As I am writing this, merely 7 hours ago a hateful man of nordic descent threatened to shoot
two mosques in Norway, showing off the gun that he will use (@nightsofgnosis, 2024). In
March, the UN Working Group of Experts on People of African descent reported that racial
profiling, discriminatory acts, and hate speeches still happens often (United Nations Human
Rights Office of The High Commision, 2024 ). In 2022 alone there are 923 documented hate
crimes, 166% increase from 2015 (Dyvik, 2023). The Nordic countries, famed for their high
living standards, beautiful landscapes and their welfare system or the so-called ‘Nordic
Model’ are familiar among many. Yet, no system is perfect including their welfare system. In
this essay the writer argues that the Nordic Model is imperfect because of the latent fact that
those three aforementioned facts are still present, and will be too in the future unless there is a reform to the present institution and policy formation.
