11 Signs you might be Swedish

• At least one of the windows in your house has a ledge where geraniums grow
• You have a summer home “up North.”  If you happen to reside full time “up North,” you still have a summer home that’s even further “up North” 
• The dairy section at your local grocery store can best be described as “vast”
• You happen to look fabulous in chunky, thick-rimmed glasses
• 45% of your parliament members are women  (And it’s not because there’s a gender quota)
• Your house is red with white trim.  Other (barely) acceptable colors are white, yellow, or wood.  Anything other than that, and you are definitely not Swedish.  I met a couple that recently bought a gorgeous house in Sweden that is the very unusual color of pink.  Rumor has it that when the house was originally built, the first painter hired to paint the outside quit after he learned the color they wanted him to use.  And sure enough, the original owners were Danish.  Not Swedish.   

 

• You adamantly refuse to take the stickers off of glassware to better show off the brand.
• You feel smugly superior about your country’s progressive social and environmental politics, but (and this is key) you would never admit that you feel superior because national pride is so pre-WWII. 
• You have at least one decorative piece of fabric hanging on a wall somewhere.
• At your local park, there are as many dads as moms hanging out with their kids at the playground and pushing their babies around in strollers.
• 98% of your wardrobe is neutral colors.