Different cultural pathways to the same thing
My experience of attending school in Sweden was that the Social Democrats have a serious case of delusional thinking regarding what to reward and communicating that you have to work hard to get what you want in life. Conservative Swedes tend to agree, as far as I can see, but I was somewhat surprised to see the opinion scathingly and directly expressed in Expressen, one of the two (generally Social Democrat-leaning) evening papers in Sweden.
Sometimes, perspectives that you may have because of another culture are held by people that never left that culture as well. I always find that somewhat reassuring. It shows that even though you may have arrived at the opinion or idea using different cultural pathways (as opposed to logical arguments) you can still end up in the same place (usually a logical argument) sometimes. Maybe even a place of partial belonging?
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