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Interesting how well known Sweden seems to be in the world for its population; many countries with way more people but not popular like Sweden. I learned Swedis
by triyambakam 1y ago
Interesting how well known Sweden seems to be in the world for its population; many countries with way more people but not popular like Sweden. I learned Swedish because I think its cool. Would love to learn other languages with even more speakers but Sweden has so much media and resources it's so easy.
- brabel 1y agoThey’ve got good jeans! Sorry just joking. They were big proponents of Eugenics before Hitler found out about it. But let’s be honest, a land of blondes is much more likely to be given media attention. Just like a war in Ukraine is a lot more talked about than a war in Sudan or Yemen. At least in the Western world.
- mrmlz 1y agoOr you know - the myriad of world changing inventions, Nobel prize, insane amount of popular music, musicians and producers. But yeah keep focusing on skincolor :)
- cess11 1y agoI think most people would consider the Myrdal couple winners in the battle regarding eugenics, which were proponents of a strain of thought they called 'social hygiene' that was the main opposition to the eugenicists. One outcome was that the social democrats started to financially strangle the eugenicist institutions. Swedish diplomats and politicians did quite a bit in international politics during large portions of the 1900s, and the country spawned some quite successful corporations and innovations. Dag Hammarskjöld, Folke Bernadotte, Nobel dynamite, Ericsson telecom, things like that.