Has Sweden contributed anything to the world in the last 1000 years?
They were good pals with the Nazis till the Americans showed up, then they said they didn't like 'em so much, really.
Jante Law (Swedish: jantelagen)?
The Jante Law is a pattern of group behaviour towards individuals within Scandinavian communities, which negatively portrays and criticizes success and achievement as unworthy and inappropriate.
Generally used colloquially as a sociological term to negatively describe an attitude towards individuality and success claimed to be common in Scandinavia, the term refers to a snide, jealous and narrow mentality which refuses to acknowledge individual effort and places all emphasis on the collective, while punishing those who stand out as achievers.
The term may be used by those individuals who feel they are not allowed to take credit for their achievements, or to point out their belief that another person is being overly critical.
The Danish-Norwegian author Aksel Sandemose in his novel, “A Fugitive Crosses His Tracks,” identified the Jante Law as a series of rules.
There are ten different rules in the law as defined by Sandemose, but they all express variations on a single theme and are usually referred to as a homogeneous unit: Don’t think you’re anyone special or that you’re better than us.
The ten rules state:
Don’t think you’re anything special.
Don’t think you’re as good as we.
Don’t think you’re smarter than we.
Don’t convince yourself that you’re better than we.
Don’t think you know more than we.
Don’t think you are more important than we.
Don’t think you are good at anything.
Don’t laugh at us.
Don’t think anyone cares about you.
Don’t think you can teach us anything.
An eleventh rule recognized in the novel is:
11. Don’t think there’s anything we don’t know about you.
In the book, those Janters who transgress this unwritten ‘law’ are regarded with suspicion and some hostility, as it goes against communal desire in the town to preserve social stability and uniformity.
Now you understand the reason why the poster wrote what he/she did.
They sold Hitler high grade steel. Well that influenced history! Outside of that I can’t think of much....