@@agesteeen4145 as a Swede I am a bit jealous at that, we collect angry dictators as trophies, but we have winnie the puh, I remember once when they was angry at us for those muhammed drawings and later they where angra at the Danes for some other reason and I commented to a Dane, "hey bro, thanks for drawing aggro for a while, we need a break" and he answered "no problem, Norway, it's you shift after this, just so you know"
I'm an American living in Sweden and alive because I moved. My kids never faced a school shooting defense drill, and Sweden has the 2nd lowest pedestrian death toll in the world. Universities incorporate apprentice-style work/study models, such as the University of Cincinnati's College of DAAP, which is ranked 3rd globally by business CEOs for "Likely to Hire" by Business Insider.
Ditto. Easy life. Not that Ireland is that bad. I got a free education and half the people I went to university with were getting the grant (free money for being in full time education, means tested on the parent income).
You Fins are insanely respected here in Norway. You made your own better AK platform, Valmet AKs are said to be the best in the world, that uses the same ammunition as the Russians, because you expect to take a lot of ammo from them in a war. Absolute mad lads.
Not only that... we made the west... and it was sweedes that made the RUS a word of a people... so... technically... russia is just sweedes gone rouge.
I am proud to be Swedish if we are a part of what makes dictators uneasy something that i want to make very clear to everyone is that we do not hate the countries like Russia or China we hate the authoritarian regimes not its people.
I think it’s important to clarify that the Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded by the Norwegian government. It is awarded in Norway, but by the Norwegian Nobel Committee, which is part of the Nobel Institute. Many dictatorships often misunderstand this distinction, which can sometimes complicate diplomatic efforts for the Norwegian government.
The Nobel Prizes (Nobelpriset) are five separate prizes awarded to those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind, as established by the 1895 will of Swedish chemist, engineer, and industrialist Alfred Nobel, in the year before he died, Prizes were first awarded in 1901 by the Nobel Foundation. Nobel's will indicated that the awards should be granted in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace. A sixth prize for Economic Sciences, endowed by Sweden's central bank (Sveriges Riksbank) and first presented in 1969, is also frequently included, as it is also administered by the Nobel Foundation. .
The committee members are elected by politicians, so the prize is therefore political. Too many of the awards have been given based on pushing politics and agenda that is close to the political parties that elected the members. I think the criticism is relevant.
Dictators doesn't understand freedom. They expect the government of countries to control everything, so if there is something going against them in a country it is the fault of that countries government. Wannabe dictators also suffer from the same lack of understanding. Remember how Trump tried demanding the Swedish government influence the Swedish courts when A$AP Rocky was arrested there for assault, this clearly illustrated how Trump thinks justice should ie. do as told rather than following laws. That alone was a warning to the people of the US not to vote for the nutter.
Jante-loven is a satirical invention by Danish-Norwegian novelist Aksel Sandemose, but it IS true that Nordic societies are egalitarian in comparison with most other countries and we do not tend to be submissive.
@@erlinggaratun6726 Yes, jantelagen as we call it in Sweden is meant to be sort of a caricature of the Scandinavian society, as far as I've understood it.
I always viewed Jantelagen as: Do not think you are worth more just because you make more money, have a better/important job etc. Your worth are the same as others. It doesn't undermine your skills etc
Sadly, this is directly the opposite of what the law actually was intended to convey. BEcause there are actually 10 laws, not one line, and some of the other goes like this: "You shouldn't believe YOU can achieve anything" and "You shouldn't believe anybody cares about YOU" and "You shouldn't believe you're worth as much as US". It's a law about social control, where individuals who try to excel is frowned upon, and pushed back in line, and in fact, pushed further down than others and made example of.
It's the other way around: Janteloven is most often quoted by very wealthy people or their bootlickers. Same as when they argue that any critique of their hoarding of wealth is jealousy, Unfortunately not many people know much about Sandemose. He was not an amazing guy.
I'm disabled and very lucky to come from Norway. I get a monthly decent payment. When i still was working, i was happily paying taxes, knowing that i would be taken care of if i got sick. And i did. Still i'm paying taxes happily.
Agreed im very happy about our taxes. Not only does it help me if I get sick i can also help others if they get sick just by paying taxes. I’m a student atm so I get payed to study and that’s very nice I don’t feel so insecure in my economics wich would make my mental health decline
Thanks for your comments! Finland is always supporting freedom and peace . Few days ago Ukraine received a ew aid package from Finland . Slava Ukraini!
Being criticised by Kim Jung Cruel are a badge of honour we take pride in. When The boycotts of the South African apartheid regime finally let to Mandela´s release, the first three nations he made official visits to, to personally give thanks were the Scandinavian nations. Denmark are right now the nation that have donated most to Ukraine per capita and rest of Nordic nations, minus Norway are in top ten.
@@mbc1994 No. I would hope you were correct but you are not. Per capita Norway are somewhere between number 9 and 14. Per percentage of country GDP Denmark have donated 1,8 and Norway, 0,5. That´s actually around same as our entire military budget as it were around 3 years ago.
And history will show that Denmark did put all out money on the wrong side regarding Ukraine. Our proxy war with Russia will go hot within the next year. Denmark are cutting down on schools and services for the elderly so we can send billions to the most corrupt country in Europe. And that is a fucked up idea. Our politicians have sold out their souls. Their corruption is done under the rader.
@@mbc1994 Not a problem my neighbour. Did you see the 4 Nordic foreign ministers being questioned about the effort to aid Ukraine and more, broadcasted on Swedish TV yesterday? There the Norwegian foreign minister were confronted with being number 14 without questioning the numbers more than saying that the year were not over. Besides that I think we all can agree that it are the larger nations percentage that really need to be raised to make the big difference and it are despicable that they seem to ignore their responsibility. Only way to avoid WW3 are to stand up against Russia, China and Israel´s illegalities. AND make a fast transition to an emission free energy production and usage globally NOW.
IT IS NOT FREE, school, medical care and some other stuff. It is included in our tax system and yes, we pay high taxes but rather that then go broke if you break an arm. It cost 20$ if you break an arm, leg or if you will be put in hospital for some time. 😊
Well, healthcare is as good as free, and education is free. Yes, it's financed by taxes, everyone knows this, but you can also come from a no income family paying no taxes and still get a university grade just like anyone else. So, I like to put it this way, education is free, earning money is not.
I don't know anything about it but since North Korea has been super sanctioned since forever I don't know how that would work🤔. Even it's true, from your description it sounds like the bill doesn't get payed but Sweden keeps on sending new bills. I can almost picture in my head Kim Yong-il taking the updated bill and using it as toilet paper😂... and what can we do about it? We may never forget but I somehow doubt that's sending cold shivers down Kim's spine😱... you think it's time to send in the big boys, meaning Kronofogden (the bailiffs in Sweden)?
How uplifting in a world in turmoil. As a Norwegian of ripe age, living abroad for 35 years, it was a blessing to come back to my roots. Mind and body unite. It is good here !
I once was teamed up with a foreign exchange student from France when we were going to learn how a statistical computer system worked. I tried and tried again. He became more and more irritated with me, then I started to ignore him and talked to my friends instead. I mean he did not even try to find a solution. Until this meeting I did not think anyone could be so bad at collaborating. Look at eurovision that shit is still running becouse of nordic chairmen through the last 30 years. I mean I blush when i see this video, that is in our DNA becouse you can't just going about blowing things out of proportion here, they have to be true. And truth is always somewhere inbetween. Recently us Swedes had to pathetically bow to two authoritiarian regimes, Turkey and Hungary. becouse we wanted to join our sibling Finland in NATO. We have been a haven for kurdish opposition against Erdogan, a certain organisation. But now (becouse we want the so called protection from NATO) that organization has been deemed to be a terrorist organisation here as in other countries around the world. So we have had to hand some of them over to turkish courts. Now the small opposition against Erdogans criminal regime have become even smaller. But hey a potential war with Russia is way more dangerous than a real internal war in Turkey where civilians will fight the authorities. We know how pathetic these suitwaring paranoid little men are. The swedish government even let Erdogan have his parade has if he had won, that was part of the deal were individuals and NATOs life changed forever. But he got to say to his citizen what he alone all on his own had achieved.
@@pekkajarvinen69 exept the finns lost the "winter war" and the next war where they allied with nazi-germany against sovjet the finns ahould be grateful for even being a country anymore
@@paulfredriksteiner those were only the latest 2 wars. We've had plenty of those before. During ww2 Germany was only support we had, no other choice since rest of the Europe were scared of soviets.
@@paulfredriksteinerno we didn't. 😂 Russia had literally army of 1 million. They lost against Finland 48.4% of their army. 😂 And as for "win" they got 6,5% of Finland. What was size of an army that they were against 337 000. Russia's "win" was so humilating it's not even victory. The reason why Russia lost winter war was because their army size was only 66.7% bigger than Finnish army and there is unwritten war rule that army size must be over 75% to quarantee victory in war. Lower the army size in %, higher changes to lose.
@@paulfredriksteinertoday Russia wouldn't even survive war against Finland. 😂 they got 1,2 million in active duty and as a spare 2 million. Finland has active army size of 280 000 and in spare around 900 000. So In full wage war spares included it would be 1,18 millon against 3,2 millon. Their overforce would be 63,2%. 😂 So even without Nato. Finland has 36,8% change to win and conquer Russia. But since we Finland also get Nato base and troops from Nato, USA might soon takedown Russia. 😂
Former UK MP Cameron once stated; "We don't want another Denmark here in the UK!" So it's not just dictators, that dislike the democratic ideas of the Nordic nations it's also the UK's plutocrats as well.
Chine had in the past a project of trying out if they can affect a country by doing different types of social/diplomatic/political pressure. And they chose Sweden for that. Part of the "battle" against China was done in comedy, most visibly in "Svenska nyheter" (a TV show made by SVT, which is kind of like Brittish BBC). There's even been jokes about the Turkish president. He tried to silence it by telling the Swedish government to stop it. When the government didn't, he thinks that it's the government that is doing the show - because it's how they operate. These dictators cannot grasp the idea of freedom of expression. And of course, since they are trying to manipulate everyone, and have their own puppets, they think that all other countries are like that. Which makes me believe that if they have laws against "foreign agents" - it's exactly what they are doing.
The same happend with the Muslim Brotherhood and our foreign minister during the Muhammed drawings coming out, the Muslim Brotherhood wanted the DAnish state to censor Jyllandsposten and not allow newspapers to insult Islam, our foreign ministers response was short and sweet "The state of Denmark does not engage in censorship".
Thanks for great reaction video. I have seen maybe one or two your video before. I just hit the subscribe button when u said that u r half Indian half British. I think that u are a favor and benefit to humanity, like my dear daughter, who is half Thai half Finnish. All the best, from middle age Finnish man. Keep content coming. Edit: yes😅 "puppets of the west" thats what they allways keep saying😅. Well, I would be much more happily "puppets of the west" than countries like who are claiming this..
I am actually sitting at a 15 min drive from the steep valley with the waterfall at 11:01. I suddenly realized: that's here! my own village! Cool, man. Welcome to Norway :) Video is correct, actually, though we do of course have all the normal problems people have.
The Nordic countries should be rolemodels on how you build a democracy and how you have a real free and safe society. In Europe, we're trying to work together and establish peace. We are uniting, and we'd love to include the rest of the wolrd in this free and friendly colaboration. We want a world peace, and we'd love to help the rest of the world to become happy and live in peace.
Finnish and Swedish farmers had their representatives in the Riksdag (parliament) five hundred years ago. Even poor people learned to read and write to some extent. Finns and Swedes got Freedom of the Press written into the constitution in 1766. First such Act in the world. Obviously the Nordic societies back then were poor and hard, but yet there were strokes of freedom not seen anywhere else. This was even before thirteen British colonies in America began to make trouble.
We have never had dictators per say. We had suppreme power bestoved upon the royals back in the days and we have had tyrants but never dictators. Following the french revolution, the danes learned that the people had to be heard, and following the Napoleonic wars we learned that the power should reside with the people. The royals didnt oppose this as they did in France for instance, so our Royals got to keep their heads and we still have them and still love them to day. Our royals are some of our most valued diplomats, with out most people actually knowing this..
@@SvendSved-p1u Ok, I guess they don't portray us as a føkked socialist or communist state then... And yes, I know Trump had some contrarily comments over the time, all of them utter ignorant and forgotten by MAGA.
The MAGA supporters often reference scandinavia and complain that we all "only want to open cupcake shops" and "they are so poor, they can't afford cars! 😢"
Proud to be danish. We pay our taxes and everybody has an opportunity to education, social welfare, medic care for free and so on. We have a real democracy. We are ready to pay tax for people with a less happy life. Some call it communism 😂😂 Think they would be happy to live here.
I think one of the historical reasons why the Nordic countries have developed "a mindset of their own" is that feudalism never really gained a foothold here in historic times. "Common people" have always been a bit freer and had more rights vis-a-vis the privileged classes , i.e. church, nobility and royalty. Maybe this is something that has survived since the Viking Age 😉🤓🤔. To answer one of your questions: No, there have never been any "dictators" in any of the Nordic countries. At least not in the meaning the word has today. There have of course been more or less autocratic kings, but in these cases the autocracy has been directed more towards the nobility than towards "ordinary people". During the Second World War, Norway had a self-proclaimed "leader" named Vidkun Quisling, but he was mostly a puppet completely subordinate to the Nazi Reich Commissioner Josef Terboven and Hitler. Finland was during the 19th century a part of the Russian Empire but actually enjoyed quite a bit of autonomy unlike the rest of the empire.
in a Danish civil war the King deliberately promised more rights to the independent freemen farmers to give him more authority over the other nobles, at the time of "absolutist Kings".. and in modern times although he was expansionist and embroiled Denmark in problematic foreign wars to little benefit, his increased control over the Danish state while not upsetting the independent freemen farmer class ensured a boom in population increased taxes and large scale infrastructure projects, which made the King even more famous and sort of "set-the-model" for "Nordic enlightened despotism" until the 18th century.
We are still 'cousin tribes', no real change since the iron age. there are even remnants of 'tribal awareness' in our various local cultures and dialects. We have the same royal families as 1200 years ago. But being king is more of a duty than a privilege, and that has been among the decisive factors, in my opinion.
This isn't entirely true, Denmark had one of the more brutal feudal systems. Where indentured farmers were practically part of the estate, you were not allowed to marry without permission from the landlord, you weren't allowed to move (not that you really could), you were not allowed to operate a business, you were barely allowed to own things and your master could beat you within an inch of your life, take your thumbs etc. without punishment, if the master killed an indentured farmer he had to pay reparations to the family but there was no punishment really beyond that. Indentured farmers were sold with the land. However, the feudal system was dismantled without a revolution or revolt and that's probably more where the difference is, it's not so much that feudalism never took hold, it was that it was dismantled without violence
well all the nordic countries were kingdoms before they became democratic. We all have kings and queens, now they're apolitical because they're not allowed to influence politics at all. they're given a "salary" from the government to be able to do their things and in general, the vast majority of Denmark (can only speak for my own country) love the royal family. Though when that is said, yes the monarch used to "dictate" everything in the country, just like every other country that had a king or queen in power back in the days. we have like 700 years or so, with absolute monarch power, so we are all "used" to being under a ruler. However our political system now doesn't make it possible really, to have a dictator because of the way our system is run. You dont vote for 1 person to take power at an election, you vote for Many parties, that then have to work together, and the party that gets the most votes, usually get to pick their person to be the prime minister, but if the prime minister isn't doing what the people want, they'll be removed. etc.
@@MrPicky Iceland was under danish control until 1944. When nazi germany invaded Denmark, Iceland decided they wanted to be their own country :P, nevertheless, like i stated, the kings and queens in scandinavia are apolitical, they have no influence in politics and are not allowed to make political statements :P
@@nopenope3164 Nope - Iceland was under Danish control until December 1 1918 when Iceland became fully independent sovereign state, known as the Kingdom of Iceland, and was freely associated to Denmark in a personal union with the Danish king. Due to this personal union Iceland asked Denmark to represent on its behalf foreign affairs and defence interests, while maintaining full control of them. So basically Iceland was its own state from that day in 1918 but decided to sever the ties with the monarchy and become republic in 1944. Also the Scandinavian monarchs may have no political influence but still are heads of state. They are not democratically elected heads of state so I still claim that Iceland and Finland are true democracies as their citizens can vote for their heads of state. It is "cute" to have figureheads (monarchs) but also very outdated system 😉
@@MrPicky what do you mean about outdated system? it is not a system, they are a symbol of where we came from as nation, and when we were united as people. the vast vast majority of people in Denmark, loves the royal family and are happy with them. and your point makes no sense about "true democracy" there is no such thing. a true democracy would meane you had to vote on every single thing, Ever decided upon, you might want to read up on how it works mate.
I just used the right for a citizen to secure an affordable apartment through the city's housing projects. There is a planned approach to finding or putting your profile down to a larger choice for housing, and there is an acute trust in every housing centre that puts aside 10% of empty apartments to people in need. They could have lost everything to fire or natural disaster. And when that happens, they are offered a temporary spot, which in most cases actually becomes a new home. The quality is fairly low and well positioned for easy access to the city centre, or perhaps in the rural area. Basically, the constitution provides the citizens with safety, as every private home is sacred in the deepest meaning of the word sacred. You need a lot of proof or a serious compelling reason for stepping into a private home. And that goes for rentals just as well as privately owned homes.
There was a time in Sweden when it was less then 10 gang murders per year, and they never shot people out in public. The gangs that plague Sweden are spreading to Norway, Denmark and Finland. Its like an infestation that you dont have any defence for. Good luck to these countries and hopefully you do a better job at fighting the gangs.
Thank you for your kind words good sir, we used to have kings and queens with total power, that is a form of dictatorship, but that was waaay back in the day, when everyone else also had that form of power structure, I always laugh at it when dictators call us puppets to the west, bitch we ARE the west, but I promise that I will dwell on it next time I'm in my hottub, drinking that cold Carlsberg and look at the nordic lights in the sky, atleast for 4 seconds, can't give you more than that I am afraid, I am to busy being happy and free.
Not all education is for free, we have student loans that we can take, and is a must if you study 100%, because there's no way to work and study at the same time.
We are (I think) descendants to Troy. We wont back down no matter the opposition. Cant tell how the other Nordic countries are, but most Swedes are born with a strong resent against Russia. 🇸🇪🇩🇰🇫🇮🇳🇴🇮🇸♥️
when sweden and finland joined NATO in '22 and '23 respectively, it was great news - say what you want about progeganda on each side - we're right to want and to preserve our freedoms (human history is unbelievably dark and violent, and... uncomfortable, and unforgivable) and like-minded people should stick together. there may be less of us than you think. we should probably also convince the people born on the wrong side of [this chapter...] the human story to see things this way. rational people look out for one another, and some world leaders are absolutely diabolical.
As a danish man who spent years of his childhood growing up in poor rural central africa, I feel like I have a pretty unique view of the world. I also travelled other parts of the world... Humans are the same all over. We all act on the same instincts and feelings. The nordic model is the worlds best living standard for all citizens, so far. There is no other place on earth I would rather live right now.
It technically is a country though, where do people get that it's not a country? it's not an autonomous region in Denmark, it's a constituent COUNTRY in the kingdom of Denmark, they have absolute home rule. The danish state has no say on domestic policies, they have constitutions, flags, their own national anthems, their own citizenship (dual with Danish citizenship, Danes are not Greenlandic nor Faroese citizens) both Greenland and Faroe are countries in every single way a country is a country. Denmark decides foreign policy and military, because neither Faroe islands nor Greenland 1. has a military 2. are big enough to have anything to do with foreign policy. Denmark gave them independence in the 90s, the reality of the situation is that they are independent the second they say "yes", but being tiny populations in remote regions of the world, full independence is a tall order. but they are both countries, in every single way. I can tell as a Dane, they sure as shit are not part of Denmark. Norway also wasn't part of Denmark, it was part of the kingdom of Denmark - this is how it works, a country and a kingdom are two different things and there can be several countries in one kingdom. The kingdom of Denmark has three constituent countries; Faroe islands, Greenland and Denmark. The Faroese government and the Greenlandic government has representation in the Danish parliament, there is no Danish representation in either Greenlandic nor Faroese parliaments. Also, the Faroese parliament is older than the Danish, being established in the year 900 among the oldest in the world. Is this why people kept pestering us about the Faroese hunting Grindehval? We have no say, they can do whatever they want. They are not in any way obligated to listen to us, even if we wanted to stop them. We also can't "sell Greenland" you'd have to talk to the Greenlanders for that one, because it's their country not ours.
Education is NOT free of charge in Sweden. We pay for education, wellfare etc. with high taxes. I'm not saying it's wrong to pay high taxes if it's used wisely but that is where a lot of things go wrong in many cases. And nepotism, which is a sort of corruption - is common.
For any country which wants to get ahead of Finland in a 30 year perspective, from now on, even from a very crappy starting point, be sure it is possible - just follow the Finnish model. All of these factors are needed (no special order, but all at once): Pay all debts; religion that underlines that we are all equal in the eyes of God, especially equal in Christ (the flag comes with a cross); our heroes got stamina and creativity more than money and worldly status; thinking equality and solidarity in every aspect of life; support women's and girls' power; invest in all young people, their health and education; power of free labor unions protected; all parties except nazis allowed; reliable jurisdiction and no corruption allowed at any level; health-care for all, from maternity health, babies, children, adults, any special needs, and elderly, including vaccination programs; free press and freedom of speech and assembly and organization for good causes, from parties to knitting-cafés and choirs; national strict control of health hazards, especially drugs and addictive substances and poisons; progressive taxation, in sum high taxes with lots of benefits in return for the tax payers; effective gun and crime-control; affordable housing in many forms; a population of people taking responsibility for every detail of life, from not littering to voting in free and fair elections, creating a country where law-abiding is a natural tendency for the common good, so that we can have a clean and accessible nature, safe streets, and high trust. Don't think that Finns are happy-go-lucky and careless, though they love to laugh, sing and dance, and do it a lot - on the contrary, Finns complain all the time about everything, until conditions improve to their liking. Finnish humor hangs out all pompous decision-makers, who offend the public, with their taking advantage of ordinary people. There are many ways to show a-holes their place, when is needed, and Finns readily see when there is a need. For example speeding tickets are measured in hourly incomes. An ugly tower meant to glorify your achievements becomes a monument of your hybris insteead (Uolevin torahammas - google that!). Do visit Finland to learn more, not just Helsinki in the tourist season, please! Do come and enjoy!
There are a few things in your answer that are statistically poppycock. God and christ have never factored in our success .. especially considering that people never really let go of the old beliefs (you can still notice a lot of animistic beliefs etc. if you pay attention). Second, that "war on drugs" that was imported from the US was never a good idea. Other than those, lots of good stuff you list here that I agree on :)
The sole reason nordic countries have cross in our flag is because of God. Yet we have shifted away from Him and towards to worldly values aka. Satans values. There are too many people in power who support worldly values and because of ignorance and or delusion they think to be saints yet in reality they are hypocrites, those who support Truth are being ridiculed and talk'd down to,, like it is written, on last days good is being called evil.. 1 John 2:15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
We in Sweden should follow your example in so many ways. For example the school system, we should throw our private greedy schools out and look at how Finland manage their schools.
At the moment, the world's bulwarks of democracy and freedom are in two highly visible groups; 1) the Nordic countries, and 2) the three old "dominions'' of Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, which share many of the characteristics of the Nordics. None of these countries are "great powers," though all of them are prosperous. It was self-education that lifted them out of poverty. But there are also several other small nations that are holding firm, scattered around the world --- nations of many different histories and cultural origins. Democracy is something that has origins in every part of the world, with roots in village councils and egalitarian institutions that long predate kings and aristocracies and dictators. Democracy is NOT a "western" value, it is a HUMAN value. Freedom is a human heritage, the right of EVERY human. We are confronted today by yet another surge of authoritarian mysticism, violence, and bigotry. It is not the first one, and probably not the last. But humanity has defeated these waves of irrationality every time they have surged. The tide of brutality and thuggery can be turned. Wherever the commitment to democracy and fairness remains strong, people should see themselves as part of a great thing ---- Civilization. And that greatness has nothing to do with leader-worship, or military might, or billionaires, or cultural egotism. Any people,, anywhere in the world, can achieve that greatness if they set aside bigotry, power fantasies, and demented ideologies.
It's sticks out like a sore thumb that you didn't mention USA here (I'm norwegian btw), which is probably the single most influential country in the world that supports the western values of freedom from dictatorships. I imagine this is due to political brain washing on your part. Even if standards for individuals within happyness indexes, education and healthcare are not so strong in USA, it's still one of the most sought after countries to live in on earth, and without USA, the world's dicatorships like Russia and China would be much more free to terrorize the world. At least I don't see any reason to live in self-denial about this unless you're politically brain washed. Also there's a lot more countries in Europe we could add to the list, I'm not sure scandinavia outweighs them so much to be exluded
@@Exsulator2 It sticks out like a broken and swollen thumb that you are clearly NOT the person to go around accusing others of being "brainwashed.' My concern is Human Values --- not the absurd gibberish of 'western" values. I stated clearly that there were more nations that could be counted as standing firm on democracy. . . . The United States is indeed important in the history of the struggle for democracy and against aristocracy, but there is no intelligent person who is unaware that it is currently wavering and failing to live up to its traditions. It is NOT standing firm. It recently elected Donald Trump to be its next president ---- a megalomaniac who has openly declared his hatred and contempt for democracy, openly admires (to the point of worship) every Communist, Fascist or other species of dictatorship, and threatens to commit Communist-style atrocities on a huge scale. Behind him, supporting him, and giving him power are 1) a mystical religious movement that advocates the abolition of any form of democracy and the transformation of the country into a theocratic monarchy --- a movement that has millions of fanatical followers; 2) a collection of multi-billionaires who openly and loudly despise democracy and call for dictatorial rule, and 3) a gigantic manipulative propaganda machine, created by a handful of oligarchs, that has developed sophisticated techniques for undermining public support for democratic institutions and promoting the most primitive, bestial forms of bigotry and barbarism. That propaganda machine COMES ORIGINALLY FROM THE COMMUNIST PARTY AND THE KGB --- and it has been adopted, amplified and improved in effectiveness by organizations like RT and FoxPravda, and the Republican Party in the U.S. The American commitment to democracy has weakened to a disastrous degree. That is why it clearly is not on the list of countries that are standing firm. . . . I have lived in the U.S., studied its history, and know its people. I have great admiration for the roughly half of the country that still possesses moral principles and has not submitted to propaganda brainwashing. But this is the moment in which that country is at its weakest, and in the most peril. I stand behind the true Americans who still have those values as a loyal friend and ally. But the Americans who voted for the vile,, totalitarian filth of Trumpism deserve nothing but contempt. . . . I am a Canadian, and fear for the liberty of my country, sitting right next door to a country that is weakening in resolve, wallowing in cowardice, and collaborating with evil. And it is not the first time. May I remind you that on June 10th, 1940, when Hitler's brutes had completed their conquest of Norway, many millions of Americans loudly supported that invasion. Nazis paraded in American cities and held massive rallies, and exactly the same kind of people supported them as those who support Trump today --- and for exactly the same reasons. But we in Canada had already declared war on Hitler and were mobilizing our entire economy to fight him. My mother, born in Canada, but raised in the U.S., fresh out of school, moved back to Canada to join the Canadian Air Force, where she met my father, a pilot. Both risked their lives to liberate countries like the Netherlands, and, yes, Norway. In fact, I can walk a short distance from my home to a monument standing on the site of '"Little Norway," on the shore of Lake Ontario. This is where, between November 1940 and February 1945, the Norwegian Airforce in exile had its base of operations. My mother, as a flight controller, knew and directed the missions of many Norwegian airmen. En sann venn er en som kommer inn når resten av verden går ut. . . . My country is not immune to these forces. We have a Conservative Party that is currently trying its best to mimic Trumpism and corrupt our democracy. They merely have a more difficult task, because we do not have the same vulnerabilities that the U.S. has. We don't have the same history, the same religious composition, or the same institutions. We have never had a Vidkun Quisling or a Trump. Decades of totalitarian propaganda have had some effect, and we too are in some danger. But so far, the propaganda has been less effective in Canada than it has been south of the border. . . . As a historian who has spent a lifetime studying totalitarian regimes, with considerable direct experience, and who has participated in the struggle against Communist tyranny in past decades, I don't have to listen to some ignoramus prattling nonsensical rubbish about this topic.
wake up , it is time - it isnt so pink of colour, The danes follow all the antidemokratic things as long of the rest of all vestern countries inclusiv australia new zealand and Usa . see what happend since 2019 , same shit, wake up, and the danes pay a lot of taxies and welfare and education is under decline, dont fool your self
Norway and Denmark delt with Hitler during the occupation. That said, we've had more than our fair share of feudalism and several kings with absolutely power - at least one of them, Christian VII was absolutely fåking raving mad. I am NOT exagerating! There's a movie: "A Royal Affair" from 2012, in which Mads Mikkelsen plays the king's doctor.
@@Alvedrotten Denmark did that too. Not soldiers, but of the resistance movement. And Denmark saved a lot of people from Nazi Germany with the help of Sweden.
Many portrayals of life in the Nordics are not quite right, in my view. We're not so free and happy as we would like. Our politicians, also, tend to want to compare ourselves against others, like that is some kind of excuse not to improve things. Still, what we have is clearly better than what many others in the world has, and totalitarian states are the worst of the lot.
As a Norwegian, despite that we have kicked the shit out of each other in the Nordic countries for as long as we have written records, today, you could not find better neighbours, bar one, that Norway has. Internally we have plenty of grievances against each other, we Norwegians probably have more than most against the Swedes and the Danes, but to the outside, we are kindred spirits. As per usual there are some jokes that perhaps highlight the differences. A Dane, a Swede and a Norwegian are drinking at a railway station pub, waiting for the train. Five minutes before the train is to arrive they leave the pub and arrive at the platform. They wait and the it is announced that the train is delayed. Ten minutes of waiting is enough for the Swede, who sets out indignantly to the Railway Office to lodge a complaint. The Dane concludes that there is really no point hanging around waiting for a delayed train when one can return to the pub for another beer. The Norwegian, feeling that there is no need to complain, and that it is a bit of hassle to walk all the way back to the pub, settles down on the bench, Five minutes later, the Swede is still complaining at the Railway Office, the Dane is into another beer, and the train arrives and the Norwegian leaves. I must admit I am partial to the Danish approach here.
Janteloven is fictional its not a real thing. We do try to live humble for the most part, but you are indeed allowed to make something of your self and live up to it..
as a norwegian, i can confidentially say that "jante loven" is a cancerous ideology here in norway, and its often used to suppress the gifted and successful than just the "learn humility" part. For example, kids who excel in a field, for example math or language, and gone through the material long time before other classmates, doesnt get to advance early in classes despite the talent, because the kid has to stay with their peers and progress as same speed as others in class. Something that causes boredom and disinterest as the kid just have to repeat stuff already known with no challenge. The same is true economically, if a field becomes very prosperous youll see the state suddenly impose extra tax on in, a clear cut example is the fishing industry where the state came in and forcefully pricecontrolled the fish as 'tax' and as a very predictable result the trade nosedived. During the newyear our prime minister even proudly stated that we should impose limits to economical growth, and yes thats also part of "jante loven" in a socialistic effort to make people more "equal", because thats what janteloven is, a socialist lite ideology being used as a steppingstone towards more harder socialism. Another example is farming, despite all the talk about needing to make norway more self sufficient, the state imposes growth control on farmers with animal quotas, even if a farmer has resources enough to expand and provide more for society, its not allowed. Youre only allowed so and so much, which limits the growth potential which makes it hard to be a farmer because of massive loans needed for the modern equipments/machinery(farmers are barely even allowed to share machinery between each other to lessen the costs). Dictators might view nordic countries as an eyesore due to our current freedoms, but our politicians sure do look at dictators with envy of their power.
@@SebastianParagraph socialism is "social ownership (aka government) of the means of production". Hense i called it a "socialist lite ideology". Yes its not real socialism, but its being used as a slow push towards it or something closer to it, government dont own these industries but they certainly have their meddling fingers in it with the intent of limiting economic growth to slowly induce a more equal outcome for people, cuz its bad if someone makes it too far ahead. Janteloven isnt as extreme as socialistic/marxist ideology of wealth distribution and social equalness, but certainly has its ties to it.
Norwegian here, and us nordics have been ruled by kings & queens, not so much dictators, but in some cases maybe the occasional tyrant here and there. The swedish king Karl the 12th comes to mind. Taking his poor swedish people on a crusade across parts of Europe to build his swedish empire, before ending his days as a young man, shot dead in the trenches outside of the norwegian fortress, Fredriksten Festning! Funnily enough, we are the greatest of neighbours, and have good relations between us up here in the north! Before that, during the viking-era, before being unified as whole countries, we were just small city-states and clans lead by chieftans and kings & queens. There might have been lesser known, local tyrants back then. However, the most obvious one, that for some reason seems to try to escape me, is during the 2nd world war, Denmark and Norway were occupied by Nazi-Germany! The norwegian politician Vidkun Quisling did a coup and announced over the radio that his party, Nasjonal Samling (National Gathering) had taken over controll of the government after the "cowardly royal family and politicians" had fled the country and gone into hiding in England, and that everyone should welcome and greet our german savoiurs! He wanted to be the Prime Minister and be the direct contact to Hitler, but instead, Hitler put his friend Josef Terboven in charge as Realm Commissariat, and he did indeed rule as dictator, and ofc there was Hitler aswell.
You do not understand real freedom until you move to Sweden (cannot have an opinion on other Scandinavian states ) and experienced it for many years. It shames places like the UK which is basically make believe compared.
We certainly had Quisling in Norway, between 1940-45. Not only was he the arch-traitor, but a dictator, and a puppet dictator at that, taking orders from an even stronger dictator, Hitler. Our neighbor Sweden's last absolute monarch that was knocked down in a coup and replaced, Gustav IV Adolf might also fit the bill. As I understood it he wasn't outright cruel, just slightly incompetent and too fond of war. Some contemporaries labeled him as insane, but single-minded obsession might be more accurate. Doesn't help he lost Finland to Russia. He was overthrown in 1808 I believe?
We lack people with roots, unity in culture, collective vision. So its now more of economies for individuals to make a buck in, rather than countries. R.I.P
During ww2 there was a kind of dictator in Norway. Quistling. He took power of the contry with the help from Adolf H. Finally the Norvegian court was fatal to him
Sweden actually stick out a LOT from the rest these days, by getting more and more authoritarian and divided, but less prosperous and happy than the rest. You aren't getting the full picture. This AI reel is cherry picking heavily.
I suppose a sovereign king is a kind of dictator, and we did have those before we got democracy. But I think it's noteworthy that Denmark Norway and Sweden are still kingdoms, although they serve more in an administrative function now. Much of like UK remains a kingdom. Finland has only been a sovereign country since 1918 and Iceland since WW2, and Faeroe Islands is part of the Kingdom of Denmark with 2 seats in parliament. So none of those have had a king AFAIK.
Did they...just describe janteloven as some sort of actual pillar of Nordic society? It's a social concept invented by the author Axel Sandemose in his 1933 satirical novel The Fugitive Crosses His Tracks. It is supposed to embody the xenophobic, jealous and shut-in atmosphere of small villages and towns around the time the book was written. It is not something any Nordic country actively bases their policies on. 😄
Great reaction! Who takes any of these dictators seriously? 🤨 The only way is work on defending our backyard and cover each other's back (through NATO). Also to keep up with our lifestyle, freedom and democracy. And give those spineless cowards 🖕 Greetings from Sweden!🇸🇪
Our socialists are more moderate and not too far to the left, while our capitalists focus on making money, not targeting other cultures. The people in the center, between the socialists and capitalists, prioritize the welfare of our citizens, especially the thousands of small farms we have here in Norway. The ideal balance is when we have 50% capitalists, 10% center parties, and 40% socialists (mainly the AP(Labour Party), as the smaller socialist parties, with only 4-5% support, are more extreme and have little support from the people)
I'm Swedish and I'm very happy with the equal society we have here. Unfortunately though, our government are cheergirls for the US (in all honesty cheergirls is the one PG term I could think of...🙄). Our current politicians would never ever dare do anything against the wishes of our great Western master... I was so proud of my country for staying neutral and now I'm devastated that we joined NATO! In this great democratic country do you think the Swedish people were asked our opinion on that "insignificant" issue??
The Norwegian Nobel Peace Price committee has nothing to do with theNorwegian government or parliament. Do not forget that. The committee is independent, even though many of its members have previously been members of popular parties in Norway. China does not understand this distinction of roles. It is just not possible to grasp for a people suffering under authoritarianism
Kim Jung Un criticising anyone is just funny. It just shows how far gone they are mentally, and just how little understanding they have. That or they just choose to ignore it, which makes it even funnier.
2:34 that's complete BS for Sweden, it might SEEM free, but it's deducted from taxes even though you're not taking advantage of it either yourself or your kids if any after the mandatory time,not only that, after that you need to BUY your own study material such as books and tools to do the education, so there's ABSOLUTELY student loans/debts in Sweden. - Nothing's free here, you still have to pay 200 SEK for a hospital visit for example and you have to pay retail for medicines. There's very few public restrooms and if there are, you most likely have to pay for them, you're also FORCED opt-out of church through taxes, then you're FORCED to pay for TV license basically none uses because they have other channels they watch and pay for ON TOP of that stupid taxation. Sweden's leaders are so hypocritical, it should only LOOK like Sweden's so great, but it's not even remotely as good as it seems...
200 SEK for hospital visit sounds really cheap compared to world wide numbers. I'm curious what the visit entails, but frankly it sounds like one of the better countries to live in in terms of healthcare, despite it not being entirely free?
@@Exsulator2 "You get what you pay for" applies here, if you're lucky there's waiting time for 30 min, then wait another 30 for diagnosis, then another 15 for drawing blood and at the end of it you'll most likely be handed an aspirin and then told that there's nothing they can do unless you're bleeding out and even then it might be too late... On the surface it's good but dig a little deeper and you'll see that it's just a pretty facade...this applies to all aspects in Swedumb
As an example, I had the worst feeling of food poisoning, come to fin out through my OWN testing that I'm intolerant towards milk protein which is why I have trouble even with lactose free stuff, been there several times for the same issue, but drawing blood and ending up with an asprin that I tried to administer to myself before getting there, like the aspirin they gave me would be of any help... Another time a friend got in there with a severe and really deep cut in his hand and what do they do? they just tape it and says that they don't have enough personnel to stitch it up... another time another friend got his nose smashed and it took 4 operations for them to fix his nose with a long time in line between operations... None that I know of has a single good experience with the health department or anything that's included in our taxes....
When it comes to military in history, russia could always throw loads of people but they were always behind in the technology level of the nordics, thus we had quite a few wars with them, and came out on the top alot of the times. So, technology saved us.
"Janteloven" means the opposite. It means putting people down for sticking out, roughly. It's not synonymous with a flat structure, democracy, freedom of speech. But it is a literary invention and not very relevant to a discussion of society of today.
3:08 No, of course not. The UK has one of the lowest social mobility of all industrialized nations along with Italy and the USA. Land ownership for example has not greatly changed in hundreds of years. The Grosvenor family has been major landowners ever since the time of William the Conqueror. Grosvenor = Fat Hunter they date back to Williams's hunt master who married a woman who brought some land just outside London into the marriage, that land is now known as Westminster and the descendent of William's hunt master is the Duke thereof. Iceland has the oldest parliament in the world, the Althing, which was founded in 930AD. It is the 2nd oldest existing democracy behind San Marino which has been one ever since it gained independence from the Roman Empire in 301AD.
Part of any education is kritisism of the information. Maybe you don't know about a case but you know how to question is't legasy. Hard to run around corners with that kind of people
I dont think any nordic country had a dictator in that term, but Sweden,Norway and Denmark was and still is kingdoms like the UK. The monarchy dont have any real power now, but there was a time when they held absolute control so i guess we sort of had some.
We try to troll those who need trolling, seems fair to me at least.. Pretty solid take bud, on the whole. North Korean criticism is basically a badge of honour. Edit: Social mobility list - 'pretty fair' is fine but it ain't putting you at the top of the list though mate, nor on the same page - not when there's 100s of nations involved - it's gonna put you on page 2 or 3, which is still "good enough" - this isn't the school sports day where everybody is a winner. That said, make it FiFA rankings and we can flip the script lol
@@TroelsNybo1st Very true lol compliments from an Ayatollah may indeed require some serious self reflection on our part - heads may roll.. Wait no.. umm
Before Putins invasion in Ukraine, Russia with 145 mill people had the same GDP as the Nordic countries combined with 28 mill people. With the resource-rich areas in a lot of the countries in the Russian federation their GDP might have increased significantly with democratic authorithies giving people equal opportunities for education and great motivation to grow their country and make their own lives better.
As a dane, I would take criticism from Kim Jung Un as a compliment! 😂🇩🇰
If I by some mystery should end up a guest to kim jung un I’d ask him if I could give a hand doing the dishes, just to spite him 😂
As a Norwegian I would also take criticism from Kim Jung un and the others dictators as a compliment 😂
@@agesteeen4145 as a Swede I am a bit jealous at that, we collect angry dictators as trophies, but we have winnie the puh, I remember once when they was angry at us for those muhammed drawings and later they where angra at the Danes for some other reason and I commented to a Dane, "hey bro, thanks for drawing aggro for a while, we need a break" and he answered "no problem, Norway, it's you shift after this, just so you know"
LOL damm right
@@Alexilund STILLE!! sweden 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I'm Irish living in Denmark and i have to say it was the best thing in moving to Denmark, The people here are so happy and so friendly,
I'm an American living in Sweden and alive because I moved. My kids never faced a school shooting defense drill, and Sweden has the 2nd lowest pedestrian death toll in the world. Universities incorporate apprentice-style work/study models, such as the University of Cincinnati's College of DAAP, which is ranked 3rd globally by business CEOs for "Likely to Hire" by Business Insider.
Ditto. Easy life. Not that Ireland is that bad. I got a free education and half the people I went to university with were getting the grant (free money for being in full time education, means tested on the parent income).
Well said, Clive. Failte agus slainte!
Scottish lived here since 1973 entirely agree with you.
I heard the same thing about Ireland. I'd love to visit it one day ❤
From Finland. Just few word ,We are prepared.
Once I was in Findland we stayed at a 'castle' with the view to Russia. Very near indeed. I'm from Denmark btw
Waving from your neighbour in Norway ; here as well 😁
You Fins are insanely respected here in Norway. You made your own better AK platform, Valmet AKs are said to be the best in the world, that uses the same ammunition as the Russians, because you expect to take a lot of ammo from them in a war. Absolute mad lads.
Preparedness seems to be a specific Finnish state of mind.
I love when we are being called puppets of western values. We ARE western countries, Lukashenka
also very ironic, Lukashenko calling others puppet 🤣
Nice burn with his name.
And it will expand, Slava Ukraini and Georgia as well. Freedom has a goal.
Not only that... we made the west... and it was sweedes that made the RUS a word of a people... so... technically... russia is just sweedes gone rouge.
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Mate... By Swedish standars Ukraine is a bandit-lair.
I am proud to be Swedish if we are a part of what makes dictators uneasy
something that i want to make very clear to everyone is that we do not hate the countries like Russia or China we hate the authoritarian regimes not its people.
Swedistan not mentioning Iran 🤔 Bro your contry has fallen into an islamic terror state
quote -I am proud to be Swedish -unquote , same here !
oh Sweden, the rape capital of the Europe, you have much to learn even from Russians
As a Swede I agree, I have nothing against any of the dictatorship countries. It is the leadership that I despise whole heartily.
It was better in the days of prime minister Oluf Palme. He was nobody's lapdog, like the present day politicians are.
I think it’s important to clarify that the Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded by the Norwegian government. It is awarded in Norway, but by the Norwegian Nobel Committee, which is part of the Nobel Institute. Many dictatorships often misunderstand this distinction, which can sometimes complicate diplomatic efforts for the Norwegian government.
The Nobel Prizes (Nobelpriset) are five separate prizes awarded to those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind, as established by the 1895 will of Swedish chemist, engineer, and industrialist Alfred Nobel, in the year before he died, Prizes were first awarded in 1901 by the Nobel Foundation.
Nobel's will indicated that the awards should be granted in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace. A sixth prize for Economic Sciences, endowed by Sweden's central bank (Sveriges Riksbank) and first presented in 1969, is also frequently included, as it is also administered by the Nobel Foundation.
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The committee members are elected by politicians, so the prize is therefore political. Too many of the awards have been given based on pushing politics and agenda that is close to the political parties that elected the members. I think the criticism is relevant.
And it has been decades since this prize held more respect than being awarded a tray of french fries
Dictators doesn't understand freedom. They expect the government of countries to control everything, so if there is something going against them in a country it is the fault of that countries government.
Wannabe dictators also suffer from the same lack of understanding. Remember how Trump tried demanding the Swedish government influence the Swedish courts when A$AP Rocky was arrested there for assault, this clearly illustrated how Trump thinks justice should ie. do as told rather than following laws. That alone was a warning to the people of the US not to vote for the nutter.
The nordic model is the future ❤ Equality, democraty and freedom for all! Greetings from Norway ❤
no. every country has its own traditions and priorities.
@perrobWho the hell wouldn't want democracy, freedom and equality for its people? 🙄
@@Greatdane-qf8kd these words are too vacuous. Many people dislike right to have weapons. Others abhorr any right to critisize religion or the ruler.
Nevermind the slave labour in china and africa paying for it.... just to mention a tiny bit of the imsanity
Jante-loven is a satirical invention by Danish-Norwegian novelist Aksel Sandemose, but it IS true that Nordic societies are egalitarian in comparison with most other countries and we do not tend to be submissive.
Yes, Janteloven is actually the backside of the medal, I believe. Conformity in Scandinavia is totally a thing..
@@erlinggaratun6726 Yes, jantelagen as we call it in Sweden is meant to be sort of a caricature of the Scandinavian society, as far as I've understood it.
du ska itte tru at du e noe.. ;)
@@reyalPRON Jeg er mig. Hele mig. Fra mit allerværste til mit allerbedste.
Not submissive?
On the contrary, Scandinavians are extremely submissive to perceived authorities. The pandemic proved this once and for all.
I always viewed Jantelagen as:
Do not think you are worth more just because you make more money, have a better/important job etc. Your worth are the same as others. It doesn't undermine your skills etc
Yes, the way it was told was a bit off.
Exactly ❤
Sadly, this is directly the opposite of what the law actually was intended to convey. BEcause there are actually 10 laws, not one line, and some of the other goes like this: "You shouldn't believe YOU can achieve anything" and "You shouldn't believe anybody cares about YOU" and "You shouldn't believe you're worth as much as US". It's a law about social control, where individuals who try to excel is frowned upon, and pushed back in line, and in fact, pushed further down than others and made example of.
It's the other way around: Janteloven is most often quoted by very wealthy people or their bootlickers. Same as when they argue that any critique of their hoarding of wealth is jealousy, Unfortunately not many people know much about Sandemose. He was not an amazing guy.
I'm disabled and very lucky to come from Norway. I get a monthly decent payment. When i still was working, i was happily paying taxes, knowing that i would be taken care of if i got sick. And i did. Still i'm paying taxes happily.
Agreed im very happy about our taxes. Not only does it help me if I get sick i can also help others if they get sick just by paying taxes.
I’m a student atm so I get payed to study and that’s very nice I don’t feel so insecure in my economics wich would make my mental health decline
And a low rate of corruption. Something dictators will never understand
In fact... What we see as coruption is in most of the world seen as "legit". As free benefits of being in power.
Thanks for your comments! Finland is always supporting freedom and peace . Few days ago Ukraine received a ew aid package from Finland . Slava Ukraini!
So FInland is as dumb as Denmark... how sad
*GIVING MONEY TO THE PROXY WAR WITH RUSSIA IS NOT "SUPPORTING FREEDOM AND PEACE" ...*
I don’t think so, they are unlikely to America or Asian countries. Socialist countries
I have been monitoring this for a long time as well. He is not wrong about what he is saying. So a thumbs up to my fellow scandinavians.
Being criticised by Kim Jung Cruel are a badge of honour we take pride in.
When The boycotts of the South African apartheid regime finally let to Mandela´s release, the first three nations he made official visits to, to personally give thanks were the Scandinavian nations.
Denmark are right now the nation that have donated most to Ukraine per capita and rest of Nordic nations, minus Norway are in top ten.
per capita Norway is in top then, but not per GDP as i suspect you are referring to. Denmark is right at the top either way though.
@@mbc1994 No. I would hope you were correct but you are not. Per capita Norway are somewhere between number 9 and 14. Per percentage of country GDP Denmark have donated 1,8 and Norway, 0,5. That´s actually around same as our entire military budget as it were around 3 years ago.
And history will show that Denmark did put all out money on the wrong side regarding Ukraine. Our proxy war with Russia will go hot within the next year.
Denmark are cutting down on schools and services for the elderly so we can send billions to the most corrupt country in Europe. And that is a fucked up idea.
Our politicians have sold out their souls. Their corruption is done under the rader.
@@Mike-zx1kx I made a spelling error, meant to say "top ten", not that Norway is at the top then..
@@mbc1994 Not a problem my neighbour. Did you see the 4 Nordic foreign ministers being questioned about the effort to aid Ukraine and more, broadcasted on Swedish TV yesterday? There the Norwegian foreign minister were confronted with being number 14 without questioning the numbers more than saying that the year were not over. Besides that I think we all can agree that it are the larger nations percentage that really need to be raised to make the big difference and it are despicable that they seem to ignore their responsibility. Only way to avoid WW3 are to stand up against Russia, China and Israel´s illegalities. AND make a fast transition to an emission free energy production and usage globally NOW.
IT IS NOT FREE, school, medical care and some other stuff. It is included in our tax system and yes, we pay high taxes but rather that then go broke if you break an arm. It cost 20$ if you break an arm, leg or if you will be put in hospital for some time. 😊
It costs nothing if you need medical help or are admitted to hospital, everything is prepaid through the tax you pay.
@@peternielsen2156 Not really. You need to pay for the actual visit that costs 200sek/20$
@@DrMcKay66 Yes, if in Sweden. In Denmark it won’t cost you one krone.
Well, healthcare is as good as free, and education is free. Yes, it's financed by taxes, everyone knows this, but you can also come from a no income family paying no taxes and still get a university grade just like anyone else. So, I like to put it this way, education is free, earning money is not.
@@KjetilBalstad
If you think that things come from nothing, then you are stupid.
Do you believe that things come from nothing?
North Korea bought a LOT of Volvos, but didn't want to pay for them. So once a year sweden sends an uppdated bill for then. We never forgets.
I don't know anything about it but since North Korea has been super sanctioned since forever I don't know how that would work🤔.
Even it's true, from your description it sounds like the bill doesn't get payed but Sweden keeps on sending new bills. I can almost picture in my head Kim Yong-il taking the updated bill and using it as toilet paper😂... and what can we do about it? We may never forget but I somehow doubt that's sending cold shivers down Kim's spine😱... you think it's time to send in the big boys, meaning Kronofogden (the bailiffs in Sweden)?
How uplifting in a world in turmoil. As a Norwegian of ripe age, living abroad for 35 years, it was a blessing to come back to my roots. Mind and body unite. It is good here !
I once was teamed up with a foreign exchange student from France when we were going to learn how a statistical computer system worked. I tried and tried again. He became more and more irritated with me, then I started to ignore him and talked to my friends instead. I mean he did not even try to find a solution. Until this meeting I did not think anyone could be so bad at collaborating. Look at eurovision that shit is still running becouse of nordic chairmen through the last 30 years. I mean I blush when i see this video, that is in our DNA becouse you can't just going about blowing things out of proportion here, they have to be true. And truth is always somewhere inbetween.
Recently us Swedes had to pathetically bow to two authoritiarian regimes, Turkey and Hungary. becouse we wanted to join our sibling Finland in NATO. We have been a haven for kurdish opposition against Erdogan, a certain organisation. But now (becouse we want the so called protection from NATO) that organization has been deemed to be a terrorist organisation here as in other countries around the world. So we have had to hand some of them over to turkish courts. Now the small opposition against Erdogans criminal regime have become even smaller. But hey a potential war with Russia is way more dangerous than a real internal war in Turkey where civilians will fight the authorities. We know how pathetic these suitwaring paranoid little men are. The swedish government even let Erdogan have his parade has if he had won, that was part of the deal were individuals and NATOs life changed forever. But he got to say to his citizen what he alone all on his own had achieved.
Luckily Erdogan is also an old man ….😂
Did Sweden really end up handing them over? What a shame
Sometimes I really feel proud of being a Scandinavian, but I ALWAYS feel lucky. Thank you for this video, and a big hug from Denmark. ❤️💙🇩🇰. Lene/63
me too :)
You need to look finlands winter war with russian if you are amazed that nordic are population smaller than russian and its dont run over them.
We Finns have been the shield against eastern aggression for centuries, ever since russians called their land Novgorod.
@@pekkajarvinen69 exept the finns lost the "winter war" and the next war where they allied with nazi-germany against sovjet
the finns ahould be grateful for even being a country anymore
@@paulfredriksteiner those were only the latest 2 wars. We've had plenty of those before. During ww2 Germany was only support we had, no other choice since rest of the Europe were scared of soviets.
@@paulfredriksteinerno we didn't. 😂 Russia had literally army of 1 million. They lost against Finland 48.4% of their army. 😂 And as for "win" they got 6,5% of Finland. What was size of an army that they were against 337 000. Russia's "win" was so humilating it's not even victory. The reason why Russia lost winter war was because their army size was only 66.7% bigger than Finnish army and there is unwritten war rule that army size must be over 75% to quarantee victory in war. Lower the army size in %, higher changes to lose.
@@paulfredriksteinertoday Russia wouldn't even survive war against Finland. 😂 they got 1,2 million in active duty and as a spare 2 million.
Finland has active army size of 280 000 and in spare around 900 000.
So In full wage war spares included it would be 1,18 millon against 3,2 millon. Their overforce would be 63,2%. 😂 So even without Nato. Finland has 36,8% change to win and conquer Russia. But since we Finland also get Nato base and troops from Nato, USA might soon takedown Russia. 😂
HAHA! Kim-Jung-Mad and his father Mentali -ill and Valdimir should check out how we make people happy, and teach our kids to be good people..
problem, they dont care
Former UK MP Cameron once stated; "We don't want another Denmark here in the UK!" So it's not just dictators, that dislike the democratic ideas of the Nordic nations it's also the UK's plutocrats as well.
Chine had in the past a project of trying out if they can affect a country by doing different types of social/diplomatic/political pressure. And they chose Sweden for that.
Part of the "battle" against China was done in comedy, most visibly in "Svenska nyheter" (a TV show made by SVT, which is kind of like Brittish BBC). There's even been jokes about the Turkish president. He tried to silence it by telling the Swedish government to stop it. When the government didn't, he thinks that it's the government that is doing the show - because it's how they operate. These dictators cannot grasp the idea of freedom of expression.
And of course, since they are trying to manipulate everyone, and have their own puppets, they think that all other countries are like that. Which makes me believe that if they have laws against "foreign agents" - it's exactly what they are doing.
And yet the Swedish government allowed China to buy Volvo! Big mistake.
The same happend with the Muslim Brotherhood and our foreign minister during the Muhammed drawings coming out, the Muslim Brotherhood wanted the DAnish state to censor Jyllandsposten and not allow newspapers to insult Islam, our foreign ministers response was short and sweet "The state of Denmark does not engage in censorship".
Thanks for great reaction video. I have seen maybe one or two your video before. I just hit the subscribe button when u said that u r half Indian half British. I think that u are a favor and benefit to humanity, like my dear daughter, who is half Thai half Finnish. All the best, from middle age Finnish man. Keep content coming.
Edit: yes😅 "puppets of the west" thats what they allways keep saying😅. Well, I would be much more happily "puppets of the west" than countries like who are claiming this..
I am actually sitting at a 15 min drive from the steep valley with the waterfall at 11:01. I suddenly realized: that's here! my own village! Cool, man. Welcome to Norway :) Video is correct, actually, though we do of course have all the normal problems people have.
Vøringsfossen 😊 nydelig plass. Har åkt gamleveien opp måbødalen på 80-talet. Daeven for en vei 😮😂
The Nordic countries should be rolemodels on how you build a democracy and how you have a real free and safe society. In Europe, we're trying to work together and establish peace. We are uniting, and we'd love to include the rest of the wolrd in this free and friendly colaboration. We want a world peace, and we'd love to help the rest of the world to become happy and live in peace.
People hate us because we are the best people.
Finnish and Swedish farmers had their representatives in the Riksdag (parliament) five hundred years ago. Even poor people learned to read and write to some extent. Finns and Swedes got Freedom of the Press written into the constitution in 1766. First such Act in the world. Obviously the Nordic societies back then were poor and hard, but yet there were strokes of freedom not seen anywhere else. This was even before thirteen British colonies in America began to make trouble.
We have never had dictators per say. We had suppreme power bestoved upon the royals back in the days and we have had tyrants but never dictators. Following the french revolution, the danes learned that the people had to be heard, and following the Napoleonic wars we learned that the power should reside with the people. The royals didnt oppose this as they did in France for instance, so our Royals got to keep their heads and we still have them and still love them to day. Our royals are some of our most valued diplomats, with out most people actually knowing this..
Lately we have also been targeted by MAGA in the US, so that says a lot about that development...
The TDS is strong among Norwegian sheep's.
No, we have not. Don't be stupid.
@@SvendSved-p1u Ok, I guess they don't portray us as a føkked socialist or communist state then... And yes, I know Trump had some contrarily comments over the time, all of them utter ignorant and forgotten by MAGA.
Really? Please offer some examples to support your claim?
The MAGA supporters often reference scandinavia and complain that we all "only want to open cupcake shops" and "they are so poor, they can't afford cars! 😢"
Proud Dane here. I’d say in overall, The Nordics have it made. The dictators don’t like how appealing our democracies look to their oppressed people.
Proud to be danish. We pay our taxes and everybody has an opportunity to education, social welfare, medic care for free and so on. We have a real democracy. We are ready to pay tax for people with a less happy life. Some call it communism 😂😂 Think they would be happy to live here.
I think one of the historical reasons why the Nordic countries have developed "a mindset of their own" is that feudalism never really gained a foothold here in historic times.
"Common people" have always been a bit freer and had more rights vis-a-vis the privileged classes , i.e. church, nobility and royalty.
Maybe this is something that has survived since the Viking Age 😉🤓🤔.
To answer one of your questions:
No, there have never been any "dictators" in any of the Nordic countries. At least not in the meaning the word has today. There have of course been more or less autocratic kings, but in these cases the autocracy has been directed more towards the nobility than towards "ordinary people".
During the Second World War, Norway had a self-proclaimed "leader" named Vidkun Quisling, but he was mostly a puppet completely subordinate to the Nazi Reich Commissioner Josef Terboven and Hitler.
Finland was during the 19th century a part of the Russian Empire but actually enjoyed quite a bit of autonomy unlike the rest of the empire.
in a Danish civil war the King deliberately promised more rights to the independent freemen farmers to give him more authority over the other nobles, at the time of "absolutist Kings"..
and in modern times although he was expansionist and embroiled Denmark in problematic foreign wars to little benefit, his increased control over the Danish state while not upsetting the independent freemen farmer class ensured a boom in population increased taxes and large scale infrastructure projects, which made the King even more famous and sort of "set-the-model" for "Nordic enlightened despotism" until the 18th century.
We are still 'cousin tribes', no real change since the iron age. there are even remnants of 'tribal awareness' in our various local cultures and dialects. We have the same royal families as 1200 years ago. But being king is more of a duty than a privilege, and that has been among the decisive factors, in my opinion.
This isn't entirely true, Denmark had one of the more brutal feudal systems. Where indentured farmers were practically part of the estate, you were not allowed to marry without permission from the landlord, you weren't allowed to move (not that you really could), you were not allowed to operate a business, you were barely allowed to own things and your master could beat you within an inch of your life, take your thumbs etc. without punishment, if the master killed an indentured farmer he had to pay reparations to the family but there was no punishment really beyond that. Indentured farmers were sold with the land.
However, the feudal system was dismantled without a revolution or revolt and that's probably more where the difference is, it's not so much that feudalism never took hold, it was that it was dismantled without violence
@@omega1231 when are we talking about when you say; "farmers were practically part of the estate"
@@gawkthimm6030 from 1733 to 1788. Called "Stavnsbåndet" in danish.
well all the nordic countries were kingdoms before they became democratic. We all have kings and queens, now they're apolitical because they're not allowed to influence politics at all. they're given a "salary" from the government to be able to do their things and in general, the vast majority of Denmark (can only speak for my own country) love the royal family. Though when that is said, yes the monarch used to "dictate" everything in the country, just like every other country that had a king or queen in power back in the days. we have like 700 years or so, with absolute monarch power, so we are all "used" to being under a ruler. However our political system now doesn't make it possible really, to have a dictator because of the way our system is run. You dont vote for 1 person to take power at an election, you vote for Many parties, that then have to work together, and the party that gets the most votes, usually get to pick their person to be the prime minister, but if the prime minister isn't doing what the people want, they'll be removed. etc.
Iceland and Finland do not have kings / queens - so bacically true democracy only in the non-Scandinavian countries 😉
@@MrPicky Iceland was under danish control until 1944. When nazi germany invaded Denmark, Iceland decided they wanted to be their own country :P, nevertheless, like i stated, the kings and queens in scandinavia are apolitical, they have no influence in politics and are not allowed to make political statements :P
@@nopenope3164 Nope - Iceland was under Danish control until December 1 1918 when Iceland became fully independent sovereign state, known as the Kingdom of Iceland, and was freely associated to Denmark in a personal union with the Danish king. Due to this personal union Iceland asked Denmark to represent on its behalf foreign affairs and defence interests, while maintaining full control of them. So basically Iceland was its own state from that day in 1918 but decided to sever the ties with the monarchy and become republic in 1944.
Also the Scandinavian monarchs may have no political influence but still are heads of state. They are not democratically elected heads of state so I still claim that Iceland and Finland are true democracies as their citizens can vote for their heads of state.
It is "cute" to have figureheads (monarchs) but also very outdated system 😉
@@MrPicky what do you mean about outdated system? it is not a system, they are a symbol of where we came from as nation, and when we were united as people. the vast vast majority of people in Denmark, loves the royal family and are happy with them. and your point makes no sense about "true democracy" there is no such thing. a true democracy would meane you had to vote on every single thing, Ever decided upon, you might want to read up on how it works mate.
I just used the right for a citizen to secure an affordable apartment through the city's housing projects. There is a planned approach to finding or putting your profile down to a larger choice for housing, and there is an acute trust in every housing centre that puts aside 10% of empty apartments to people in need. They could have lost everything to fire or natural disaster. And when that happens, they are offered a temporary spot, which in most cases actually becomes a new home. The quality is fairly low and well positioned for easy access to the city centre, or perhaps in the rural area.
Basically, the constitution provides the citizens with safety, as every private home is sacred in the deepest meaning of the word sacred. You need a lot of proof or a serious compelling reason for stepping into a private home. And that goes for rentals just as well as privately owned homes.
Include Elon Musky in the dictators list.🇸🇪
I Will never buy a produkt from him ever , he is a psykopat
Stop watching CNN and other mainstream propaganda and start thinking for yourself......
There was a time in Sweden when it was less then 10 gang murders per year, and they never shot people out in public. The gangs that plague Sweden are spreading to Norway, Denmark and Finland. Its like an infestation that you dont have any defence for. Good luck to these countries and hopefully you do a better job at fighting the gangs.
Thank you for your kind words good sir, we used to have kings and queens with total power, that is a form of dictatorship, but that was waaay back in the day, when everyone else also had that form of power structure, I always laugh at it when dictators call us puppets to the west, bitch we ARE the west, but I promise that I will dwell on it next time I'm in my hottub, drinking that cold Carlsberg and look at the nordic lights in the sky, atleast for 4 seconds, can't give you more than that I am afraid, I am to busy being happy and free.
Proude Swede here, I’m happy to be in the Nordics, all together, strong together. Here democracy is 100% important.
Not all education is for free, we have student loans that we can take, and is a must if you study 100%, because there's no way to work and study at the same time.
We are (I think) descendants to Troy. We wont back down no matter the opposition. Cant tell how the other Nordic countries are, but most Swedes are born with a strong resent against Russia. 🇸🇪🇩🇰🇫🇮🇳🇴🇮🇸♥️
when sweden and finland joined NATO in '22 and '23 respectively, it was great news - say what you want about progeganda on each side - we're right to want and to preserve our freedoms (human history is unbelievably dark and violent, and... uncomfortable, and unforgivable) and like-minded people should stick together. there may be less of us than you think. we should probably also convince the people born on the wrong side of [this chapter...] the human story to see things this way. rational people look out for one another, and some world leaders are absolutely diabolical.
We did have kings, and at some points in time, they were dictators. The early kings were chosen, by the nobility. But that is over 1000 years ago.
Yeah, after the French Revolution, the king just kind of gave up ruling in Dena rp
As a danish man who spent years of his childhood growing up in poor rural central africa, I feel like I have a pretty unique view of the world. I also travelled other parts of the world...
Humans are the same all over. We all act on the same instincts and feelings.
The nordic model is the worlds best living standard for all citizens, so far. There is no other place on earth I would rather live right now.
Also Norway invested the oil wealth in a sovereign wealth fund. Thatcher made sure the oil companies took all the UK’s oil profits.
Faroe Islands is technically not a country as it is a part of Denmark…
English speakers Don't know that. Some USA people Don't even know where Denmark is.
It technically is a country though, where do people get that it's not a country? it's not an autonomous region in Denmark, it's a constituent COUNTRY in the kingdom of Denmark, they have absolute home rule. The danish state has no say on domestic policies, they have constitutions, flags, their own national anthems, their own citizenship (dual with Danish citizenship, Danes are not Greenlandic nor Faroese citizens) both Greenland and Faroe are countries in every single way a country is a country. Denmark decides foreign policy and military, because neither Faroe islands nor Greenland 1. has a military 2. are big enough to have anything to do with foreign policy.
Denmark gave them independence in the 90s, the reality of the situation is that they are independent the second they say "yes", but being tiny populations in remote regions of the world, full independence is a tall order. but they are both countries, in every single way. I can tell as a Dane, they sure as shit are not part of Denmark. Norway also wasn't part of Denmark, it was part of the kingdom of Denmark - this is how it works, a country and a kingdom are two different things and there can be several countries in one kingdom. The kingdom of Denmark has three constituent countries; Faroe islands, Greenland and Denmark. The Faroese government and the Greenlandic government has representation in the Danish parliament, there is no Danish representation in either Greenlandic nor Faroese parliaments. Also, the Faroese parliament is older than the Danish, being established in the year 900 among the oldest in the world.
Is this why people kept pestering us about the Faroese hunting Grindehval? We have no say, they can do whatever they want. They are not in any way obligated to listen to us, even if we wanted to stop them.
We also can't "sell Greenland" you'd have to talk to the Greenlanders for that one, because it's their country not ours.
And we love them ,🤗🇩🇰( just if Trump is getting more ideas )
Well we pissed of USA to a couple of times…
Specifically when the US had a dictator-like leader some years ago....
@@gitteherdinandersen6117 And sadly they voted the wannabe dictator back into power again... and they claim their education system isn't horrid :P
Being from the Faroe Islands, I'm surprised anybody knows what we are!
Faroe Islands is beautiful.
everybody knows that you have build Pyramids
Me too ;)
Education is NOT free of charge in Sweden. We pay for education, wellfare etc. with high taxes. I'm not saying it's wrong to pay high taxes if it's used wisely but that is where a lot of things go wrong in many cases. And nepotism, which is a sort of corruption - is common.
For any country which wants to get ahead of Finland in a 30 year perspective, from now on, even from a very crappy starting point, be sure it is possible - just follow the Finnish model. All of these factors are needed (no special order, but all at once): Pay all debts; religion that underlines that we are all equal in the eyes of God, especially equal in Christ (the flag comes with a cross); our heroes got stamina and creativity more than money and worldly status; thinking equality and solidarity in every aspect of life; support women's and girls' power; invest in all young people, their health and education; power of free labor unions protected; all parties except nazis allowed; reliable jurisdiction and no corruption allowed at any level; health-care for all, from maternity health, babies, children, adults, any special needs, and elderly, including vaccination programs; free press and freedom of speech and assembly and organization for good causes, from parties to knitting-cafés and choirs; national strict control of health hazards, especially drugs and addictive substances and poisons; progressive taxation, in sum high taxes with lots of benefits in return for the tax payers; effective gun and crime-control; affordable housing in many forms; a population of people taking responsibility for every detail of life, from not littering to voting in free and fair elections, creating a country where law-abiding is a natural tendency for the common good, so that we can have a clean and accessible nature, safe streets, and high trust.
Don't think that Finns are happy-go-lucky and careless, though they love to laugh, sing and dance, and do it a lot - on the contrary, Finns complain all the time about everything, until conditions improve to their liking. Finnish humor hangs out all pompous decision-makers, who offend the public, with their taking advantage of ordinary people. There are many ways to show a-holes their place, when is needed, and Finns readily see when there is a need. For example speeding tickets are measured in hourly incomes. An ugly tower meant to glorify your achievements becomes a monument of your hybris insteead (Uolevin torahammas - google that!).
Do visit Finland to learn more, not just Helsinki in the tourist season, please! Do come and enjoy!
The eye-sore is a 83 meter high tower in mighty solitude. Also called Raaden (tora)hammas, officially now Accountor tower.
There are a few things in your answer that are statistically poppycock. God and christ have never factored in our success .. especially considering that people never really let go of the old beliefs (you can still notice a lot of animistic beliefs etc. if you pay attention). Second, that "war on drugs" that was imported from the US was never a good idea. Other than those, lots of good stuff you list here that I agree on :)
The sole reason nordic countries have cross in our flag is because of God. Yet we have shifted away from Him and towards to worldly values aka. Satans values. There are too many people in power who support worldly values and because of ignorance and or delusion they think to be saints yet in reality they are hypocrites, those who support Truth are being ridiculed and talk'd down to,, like it is written, on last days good is being called evil..
1 John 2:15
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
We in Sweden should follow your example in so many ways. For example the school system, we should throw our private greedy schools out and look at how Finland manage their schools.
At the moment, the world's bulwarks of democracy and freedom are in two highly visible groups; 1) the Nordic countries, and 2) the three old "dominions'' of Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, which share many of the characteristics of the Nordics. None of these countries are "great powers," though all of them are prosperous. It was self-education that lifted them out of poverty. But there are also several other small nations that are holding firm, scattered around the world --- nations of many different histories and cultural origins. Democracy is something that has origins in every part of the world, with roots in village councils and egalitarian institutions that long predate kings and aristocracies and dictators. Democracy is NOT a "western" value, it is a HUMAN value. Freedom is a human heritage, the right of EVERY human. We are confronted today by yet another surge of authoritarian mysticism, violence, and bigotry. It is not the first one, and probably not the last. But humanity has defeated these waves of irrationality every time they have surged. The tide of brutality and thuggery can be turned. Wherever the commitment to democracy and fairness remains strong, people should see themselves as part of a great thing ---- Civilization. And that greatness has nothing to do with leader-worship, or military might, or billionaires, or cultural egotism. Any people,, anywhere in the world, can achieve that greatness if they set aside bigotry, power fantasies, and demented ideologies.
It's sticks out like a sore thumb that you didn't mention USA here (I'm norwegian btw), which is probably the single most influential country in the world that supports the western values of freedom from dictatorships. I imagine this is due to political brain washing on your part. Even if standards for individuals within happyness indexes, education and healthcare are not so strong in USA, it's still one of the most sought after countries to live in on earth, and without USA, the world's dicatorships like Russia and China would be much more free to terrorize the world. At least I don't see any reason to live in self-denial about this unless you're politically brain washed. Also there's a lot more countries in Europe we could add to the list, I'm not sure scandinavia outweighs them so much to be exluded
@@Exsulator2 It sticks out like a broken and swollen thumb that you are clearly NOT the person to go around accusing others of being "brainwashed.'
My concern is Human Values --- not the absurd gibberish of 'western" values. I stated clearly that there were more nations that could be counted as standing firm on democracy.
. . . The United States is indeed important in the history of the struggle for democracy and against aristocracy, but there is no intelligent person who is unaware that it is currently wavering and failing to live up to its traditions. It is NOT standing firm. It recently elected Donald Trump to be its next president ---- a megalomaniac who has openly declared his hatred and contempt for democracy, openly admires (to the point of worship) every Communist, Fascist or other species of dictatorship, and threatens to commit Communist-style atrocities on a huge scale. Behind him, supporting him, and giving him power are 1) a mystical religious movement that advocates the abolition of any form of democracy and the transformation of the country into a theocratic monarchy --- a movement that has millions of fanatical followers; 2) a collection of multi-billionaires who openly and loudly despise democracy and call for dictatorial rule, and 3) a gigantic manipulative propaganda machine, created by a handful of oligarchs, that has developed sophisticated techniques for undermining public support for democratic institutions and promoting the most primitive, bestial forms of bigotry and barbarism. That propaganda machine COMES ORIGINALLY FROM THE COMMUNIST PARTY AND THE KGB --- and it has been adopted, amplified and improved in effectiveness by organizations like RT and FoxPravda, and the Republican Party in the U.S. The American commitment to democracy has weakened to a disastrous degree. That is why it clearly is not on the list of countries that are standing firm.
. . . I have lived in the U.S., studied its history, and know its people. I have great admiration for the roughly half of the country that still possesses moral principles and has not submitted to propaganda brainwashing. But this is the moment in which that country is at its weakest, and in the most peril. I stand behind the true Americans who still have those values as a loyal friend and ally. But the Americans who voted for the vile,, totalitarian filth of Trumpism deserve nothing but contempt.
. . . I am a Canadian, and fear for the liberty of my country, sitting right next door to a country that is weakening in resolve, wallowing in cowardice, and collaborating with evil. And it is not the first time. May I remind you that on June 10th, 1940, when Hitler's brutes had completed their conquest of Norway, many millions of Americans loudly supported that invasion. Nazis paraded in American cities and held massive rallies, and exactly the same kind of people supported them as those who support Trump today --- and for exactly the same reasons. But we in Canada had already declared war on Hitler and were mobilizing our entire economy to fight him. My mother, born in Canada, but raised in the U.S., fresh out of school, moved back to Canada to join the Canadian Air Force, where she met my father, a pilot. Both risked their lives to liberate countries like the Netherlands, and, yes, Norway. In fact, I can walk a short distance from my home to a monument standing on the site of '"Little Norway," on the shore of Lake Ontario. This is where, between November 1940 and February 1945, the Norwegian Airforce in exile had its base of operations. My mother, as a flight controller, knew and directed the missions of many Norwegian airmen. En sann venn er en som kommer inn når resten av verden går ut.
. . . My country is not immune to these forces. We have a Conservative Party that is currently trying its best to mimic Trumpism and corrupt our democracy. They merely have a more difficult task, because we do not have the same vulnerabilities that the U.S. has. We don't have the same history, the same religious composition, or the same institutions. We have never had a Vidkun Quisling or a Trump. Decades of totalitarian propaganda have had some effect, and we too are in some danger. But so far, the propaganda has been less effective in Canada than it has been south of the border.
. . . As a historian who has spent a lifetime studying totalitarian regimes, with considerable direct experience, and who has participated in the struggle against Communist tyranny in past decades, I don't have to listen to some ignoramus prattling nonsensical rubbish about this topic.
They have strict limits on freedom of expression with their "hate speech" laws.
No, not even that. The nordics score higher on freedom of speach and freedom of press than the US for instance.
how so?
wake up , it is time - it isnt so pink of colour, The danes follow all the antidemokratic things as long of the rest of all vestern countries inclusiv australia new zealand and Usa . see what happend since 2019 , same shit, wake up,
and the danes pay a lot of taxies and welfare and education is under decline, dont fool your self
oh no... you can't be a raging bigot in public how horrible..
As a Swede I take any criticism from dictators and authoritarian countries as the highest compliment.
We trust government more than other countries, it’s true for me here in Sweden. I always believe a solution can be solved if i go to gov function.
This also is valid for Finland.
Norway and Denmark delt with Hitler during the occupation.
That said, we've had more than our fair share of feudalism and several kings with absolutely power - at least one of them, Christian VII was absolutely fåking raving mad. I am NOT exagerating!
There's a movie: "A Royal Affair" from 2012, in which Mads Mikkelsen plays the king's doctor.
Thanks for the information 😃 the movie also sounds interesting and Mads Mikkelsen is a great actor I will add this to my movie watch list 👍
Danmark gave up imidiately, Norway kept on fighting.
@@Alvedrotten Denmark did that too. Not soldiers, but of the resistance movement. And Denmark saved a lot of people from Nazi Germany with the help of Sweden.
You still have peasants and kings?
@@peterch4978 Sort of 🤔 We have a king and a lot of farmers.
Just that nowadays the king has NO power and the "peasants" 🙄 have a most of it
Many portrayals of life in the Nordics are not quite right, in my view. We're not so free and happy as we would like. Our politicians, also, tend to want to compare ourselves against others, like that is some kind of excuse not to improve things. Still, what we have is clearly better than what many others in the world has, and totalitarian states are the worst of the lot.
As a Norwegian, despite that we have kicked the shit out of each other in the Nordic countries for as long as we have written records, today, you could not find better neighbours, bar one, that Norway has.
Internally we have plenty of grievances against each other, we Norwegians probably have more than most against the Swedes and the Danes, but to the outside, we are kindred spirits.
As per usual there are some jokes that perhaps highlight the differences. A Dane, a Swede and a Norwegian are drinking at a railway station pub, waiting for the train. Five minutes before the train is to arrive they leave the pub and arrive at the platform. They wait and the it is announced that the train is delayed. Ten minutes of waiting is enough for the Swede, who sets out indignantly to the Railway Office to lodge a complaint. The Dane concludes that there is really no point hanging around waiting for a delayed train when one can return to the pub for another beer. The Norwegian, feeling that there is no need to complain, and that it is a bit of hassle to walk all the way back to the pub, settles down on the bench,
Five minutes later, the Swede is still complaining at the Railway Office, the Dane is into another beer, and the train arrives and the Norwegian leaves.
I must admit I am partial to the Danish approach here.
And the Best Places to live is only an internal competition between the Scandinavian and Nordic countries. All other comes below!
yeah it used to be happy. then we imported issues on mass and now we are all going down the drain just as the UK currently is
Janteloven is fictional its not a real thing. We do try to live humble for the most part, but you are indeed allowed to make something of your self and live up to it..
Its not a myth, its not a legend, its not fictional. Jantelagen were created to describe the mindset. Not the other way around.
@@darven its from a fictional book from a town named Jante.. Do be so kind to show me Jante on a real map..
Honeker actually looked at Sweden as prime example of how he would like DDR to be, so this is a stretch.
Higher education is NOT free in Iceland and there is high student debt here.
Greenland is still Danish
as a norwegian, i can confidentially say that "jante loven" is a cancerous ideology here in norway, and its often used to suppress the gifted and successful than just the "learn humility" part. For example, kids who excel in a field, for example math or language, and gone through the material long time before other classmates, doesnt get to advance early in classes despite the talent, because the kid has to stay with their peers and progress as same speed as others in class. Something that causes boredom and disinterest as the kid just have to repeat stuff already known with no challenge.
The same is true economically, if a field becomes very prosperous youll see the state suddenly impose extra tax on in, a clear cut example is the fishing industry where the state came in and forcefully pricecontrolled the fish as 'tax' and as a very predictable result the trade nosedived. During the newyear our prime minister even proudly stated that we should impose limits to economical growth, and yes thats also part of "jante loven" in a socialistic effort to make people more "equal", because thats what janteloven is, a socialist lite ideology being used as a steppingstone towards more harder socialism.
Another example is farming, despite all the talk about needing to make norway more self sufficient, the state imposes growth control on farmers with animal quotas, even if a farmer has resources enough to expand and provide more for society, its not allowed. Youre only allowed so and so much, which limits the growth potential which makes it hard to be a farmer because of massive loans needed for the modern equipments/machinery(farmers are barely even allowed to share machinery between each other to lessen the costs).
Dictators might view nordic countries as an eyesore due to our current freedoms, but our politicians sure do look at dictators with envy of their power.
Du verkar inte förstå vad "Socialism" betyder, tyvärr.
@@SebastianParagraph socialism is "social ownership (aka government) of the means of production". Hense i called it a "socialist lite ideology". Yes its not real socialism, but its being used as a slow push towards it or something closer to it, government dont own these industries but they certainly have their meddling fingers in it with the intent of limiting economic growth to slowly induce a more equal outcome for people, cuz its bad if someone makes it too far ahead. Janteloven isnt as extreme as socialistic/marxist ideology of wealth distribution and social equalness, but certainly has its ties to it.
Norwegian here, and us nordics have been ruled by kings & queens, not so much dictators, but in some cases maybe the occasional tyrant here and there. The swedish king Karl the 12th comes to mind. Taking his poor swedish people on a crusade across parts of Europe to build his swedish empire, before ending his days as a young man, shot dead in the trenches outside of the norwegian fortress, Fredriksten Festning! Funnily enough, we are the greatest of neighbours, and have good relations between us up here in the north!
Before that, during the viking-era, before being unified as whole countries, we were just small city-states and clans lead by chieftans and kings & queens. There might have been lesser known, local tyrants back then.
However, the most obvious one, that for some reason seems to try to escape me, is during the 2nd world war, Denmark and Norway were occupied by Nazi-Germany! The norwegian politician Vidkun Quisling did a coup and announced over the radio that his party, Nasjonal Samling (National Gathering) had taken over controll of the government after the "cowardly royal family and politicians" had fled the country and gone into hiding in England, and that everyone should welcome and greet our german savoiurs! He wanted to be the Prime Minister and be the direct contact to Hitler, but instead, Hitler put his friend Josef Terboven in charge as Realm Commissariat, and he did indeed rule as dictator, and ofc there was Hitler aswell.
You do not understand real freedom until you move to Sweden (cannot have an opinion on other Scandinavian states ) and experienced it for many years. It shames places like the UK which is basically make believe compared.
yes, nothing better than freedom of 75% tax in Sweden
Its not a matter of how much you pay, its a matter of what you get for said payment.@@peterch4978
We certainly had Quisling in Norway, between 1940-45. Not only was he the arch-traitor, but a dictator, and a puppet dictator at that, taking orders from an even stronger dictator, Hitler. Our neighbor Sweden's last absolute monarch that was knocked down in a coup and replaced, Gustav IV Adolf might also fit the bill. As I understood it he wasn't outright cruel, just slightly incompetent and too fond of war. Some contemporaries labeled him as insane, but single-minded obsession might be more accurate. Doesn't help he lost Finland to Russia. He was overthrown in 1808 I believe?
We lack people with roots, unity in culture, collective vision. So its now more of economies for individuals to make a buck in, rather than countries. R.I.P
During ww2 there was a kind of dictator in Norway. Quistling. He took power of the contry with the help from Adolf H. Finally the Norvegian court was fatal to him
Sweden actually stick out a LOT from the rest these days, by getting more and more authoritarian and divided, but less prosperous and happy than the rest. You aren't getting the full picture. This AI reel is cherry picking heavily.
I suppose a sovereign king is a kind of dictator, and we did have those before we got democracy. But I think it's noteworthy that Denmark Norway and Sweden are still kingdoms, although they serve more in an administrative function now. Much of like UK remains a kingdom. Finland has only been a sovereign country since 1918 and Iceland since WW2, and Faeroe Islands is part of the Kingdom of Denmark with 2 seats in parliament. So none of those have had a king AFAIK.
Did they...just describe janteloven as some sort of actual pillar of Nordic society? It's a social concept invented by the author Axel Sandemose in his 1933 satirical novel The Fugitive Crosses His Tracks. It is supposed to embody the xenophobic, jealous and shut-in atmosphere of small villages and towns around the time the book was written. It is not something any Nordic country actively bases their policies on. 😄
So its good we are still a poppy in the west. We need to have pease in the world . Greets from norway
The population of the Nordic country I was born in is about that of the city of Coventry in the UK.
Great reaction! Who takes any of these dictators seriously? 🤨 The only way is work on defending our backyard and cover each other's back (through NATO). Also to keep up with our lifestyle, freedom and democracy.
And give those spineless cowards 🖕
Greetings from Sweden!🇸🇪
Our socialists are more moderate and not too far to the left, while our capitalists focus on making money, not targeting other cultures. The people in the center, between the socialists and capitalists, prioritize the welfare of our citizens, especially the thousands of small farms we have here in Norway. The ideal balance is when we have 50% capitalists, 10% center parties, and 40% socialists (mainly the AP(Labour Party), as the smaller socialist parties, with only 4-5% support, are more extreme and have little support from the people)
The original video titel should have been "Why dictators and US republicans hate the Nordics"
A bit of a stretch on "meritocracy"... with the Jante laws and cultural profiling, but... yeah, workers are truly free in the Nordics.
I'm Swedish and I'm very happy with the equal society we have here. Unfortunately though, our government are cheergirls for the US (in all honesty cheergirls is the one PG term I could think of...🙄). Our current politicians would never ever dare do anything against the wishes of our great Western master... I was so proud of my country for staying neutral and now I'm devastated that we joined NATO! In this great democratic country do you think the Swedish people were asked our opinion on that "insignificant" issue??
If you are a nurce, you can try to get a job in norway. We are in lack of nurces.
As a daam swede i wuld like to say that we donate about 1% of the gdp to other countrys
Dictators ban thinking for yourself dishing out sewere punishments - that'll make people think twice before doing it....
The Norwegian Nobel Peace Price committee has nothing to do with theNorwegian government or parliament. Do not forget that. The committee is independent, even though many of its members have previously been members of popular parties in Norway. China does not understand this distinction of roles. It is just not possible to grasp for a people suffering under authoritarianism
Kim Jung Un criticising anyone is just funny. It just shows how far gone they are mentally, and just how little understanding they have. That or they just choose to ignore it, which makes it even funnier.
2:34 that's complete BS for Sweden, it might SEEM free, but it's deducted from taxes even though you're not taking advantage of it either yourself or your kids if any after the mandatory time,not only that, after that you need to BUY your own study material such as books and tools to do the education, so there's ABSOLUTELY student loans/debts in Sweden.
- Nothing's free here, you still have to pay 200 SEK for a hospital visit for example and you have to pay retail for medicines.
There's very few public restrooms and if there are, you most likely have to pay for them, you're also FORCED opt-out of church through taxes, then you're FORCED to pay for TV license basically none uses because they have other channels they watch and pay for ON TOP of that stupid taxation.
Sweden's leaders are so hypocritical, it should only LOOK like Sweden's so great, but it's not even remotely as good as it seems...
200 SEK for hospital visit sounds really cheap compared to world wide numbers. I'm curious what the visit entails, but frankly it sounds like one of the better countries to live in in terms of healthcare, despite it not being entirely free?
@@Exsulator2 "You get what you pay for" applies here, if you're lucky there's waiting time for 30 min, then wait another 30 for diagnosis, then another 15 for drawing blood and at the end of it you'll most likely be handed an aspirin and then told that there's nothing they can do unless you're bleeding out and even then it might be too late...
On the surface it's good but dig a little deeper and you'll see that it's just a pretty facade...this applies to all aspects in Swedumb
As an example, I had the worst feeling of food poisoning, come to fin out through my OWN testing that I'm intolerant towards milk protein which is why I have trouble even with lactose free stuff, been there several times for the same issue, but drawing blood and ending up with an asprin that I tried to administer to myself before getting there, like the aspirin they gave me would be of any help...
Another time a friend got in there with a severe and really deep cut in his hand and what do they do? they just tape it and says that they don't have enough personnel to stitch it up...
another time another friend got his nose smashed and it took 4 operations for them to fix his nose with a long time in line between operations...
None that I know of has a single good experience with the health department or anything that's included in our taxes....
When it comes to military in history, russia could always throw loads of people but they were always behind in the technology level of the nordics, thus we had quite a few wars with them, and came out on the top alot of the times. So, technology saved us.
"Janteloven" means the opposite. It means putting people down for sticking out, roughly. It's not synonymous with a flat structure, democracy, freedom of speech. But it is a literary invention and not very relevant to a discussion of society of today.
If Kim Jung Un is criticising you. Then your doing everything right :)
I would have definitely added 2 the list the Baltics.. And Poland.
remember they are being paid to go to school aswell, like a 1000$ a month😂😂
Isnt thath amazing ?
We, Nordic people, are like a big family
3:08 No, of course not. The UK has one of the lowest social mobility of all industrialized nations along with Italy and the USA.
Land ownership for example has not greatly changed in hundreds of years. The Grosvenor family has been major landowners ever since the time of William the Conqueror. Grosvenor = Fat Hunter they date back to Williams's hunt master who married a woman who brought some land just outside London into the marriage, that land is now known as Westminster and the descendent of William's hunt master is the Duke thereof.
Iceland has the oldest parliament in the world, the Althing, which was founded in 930AD. It is the 2nd oldest existing democracy behind San Marino which has been one ever since it gained independence from the Roman Empire in 301AD.
Part of any education is kritisism of the information. Maybe you don't know about a case but you know how to question is't legasy. Hard to run around corners with that kind of people
I dont think any nordic country had a dictator in that term, but Sweden,Norway and Denmark was and still is kingdoms like the UK. The monarchy dont have any real power now, but there was a time when they held absolute control so i guess we sort of had some.
"A sensible ballance between Socialism and Capitalism " Many leaders very much in the UK nead to heed this wisdom ,,
❤❤❤ from Sweden.
funny to see that we Dutch are just below the top of northern countries
Just listen to their language, they are just hobby nordics.. :p
We try to troll those who need trolling, seems fair to me at least..
Pretty solid take bud, on the whole. North Korean criticism is basically a badge of honour.
Edit: Social mobility list - 'pretty fair' is fine but it ain't putting you at the top of the list though mate, nor on the same page - not when there's 100s of nations involved - it's gonna put you on page 2 or 3, which is still "good enough" - this isn't the school sports day where everybody is a winner. That said, make it FiFA rankings and we can flip the script lol
Yes, there are people whose PRAISE would make us really worried.
@@TroelsNybo1st Very true lol compliments from an Ayatollah may indeed require some serious self reflection on our part - heads may roll.. Wait no.. umm
Before Putins invasion in Ukraine, Russia with 145 mill people had the same GDP as the Nordic countries combined with 28 mill people. With the resource-rich areas in a lot of the countries in the Russian federation their GDP might have increased significantly with democratic authorithies giving people equal opportunities for education and great motivation to grow their country and make their own lives better.
I as a Swede ,Has already neatrealize 20...