I consider it important to know where I come from and the past history of the country where I live.
My Personal Spare Time Interests and Activities. My hobbies are paid by me and no-one else.
Swedes
Everyone who lives in Sweden has at some point been an immigrant. The question is: when and in how many generations and where did they come from?
Sweden do not have any Swedish natives - everyone has immigrated from somewhere, even the people up north.
A Swede is a soup of several nationalities, merged together by time into something more or less similar - all with different looks, interests and values who have chosen to live together in a country, although not without friction.
The majority lack documents about their origin. All fresh immigrants have false papers - they present the facts they know and everything else is left out - most of them have no idea about their origin.
One thing is sure - everyone has a genetic soup that has been boiling for a long time. If the soup has not been sorted out, they all leave false information about their origin. The soup is international, and people have travelled round the world for hundreds of years and settled down somewhere else.
If immigrants are not accepted and introduced in the nations culture, they will end up in subcultures that do not belong in the new country or in the one they left. Culture is something that changes and will change countries and nations over time.
All immigrants must be open for a change of culture, values and lifestyle if they are not there just for a short period. Everyone that plans to stay put in a country have to accept the national culture, values and lifestyle and adapt their own values to them.
Everyone who lives in Sweden has at some point been an immigrant and you/your ancestors have moved on to something new for some reason, you all have a gene for movability - it may not have been activated yet. How it's activated may vary from one individual to an other. The country you came from has expectations of you – who you are, that you know the language and the culture also how the society works and that you are returning with wealth, but that's not always the case. Returning can be tougher than moving on to a new country, if you would like to emigrate once again. When you return, you'll find that others have stepped into your shoes and you have to be able to deal with that. I happily leave my old 'shoes' to someone else when there is an opportunity to do so.
The choices you have as an immigrant are to return to where you came from, stay and adapt, or move on to somewhere else - what's right for you is up to you and the people you leave behind just have to accept the choices you have made. In Sweden, you are free to leave your family, relatives, education, job and home in order to move on to something else in Sweden or elsewhere.
Imports
Everything found in Sweden has been imported: The people, skills, products, language etc. by the people who settled down here and by traders over time.
Everyone in Sweden have some connection to objects somewhere else on this planet.
What almost always happens is that imported products are improved and/or customized to the new culture.
Something that may be a religious object in one culture may become an embellishment in the toilet in another culture.
The Swedish language
The Swedish language has been imported by people and immigrants over thousands of years.
Those who protect the Swedish language are actually protecting the imports that have taken place for over thousands of years, along with the adaptations to our language over the years.
We have imported words and expressions from: Denmark, Norway, France, Holland, Germany, England, Ireland, Italy, Greece, North America, all the immigrant populations and from all the countries we have traded with. Today we have immigrants from other countries, and they will change our language over time.
We use the words and expression that best suits us and our language sometimes with a different meaning and usage.
Words and expressions may have been used by the population for hundreds of years before being accepted as part of the Swedish language.
We have also incorporated bits and pieces from everywhere as it has suited us in our design and art for thousands of years. Everything in this country is bits and pieces from somewhere else that we've adapted to what already existed. Since we have traded and imported people from every imaginable place, some Swedish design items should appeal to all immigrants, old and new. Not everything will suit everyone, but there should be something for everyone.
Sea levels
Stockholm, Sweden rose from the seabed.
Stockholm, Sweden was under ice for a very long time and had an uninhabitable climate.
People had to find ways to cope with the changes in climate to be able to survive. They lived at the edge of the ice and when the ice melted, they moved north with the ice.
The still remaining impact of the ice age on the people is that Swedes worship the sun when possible.
The borders of Sweden - for accuracy help yourself
The ice age made Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland and the Bristish islands unhabitable.
Sweden has been inhabited since the stone age 4 000 b.C.
1500 b.C. the Nordic bronze age and they traded with other countries.
500 b.C. the Nordic iron age, but they imported iron objects already in the 1100s b.C. in Sweden.
China traded with the Mediterranean countries from 200 BCE.
Swedish Vikings existed in: Southeast of Sweden, from the south of to the mid of Finland and the Baltics. from 829 to 1060.
Denmark and Norway have had Vikings.
Finland has been part of Sweden from 1120 to 1814. Finland has been part of Russia from 1814 to 1916. Finland became independent in 1917. Finland is no longer independent, they are part of the European Union.
Scania (Skåne) was part of Denmark to 1322.
Scania (Skåne) was part of Sweden from 1322 to 1360.
Scania (Skåne) and Gotland were part of Denmark from 1360 to 1520.
Scania (Skåne) has been part of Sweden and part of Denmark in several periods now and then.
Scania (Skåne) imported Jean Baptiste Bernadotte from France to the Swedish throne as king in 1818.
Norway, Sweden and Finland were part of Denmark from 1389 to 1520.
Norway was part of Sweden from 1814 to 1905.
Somewhere in all of this, Sweden welcomed the Catholic church to later throw them out for good. Today, Sweden is not a religious country and will become even less religious in the future. The church is more of an old traditional thing than something of a belief.
American native population emigrated from Asia 40 000 years ago.
Year 1000 a Viking Leif Eriksson found himself in Noth America.
2 April 1513 The Spanish reached Florida.
1534-1763 French fur traders settled down around the Great lakes in New France.
1610 - 1775 The British shipped 50 000 convicts to the new colonies in Amerika.
1614 The Dutch settled down in America along the Hudson River.
1674 Netherland handed over their territory to England.
At the end of the 1600s the slave trade bloomed in America.
4 July 1776 The American Independence declaration, found today carved in stone in Washington DC.
1789 the Constitution of the United States.
The first Swedes left already in 1638 for America and were followed by others in 1783. A larger number of Swedes and Europeans left for America in the years of 1821 to 1930.
1849 Gold was discovered in California, a start of the California gold rush. Most of the gold diggers did not make money. Those who become rich were the service sector owners.
1896 - 1899 Gold rush in Canada.
Aboriginal Australian culture is one of the oldest continuous cultures on Earth and they originate from people in South East Asia.
Indonesia traded with Northern Australia.
1606 the Dutch found themselves in Australia and named it: New Holland. They charted the whole of the western and northern coastlines.
1770 the British found themselves in Australia and named it: New South Wales and claimed the east coast territory for Great Britain.
26 January 1788 establishment of a new penal colony in New South Wales.
1827 the British claimed the whole Australian continent.
The 1900s Emigration to Australia attracted Swedish people of some reason, and it continues even today besides emigration to USA.
In 1973 Denmark joined the European Union and is no longer independent.
In 1995 Sweden and Finland joined the European Union and they are no longer independent.
EU rules the member states.
A scientific view of life does not justify anything religious for many scientists.
Swedish and Danish Vikings have populated the other parts of the Baltic Sea.
In periods Denmark, Sweden and Halland have populated the other parts of the Baltic Sea. Huge financial assets.
Netherlands, GB, France, Denmark and Sweden have had colonies and settlements in Africa, Asia, America and Pacifics.
In the 1700s the Nordic countries had a lot of foreigners as residents. In all the Nordic countries they were given Swedish, Danish, Norwegian and Finnish names in the great name reformation during the 1700s and a huge number of people were given settlements in other Nordic countries. Foreigners were for ever gone by name and location.
The first immigrants to Sweden came during the stone age from south through Denmark originating from Africa with their religious rituals. Later people from Anatolie and Indo-European population, all with their own religious beliefs. The climate was a lot warmer in Sweden than today until it cooled down again to today's levels.
Already during the bronze age Sweden had an immigrant population from the Nordic regions, the British islands and from European countries.
The Vikings had an immigrant population from the British islands, Mediterranean countries, Afrika and they traded with China. The Viking religion was Oden, Thor and Freia.
The Vikings threw the Romans out of Britain and ruled the island for a while. They also put a Viking as a king on the Sicilian throne. Not to mention that the Vikings were those who found the North American continent.
Sweden have had churches since the 1200s and it's possible to trace people down to at least the 1400s or the 1300s depending on their origin. It's not possible or easy, if they have changed country. A lot of families start from 1700-something. Land and business owners should be possible to track down to earlier dates.
The Swedish language was forbidden in Finland for many years, but it survived and is today accepted. In Sweden the Scania language was forbidden, but it survived.
For over 5000 years the Swedish communities involved women at all levels, from the very beginning. Sweden has more than 5000 years of experience of inclusion and 800 years of exclusion, things will change very much by itself.
I'm very comfortable with Danish architecture, interior design and fashion style, and I mix it with American, British, Northern European, African and Asian. The British islands, Netherlands, Belgium and Northern France have always been important trading partners for the Vikings, Denmark, Sweden and Hansa.
There is no native Swedish, Danish, Norwegian or Finnish populations. The Nordic countries have been moved forward by immigrants from the first settlements. The Danes have been very mobile even before the Vikings.
If you are sure that you have European roots, be aware since it's a bigger mess than the Nordic one and I will not clear out the European stuff.
The Swedish climate crisis: 1864-1869
In the 1960s, there was a famine in Sweden due to bad weather conditions that resulted in a lack of food, this started a large-scale emigration to the United States.
East India companies
1600–1874: British East India company
1602–1798: Dutch East Indian company
1616–1729: Danish East India Company
1628–1633: Portuguese East India Company
1649–1650: Genoese East India Company
1664–1794: French East India Company
1731–1813: Swedish East Indian company
1776–1781: Austrian East India Company
1773: British East India company became part of the Boston tea party.
The Dutch build the 'Flying Dutchman', a ship that sailed faster than anything.
Sweden imported a shipbuilder from Holland and tried to build a similar ship, it sank during its first voyage out from the wharf. Sweden did not give up they build two more ships and they did float.
China kicked out all EIC's exept the Dutch.
Sweden has banned luxury consumption several times in history
In the 1600's and the 1700's luxury consumption was banned several times, and lasted into the 1800's.
Imports of velvet, silk, coffee, chocolate, arak, liqueur, perfume, tobacco, mirrors, etc. were affected, and brides were forced to dress down and wedding gifts were forbidden.
Coffee was banned and imports were not allowed from 1766 onwards, banned even escalated in 1768. The coffee restrictions were released in 1823.
We still have 'restrictions', in every recession things disappear from the market. Every now and then there are periods when there is nothing to buy in the shops - a modern way to ban luxury consumption, and it's an effective one.
The Swedish rice pudding
The current version of the Swedish rice pudding is Swedish and it's a low-cost version of something else.
I believe it originates from Indonesia, and it should be based on arak and spices.
I've never liked cinnamon, so I took something I grew up with, that I sometimes season with Cognac. I combined it with rice pudding and I ended up in Asia again. I eat it once a year and that's enough.
If you go hunting for deer, you can end up with more than a steak. I got a steak and a Indonesian rice pudding, the dear has been shot by someone - I'm not licensed. The tradition is that the hunter who puts down the prey is entitled to the horns and the the meat is divided among everyone in the hunting team. I'm not entitled to any horns on my wall because I've killed nothing but bugs, and bugs rarely have horns.
Over-fishing and over-hunting is a cause of lack of prey. One-sided diet leads to deficiency diseases and depletion of species. Hunters are aware that greed will cause famine, lack of shopping options and lack of jobs. Moderate consumption in everything and hunting grounds will thrive no matter of what you want to shop, do, fish or hunt. Change in diet, shopping, products on the market, work options will keep things alive. I don't believe in favoring individual individuals or individual owners, I try to favor as many people as possible and different diets, businesses, jobs, employers and different things, and they are all good at different things.
Business and requirements
Every deal with companies or individuals is always based on time and money. Money and time set the requirements for every deal.
- 1. There is both time and money. This is about how to spend money and time and really spend both.
- 2. There is time but lack of money. This is about how you master your skills with small amounts of money.
- 3. There is lack of time but there is money. Money is spent on necessities and everything else can be excluded. This is about how you master your skills under time pressure and how to make the money work for you under pressure. Your nerves will be tested with stop signes. As soon as you no longer trust everything, you will fail, i.e. Your experience is being tested.
- 4. There is lack of time and lack of money. This is about how you master your skills, your networks and the society you live in under time pressure and without money.
- If you try to deliver the same thing to everyone on the same terms, your business will fail. Which one is the pain in the ass and which one is best not to do business with is entirely up to you. The one to avoid and the one that is the pain can vary depending on who you are and what you bring in.
I'm comfortable with 1-3 and I understand the business terms which are all different for all of them. The one I'm not interested in is 4 even if I understand their business terms, they are not negotiable in any way from my point of view and I don't have any business network or any business connections. 4 can still be a very good deal for someone else. In 4 you need network and connections, if you don't have it stay out. In 1-3 networks and connections don't matter.
I find 1 uninteresting for longer periods since I'm not interested in what money can give me here, it's too safe and others would benefit from me sitting on a job that I find uninteresting. I don't have what's required for 4 and I don't find it interesting. 2 is interesting in small portions and not forever, what time can give will run out after a while. 3 will get me hooked even if it's extremely unsecure, it's the only one with change build in. I'm more interested in the time component than the money component and time is a key factor in 2 and 3, they are opposites of each other. I have found that you can get the same results in 1, 2 and 3 and none of them are better than the other when it comes to the end result, it's just how much you're willing to spend in time and money and how interested you are in speeding and in taking turns on two wheels. 2 will become too slow by time and 3 may exceed all speeding limits by time, recession is a good thing for both of them. In recession 2 is forced to speed up with fewer people, 3 is forced to slow down with significantly fewer people.
If you are interested in investing in companies, make sure where you stand with 1-4. They can all be interesting from an investment perspective and they come with different levels of risk and needs.
