Mračne strane Skandinavije:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/27/scandinavian-miracle-brutal-truth-denmark-norway-sweden

DENMARK: "Denmark's schools lag behind even the UK's. Its health service is buckling too. According to the World Cancer Research Fund, the Danes have the highest cancer rates on the planet. "But at least the trains run on time!" I hear you say. No, that was Italy under Mussolini. "
 

NORWAY: "Like the dealer who never touches his own supply, those dirty frackers the Norwegians boast of using only renewable energy sources, all the while amassing the world's largest sovereign wealth fund selling fossil fuels to the rest of us. As Norwegian anthropologist Thomas Hylland Eriksen put it to me when I visited his office in Oslo University: "We've always been used to thinking of ourselves as part of the solution, and with the oil we suddenly became part of the problem. Most people are really in denial.""

SWEDEN: "Effectively a one-party state – albeit supported by a couple of shadowy industrialist families – for much of the 20th century, "neutral" Sweden (one of the world largest arms exporters) continues to thrive economically thanks to its distinctive brand of totalitarian modernism, which curbs freedoms, suppresses dissent in the name of consensus, and seems hell-bent on severing the bonds between wife and husband, children and parents, and elderly on their children. Think of it as the China of the north."

Nadam se da ne postoji jer mislim da je od utopije nema ništa dosadnije.

Nije loše da postoje i malo mračnije stvari (koliko se ja razumem u život).

Mada i sve to pada u vodu kada se obrati pažnja na prelepe skandinavske gospe kako se šeću u kratkim suknjama po Kopenhagenu.

Nadam se da neće nikog ne vređa moj stav. 

Edited December 20, 201410 yr by Behemot

Nordijci su, BTW, odgovorili na članak, te šeram i to kako bih ispao fer u polemici:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/05/scandinavian-miracle-denmark-finland-iceland-norway-sweden

Odličan je i nastavak:

'The grim truth behind the Scandinavian miracle' – the nations respond

 

Michael Booth:

In trying to make myself heard above the clamour of pro-Nordic propaganda in the British (indeed, global) media, and shake a few people out of their decade-long Scandi-trances, I hereby plead guilty to a selective, provocative slant on the region.

DENMARK: Adam Price

Sure, we Danes are very happy when it comes to answering happiness surveys – and why shouldn't we be? We take an awful lot of antidepressants!

FINLAND: Alexander Stubb

We Finns have a great sense of humour and Michael Booth's piece was a good laugh.

[...]

As for calling us the drunks of Europe? I've been out in the UK on a Friday night: our drinking habits seem very British, if anything.

How do you tell the difference between a Finnish introvert and a Finnish extrovert? One looks at his own feet when he's talking to you, the other will looks at yours.

The bottom line is that these are hilarious stereotypes and, as with all stereotypes, there's an element of truth. But we Scandinavians can take the mick out of ourselves just fine.

SWEDEN: Lars Trägårdh

The Nordic model has long served as a rhetorical batting ball in other countries. One moment held up as utopia; the next unmasked as a totalitarian hell.

Hvala, Duyo, taj link sam hteo da okačim

Inače, ovo je baš dobro:

"More troubling is the enduring commitment to a national welfare state that is de facto limited to citizens and legal residents. In an age of migration and globalisation this brings to the fore a potent conflict between rights of citizens and human rights. It constitutes a deep challenge to democracy as we know it. And Swedes are currently no more successful in handling this than anyone else."

Као некоме из срца балканске таме, смешни су ми ови "недостаци" Скандинавије

Meni je Skandinavija jako privlacna,a i volim zimu i sneg i te fore...Gledao sam dosta njihovih serija i filmova...Imaju takodje odlicne pisce kriminalistickih romana...Nordijska utopija naravno da ne postoji,te zemlje imaju odlican zivotni standard,ali imaju takodje i veliki broj samoubistava...Svedska polako postaje haos zemlja,dok su Danska i Norveska relax...