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Anders -> RE: For Anders...The Swedish Royal Family (2 Dec. 2004 1:27:48 )
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Yes, we are a minor population in a rather large country, by European standards. The fact that Sweden stayed neutral through the two big wars, gave a chance for many refugee jews and others to escape to us and thus their lives was saved. It was like some sort of sanction here. Well, lots can be said about that, it's not my cuppa', really.
As for the royal family, I don't have a great interest really, I would probabably vote for turning this country into a republic, given the chance.
How do we regard England (and the USA)? Well, England we just simply LOVE! It is the most popular place to travel to, we love your foot-ball (the best players in your teams are Swedes anyway), we love the pubs and the shopping along Oxford Street (the ladies). We see an awful lot Britisih programmes on the telly, which almost gives us a sort of feeling of coming home, when we come to England. Because we recognize everything, we've seen it all on the telly. Normally, we speak the lingo rather well, or at least understandly well, so communicating is not a problem.
As for the US? Practically the same thing, we are sometimes referred to as "little America". There is a saying amongst us which states that everything that happens in the US happens here ten years later! Good things and, alas, bad things. Like street mugging, which was totally unknown here ten years ago, but which is now an everyday thing, (in most cases carried out by people from other parts of the world who has come here for one reason or another and misuse our hospitality and extremely open society, this is unfortunately true).
The reason why we don't travel to America as much as we do to Britain is of course the distance.
But enough of all this, this is an AboutBritain page.
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