Mithbusting Swedish Myths

As in the case of every country, there are national myths crossing the Earth regarding Sweden as well. Since I am here for almost 2 months I can confirm or bust some of them.

Real myths:

• they drink a lot, both women and men, since one of the strongest Swedish policies is "jämlighet" (equality)

• they are very cold people and it is quite hard to establish a close relationship with them
  

• they are very nationalistic: they speak a lot about how wonderful their country is and they adopt foreign borrowed words according to their own phonetic rules; for instance, OK is OKEJ

• they speak even more about the whether and how different the weather in their country is comparison with other countries
  

• it is an expensive, but very civilized and evolved country

• they do eat meatballs with jam
  

False myths:

• not all the people are blond
  
  
• most Swedish girls are not terribly beautiful
  

• most Swedish boys are not excruciatingly handsome

• it is not freezing cold all year long

• they are not a nation of heavy-rockers but they listen to a lot of commercial music