I must admit that I am pleased to see this article. Two reasons for this. One .. I have never been impressed by the accomplishments of relatively homogeneous countries that have populations a third the size of Metro New York and a fifth the size of Greater Los Angeles .. and secondly, I am tired of seeing Liberal media rank them higher than a kite simply because they are somewhere between Socialists and Social Democrats, while they rank the U.S. lower than whale dung because .. well .. because they just dont like the way we are. ;-) There is little news here .. at least not to me .. I have believed and written pretty much what is contained herein and I used to get into some real fun arguments when I was a member of the Nordic Club in Ankara. I was lucky that they were a great bunch of folks .. and many of them agreed with me. ;-) ‘What’s there not to love?” actor Will Ferrell enthuses in the second episode of NBC’s expat-comedy “Welcome to Sweden.” “Picking blueberries, outhouses, a year off if you have a baby — even if you don’t have a baby, just a year off. Your family around constantly. Lagom — not too much, not too little. I mean, they’re doing it right over here.” Ferrell is in character, but his fervor is all too familiar. The United States is in the midst of an episode of chronic Scandimania, brought on in part by the habitually high placing of Sweden and its similarly prosperous, egalitarian, collectivist neighbors — Denmark, Norway, Iceland and Finland — in global rankings of everything from happiness to lack of corruption, gender equality and consumption of organic root vegetables. It is true, the old Viking tribes excel in many of these areas, but I fear, lately, we non-Scandis have become rather blinded by the Northern Lights. Read on ...
Posted on: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 04:38:01 +0000
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