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Watching the Swedes: Are you an Extreme Swede?
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A blog about Swedish culture - the sophisticated, the strange and the sublime. Key Traveller - travel blog. Communication and Culture training. Wednesday, 14 March 2012. Are you an Extreme Swede? We're participating in a trade show called 'Personalmässan' today and tomorrow. After Day 1, it's looking promising. The theme that we have is 'Are you an Extreme Swede? So the question is.are you an Extreme Swede? Here are the questions, answer 'yes', 'maybe' or 'no':. 15 March 2012 at 01:03. Since 1994, I've b...
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Watching the Swedes: November 2011
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A blog about Swedish culture - the sophisticated, the strange and the sublime. Key Traveller - travel blog. Communication and Culture training. Wednesday, 30 November 2011. Out in the world, a prevailing stereotype of the Swedes is that they are liberal and sexually liberated. But even sexual freedoms can be too extreme. For example, zoophilia, or bestiality, has been legal in Sweden since 1944. It is also, by the way, legal in Denmark and Finland. Links to this post. Tuesday, 8 November 2011. One such s...
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Watching the Swedes: September 2011
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A blog about Swedish culture - the sophisticated, the strange and the sublime. Key Traveller - travel blog. Communication and Culture training. Wednesday, 28 September 2011. 5 tips for spotting Swedes at an airport. If, like me, you like guessing peoples nationalities at airports, here are a few simple tips to help you spot the Swedes:. 1) Small children running seemingly out of control around Duty Free shops, seating areas and restaurants? 3) Laden down with heavy shopping bags full of tax-free alcohol?
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Watching the Swedes: March 2011
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A blog about Swedish culture - the sophisticated, the strange and the sublime. Key Traveller - travel blog. Communication and Culture training. Wednesday, 16 March 2011. And so the snow has gone. We can see the pavements once again. Patches of green grass smile at us after several months' absence. The sky is blue. The sun is shining. And spring, maybe, yes, spring is here. Why not schedule the race earlier in the year? Like, in the winter, perhaps, when we have 4 months of natural unloved snow? Provide p...
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Watching the Swedes: December 2011
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A blog about Swedish culture - the sophisticated, the strange and the sublime. Key Traveller - travel blog. Communication and Culture training. Wednesday, 28 December 2011. Watching the Swedes: Swedish protection in Addis Abeba. Watching the Swedes: Swedish protection in Addis Abeba. Links to this post. Swedish protection in Addis Abeba. And so the Swedish journalists in Ethiopia got prison. 11 years for illegal entry and terrorism. I feel sorry for them and their families. 'Merry Christmas'. And, althou...
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Watching the Swedes: Swedes abandon the church
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A blog about Swedish culture - the sophisticated, the strange and the sublime. Key Traveller - travel blog. Communication and Culture training. Friday, 9 March 2012. Swedes abandon the church. According to the World Value's Survey, Sweden is one of the most secular countries in the world. In other words, the importance of religion in people's daily lives is much less than in many other cultures. Is this the cause or the effect of Sweden's secularisation? 9 July 2012 at 00:29. It was reported that Libyan ...
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Watching the Swedes: October 2011
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A blog about Swedish culture - the sophisticated, the strange and the sublime. Key Traveller - travel blog. Communication and Culture training. Monday, 31 October 2011. The 7 billionth citizen of the world is not Swedish. In the Phillipines, a little baby was born. But Danica Camacho isn't any ordinary baby. Why does Hans Rosling call it the 'beginning of the end'? And how does this relate to Sweden? Occupy one square kilometer. In Europe, the most dense city is the rather obscure French town of Leve...
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Watching the Swedes: Battle in the laundry room
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A blog about Swedish culture - the sophisticated, the strange and the sublime. Key Traveller - travel blog. Communication and Culture training. Friday, 2 March 2012. Battle in the laundry room. Most Swedes have never visited a public laundromat. Never had to carry their laundry on the bus to get to the nearest one. Never had to stand in line to wait for a machine. Never had to remain in the laundromat with the loaded machine for fear that the clothes might get stolen. That people are noisy. It's amazing ...
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Watching the Swedes: January 2012
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A blog about Swedish culture - the sophisticated, the strange and the sublime. Key Traveller - travel blog. Communication and Culture training. Tuesday, 31 January 2012. The legend of Huskahinni the ogre. Long, long ago in Stockholm there was an ogre called Huskahinni. Huskahinni was a friendly but rather arrogant ogre with one eye in the middle of his forehead. But Huskahinni thought, quite simply, that he was the best ogre in the whole of the land of Norden. Quite right,' he said. 'If he claims to ...