Well I'm sure you're way more current than I am. Alot of my information is a little dated and comes mainly from the differences between how they were doing things in Sweden vs. Canada. I can remember back when I was a little girl, and hearing certain controversies debated in Parliament, and my Aunt or Uncle would comment on the situation in Sweden.
It's kind of like hearing the controversy about sex education in American public schools and thinking 'what's the big deal, we've been doing that for years, ...things don't fall apart'
or Americans hearing people are running scared in the streets because some country is considering something that has been a staple of American culture. You're like wtf? what's the big deal?
My uncle was never jingoistic or anything, it's just that what Canadians were freaked out and scared about was already common place in Sweden and had been for years. Similar with Denmark as well. But I have to say the greatest proponents in favour of Scandinavian countries being deemed as very progressive, imo, ...have been the people I've encountered from there and their ideas. An ex was Danish by descent. He had lived his entire life 26yrs at that point within a 50 mile radius of LA. He thought there was only ONE way to do things, and it was the RIGHT way. One summer he went to Denmark for a few months. He came back a completely changed man.
