Paws_On_Keyboard at 2023-07-25 08:15:16+00:00 ID: jtcxv6o

Yes, except the sámi in the north, though they were there before modern borders and cross all three countries. Then of course we have had a lot of immigrants in later years.

Axxx69420 at 2023-07-25 08:05:46+00:00 ID: jtcx66g

Yes basically. You won’t notice that much of a difference as a foreigner. There’s just slight differences in culture that you might notice.

gullijan at 2023-07-25 08:06:16+00:00 ID: jtcx7ji

Yeah, people in Sweden, Norway and Denmark share the same ethnicity. We also understand each others language but I have to say I struggle with Danish (am Swedish).

ravyalle at 2023-07-25 08:05:20+00:00 ID: jtcx4yj

Its pretty much the same ethnicity in northern and central europe but people do look sliiiighly different in different countries, its pretty cool. I for example am from germany originally but always immediatey get spotted because i dont really look like the average swede. We are all caucasian but the faces are different somehow. I have even noticed some differences between eg sweden and denmark

andre-lll at 2023-07-25 08:06:29+00:00 ID: jtcx84c

I’d probably say that we are more or less the same people. We all see ourselves as brothers and would fight for each other, same with Finland.

TheWolfwiththeDragon at 2023-07-25 08:23:53+00:00 ID: jtcyije

As a Swede, our sense of ethnicity is much more based on language and nationality. Since Swedes, Danes, Norwegians and Icelandic are all descendants of the same Norse people, we are all very similar. We can also understand each others’ languages fairly well.

The odd one out is Finland, since their linguistic roots are completely different from any other Nordic languages. Swedish is more closely related to Persian or Hindi than it is to Finnish! Despite us being neighbours. But Finland was part of the Swedish empire for 700 years so there has probably been quite some mixing between the two.

There is also the Sami people to the north, which are a semi-nomadic group of people not ethnically or linguistically connected with the Norse. If you ever see reindeer herding while traveling here, it is run by them as that’s their privilege.

BTW, as the term ”Scandivania” is sometimes only used to refer to some of the countries in the region, you could just use the term ”The Nordic countries” to refer to Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Iceland all together. Explanation.