Sweden still have some wild bears and wolves, especially in the north. A couple of days ago a tree feller (is that what you call it?) was attacked by a bear. They are usually not attacking humans, but sometimes they become aggressive, especially when they have offspring. We also have the same issue ...

I tried to mark my home town on the map, but it didn't show up

Is it different in Sweden? Yes and no. I guess we do have, together with Finland and Russia, more vast stretches of nature than in the rest of Europe, but a lot of it is industrial forest - planted trees in straight lines for use in the wood industry. And with cell phones and the wolves almost extin...

Now I have to apologize for the length of this post. I found a passage in the book that I spontaneously came to think of when I saw the pictures of the river: "Going up that river was like traveling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted on the earth and the big tr...

... on the words "apology for colonialism congo" gave among others two results. There seems to have been a more critical exhibition in a Belgian museum some years ago: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0DE4D71E30F932A1575AC0A9649C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all I ...

Although it was many years ago, I remember that it left an impression on me. It seems to be one of the most clear cases when talking about the colonial debt of Europe. Does anyone know if there has been any official apology, any monuments or ceremonies for the victims or anything like that in Belgiu...

I didn't read more than the first pages of this thread, hope that's ok with everyone. I don't think that religion is the problem, the problem is people who don't think critically. Maybe religion manipulates people to think irrational, but I think it's more common, at least in the western world, that...

I was looking for a place to discuss literature, an "outlet", and the first that popped up on my google search was this community

I am currently reading Nostromo by Conrad which is a book on the very edge of my English language skills, but a very promising book so far. I am eager to discuss it.

I'll just make a brief introduction for now and not give you my real name. I'm a 25 year old Swedish man becoming lawyer within half a year. I love to read and have ever since I first learned it. I also consider myself to be practically fluent in English and enjoy reading novels in English. A transl...