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jante's mountains

on jonas vingegaard and danish culture

Callum Devereux
Jul 16, 2022
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Jonas Vingegaard can be at least partly understood through Jante’s Law – the Scandinavian social construct that was first described by Aksel Sandemose in satire, only to tap far closer to the bone than some Danes would like to admit. Holding that individual ambition is subservient to harmony and social stability, Jante’s Law originally…

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Journalist, essayist. #CardiffTrained. Former Editor-in-Chief of The Student newspaper. Fan of Scandinavia, krautrock, and Thomas De Gendt.
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