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<h1 style="text-align: center;">The american dream is alive in Finland</h1>
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<li>] by __ @ theatlantic.com - OP explains how nordic countries (including Finland) are providing better opportunities for their citizens via their social programs, then the US is currently offering</li>
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<h2>[WHY]</h2>
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<li><strong>] READ THE FULL ARTICLE</strong></li>
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<li>] <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/07/nordic-american-dream-partanen/489032/?utm_source=pocket&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=pockethits&amp;amp;single_page=true" target="_blank">The American Dream Is Alive in Finland</a>&nbsp;</li>
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<li>] 2016-10-09</li>
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<p>&gt; : The United States is not Finland. Nor is it Norway. This might seem self-evident. But America&rsquo;s Americanness has had to be reaffirmed ever since Bernie Sanders suggested that Americans could learn something from Nordic countries about reducing income inequality, providing people with universal health care, and guaranteeing them paid family and medical leave.</p>
<p>Opportunity. Freedom. Independence. These words are bound up with American identity and the American Dream. The problem is that they&rsquo;re often repeated like an incantation, with little reflection on the extent to which they still ring true in America, and are still exceptionally American</p>
<p>Finland and its neighbors are doing a better job of promoting a 21st-century version of the American Dream than her adoptive country.(us)</p>
<p>What&rsquo;s the best way for a modern society to advance freedom and opportunity? She explains that Nordic governments do so by providing social services that the U.S. government doesn&rsquo;t&mdash;things like free college education and heavily subsidized child care. Within that big question, Partanen poses more pointed questions about contemporary life in the United States: Is &ldquo;freedom&rdquo; remaining in a job you hate because you don&rsquo;t want to lose the health insurance that comes with it? Is &ldquo;independence&rdquo; putting your career on hold, and relying on your partner&rsquo;s income, so you can take care of a young child when your employer doesn&rsquo;t offer paid parental leave or day care is too expensive? Is &ldquo;opportunity&rdquo; depending on the resources of your parents, or a bundle of loans, to get a university degree? Is realizing the American Dream supposed to be so stressful</p>
<p>&ldquo;What Finland and its neighbors do is actually walk the walk of opportunity that America now only talks,&rdquo; Partanen writes. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a fact: A citizen of Finland, Norway, or Denmark is today much more likely to rise above his or her parents&rsquo; socioeconomic status than is a citizen of the United States.&rdquo;&nbsp;</p>
<p>Yet the system, especially in Sweden, is currently being tested by increased immigration and rising income inequality. And it&rsquo;s ultimately predicated on a different&mdash;and not necessarily superior&mdash;definition of freedom than that which prevails in America. &ldquo;In Sweden,&rdquo; Heller argued, &ldquo;control comes through protection against risk. Americans think the opposite: control means taking personal responsibility for risk and, in some cases, social status.&rdquo;</p>
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<li>x] # 6473 - CREATE-article# 5299 - the american dream is alive in Finland</li>
<li>x] SRC=hn(123)/<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12073513" target="_blank">comments</a>(151)&nbsp;</li>
<li>* nordic countries = iceland, sweden, finland, norway, +denmark,&nbsp;</li>
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<li>] barrack oboma's open letter to his successor -&nbsp;</li>
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