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Swedish anti-emigration propaganda, representing Per Svensson's dream of the American idyll (left) and the reality of Per's life in the wilderness (right), where he is menaced by a mountain lion, a big snake, and wild Indians, seen scalping and disembowelling a man.
The migration of Danes to North America spans several centuries and was influenced by a variety of economic, social, and political factors. While the absolute numbers of Danish immigrants might be less than some other national groups, their impact on the cultural, economic, and social life of their adopted countries has been profound. [3]
About 1.5 million Swedes and Norwegians immigrated to the United States within this period because of opportunity in America and poverty and religious oppression in the united Sweden–Norway. That accounted for around 20% of the total population of the kingdom at that time. They settled mainly in the Midwest, especially Minnesota and the Dakotas.
A woman is going viral after sharing the biggest "culture shocks" she experienced after moving to Sweden.
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The supply of Portuguese and Spanish people willing to emigrate was so high that the Spanish and Portuguese governments even had to restrict emigration to the Americas [3] (very early Spain had restricted emigration to the Spanish West Indies [5] and Portugal had to pass three laws prohibiting the migration of people from the Portuguese ...
A woman is going viral after sharing the biggest “culture shocks” she experienced after moving to Sweden. The list of surprising cultural differences comes courtesy of a TikTok user named ...
The Old Country and the New: Essays on Swedes and America (2007) ISBN 978-0-8093-2714-0; Benson, Adolph B. and Naboth Hedin, eds. Swedes in America, 1638–1938 (Yale University Press. 1938) ISBN 978-0-8383-0326-9; Biltekin, Nevra. "Migrating women and transnational relations: Swedish-American connections since the 1920s."