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We are all about deception and con here. The most corrupt, most ruthless are the ones who rise to the top. The pure people are walked all over and taken advantage of. We dont give a shit about the person next to us, as long as we "get ours"This just rings very well in my ears.
If I could describe us Swedes as people I would call us friendly with a lot of trust in people. This trust is based on our well functioning institutions. It´s much more harder to be corrupt here because if you want to go that way, you have to go through a long road of instances, and each and one of them are there to do the quality check. Therefore by default, I trust my news I get from the general Swedish TV. But don´t mistake this with what I read from the news papers. We don´t really have any neutral news magazines, they will sway left to right and do their bidding to cover that little extra if some from the other side has done something injudicious.
I know USA is a big nation, but you do have states and for me they are almost like their own countries in a mosaic with others and you are gifted with the upper hand, speaking the same language. But I get the impression the average american are being sceptical by nature, and a trivial thing as to turn on the TV and doubt what they are airing is for me kind of sad. Is there a pattern to be seen if you live in a place like coastal New York area or in the deep places of the Ozarks(I love the TV show)?
Sorry but that's a fact, jack.