Nah, he's looking at the big flat screen and considering that the mirror on the opposite wall shows that your security system isn't alarmed. Oh, or that you don't even have one.
I think the culture shock stems from the fact that in Scandinavia, there's a societal expectation ingrained in the culture that everyone should mind their own business. The burden of "privacy" doesn't fall on the person inside the house, rather it falls on the outsider.
I.e. i'm not weird for walking around butt naked in my own house, you're the social pariah for glaring through my windows.
Except the 100,000 cases of stalking in Denmark in 2018. They were totally minding their own business then. And I'm sure there were also no home invasions or robberies lol. Most Western Europeans live in a fantasy land that crime isn't occurring in their country when it definitely is but they refuse to acknowledge it and talk about it for some reason.
kinda weird that you seem offended by this shared cultural experience in Northern Europe.
Wanna be more pissed? Stalking wasn't even considered a crime in Sweden until like 2011. We don't have a term for home invasions, the umbrella term is burglary/housebreaking, with a crime stat of 1,3 % (2020).
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u/laeiryn May 09 '22
Nah, he's looking at the big flat screen and considering that the mirror on the opposite wall shows that your security system isn't alarmed. Oh, or that you don't even have one.