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Originally Posted by
Colonel
As long as they don't force us to make the Moose the symbol of Norway I will endure that.
Hmm, apparently it already is:
"...I ran into a bit of difficulty when researching this as it appears that in Norway it is called an Elk but was confusing to me (being from Canada in RL) as it looks like a moose. But when researching it I found that what is called a moose in North America is called an Elk in Norway."
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/...--2414934/1/20
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Originally Posted by
krystian
Hmm, apparently it already is:
"...I ran into a bit of difficulty when researching this as it appears that in Norway it is called an Elk but was confusing to me (being from Canada in RL) as it looks like a moose. But when researching it I found that what is called a moose in North America is called an Elk in Norway."
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/...--2414934/1/20
Elg.
Considering that there are at least 3 times as many moose in Sweden, I object furiously on behalf of the Norwegian king and his people.
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Originally Posted by
Colonel
Elg.
Considering that there are at least 3 times as many moose in Sweden, I object furiously on behalf of the Norwegian king and his people.
It's ÆLJ, Col ... in Fredrikstad
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Ællg where I hail from.
Having been in a car that crashed into one somewhere along Gudbrandsdalen back in the seventies, I proclaim myself an authority on everything Ællg.
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Originally Posted by
krystian
Hmm, apparently it already is:
"...I ran into a bit of difficulty when researching this as it appears that in Norway it is called an Elk but was confusing to me (being from Canada in RL) as it looks like a moose. But when researching it I found that what is called a moose in North America is called an Elk in Norway."
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/...--2414934/1/20
So, if they call moose elk, what do they call this animal?
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I don't think we have elk in Norway but the generic term would be hjort.
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Originally Posted by
Susan
So, if they call moose elk, what do they call this animal?
OH OH...I KNOW!! PICK ME!..It's Santa's reindeer?
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From what I've read, since the 1970's, Sweden has been very generous with regard to humanitarian-based immigration. -- http://www.migrationpolicy.org/artic...may-2013-riots
Driven largely by a robust commitment to international protection and human rights, Sweden has consistently shouldered a disproportionate share of asylum seekers in the European Union. Of the estimated 331,975 asylum applicants registered in EU countries in 2012, 43,865 (or 13 percent) were in Sweden. Only Germany and France had higher numbers of registrations. Relative to its population, Sweden received the second-highest share of asylum applications in the European Union (after Malta). More than half of these applications were from Syrians, Somalis, Afghanis, Serbians, and Eritreans. Amidst escalating violence in their homeland, Syrians alone filed 7,814 applications for asylum in Sweden in 2012. Sweden's overall rate of positive decisions was 34 percent in 2012, compared to 28 percent in the European Union at large.
Apart from asylum seekers, Sweden also has the largest and one of the oldest refugee resettlement programs in the European Union, dating back to 1950. Pursuant to this program, the Swedish Parliament establishes an annual refugee quota and designates funding for the resettlement of between 1,700 and 1,900 persons in need of protection each year. One town of about 80,000 people, Södertälje, since the mid-2000s has taken in more Iraqi refugees than the United States and Canada combined.
From the same article, the following lists the number of foreign-born people, by nation of origin, living in Sweden. (Total population of Sweden is slightly under 10 million.)
Finland 163,867
Iraq 127,860
Poland 75,323
Former Yugoslavia 69,269
Iran 65,649
Bosnia and Herzegovina 56,595
Germany 48,731
Turkey 45,085
Denmark 44,209
Somalia 43,966
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The problem they face when going to extremes with immigration is that racist nationalists become popular and have gained a lot of seats in their parliament. It's a bit like I perceive the US, allowing income inequality to develop to extremes just makes extreme socialism more and more popular.
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