Leaving JesusLand.

[Ace Otana]

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Peaceful? Yes. Most Swedes value solidarity and pacifism and are on the whole a quite an agreeable people. Intelligent? Not so much. They have absolutely horrible statistics when it comes to education. In The PISA survey 2009 (forgive me, I was lazy and didn't check for newer data) Sweden was ranked 20th in reading, 26th in mathematics and 29th in science (out of 656 countries/areas). That's not good. Though, to Sweden's favor, they have a lot of ingenuity and entrepreneurship and the brilliant minds there are definitely world class.

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Indeed, but as I said, they are so set on being equal and tolerant to everyone that in the end they go to far and everything is unequal. I would hate for Sweden to become a bigoted land like Finland (it's no secret that we are not tolerant to other cultures and frankly quite racist), but they could grow a stronger backbone.

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I did hear about the whole gender thing. Where they eliminate both male and female thing.
Going too far in equality indeed. If not Sweden, can you think of another paradise for reason and science?