WHAT IS WRONG WITH SWEDEN? How ordinary Swedes live

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

What's the first thing that comes to mind when it comes to Sweden? If you only think about Carlson or the meatballs from the IKEA store, then you should watch the video to the end.

Yes, since we are talking about Ikea, then you should know that the world-wide popular chain of stores is no longer Swedish: for eight years now it has been owned by moneybags from the Netherlands. Now let's go!

Swedish family

Around the mid-seventies of the last century, the concept of "Swedish family" appeared in the Russian language, which for a long time became synonymous with Sweden. Not the least role in this was played by the ABBA group - two married couples who sang sweet voices about money and love and once changed partners. However, Swedish families are not much different from other European ones: dad, mom and a couple of kids. Divorced Swedes tend to try to maintain normal relations with each other. Children from a previous marriage regularly come to visit dad and mom. “New” and “old” families often spend their free time together, completely unaware of the fact that their “irresponsible” behavior further strengthens the myth of the “Swedish family” in Russia.

In general, Sweden has a very reverent attitude towards children. You cannot raise your voice to children, violence is unacceptable. In Sweden, corporal or physical punishment in all forms has been prohibited since 1979, including the right of parents to spank their children. When divorcing, the court takes into account ONLY the interests of the young citizen. None of the "run away" spouses have the right to leave the city. The child should have the right to see parents freely and at any time. If not both at once, then at least in turn. Moreover, everyone can live for a week. In general, in any incomprehensible situation, the child should have two parents. O

A lot of Swedish couples prefer to live in an unregistered marriage, since the rights and obligations are exactly the same as those of a legitimate husband and wife, an official divorce is an expensive pleasure, and in the presence of children, it is also a long one.

Buffet

The buffet was much more fortunate in terms of believability than the Swedish family. The so-called smörgabsurd) - "snack table" - was really invented in Sweden. True, the naturally modest Scandinavians do not call it Swedish. And its roots are in the distant past. Many centuries ago, the Swedes made preparations for the future from long-term storage products - salted fish, root crops and vegetables, smoked meat. When guests arrived, all the food was served at once, in large bowls. Thus, the owners saved themselves from unnecessary ceremonies, freeing up time for communication. In the XX century, this democratic way of eating was adopted by the whole world.

Swedish wall

And the Swedish wall was also really invented in Sweden. True, there it is not called that, it is better known under the name ribstul, which literally means "frame with crossbars".

Ecology

Sweden has one of the world's best waste management and recycling systems. Its system is so complex that less than 1% of the country's household waste goes to landfills. In addition, almost half of the country's electricity comes from renewable sources. Sweden often resorts to importing waste from overseas to keep its state-of-the-art recycling plants running. By the way, in 2018, Swedish Ambassador Peter Erikson said that his country was ready to accept garbage from Russia. And not a lot, not a little - 60 million tons per year.

But Russia is not eager to give away its own garbage, since paying the European market price for disposal, namely $ 43 per ton is too expensive, it is much cheaper to store everything at spacious Russian landfills for $ 8 per ton.

Sorting in Sweden is taken to the extreme - in every house, most likely in a box under the sink, there will be different containers for plastic, paper, and ordinary waste. Sometimes glass and metal are right there, but often they are stacked separately. Someone immediately in their homes, but more often not far, almost in every block, have garbage containers for separate collection.

It sounds great, but wait to be jealous. There is also the other side of the coin: there is a combined rubbish, for example, tea bags.

So, the Swedes, who are lazy to make tea in a teapot, in the evenings have fun by tugging these bags, and throw the piece of paper into one basket, and the tea leaves in another, paper clips - in the third. You can't just take and throw away even completely sorted waste in Sweden. A special garbage service controls the quality of sorting, and if they don't like something, the Swedes will have to dig in their waste for another week and eliminate violations.