Hey guys! Today I have some thoughts about Norway to share with you, about The Norwegian Dream.
What Norwegians think:
I think that people
in Norway “Wants to be like neighbor”. Most people do not want to get
rich but
the just want to be normal. They want a normal sized house, a nice car
that is
not too expensive or to cheap and to have a cottage in some nice place
mountain
with nice ski slopes and great hiking possibilities. I think that
another part
of the Norwegian dream is that the government will “fix our problems”.
We have
a good and organized welfare system that pick you up if you fall. The
welfare
system pays your hospital bills, send you to a shrink if you have
psychological
problems, it keeps you of the streets if you lose your job or get sick
and ties
to get you a new job that fits you. Aswell as the high taxes tries to
keep “the
rich” form getting too rich. In a
way,
the whole society tries to move towards having a big middleclass.
: What the immigrants think
We Norwegians may not think as much about it, but if you
ask the immigrants they would probably answer that they came to Norway
because
of the democracy, the economy and the welfare. We have many immigrants
in Norway
that was granted political asylum because of things that may have
happened back
in their homelands. We think that these people came to Norway for our
basic
values and rights.
The highest priority for the
Norwegian people is the
democracy, and the right to vote and help to decide. The other things
that we
and the immigrants, think that is very important is how we treat new
people and
their rights to get all the good things as the other in Norway already
have. Here
in Norway, our highest priority is that everybody is worth just as much
as
everybody else.
xoxo The Waffleboy
