Mama Mia! The list of disputed Swedish cultural heritage includes IKEA – but not Abba

PipPi LongStocking, IKEA and Nobel Prize are among the 100 businesses, brands and ideas that are considered to be the meaning of being Swedish, according to the list of cultural heritage presented to the government on Tuesday. But one of the country’s most prominent exports was avoided – the legendary pop group ABBA.

The status of such a list, or the ecclesiastical, was part of the election statement of the right -wing coalition, a pet project for nationalist democrats against immigration, who are not in the government but supported it in Parliament.

However, some Swedish institutions and minority groups, including the Swedish Academy that grants the Nobel Prize in Literature and representatives of the indigenous residents, have criticized the initiative as very narrow and excluded.

The age of all the elements in Sharia should be at least 50 years, which appears to have made the work of the ABBA pop group unhappy.

The group was formed in 1972 and won the Eurovision Song competition in 1974 with their successful song Waterloo.

Their self-title album, and the third and recorded band reigned in Global Super-Stardom with times like Mite and MamaIt was released in April 1975.

Swedish Parliament Jean Ericsson said that “is one of the most important symbols of Swedish culture ever.”

“What against hell were thinking there,” he wrote in Posted on X.

The eligibility schedule also excluded most of the contributions made by one in five of the Swedish who were born abroad.

Most of these immigrants arrived in Sweden after 1975.

“I think it is extremely human nature.”

The ecclesiastical, originally a collection of rules or a collection of acceptable sacred books as real, such as those that make up the Bible, means a widely acceptable list of works. Similar projects have been made in Denmark and the Netherlands.

Regardless of IKEA that was established in Sweden, but now its Dutch headquarters, the list also includes the famous 1957 Bergman movie. The seventh sealPippi LongStocking and practice Public lawThe right of the camp temporarily to the characteristics of nature owned by special ownership.

The Swedish Academy refused to participate in the project, saying it was divisive and ideological against literature.

The efforts made to create the law launched by the government in 2023 and its people It costs nearly eight million Swedish Cornor, That is, equivalent to more than $ 1.1 million CDN.

The association, which represents the minority, Tornedalians in northern Sweden, complained that it was not allowed to be part of the project, which he described as “continuing persecution.”

The Iranian -born Swedish author, Shura Asilian, told the Sidsninskan newspaper that the laws imposed by the state for what it means to be a Swedish will not help in establishing a “welcoming and equal society”.

But the Minister of Culture, Parisa, said that the Sharia had misunderstood.

She told a press conference on Tuesday: “Our approach to this has always been that the Swedish cultural law should be a living and useful tool for education, society and inclusion.”

Canon includes 50 artifacts, including novels, films, plays, musical compositions, and 50 elements in the societal category, derived from religion, law and economy, as well as inventions, places, products or individual events that are the key to Swedish public affairs and self -compatibility.