Posted on 03/01/2011 3:08:40 AM PST by WesternCulture
Swedish producers are scouring the United States for Americans with Swedish ancestry to take part in a new reality television series that will bring participants to Sweden to compete in cultural challenges.
With a nationwide casting call underway in the US, Swedish producers have put the shout out for fun, outgoing Americans with Swedish ancestry to participate in a new reality television series “The Great Swedish Adventure.”
The series seeks to take Americans, who have even the tiniest fraction of Swedish lineage, on a journey throughout Sweden to discover the land, the culture heritage and their roots.
“It's Americans who come here and seek their origins. Their experiences and surprising encounters with our culture also will reflect the image of Sweden," Mathias Engstrand, Entertainment Manager for Sveriges Television (SVT) told the Metro newspaper.
Chosen participants will travel to Sweden and compete in extreme cultural challenges to discover their roots while trying to win the grand prize: meeting their Swedish relatives.
“The Great Swedish Adventure” will be shot and broadcast in Sweden and potentially other countries as well.
The show will be produced by Meter Television, producers of the Swedish version of “American Idol” and “Minute to Win It.“
“It’s sort of like ‘The Amazing Race’ with a ‘fish out of water’ hook,” Christer Åkerlund, producer of the project, said in a statement.
From 1846-1930, about 1.3 million Swedish people immigrated to America in hopes of building a better life for their families.
According to US Census data from 2000, about 4 million Americans claim to have Swedish heritage.
They could ask Gretchen Carlson. She’s a proud Swediah-American. Maybe she’s already been there, however.
They need to advertise in Minnesota and North Dakota!
>> Is there any such place in/part of America? <<
Yes, in a way, people in the Washington DC metro area often exhibit a kind of social “shyness” or “coldness” that I haven’t noticed so much in other areas of the USA, especially not in the American South.
For example, if you’re pushing your cart down a grocery store aisle in metro DC and make eye contact with a shopper coming from the opposite direction, that other person will normally avert his/her glance and pretend not to see you.
But in the American South, when you make eye contact in a grocery aisle, the other shopper usually will smile and even voice a soft “hey” — or perhaps a big “howdy” in Texas!
(Note: American Southerners, at least those from the older generations, generally don’t say “hi” to greet one another. They leave that expression to Yankees.)
Fought to a draw is more accurate. That is still impressive for a nation whose entire population wasn't much larger than the invading army.
There were at least two Soviet divisions that were totally annihilated, not ruined as combat units but no one but a few POWs and even fewer evaders left alive. The Germans would not have had nearly as hard a time of it invading USSR if the Finns hadn't taught Ivan how to make General Winter an ally.
The molotov cocktail was centuries old by then, but was given the name we still know it by at that time.
Here am I, send me, send me.
lol!
What will we do without you while you are away getting all the free salted cod you can boil?
“Fought to a draw is more accurate.”
- Nope. Finland won a war against the Soviet Union in the beginning of the WWII.
Later on, Finland got trifle too cocky and was forced back when on the advance. This caused a second treaty, resulting in loss of land.
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