Culture shock, sure, but the whole “Nordic model” is just a bit… Shit, honestly.
The whole country (that I have seen so far) feels like “Pleasantville”, but woke, and uber-modern, rather than 1950s Americana…
And the Turks. The fucking Turks here. Eugh…
Their rudeness seems more intentional than I would say it seems to be with more… “Native” Swedes.
Gonna be interesting learning to survive here. As a very “social” person, I… Certainly have some adjusting to do.
The strange mix of ultra-conformity and extreme cultural introvertedness is… A vibe. I’ll say that much.
Customer service? Ha…
The Swedish government absolutely would have loved to implement all of the same lockdown measures and vaccine passports as everywhere else, but their hands were tied. Sweden passed laws around 2010 restricting coercive public health measures after the Pandemrix scandal.
Laws in Europe don't mean anything. They can just pass another law...
The Pandemrix scandal was too recent and left too much of a mark on the Swedish public consciousness. As woke and cucked as most Swedes are, they would never have tolerated the government trying to force an experimental vaccine on them so soon after the last one permanently fucked up hundreds of kids.
Sweden was not having a lockdown way before any vaccine. Besides, you seem to vastly overestimate the amount of power that we (Europeans in general) have to resist government decrees. All there was, was quiet disobedience - a lot of people not wearing masks and stores/restaurants not demanding vaccine passports.