It should also be said that what people in Scandinavia mean by Jantelagen is different from the Sandemose laws.
It is more about not acting as if you are more than other people. It is also connected to other cultural things, as not behaving in a certain way at the expense of others (don't be loud in public spaces, don't take up more space than you need, don't act in a way that might bother others if it can be avoided, and of course putting the checkout divider on the conveyor belt for the person behind you so that everything runs smoothly).
This is not the same jantelag the older generation lived by. A friend of mine told me about a story when he just got back from a very successful tour with his band. He had gone to get some cinnamon buns at the local bakery and when he came out he met his old Swedish teacher who simply scoffed and said "oh, so now he goes to the bakery on a wednesday?".
I wonder if that was part of Will Ferrell's character in the "Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga" movie.
It was a different character than what Will Ferrell typically plays, much more "internally desolate yet resolutely struggling forward" while still having the typical character archetype of being completely blind to cringeworthy events.
It is more about not acting as if you are more than other people. It is also connected to other cultural things, as not behaving in a certain way at the expense of others (don't be loud in public spaces, don't take up more space than you need, don't act in a way that might bother others if it can be avoided, and of course putting the checkout divider on the conveyor belt for the person behind you so that everything runs smoothly).
This is not the same jantelag the older generation lived by. A friend of mine told me about a story when he just got back from a very successful tour with his band. He had gone to get some cinnamon buns at the local bakery and when he came out he met his old Swedish teacher who simply scoffed and said "oh, so now he goes to the bakery on a wednesday?".