A Finnish journalist living in the US reveals the biggest misconceptions about Nordic countries
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Journalist Anu Partanen moved to the US from Finland in 2008.
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In the nine years since, she's noticed Americans hold a number of misguided views about the way Nordic countries operate.
She detailed many of those misconceptions in her 2016 book "The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life."
Here are the biggest misconceptions she's found.
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