{"id":390,"date":"2004-07-14T01:14:08","date_gmt":"2004-07-14T08:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stefangeens.com\/?p=390"},"modified":"2004-07-14T01:14:08","modified_gmt":"2004-07-14T08:14:08","slug":"tabun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/2004\/07\/tabun\/","title":{"rendered":"Tabun"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this post, I build a theory as to why it is incredibly rude to ask a Swede which party they voted for in the last elections. Something to do with the size of the public sector and the size of the dominant party — I’m not quite sure myself.
 
One annoying side effect, however, is that this reluctance to state a clear political position makes it hard to argue politics over here. Imagine having a political debate with a Brit who is trying to avoid giving away whether he is Labour or Tory.
 
Luckily, Swedish bloggers are a self-selecting group of opinionmongers, so among them this trait is less pronounced. And among Swedish SAIS<\/a> friends, this trait was stomped out through years of ridicule.<\/span>Jag har uppt\u00e4ckt en stor tabu i svenska samh\u00e4llet. Och jag har \u00e4ven en teori varf\u00f6r tabun finns. Jag har redan f\u00f6rklarat min teori till n\u00e5gra svenska kompisar och de tycker att jag m\u00f6jligen har r\u00e4tt — och de s\u00e4ger aldrig s\u00e5n saker, \u00e4ven om jag har r\u00e4tt. D\u00e5 f\u00e5r ni f\u00f6rklara varf\u00f6r jag har fel.<\/p>\n

Tabu kan f\u00f6rekomma i alla sociala situationer, \u00e4ven mellan gamla v\u00e4nner, men s\u00e4kert p\u00e5 fester i Stockholm, n\u00e4r man pratar med m\u00e4nniskor som man k\u00e4nner inte s\u00e5 bra. N\u00e4r jag m\u00f6ter m\u00e4nniskor, tycker jag om att prata om politik. Och n\u00e4r jag pratar om politik, brukar jag fr\u00e5ga, “P\u00e5 vilket partiet r\u00f6stade du f\u00f6rre valet?”<\/p>\n

Det \u00e4r j\u00e4ttesv\u00e5rt att f\u00e5 ett svar p\u00e5 det. M\u00e5nga s\u00e4ger att det \u00e4r en hemlighet. Och s\u00e5 b\u00f6rjade jag fundera. Man r\u00f6ster i hemlighet som garanti att man inte ska lida p\u00e5 grund av sitt val. Men det skulle v\u00e4l aldrig h\u00e4nda i Sverige at man lider p\u00e5 grund av en offentlig r\u00f6st, eller hur?<\/p>\n

Hur. H\u00e4r \u00e4r min teori. Det b\u00f6rjar med anm\u00e4rkningen att, som i alla l\u00e4nder, b\u00e4sta anst\u00e4llningar i den Svenska offentliga sektorn \u00e4r politisk anst\u00e4lld. Nu kommer tv\u00e5 statistiker: Sveriges st\u00f6rsta parti — Sossar — fick 40% av r\u00f6star p\u00e5 valet, och 56% av svensk BNP kommer fr\u00e5n den offentliga sektorn — b\u00e5da siffror \u00e4r h\u00f6gre \u00e4n genomsnittet i andra l\u00e4nder. Det betyder att i Sverige, f\u00f6r flera m\u00e4nniskor \u00e4n annanstans, framg\u00e5ng p\u00e5 jobbet menar att man m\u00e5ste st\u00f6da eller l\u00e5tsas att st\u00f6da partiet som kan ger framg\u00e5ngen — Socialdemokraterna. Kanske betyder det att man \u00e4r partimedlem, \u00e4ven. Men: \u00c4ven om p\u00e5 UD eller SOS man tror att du \u00e4r Sossar, r\u00f6star du p\u00e5 Folkpartiet. I hemlighet, sj\u00e4lvklart.<\/p>\n

Det \u00e4r inget problem s\u00e5 l\u00e4nge det finns inga utl\u00e4nningar som st\u00e4ller oartiga fr\u00e5gor. Svenskar, som \u00e4r artiga, skulle aldrig st\u00e4lla varandra fr\u00e5gor om svaret m\u00f6jligen beh\u00f6ver en l\u00f6gn. Och d\u00e4rf\u00f6r \u00e4r fr\u00e5gan tabu.<\/p>\n

Finns l\u00f6sning? Javisst. St\u00e4lla fr\u00e5gan p\u00e5 en annan s\u00e4tt, s\u00e5 att man inte beh\u00f6ver ljuga: Till exempel, nu fr\u00e5gar jag: “Hypotetiskt, om Socialdemocrakterna inte funnits, vilket partiet skulle du st\u00f6da?” Det funkar lite b\u00e4ttre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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