I remember back when I was 16 and moved to another town than my parents for school (apartment, not even close to where I was studying). So many new things like grocery, cleaning, household economy. It was trial and error but why not. You can still call your parents for advice once a week. (Sweden)

Every night I pray to find a way out of the USA.

funny, the comments are discussing ww2 and not anything in the video

btw hello future recommended gang

forget about weed though. also if you want to have a beer, be prepared to pay 4 times what it costs in other places.

Although getting tired of seeing the Scandinavians at the top of every single list, and I’m somewhat skeptical of how truly happy they are (I’ve been there often, studied their literature etc), this guy makes a good point. But it depends on a good, honest government that serves the people and by definition governments elsewhere are mostly corrupt and incompetent, to some degree in the US too. How is it that the Scandinavians have achieved such high level of governance? Is it because small homogeneous populations can reach consensus more easily? Is it that remote location and challenging geography/climate promotes interdependence and collaboration? Is it they learned from the failures and successes of the continental Europeans? Thoughts?

@TheAccidentalViking

3 жыл бұрын

Look up 'Corruption index' and you'll see that good governance and the happiness of a country is directly related. The US is down at 25, with Bhutan and Chile. Top 7 are as follows: Rank 1 New Zealand, Denmark Rank 3 Finland, Switzerland, Sweden Rank 7 Norway Norway is not homogenous. Norway is even more complicated than your two party system. Norway has a parliament, meaning, there is LESS consensus in the government because more viewpoints are represented. There isn't just one party in power over the other. There are a range of parties and they often have to create coalitions and it has made for some crazy bedfellows, but it means MORE democracy, more voices, not fewer. We are far from remote. We are a part of Europe without being in the EU. We are connected to the economy of Europe, and the world, as part of the EØS. I've lived in New Zealand almost as long as I've lived here in Norway and I've lived in the US almost as long as I've lived in Norway. New Zealand tops my list of places to live, followed closely by Norway and then waaaay down the list is the US. If you really had visited here, you'd have realised how disparate the dialects are and how the small pockets of very proud regions of folks are. How, through the work of Ivar Aasen, Norway created a second language in a attempt to reclaim some of its own culture after the years of Danish occupation. If you want to learn more about society in Norway, google Harold Eie's other videos that ran on NRK here. He started his TV career as a comedian, but he holds a degree in sociology and has done some fantastic and award winning documentary work.

@cgsather3309

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheAccidentalViking Thanks for informative reply. Agree, I’ve visited NZ and it’s top of my list to return, would gladly live there. I found Kiwi society in many ways functions better than Australia, US or the Europeans. Obviously Norway and the Scandinavian countries are presently neither remote nor homogeneous, but it takes centuries to forge a national character and for a long time they received much less traffic than countries to the south, despite Viking expansion, wars among themselves and with the Germans, Russians etc. I’m not using homogeneity in its ugly sense, but while never as extreme as Iceland, Norway has not historically been a crossroads like say, Italy. Is it possible that having to survive for thousands of years as a (relatively speaking) small group of similar people led to interdependence, mutual trust and ultimately today’s model governance with the low corruption index? Of course this is just a hypothesis based on limited knowledge and any feedback welcome. I’ll listen to more of Harold Eie, he’s both entertaining and educational.

@TheAccidentalViking

3 жыл бұрын

@@cgsather3309 I think you underestimate the way they warred amongst themselves here in Norway/Sweden and Denmark and what the Danish and then the Swedish occupations were like and then the subsequent Nazi occupation. Norway is an incredibly young country. It was under Danish rule from 1397 until 1814. Because Denmark backed Napoleon, when Napoleon was defeated, they had to hand Norway over to Sweden. Norway calls the years of Danish rule 'the 400 years and night.' It gained its independence from Sweden in 1905, bloodlessly, and created its own constitution. (there was so much hate that the original articles of constitution contained some horrendous anti-semitic laws.) Wasn't it Frank Zappa that said there was more hate per mile in Europe than anywhere else he'd performed? The US has always been the 'Occupier' and has never been the 'occupied'. You keep using the word 'homogeneous'. I think you're oversimplifying the effects on the population of a country of importing hundreds of people in chains and then making them work like animals for generations and then disenfranchising them systematically for another hundred years. No, Norway didn't do that. That's all on you guys.

@vemundbergli

3 жыл бұрын

Just watch the show

@zarahandrahilde9554

3 жыл бұрын

I'm late, but here's a different perspective, coming to Norway as a refugee as a kid. Norwegian people are fiercely loyal to their ideas and their identities, and hold eachother accountable socially within those layers of identity. Often it starts with family, and when you're young here, the rivalry is between different schools - then what town you come from, what district it belongs to, and so on until it comes to a national identity. It's not a hateful rivalry but a competative one, and i think i can best explain it by example of how scandinavians treat eachother. They love to mess with eachother and tease, and have jokes and stories and even shows making fun of their scandinavian sibling nations - but if a non-scandinavian were to pick on swedes and make fun of them, Norwegians and Danes will without hesitation act fiercely loyal and protect them. Kind of like "that's MY littlebrother, i get to tease him, not you." This culture of competition and still being uniquely loyal to ideas and identities makes norwegians very demanding to their politicians, because what political party you support is also a layer of identity that says alot about you. If a leader or a politician acts unethically or corrupt, makes a mistake or betrays anyones interest, everyone who shares that identity will swiftly throw you to the wolves. Partisan loyalty in the USA that we've seen this last decade is a complete opposite, where republicans side with republican politicians nomatter what they do, and vica versa. There, the population seems to side with their politicians to a frightening degree, while in Norway, the politician or leader is expected to be loyal to their base with absolutely no tolerance of putting them to shame. Remember, these layers of identity go all the way back down into the towns and districts, so there is no tolerance for even a mayor or a school principal doing any schenanigans. So for a politician to rise to the top layers of goverment, they have to be solid for their entire career first, or somehow get away with their mischief. Not all politicians are squeaky clean, there are always exceptions, but they are few and far between, and nowhere near american political scandals. So your question about a good,honest and competent goverment and how Norway achieves this, i think the expectation of flawless representation is a big factor, first at the city/district level with mayors and union leaders, then to the political parties, and then finally to the norwegian goverment as a whole, demanded by all. From how i see it, it results in a fiercely proud nation, and a leadership and goverment that has both incredible trust and loyalty, but also incredible, *incredible* scrutiny and demands for perfect conduct.

Small talk, at its best. Live your life ... No (r) way!

@ellingsenspill

2 жыл бұрын

Uhm. Great argument..?

Hypergamy is a thing in the nordic countries as well. It's just not as screaming obvious as in other countries.

@ellingsenspill

2 жыл бұрын

He's not saying anything about it not happening though, he is saying the dependence is not the reason as much as in the usa.

@BIBLE-a-s-m-r

Жыл бұрын

What’s that

His accent is so 😬

han må ha lest subtitles da han så Seinfeld. Engelsken hans er helt ræva!

The medical treatment isn’t free, it’s only free for those who don’t want to work

@Idasbo

2 жыл бұрын

Those who don't want to work or can't find work don't get the benefits. You have to pay taxes to get them and be a part of the system.

@daru6088

2 жыл бұрын

Bull

@alexbleks

2 жыл бұрын

Ofc they also get the benefits! Difference is I have to pay for it through taxes, they don’t. And I even have a private insurance because I don’t trust the “free healthcare” for shit! I’ll guarantee if I got sick I would get a diagnose that the government won’t pay for anyway because it’s too expensive (which happens to people every day).

@jeschinstad

Жыл бұрын

You mean the yearly $300us maximum cost of health care in Norway. Ask an American what their yearly maximum cost of health care is. They would probably spend it during their first doctors visit. When I see my GP, it costs around $20us and it counts towards the maximum, just like all medicines do. This has nothing to do with whether you're employed or not. That is simply false. Unemployed pay exactly the same as everyone else. Of course, they can, because they have their social income.

@peacefulminimalist2028

Жыл бұрын

@@Idasbo Actually not true. You are automatically part of "Folketrygden" the day you are born.

It's called Socialism, and this is a banned word in the USA.

@NoanNorvang

8 ай бұрын

Norway is not a socialist country, It's a social democratic country

Norway has 5 million people and tons of oil, which is why they are rich. you wanna be happy make everyone rich. Also why are all the comments from a few days ago when the video is 4 months old. Why does this channel have a single video of ripped off content.

@Liquidrass

3 жыл бұрын

the oil is not the reason we are rich :-)

@AricGardnerMontreal

3 жыл бұрын

@@Liquidrass Last year's return on investment amounted to almost $34,000 for each of the 5.3 million people living in Norway, and the overall value of the fund is now equivalent to about $207,000 for every man, woman and child. T

@bakk.

3 жыл бұрын

@@AricGardnerMontreal It's not the only reason though. It's probably the reason why they're richer than the other Nordic countries, but without it they would probably still be as rich as eg. Denmark or Sweden.

@miloe436

3 жыл бұрын

​@@AricGardnerMontreal All nordic countries are rich, most of them have little to no oil. Harald Eia explains it best: "(kzread.info/dash/bejne/npt4rtmgo6fgqrA.html&ab_channel=HaraldEia)".

@syltis1994

2 жыл бұрын

@@AricGardnerMontreal But it's not distrubuted to every man, women and child. Out social mobility, high minimum wages (which leads to technological advancement in business), and social security is the reason why we are rich. There are good documentation on this and the speaker in the video has a good video on it in his show 'This is Norway'. America could do this as well, but your politics and attitude towards community and helping others comes in the way.

Sounds good but what are the statistics on suicide in Norway? They are pretty high, and I don't believe we are that happy, I think we say we are but I also think that we are well indoctrinated by the state to feel happy and not complain. He also fails to mention where all the money to cover the "free" education comes from, we earn a lot in Norway but we also pay a lot of taxes to cover all of which the state deems necessary to pay for.... sometimes I wish for that money to stop going to A-holes who trick the system that is so easy to trick. It is a nightmare to be an employer in Norway, an employee could be breaking the law while at work, and all these fine unions we have here will come in and defend his rights and make it almost impossible for the employer to fire someone even when they really should, and thus many who are more deserving of that job never get the chance because of scumbags abusing the al too kind system. It's not perfect, is all I'm saying...

@Acaerwen

3 жыл бұрын

In what way could they be breaking the law and not get fired? Also, while the self-reported happiness is not that trustworthy; one of those articles showed UN's conclusion that Norway had the highest quality of life by fulfilling certain criteria. I don't know what those criteria are, but still. Per 2016, the WHO ranks norway as number 71 in suicide rate; behind (below) the US, Sweden, Denmark, Austria, Iceland, Australia, New zealand just to name a few.

@notaviking6997

3 жыл бұрын

@@Acaerwen When you say Norway is behind the countries you mention, it means that Norway has less suicide than these countries Here you have the status quo. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate

@Acaerwen

3 жыл бұрын

@@notaviking6997 yes, that was my point. Should probably say below instead

@PaulBaudy

3 жыл бұрын

We have a pretty good system for busting frauds in our ‘all too kind system’, which sanely enough trusts in trust.

@bollemesteren6583

3 жыл бұрын

It's the best system.. FRP or individual = messed up society

I would much rather depend on people I know personally than big government

Communist propaganda

@dome3459

3 жыл бұрын

If you are implying that Norway is a communist country, then. I wish you the best of luck in life. You need it

@Enhydra_

3 жыл бұрын

The host has said that Norway is Beating the US at Capitalism xD

@sadkfjasdkl4543

3 жыл бұрын

@@Enhydra_ 40% tax rate is not capitalism.

@Liquidrass

3 жыл бұрын

@@sadkfjasdkl4543 we dont have 40% tax :-P

@bakk.

3 жыл бұрын

@@sadkfjasdkl4543 Norway is capitalist... Either way, "not capitalism" is not the same as communism. If Norway is communistic then communism works I guess...