[The Xenophobe's Guide 01] • The Swedes
![[The Xenophobe's Guide 01] • The Swedes](/cover/zQGQjXDBOx1TM1Zn/big/[The%20Xenophobe%27s%20Guide%2001]%20%e2%80%a2%20The%20Swedes.jpg)
- Authors
- Berlin, Peter
- Publisher
- Oval Books
- Tags
- travel , humour
- ISBN
- 9781906042493
- Date
- 1994-03-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.23 MB
- Lang
- en
An alternate cover edition can be found here.
Soulful sadness
A common trait among Swedish people is a deeply felt svårmod, a dark melancholy born out of long winters, high taxes, and a sense of being stuck far out on a geo-political and socio-economic limb. They brood a lot over the meaning of life in a self-absorbed sort of way without ever arriving at satisfactory answers.
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Love all
The Swedes indulge in sport for leisure and sex for pleasure. Some people treat sex as a sport in order to combine leisure with pleasure, and thus save time and energy.
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Nurture nature
The Swedes have a dream: to save Nature from Man. This is more than just a vision—it's as close to a passion as the Swedes ever get.
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Net loss
Becoming rich in Sweden has never been easy. As Ingmar Bergman found out, even millionaires can have difficulties making ends meet when income tax is levied at 102%.