Talk:Swedes

Latest comment: 2 months ago by Rsk6400 in topic North Germanic ?


Swedes in Germany 30,000 in 2021 edit

30,000 Swedes live in Germany Linus Hagenbach (talk) 08:15, 5 April 2022 (UTC)Reply

You need a source if you want to put that in the article. Sjö (talk) 10:52, 5 April 2022 (UTC)Reply
Wikipedia Editor Linus Hagenbach is not a reliable source. TylerBurden (talk) 17:36, 5 April 2022 (UTC)Reply

Finlandswedes edit

Should Swedish-Speaking Finns be included here? In the Swedish Wikipedia they are not considered Swedes. They are mentioned but only as speakers of Swedish (though they don't even consider Swedes an ethnicity). In the Finnish Wikipedia meanwhile they are considered Swedes and do not appear in the Finns article, much like in the English Wikipedia. However from what I have heard from Finlandswedes themselves, they don't consider themselves Swedish, instead just Finns who speak Swedish. Also many Finlandswedes have completely Finnish origins, as many Finns changed their language to Swedish to climb up the social ladder. Finlandestonia (talk) 11:46, 12 September 2022 (UTC)Reply

No, because they are not part of the ethnic group that is Swedes, which according to the lead is what the article is about. But if you check the article, Finland-Swedes are included on it. TylerBurden (talk) 00:44, 13 September 2022 (UTC)Reply

Swedish Walloon edit

Should we include a mention of the Walloon component of the Swedes? IMO it's different from e.g. the Swedish-Speaking Finns discussed in the above section, because the Walloon origin is a component of the modern Swede; they are not a separate ethnic group. David Groningen (talk) 16:58, 14 February 2023 (UTC)Reply

From Walloons: "Gallo-Romance ethnic group native to Wallonia and the immediate adjacent regions of France". TylerBurden (talk) 11:31, 15 February 2023 (UTC)Reply
@TylerBurden Yep, those are the Walloons. Some thousand of the came to Sweden in c. 1595/1650. They mixed with the "Renaissance Swedes", and as a result today some hundred thousand (possibly close to one million) of Swedes are of Walloon ancestry. Since they are a component of many a modern Swede, I wonder whether we should mention this fact in this article. David Groningen (talk) 22:08, 15 February 2023 (UTC)Reply
But they are a seperate ethnic group, not the North Germanic Nordic one this article is meant to be about. TylerBurden (talk) 14:44, 16 February 2023 (UTC)Reply

Further Reading edit

The further reading section contained only a single article that was neither academic or frankly appropriate and this it was removed. AevumNova (talk) 05:02, 23 November 2023 (UTC)Reply

North Germanic ? edit

@Zyxrq: I think your addition of "Germanic" or "Scandinavic" with a link to "North Germanic peoples" is wrong for two reasons: a) There is no source for that. b) The last "North Germanic people" covered in the history section of that article are those Scandinavian Greenlanders who died out at the end of the Middle Ages. There was a similar discussion at Talk:Danes#North_Germanic_? some time ago. Rsk6400 (talk) 17:13, 26 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

@Rsk6400 go to the Talk:North Germanic peoples#"North Germanic peoples" change to "Scandinavians"? and Talk:North Germanic peoples#Ethnic group

Zyxrq (talk) 19:26, 26 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

Why ? Rsk6400 (talk) 07:03, 27 February 2024 (UTC)Reply