Discovering another culture is more than eating the food and watching the films. It's observing, analyzing, questioning and understanding why things are the way they are. Living in Sweden has given me a fine opportunity to compare and contrast. And so we come to the Swedish obsession with Eurovision. Where in other countries it is a big joke - even more so since the eastern bloc joined and voted exclusively for other eastern bloc countries - but in Sweden...
'Yes, it IS a joke. But it's joke we take seriously.' said my boyfriend.