the intention with the criminalization of sex purchases, but not to sell sexual services is that vulnerable sex workers should be able to seek help more easily than it would be if their work made them criminals

In Sweden we never use the word ”free” regarding anything that is tax founded. We call it “public healthcare” (offentlig sjukvård), “municipal school/preschool” (kommunal förskola/skola) etc. Why you in English call it free is presumable because it the past someone with a political agenda introduced the concept as free. Michael Moore said something wisely regarding the differences between the Nordic countries ad US, and that was “The Nordic countries build their society around the term We, but the US around the term I.”. I believe that culture distinctions make in the end a huge difference in the society, and also how we trust the Authorities and Government. Regarding the mask often shown with the back death. It was a believe that illness spread by bad odours. Those masks were filled with rags with perfumed oils to “protect” the carrier. And it may helped, not for the perfume, but as a mask. The latest research shows that it may not have been what we today call the Black Death that they got, as the spread was too fast. Without it being an airborne virus instead. And then a mask would have positive effect and also automatically longer distances to the sick person. There were also three types of plague that occurred during the Black Death. Yes; Vasa is a house of Sweden started with king Gustav Vasa, and Kalmar is a town where they had a meeting in July 1397 and singed the agreement. Democratic Index (Norway number 1, Sweden 4 and US 26) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index Freedom to roam include both public and private land, and yes you can camp and make a fire. Well; I think that the laws regarding selling sex has changes, but it made sense if you look at the person that selling as a victim. Earlier it was the same for drugs, it was not illegally to use, but to sell and possess. The society want those to search for help, not to punish.

@orbmaniac7645

2 жыл бұрын

i respect your dedication to your comment. well written!

@Ai-em2pu

2 жыл бұрын

Great comment!

@blundin4165

2 жыл бұрын

Great and comprehensive comment. I should add that, yes we are even allowed to pitch a tent on private land. However... NOT in view of the house or what would be seen as "the garden". It goes without saying that we also don't leave anything behind...

@niclaseriksson4102

Жыл бұрын

Hey i looked at the Democracy index that you linked. And it's crazy that many western european countries including Greece, (The ''father of democracy'') is not ''full democracies. Bra kommentar annars Magnus! :)

Regarding the bieathlon part of this video. They're shooting .22 caliber. During paralympics they're shooting lazers and using headphones yo aim. Such an amazing sport!

The land, in fact the entire earths crust wasn't compressed like a sponge, it was pushed down into the comparably softer underlying mantle. The post-glacial rebound is still making the crust rise, like 0.02 to 0,35 inches per year, a lot less than when the ice was still melting.

The scandian range of mountians that streches trough Norway, Sweden and also the Scottisch highlands is over a billion years old so the several iceages over that time did not flatten them but wore them down and shaped them.

@lukasheenberge915

2 жыл бұрын

Billion, nah

@Anderssea69

2 жыл бұрын

@@lukasheenberge915 well in english a billion is 1000 000 000 years and The Scandies where formed during the pre-cambrian era ~4600 000000 - 538 000 000 yeares ago.

There's an interesting KZread video by Jonna Jinton called "Living with the dark winters in Sweden" which should answer your question about arctic summers and winters.

@melkor3496

2 жыл бұрын

Oh yes she’s amazing he should definitely react to her.

@Snail3r

2 жыл бұрын

Would be a great video to react to.

@blundin4165

2 жыл бұрын

Being Swedish, I also recommend Jonna Jinton's take on our somewhat quirky Lucia traditions...

The right to roam is also valid on private property. That is the thing! The reason behind the idea that the state has criminalised the act to buy sex but not to sell is that you see the sellers as victims (often from poor background and sometimes victim's of sex trafficking) and the buyers as the person in power to abstain from buying sex.

@John-Is-My-Name

2 жыл бұрын

well yeah on private areas yes, but not in peoples backyard etc, I think that is what he means.

@paulozavala3232

2 жыл бұрын

@@John-Is-My-Name But that area is almost nothing. Its just few meters arround the house.

@Splett_man

2 жыл бұрын

@@paulozavala3232 I think it's around 150m from any house.

about the prostitution thing. if someone become so desperate they start trying to sell their body they need help, and not punishment. but if you try to take advantage of these people you will get in serious trouble. thats why selling wont get you in trouble, but buying is illegal.

@hannasahlen122

2 жыл бұрын

Yes. You can't buy concent. It's rape. No one can buy the right to commit rape... simple as that.

The Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democracy Index 2021 "Topping the list were Norway, New Zealand and Finland, while the U.K. ranked 18th. The U.S., which was given a flawed democracy classification, fell one spot to number 26." This list is on Bloomberg and a number of places on the internet if you google it.

Denmark is traditionally included in the term Scandinavia because it was on that Scandinavian peninsula before Sweden took over Skåne, Blekinge, Halland and Bohuslän in the 1600s. Finland on the other hand has a lot of that Scandian mountain range but has recently left the club. Their proud nationalists doesn't want to remember being the eastern part of Sweden for some 600 years (until 1809, when Russia managed to take Finland from Sweden).

About the winter lights in Sweden, i can say its reeeealy fun to wake up and its dark, go to work and its dark, look out the window at work and its light then go home from work and its dark again

It's true that only Sweden and Norway make up the Scandinavian peninsula, but I think (I could be wrong) that Denmark is counted as part of Scandinavia mostly due to historical reasons as the southern part of Sweden (Scania) has always been a Danish territory up until relatively recently in history.

Buying sex is illegal due to the vast majority of the seed workers everywhere being forced into selling sex one way or another.. So selling it isn't illegal because there's no point in arresting and convicting victims.. But arresting the ones enabling the trade is another story..

The crow mask is becasue they put herbs in there that they thought would protect them, so its just space for herbs :)

@annikamyren3026

2 жыл бұрын

For ex rosmarin , for the smell

20:22 yep, exactly! Sweden (as well as Norway and Finland) gain more coast because the land is still rising up from the sea because it was pressed down for so long by all the ice and snow before all that melted away

Don't worry about pausing. I'm watching your reaction videos to hear your reactions... that's what I get when you pause man! About the dark winters - yes, sometimes it can go months without ever seeing the sun. But that also makes me appritiate the sun more when it finally comes out at spring.

the plauge doctor mask was a long beak mask for herbs and flowers, which were believed to protect from the plauge. the beak was simply a much nicer design than just a "tube" for flowers with no design, also its possible that when painting artists took some artistic liberty for the sake of, art.

10:15 I’m not certain how accurate this is. But my friend Lova (don’t know why I wrote her name but I did) told me that the “crow mask” was used to store herbs and things like that, so that the doctors wouldn’t get sick. Also I’m sorry if there were any grammatical errors. But I’m both 14 and Swedish so that’s my excuse. Although I do go to the International English School in Enskede (which is in Stockholm) so that may not be that much of an excuse. But anyway. That might be why the doctors are wearing a crows mask. 11:20 also Kalmar isn’t a house but the Swedish city where the union was founded.

@michaelmcginn7260

2 жыл бұрын

Yes that is correct.

@simonlangeng9738

2 жыл бұрын

you are right, at the time they made a connection that bad smells leads to people getting sick. something that seem to make good sense if you dont know that there are some tiny tiny things called bacteria and viruses.

12:20 There have not been to many English language videos made about these wars but i did find some videos. Here they are: - Torstenson War | 3 Minute History - video by Jabzy kzread.info/dash/bejne/f22p0dt8dKuWnrA.html - Kalmar War- the northern wars (Scandinavia History) - video by Heroic History kzread.info/dash/bejne/oWdss5ayqpzclbQ.html - Dano-Swedish War of 1657 | 3 Minute History - video by Jabzy kzread.info/dash/bejne/fXiJs8OQY7vLaM4.html - Dano-Swedish War of 1658 | 3 Minute History - video by Jabzy kzread.info/dash/bejne/YmGhm9xwZdW_cco.html

@melkor3496

2 жыл бұрын

Cool that you found videos on those wars on yt I definitely have not been able to find any in the past.

Yes, the ice again (regarding the land rising), your question/explenation is quite spot on.

the crow mask was like a medieval mask. But it was primarily used to cover the stench of dead bodies with flowers and herbs stuffed in the beak.

Until about 14000 to 20000 years ago there was an iceage (100000+ years long) and most of northen europe was covered by a thick ice layer, thereby no known inhabitants until it melted away.

I think the prostitution law is to protect prostitutes. People don't end up in those situations by choice, usually forced into it because of drug use or threats, making them victims of their situation. So I think The aim is to help prostitutes out of their situation without sending them to jail. Laying all the blame on the byer. Not sure if it works though

Vasa was a noble house, I think they're extinct now though. Kalmar is a town on the southern east coast. If you go to the island of Öland there's a long bridge that connects Öland to the town of Kalmar, so you have to pass through that if you're visiting the island. Which I can recommend doing. It's lovely in the summer.

Why is it always nearly impossible for the US to even discuss certain topics, like gun regulation and services just because “it won’t work”? That’s not even an argument, that’s an empty balloon of laziness. You need to like other people to implement changes? Ok but you pay for your schools roads police fire department, right? What’s the difference? How else are you going to progress unless you can’t even talk about problems? Other countries do. None of the tax funded services were given to us. Sweden and in particular Norway were two poor miserable shithole counties 100 years ago, Swedens wealth began to take off post ww2, Norway when they found oil in the 70s. It was still very common for Norwegians to move and work in Sweden in the 1980s because Sweden payed much higher salaries. The tax funded services were demanded by the people, unions, times were changing and the politicians had to change to. Laws were changed. It’s also very expensive with poverty and bad/non existing health care. You pay for it.

@michaelmcginn7260

2 жыл бұрын

It obviously does work, check out the rest of the world.

@michaelmcginn7260

2 жыл бұрын

👍👍😊

It's true that the Scandinavian peninsula only includes Sweden and Norway. However, Denmark is still counted as one of the Scandinavian countries because of the current southern part of Sweden, Skåne (or in Latin Scania, where the word Scandinavia drives from) used to belong to Denmark until the Treaty of Roskilde in 1658 when Sweden claimed that part. Other reasons have to do with the Kalmar Union and the fact that the languages in the 3 countries are very much alike. The Nordic countries also include Finland, Island, and the Faroe Islands.

Scandinavia was under a kilometer-thick ice layer 10,000 years ago, thats why no one "discoverd" it earlier.. :)

Not sure why you were so confused about that it's illegal to buy sex but not to sell it. We don't punish those who sell it, we punish those who wants to take advantage of someone's body.

11:18 The Vasa dynasty was the first royal dynasty of a free and united Sweden following the death of the Kalmar Union and the defeat of Denmark beginning with the father of our nation, Gustav Vasa. Kalmar is the name of a town in South Sweden. The Kalmar Union was named after the town of Kalmar where the treaty that joined all the nations into one was signed.

Solar power works perfect in the summer with 20-24 hour sunligt, not working in the winter.

Sounds like you have forgotten about some videos you have reacted to. Glaciar reabound zones was explained a bit in the "Geography now, Sweden" video. How to cope with the dark vinters, that was Jonna Jinton's video.

@melkor3496

2 жыл бұрын

Hey forgetting is his last name. ;)

ref 8:30 14.000 years ago we where still in an ice age and most of Norway and Sweden was cover in a thick layer of ice. Only narrow strips along some part of the coast was ice free. That is way very few people was living in the area at the time. :-)

24:17 - It is illegal to buy sex, but it is legal to sell sex. Or in other words; punish the buyer, not the victim. Compare with countries that criminalise prostitution (punish the victim) and let the buyers (enablers) go free

Greetings from Halland, Sweden! Love your videos!!

The population density in sweden is lower than in norway much because sweden has more land than norway. It doesnt mean that there is more people in norway where people actually lives.

@odderlendsolvang3790

Жыл бұрын

men det er jo motsatt. Befolkningstettheten sverge 26per km^2 , Norge 15 per km^2

They mentioned in the video, but i highly recommend watching "Living with the Dark Winters in Sweden | Midnight sun & Polar night" by Jonna Jinton for the question:"how do they handle the never ending night/the sun never going down in northern Sweden". she's really talented and the video itself is great.

I have my home in the city of Kalmar, the birthplace of the Kalmar union. The family (house) Vasa was the family that Gustav Adolfus (Gustav II Adolf) was a part of.

Why Scandinavia wasn't inhabitated earlier' was because of the Iceage, scandinavia was litterly submerged under a heavy glacier. And thats related to the land still rising like mentioned. Also, during the bronze age the climate was much better up in scandinavia, it got worse since then, colder, south of swedens climate during bronze age had similar climate as upper mediterrenian countries do.

The Swedish metal band Sabaton have made an album called "Carolus Rex" about Sweden's history with songs about Carolus Rex and Gustavus Adolphus. You should check it out and react to it :)

@annikamyren3026

2 жыл бұрын

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23:50 Correct. Illegal to buy. Legal to sell. Reason being that many who are selling are in a destitute or forced situation and don't sell because they want to. Especially women from poorer countries are trafficked in by criminal organizations (typically Eastern European origin) to make money of the women. THUS they can punish the buyers and the organizers but not the ones selling (mostly assumed to be victims).

One thing about the level of trust, “free” stuff and most people being ok with paying a high tax (btw, the average American actually pay more for things like school, insurers, healthcare per month, than the average swede pay in taxes every month…so, taxes aren’t that bad) hasn’t been around forever. Sweden was a highly divided country for a looooong time and it’s more a question of the people simply getting enough of being pushed around by the king, nobility and those who -have- and taking the power for themselves. The king and the political right in Sweden had the good sense to allow ordinary people into the government and to start unionising (for example). They knew that if they didn’t, it would’ve been a full on revolution. (Of course they did shoot strikers and unemployed back in -31…and revolution was just minutes away. In the end it, as I said, a question of ordinary people getting fed up and not cooperating with the powers that be. What we got was a capitalistic economy mixed with big influence from the workers, unions and the state, with a big focus on the social welfare system. Equal rights, right. About prostitution. The law says that it’s illegal to buy sex, but not illegal to sell. Before it was illegal to sell and prostitutes would be fined or sent to prison, often this would send them into a spiral of not being able to get a job when they got out of prison, which forced them to go back to prostitution and so it would continue. At the same time we know that a lot of those who prostitute themselves, do so because of different social, economic or (mental)health related reasons. That means that the person who works as a prostitute is viewed as someone in need of support and help, and punishing them for prostituting themselves is seen as a “double punishment” and as cruel. Instead there are several support groups who work with the police, homeless shelters and other agencies to try to help people in that situation to change their circumstances. And they’re shooting bullets. Skiing and shooting is actually a sport derived from Nordic military winter service. During the ice age Scandinavia was pushed down because of the awesome weight of the inland ice. The inland ice was around 3,5 kilometres thick (around 2,2 miles). It reseeded and was almost completely gone about 10.000 years ago. But by then it had been pushing the land down for about 100’000 years. So yeah, the land is still rising. What that process also means is that many of the mountains in Sweden and Norway used to be a hell of a lot higher, but the ice (and snow, rain and wind of course) has been grinding them down. Much of the mountains, big rocks and so on that are visible today are actually “urberg”, bedrock of granite.

the crow masks during a plague was to place a good smelling flower or something to keep the stench of the dead out if i'm not mistaken. the beak had the good smell stored.

"Sweden has endless summers where the sun never sets" "HOW CAN SWEDEN AND NORWAY HAVE SOLAR POWER?!" I just found that funny :D

Love your channel, you seem to have alot of knowledge of old europe and just general knowledge of countries. Very rare to find in an american 😄

Solar power works great here. The solar radiation against a horisontal surface here in the Stockholm area generates on a yearly average 1000 kWh/m2. The energy generated from my solar panels on the roof my house during March to October pays the total household energy consumption for the whole year and then some. :)

i agree with your when it comes to the mindset of diffrent countrys to work out how it best be run

The beek is for putting spices and herbs in for the smell of the black death or Digerdöden as it was called in sweden Love the video

The reasons for why it's illegal to buy sex but not to sell sex are simple: Prostitutes are often abused and are often themselves victims of human trafficking or some other atrocity. People buying sexual services on the other hand, are often abusive and contribute either directly or indirectly to this human trafficking. It would be weird to prosecute victims of human trafficking. Also, this is done in an effort to not scare prostitutes away from reporting abusive clients to the police.

Norway mostly sell there oil and gas to England and other European countries. And they also sell som of there hydro electric energy to Sweden and also England through under sea cable's

The American mentality is *"Me,Me,Me”* , the Scandiwegian mentality is *”We,We,We”*

21:46, sorry for all the comments. But that's incorrect. Freedom to roam means you CAN camp on private property - as long as you don't "disturb or destroy" (anything). Like you can't set up a tent in front of someone's house and start chopping down trees. Camp in someones field/forrest? Sure. Pick some mushrooms or berries? Absolutely. 23:49, the prostitute isn't doing anything criminal - the person buying sex is. Because what would stigmatizing and repressing the person selling sex possibly accomplish? "Who's buying what they are selling?" - people. Who are considered criminal. 35:00, yeah we were celebrating Jul (as Christmas is called here) long before Christianity was a thing even. The winter solstice. That's where Christmas came from, Christians did their usual thing of "if we can't eradicate old traditions, let's adopt them". Like Jesus wasn't even born that time of year.

14:16 Nice save there, mate 😆

@melkor3496

2 жыл бұрын

Bernadotte brought Sweden to prosperity in the long term and his family has done a huge amount of good for our country like getting us off the war path and growing us from within instead of just taking us to war.

The prostitution perception in Norway and Sweden is that selling sex is a sign of problems, and that these "unfortunate" souls needs help instead of punishment. This way they can contact the authorities for help, without risking being treated as criminals.

@lhaindirt5585

2 жыл бұрын

Also because it might be human trafficking going on.

It's possible humans have been in Scandinavia before 14000 years ago but since it was covered by ice in the last ice age before that any evidence of humanoids being there prior to the ice age would have been destroyed and it would have been more than 100000 years ago, so not so likely.

14:20 Kalmar is just a town in south east Sweden, where this treaty was signed. Wasa (Vasa in modern spelling) was the new King that led the revolt against Kristian II and the Kalmar Union and took Sweden out of it.

Your last comment hits the nail on the head. We have social empathy but thats not to be confused with socialisim

The perk with tax funded colleges is that you can get access to it before you ever payed tax. I had only had summer jobs when I got my masters. Now I help pay for the next person to get an education. It would benefit America in the long run if everyone could go to school. More people would get better paid jobs and contribute more to the country.

On the democracy index for 2021, the US ranks #26, with the status "flawed democracy".

Its because they dont want to punish the part already in a bad situation (The seller), but rather punish the one in a strong situation (The buyer)

They had the crow mask as a sort of mask mask. they filled them with cloth as a filter and some had even soaked cloth in urine

26:36 What’s the difference between Black Metal and Death Metal? I found this on Kerrang! which is the name of a British rock music magazine: ”Stylistically, death metal is more kinetic and and primal than black metal. Black metal's riffs are a bit ghostier, usually with shrieked rather than growled vocals, and it often has an arch European flavor to it that death metal doesn't always have.” Also: Sabaton would be classified as power metal if we’re talking about sub-genres of metal music.

In the end there.. you know what you're talking about. I think you're absolutely right about the Scandinavian mindset. We've also for most of the time had a homogeneous population. Which makes it easier to have thrust. And I must say I'm impressed by your geographical & history knowledge of both Scandinavia and Europe in general.

ref: 20:30 When you have ice that are several miles thick it is very heavy. So heavy that the land sank lower in the mantel. After the ice melted the land is risen about 200 meter and more some places. So even if the melting ice increased the ocean level 70-80 meters the shoreline from the ice age are now 120-150 meter above current sea level. Even harbors used by viking ships are now dry land.

No, the Scandinavian peninsula got its name from Scandinavia. The bigger peninsula where Finland is included is called the Fennoscandic peninsula.

Scandinavia was covered wit ice for a long time mate, not long after it receded humans came (with other speices).

I agree with you. Usa is not so much of a country, rather a collection of communities within a state within a country. Of course you wouldn't want to trust each other.

I am from Sweden, and I think you are right that it is not possible to just copy and introduce the same welfare system in the usa, especially not as from a donation from above from the federal government, if you want jointly organized services without a profit interest you have to arrange it together with like-minded citizens in the immediate area, it involves a lot of work, and will cost money, there is no such thing as a free lunch.

In biathlon, they shoot wit cal. .22 rifles. Which is also a common caliper in range shooting around the world.

The bullets used for the biathlon is 22lr. So no, it's not a pellet and the sight is a diopter sight, no lasers are involved at all.

Norway may be the richest country in the world, but no one discuss this, ever. Ask me and I will answer. Scandinavians are: Sweden, Norway, Denmark. Nordics are: Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Iceland.

Swede here. An explanation for the nordic model of prostitution is that it's illegal to buy sexual services, but not to sell. the reason for this is that the ones selling are often in a vulnerable state in life where they are easily exploited. As it's not a crime to sell sex, they are able to go to the police to report offenders or potential exploiters. They are also able to get help by the healthcare system and the social services with minimalized stigmatization. Had it been illegal to sell, they would also be committing a crime, and would be put in a more vulnerable position as they couldn't go to the authorities to get help without risking punishment.

You definitely should react to "Jonna Jinton - Living with the Dark Winters in Sweden"

10:15 they wore those masks to keep out the air and they’d stuff the beak with herbs they believed the plagued was caused by bad smells therefore nice smells would fix it

So many things to comment on.. Lets see if i remember half of it.. Post glacial rebound is exatly as you thought... the entire peninsula was cowerd in up to 3000 meters of ice in the last iceage, and the weight of that ice supressed the landmass. Geological prosesses moestly work on geological timescales and the land is still undergoing rebound from the removed weight. In my hometown we have 6500 years old petroglyphs, beleaved to be made at a campsite at the waters egde (they show marine animals). They are now 60 meters above sealevel. The oldest human remains found in Norway was carbon dated to 11 700 years ago if i remeber correct, it was a scull found near the southern tip of Norway, in shallow water by a guy building a private dock. 11 700 years is wery close to younger dryas, and since again the land was coverd in ice,, there may well have been ppl crossing beringia earlier then scandinavia was icefree. The plaguemasks... it was believed in the middleages that the smell was what spread disease. I have been told that they stuffed the beaks with cloth dunked in vinegar. Im not sure if this is true, but it seems resomable to me. (Im sure there was nore, but I must have forgotten 😂)

May be a bit late to the party. The reason for the increase in land that rises from the sea, is due to approx. 3km of ice pushing the crust(landmas) into the mantle("core") of the earth. When the ice melted the crust could rise up. It has slowed down. Currently the sea-level rise is about the same as in Western Norway

Regarding the freedom to roam, we are in fact allowed to go camping on private property. Large portions of our forests in Sweden are privately owned (about 50%) but anyone is allowed to walk and camp there, pick berries or mushrooms and make fires etc. as long as we don't litter or destroy anything. That's the whole point; even if you own a piece of nature, it's still accessible to everyone. You're just not allowed to walk into someone's back yard or camp within a certain distance from a private residence. When it comes to prostitution, the legislation was introduced first in Sweden and has actually been adopted by a number of other countries since then. Basically the idea is that we want to keep prostitution illegal but we want to protect sex workers who are often in desperate and vulnerable situations. Many sex workers are forced into the profession and a lot of them have drug problems and mental illness. We do not help these people by imprisoning them or giving them a fine, we help them by making their life situation better so that they don't need to sell their bodies. I think it's a great approach to catch and punish the buyers while helping the sellers. Medicinal marijuana has been approved in Sweden but it has only ever been given to a few hundred people. Sweden has a *very* restrictive drug policy and also among the highest drug-related deaths in the entire EU.

If you want to learn more about war stories from around the world, you should listen to Sabaton from Sweden. They also have a history channel. If you have not liked history but like music, you will learn a lot. Listen especially to Christmas truce.

Before 14 000 years ago, Scandinavia was covered by glaciers, which is the cause of the late arrival of people there.

Kalmar is a city in Sweden. So it's kinda like the Warsaw pact etc. There is no deeper meaning behind the name.

I would also highly recommend watching Cecilia Blomdahls you tube channel about Svalbard. I found it several months ago. My kids and I love watching about polar night and days. Very informative and entertaining.

Dark all day is nice tho. Snow makes it quite bright and we love chridtmas lights

we dont consume our own oil in norway, we sell all of it. we use mostly hydro power, some wind, and sometimes borrow some from sweden, usually coal. overall norway has about 98% of its energy use from renewable energy

23:02 Yes , we even use hydroelectric power from shore to power our offshore oilriggs. Given the price of electrisity latly, i personly dont like that one, but thats where were at.

You guys paid an insane amount of taxes in the 50s and 60s the golden era of US economy, you had similar programs, not all but some. So its not that strange, it feels like politicians and tv have divided a country that didnt used to be this divided so companies and the very rich can take more and more while the average american gets less and less and fight eachother instead of demanding more from politicians etc. Atleast thats what it looks like from the outside.

25:23 Don’t worry, they use real bullets so no need to panic, you American! lol No but in all seriousness; its real ammunition. The ammunition used is .22 long rifle rounds.

most of norway and sweden was covered in up to 2 miles of ice, ofcourse this had a lot of weight and as it melted and eroded away the terrain (creating the fjords) and flooding it with water the weight lifted greatly and overtime the ground is rising after being pushed down for thousands of years, at about 4.5 mm per year

Interesting fact about Gustavus Adolphus, he was only 152 cm tall, or just under 5 foot.

People had a hard time arriving earlier, since there was an ice age. There was an icecap basically covering half of europe, and scandinavia was the lates to come out of the ice. And after that, a lot of denmark and southern sweden was actuall submerged, even after the ice receeded. On the flip side, the ice age actually lowered the global sea levels, so that's why the first humans could reach north america as early as they did.

Prostitution law might seem odd or illogical but it centers around an idea of not criminalize those who sell, since selling often is an act of desperation. Pimping and or trafficing is still illegal of course.

Kalmar is a city in the south-east of Sweden. Vasa was the familiy name of a Royal family.

6:42 they don’t pay taxes together lol. They just have similar systems.

40:35, He did a US and Canada compared video, I recommended reacting to it.

You count Denmark too, since they used to have a part in the Scandinavian peninsula.

You're right! you can not copy the Nordic model without having the corresponding mindset

The highest marginal taxrate is about the same in USA and Sweden, and it's lower in Norway. The lowest marginal taxrate is 0 % in USA, Norway and Sweden, however it's a absolute in Norway, almost a absolute in Sweden and a maybe in USA. USA have 21 % federal corporate tax, Sweden 20,6% and Norway 23%. Sale tax is depending in Sweden and Norway, and is between 10 and 25%, in USA it's common around 11.5%. Capital gains tax in USA is 20 % and 22 % in Norway. The taxes in not fixed in any country, but these is the normal numbers. In some cases it can go higher and lower depending on social factors, this is more common is Sweden and Norway. Taxes is not the reason why !!

The ice age. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weichselian_glaciation That is why people did not settle in Scandinavia until 14000 years ago.

Before 14 000 years ago there was a glacier covering scandinavia complitely. And before that ice age. Before that Ice age we dont know, because the ice "cleaned" the countries of everything. Something else. The dark winter makes us calmer. It make us think longer over decisions. The long winters forced us to plan more than others. We had to pick up wood to warm up our houses for at least 6-8 months. Find food for the winter and so on....The climate "created" us. When it comes to solar power, the technology is like :If the temperature is cold its good for the efficiency of the panels. Electricity out / Sunlight inn = Is higher when its cold compared to higher temperatures. But yes, we get less sun, so its almost even out. In the winter we have litle electricity from the panels, but in the summer we have more...And then OIL. We dont have "alot of oil" but we have alot compared to the small population..There has been probably 20 age ages, may be more. These age ages does move between winter and summer. They move abit from the "top" to the end. And this movment "dig out the softer rocks from the harder rocks. This makes the fjords...Simplified explanation...Our countries work because of THRUST. The Thrust is because of homogen population and that Norway and Sweden are neighbours.. Also Finland are our neighbor, but it looks like the the dark winter also makes us calmer. So, calmn polulation combined with trust ,,, Thats it I guess, yes and of course small population.

Just one question. Why do so many Americans (referring to the video, not yourself) half scream when they talk? I've got a volume button

It is generally accepted that Sweden became a unified state in 1523. We celebrate our national day on June sixth because Gustav Vasa, who is seen as the father of our country, got elected king on June sixth 1523. We actually have more daylight on average compared to the rest of the world due to the midnight sun and the long days during the summer in the rest of the country, it doesn’t have to be warm for solar panels to work. You got it right about the post glacial rebound, we’re rising like a sponge. The reasoning behind our prostitution law I believe is that those who sell their own bodies are seen as victims themselves as there’s not a lot of people who get into prostitution for the fun of it. The police go after the customers, the pimps and those who organise prostitution rings.

@rupplopp

2 жыл бұрын

I would say it was 1523. I would say 1351

21:48 as long as you do it safely and clean up after yourself yes.

@melkor3496

2 жыл бұрын

Freedom to roam law is definitely the best part of our countries. 100%.