{"id":380,"date":"2010-02-17T05:52:30","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T09:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/?p=380"},"modified":"2018-08-13T15:31:16","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T15:31:16","slug":"express-yourself-don%c2%b4t-repress-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/express-yourself-don%c2%b4t-repress-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"“Express yourself don\u2019t repress yourself!”"},"content":{"rendered":"

No one really likes Jantelagen. People have really weird thoughts about\u00a0this subject\u00a0sometimes. You are not supposed to express strong opinions on anything unless it\u2019s not about child abuse (barnaga\/barnmisshandel<\/strong>)\u00a0or something really horrible that people are naturally against. I remember one conversation where I really went against\u00a0jantelagen and only one friend of mine backed me\u00a0up.\u00a0I should have been PK about it\u00a0as we say\u00a0politically correct (politiskt korrekt<\/strong>) in Sweden.\u00a0That was the expectation.\u00a0But I wasn\u2019t. Not because I wanted to provoke people, but I wanted to have an honest reaction. But I should have been lagom<\/em> on the matter. I have been wondering for years what is the reason why I\u00a0so dislike\u00a0jantelagen. I thought for a while that it must be because of\u00a0my Hungarian heritage. Tam\u00e1s Gell\u00e9rt (one of the biggest Swedish writers and journalists\u00a0nowadays and among other books he is the author of the famous book Lasermannen, which is a true story based on a serial killer in Stockholm) wrote in an articel that the Hungarian mentality is cocky (kaxig<\/strong>) and\u00a0brutally honest. I really don\u2019t know if he\u2019s right or wrong about that matter. I think everyone can recognize her\/himself in any of the statements of either Tam\u00e1s Gell\u00e9rt or jantelagen. After reading his article I have\u00a0understood that the real reason\u00a0why I dislike jantelagen is because I don\u2019t like greyness. Greyness in terms of being unnoticeable and boring.\u00a0I like interesting people who are outstanding talents\u00a0and by outstanding I don\u2019t mean Paris Hilton. Or maybe not outstanding but true to themselves.\u00a0There is nothing wrong with\u00a0showing that you CAN DO IT or that you have a different point of view. It\u2019s human nature. It\u2019s not good for you to repress your feelings. I honestly hope that people who live by jantelagen-rules won\u2019t realize after a certain age that they have missed out on things just because they wanted to live up for something that was created\/decided by other people who rather “repress than solve things”. This is\u00a0also a reason why I dislike jantelagen. I don\u2019t ever want to feel like that. I want to be aware of the reasons\u00a0behind any actions or\u00a0statements I make. Do not worry guys! I let go sometimes. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

I have collected some funny lines that sums up\u00a0people living in\u00a0Janteland=Sweden. Don\u2019t forget that I will generalize as well. Do you recognize yourself as a Swede or as a foreigner in transition becoming a Swede?<\/p>\n

It i<\/em>s always someone elses turn to buy cakes to work on fridays.<\/em><\/p>\n

You think you\u2019ll be punished for changing queue at the grocery store.<\/em><\/p>\n

You comfort yourself with “that is more important to be a part of the game than winning it”.<\/em><\/p>\n

You never sit next to a person unless there are no available seats left.<\/em><\/p>\n

You become silent when people pour wine for you.<\/em><\/p>\n

You\u00a0are convinced\u00a0that Sweden pays the most EU-membership fee.<\/em><\/p>\n

You know the Norwegian national day by heart but you are uncertain when the Swedish is.<\/em><\/p>\n

You pay equally on a first-date.<\/em><\/p>\n

If someone talks to you (without a real reason) on the bus you assume that they are either drunk or have a\u00a0psycological problem.<\/em><\/p>\n

You weigh your lagguage at home before leaving to the airport.<\/em><\/p>\n

You never say that the food was bad at a restaurant. You think it\u2019s about good manners.<\/em><\/p>\n

Whenever you get a fine you say: They are\u00a0just doing their job.<\/em><\/p>\n

You think that breakfast is the most important meal of the day.<\/em><\/p>\n

You take a queue ticket even if you are alone in the shop.<\/em><\/p>\n

You take chances to make Swedish words into English.<\/em><\/p>\n

You would love to be less stereotypical Swedish.<\/em><\/p>\n

source with some modification: Du vet att du \u00e4r svensk. You know that you are Swedish.<\/p>\n

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No one really likes Jantelagen. People have really weird thoughts about\u00a0this subject\u00a0sometimes. You are not supposed to express strong opinions on anything unless it\u2019s not about child abuse (barnaga\/barnmisshandel)\u00a0or something really horrible that people are naturally against. I remember one conversation where I really went against\u00a0jantelagen and only one friend of mine backed me\u00a0up.\u00a0I should…<\/p>\n

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