As a Swede:
Sweden - hotels with kingside beds and two single duvets?
@Ginmaker
Sweden generally doesn't do double duvets. That's just how it is. I'm not sure why, but it wouldn't surprise me if it is connected to the fact that in the 40s-60s when a lot of work was put into creating standard sizes and measurements for different things it was common for couples to sleep in separate beds in the same room. Or possibly it's just been seen as more hygienic or something. Basically, each person has their own duvet. The duvet, and the duvet cover, was of course another revolution in simplifying bedding and making things easier for the housewife. Anyway, single for all, standard size for duvet + covers 150x200 and for pillows 50x60 (cm). This size is relatively easy to handle as well, it's not too hard or heavy to change the bedding for example. Think of the housewife etc.
It can genuinely be difficult to find a selection of double size duvet covers. Ikea has had to get a lot of special sizes in for foreign markets for example that we don't at all get here in Sweden.
@ChangeyNameyTimey Sun
Why do you so strongly oppose any kind of parenting? Adults should make decisions for their children and parents having at least some control of their children is a good thing.
You give no examples so I have to guess. Swedish parents wouldn’t agree that they don’t parent, but generally Swedish culture permits children to be very independent and the idea is that you have to show children and their opinions respect. There are pros and cons, and on Swedish parenting forums there is plenty of discussion about when you have to lay down the law and when to compromise. From a Swedish perspective British parents will almost seem to not like their children and Britain can seem a very anti-child culture. Separate mealtimes, super-early bedtimes, school with uniforms at a very early age, not enough outdoor play and not enough independence.
@GreenlandTheMovie Oh, and in Sweden, why is so much harassment of women tolerated? In the street or wherever. I literally drove there from Denmark, over the bridge, went to a petrol station to refuel near Gothenburg and looked up and two men were hanging around my car. So I went to an off road scenic parking spot to eat my sandwiches and a man almost immediately pulled up next to me in his car, opened his car door and and started staring at me. No other cars there.
It was a residential school sort of thing. My friend was followed home to her apartment and had to make sure get taxis or be accompanied in the future. Shouted at in the street. We went on a camping trip to Varmland and two men were hanging around the women's toilet block propositioning women. We complained to the camp owner and she reported them to the police, who hauled them off. It was apparently the third time it had happened that summer and it was only July. Same blokes.
This I don’t recognize – the toleration thing. I agree that generally Swedish people are shit at intervening and getting involved, so that can def be seen as tolerating. (I mean, it is, “if you stay silent you agree” as the saying goes). But I don’t recognize it as being a big problem actually in that way – a bit surprised at your experience in Värmland tbh, I have family there and have not seen this. Sweden is not at all as woman-friendly as Sweden likes to think of course, the idea that it’s a feminist haven is simplistic.