> Coming to Stockholm, the thing that shocked me - I'd even go as far as to say traumatized me to a certain extent - was that Swedish people were completely at

> Coming to Stockholm, the thing that shocked me - I'd even go as far as to say traumatized me to a certain extent - was that Swedish people were completely at ease pretending that others around them were invisible. For a very extreme version of this: In Germany there are somewhat regular cases of duty to rescue charges against people because they just straight up ignored a person in distress. One of the worse cases was a 82 years old man collapsing at a bank ATM and going unconscious [0]: Four people were just ignoring him on the ground, literally stepping over the body to keep doing their banking, it took 20 minutes until somebody who found him actually called for help, he ended up dying in the hospital. [0] https://www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/nordrhein-westfalen-82-jaehriger-bricht-in-essener-bankfiliale-zusammen-kunden-ignorieren-ihn-1.3227285 https://www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/nordrhein-westfalen-82-...