TY  - BOOK
AU  - Åsbrink,Elisabeth
TI  - Made in Sweden: 25 ideas that created a country 
SN  - 9781947534841
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Minneapolis, Minnesota
PB  - Scribe
KW  - Quality of life
KW  - Sweden
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Social aspects
N1  - First published in Swedish as Orden som formade Sverige by Natur & Kultur in 2018; Includes bibliographical references; Suinom hinc civitas -- Beowulf -- The sacred nature -- Homo sapiens -- Swedish values in the making -- Here's the first -- A Swedish suffragette -- Know thyself -- Human beings are to be pitied -- The Swede that inspired Hitler -- The preservation of the Swedish race -- The peoples' home -- Take off your shoes -- Personal identification numbers -- Ikea -- Swedish neutrality -- As the hand grips a sun-warm stone -- I am death -- Scandi noir -- Creatures of dictatorship -- Never violence -- The bridge -- Open your hearts -- Zlatan, the Swede
N2  - In recent times, we have come to favor all things Scandi - their food, furnishings, fiction, fashion, and general way of life. We seem to regard the Swedes and their Scandinavian neighbors as altogether more sophisticated, admirable, and evolved than us. We have all aspired to be Swedish, to live in their perfectly designed society from the future. But what if we have invested all our faith in a fantasy? What if Sweden has in fact never been as moderate, egalitarian, dignified, or tolerant as it would like to (have us) think? The recent rise to political prominence of an openly neo-Nazi party has begun to crack the illusion, and here now is Swede Elisabeth Åsbrink, who loves her country 'but not blindly', presenting twenty-five of her nation's key words and icons afresh, in order to give the world a clearer-eyed understanding of this fascinating country
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