r/Norway • u/[deleted] • 6d ago

Working in Norway Etiquette? Common courtesy?

This may offend people and get down voted. It is what it is. Do Norwegians not learn common courtesy or street etiquette when they are kids? For real. So sick of this. Always stopping and standing in the middle of an aisle or sidewalk to talk, fix a bag, etc. Don't care about the people behind you. When they're walking down a sidewalk, they just walk in the middle, on the wrong side, walk 2 or 3 abreast, not caring about people walking towards you. Don't let other people off public transport before you push your way on. The last straw was tonight when I was at Meny, and a lady didn't even let me finish my order before she was pushing her way into my self checkout. I go to grab my receipt with my barcode to get out, she looks at me and goes "Ja". You guys don't give a shit about anyone but yourself, for real. This needs to be said

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u/PeStLevel 6d ago

I don't know what you mean. Plenty places in the world people will agree with visitors/immigrants on what is good or bad about the place. I speak fluent Norwegian and have many well-educated Norwegian friends, but for some reason they really don't like to hear what is not okay here. There are many good things here, but why is it so hard to hear that some things are not up to par?

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u/-Parptarf- 6d ago

I’m Norwegian and I don’t mind. But it’s kinda hilarious that you say we are the worst in the world at this.

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u/PeStLevel 6d ago

Countries that are better at this: England, Ireland, Germany, China, Iran, Morocco, Poland, the Baltic states, Turkey, Serbia, Slovakia, Czechia, Russia, Austria, Slovenia, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, US, Ukraine, Belgium, Scotland, Wales... (the list goes on).

Countries equally shitty at this: the Netherlands and Danmark (from the top of my head).

So maybe you are right, and it is actually a tie.

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u/WaitForVacation 6d ago

wow, how was this study conducted? I'm sure there were some clear criteria and was measured on a meaningful size of the population in all the above countries.

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u/PeStLevel 6d ago

Nah, as I stated, it is based on my experiences. Not a study, but if it was, it would be qualitative and not quantitative.