The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia Audible – Unabridged ridged
Author: Michael Booth ID: B00WAFRDR6
Journalist Michael Booth has lived among the Scandinavians for more than 10 years, and he has grown increIDgly frustrated with the rose-tinted view of this part of the world offered up by the Western media. In this timely audiobook, he leaves his adopted home of Denmark and embarks on a journey through all five of the Nordic countries to discover who these curious tribes are, the secrets of their success, and, most intriguing of all, what they think of one another. Why are the Danes so happy, despite having the highest taxes? Do the Finns really have the best education system? Are the Icelanders as feral as they sometimes appear? How are the Norwegians spending their fantastic oil wealth? And why do all of them hate the Swedes? In The Almost Nearly Perfect People, Michael Booth explains who the Scandinavians are, how they differ and why, and what their quirks and foibles are; and he explores why these societies have become so successful and models for the world. Along the way a more nuanced, often darker picture emerges of a region plagued by taboos, characterized by suffocating parochialism, and populated by extremists of various shades. They may very well be almost nearly perfect, but it isn’t easy being Scandinavian.
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Audible Audio EditionListening Length: 13 hours and 15 minutesProgram Type: AudiobookVersion: UnabridgedPublisher: Tantor AudioAudible.com Release Date: April 22, 2015Whispersync for Voice: ReadyLanguage: EnglishID: B00WAFRDR6 Best Sellers Rank: #15 in Books > Travel > Europe > Iceland #23 in Books > History > Europe > Scandinavia #65 in Books > Audible Audiobooks > Nonfiction > Travel
Now I know why we left the old country.
Michael Booth’s new survey of the Nordic lands is a feisty, funny, trip that enlightens as it entertains.
The English travel and food writer has a long-standing connection to Denmark through his wife, and the book originated in his chagrin at Denmark’s consistent rating as the world’s happiest, most progressive society. “They don’t look that happy to me,” he thought, and what results is Booth’s frank and acerbic levering up of the great assumptions about these cultures’ superiority to take a peek at what squirms about in the shadows beneath them.
As he travels through Iceland, Denmark, Norway, Finland, and Sweden, Booth does an admirable job of blending reportage, anecdote, and historical contextualization to present a balanced sketch of each society. This is a tricky business – Booth plumbs the national stereotypes for validity, and confronts his own ingrained generalizations, revealing a much bumpier, more complex reality.
Not that this is an expose or stab job. Booth is keen to remind the reader that in a world where poverty, conflict, disease, and injustice are par for the course, the problems of the highly developed, affluent North are relatively minor. Additionally, he espouses the virtues that makes these societies work – “trustworthiness, accountability, openness, a strong civil society, long-termism, individual self-control.” However, those of Scandinavian heritage raised with an intimidating sense of where they came from will find this study a big fat relief — as some of these stereotypes are all too grounded in fact.
For instance, it seems that Danes are not the most happy, they are simply the best at pretending that everything is just fine.
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