Alexop

This guy is a far right idiot. Most of his takes are exaggerated claims or fake news.

Watch your whataboutism. Where did I say Sweden does not kick ass in business? There are some lazy asses but they have a strong innovation and entrepreneurship culture. They suck att socialization, directness, honesty, emotional intelligence, letting men be men, while women are socially acceptable to be men. But, They kick ass in innovation, business, politeness, not violating people autonomy, space. Progressive policies, taming capitalism Etc

I already told you that living in some backwards village in Romania and talking with us here is not a very healthy way of living. It is like living in medieval Europe and talking with some aliens from the future. Rural Romania is so fucking backwards that you either leave it forever or forget about personal development.

@Daniel Balan you compare institutions and businesses created by swedes and romanians. These things are so obviously better in Sweden. I talk about social skills and relationships. Of course romanians are corrupt as hell, this is why I made the comparison in the first place, to show the paradox. You are too focused on the romanians from the countryside. Go and live in Cluj or Bucharest and meet some programmers and affluent guys there. They are quite ok from many points of view. The countryside baboons are beyond worse, don't focus on them. A fair comparison would be to find guys who at least had the possibilities to come to the city and modernize their life. Of course a dirt poor pre-modern guy from a medieval romanian village had no chance to develop beyond the macho baboon state.

@Daniel Balan Dude, of course Romanians suck in their own way. But in regards to social skills and masculinity I see a big lack in swedish guys. The romanians are in general still too macho and manipulative but România still has a culture of rite of passage for men. You cannot call yourself a man willy nilly in Romania. There still is a distinction between what is a boy and what is a man in Ro, while here... It is not accepted to make that distinction. You have to come and live here in order to understand. I only mean it in terms of social skills and masculinity. Which does not exclude the presence of toxic masculinity in romanians, there still is plenty especially in the lower educated tier of guys. Do not go into history, it does not jave anything to do with that. Men even 70 years ago were completely different. I sometimes meet very mature and serious romanians. They are like this because there is no momy welfare state to help you there, you have to fend for yourself. Yes they are not the most refined and progressive in terms of their education, theories and political knowledge but the emotional maturity can be impressive. I know it is a bold statement but try to see between the lines.

Yeah, I mean I love Sweden and I can talk a ton about the good stuff here, but those good things are already told by so many and they are obvious. I would say the good stuff here weigh more that the bad stuff and I think I will have a good life here.

It can be that. I mean the Vikings were not the most feminine people lmao

Yup

Sweden took waaay more refugees per capita than the other european countries. It was more like: "look at us you racists"

If you are not open to embracing different cultures, letting go of your silly cultural norms, then don't take in so many people from very different backgrounds lol. It is like me going regularly to japanese restaurants in order to signal my japaneseness but I actually hate that food lol.

they mostly bring problems if they are not handled correctly. If they take tons of refugees with very different cultural background than the locals and the locals are some easily offended anti-social pussies, well then you might meet some problems. But mostly, immigration is a net positive.

Agree. We had The Bible in the past, now we have Gender Trouble.

are you ironic?

many lefties are ok, it is the small "woke" minority that fucks up our image. The problem in Scandinavia is not neccesarly only about lefties, it is a individualitic, conformist, conflict avoidant culture that rose way before we coined "wokeism". Wokeism that came after 2010s just supercharged this culture, it was like putting salt on a wound.

of course we generalize, but it only needs a majority in order to create the country's cultural values.