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Información de la obraThe Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia por Michael Booth
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. El periodista Michael Booth ha vivido entre los escandinavos durante más de diez años y se ha sentido cada vez más frustrado con la visión color de rosa de esta parte del mundo ofrecida por los medios occidentales. En este oportuno libro abandona su hogar adoptivo de Dinamarca y se embarca en un viaje por los cinco pases nórdicos para descubrir quiénes son estas curiosas tribus, los secretos de su éxito y, lo más intrigante de todo, lo que piensan unos de otros. ¿Por que los daneses son tan felices, a pesar de tener los impuestos más altos? ¿Los finlandeses tienen realmente el mejor sistema educativo? ¿Son los islandeses tan feroces como a veces aparentan? ¿Cómo están gastando los noruegos su fantástica riqueza petrolera? ¿Y por qué todos odian a los suecos?
"When Booth is not taking the Scandinavians to task, he is being charmed by them, and when he is not doing that he is generalizing from their history. " "The indulgence of half-baked theories is a minor offense, though. Booth’s project is essentially observational; it aspires to a comic genre that might be called Euro-exotica."
"Journalist Michael Booth has lived among the Scandinavians for more than ten years, growing increasingly frustrated with the rose-tinted view of this part of the world offered up by the Western media. In this timely book 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 each other. Why are the Danes so happy, despite having the highest taxes? Do the Finns really have the best education system? Are the Icelanders really feral? 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, their quirks and foibles, and 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. - For readers of Bill Bryson, Sarah Lyall, and Euny Hong"-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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