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Sweden’s Christmas Goat Tradition
Sweden’s Christmas Goat Tradition
Sweden’s Christmas Goat Tradition
STOCKHOLM (AP) — In what's become a Christmas tradition to some Swedes, a giant decorative goat made of straw was set ablaze early Sunday and police arrested a 25-year-old man suspected of arson. The straw goat is a beloved Christmas symbol in the city of Gavle, in central Sweden. How...
Sweden Loses its Mind on Gender Roles
Sweden Loses its Mind on Gender Roles
Sweden Loses its Mind on Gender Roles
The “Egalia” preschool in Stockholm, Sweden is taking that nation’s goal of breaking down gender roles in early education to the extreme. Not only are boys encouraged to play with toy kitchens, and girls with building blocks, but the pronouns “him” and “her’ (or “han” and “hon” in Swedish) are banned from usage.  Instead, everyone is refereed to with the invented pronoun of “hen.”