#law of jante

[young-royals-confessions]

Alexander Skarsgård explains the Jante Law: https://youtu.be/FhdcWYmFdX4?feature=shared

[thelawofjante]

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[takjamrotsne]

Double homicide behind the failed shopping center - City 2

In the 1960’s many believed that the future of Denmark would be shopping in large shopping malls outside the city centers. In Taastrup just vest of Copenhagen, they planned “City 2”, which is a massive shopping center which for many years were the largest in Denmark. Planned as a shopping center with almost no customers who should arrive by train, bike or on foot which is the norm in large parts…

[tropylium]

There's several incredibly easy criticisms, but I feel the concept of "corporate greed" becomes particularly incoherent when used to explain the prices of something having only just now gone up

you think corporations only invented greed last week and simply had not thought to raise prices anytime earlier?

[modernmanblues]

🎶✨ when u get this, list 5 songs u like to listen to, publish. then, send this ask to 10 of your favorite followers (positivity is cool) 🎶✨

i’m gonna be honest, i’ve been brainrotting over that graham gouldman lately (he has really nice eyes/smile irl 🥰🥰):

1. I Hate To Eat Alone - 10cc

2. For Your Love - Graham Gouldman

3. Channel Swimmer - 10cc

4. Honeymoon With B Troop - 10cc

5. I Wanna Rule The World (don’t know why this has been stuck in my head a lot lately) - 10cc

thanks for the ask!

[therealvinelle]

In the spirit of the Carnivorous Muffin's post about how Twilight wouldn't change meaningfully if it was in another country, how would Norwegian!Twilight go ? Who would Norwigian!Edward be ?

Well, Edward is intrinsically American, can't remove that from him and only partially because infusing Edward with the Law of Jante (a set of egalitarian norms where Scandinavians do not believe we are special, better, worse, nor extraordinary in any way) would break him, it would simply break him.

So, it has to be American, canon, Edward, moving to Norway to pretend to be a high schooler there.

In a country where you can only get your license at 18, and once you do you still don't drive to school unless your parent is dropping you off.

Edward takes one look at this school, then back at his beloved Volvo, then back at the school where he'd have to start in the final year of ungdomsskolen (middle school) or the first year of high school if he wants to be fifteen, and he tries out Norwegian commuting only to feel like a monster among men, an obvious horror to our human instincts even if we don't recognise it on a conscious level, because people sit as far away from him as they can get away with and refuse to make eye contact.

Edward votes against Norway at the family meeting.

(And honestly, consider how the Cullens never left the States, I'm joking but I'm not joking, they clearly never found a place outside the States they wanted to live in. Europe is beautiful, but vacation only.)

[hiraethwrote]

you are genuinely such an amazing writer, i’m on a road trip right now and i was reading one of your stories and it took me like 30 minutes to finsih because it was just so amazing. you are so so SO talented it is shocking. you should start writing books and publishing them because i would be your #1 reader!!

you’re going to have me in tears 😭😭 this truly means so much to me 🩷🩷

i have dreamed of becoming an author, but like every other norwegian, the law of jante is deeply rooted in me lol. therefore i have always been scared to pursue it, but after starting this blog, and having people be so kind and supportive, it has given me the courage to at least give it a shot

so when whenever someone compliments my writing and encourages me, i take it to heart and know i’ll carry it with me forever 🫶🏻

[eggmeralda]

rules: list your five all time favorite films and have people vote on which one matches your vibe

thanks for tagging me @imyselfamstrange!! <3

tagging: @tammyoshanter @law-of-jante @atlasllm @fishtish @keldrikakand @failfemme @rasalhanout @stxrks @skelkankaos @partyshark @nicholasvanryn @straycalamities @lifesbeencrazy

(no pressure to do it though)

[young-royals-confessions]

Genuine curiosity: the Jante law? Has omar been boasting abt his accomplishments or smthn? I'm a bit confused.

Also I agree, dont send hate mail BUT I still think what the journalist said abt English was not right

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[takjamrotsne]

The law of Jante or lack situational awareness ?

The law of Jante or lack situational awareness ?

Denmark is not the same Denmark if you leave the cities. People lives like a word apart. Large parts of Denmark are called “The Rotten Banana”. It is areas with no firms, villages where shops have closed and worn-down roads and buildings. In some areas they remove the asphalt so the roads can be dirt-roads which requires less maintenance. The problems the resent years have been that even rich…

[24mirrorshards]

Tumblr 10 years ago: don't be afraid to take up space! don't dull your shine for anyone. There's only one of you and you only get one chance to embody that!

Tumblr now: inspiration and unique perspectives are botulism in the container of your ego. Nobody wants to hear what you have to say if you're not in perfect accord with everyone else. Follow the Law of Jante, do it bored, become an NPC, and embrace mundanity or face the firing squad or whatever.

[luminarai]

growing up with a school teacher mom who in turn was raised by my grew-up-during-the-war-with-6-younger-siblings German nanny grandma and an nth generation Nordic-Lutheran-meets-law-of-Jante farmer dad means that taking a sick day where I’m Sick But Not Actively Dying is the singular most guilt inducing thing I’m capable of doing

[thevagueambition]

me: *makes literally any claim*

me: damn.... what if I'm decorating myself with borrowed feathers*... cringe

*Translator's note: This is the Danish version of the idiom "to adorn oneself in borrowed plumes." The idiom originates in Aesop's fable "The Bird in Borrowed Feathers."

and people say janteloven* is dead lol

*Translator's note: "The Law of Jante" is a cultural reference point to describe certain social attitudes similar to "Tall Poppy Syndrome." Descriptions of Janteloven in English will often emphasise its literary origins and focus on it as an attitude weaponised against successful people, however in a modern context, it is better understood as a form of social propriety which members of the culture feel uncomfortable violating. This social propriety is violated by being immodest or self-aggrandising.

[alexbkrieger13]

https://www.fotbollskanalen.se/sverige/kafaji-inte-varit-mina-basta-prestationer/

Kafaji isn't hyped in Swedish media. And she's well aware of her performance wasn't good enough these two matches. She may come across as cocky but that's her having self confidence and believing in her own abilities all the time (kinda like Pernille), which is great in comparison to Blackstenius who's a confidence player. It's not that she goes around thinking she's all that, that's a misconception. I find it refreshing she's not so damn Swedish in her mentality. To hell with the jante law!

Kafaji: "Not my best performances"

Sweden (Women)

GOTHENBURG. Rosa Kafaji played in both matches against Luxembourg. But the 21-year-old is not completely satisfied with his effort. - I didn't reach my highest level, she says to the Football Channel.

Rosa Kafaji had to start the match against Luxembourg. She also got playing time in the return match. But afterwards she was not completely satisfied with her efforts, even though Sweden won the doubles meet with a total of 12-0.

- I would say that it was fun to play, it was fun to start, but it hasn't been my best performance. I feel that I can do better and that I didn't reach my highest level, she tells Fotbollskanalen.

- But I still came in with confidence. Just go home to Arsenal, train and do better.

In Friday's away game against Luxembourg, Kafaji got the chance to start for the first time since February.

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Is it a frustration not to get what you want when you get the chance? - Of course. You want to do so much at once, show everything. But I think that the more I start, the more I play, the better it will be, she says.

She develops the parts where there was more to be desired, according to herself.

- My creativity and my attacking play. We still scored a lot of goals now, but I would like to contribute with assists, good passes, maybe goals. I am of course super happy that we scored so many goals, that we got six points. But of course you also want to do well yourself.

Kafaji has been selected for the last six national team meetings. If she were to get the chance during the Serbia gathering, she knows what she wants to do.

- Then I want to take care of myself, come in with confidence and talk and communicate a lot.

[troll-star]

i also dreamed that @law-of-jante had started a blog called "i love my haters" where she reblogged posts from people who had her blocked?? Lol!!

[therealvinelle]

How do you feel about being a very niche celebrity

Eh, I think everyone is a niche celebrity on the internet these days. All it means is that we are back to ye olden days when the coolest guy in the village would be a huge deal to everyone in South Hinkyton but nobody outside, not even the people of North Hinkyton, would have heard his name.

I may be a niche celebrity but the Law of Jante remains formative enough that I'm loath to think I'm anything special. If anything, I feel presumptive for thinking that I can be classified as one.

@theoriginalcarnivorousmuffin, who is me but without the Scandinavian baggage, has this to say of the internet fame: "It's weird man."