The stereotypes

The stereotypes

by Emmanuel Thomas, Guillaume and Florian

During our trip in Sweden, we had to check the prejudices that we had talked about  in France. For example it is true that a lot of girls in Sweden are blond-haire, blue eyed and beautiful but there are brown haired too, with blue eyes always.

In Sweden , the weather is very cold and there is snow in the street. The towns are very isolated because there are forests and fields everywhere. Moreover the country is very flat. Swedish typical houses are a red and white  made of wood. In the houses the design looks like the Ikea’s furniture. The inside of the house is very clear  (white dominates) and everything is made of wood.There are also iced lakes and during the winter, the sun appears 3 hours per day. Sweden is a very dark country in winter. Swedes never drink alcohol before driving. But when they don’t drive they drink like us. The car brand which dominates is Volvo and in general cars are very large. Swedes enjoy ABBA like us though.We tought that there were wolves and bears in towns at  night,  but it is very rare. The Swedes aren’t more xenophobic than people in France. Contrary to that, they were very friendly and welcoming. The Swedes recycle a lot but they have big cars and they let the lights on all the time.

We think somes stereotypes were wrong but there were some right things