In Norway, children walk to school aged six, or even travel across the country. Why do these kids have so much independence, while other countries are so risk-averse?
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Denmark's plan to eliminate parallel societies has drawn criticism as ethnic discrimination. Others in Europe may be watching.
21 votes -
Parental union dissolution and the gender revolution – how divorce is boosting gender equality in Sweden
13 votes -
The Christian right is coming for no-fault divorce
44 votes -
I am sick of "providing feedback"
The ongoing attempts to measure everything has gone way too far. Every app constantly has pop-ups asking if you're enjoying the app. It's not just phone apps and websites though, it's everywhere....
The ongoing attempts to measure everything has gone way too far. Every app constantly has pop-ups asking if you're enjoying the app.
It's not just phone apps and websites though, it's everywhere.
Went to an escape room, "Y'all take tips?" "No sir, but if you leave a 5 star review on Google or yelp and mention my name then I will get a bonus!"
Went too the dermatologist, now I'm getting both emails and texts asking for a review.
Sent flowers to an uncle who lost a pet. Got an email and a letter in the mail asking for feedback.
Theaters, restaurants, barbers, hospitals, support tickets, waste hauling, clothes shopping... A million people collecting feedback that goes into some black hole probably only used to punish some poor kid on the front line of customer service.
I'm sick of it, it's worse than the tipping culture fiasco.
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The great deterioration of local community was a major driver of the loss of the play-based childhood
26 votes -
Denmark became the world's most trusting country – how have the Danes achieved this level of faith in their fellow citizens?
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Toward a feminist criminal law: Mass incarceration means police and prisons are not simple allies for feminists who want a more just world
14 votes -
The existence of a Roma police register is shocking but not surprising. It is directly linked to Norway's long history of antigypsyism.
16 votes -
George Monbiot comes face to face with his local conspiracy theorist
12 votes -
Amid marijuana legalization, a civic problem lingers: that smell
35 votes -
How Chinese students experience America
23 votes -
The rise and fall of the trad wife: Alena Kate Pettitt helped lead an online movement promoting domesticity. Now she says, “It’s become its own monster.”
39 votes -
Denmark's tough laws on begging hit Roma women with few other options – the Roma minority are heavily discriminated against across Europe
21 votes -
Fertility rates are falling in the rich world. But there are still plenty of people to go round.
21 votes -
What's the matter with men? They’re floundering at school and in the workplace. Some conservatives blame a crisis of masculinity, but the problems—and their solutions—are far more complex.
51 votes -
Why are there such profound differences in conceptions of masculinity between Denmark and America?
15 votes -
Fifty years since Sweden first introduced state-funded parental leave for couples to share – pioneering policy offers some surprising lessons for other countries
19 votes -
A new global gender divide is emerging
25 votes -
Why American cities are squalid
29 votes -
Goodbye to the era of the professional spouse – There are not many jobs left in which people are expected to appear, smiling and waving, by their partner’s side
12 votes -
The poverty of anti-wokeness
39 votes -
Iceland keeps feeding its tourist boom. Will it push locals out? – about six times as many visitors as residents came to the tiny island last year
8 votes -
Fascinating publication by and for hikikomori (Japanese language)
17 votes -
German right wing extremists strategically purchase rural land
23 votes -
Life begins at forty: The biological and cultural roots of the midlife crisis
10 votes -
Sentenced to life for an accident miles away
35 votes -
New lives in the city: How Taleban have experienced life in Kabul
14 votes -
Links forged half a century ago with Gaza City mean that support for Palestine goes well beyond gesture politics in Tromsø, Norway
8 votes -
Population decline in Japan has led to more than 8000 public school closures since 2002
59 votes -
How meltdowns brought professional advocacy groups to a standstill at a critical moment (2022)
19 votes -
Residents of Luleå, Sweden welcome new campaign encouraging them to say hello to each other during dark winter months
12 votes -
The Russians snitching on colleagues and strangers
18 votes -
Let us return to natural time
40 votes -
What are some of the worst things about living in Sweden?
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Fika, four-week-holidays and zero overtime – Sweden's stunningly healthy work culture
38 votes -
EU says “shocking and shameful” racism [in the EU] is getting worse
16 votes -
Denmark leads the Women Peace and Security Index 2023/24, scoring more than three times higher than Afghanistan at the bottom of the scale
14 votes -
A vast northern European project is underway to combat isolation by promoting inclusion – we take a look at the results in Norway
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Ibram X. Kendi’s fall is a cautionary tale — so was his rise
17 votes -
The war in Ukraine is heightening tensions between Russians and Norwegians living on Svalbard | Focus on Europe
8 votes -
Real men share the housework: what Britain can learn from the domestic bliss of Scandinavia
31 votes -
Is multiculturalism bad for women? (1997)
6 votes -
Study shows Germany's East-West divide in top positions
13 votes -
It’s not just Japan: Aging populations threaten several leading economies
35 votes -
How dollar stores quietly consumed America
14 votes -
You're not traumatized, you're just hurt
20 votes -
The misogyny myth
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Ten things kids don’t know how to do (and five things they know how to do better)
15 votes -
Sexual victimization by women is more common than previously known (2017)
48 votes