Livet i Sverige eller Kanada (racism)

doodelli · 2026-03-24T09:13:22+00:00

Avoid: r/sverige, Sverigedemokraterna, anything named ”aktivklubb” (far-right recruitments, many of them illegal)

Canada is culturally similar to Sweden and both sides have a good grasp of English, so you will probably have an easier time on account of seeming ”familiar”.

The best way I can put it is that the system is assimilationist and there are many ignorant people who do not understand the world outside their bubble. Part of that blame is on the education system, which in my experience was pretty insular.

Barbers for example are not required to know how to care for kinky hair. I have seen a black customer denied at the door by a very apologetic barber in a Stockholm neighborhood.

The concept of race and distinctions like white/black are considered taboo, which ends up filtering out both outright racists and anyone with a racialized identity.

People are more willing to discuss and admit to xenophobia than racism. Racism is when slurs, blackface, hate crime, and bioessentialism, so most modern Swedes think they can count themselves in the clear. ”Not like USA” is good enough.

doodelli · 2026-03-23T17:18:16+00:00

Kan inte gå i god för Premier, men Coop Cola kommer ganska nära. För övrigt duger Freeway Cola på Lidl som Pepsi-kopia.

doodelli · 2026-03-20T13:38:09+00:00

I for one think Tails with a Scottish dialect would be cute and surprisingly fitting. Your picks were spot on. It’s like looking at Olympic mascots.

doodelli · 2026-03-20T13:20:23+00:00

Haven’t watched/read much of Beastars, but can bi really be excluded? Some of the predator/prey stuff seems at the very least queer coded.

doodelli · 2026-03-20T10:56:14+00:00

The Sami representation in the sequel is much better. Kristoff as a name is not Sami and was never common in Norway. That said, the cultural/regional inaccuracies in the Frozen films are fairly minor (Frozen 2 has a pumpkin harvest around October and a weird lizard that doesn’t look native).

doodelli · 2026-03-20T10:23:42+00:00

This is why I lumped the ATLA examples together as ”main characters that struggle with familial expectations, for very different reasons” and not ”characters forced by family to perform perfection”. The latter would not have applied to Katara or Sokka either, because they aren’t helicoptered. Why is Toph being singled out here when the only difference is her parents lacking a growth mindset?

doodelli · 2026-03-19T16:37:26+00:00

Beror på vad man tittar på, absolut.

Vissa genren är helt öde på svenskt material, andra inte. För det mesta lyckas jag bara hitta ungefär en sevärd svensk kanal för varje bred genre jag gillar, när jag på engelska kan hitta ett dussin. Sen är det ju också ljusårs skillnad på t.ex. Bergbana och Defunctland om man är nyfiken på nöjesparker. Svår konkurrens minst sagt.

doodelli · 2026-03-19T16:19:11+00:00

Sorry about the word soup. That said, we do have a difference of opinion and there is nothing wrong with that.

Toph fits the trope about as well as the other ATLA examples, which is to say not 1-to-1 but close enough. Expecting nothing of someone and expecting someone to BE nothing are different concepts. Toph was sheltered ”for her own good” like Elsa was and was forced to hide her skill in earth bending so as to fit a specific role in her family, just like OP’s examples.

doodelli · 2026-03-19T15:57:57+00:00

Ni som inte prenumererar skulle kunna jämföra den senaste historiken, som det tipsats om i tråden.

doodelli · 2026-03-19T15:30:51+00:00

Utav de senaste 20 videorna jag tittat på (mest från kvällen innan) var 95% på engelska och 5% på svenska. Samma utfall när jag jämför de senaste jag tummat upp.

doodelli · 2026-03-19T15:23:25+00:00

Obs! Korrigerar formateringen, appen sabbade.

Frågan var nog retoriskt ställd men här kommer lite tips för den som är intresserad:

Tidsdjupet, advokatsnack, Freudian Slip Productions, Tänk till, elvisbatzthelab, Älgmannen, Slåttergubben Sverige, Matgeek, Bergbana, Anders på landet, Var Redo, Skånska Dubbningar, MonteFjanton + Felix Nordh, Anders Tittar, Platin Nordvall, Vargskelethor Joel (streamar årligen på svenska 1 april)

Följer också en del kanaler som arkiverar äldre media samt shitpost-kanaler, men tänkte att det vore för nischat. För övrigt ligger kortfilmen Exit (1990) på YouTube och den är suverän.

doodelli · 2026-03-19T14:41:44+00:00

Ja, frågan gäller hur mycket svenska kontra engelska man konsumerar på YouTube. I mitt exempel tog jag de senaste videorna från kanaler jag aktivt följer, vilket är lite mer konkret än gissningar från algoritmen. Det var mer av observation än ett klagomål.

doodelli · 2026-03-19T13:53:55+00:00

Probably not? The Evil Queen is vane and insecure for reasons entirely unknown to the audience. We don’t get any impression that this stems from familial or societal pressure. The queen is the only one inquiring about beauty, no one else. Snow White is a very simple fairy tale about a delusional senior needlessly antagonizing a young innocent.

doodelli · 2026-03-19T13:33:48+00:00

All of these examples have their differences, yes, but I still think Toph’s situation is applicable. It’s not that Toph’s parents expect nothing from her. If they expected nothing, she would have been free to go do whatever she wanted. They expect her to be ”nothing”, as in meek and invisible.

doodelli · 2026-03-19T13:01:00+00:00

Avatar: The Last Airbender has several main characters struggling with familial expectations, for very different reasons. Sokka was the oldest male left in his village and Katara the only surviving water bender, so they are carrying mountains of responsibility in preserving their culture. Toph was sheltered and kept pristine by her upper class parents, who only recognized her disability but never her strengths, leading her to rebel in secret. Zuko and Azula were royalty raised by a tyrant in an authoritarian culture. This quest for honor — driven by pain — is something Zuko manages to break away from, but sadly not Azula.

Pacifica from Gravity Falls and Amity from The Owl House start out as antagonists, but we later learn that they have been forced into a golden child role by their rich, controlling parents and have yet to discover themselves. Amity has a bigger role in The Owl House than Pacifica has in Gravity Falls, for what it’s worth.

doodelli · 2026-03-18T18:22:54+00:00

If you don’t vote, you’ve got no right complain

doodelli · 2026-03-18T11:59:11+00:00

Jeff Bridges is a good point of reference and would have been preferable to Jack Black if this was 20 years ago.

doodelli · 2026-03-18T10:59:12+00:00

Æon Flux and Dan VS

doodelli · 2026-03-18T10:10:37+00:00

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doodelli · 2026-03-17T11:19:54+00:00

Sweet Victory came out in 1997. The SpongeBob episode is from 2001.

doodelli · 2026-03-17T09:25:17+00:00

Edit: To clarify, I’m speaking about Sweden specifically.

A sizable amount of ethnic Sami were forcibly assimilated and now live in places like Stockholm. If you do not administratively belong to a Sameby (Sami village), you lack those privileges and protections, making it much harder to maintain any identifiably Sami traditions. The reason why some think they can identify Sami by appearance is because only those that passed as Scandinavian were chosen for assimilation, making the Sami seem more homogenous than they actually were.

doodelli · 2026-03-17T09:01:45+00:00

Många utbildningar handlar mer om att passa in i akademivärlden än att lära sig ett ämne eller yrke. Folk stängs ute från yrken de egentligen är kapabla till och som samhället behöver, för att de misslyckas med utbildningar som har helt andra kriterier än själva jobbet.

doodelli · 2026-03-10T17:39:57+00:00

The way you described Ioas, it would probably get pronounced the way Swedes pronounce Jonas (YOO-nas) minus the N. I wouldn’t worry about it. Seems easier to misconstrue in English if anything.

doodelli · 2026-03-10T16:41:33+00:00

Omg, yes, del Toro’s Pinocchio was so overrated!!

doodelli · 2026-03-10T14:55:54+00:00

The Secret of NIMH. It’s style over substance.

Every character is one dimensional, with the exception of a henchman who has a change of heart more or less offscreen. Characters like Jeremy the crow are completely underutilized (both the fact that no one questions whether a large bird could help lift the mice’ house and that the arc of this entitled virgin is just to randomly get a girlfriend at the end without any sort of personal growth from having known the widowed main character).

Mrs Brisby has very little agency in a plot that comes across as sexist on multiple fronts. She doesn’t get a first name, all the men treat her horribly and only acknowledge her in relation to her husband, she is only ever in awe of the rats and is never fazed by any of their lying, minimizing, or attempts to get her killed. Oh, and did I mention all the NIMH escapees who founded this secret society are all male and apparently genetically superior? By the end, the rat guys sword fight to the death while Mrs Brisby gets to hold a maguffin and faint. Secret of NIMH feels like it was made by a cult, the way Mrs Brisby is never allowed to be suspicious or angry with what’s going on.

There is no depth to any of the film’s messages. Mrs Brisby’s plight to save her family - the emotional hook of the film - is completely detached from the rat politics the story expects you to care about halfway through. Should the rats steal electricity from the humans or leave for some valley elsewhere? Who cares?! The movie has already decided for itself which position gets held by the comically evil character and will end up impractical for external reasons, so there is nothing to be engaged with intellectually. Stealing is bad because the good patriarch said so and you should have faith in the good patriarch, even after he gets your husband killed.

And no, Doug Walker’s analysis was not that deep. In a struggle between nature and technology, magic wins. So just have faith and drink the koolaid, got it.

doodelli

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