The Nordic Super Model

[obdigore]

Depends on how you see it. I could be considered on welfare because i receive a student grant from the government while i study which I live on.

All those military people in the US, subsisting completely off government 'handouts'. THOSE BASTARDS!!!!

[Catta]

All those military people in the US, subsisting completely off government 'handouts'. THOSE BASTARDS!!!!

I bet some people here would get a stroke when they hear how theologians and philosophy students get the same money as the engineers, medicines and law students.
We just have a completely other attitude towards education.

[obdigore]

I bet some people here would get a stroke when they hear how theologians and philosophy students get the same money as the engineers, medicines and law students.
We just have a completely other attitude towards education.

Damn dirty socialists!!!!!!!one!!!.

/bah. These arguments bore me, it is just people who come in with a predetermined viewpoint who refuse to budge should any evidence be provided for why their viewpoint (in this case, ALL SOCIALISM IS BAD) is wrong. Because HITLER! Also, COMMUNISM!!!!!eleven!.

[Jackmoves]

I have met plenty of Nordics that life of welfare. Young people especially. You wouldn't find that here that often.

And plenty of people work ;P
I'm not sure about our total youth unemployment since students(currently studying) but who don't hold a job of some sorts counts as unemployed, but most adult people work.

[Catta]

I am guaranteed a job when i finish school. \o/ It breeds a great friendly environment with my class unlike those studying Economy who have to compete with one another.

[Deleted]

I am guaranteed a job when i finish school. \o/ It breeds a great friendly environment with my class unlike those studying Economy who have to compete with one another.

It also breeds inadequacy, laziness and incompetence.

Fortunately for society, once you're in, there's ample of competition.

[Jackmoves]

I am guaranteed a job when i finish school. \o/ It breeds a great friendly environment with my class unlike those studying Economy who have to compete with one another.

Do you got any Swedes in your class Cata?, If you do position yourself behind them and nail them in the back of the head with that strawberry flavoured bubblegum I know you like to chew on, you could re-enact the battle of Lund! ;P

[Catta]

Do you got any Swedes in your class Cata?, If you do position yourself behind them and nail them in the back of the head with that strawberry flavoured bubblegum I know you like to chew on, you could re-enact the battle of Lund! ;P

Wat...

No - got 2 Norwegians and a Finn.

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It also breeds inadequacy, laziness and incompetence.

Fortunately for society, once you're in, there's ample of competition.

Its a wonder our healthcare is at the level it is then...

Its not like we dont have exams.

[Dezerte]

Also, having a job guarantee encourages studying hard. Knowing that your hard work will pay off is a pretty sweet incentive.

[Deleted]

One can argue against the 'decent schools and free health care' though. :/

Ok, hit me.

[Deleted]

i am disappointed. I came into this thread expecting actual super models.

this ^ damn u

[Catta]

Also, having a job guarantee encourages studying hard. Knowing that your hard work will pay off is a pretty sweet incentive.

Getting into med school here takes high grades so the people who get in are generally of the sort who like to prove themselves to themselves first and foremost.

[Cybran]

Also, having a job guarantee encourages studying hard. Knowing that your hard work will pay off is a pretty sweet incentive.

Knowing that you will have a job if you push over the university doesn't make you study harder or push yourself. That is the whole point of the detrimental impact of lack of competition in Social countries.

Passing exams = job is bad design.

[Catta]

Knowing that you will have a job if you push over the university doesn't make you study harder or push yourself. That is the whole point of the detrimental impact of lack of competition in Social countries.

Passing exams = job is bad design.

Yes, its much preferred to have scores of junior doctors without jobs.

[Dezerte]

Knowing that you will have a job if you push over the university doesn't make you study harder or push yourself. That is the whole point of the detrimental impact of lack of competition in Social countries.

Passing exams = job is bad design.

University is a push over?

[Deleted]

University is a push over?

Anything other than a STEM field tends to be piss easy.

[Catta]

Anything other than a STEM field tends to be piss easy.

I dunno - linguistics sounds like a nightmare to me.

[Shiny212]

Vikings never wore horned helmets,

No self respecting warrior would graft giant handles onto his head for his enemy to grab during combat. Especially not a warrior culture like the vikings.

The whole horned helmet thing was dreamed up years later by artists and painters who wanted to make them seem more savage and war-like.

This has been your misconception alert for the day. Thank you.

Right you are, but it wasn't so much a warrior culture as it was a raid, rape and pillage defenseless villagers culture. Which we're very proud of by the way.

[Deleted]

I dunno - linguistics sounds like a nightmare to me.

Only if you don't have the knack for it, if you have an ear for languages it is a breeze. I know one guy that can speak 8 languages fluently, just like some can play instruments or paint art...... Some people are born with the knack for these things, the same is rarely said about STEM fields.

[Lysah]

Only if you don't have the knack for it, if you have an ear for languages it is a breeze. I know one guy that can speak 8 languages fluently, just like some can play instruments or paint art...... Some people are born with the knack for these things, the same is rarely said about STEM fields.

Linguistics experts can be monolingual, I'm not sure how knowing more than one language enables you to dissect any of them.