Are the Vikings the reason why Scandinavians are so good-looking (on average)

[#Oda#]

My interactions with Scandinavians have always been positive, nothing to complain about, polite people. Scandinavians are above average when it comes to their awareness of what they eat, the importance of exercise and how they groom or present themselves and there are statistics to back it up. It's not just about their features. I like some aspects regarding the minimalist and clean philosophy of life there. You only have to watch any walkthrough video in Sweden or any other Scandinavian nation to realize that it's hard to find a so-called "British chav" type on their streets (at least among ethnic Scandinavians), most seem to have an inherent sense of style and good taste and few are out of shape.

That said, I believe that you can find good-looking people anywhere, regardless of country or origin.

Less upper class, less "chav class".

[gixajo]

We can go down that route and I can say even in this regard, Mediterranean Europeans with the exception of Italians have always treated me nicer than Northern Europeans have. Lol

The saying there was something ironic.

The judgments of groups of people based on personal experiences can shed some light but they are still an opinion, I don't know to what extent they really serve to establish a rule.

They generally tend to show a mix between our tastes, our complexes and inferiorities, our biases, our desires.

I just got out of bed, I don't know to what extent I say lucid things. I guess I'm rambling, it takes me an hour to land in the real world .

[tropicalslavic]

My interactions with Scandinavians have always been positive, nothing to complain about, polite people. Scandinavians are above average when it comes to their awareness of what they eat, the importance of exercise and how they groom or present themselves and there are statistics to back it up. It's not just about their features. I like some aspects regarding the minimalist and clean philosophy of life there. You only have to watch any walkthrough video in Sweden or any other Scandinavian nation to realize that it's hard to find a so-called "British chav" type on their streets (at least among ethnic Scandinavians), most seem to have an inherent sense of style and good taste and few are out of shape.

That said, I believe that you can find good-looking people anywhere, regardless of country or origin.

I do agree that Scandinavians take care of themselves better, one of the only people I knew who was completely active and didn't need any assistance to take care of themselves in their 90s was a Norwegian woman. I do think that they tend to carry themselves differently than other nationalities, but I've also seen this very quickly turn into arrogance. I remember briefly dating a Swedish boy when I was young, and this dude straight up convinced himself that every human being on Earth secretly wishes they were Swedish. Just that mentality alone was very off-putting. I also tend to find their over the top liberalism kind of off-putting.

And this is very beside the point, but I heard that in their culture, they won't even give you dinner if you're invited over to visit. Weird people!

[Brás Garcia de Mascarenhas]

Less upper class, less "chav class".

I think the social differences are much starker in the UK. In Sweden not so much, the majority are middle class in reality, except that it's literally one of the middle classes with the highest purchasing power and quality of life in the world, when compared to other countries.

[gixajo]

My interactions with Scandinavians have always been positive, nothing to complain about, polite people. Scandinavians are above average when it comes to their awareness of what they eat, the importance of exercise and how they groom or present themselves and there are statistics to back it up. It's not just about their features. I like some aspects regarding the minimalist and clean philosophy of life there. You only have to watch any walkthrough video in Sweden or any other Scandinavian nation to realize that it's hard to find a so-called "British chav" type on their streets (at least among ethnic Scandinavians), most seem to have an inherent sense of style and good taste and few are out of shape.

And would you say that all of that, just as the OP says that they "inherited" beauty, comes from the "Vikings"?

[Mortimer]

Anyways i see alot of pro and contra but too much generalising on all sides i was never in scandinavia though

[#Oda#]

I think the social differences are much starker in the UK. In Sweden not so much, the majority are middle class in reality, except that it's literally one of the middle classes with the highest purchasing power and quality of life in the world, when compared to other countries.

I think they are even strongest in the UK. It's something I like and dislike at the same time. It's more interesting, but has also more dark sides.

[Tooting Carmen]

And this is very beside the point, but I heard that in their culture, they won't even give you dinner if you're invited over to visit. Weird people!

That's the paradox of Scandinavians in particular, and to a lesser extent other Northern Europeans too (yes, even the class-ridden British). At a more abstract political and economic level they may be more generous and egalitarian in their mindset, but in terms of day-to-day interactions they can often be rather private, reserved and even selfish. (More-or-less the opposite of what Colombians f.e. tend to be like, the political extremes notwithstanding: politically and economically quite selfish and individualistic, but at a personal level often quite hospitable and generous).

[Tooting Carmen]

I think they are even strongest in the UK. It's something I like and dislike at the same time. It's more interesting, but has also more dark sides.

Funnily enough, in the UK there is a commonplace myth/half-truth that the Anglo-Saxon and Viking cultures were more egalitarian, and that our poisonous and severe class divides and inequalities were essentially an imposition by the Normans.

[#Oda#]

They are coping again

Well, what I said is simply true: "But I hope you are aware that the photos are all pretty much beautified and staged." Unless you are entirley sunk in the virtual world you know that.