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Stumbled upon this from another community, do you agree? (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

they refused to sell anything to me because of my obviously Finnish accent

Skitsnack, you're just joking or they thought you were drunk.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I was sober, on my way to Åre - buy some beer, buy some groceries from nearby store. Just to get by for a week of off piste.

It's just the casual Swedish racism.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So what reason did they say to you when you went to the checkout with your drinks?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

As I understood my Swedish was so off that they couldn't trust my Finnish passport or driving licence to be trustworthy. They claimed they could not verify my age.

I was in over 40 in this exchange.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Did they think the majority of Finns who go through Pakkoruotsi remember anything more than "jag heter homopeter"? 😂 Still seems weird, Systembolaget has always accepted my US driver's license (this was additionally before "real ID"; it basically was like McLovin's fake ID), despite the fact that they're not supposed to accept anything other than a passport for people from outside of the EU. And I looked young then, barely 20 years old.

I would have fought them harder instead of taking folköl instead. Regardless, sorry that happened to you, Finns are our brödrafolk, and it's a shame if the cashier forgot that.