The genetic history of Scandinavia from the Roman Iron Age to the present
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History on Fire has some good episodes.. I like the Caravaggio and Diogenes ones http://historyonfirepodcast.com/
I like the Ancient World as well.. https://ancientworldpodcast.com/
The Hellenistic Age Podcast.. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-hellenistic-age-po...
And finally history of the second world war podcast... https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/history-of-the-second-...
Another favorite of mine is "Fall of Civilizations". It takes the almost-audiobook approach of Hardcore History, and almost all episodes have been fascinating. Favorite so far is probably the one about Han China.
The rest is history https://shows.acast.com/the-rest-is-history-podcast
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-history-of-the-twe...
The History of India https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-history-of-india/i...
That is a very fascinating subject. In addition to the 20% who were born outside of Sweden, another 6% are born in Sweden to parents both born outside, meaning over a quarter of the population today is not ethnically Swedish. It's a radical shift, compared to under 2% before WW2 and under 7% in the 70s. I'm curious how that social experiment will pan out in the end.
huh well. stuff like this just makes me very insecure at times.
My partner is Swedish but she was born in Hungary I'm currently a resident of Australia but originally from India and plan to move to Sweden sometime later. Both of us speak Swedish are fairly integrated into the culture.
Maybe you're implying that only x% of the population must be born outside, non-ethnical Swedes.
> Both of us speak Swedish are fairly integrated into the culture.
Indeed, as they say, when in Rome, do as the Romans. There's a good bit of evidence to suggest that the integration of migrants vastly different culturally has been difficult at best. When you go from having negligible amounts of foreign-born people to having a quarter of the country be foreign-born within one person's lifetime, it's hard not to introduce social disturbance. And that's why I am calling it a social experiment: to what end?
Besides, Australia doing well is hardly an example of anything other than how blessed they are in a number of ways[0].
Our cultural identity is one of a nation of immigrants, but over the past couple decades many European countries have become just as much if not more so. Among OECD countries the U.S. is middle of the pack: https://data.oecd.org/migration/foreign-born-population.htm
Contrast this with Spartacus, where the dialog was English, but it sounded like it was translated from Roman Latin. Similarly with Deadwood the dialog was in Elizabethan English (or something like that).
Viking Valhalla would have been more fun if the dialog had been written in the language of the Norse Sagas and then been transliterated into English. Or at least sprinkle it with Norwegian words whose meaning could be inferred from the context (like Skol!).
It was a big success.
What I find most interesting, even in the early Viking age 700–800 CE there were people with southern European ancestry in Denmark and a surprising number with >50% by the main Viking age. Viking was more of an occupation than an ethnicity.
And I've always enjoyed the transition from when he goes to understanding them and all of a sudden they all speak english.
"I've learned by listening to your filthy mouth.." or however that line goes
As a Scandinavian I think about this scene a lot. I don't know why haha.