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More Swedes want to switch currency from the krona to the Euro, with support the highest it's been since 2009, according to a survey by Gothenburg University's SOM Institute.

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[–] Hjalamanger@feddit.nu 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

And what's the benefit to giving up what's a such big part of our culture? And the part about kids speaking more English than Swedish is mostly not true. I'm in year nine of grundskola and almost no one I know prefers to speak English over Swedish. And that's an almost because I know people who have grown up with English as their first language

[–] troed@fedia.io -4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

The benefit is that we can attract more people to come, live and work in Sweden. While I have myself hired people and told them they don't need to learn Swedish to live in our society, they've come back and said that actually they felt they needed to when they had settled and had kids.

I don't have the same "culture" as my parents did. They didn't have the same as their parents. Move forwards, not backwards.

[–] arken@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

The benefit is that we can attract more people to come, live and work in Sweden.

This is a job that Swedish Girls Abroad™ is already excelling at. The amount of sob stories from british, australian and american expats lured here by some blond vixen one has had to sit through...

(Come to think of it, we should probably discourage people from coming here instead, it rarely ends well. Be advised: Sweden is cold, dark and no one past 25 wants to make new friends. Education and culture is regarded with suspicion. When swedes hear music, they clap on beats 1 and 3. The younger generations even pissed away their social safety net to a large extent, which basically was their only USP as a country. It's a culture of bean counting engineers with emotional lives irrevocably damaged by protestantism; don't come here, if you value your sanity.)

While I have myself hired people and told them they don't need to learn Swedish to live in our society, they've come back and said that actually they felt they needed to when they had settled and had kids.

Great, so let's make all Swedish speakers feel this way instead of your inconvenienced employees (because you gave them bad advice). Most swedes aren't as fluent as they believe themselves to be and prefer to speak swedish in day to day situations. When you have kids, you can't live in your own little bubble anymore.

[–] troed@fedia.io -2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Nah, better that we just switch to English. The "Aj spiik Sveidish" boomers are soon gone anyway.

Sweden already erased the language of my forefathers (Scanian). As the world is ever more interconnected we'll all come together around one single lingua Franca.

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Sweden already erased the language of my forefathers (Scanian).

I don't know if the kids still speak Skånska, but, when I lived there, Swedes above 30 who grew up in Scania did.

[–] troed@fedia.io 1 points 4 hours ago

lol no

You did know Sweden forbid people from speaking Scanian on national television and radio all the way up to the 70s?

Whatever you think is scanian today is far from what it was. My elderly relatives used words that are completely gone today.

So, let's just continue. The talk about "culture" is obviously moot.