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music, sound effects, tone) are harder to translate to text.Īmory Sivertson: David, take me back. The transcript has been edited from our original script for clarity. This content was originally created for audio. Everyone who makes a monthly donation will get access to exclusive bonus content. If you want that too, we would deeply appreciate your contribution to our work in any amount. We love making Endless Thread, and we want to be able to keep making it far into the future.
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Lovette Jallow's Twitter thread in which she first referred to this debacle as "Swedengate".
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"#Swedengate Explained by a Black Woman Who Lived There" (Refinery29)."What is the weirdest thing you had to do at someone else’s house because of their culture/religion?" (Reddit).Show producers: Quincy Walters, Grace Tatter, Dean Russell, Nora Saks, and Megan Cattel Credits:Ĭo-hosts: Ben Brock Johnson and Amory Sivertson Lastly, we delve into what Sweden's cultural norms reveal about the country's history, but also its reckoning with racism, nationalism, and xenophobia. Other central players of the Swedengate saga also join us, including the first person to use the Swedengate hashtag in connection with the controversy. This week on Endless Thread, we talk to the Redditor who started it all. Or, has the dinner-that-wasn't shone a light on a more important, substantive conversation about what it means to be Swedish and whether that should be doubled-down on or reevaluated entirely. Is the reputation of Sweden forever tarnished? Or could the Scandinavian country use some teasing and meme-ing about a custom which is seemingly at odds with much of the rest of the world? It all started as a simple question on AskReddit: "What is the weirdest thing you had to do at someone else’s house because of their culture/religion?” When a Redditor replied that he was expected to stay in his Swedish friend's bedroom while the friend ate dinner with his family, the internet exploded with hot takes. Seemingly everyone had an opinion about Sweden's apparent inhospitality in a worldwide uproar, now known as Swedengate. 30, 2012 in Concord, N.H., a Swedish meatball recipe by Rocco DiSpirito is shown.(AP/Matthew Mead)