SAS Airlines woke advert they had to remove.....

Watch it sound on and you'll see why I think the tone of the video is negative, at least at the start.
 
Just more pandering to the open borders idiots who don't want Europeans to be able to celebrate their own culture and heritage. "Your culture and traditions aren't even your own anyway. We must let everyone in!"
 
I think the thing I take issue with is "Nothing is truly Scandinavian" but in the same advert it says some things are America, Austrian, Turkish, Persian blah blah. The idea that therefore other countries can take 'ownership' of something but Scandinavia can't just doesn't make sense. If Scandinavia can't take ownership, then neither can Austria claim the Danish. Also you don't have to invent something in your country for it to be something associated with that country. Classic example Indian food is obviously associated with India, but Chicken Tikka Massala is a British thing. Just because we didn't invent curry it doesn't mean Chicken Tikka Massala isn't British. In the same way I'm sure we can't pinpoint the first person to clump a load of minced meat together, that doesn't make Swedish Meatballs less Swedish.

It's similar to the people who say that USA has always been made up of immigrants. It's just disingenuous, there is a vast difference between the people who first moved there (settlers) and people who move there now. For one they didn't have to kill anyone, or build any roads, water supplies, and just generally build a country from nothing.
 
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Mason- said:
I think the thing I take issue with is "Nothing is truly Scandinavian" but in the same advert it says some things are America, Austrian, Turkish, Persian blah blah. The idea that therefore other countries can take 'ownership' of something but Scandinavia can't just doesn't make sense. If Scandinavia can't take ownership, then neither can Austria claim the Danish. Also you don't have to invent something in your country for it to be something associated with that country. Classic example Indian food is obviously associated with India, but Chicken Tikka Massala is a British thing. Just because we didn't invent curry it doesn't mean Chicken Tikka Massala isn't British. In the same way I'm sure we can't pinpoint the first person to clump a load of minced meat together, that doesn't make Swedish Meatballs less Swedish.

It's similar to the people who say that USA has always been made up of immigrants. It's just disingenuous, there is a vast difference between the people who first moved there (settlers) and people who move there now. For one they didn't have to kill anyone, or build any roads, water supplies, and just generally build a country from nothing.
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That's why the whole "woke" culture is dumb. It contradicts itself all the time.

It's all about virtue signalling at all costs without actually thinking about what they are saying (or said previously).
 
Nasher said:
That's why the whole "woke" culture is dumb. It contradicts itself all the time.
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I don't really have a problem with the message though.

If you think a country is better by taking in things from abroad then make that argument, I don't have a problem with it. But saying that nothing is Scandinavian whilst saying a load of other things belong to a nation is so dumb.
 
Mason- said:
I don't really have a problem with the message though.

If you think a country is better by taking in things from abroad then make that argument, I don't have a problem with it. But saying that nothing is Scandinavian whilst saying a load of other things belong to a nation is so dumb.
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That is the essence of being Swedish, self loathing with some kind of undeserved guilt complex.
 
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