Abstract
As most of the exchange students who came here in Lund for one or two semesters, and who decided to attend the class on Swedish society and everyday life, I've been struck in several occasions by the Swedes, some of their behaviours or some elements of their everyday life I could barely recognize at home.
I think this is the normal process of discovery of a new culture -at least partially new culture, as we cannot really say that the Swedish culture is as far from the French culture as for example the culture of some African or Asian countries and peoples. But the fact remains that I've been able to discover a very proud people, somehow attached to its land, to its traditions, and I have to admit it, very respectful when it comes to obey the law. We've also seen in our various lectures how the Swedish society broadly evolved during the last century; transforming it from what historians and ethnologists are used to calling the old peasant society to a very modern nation, build on the European model of the nation's states. This transformation has gone through the population and also has had consequences it.
