The blåmes and its characteristics

The suggested new Swedish symbol, introduced in the previous blog entry, will hereafter be referred to as a blåmes (plural blåmesar). The coloring aside, the following characteristics make the blåmes particularly well-suited for the honor of representing Sweden:

• Intelligent and industrius - The famous example is how blåmesar managed to develop a method for removing caps from milk bottles in order to get to the cream at the top.
  
• Sexually equal - Both male and female dress the same, and they share child-rearing duties.
• Nonmigratory - Secretly knows that Sweden is the best place to live.
• Dependent on social welfare in harsh times - Many blåmesar wouldn't survive the winter without human intervention. Bird feeding in the winter has allowed the blåmesar to settle much farther north than would've been otherwise possible.

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Sweden needs a new symbol

The beautiful blue-and-yellow creature depicted above would make a perfect symbol for Sweden. Unfortunately it has such silly names in both English and Swedish. I wonder which strategy has the highest likelihood of success:

• embrace silliness; or
• try to bring about a name change.
  

FAQ

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