北欧半岛游记

1. 瑞典（Sweden）

Sweden- Main Ideas:)

觉得“公共散步权”这个概念很可爱：）

“如果换的不够她不会饶了我的！”

所谓的瑞典人人平等，实际上是瑞典人高人一等（it's almost like this everywhere...）

2. 丹麦（Denmark）

（三部纪录片看下来，北欧三国里最喜欢丹麦！“欧洲精子银行”那段实在太可爱了哈哈：）

Denmark- Main Ideas:)

"Hygge"翻译成“怡然”并不十分恰当，只可意会不可言传：）

焚烧发电厂？雪道？

想住在这样的公寓里，每天和邻居一起晒太阳聊聊天：）

欧洲精子银行！

丹麦男人：0

“正因为我们是世界上最幸福的人，我们才有时间和空间认识自我”

这里“墨西哥”指代“craziness”!

3. 挪威（Norway）

Norway Main Idea:)

童话里的房子

！！！

想去挪威挖石油...

"If you were to believe this series, Scandinavia is a paradise filled with lush woods and pretty blond people going to fancy restaurants, sitting in open-air hot tubs and occasionally (and humanely!) hunting cow-sized deer-like animals.

HFW, the presenter, and whoever is responsible for the content if that's not the same person, obviously know absolutely nothing about their subject, and really don't bother to learn anything, or even give the impression of knowledge. Fancy restaurants are important to them, as is confirming their stereotypes of Scandinavian life by meeting stereotypical people living it.

There are short moments of breaking through the Ikea image, like when in the Sweden episode HFW talks to a woman from Husby, who lived in Sweden all her life and still feels foreign there. It's only a quick break from serially shooting/enacting Swedish auto-stereotypes (the wonderful equality, the parental leave, shooting moose, outdoor hot tubs, crayfish party, Systembolaget), all of which are of course entirely free of non-white, non-blond(ish) people. Rising inequality is noted, but primarily dealt with by sweeping the camera over the mansions of the rich (and attending the taping of a rich-people-themed soap opera), the short walk through Husby is mostly spent, not on inequality, but on the everyday xenophobia met by that Swedish woman of Middle Eastern descent.

There are many interesting things to say about Scandinavia, and to learn from it, good and bad. But you will hear none of that in these "documentaries." If you are not familiar with the place, they are a waste of time, and if you are, they are highly annoying."

- AN INTERESTING REVIEW FROM ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE