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Weekly Contest #241
It was 1999 and Finn and I had been living and working in Sweden for a couple of years. Sweden is about as far away from our home country of New Zealand as you can get. Due to our experience working with Swedes in the company in New Zealand, we thought their culture wasn’t so different. How wrong we were! We were surprised and frustrated at how hard it was to make new friends and socialise with the locals. As world travelled Kiwis, I thought we understood about different cultures and our place in the world. We came to discover that Swedes w...
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