tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1563144873021010273.post5628049486563154907..comments2023-04-30T10:31:15.993+02:00Comments on Life in Blue and Yellow: Is it really June?Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10816728508733702249noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1563144873021010273.post-19189583759304999722012-06-09T10:17:44.502+02:002012-06-09T10:17:44.502+02:00That's a nice little history lesson! I love fi...That's a nice little history lesson! I love finding out how things came to be. Driving between Skövde and Gbg I've noticed countless churches like that. I've also noticed a rather old church here in town over in the Örgryte area I believe, a bit southwest of where we live. I forget exactly the year it was built but it's definitely an older one...<br /><br />Just outside of Skövde there is also Våmb church which is still standing, it was built in the 1100s. I suppose I just enjoy comparing all the architecture Sweden has to offer =)Jessicahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10816728508733702249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1563144873021010273.post-56775049330873156562012-06-09T00:12:19.376+02:002012-06-09T00:12:19.376+02:00I'm glad we're in agreement. :)
Maybe the ...I'm glad we're in agreement. :)<br />Maybe the proverb "mycket vill ha mer" sums it up pretty well. <br /><br />Anyway I wanted to comment on the church as well. It's what's called (with some derision) a Tegnerlada after the poet and bishop Esaias Tegner (and lada=barn). He lived and worked during the first half of the 19th century during a time when Swedens counrtyside population was increasing rapidly. Many old (often medieval) churches were becoming too small for their parishes and were demolished to give space for this type of large church, often with very plain interiors in contrast to earlier churches. Tegner was a strong proponent of these new churches and today they are probably the most common type of church in Sweden. I find most of them boring compared to my own parish church (built 1727), where the whole ceiling is painted with images from the Bible complete with a hell where drunkards and card-players end up. Whenever you're bored with the service the building provides you with a comic book, it's great! :DFredrik Anderssonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1563144873021010273.post-3387371445086287412012-06-08T08:33:50.404+02:002012-06-08T08:33:50.404+02:00I agree, Fredrik, it was a load of whining!
I...I agree, Fredrik, it was a load of whining! <br /><br />I've taken that up with some Swedes that I know, how it seems like a two sided coin sometimes from what I can see - people do say Sweden is great to foreigners and yet then they turn around and really complain about the government or how something is just crappy. What I've come up with several individuals is that some Swedes seem to feel a sense of entitlement, that the government will and should take care of everything for them and when it for some reason doesn't is when they begin the whining and complaining.<br /><br />But that article in particular I remember reading about the writer complaining about equality between genders and stuff more like that. I think Sweden is one of the very hardest working countries towards gender equality, far more so than the US. It almost feels overkill with how much women are expected to be strong and all that comes with it. Ok, well, overall we agree it was just a giant load of whining =)Jessicahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10816728508733702249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1563144873021010273.post-8130019434558460872012-06-07T23:09:35.553+02:002012-06-07T23:09:35.553+02:00I read the same letter in the paper. What a load o...I read the same letter in the paper. What a load of whining! <br />When it comes to the lukewarm celebrations it has to do with politics. The left in this country has at least since WW2 viewed every overt form of traditional patriotism as suspicious. They've based their own smug form of patriotism on the merit of their reforms (välfärdsstaten/folkhemmet) and not on a more subjective sense of love of home and togetherness as a people. That's why alot of Swedes often brag to foreigners about how Sweden is so great because of X material thing that the government provides while at the same time composing air headed letters to papers complaining about how Sweden is a rotten place because the latest batch of left-wing reforms haven't been implemented yet. I hope that this hollow and jingoistic ("our way is superior to all other societies and the world should imitate us") form of Swedish patriotism will disappear and give way to the more traditional form. The slow increase in events on June 6th seems to indicate that things are changing in that direction.Fredrik Anderssonnoreply@blogger.com