They don’t yell at each other when they argue.
When they have a confusing situation that they can’t solve on their own, they always ask for a third-party mediator. For example, if someone turns on loud music at night, a Swedish person will write a complaint to the landlord of the house. When there are family issues, they go to see family therapists. Whatever happens, there is always a third party there to restore justice.
In Sweden, people eat candy on Saturdays.
This sweet tradition, as strange as it sounds, has a pretty dark origin. In the 1940s, together with several candy corporations, the government ran tests on the patients of psychiatric hospitals in order to find out if there was any danger in eating sweets.
When they found out that eating candy too often was bad for your teeth, the lördagsgodis tradition was born: the Swedish people could eat as many sweets as they wanted, but only one day a week. So, an average Swedish family eats about 2.6 lbs of sweets on Saturdays.
Everyone has the chance to become a manager of the official Twitter account of the country for one week. The goal is simple: to show the country through the eyes of the citizens. In order to become the manager, you need to live in Sweden but your citizenship doesn’t matter. You can’t nominate yourself though, only someone who you think deserves to do this.
lots of fake news in the thread but #1 is true 32°F iz summer when it's -5 F then maybe I have a hat
I just can't imagine the pervasive cultural mindset necessary for an entire country to permit their government to regulate every individual's eating of candy.
This rubs my spirit of rugged individualism the wrong way - just like when NYC Mayor Bloomberg tried to ban the selling of large-sized soft drinks. Who gave these nanny-state politicians the idea that they had any authority over such things? That's what parents are for. Damn, Sweden, have a Snickers bar.
Mistake, ...its kingdom.
lots of fake news in the thread but #1 is true 32°F iz summer when it's -5 F then maybe I have a hat
I just can't imagine the pervasive cultural mindset necessary for an entire country to permit their government to regulate every individual's eating of candy.
This rubs my spirit of rugged individualism the wrong way - just like when NYC Mayor Bloomberg tried to ban the selling of large-sized soft drinks. Who gave these nanny-state politicians the idea that they had any authority over such things? That's what parents are for. Damn, Sweden, have a Snickers bar.
Mistake, ...its kingdom.