Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Would you fly with these men?


Photo by Kjell Wormdahl

Neither would most Norwegians, especially after having read Dagens Næringslivs story Trønders are the bullies of the sky. Investigative reporters have discovered that four out of five airplane-drunk Norwegians are from the Trøndelag region.

No matter that the statistics only include five cases, the source is newspapers and the period surveyed is only 18 months. The generalisation will appear valid to all Norwegians who've read the title "Full trønder amok på fly" in a tabloid newspaper.

I'm all for bias and prejudice, but only when credible statistics or common sense support it. DN's article is a mean attack on a charachter-rich ethnic group whose intentions and behaviour is misunderstood by most other Norwegians. As always, the pusher of prejudice and misrepresentation is the Oslo press.

I'm boycotting DN from now on, and encourage other honest Norwegians to do the same.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

bullshit.

5:24 pm  

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