My son is in high school and is going to be an exchange student in Sweden next year.

Our family background is Swedish. His first name is a typical American name, but his middle name is Swedish, and our last name is Swedish.

For example, John Sture Andersson.

Nobody calls him Sture in the US; people can’t pronounce it. But he has been asking Swedish people who he’s met (so far, as part of the exchange program process) to call him Sture.

Is that weird; if he asks people in Sweden to call him Sture, will Swedes make fun of him or think that his request is bizarre, since he is called John in the US? And is the name “Sture” a nice name?

Thanks.

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The original was posted on /r/sweden by /u/CraftAccomplished784 at 2024-03-27 13:08:14+00:00.

  • Dannebot@leddit.danmark.partyOPMBSvenska
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    8 months ago

    bobbylaserbones at 2024-03-27 14:45:37+00:00 ID: kwsz82a

    No, in Sweden nobody is gonna consider a yank swedish cos his great grandma went on a boat ride to the corn colony in the 1800s.

    We aren’t fixated with genetics and color like yanks.

    Lol nobody gonna demand “swedish blood”, gtfo here with that yankoid nazi shit, SÄPO will probably register your opinion if you express that one.

    • Dannebot@leddit.danmark.partyOPMBSvenska
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      8 months ago

      Obligatorium1 at 2024-03-27 16:10:17+00:00 ID: kwtegof

      We aren’t fixated with genetics and color like yanks.

      Lol nobody gonna demand “swedish blood”, gtfo here with that yankoid nazi shit, SÄPO will probably register your opinion if you express that one.

      Go ahead and read a random thread at Flashback, or why not even a random post in Sweddit about muslims or whatever (at least before the moderators get there and clean it up), and you’ll find plenty of people who talk about Swedish blood and other “yankoid nazi shit” (incidentally, “yankoid” sounds like some pretty nazi shit to me).

      • Dannebot@leddit.danmark.partyOPMBSvenska
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        bobbylaserbones at 2024-03-27 16:12:20+00:00 ID: kwteu4h

        Yeah cos some random Nazi on an internet forum is a good indication of the opinion of the general masses 😂

        Yankee isn’t a race, sir.

        • Dannebot@leddit.danmark.partyOPMBSvenska
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          Obligatorium1 at 2024-03-27 16:20:14+00:00 ID: kwtga5i

          … But my argument is that there is no such thing as an “opinion of the general masses” in this issue, because it’s a politically divisive issue.

          Yankee isn’t a race, sir.

          I agree - because the entire concept of race as applied to humanity is pseudoscientific poppycock. “Yankoid” still sounds like some pretty nazi shit to me, though.

          • Dannebot@leddit.danmark.partyOPMBSvenska
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            bobbylaserbones at 2024-03-27 16:22:43+00:00 ID: kwtgqtq

            When they stop bombing the rest of us and drag us into their wars for profit I’ll stop insulting then

    • Dannebot@leddit.danmark.partyOPMBSvenska
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      granistuta at 2024-03-27 15:29:56+00:00 ID: kwt74e7

      Du får nog ta och läsa /u/Obligatorium1 kommentar en gång till,

      There are unfortunately plenty of people who will demand “Swedish blood” to consider someone a Swede

      ingenstans står det att det var hens åsikter, utan att det finns de som hyser dessa åsikter. Och det stämmer ju, även om det kanske inte är “plenty”.

      • Dannebot@leddit.danmark.partyOPMBSvenska
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        bobbylaserbones at 2024-03-27 15:32:45+00:00 ID: kwt7mj1

        Och jag försöker förklara för honom att bara nazister skulle tänka så och de är säkert registrerade av Säpo.

        Du får nog läsa Bobby laserbens kommentar igen ;)

        Det finns folk som tycker alla utlänningar ska utvisas ur Sverige men de representerar förmodligen en väldigt liten minoritet som knappt är värd att nämna.