Conference turris::scandia

549.0. "National Geographic, August 1993, features Sweden" by TLE::SAVAGE () Thu Aug 26 1993 13:41

    Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
    From: [email protected] (Tor Slettnes)
    Subject: Re: Sweden in National Geographic Aug 93
    Organization: Not very much
    Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1993 09:05:43 GMT
 
 +------ The wit of [email protected] (Tony Matti Juhani Paso):
 | For those concerned in the bad PR Sweden received with the JAS incident
 | once again, there might be something to soothe your souls in the new
 | issue of National Geographic. One of the main stories is about Sweden.
 | 
 | Some parts of the article strengthened my previous stereotypes :
 | 'To be average is good in Sweden, to be different is bad' or 'We're taught
 | very early not to stand out from the crowd or risk making anyone un-
 | comfortable'. Some parts broke previous misconceptions, for instance the
 | bit about Gnosj|. Frankly, I didn't know you had it in you.
 | 
 | Some parts brought an eerie feeling of deja vu. You could have replaced
 | in many passages the word Sweden with Finland. Some parts made me
 | congratulate us for not having the same problems.
 +------
 
Exactly my feeling too. I read that article, and after 2 continous
years abroad I started feeling like home .. (Norway).
 
BTW: That article was pretty rough on Sweden..
 
 +------
 | Some of the info is bound to be a little embarassing for Sweden. Read the
 | bits of the Sami and Swedish law.
 +------
 
Yap; but it also said that there are 17000 Sami in Sweden!
Is that right? I thought there were only about 10000, as
compared to about 25000 in Norway..?
 
-tor