Swedish Etiquette for Beginners - Part one - Dont buy drinks to a Swede. he or she does not expect it anyway, and chances are minimal that the favour will be returned. If you are a man, a woman might feel intimidated and a man might think that you are gay.What you can do:tell everyone in the bar that where you come from, people normally do buy drinks. Chances are that a Swede wih a desperate urge to feel cosmopolitan will buy you a drink anyway - then you can study his face for traces of agony and despair that torments every Scandinavian who buys liqour to anyone but himself.