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Denmark to conscript women into armed forces for first time (www.aljazeera.com)

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's the typical phrasing of social pressures to not stand out in Scandinavia, drawing from a book where the author phrases the "rules" somewhat as a legal code. Tall poppy syndrome is an overlapping idea that might be more familiar to English speakers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Googling tall poppy syndrome brings up that it's mostly a nz/aus thing. I've never heard of that in the states. In the wiki article it mentions there's a Japanese saying that goes "the nail that sticks up gets hammered down," which I have heard.