Matt Lehrer

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It may be comparatively low level, the vestigial wounds of centuries of tension, rivalry, and betrayal, but it is there, trust me, and the Swedes are always the focus. It is there in the grudging way the Danes react to Swedish economic success and the global domination of IKEA (it hardly helps that the Swedish company insists on naming its least dignified products—doormats, and so forth—after Danish towns).
The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
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