My boyfriend sent this to me and I thought it belonged here.
What did the song “awaken” in you? And how the hell are you American and Swedish? (For ref- they said in other comments that they are from the USA and have never been outside the country)
It’s a fire song btw- and it’s in Swedish. They have an English version, but he and his friend like to listen to it in Swedish and I leach off his YTmusic lmao and their Spotify…
Sorry dude, you are not Swedish any way, shape or form. And we are truly thankful for that!
Now stop tarnishing our good name and go back to your bag of Cheetos.
I disagree. Malmö is a quite nice city that has gone from a dull industrial city to a much more modern and upbeat city in the last 30 years.
Sure there are some shootings (i guess that's what you refer to, or are there other things?; Do tell). But that's not all that Malmö is and definitely not all that Sweden is. Besides, it's not like Denmark doesn't have it's own issues with biker gangs, etc. Not to mention that Paludan is danish and the cause of a lot of problems in Sweden.
When people talk about "former glory" it always gets me worried. I don't even understand which period you mean? 17th century when we occupied Denmark? :) I'd rather wish for a good future then some "former glory" for anyone, as we have all evolved as a society over time. I really don't want to return to any period of time in the past and loose that progress.
Apparently it's a thing in the South. Can't say I've noticed it even though I've visited a number of southern states (all the ones on the Atlantic coast) Ironic he's saying he's as American as a thing they don't eat in most of America.
OTOH Americans also like to say "as American as apple pie" which is just bizarre since practically every country in Europe (and parts of Central Asia) has had some version of apple pie since well before the USA existed.
I've been to the US quite a few times, and 1 deli I used to frequent offered 'Dutch apple pie' which in no way looked or tasted anything like an apple pie from the Netherlands. The owner asked 'and how would you know, you've ever been there?'
Well yeah... I live there.
I'd imagine Sweden responding: "We'd really prefer if it awoke your desire for universal health care, extensive parental leave for both parents and affordable day-care, since we tend to care about that stuff a lot more than things that happened 300 years ago."
Sorry, not ment as a disrespect towards you our your lovely flag.❤️
I just needed an example of something 100% not swedish, not even in the slightest still being more "swedish" than the yank. 😅
If a Sabaton song doesn't awaken something in you, then you're probably dead.
That said ... it's just music, man. It doesn't communicate with the ghost of your ancestors residing in your blood, or whatever. You're still an American, calm down.
I listened to Shiroyama once and now I am a full blooded japanese samurai.
I have 0% japanese ancestry,I can't ride a horse and I would probably kill myself by accident with a katana.But damn,that song really makes me want to die for the Shogunate
Norway wants Jämtland and Härjedalen back ... Yes, that was before Charles XII.
When he tried to invade and occupy Oslo (then Kristiania) a canonball got stuck in a wall. When the building was torn down and rebuilt, they stuck it back in the same place ... :D
Lmao- this and The Last Stand are the only ones I’ve listened to. You’d have to take that up with my boyfriend (I’m really excited for him cuz he recently got his citizenship and got married to his husband and I refuse to shut up about him)
He’s at a Rodeo and sent me pictures and said “Am I American enough yet?”
How dare you disrespect Sabaton with this cringe, ancestorial fuckery. Although it does awaken something in you, because its good fucking Music. Yes, Sabaton can make you feel Patriotin for another Country, doesnt make you swedish you cunt.
Yes, yes, we've all been thirteen and excitable once, we get it. You're super into this band, they're like super awesome and cool and everything, we get it, but that's no excuse for multiple exclamation marks.
Looks like almost every (Caucasian?) American wants to claim another nationality (and please don't start arguing that those lunatics are claiming a cultural heritage and not a nationality).
STOP pretending you have fictitious nationality when:
1 you don't have the passport/ID card of said country
2 you don't speak the language
2 you have never been to that country and know nothing or very little about its customs, History and so on...
and for the record: I was born in South Korea, got adopted by my European parents and can rightfully claim back my Korean nationality but:
- I don't speak the language and can't even pronounce the basic sounds correctly
- I know nothing about the customs, business culture and so... (and have 0 wish to learn as I will never go to that country)
My parents are Cuban, but I'm American. However, here in America, if you're not white, people will ask "where are you from?". And 9/10 times if you say the state you're from, they will still follow up with, "but your parents". That being said, I know and have known plenty of Americans who's family's are entirely from another country (Latin American countries mostly), who are for what it's worth, the closest version to being FROM that country you can get while technically being an American. For example, Spanish was my first language growing up, my parents were the first in the family to learn English fluently. None of us served in American wars, and for the most part stayed in Latin enclaves as, for our family as Cubans, they had to be claimed/sponsored by Cubans living in the U.S. already to be able to come over. There are things that I had to learn a lot later in life as an AMERICAN. Eye opening moments at bars when everyone is singing the same country song that I've never heard in my life.
ALL THAT BEING SAID, there are 100% plenty of Americans who love to claim a nationality (or shit even Native American heritage down the line) yet don't know a fucking thing about this other culture. I mean not even a fucking inkling of it.
Sabaton is the kind of band that gets you feeling patriotic not only for countries you have no connection to, but countries your country has fought against. they just know how to write songs that get you hyped for what they're singing about
every time it comes on in my playlist Valley of Death has me rooting for Bulgaria against my own country LMAO, not that I'm particularly patriotic but Sabaton just evokes that feeling in its fans.
"Their attack is coming fight them back Bulgarians holding the line Facing wave after wave, will never surrender Again, again, again, again!"
🎶 you are not swedish unless you are born and raised here, get it into your heaaaaaaaaaad...🎶
Distant swedish ancestors does not make you swedish. Your name can be Sven Svensson, eat fika every damn day and even speak swedish it 🎶doesn't make you swedish.....🎶
Just because you have ancestors far down the line who moved to America doesn't make you that nationality. By the same logic I'm part british and part german only 5% each but still. Never seen myself as any of it since I am born and raised here in Sweden. I might even be part Danish since I live close to Denmark and this part was Danish at one point in history. Even further back I (like every human) have roots in Africa, but I am not African in any way.
I’m norwegian and I feel absolutely nothing, thank god. (But keep håkan and everything astrid lindgren away from me, makes me wanna eat overrated crayfish and sing stupid songs)
(Disclaimer: only swedes are allowed to bitch back, everyone else step back.)
So my last name originate from a Nordic name obviously my family has some Viking descendants but the only nationality I am is what my parents are and where I was born Welsh and English otherwise I’d be every bloody nationality under the sun even though I only have English and Welsh traits and only speak English and welsh
I have to agree, Sabaton are an amazing Swedish band, and my favorite, umm they have songs about people from Germany, America, Britian, Belgium. France, Australia, Canada, Sweden. etc
However after listening to them, I must be all of the above, and all at once
some of my favorites, not necessarily in order of favoritism
Franz Stigler from Germany
The winged hussars from Poland
Francis Pegahmagabow First Nations from Canada
Bull Alen from Australia
Albert Severin Roche from France
Carton de Wiart from Belgium
Audie Murphy from the USA
Milunka Savić from Serbia
The Swiss guard from Switzerland
Lawrence of Arabia from England
Carlos rex, Charles the XII of Sweden,
Al of these have Wikipedia entries if you are interested.
As a Swedish band they also have a few songs about Vikings as well, to get those Viking genes flowing
Sabaton is a dog whistle for nationalists. They also played a show in occupied Krim that was organised by Putin connected far-right biker gang the Night Wolves.
Nothing better than a Sabaton fan imo, every community has rotten apples like the ones in this post. Just because a couple people are like this doesn't mean the whole community is. In fact, after having been an avid Sabaton fan for several years, their fanbase has always seemed kind and supportive as far as I've seen. If you're not very invested in their music and don't spend time with the community, I can imagine that you can occasionally see Sabaton fans being bad people because they stick out though.
Because most of tbe time the Americans have never been to their so called 'lineage' country. They don't understand how life, culture and mannerisms go.
Just because some ancestor came from there doesn't mean anything. Europe is a melting pot too, the difference is we don't go by ancestors, grandparents are closest but after that? Nah. We go by how we are raised.
What I don’t understand is why these AMERICANS would rather claim another nationality and culture rather than be… American? As an American, I don’t get that.
I’m surrounded by people who aren’t originally (idk if that’s the right wording) American, and they are more proud of this hell-hole than most “patriots” any other day. My boyfriend is Welsh, his husband is Chinese, and our friend is Russian. Two out of three of them (bf’s husband isn’t this adamant) would probably go to war for the US if it weren’t for the way the politics turned (not gonna get any more political than that).
You say this as if you think the United States is the only multicultural country in the world, and the only one with a concept of a Chinatown. There's one in Westminster in London which used to be in the East End before it got damaged in the Blitz. They've also got 'em in Birmingham, Liverpool, Newcastle, and Manchester, and they've been there for as long as yours have. Even Berlin has one.
Many other countries, particularly other post-colonial ones, have all of those traits, but none of the rest of us do this weird shit where we insist upon genuinely being the same nationality as our heritage and go to other countries and get disappointed when the locals don't welcome our presumptuous arses "home." My parents and grandparents are all English, I have never in my life called myself English because I'm not feckin' English and I've never set foot anywhere in the UK, let alone in England!
It's not that you're "proud of your heritage" that pisses us off. It's that you're presumptuous dickheads stepping on our toes yelling about how amazing your heritage is when you almost universally know fucking nothing about it other than offensive stereotypes, who then yap about how amazing you are for caring about it when you're just being knobs and patting yourselves on the back as usual.
There is nothing wrong with doing genealogy and being proud of your ancestors.
I have Irish, Scottish, and English, ancestors, some of my Scottish ancestors came through Canada and some of my English ancestors had a long stop over in the USA for over 150 years, before moving on.
I just call myself Australian. Not an Irish-Scottish-English-Canadian-American Australian.
The countries that my ancestors left for in the 1600's, 1700's, 1800's and 1900's are not the same as their modern counterparts. Sure I am interested in the history of the countries they came from, or had long stop overs in, but I do not identify myself with these countries.
I do understand for example, that an American claiming to be an Irish-American, do in most cases mean that they are American with Irish Ancestry. However at least according to social media, you get those who claim to be Irish-American, and then claim to be more Irish than the people who actually live in Ireland.
By that reasoning, I could claim to be more American than Americans, who are actually living in the USA because I have some American ancestors. And that is just plain stupid.
Why can't non-Americans just accept that when an American says he is Swedish (or any other nationality) what he actually means is that he is of said heritage? Can we just move on?
As an American, no ❤️🤍💙
Because, unless they’ve got dual citizenship or something, they are not that nationality. It’s borderline cultural appropriation.
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u/BelowXpectations 4d ago
Sorry dude, you are not Swedish any way, shape or form. And we are truly thankful for that!
Now stop tarnishing our good name and go back to your bag of Cheetos.
/All swedes