Introduction to the real life of Norwegian immigrants: How to prepare your own immigration application

After immigrating to Norway, everyone needs to face a new living environment, and it is necessary to understand the real local situation. Let’s take a look at the real life introduction of Norwegian immigrants. How to prepare your own immigration application?

Common Sense of Life

Norwegians like shaking hands very much. Whenever strangers meet, they always shake hands and exchange names. Similarly, when you meet someone you don’t know well in the future, you have to shake hands when greeting and saying goodbye. The only less polite attitude of Norwegians appears on the busy streets of Oslo; people seem to push each other and rarely apologize. , so if someone doesn’t apologize after hitting you, as long as the hit is not serious, don’t be angry; what you need to pay more attention to (especially when you are driving) is that pedestrians do not care about sprinting and running when crossing the road. traffic signs, regardless of the fact that Scandinavians are known to be some of the most orderly pedestrians in the world.

Norwegian customs and habits are very strange. The most popular color in Norway is red. Girls’ coats, children’s ski shirts or men’s felt hats are all red. Norwegians’ diet is mostly simple. They eat scones for Christmas dinner. They like to eat seafood on ordinary days. products, sausages, smoked fish, sauerkraut and various dairy products.

Norwegians have a peculiar etiquette, which is to keep a fixed distance when talking to others. It is believed that about 1.2 meters between the two parties is the best and customary distance; otherwise, exceeding or being less than the customary distance of the people of the country will be regarded as impolite, which will dilute the atmosphere of the conversation or cause unpleasant formality; punctuality is It is a special custom of Norwegians that not being punctual is not only rude, but also regarded as breach of trust. If you cannot be punctual for some reason, you should call first to explain the reason and obtain understanding.

When toasting (skaling) is done while drinking, there is a complex set of paying attention rituals. Raise your glass, look into each other's eyes, say Skal, clink glasses, look into each other's eyes again, and drink it all in one gulp (or it's better to sip slowly, because the price of wine is not cheap).

Tipping is easy. Hotels will add a service charge and generally no tip will be given. Restaurants usually include service charges, and it is up to the customer to decide whether to tip. However, according to custom, tips should be 5 to 10 percent of the consumption, and taxi drivers also follow this rule; it is not customary to tip hairdressers. , but it is also appropriate to give 5 to 10 percent of the consumption - and the recipient will be grateful; the luggage storage room usually charges a fixed service, about 5-10 NOK; if there is no clear provision, you can leave Leave a few crowns to the waiter.

Many people immigrate to Norway for its social welfare and educational quality. I wonder if you have ever learned about Norwegian food? What I want to share with you today is about Norwegian eating habits. Come and see if it suits your taste.

Introduction to catering

Norwegians are not very particular about what they eat, and their diet is relatively simple. They usually like to eat seafood, sausages, smoked fish, sauerkraut and various dairy products. Potatoes were introduced to Norway in the 18th century and soon became the staple food of Norwegians. They also like to eat coarse bread, raw vegetables, and apples. People pay attention to nutrition, not taste. For example, Norway is rich in seafood, and residents are known to eat fish all year round. However, the way Norwegians cook fish is surprisingly simple, pickling or stewing soup, and nothing else.

Norway’s famous local dishes are mostly fish, venison and mutton. There is a famous dish called Cravlaks, which is made by sprinkling sugar, salt, and white pepper on salmon and marinating it in vinegar. In addition, there is ?rret, which is made by sprinkling flour and salt on trout and then grilling it with butter. As for other meat foods, there are fried venison (Dyrestek), reindeer steak, cabbage lamb (f?rik?l), etc.

Norwegian dining is relatively simple. Among the three meals a day, breakfast and lunch are relatively simple, basically cold food, and only dinner has hot dishes. Norwegian shrimp, Philly trout, single-layer sandwiches and various beers are all good. Norway's sea ice is clean and crystal clear, and its products are abundant, including cod, salmon, herring, mackerel, lobster, scallops, mackerel... almost countless.

Black cod is the main commercial fish in northern Norway. The catch is so large that it cannot be eaten all at once, so it needs to be stored. There are two main methods for Norwegian fishermen to store black cod. One is pickling. They use a machine to cut open the fresh fish, remove the head and internal organs, and sprinkle salt. The head and tail are staggered and stacked layer by layer, which is a bit like the winter storage in northern my country. Chinese cabbage. Another storage method is drying. There are herringbone-shaped fish drying racks along the roads in Norwegian fishing villages. They are seven or eight meters high and more than ten to tens of meters long. During the black cod fishing season, they become densely hung and become a unique local scenery. What’s surprising is that before being put on the shelves, the black cod is only decapitated and gutted without any other preservative treatment. It rains for about two-thirds of the time at this time, but the fish does not become moldy or rotten until it is dried. Dry. The finished dried fish is so solid and hard that, in the words of a local fisherman, it “can kill a strong man.”

Among Norwegian aquatic products, salmon is the most famous. Salmon is a migratory fish. It hatches in the river, grows up in the sea, then swims back to the river to lay eggs, and then dies after laying eggs.

The special physiological habits determine that its yield cannot be too high, so for a long time, salmon has been a noble food even in Norway.

Natural environment

The scenery here is unique

The Nordic scenery is very different from the Mediterranean scenery. In winter, you can see the midnight sun in the Arctic Circle; Norway has a winding coastline with more than 150,000 offshore islands; the beauty here lies in its unadorned beauty, except for the two major cities of Oslo and Bergen. Outside the city, there are almost no pedestrians on the roads in many small towns; even in big cities like Oslo, you can see mountains everywhere, so the beauty of Norway lies in its tranquility and vastness; Norway has one of the best laws in the world: every Every inch of uncultivated land, whether state-owned or privately owned, must be open to everyone free of charge.

The cultural scenery is also good

Let’s not talk about the Norwegian musician Grieg and the playwright Ibsen; but in terms of fashion culture, the coolest in the world today The best music and the coolest movies were all born in Norway; a 25-year-old Norwegian friend described Oslo this way: “There is no mainstream culture, but there are all kinds of subcultures. It doesn’t matter what is popular, alternative is normal; there is also a high degree of democracy, Norway Women were the second in the world to gain the right to vote. Feminism has long been outdated. Men are complaining about injustice. If there is a beautiful woman doing the weather forecast on TV, there must be a beautiful man..."

The most livable country

Norway is world-famous for its wealth, with a per capita annual income of nearly 40,000 U.S. dollars; a United Nations evaluation said that its wealth ranks third in the world, while in another "global In the survey of "the most livable country", Norway ranked first again; the United Nations survey covered various living indicators, and Norway ranked first in terms of life expectancy, education level and domestic production index.