Posted on 03/18/2011 8:19:55 PM PDT by WesternCulture
Why do Americans drive around in Fred Flintstone vehicles and what's the underlying problem behind the vast majority of Brits buying Fords and Vauxhalls year after year? Why does your tap water taste like sh*t and why don't Italians tear down buildings that no longer are in use?
What's the idea of building a house out of cardboard?
Denmark has the highest wages on Earth. Norway can compete. OK. But why is it that every time I visit our dear western neighbors I feel sorry for people driving wrecks instead of Volvo V70s?
Is the V70 a far too sophisticated vehicle for your marijuana-inflicted brains?
Get a grip.
Grow up.
You have a nation to run.
Please visit Sweden once in your lifetime and study how civilized people live and work.
In case you're healthy and normally furnished in the brain department there's no reason why you should not drive a nice Volvo/BMW/M-B/Audi/SAAB/Cadillac and own a nice home.
Feel free to criticise me.
I met a group of Swedish Mormons in Finland last year (true story), which shows you they (the Swedes) are not smarter than us.
I want the Hummer H2 to be brought back, with a turbocharged diesel!
I love my current truck, its a 2002 Silverado 3500HD dually 4WD with the 8.1L(496cid) gas engine, no longer available with this engine, now you have to have either a boat of the 2 ton chasis to get the 8100 Vortec engine.
The United States covers more land and displays a greater variety of customs and cultures than any European country. What do you have against Americans appreciating diverse regions and cultures within their own borders? Are you really so blind that you can't see the difference between Glacier Park, Montana, and San Antonio, Texas? Why shouldn't a kid from Biloxi, Mississippi, see the famous Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania?
...they have an extremely difficult time imagining that folks in other countries are productive, content, and sophisticated.
No. We just don't share your bizarre little obsession with kissing foreign ass.
They refuse to believe that there is a single aspect of a foreign existence that is not is every way inferior to life in the United States.
See previous response.
It is very unfortunate - Americans could learn a great deal about lifestyle from other nations - but they won’t. It’s too bad...
Have you always been a stuck up elitist prick?
I would marry you for that car.
I live in Southern California, I have no need for a summer house or a winter house for that matter.
Please update us as to what your point is.
My Mother always told me that in life there are always people that are better off than you and there are always people worse off than you.
Are you posting here to tell us how wonderful your life is? I don't recall seeing anyone here asking how you were doing.
My Father In Law's Wife is Swedish as are many of their friends. For some strange reason they prefer to visit Sweden rather than live there. I'll have to ask them why when I see them.
They live up the coast in Solvang. It's kind a boring combination of Lego Land and Mayberry.
LLS
Nope. Geely does. They're Chinese.
Man, that is one weird looking dude, the first one with the poofy shirt. They all look like they’re sticking their heads through one of those tourist photo props, really. Something’s seriously out of whack.
JJ Walker is Swedish? Who Knew?
LLS
Yep, as best I can tell, would be the answer to your last question.
An important point, there. Pretty much all of Europe is in a demographic death-spiral. Fertility rates are in the toilet. That 1.67 rate is "children per woman", and what means is that on average, couples aren't managing to replace themselves. So... every generation of Swedes is smaller than the one before. But among the Muslim immigrant population, the fertility rate is over 4. This is from Malmo, to Berlin, to Amsterdam, to Paris, to... whatever.
The math there, is not happy math.
Some of the worst-off places (Germany I think, among them) have a fertility rate of 1.1 or 1.2... and so far, no civilization has ever recovered from a fertility rate lower than 1.4.
Cheerio... :-)
Understood.
But if you ever dump her, I am available! LOL
"Nope. Geely does. They're Chinese."
Ouch!
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.
Spoken like a true elitist. Listen to the clock tick.
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