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  2. Folkhemmet - Wikipedia

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    Folkhemmet (Swedish: [ˈfɔ̂lkˌhɛmːɛt], "the people's home") is a political concept that played an important role in the history of the Swedish Social Democratic Party and the Swedish welfare state.

  3. Culture of Sweden - Wikipedia

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    Swedish culture is an offshoot of the Norse culture which dominated southern Scandinavia in prehistory.Sweden was the last of the Scandinavian countries to be Christianised, with pagan resistance apparently strongest in Svealand, where Uppsala was an old and important ritual site as evidenced by the tales of Uppsala temple.

  4. Why America Should Be More Like Sweden (It's Not What ... - AOL

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    Sweden previously promised a socialist pension program similar to Social Security. Under that retirement system, Swedish citizens were, subject to certain requirements, entitled to a universal ...

  5. Swedish emigration to the United States - Wikipedia

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    Finnish was apparently forgotten by 1750 or so; Swedish held on until the late 18th century. [4] While generally the Swedes thought of themselves not as colonizers, having been spared the bloody conflicts with indigenous Americans had with other colonists and of having had good relations with them, new research has complicated that idea. [5]

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  7. Nordic model - Wikipedia

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    American professor of sociology and political science Lane Kenworthy advocates for the United States to make a gradual transition toward a social democracy similar to those of the Nordic countries, defining social democracy as such: "The idea behind social democracy was to make capitalism better. There is disagreement about how exactly to do ...

  8. Woman reveals the wildest ‘culture shocks’ she experienced ...

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    A woman is going viral after sharing the biggest "culture shocks" she experienced after moving to Sweden.

  9. Nordic immigration to North America - Wikipedia

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    The Sámi, the indigenous people of Sápmi (spanning parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia's Kola Peninsula), have had a limited migration history to North America. Some Sámi individuals, particularly those involved in reindeer herding, migrated to the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to assist in reindeer-based ...