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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m an American who spends time in Stockholm and have observed this too, OP.  I also notice a related phenomenon with family dogs when they are taken out in public. Swedish city-dwelling dogs have -excellent- manners and temperament compared to DC dogs — even the same breeds. It’s like they are all highly trained service dogs for the vision impaired. Calm and confident, never leash pulling or inappropriately interested in every stimulus.

With both kids and dogs, a large part of the presentation has to be expectations set at birth.  But genetics must have something to do with it because you almost never see crying fussy babies in store or errands, which blows my mind. They’re all calm.

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The people are calm too. In a more socialist society where you don't make a lot of $ but you have security of health insurance, free education etc. there is far less striving and stress forUMC families. These are also far smaller spaces, there isn't a lot of private space (large back yards etc) so you are always out in public and other people will correct your kids. Europeans and even more so the Japanese have a very strong culture of not inconveniencing others with their actions. [/quote]

Bwahahaha. I have to laugh at this. As someone who actually lives in Europe, this couldnt be further from the truth and is typical of the American "rose colored glasses" mentality or idealism.  When you actually *live* here you will see plenty of instances of people losing their temper, in fact it's much more normalized to see people shouting at each other over small things than in America. Raised voices are not some uncommon abnormality the way it is in the United States.[/quote]

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