"My country is a better country than most other countries."

[Buck Birdseed]

Re: "My country is a better country than most other countries."

Originally posted by Kramerman
I am surprised by Sweden's rather low agreence

You don't know a whole lot about us Swedes then... We're indoctrinated to secretly and smugly believe in our own superiority but it's a total social taboo to actually say so out loud. Instead we put up (skewed?) universal criteria for greatness, note sweden's high position in every chart (schools! telecommunications! fair play! etc.) and pat ourselves on the back, while clearly demonstrating that this does not make Sweden, as such, better but that we're simply quite good at stuff everyone obviously aspires to.

Plus theres the entire protestant-scandinavian Jante law, but let's not get into that.

[Ecthy]

yes, let's get into it, what is a Jante law?

[Combat Ingrid]

The Jante Law has ten commandments that basically all say:

You are nothing special.

[Skanky Burns]

And with that, Yavoon gets Quote of the Week.

[Az]

You don't know a whole lot about us Swedes then... We're indoctrinated to secretly and smugly believe in our own superiority but it's a total social taboo to actually say so out loud. Instead we put up (skewed?) universal criteria for greatness, note sweden's high position in every chart (schools! telecommunications! fair play! etc.) and pat ourselves on the back, while clearly demonstrating that this does not make Sweden, as such, better but that we're simply quite good at stuff everyone obviously aspires to.

Plus, you could always say, "and we're humble, too!"

[Flubber]

Canadian here and its patently obvious that we are better than MOST countries on almost any measure an average person might use. But as has been pointed out, there are a lot of crappy, impoverished totalitarian countries out there.

Just the fact that we are all sitting in front of computers with internet access means we are all sitting more comfortably and freely than about half the world.

[Al'Kimiya]

I don't think my country is better than most. I however think I'm better than most of my countrymen. So.. I disagree.

[Gangerolf]

We're indoctrinated to secretly and smugly believe in our own superiority but it's a total social taboo to actually say so out loud.

we don't have that taboo in norway. we are generally more nationalistic (in a joyful, non-racist way of course) than other scandies I guess. I think it's because we were a "colony" for so long.

[Ecthy]

high time you guys became another colony methinks... we could do with your economic "power"

[Gangerolf]

you already have it

[Ecthy]

how?

[TCO]

USA! USA!

Launch Brittney!

[Ecthy]

what?

[Gangerolf]

oh you don't want to pay for it?

[Ecthy]

join the union