Norway ???????? • ✅Norway - how the descendants of the Vikings live... Finland ???????? • Facts about Finland that are not in Wiki... Australia ???????? • Here's Why Australia is a Seditious Country What's the first thing that comes to everyone's mind when it comes to Sweden? If you only remember Karlsson or meatballs from the IKEA store, then you should watch the video to the end. Yes, since we're talking about IKEA, you should know that the world-famous chain of stores has not been Swedish for a long time: for eight years now, it has been owned by fat cats from the Netherlands. Well, now let's go! Swedish family Around the mid-seventies of the last century, the concept of "Swedish family" appeared in the Russian language, which for a long time became synonymous with Sweden. The ABBA group played a significant role in this – two married couples singing in sweet voices about money and love and once swapping partners. However, Swedish families are not much different from other European families: dad, mom and a couple of kids. Divorced Swedes most often try to maintain normal relationships with each other. Children from a previous marriage regularly come to visit either dad or mom. “New” and “old” families often spend their free time together, completely unaware that their “irresponsible” behavior contributes to further strengthening the myth of the “Swedish family” in Russia. In general, Sweden has a very reverent attitude towards children. You cannot raise your voice at children, violence is unacceptable. In Sweden, corporal or physical punishment in all forms has been prohibited since 1979, including the right of parents to spank their children. During a divorce, the court takes into account ONLY the interests of the young citizen. Neither of the “separated” spouses has the right to leave the city. A child should have the right to see his parents freely and at any time. If not both at once, then at least in turns. Moreover, he can live with each of them for a week. In general, in any unclear situation, a child should have two parents. Many Swedish couples prefer to live in an unregistered marriage, since the rights and responsibilities are exactly the same as those of a legal husband and wife, an official divorce is an expensive pleasure, and if there are children, it is also long. Buffet The Swedish table is much luckier in terms of plausibility than the Swedish family. The so-called smörgabsurd) - "snack table" - was really invented in Sweden. However, modest Scandinavians by nature do not call it Swedish. And its roots are in the distant past. Many centuries ago, the Swedes made preserves for future use from long-term storage products - salted fish, root vegetables and vegetables, smoked meat. When guests arrived, all the food was served at once, in large bowls. In this way, the hosts spared themselves unnecessary ceremonies, freeing up time for communication. In the 20th century, this democratic way of dining was adopted by the whole world. Swedish wall And the Swedish wall was also really invented in Sweden. However, they don’t call it that there, it is better known as a rIbstool, which literally means “frame with crossbars”. Ecology Sweden has one of the best waste management and recycling systems in the world. Its system is so complex that less than 1% of household waste generated in the country is sent to landfills. In addition, almost half of the country's electricity comes from renewable sources. Sweden often resorts to importing waste from abroad to keep the most modern recycling plants in operation. By the way, in 2018, Swedish Ambassador Peter Eriksson said that his country was ready to accept waste from Russia. And no less than 60 million tons per year. But Russia is not eager to give up its own trash bin, since paying the European market price for recycling, namely $43 per ton, is too expensive; it is much cheaper to store everything in spacious Russian landfills for $8 per ton. Sorting in Sweden is taken to the extreme - in each house, most likely in a box under the sink, there will be different containers for plastic, paper, and regular trash. Sometimes there is glass and metal, but often they are stored separately. Some people have trash containers for separate collection in their houses, but more often not far away, almost in every block. It all sounds great, but wait to envy. There is also a flip side to the coin: there is combined trash, for example, tea bags. So, the Swedes, who are too lazy to brew tea in a teapot, amuse themselves in the evenings by tearing these bags apart, and throwing the paper into one basket, the tea leaves into another, and the paper clips into a third. In Sweden, you can't just throw away even fully sorted garbage. A special garbage service monitors the quality of sorting, and if they don't like something, the Swedes will have to spend another week digging through their waste and eliminating violations. #sed