Pontus Strimling

An interesting thing about this story is that most people here in the UK seem to agree that certain behaviours are not acceptable.

There aren't many people advocating for more music being played out loud on the buses, are there? But are these ideas about what's acceptable the same everywhere? Pontus Strimling is a researcher at the Institute for Future Studies in Sweden, and he's been comparing social norms across roughly 90 different countries.

So we start off by saying which behaviors are not okay.

And it's three factors that we find are important.

what, that leads us on to the last little bit of tape that we're going to listen to because I wanted to get an international perspective and where does Britain compare with other countries and actually what's the sort of academic way of looking at this.

So we tracked down Pontus Strimling, who's a researcher at the Institute for Future Studies in Sweden, who's been comparing social norms across roughly 90 countries.

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So we start off by saying which behaviors are not okay.

If you compare it to other liberal countries, it becomes less permissive, since they have moved to become quite a lot more permissive.

The UK has stood still or perhaps even moved slightly in the other direction.

Thank you to Pontus Strimling.

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