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These are the folks Trump wanted to bring in, but of course that wouldn't happen because Norway's been crowned for best quality of life in the world for like a dozen years running and Nordic immigrants stopped coming to the North Midwest by the millions after the discovery of the North Sea petroleum reserves, but that's another story. Anyway, kind of fucked up for 7-11 to put Norge on blast like this.
I'll still be back over there again later this Summer.
https://www.thelocal.no/20180621/land-of-chlamydia-provocative-ad-greets-tourists-to-norway/amp
An advertisement for condoms by convenience store 7-Eleven has irked Norway’s tourist board with its message about venereal disease.
“Welcome to Norway! The Land of Chlamydia”, pronounces the poster, which shows a young Norwegian couple dressed in the traditional bunad costume in front of a backdrop of snow-capped mountains and fjords. Visit Norway, the country’s tourist board, has hit out at the ad for depicting Norway in a negative light.
“This makes Norwegians seem like uncouth, lewd, sex-mad people,” Visit Norway marketing developer Stein Ove Rolland told Dagbladet. "This is not a good advert for Norway, and as a depiction of Norway and Norwegians it is a disaster,” he added.
The poster advertisement is currently displayed at Oslo Central Station, making it likely to be one of the first sights to greet tourists upon arrival in the Scandinavian country.
But Tore Holte Follestad, assistant manager with sexual health NGO Sex og samfunn (Sex and Society), praised the provocative ad. Follestad said that Norway’s own health authorities should run a similar campaign themselves.
“I think this conveys an important message in an unjudgmental way, and it will be noticed,” he told Dagbladet. The claim as to the prevalence of chlamydia in Norway made by the campaign is also an accurate one, he added.
I'll still be back over there again later this Summer.
https://www.thelocal.no/20180621/land-of-chlamydia-provocative-ad-greets-tourists-to-norway/amp
An advertisement for condoms by convenience store 7-Eleven has irked Norway’s tourist board with its message about venereal disease.
“Welcome to Norway! The Land of Chlamydia”, pronounces the poster, which shows a young Norwegian couple dressed in the traditional bunad costume in front of a backdrop of snow-capped mountains and fjords. Visit Norway, the country’s tourist board, has hit out at the ad for depicting Norway in a negative light.
“This makes Norwegians seem like uncouth, lewd, sex-mad people,” Visit Norway marketing developer Stein Ove Rolland told Dagbladet. "This is not a good advert for Norway, and as a depiction of Norway and Norwegians it is a disaster,” he added.
The poster advertisement is currently displayed at Oslo Central Station, making it likely to be one of the first sights to greet tourists upon arrival in the Scandinavian country.
But Tore Holte Follestad, assistant manager with sexual health NGO Sex og samfunn (Sex and Society), praised the provocative ad. Follestad said that Norway’s own health authorities should run a similar campaign themselves.
“I think this conveys an important message in an unjudgmental way, and it will be noticed,” he told Dagbladet. The claim as to the prevalence of chlamydia in Norway made by the campaign is also an accurate one, he added.