Are Germans efficient and Greeks empathetic?
Results from a research team in Lund shows that jobseekers are judged on the basis of prejudices. This is the weekly news.
Lund The technical management in Lund has received 800,000 kronor to cover the expenses of Valborg celebration, also known as Walpurgis, in the City Park.
The money will inter alia cover dustbins, sanitation workers and portable toilets.
The “Siste april” celebration will start on Tuesday the 30th of April and will last all day long. This year, more than 20,000 revelers are expected.
Student from Lund in MasterChef finale
Stockholm This Wednesday, the 24-year old student from Lund, Carl Bodin Svensk, was one of the two persons who went through to the final of MasterChef Sweden.
“This whole journey has been surreal, from being at home in the collective in Lund and cooking in peace and quiet, to do it with 15 TV cameras aimed at me”, he says to Expressen.se.
The finale will be airing at TV4 next Wednesday at eight o’clock.
Gonorrhea soon impossible to cure
National Nowadays, the gonorrhea bacteria have become so resistant to antibiotics that it almost is impossible to treat it. Sweden and the rest of the world is therefore facing a major health problem.
“We know that it takes 10 to 20 years before a new antibiotic resistance have spread internationally, and in that case, we face a global public health problem with an exponential increase in new cases”, says Magnus Umemo, microbiologist at Universitetssjukhuset in Örebro, to Svenska Dagbladet.
Prejudices determines whether you get a job
Lund According to a research team in psychology at Lund university, people’s chances on the job market are controlled by prejudices and stereotypes. For example, if you are German, you can be seen as efficient and as Greek, you are empathetic. The team had 80 people evaluate the Greeks and the Germans fictitious resume for job interviews. When it was time for the interviews, the ones with Swedish sounding names had far more likely to be called than those with foreign.
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Gods of Walpurgis! The birthday of kings! Last of the Aprils fools and folly. The fiest is known locally just as “April last”, don’t y’all know that?
What cream of the crops are those students who does not know to pick up their own thrash? Even on the most festive night of spring? What generation of scolars are those that leave the task of sorting out their garbage and remenants to the county, the community that harbours and nurtures them through their collegeyears?
Come hell and high water upon you!
No one who have ever known not even to pick up and sort out their own bottles and thrash have ever earned an honest degree at Lund University. That is for darn sure!