Law of Jante

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title: Law of Jante
text: The Law of Jante is a code of conduct originating in fiction and now used colloquially to denote a social attitude of disapproval towards expressions of individuality and personal success. Coined by the Danish-Norwegian author Aksel Sandemose, it has also come to represent the egalitarian nature of Scandinavian countries. The "Law" was first formulated as ten rules in Sandemose's satirical novel A Fugitive Crosses His Tracks, but the attitudes themselves are older. Sandemose portrays the fiction
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description: Code of conduct assumed to describe Nordic countries
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Jante
date created: 2003-06-11T17:38:13Z
date modified: 2024-09-01T04:34:13Z
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