Culture, Health, And Religion At The Millennium

How gloomy is Sweden today? Whatever happened to the “Swed-
ish sin”? And what about social equality? English- speaking readers of

Stieg Larsson’s blockbuster Millennium trilogy— or those who have

seen the movies based on these books— might ask with some aston-
ishment, Is this what is happening in Sweden? With its stories of cor-
ruption, sexual violence, bureaucracy in the service of corrupt powers,

and revenge, the reader or cinephile who has long associated Sweden
with images of an affluent, complacent, and homogeneous society— as
communicated by the internationally renowned idea of the “Swedish
model”— must wonder what has happened to the state of Sweden.

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