I’m American and boycotting by moving to Sweden lol
I’d love to move to Sweden. Any advice on how to move out there?
Live with the crushing despair of having a tech job that provides no real value long enough to have a degrees worth of money and living expenses then get on a student visa, is what I’m attempting anyway idk probably there are easier options
Fair enough. I’m sorry to hear all that. I’m lucky enough to have a good tech job, but I’d love to have a good tech job in Sweden instead of here in the US.
Around 90% of Swedes speak English and tech jobs are often done in English, from what I’ve heard. You could potentially get a work visa
I’m American and I’m boycotting the hell out of it too. Supporting my neighborhood businesses.
Don’t want to be a negative nelly, but Sweden is probably same as Finland. You don’t see much US products at consumer lever and if you do, they are definately not essentials. Usually they are on the exotics section i.e. candy and soda.
But there are lots of American companies like McDonald’s (Hesburger ftw)
Most of those just work with licences and the products are not made in US. You are not hurting US business by boycotting them, only local entrepreneurs. In US they’ll still get their licence fees.
In Finland McDonalds burger ingredients come from Europe. Beef patties come from East-Europe. Hesburger is the same and their claim on local ingredients is bullshit. Only the bun and possibly fries might be locally produced.
In McDonalds the vegetarian pattie come from US. Those are unhealthy ultraprocessed food and due to logistical distances they are an ecological nightmare. You shouldn’t be eating those anyway.
Same with Coke and Pepsi. They are produced by local companies with licence. If you gave somebody here a US made soda they would be wierded out. Due to agricultural reasons US uses corn syrup to sweeten everything and European taste finds that really funky.
McD is on a franchising model. Boycotting them in Finland hurts the Finnish entrepreneur more than the Mothership in the US.
Coke and others are also manufactured in Finland, with a license.
There is this tiny “America” shelf in the grocery store I’m boycotting tho 😀
The license gets paid to the main company, and hence not buying from their brands indirectly will hurt said brands, at least in the long term.
What about products from companies that are owned by US companies, though? e.g. Kraft, Mondelez. They own a lot of regional brands, such as Germany’s Milka.
You can sure try, but usually those are huge international conglomerates that are paying taxes all over the world (or avoiding them). If you boycott the daughter company of a daughter company, it wouldn’t even tickle the head office.
That would also require research and keeping lists. That’s a bit above your average person willing to boycott. You’ll be stuck with few hard core activists.
That’s why it is so hard boycott the giants that owned companies that remained in Russia after the invasion. People were nice and made active lists on the Internet and even Ukraine had one, but they were really sketchy about the nature of the affiliation.
This is a sentiment that is just generally garnering traction in Europe as a whole I think.
I don’t even think it’s about hurting the US/Trump as much as people just have a renewed interest to support “local” business as a result of recent events.
Title doesn’t seem to be doing this justice – I don’t think a group called “boykot varer fra USA” is Swedish, as that looks like Danish to me.
So I’d guess that this is happening in Denmark as well.
Does anyone know of any of these groups emerging in the anglosphere outside of Canada? Would be interested to see if there’s one in my country but I don’t have facebook
Edit: verer -> varer
The first group in the link is Danish and the second group is Swedish. They have the same name in different languages.
Yeah, thats what I thought
I can tell you with 100% certainty that the group name you wrote isn’t Danish. Whether it’s Swedish or not, I’m not sure, but there you go
it’s 100% not swedish.
Huh? That is not what the name of the group is. From my limited knowledge what YOU wrote doesnt make sense in any nordic language not just swedish. In swedish its what the article says and in danish its not verer if im right(i dont speak any danish tho so dont quote me)
Yeah sorry typo, in the article it says varer. My point stands that this is not a phenomenon limited to sweden
laughs as an American with Swedish grandparents
If any Swedes are here, I’m American and I support this idea. It’s a necessary and proper response to an absolutely insane government, voted into power by people divorced from reality. I genuinely welcome your efforts to reintroduce it to my imbecillic countrymen.
