Sweden people

Sámi girl, Norway. The Sami people, also spelled Sámi or Saami, are the Arctic indigenous people inhabiting Sápmi, which today encompasses parts of far northern Sweden, Norway, Finland, the Kola Peninsula of Russia, and the border area between south and middle Sweden and Norway. The Sámi are Europe's northernmost and the Nordic countries' only officially indigenous people.

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One of the first things that I learned about Swedish culture is that Swedes love the queuing and number system. This means that people can’t just form a line in front of a teller when they walk into a bank. Instead, they have to get a ticket from a machine and look for something that resembles a scoreboard to figure out how many people are ahead. This system isn’t just at banks. It’s at any train station, post office, and doctor’s office, too... #sweden #swedish #culture #photography…

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