Well, if you're genuinely trying to get people to stop doing it, then it's in your best interest to explain why without going all around the houses.
If the term scandinavia was to be useful for anything, it would mean the three countries are in certain aspects the same, but different from the rest of the world, but this isn't the case
Is this culturally insensitive for Norwegians, for your specific region, throughout "Scandinavia"...?
It's in general. It's acting as if something that isn't true is
"British" can also be a cultural identity, not just a nationality.
"british" is also like owned by some people, in that they identify more as british than say english, but this isn't a thing in scandinavia
Well, like I said, it's fraught. Scandinavia has the liberty that no one region of Scandinavia has wielded political and cultural hegemony over the rest, at least not in recent memory, and the term has consequently avoided the same connotations of top-down cultural assimilation.
Sweden has had hegemony for a long time. And my impression is that when foreigners say "scandinavia", they're usually talking about sweden, and not the two other countries (major deviations from this is that I think people predominately think of norwegians when the topic is vikings or minnesota)
I have a co-worker from Norway, and he's never had a problem being called Scandinavian.
internalisation
If it was "self-evident" this squabble never would have started.
I dunno why you objected to something that was perfectly clear
I asked if it was like the annoyance I feel when people say "American" when referring to Canada since it's "the same thing" (no, it really isn't).
I don't remember that being a question but it's a lot like that
In Canada, if someone says they have Scandinavian ancestry, that means someone in their family immigrated from Norway, Sweden, or Denmark.
Yea but it's pretty stupid to not specify the countries as distinct
there's only three of them
Anyway, I intend starting from now to throw a fit and whine if someone call me "European", "Human" or "Terran". Such insensitivity toward my special snowflakeness would hurt my feelings and deserve tears, cries and rushing to pout in my room.
Well there's something to that. If there's something about a norwegian that's discussed that doesn't warrant classifying him as such, the next obvious step is something like human. the term scandinavian isn't relevant for anything
eyes of the beholder
Well, then please educate us ignorant Southeners about the significant cultural differences between Denmark, Sweden and Norway that make the term Scandinavian so useless.
Would you prefer to be called Germanic and be lumped together with the Germans, the Dutch and *gasp* Bavarians ?
See, you're picture here using the term "germannic". Germannic is quite obviously a rather useless term, and I'm saying that scandinavian is as well
******edness in the OP is too much to handle for me right now.
It was never meant to be an OP, so :/
... the hell?
As others have assumed, and as leifmk said, no one from Norway, Sweden or Denmark has a problem with being called Scandinavian. I have no idea what you're on about Lohr, but I don't even for a second think that you can possibly take offense of being labeled a Scandinavian.
Part of why it isn't offensive is that we've been conditioned to think it isn't
but my point isn't as much that the term is offensive, as that it's stupid
Moderator Action: Not much longer. @Lohrenswald, since you're the individual placing forward a claim ("don't call people Scandinavians"), the onus is on you to clarify why.
which I have done
Moderator Action: "Because I said so" or "it's self-evident" isn't conducive towards a discussion.
neither was it meant to be
Moderator Action: This thread is liable to be locked if the back-and-forth about non-answers continues.
do whatever you want
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