{"id":48809,"date":"2015-11-03T16:05:15","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T21:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=48809"},"modified":"2015-11-03T16:05:15","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T21:05:15","slug":"why-denmark-isnt-the-utopian-fantasy-bernie-sanders-describes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2015\/11\/why-denmark-isnt-the-utopian-fantasy-bernie-sanders-describes\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Denmark isn\u2019t the utopian fantasy Bernie Sanders describes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sanders\u00a0joins a long tradition of liberal politicians around the world who laud Denmark, Sweden and Norway (and sometimes Finland and Iceland, which aren’t\u00a0technically part of Scandinavia) for their equality and prosperity.\u00a0These northern European countries enjoy a reputation for being peaceful, egalitarian, progressive, liberal and educated, and having excellent furniture and crime novels, too. For whatever reason, Scandinavia countries just seem to do it better\u00a0\u2014 an idea that supporters and critics label “Nordic exceptionalism.”<\/span><\/p>\n

But how much truth is there in the popular idea of Nordic exceptionalism? Michael Booth, a British journalist, examines this question in detail in a recent book<\/a>,\u00a0“The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia.” Booth, a U.K. native who has lived in Scandinavia for over a decade, plays the part of a cultural interpreter, examining, poking and prodding the reality of life in Nordic countries from every angle. Booth finds plenty to question in the rest of the world’s assumptions about the Nordic miracle, but also lots that we can learn from them.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read Full Article =>\u00a0Why Denmark isn\u2019t the utopian fantasy Bernie Sanders describes – The Washington Post<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Sanders\u00a0joins a long tradition of liberal politicians around the world who laud Denmark, Sweden and Norway (and sometimes Finland and Iceland, which aren’t\u00a0technically part of Scandinavia) for their equality and prosperity.\u00a0These northern European countries enjoy a reputation for being peaceful, egalitarian, progressive, liberal and educated, and having excellent furniture and crime novels, too. For whatever…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1774,22,68,18],"tags":[1877,1980,1981],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48809"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48809"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48814,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48809\/revisions\/48814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}