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TO AMERICANS

I live in Norway. This is how it is in a developed country.

School;

- Free elementary school.

- Free middle school

- Free Highschool

* at the beginning of Highschool, we were required a computer. Either our own or from the school. It was about 400kr a year (about 50$), and we applied for a scholarship, something we have the right to just because we go to school and are kids.

- No dress code

* sure, not naked, and not skirts that shows off your underwear. But you can wear bare shoulders, bare knees, even bootyshorts are allowed.

- university is also free

- all school is free, unless you want to go to private schools

- private schools are basically the same as public, except you get Macs instead of regular computers, and just stuff like that

- One start learning English from like, third grade. And as soon as you start middle school, you start with either Spanish, French, or German (or other, if you have difficulties in learning language) By the end of High School, everyone knows more or less three languages

Healthcare;

- Free healthcare until you’re 16/18 y/o (depending on what you need)

- ‘Free’ healthcare, or very very affordable

- Free ambulance, but if you call it for anything other than an emergency situation, you get one hell of a fee

- Abortion is fu**ing legal.

- 12 months of mother-pension to take of the kid. Some months of father-pension as well (but I can’t remember the exact

Corona;

- Everyone who possibly could work from home, worked from home

- due to our obligations of computers, we had online school. All the way. Just no exams

- Everyone that lost their job, now gets money from the state till we get back to normal

Gays;

- Public, marriage, in schools, in church, wherever. Gays are just people.

- Gay marriage is just called marriage. We have pride is different cities. Parades, concerts, activities during these pride events

Economics;

- Taxes.

- We have middle-expensive taxes so that our less fortunate people can go to school, get healthcare, so that no one in our country is forced to be poor.

- If you are poor, your kid gets to go to school. They get to get healthcare. Just like everyone else. And the state takes care of you until you’re on your feet again

- Everyone living in Norway has three figures taken from their annual tax return published: their annual income, income tax paid, and total wealth. Yes, really!(Prior to 2013, this data was completely open and searchable by anyone. That has since changed though, and now a person is able to see who has looked up their own data. The thought behind this concept is that tax evasion becomes much more difficult to accomplish. If you're recording a low income and/or wealth but are driving around in a brand-new Tesla, the authorities are going to get suspicious.)

Other;

- We are ranked as one of the happiest places on earth.

- We have a law; “Allemannsretten”. (Translate; Every Man’s right) And it means, you can go anywhere. Nobody owns the forests, or the mountains. You own your garden and land of course, but everyone has a right to go anywhere as long as they don’t destroy anything and clean up after themself

- We all speak English.

- Every working person has a right of 5 weeks pay every year, and you’re basically required to use these weeks.

- We are one of the safest countries, with a very very low crime rate

- Prisons are used to rehabitate criminals, instead of punishing them.

- Highest number of electrical cars.

- No guns. No weapons. We barely let our police have guns in their cars. To get a gun, you have to go through tests, you can’t have a criminal record, you must store it in the right way, you have to have the ammo somewhere else or in a safe, and a lot more. But hey, if you’re not a criminal, why should this be a problem for you?

- Women are almost completely beside men. It’s barely a difference and it’s actively being changed. We have the same income for the same job/education.

- The Colonel-in-Chief of the Norwegian King's Guard is a Scottish penguin, Brigadier Sir Nils Olav

Yeah, we’re run by the state, but Americans. NOT EVERYTHING NON-CAPITALISTIC IS COMMUNISM. We’re run by the state, we have a lot of private stuff too.

Everyone has a right to education. To healthcare. Yo food.

We barely have any homeless, because we have homeless shelters. So if you’re homeless in Norway, it’s because you want to.

So please, tell me one more time, that America is amazing