sweden
To answer your question about that it takes long time to go to school, I live 10 min away (if you walk), you can kind of choose what school you want to go to so if you want to go to a school 1 hour away that is youre choice
about the Swedish school lunches... if you eat well and healthy it becomes easier for the students to learn and take in information, that way they learn better and become more productive citizens when they finish school and have to start working
If you are lactose intolerant or have allergies of any kind, there are alternatives because some schools have special menus for those people so everyone can eat food at school regardless of allergies or not.
I would to see a Japanese high school or Chinese high school vs America because specifically Japan ranks very high in many indexes. Also, Sweden is capitalist with more social programs. Similar to what would be a more "left" leaning America. So where our socials programs end, theirs would be more gracious.
16:44 "Treaty of the Metre" an international treaty that was signed in Paris on 20 May 1875 by; Argentina, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Brazil, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Peru, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden and Norway, Switzerland, Ottoman Empire, -> UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
We don homeschool in sweden. And we have a choice of highscool so there are probably schools more close to her house. Its a choice for her. Probs a girl with a wealthy family in a private school
Celsius is so much easier when you have learned it. Zero degrees the point when water freezes to ice and hundred degrees is when the water starts to boil
In Sweden we don't just go to the closest high school, we apply to the high schools with our grades from "grundskolan" (the mandatory schooling) from ages 6 to 16. Here different schools have different subjects so you apply to one (or more) that have the subject that you want to study so I for example studied bakery. There are 4 schools in all of Stockholm that has that so I had one somewhat close to me, 2 in more central Stockholm and one on the other side of Stockholm so no matter where I got accepted I would have to travel between 1 and 2.5 hours to get to the school, tho for the one that would take 2.5 hours, I would have lived at the school during the week and gone home on the weekends. I luckily got in to the closest one but it was still a little over an hour door to door. But if you want a more basic subject then you can go to most local high schools but for more practical subjects you have to choose that specific school that has it
When you are in an other country, the foreign language is English not the local ones.
The reason we do not do home school in Sweden is that we are required by law to go to an actual school, with teachers that actually knows things.
You should react to the platinum jubilee!!
Quoting google: "While 65% or more of the total human population are lactose intolerant, in some human populations lactase activity commonly persists into adulthood. Lactose tolerance is exceptionally widespread in Northern European countries such as Sweden and Finland, with tolerance levels of 74% and 82%, respectively."
But for the ones who are, there are usually lactose free alternatives. I would assume also in school.
cool that is the high school in my town
14:46 if your lactose you can get lactose free milk, as an lactose i could find the lactose free milk like next to the normal milk!
*you're
We had lived there many years.
About lactos no problem al that need special food or diets of health or religious reasons get alternative food or drinks.
When I was at school in the 1960s we used to get what were known as dinner tickets for lunch, those of us who paid had the price of the ticket and those who got free meals had free written on the ticket, how embarrassing for those kids
In Sweden we have English as a school subject
Yeah, this is not socialism, it's social democracy. There's a difference.
Actually, it's hybrid economy capitalism.
@@WolfHeathen It is? Never heard of that. Well, English is not my languare so. Is there a Swedish word for it?
The ones That are allergic or dont drink or eat diary get other meals or the Same meals but without the things their allergic to
I live in sweden and my school is a gaint old tobacco factory
I think you will find they are being given that food because it improves learning and conentration in the afternoon. US students don't need that because they are already the best in the world. WooHoo.
Yeah, everybody is at least bilingual.
Here in Denmark, English is mandatory in school, and you learn it from day one in school. German is also mandatory, but only 4 years. I don't know if Swedes speak more than English. I GUESS they do have English from school start also.
we have to go to school, its so rare to get to be homeschooled.
In Australia students easily travel an hour to get to school. Myself included.
We have English class, since a lot of ppl in alot of countries speak it, it, along with Swedish and math class are the things u pretty much can’t fail or else ur not gunna gratuate
we have both lactos and non lactos so u can choose
We don’t have socialism in sweden we have a ”mixed economy” lol😂
Not socialism. Sweden is higher up the coorperate freedom index list than the USA. So business and companies got less regeletory rules from above than the US.
6:39 "Max" is a Swedish burger restaurant. And I also my favorite burger restaurant!
Edit: Also, "Max" is a name in Sweden, just like it is in America (Right??)
Is NOT SOCIALISM GET EDUCATED i left Sweden 50- years ago and we had this and could go and get seconds or thirds if you wanted
14:40 plant milk was invented. Don't you have it in America?😂
If you have any allergies you get individual meals special for you.
React to Finland too, pls...
When I was 8 I hade to take a train to school :D
At around 6:40 they where saying “You’re so cool” basically
There is specialised food aswell for ppl who can’t eat certain thing like eggs or milk
From 3grade english is manditory to learn.
Most sweds know basic english. And we dont dub engish mowies we use undertext. Therefore you maintain your school engish.
They have lactose free milk at school to 🥛
Everyone almost has a buffé at school
wow ... its just lunch..
just for the record. Sweden is NOT a socialist country at all. The Nordic countries just have a different set-up
Sweden /Nordic just want to get as competetive , helthy etc work force as possible. Capture every talant there is even among the poor and keep them healthy. . 80 % of the GDP is private commercial business
"You can go and buy ice cream??" Why would they not be able leave school for a while? Its not a prison.