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AllanKempe14 karma

I’m assuming that he’s referring to the fact that the Nordic countries as a whole have very homogenous populations in terms of race, culture

Historically correct, yes.

class

We were just as class divided as the US until the 50's or so, probably even more class divided before the wars. In Sweden it was the deep class divides (together with pragmatic capitalists who saw what happened in Russia) that spawned a strong social democracy (read: social liberalism).

political views

Not historically, see the above. We could easily have become communists or fascists in this country. The social liberal path was only the result of luck and pragmatism among the influential people.

AllanKempe10 karma

I assume you weigh at least 150 kg or so. Does your body require as much food as someone without this condition (and who's not obese) who weighs that much? That is, do you need to eat much more than an average person without this condition?

AllanKempe8 karma

Being 24 I remember graduating high school when technology was starting to enter the classroom. Everyone had cellphones, the Ti-89 calculators could solve derivatives and integrations for us

Just wanted to point out that we had pretty advanced graphical calculators in high school in the mid 90's too so your "cohort" wasn't exactly the one where "technology was starting to enter the classroom".

AllanKempe6 karma

What's right is to spend those 800,000 SEK per year each unaccompanied alleged child currently costs on the fully covered education of a few thousand school girls in Africa and Afghanistan instead. Multiply with about 50,000 (current number of unaccompanied alleged children in Sweden) and we could cover the full annual education of about one hundred million (100,000,000) African and Afghan girls.

I know what's the most humanistic thing to do. Do you?

AllanKempe4 karma

Yes, most high school students in Sweden had cell phones in the mid 90's, that's when it exploded - I know other countries were a couple of years slower, especially the US. But cell phones back then were of course not like 2010's smartphones. Instead we had access to (stationary) PC's, they were essentially like modern smartphones but bigger and were located in certain computer rooms and we used to have some math classes there experimenting with math software like Matlab, Mathematica, Maple etc.