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Yeah Americans seem to have gotten the idea that nordic countries are completely homogenous for some reason. It's absurd how often I see them act like we can't
by paddim8 3y ago
Yeah Americans seem to have gotten the idea that nordic countries are completely homogenous for some reason. It's absurd how often I see them act like we can't compare our countries to the US because we apparently have no immigrants.
- AlbertCory 3y ago"Nordic countries" is an inappropriate generalization. The other ones are not islands.
- paddim8 3y agoPeople say this about both Sweden and Iceland and it's not true for either of them.
- dukeyukey 3y agoThey aren't, but Scandinavia may as well be. The only land border is an icy, barely-populated taiga controlled by an extremely authoritarian, violence-happy enemy of the West. My bet is crossing that border is _significantly_ harder than the US-Mexico border
- AlbertCory 3y agothey do have a bridge to Denmark now, though.
- dontupvoteme 3y ago>The only land border is an icy, barely-populated taiga controlled by an extremely authoritarian, violence-happy enemy of the West Finland isn't that bad
- mchaver 3y agoIn the US there are many ideas about how things work in Sweden without closely considering facts. This is often politically motivated regardless of political affiliation.
- bernawil 3y agoIt's a mid 2000s internet trope that somewhat persists. Back when Ericsson and Nokia where cool the media would make an example of Sweden and Finland. Every discussion would be a variation on: - "I want $LIBERTARIAN_POLICY policy" - "In Sweden, they have $SOCIALIST_POLICY and its better!" - "That only works because it's small and homogeneous!" That, or people would motte-and-bailey harder left-wing opinions behind the Sweden motte.