Hi! Could anyone try to explain to me, what Jantelag is? I don’t really get the idea of it and wikipedia didn’t help me with understanding it too much. Also, do Swedes actually stick to this “Law of Jante”?
Thanks in advance!

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knowing swedish people I think they actually care about it. Jantelagen is about making sure you never show you're better than others, even if you are. You can't brag of course but you even draw attention away from the fact you are the best at something. there's a funny interview with Alexander Skarsgård where the interviewer met him at the party after the Emmy prizes were given to actors, but the interviewer didn't know who won yet because he was organising. At this party, he asked Alexander skarsgård and ask him if he was having fun. they had a conversation where the actor never told him he had been the one to win the Emmy, which made the interviewer feel silly when he found out. in the interview he explains jantelagen. Some Swedish people I know are very successful or put a lot of commitment in school and sport, but they always play it down talking about others who are better, or like it's no big deal. Bragging would be very distasteful and even being an overconfident cocky type could make you look like a fool. This is something you see a lot in ex-communist countries, where everyone always plays down their success that is percieved as unfair, but in Sweden it's probably an even older tradition, maybe someone can explain where it comes from.