Sweden is NOT Switzerland!

Plenty of stuff in between huh?

I haven't really explained the purpose and the reason why I chose to do a blog about Sweden. However, today I got reminded once again why: ignorance. Today, once more, a friend of mine thought that Sweden was the same as Switzerland... I can't help to become irritated when this happens, especially when it involves students at McGill. I understand that this is not directly their fault, the main reason for this ignorance is the limits of some educational systems. I understand that not everybody can know the whole history of Sweden and the political and economical situation etc. However, I consider knowing that Sweden and Switzerland are two different countries being an elementary knowledge.

Sweden is a very small country in proportion to how big the population of the earth is today. Although, historically and economically it is not as small as most people might think. Sweden has a relatively important history especially for Europe and a lot of big companies around the world are led by Swedish businessmen such as for example IKEA.

By the way, I typed "Sweden is NOT Switzerland!" on google to see what will come up and I actually found a whole website named after this issue: http://www.swedennotswitzerland.com/