Last week I went to sit in Hubert’s chair (Hubert is the president of the international comity) and he told me about a project portraying the international students here around Mälardalens högskola. The idea is to show the Swedes around here who these students are. Swedes (sorry for the generalization again) are rather reserved and [...]

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I always had the idea that science was mostly researching things we already held for the truth. I sat with my mother at the kitchen table, discussing items from the newspaper. Here this idea sprouted; those small news items which only told us what we already knew. And, of course, holding a lot of information [...]

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Today I had a lecture again where we discussed about stereotypes. Tulips, cheese and drugs-friendly Dutch; family loyal, siesta enjoying and hard-working Mexicans; always on time, environmentally aware and reserved Swedes; and many more. What I particularly liked was that it came clear that stereotypes are not always negative, in fact stereotypes are mostly positive [...]

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