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Absolutely!
As an American who has gotten to travel to Scandinavia, the food is so much more fresh and high quality. Even the basic stuff like a hotel breakfast or workplace cafeteria lunch.
It was one difference among a thousand others that I noticed when being there in person. I remember thinking to myself “what is this strange vibe I’m getting from all these cultural differences? Oh, it’s human dignity, respect for others, and in turn respect for oneself.”
I want to say “Europe, help!” but I know they have to protect themselves and the world from our shit show first.
Oh how peculiar. I live in Finland and have found that a lot of those things missing. Tourists are treated well, yes. Regulations are good, sure. Food, air, water all fresh, good quality. Not too diverse though.
The stories I could tell you, you honestly wouldn't believe half of them. Things for which I would've had hundreds of thousands in compensations and would have had no problem finding a lawyer to represent my case. Here no-one cared that the cops quite literally tortured me, insofar that keeping me locked up for three days in an isolation cell without even a mattress or ever turning out the lights while denying me my prescription medication so that "I'd be ready to talk" is in fact actually torture. Especially because they saw me go fucking nuts there. I ate my own pinky open with my teeth and used it as a magic marker to draw over 300 words in my own blood on the cells. And the guard cackled at me from the comm for pleading for help and my meds.
I told this to my family, my friends. No-one cares. Literally no-one. Not so much as a "I feel bad that happened to you". No. My mother literally said "well I don't know what happened there" as in "you may have deserved it."
At one point, they turned off my water. Everyone should realise how legal it is to keep someone locked up without water, right? No no. Not a peep from anyone here in Finland. No-one fucking cares. Made a criminal complaint. Nothing. Tried getting the video material, as they dared accuse me of "vandalizing the cell". I said "well it was all filmed let's check it shall we, for evidence of this crime" and suddenly it didn't exist anymore. And I didn't make the request, some just law school finished scaredycat lawyer who I got did. And said the cops were really fucking weird and afraid when he was asking for it.
but no-one cares no justice not even admission that I was tortured, just victim blaming and people literally avoiding me because that broke me and I've had huge ptsd for several years, fucking horrible flashbacks and nightsweats of my doorbell ringing and being taken in the night again over a few cannabis bushes.
But I'm thinking you weren't in Finland, because you did say "Scandinavia", not "Nordics". Finnish cops are more authoritarian than the rest of the nordics combined. Quite literally. As in more complaints to EU human rights laws.
No one could predict the ramifications of dumping some tea in a harbour
Ouch... 😄