If you travel to Germany, it's still absolutely Germany. If you travel to Sweden, it still has a Swedish identity.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.
I'm German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn't exist any more.
I do not deny my German identity. But I also feel Swiss. Of my eight great-grandparents, seven were born Swiss. I have been living in Switzerland for more than 50 years.
Whenever I travel anywhere, I'm constantly asked if I'm Swedish. It's the burden of most Norwegians. The Swedes have just got a better publicity agent, I think.
Few people know that I grew up in Germany and that my family still lives there.
Every time I'm in Canada I feel more Swedish, and every time I'm in Sweden I feel more Canadian. I belong in both places and I love them both equally. It's funny because the Swedes claim me as their Swedish pride and the Canadians call me their Canadian girl. I'll take it all.
My father is from Bosnia, and my mother is from Croatia, but I was born in Sweden.
For me, at least, much of the German I see and hear sounds stranger than Swedish, a language of which I unfortunately understand very little.
I'm a real Swede! In fact, I'm a quarter Finnish.
If you move to Canada, after a few years you call yourself Canadian. In Germany, it's difficult to belong.