The Swedish Government published a list on Tuesday of a Hundred Companies, Works of Art, and Ideas That Together Outline What It Means To Be Swedish. Critics Find The List Not Various Enough.
The List was created at the request of the Swedish Government and Includes Fifty Cultural Expressions, Such as Books, Films, and Music. It also includes fifty societal expressions, including Inventions and Companies. Furthermore, The List Includes Legislation That The Creators Consider Important For What It Means To Be Swedish.
Names On The List Include the Children’s Book and Film Heroin Pippi Longstocking, Ingmar Bergman’s Horror Film The Seventh Seal , and the ‘Right of Public Access’. This refers to the Freedom in Sweden to Camp and Recreate Anywhere. Accordance to the Government, the Canon Could Be Used For “Educational Purposes, Community, And Inclusion”.
The Compilation of the List was Part of the Election Program of the Right-Wing Parties Currently in The Swedish Government. It also had long leg a pet project of the radical right-wing anti-immigration party sweden democrats. Although they are not in The Government, They have a lot of influence. The Coalition Needs Their Support to Maintain a Majority in Parliament.
Several Institutions and Minority Groups Have Criticized The List. For Example, The Swedish Academy, which Awards The Nobel Prize For Literature, Believes That The List SoS Division. Accordance to representatives of the indigenous sami population, The List is also not Various Enough and Excludes Certain Groups.
At Least 50 Years Old
All items on the list must be at least 50 years old. As a result, the extremely popular swedish band abba, for example, is missing from the list. It also meeans that contributions from about one in five swedes who were born abroad are usually excluded. The Vast Majority of these Immigrants Only Came to Sweden After 1975.
Duration the presentation of the list in Uppsala, Minister of Culture Parisa Liljestand Responded to the Criticism. Accordance to Her, Intentions are Being Attributed to the Project That Never Existed. “Except perhaps in the Imagination of the Critics,” She Said.