The Norden

What happens when an American prison warden visits Nordic prisons and learns about humanism, prisoners' rights and unarmed guards?

The first question we ask about each other when we meet is: "And what are you working with?" We Nordics define us from the profession. But at the same time we work very little. The Nordic labor week is actually the shortest in the EU. How Japanese Eri Tsutsumi is experiencing Nordic working life? How does Eri from hierarchical Japan react to the Nordic company without manager or management?

Marty McLain, a conservative pastor from Douglasville in Georgia, USA, visits the secular Nordic countries. What role does religion have in the Nordic society? How do the Nordic people relate to God, faith and spirituality, and how does it differ from the US?

Maria "Masha" Kopchenova from St.Petersburg, Russia, thinks that a man should be a man, and a woman should be a woman. There are gender differences, and there's no problem with that. What happens when she visits a gender-neutral kindergarten in Sweden? What will she discuss with a Finnish feminist and a Danish masculinist? And what on earth is snowploughing from a gender perspective?

Carlo Patti from Sicily looks at the social competence of the Nordic countries. He meets the lady who announced in the newspaper her wish to celebrate Christmas with someone, and the priest who worries for relatives who do not have time to arrange funeral for their loved ones. How does Carlo respond to the fact that more and more Nordics are evicting a funeral ceremony, not to trouble the relatives...?

Police captain Peter Whittingham from LAPD visits Finland, Sweden and Norway. How are suspects treated? What equipment do Nordic police officers carry, and how are they allowed to use it? What role does the police have in the Nordics?