😳 Northern Europeans don't think they are special.
Haebom
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I looked it up because I heard that there is something called the "Law of Jante" in the region we commonly call Northern Europe (Scandinavia), and it is a term that includes extreme equality and communitarianism. There are 10 of them, but if I were to summarize them in one line, it would be "You should not think of yourself as special or better than others." In some ways, it is a very different idea from what people think these days...
Anyway, there is a view that thanks to this law, Northern Europe has a high happiness level and is politically peaceful, and this is also a type of hygge culture based on the Law of Jante... But this law itself comes from the novel <A Fugitive Crosses His Tracks, En flyktning krysser sitt spor> published in 1933, so it's surprising that the rules of a fictional village from a book that's less than 100 years old became the main ideological foundation of a region.
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