Jul. 26th, 2017 06:17 pm
An observation
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oakfarmOne thing about being Swedish right now is that one somewhere in the back of one's head know that people like far right trolls on youtube, and the guy in the white house, and Fox news, thinks we are a society in free fall down because of muslim immigration. At the same time one get to read articles with headline like this: Why Sweden beats other countries at just about everything. Because the world economic forum thinks Sweden is great at gender equality, invention, fighting climate change, and more.
You know what I do not have that much more to say about it. Everything goes up and down. In ten years the world economic forum will find another country to praise, and no one said we’re perfect. It’s just the contrast between it. Maybe nationalism is about what's feeling good? It feels good to be “better” than someone else. Some time ago Trump hold a speech and said “look what happened in sweden last night”. The crowd could cheer and feel that no matter how bad it was, it’s not as bad as in Sweden. And then our ex-prime minister Carl Bildt could tweet: “what has Trump been smoking” and claim that the city Trump hold his speech in alone had 50 % more murders than Sweden. And we could feel good about that.
It should be mentioned that growing up that Carl Bildt was the most right wing political in Sweden, now he's policy of being pro immigrant and pro Europe might not seem that far right anymore. But that’s another story.
You know what I do not have that much more to say about it. Everything goes up and down. In ten years the world economic forum will find another country to praise, and no one said we’re perfect. It’s just the contrast between it. Maybe nationalism is about what's feeling good? It feels good to be “better” than someone else. Some time ago Trump hold a speech and said “look what happened in sweden last night”. The crowd could cheer and feel that no matter how bad it was, it’s not as bad as in Sweden. And then our ex-prime minister Carl Bildt could tweet: “what has Trump been smoking” and claim that the city Trump hold his speech in alone had 50 % more murders than Sweden. And we could feel good about that.
It should be mentioned that growing up that Carl Bildt was the most right wing political in Sweden, now he's policy of being pro immigrant and pro Europe might not seem that far right anymore. But that’s another story.
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I am sure that is not Ikea's fault. Maybe. But I don't have entirely positive feelings about Ikea as a result!
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I think every place has some good stuff to recommend and some bad stuff that maybe isn't being dealt with right.
I think that a lot of people who don't like Sweden for political reasons have probably never been there!