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I Love flying with Norwegian. Painful to say as a swede but they are my go-to low price airline.
by Numberwang 9y ago
I Love flying with Norwegian. Painful to say as a swede but they are my go-to low price airline.
- Theodores 9y agoI mistook a Swedish neighbour for being Norwegian, afterwards I felt stupid for this as clearly I had not been paying attention. (Her name begins with 'N' so that may be the cause of the 'senior moment'.) As an English person living in England I have no idea whether getting someone's country 'almost right' is a hurtful thing. Is the Norwegian vs Swedish thing real? If so, is it for the reason I give - not paying attention - or is there more to it than that?
- maaaats 9y agoSwedish vs Norwegian is mostly playful banter. Our lives, culture, values and language are all very similar, so being mistaken for the other is no big deal as it doesn't have any particularly negative connotations attached.
- kristofferR 9y agoYeah, it's like being called a Canadian as an American.
- muninn_ 9y agoYeah I've had that happen to me many times, and vice-versa.
- mercurial 9y agoThe real thing is Denmark vs Sweden.
- gjjrfcbugxbhf 9y agoAnd Norway vs Denmark. But they all like each other really it's mainly in good fun.
- Symbiote 9y agoIt's like England/France, rather than Britain/Ireland.
- Numberwang 9y agoNot hurtful at all, just banter. I live in England and you got a similar thing going with Wales or Scotland. All in good fun.
- owenversteeg 9y agoSome countries people will be very upset. I think these are the more sensitive ones: Pakistan/India Iran/its neighbors South Korea/North Korea (you'd be surprised how often people think South Koreans might be from North Korea) Mexico/its neighbors By "sensitive" I don't mean that people will get very offended, just that they might be mildly annoyed. Norway/Sweden as well as Netherlands/Belgium is mostly a playful rivalry.
- kinkrtyavimoodh 9y agoAt least in the case of India / Pakistan I don't think it's as much about being upset or offended as being worried of being subject to any potential negative connotations associated with the other country.
- digi_owl 9y agoNorway may well be considered the upstart little brother, or hick relative of the Scandinavian nations. This partially because it was a long time the subservient partner of Denmark-Norway, and then later passed to Sweden as war-reparations after Denmark backed Napoleon (never mind the earlier event where Trøndelag was given to Sweden after the 30 years war, only to be handed back a decade later because Sweden found them to be unruly). That said, mostly it is playful banter. For example, all nations have similar jokes where representatives of the nations try to one up each other, and the nation of the story teller always come out on top to a massive degree.