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During the 19th and early 20th centuries, about 1.3 million Swedes left Sweden for the United States of America. While the land of the American frontier was a magnet for the rural poor all over Europe, some factors encouraged Swedish emigration in particular.
Sweden also aided the US in secrecy, possibly most famously when four Swedish pilots were awarded US Air Medals for saving the highly classified Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird spy plane from Soviet hands. The US pilots of the SR-71 stated that had Sweden not intervened and escorted the plane to safety on 29 June 1987, a dramatic escalation to the ...
Studies of online dating and physical attractiveness have indicated that race may be "gendered", as it was repeatedly found that East and Southeast Asian women were considered more attractive than other groups of women. [7] [8] [9] Gendered racial stereotypes exist within the LGBT community, which have been described as both alienating and ...
A new working group, comprised of representatives of each of the seven political parties, found that the aging Swedish population, inflation, and rising unemployment eroded the sustainability of ...
Think the American way is the only way? It turns out that many Americans have their preferences, and the rest of the world sometimes doesn’t get it.
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."
A woman is going viral after sharing the biggest "culture shocks" she experienced after moving to Sweden.
Swedish-Americans have deeply influenced America's coffee culture. Their fondness for quality coffee was introduced to the US alongside their migration. [2] While substitutes for coffee were common in Sweden due to its scarcity, the accessibility of genuine coffee beans in America transformed the coffee drinking habits of Swedish Americans.