What? Have you “forgotten” Valentine’s Day? – Aftenposten

What? Have you "forgotten" Valentine's Day? – Aftenposten

Statistically is a regular column in the Finance and career magazine on Sunday.

Classic girlfriend conversation around Valentine’s Day (or valence thaws day as we try to introduce a little dank Nowegianization):

Female 1: OMG, Valentine’s is so insanely stupid. Another gimmick from shopkeepers to get us to buy us out of some arbitrary guilty. Makan to kommerst American goo.

Female 2: Jojo, but it’s a nice bit, then. A flower and a little extra coziness, like? I’m not saying no thanks to it, that is.

Lets not squeeze

Whether we like it or not enough valence thaws day come to be – at least in sale posters outside flower shops. But the Norwegian people do not seem to have allowed themselves to convince. According to a survey done by Cint for Master Green has Valentine matter mobilized what we have of genuinely Norwegian reluctance to buy pressure:

73 percent of respondents report that the valence thaws day not is a important anniversary – and only one in ten said they would buy flowers for his girlfriend on the day.

Especially northerners are particularly sacking If boyfriends around the country did as they said to Cint, stood scarce five percent of northerners in blomsterkø this weekend.

– Valentiner Day is the one imported feast just as Halloween, but Halloween’ve become bigger because it is geared towards children, says Håvard Hansen, professor of consumer behavior at University of Stavanger.

He believes the childish festivities around Halloween captivates lighter than the little serious grow marker as valence thaws day represents.

– Adults do not jump on as easily. Thanksgiving is a similar example, it is a typical grow activity nor has gained particular party, he said.

Collectively pressure and bad conscience

On the other side stands townspeople in Oslo and Trondheim. Here, respectively, reported 13 and 13.5 percent said they would buy flowers for his girlfriend.

But if you ask me (Female 1) is itself a delicious low proportion.

Flowers Queues this weekend must be among the most klein throughout the year. Urgent End in from the cold at the last minute before it closes, in a myriad of likeminded stress jumpers, where the common denominator is the feeling of having given in to collectively buying pressure and bad conscience?

So, flowers are nice but that is just appalling. Heath the staid north man, are radically at its: Valentines, it manages ourselves fine without.

– There are probably many who just lets this slide past. Halloween is a much larger concept, with parties and arrangements shall be traded to. But Valentine thaws day is very easy to just ignore, says Hansen.

unromantic north Norwegian men

And we do therefore, some more than others. But it may look like valence thaw resistance also indicates some low romantic standards.

For the same survey, which had 1,000 respondents from across the country, between 18 and 70 years, also charted where in the country we are most satisfied with the level of Norwegian romance. Also here comes northerners badly – especially north Norwegian men.

Only one in ten of those surveyed in Northern Norway managed to be completely or partially agree that Norwegian men was romantic.

There is considerable lower than in Trøndelag, which tops the list, where one in four think men were romantic.

It’s not exorbitant figures. Nationally seems 17 percent of women said that Norwegian men are romantic – opposite it 34 percent. Huff, even a valentinerhatende city girl can appreciate a little romance once in a while.

But when it comes to Valentine thaws day is all forgiven. “Forgot” to Valentine’s Day, you say? Status is fine.

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Published: 14.feb. 2015 2:15 p.m.