Unikum 03 March online

Studentavisen for Agder GRATIS | Mars 2023 

In January Unikum had a competition where all our 

readers could draw on our front page and submit their 

suggestion to be part of it. We’ve finally selected the 

winner, which is this month’s front page, who will also 

receive a gift card worth a 1000kr to Sørlandssenteret. 

WILL YOU TURN INTO A NAZI? // SPISEFORSTYRREL – KONTROLLEN TOK KONTROLL // I’LL TAKE YOU TO THE THRIFTY SHOP

Hvorfor 

gråter jeg 

så mye? 

Er det viktig 

å ha sex i 

studietiden? 

Hvordan 

håndterer jeg 

sjalusi? 

Hvordan kan 

jeg få mer 

selvtillit? 

Still anonyme spørsmål til leger, rådgivere, 

psykologer, helsesykepleier og fysioterapeuter. 

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LEDER 

POLITIKERE PÅ VIDDA 

“Er det noen som ikke skal 

snakke på vegne av reindriften, 

så er det du Terje Aasland. Det 

er ingen andre som er mindre 

egnet til å snakke på vegne av 

reindriften enn akkurat du. Så 

du kan ikke ta de ordnene i din 

munn, hva du tror reindriften 

er opptatt av, for det er ganske 

klinkende klart, at du ikke har 

lyttet til eller vært litt interessert 

engang på femhundre og femte 

dagen av menneskerettsbrudd.» 

Verden funker på en så utrolig 

merkelig måte, noen sammentreff 

virker for gode til å være sanne, 

og forsatt skjer til fra tid til annen. 

Jeg er i praksis og underviser 

samfunnsfag hvor vi nå snakker 

om samer, og jeg undrer meg over 

hvordan jeg kan aktualisere det og 

engasjere elevene mine om temaet. 

Og så skjer Fosendemonstrasjonene. 

Jeg følger 

notorisk med, og jeg merker at 

mine elever er engasjerte om 

tematikken som blir diskutert. 

Men jo mere jeg følger med og 

leser meg opp, jo fortere innser 

jeg at jeg ikke bare følger med for 

undervisningutbyttet, men fordi 

jeg føler med dem. Og så ser jeg 

klippet, hvor en av demonstrantene 

møter og snakker med olje-og 

energiminster Terje Aasland som 

fører til det overnvente sitatet. 

Og endelig er det noen som 

sier det jeg føler mange tenker: 

Er det noen som ikke skal 

snakke på vegne av denne 

saken, er det deg, Herr politiker. 

Hvordan kan det være, at 

politkerne som er folkevalgt og 

fått ministerstillinger som dekker 

forskjellige departementer ikke 

har kunnskapen innenfor disse 

feltene? Eller, kanskje de har 

det, men det rett og slett ikke 

kommer frem? Jeg søker litt 

inne på regjeringens sider og 

finner ut av at mange politikere 

innenfor ministerstillinger faktisk 

ikke har hatt jobb innenfor 

disse feltene selv. Men forsatt 

har de ansvar for avgjørende 

beslutninger og handlinger 

innenfor disse områdene. 

Dem som sitter i maktposisjon har 

ikke nødvendigvis kompetansen 

til det. Nesten litt sånn «er en 

fordel, men ikke et krav». Er 

ikke det litt merkelig å tenke på? 

INNHOLD 

4 ChatGPT: How to (not) use it 

6 Kulturkalenderen for studenter 

8 Student-Supremastercy 

10 Linguistica Poetry Night Poems 

11 Dikt hjørne 

12 Racism in Kristiansand 

13 Unikum: we are recruiting 

14 Unikum prøver: Mindfulness 

17 Oppskrift: Kylling i peanøttsaus 

18 Will you turn into a Nazi? 

27 Pit Stop 

28 Overcome the obstacles of 

finding a job with a foreign name 

30 Short-story: Soda Bottle Tulips 

32 I’ll Take you to the Thrifty Shop 

34 Bokanmeldelse: En Nasjon i Sjakk 

36 Unikum‘s Corner of Hidden Treasures: 

Owl City’s ‘Ocean Eyes (Deluxe Edition)‘ 

37 Unikum‘s Cover Art Result 

38 Spiseforstyrrelser – kontrollen tok kontroll 

Tobias Klausen 

redaktor@unikumnett.no 

4843 1050 

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Publisert Mars 2023 

Utgave nummer 03 

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GRAFISK ANSVARLIG: 

Mariana Rodrigues Sena 

FORSIDE: 

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Anjali Mariampillai 

Embla Eskilt Hagalisletto 

Evgeniia Kadyrova 

Johan Pedersen Betsi 

DESKEN: 

Alex Przybylski, Alexander Horpestad, Anjali Mariampillai, 

Embla Eskilt Hagelisletto, Halvor Nyhus Hagen, Janne Kathinka 

Fogen. Jasmine Ramos, Johan Pedersen Betsi, Mariana 

Rodrigues, Mattias Johannessen, Natalia Bogdanova, Odd 

Magne Vatne, Thomas Torgersen Bråttum, Tobias Klausen, 

Victoria Smuk 

KORREKTUR: 

Ida Marie Bruun, Kristin Raanes Vassdal, Martin Hoftun, Ricke- 

Karia Vikingstad, Tobias Klausen, Åshild Magnesen 

DAGLIG LEDER: 

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Unikum er studentavisen ved Universitetet i Agder og andre 

institusjoner tilknyttet Studentsamskipnaden i Agder. Avisen er 

politisk og religiøst uavhengig, og blir drevet på frivillig basis. 

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JOURNALISTER/SKRIBENTER: 

Adrian McAllister, Alex Przybylski, Alexander Horpestad, 

Anjali Mariampillai, Embla Eskilt Hagelisletto, Halvor 

Nyhus Hagen, Jaamac Phillip, Kristin Raanes Vassdal, 

Malin Heggebø Rolfsen, Mattias Johannessen, Parvana 

Rasim, Paul-Daniel Golban, Rahul Mitra, Thomas Torgersen 

Bråttum, Tobias Klausen 

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MARS 2023 UNIKUM NR 3 3

TOPICAL 

ChatGPT: 

How to (not) use it 

Alex Przybylski 

Writer 

Illustrations: Freepik // pch.vector 

BG: Freepik // iuriimotov 

«Write a paragraph where you explain what you are, when you were 

created, how popular you’ve become the last couple of weeks and what 

kind of questions your creation has raised.» [input from the writer] 

«I am ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence language model developed 

by OpenAI. I was created in 2021, and have since become increasingly 

popular for my ability to generate human-like text responses. In 

the past few weeks, my usage has 

seen a significant surge, which 

has raised questions about the 

potential implications and ethical 

considerations of AI technology like 

myself. Some people are concerned 

about the potential for AI to replace 

human jobs, while others believe that 

AI could greatly benefit society if it 

is developed and used responsibly. 

Regardless, it is clear that my 

creation has sparked important 

discussions about the future of AI 

and its role in society.» 

- ChatGPT, chatbot interface. 

If you are only a little curious about the news or the development 

of information technologies, chances are you’ve heard of ChatGPT, 

or GPT 3.5. This system is indeed the new diamond in terms of text 

generation technology funded by Microsoft, and has taken Internet 

and the media by storm the last couple of weeks. 

Upon entering the site and registering, ChatGPT’s appearance is 

similar to social networks such as Messenger and WhatsApp. The 

catch? Instead of chatting with any other human being, the user sends 

a message to a computer, which will then analyze it and try to create 

an answer that has a logic connection. 

How does it work though? Well in terms of usage, nothing easier: 

you create an account on the website (after agreeing to share your 

data with the firm for research purposes), write your input in the 

chat box, and the AI will generate a personalized answer to it. What 

is really groundbreaking with this particular version, is the fact that 

the artificial intelligence (AI) seems knowledgeable on every topic 

imaginable. Programming? History? Mathematics? The bot can 

answer it all (mostly). The developers do warn us before using it that 

some of the information might be incorrect, and that information 

created less than 2 years ago may be inaccurate (for instance, with 

the war in Ukraine’s latest developments). 

Well, if it’s that good, the access to knowledge just went 

through a massive revolution, right? Well, it’s not that 

simple. For some context, first we need to say that GPT 3.5 

quite literally learned from the mistakes from its predecessor, 

GPT 3.0, which has been terminated. That was because of 

some inputs and information that entered its database, that 

would cause the AI to give answers promoting racist beliefs and 

hateful behavior. Today, thanks to new technologies, the AI has 

some prompts that are unchangeable by what it can find from its 

database, avoiding the issue of it using this kind of 

speech. It is still possible to make the AI come up 

with bad-looking messages by using unconventional 

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methods like making it roleplay), but usually the AI will either simply state a general consensus on the question (for instance, if you ask it to 

come up with pro-climate skepticism arguments, the AI will answer that most scientists proved that human-made climate change is real) or 

flat out refuse to answer. 

It however faces one major flaw: it is not a direct source of knowledge, it only (while very developed) is a text generator and will always try to 

answer your questions by going the way you expect it to go. 

Here’s a simple example to demonstrate this: 

As can be seen with this example, the question assumes that cows lay eggs, and while the logical (or human-like) answer would be to 

refute the fact that cows lay eggs, the AI will simply try to assume that what was put in the question is correct, and give an answer to that, 

even if the given information at the start is blatantly wrong. The AI is made in a way that the program will almost never go against what 

the user tells it, no matter how outlandish or silly the prompt is. 

Which brings us back to the main question: Should you use it for your studies? 

This question indeed sparks up a strong debate about teaching and its future: how useable is this AI in schoolwork, for learning purposes 

but also to give answers to homework? 

As stated earlier, ChatGPT can answer many questions, including what could be asked in most school assignments at all kinds of levels. 

However, ChatGPT is also not without its flaws: firstly the point made in the previous part, about the answer being biased by the question, 

is probably the most important issue to be aware of. Moreover, even with a perfectly normal question without this kind of bias, the AI 

will not take its work from sources unless you specifically task it to do so, and is vulnerable to simple mistakes. 

Regardless of these problems, teachers are (rightfully) opposed to the abuse of this technology, mainly regarded as a potential cheating 

tool and something that discourages critical thinking on the student’s own. UiA already updated their Norwegian webpage on cheating 

to include a reference to “ChatGPT-like” technologies, where they state that they are to be treated as any source provider, being allowed 

when specifically stated, and if not sourced the candidate is exposed to charges of plagiarism. It could still be used however, not as a 

main information provider, but as something to verify your work, or help you find an answer on a subject you already are well versed in. 

In conclusion, while ChatGPT is an exciting look on the future development of information technologies, and will only improve from here, 

as of now it is a new useful tool, but only one that must be balanced around the use of other more reliable sources, such as Wikipedia. 

Because, while ChatGPT is great at writing texts which seemingly look like academic writings, the other sources got something the AI 

does not: critical human thinking. 


KULTUR 

Kultur trenger ikke 

å koste skjorta! 

Kristin Raanes Vassdal 

Skribent 

Illustrasjon: AdobeStock // Katsiaryna 

Hei igjen! Jeg håper at februar bydde på mange nye kulturopplevelser, og at dere er klare for en ny og spennende kulturmåned! Med 

hektiske forelesninger, og lett begynnende eksamensstress, er det fort gjort at hverdagen består av 80% studering og 20% søvn. 

Jeg vil derfor utfordre alle til å gå på minst én kulturbegivenhet denne måneden (enten alene eller sammen med noen), og se hvor 

mye mer spennende hverdagen blir. Krydre din hverdag med litt kultur og jeg lover deg at du vil få litt mer livsglede på kjøpet

Kulturkalenderen for studenter 

16.03-20.04 

Hvor: Vaktbua 

Når: Fredag 14. april 

klokken 21:00 

Pris: 170 

Hva: INTERRUPTION: Lazy 

Queen [indie punk], GUM 

CONTROL [performance], 

Ingersdatter + Larsen // 

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klokken 19:00 

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Hva: Perkusjonist med 

publikumstekke 

Hvor: kilden 

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Pris: Hvis under 30, 150 

Kino 

Hva: Old Joy 

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Hva: Jeanne Dielman 


Når: søndag 26. mars kl.18:00 

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Hva: When the wind blows 


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mars kl. 18:00 

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Påskegrøss to filmer 

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Hva: Metallica: 72 

Seasons - Global Premiere 

/ Musikk på kino 

Hvor: Kristiansand kino 

Når: Torsdag 13. april kl. 19:00 

Pris: Ikke enda kunngjort 

Hva: Lou Reed`s Berlin 

Konsertfilm. Liveversjon 

av plata Berlin (1973). 


Når: Lørdag 15. 

april kl. 18:00 

Pris: 70 

Foredrag 

Hva: «...hvis du skjønner hva 

jeg mener?» Om forståelse 

og misforståelse i samtaler 

Hvor: Teateret 

Når: 18. mars kl. 13-14:30 

Pris: Gratis 

Hva: Dødens tilbakekomst 

i offentligheten? Ritualer, 

minner og tro 


Når: 21. mars klokken 19:30 

Pris: Gratis inngang 

Hva: Akademiske 

forbilder- sportvasking 

Foredrag og panelsamtale 

med Samfunnsviterne UiA. 

Hvor: B1018 UiA 

Når: 23. mars kl.19:00-21:00 

Pris: Gratis 

Hva: Norge ut av FNs 

sikkerhetsråd – hva nå? 


Når: 25. mars kl.13:00- 

14:30 

Pris: Gratis 

Hva: Mikroplast 

i havet 


Når: 15. april 

kl.13:00-14:30 

Pris: Gratis 

Annet 

Hva: Litteratursalong 

med Helga Flatland. 

Hvor: Restaurant Frihavn 

Når: torsdag 23. mars kl.19:30 

Pris: 200 kr. Inkluderer middag! 

Hva: Klubb Skamlös. 

Klubbkonsept av Fri Agder, 

og Skeive Sørlandsdager. 


Når: 25. mars 22:30 


Hva: Uia Nyskaping 

«Sessions: Sharktank» 

Hvor: Østsia 

Når: 28. mars kl.17:30-22:00 

Pris: 50 kroner som 

dekker to bonger i baren. 

Påmelding via facebook 

Hva: Platemesse 

Salg av plater i alle 

sjangere og formater, med 

hovedvekt på vinyl. 


Når: Lørdag 15. april kl. 11-15 


Mine anbefalinger: 

I mars gleder jeg meg til å se Shrek på 

Teateret. Kombinasjonen av musikal 

og ikoniske Shrek ser jeg for meg at 

blir en gøy opplevelse. Noe annet 

som jeg gleder meg til er «Sharktank» 

på Østsia 28 mars, der UiA Nyskaping 

frister med to bonger i baren, og et 

artig konsept. Jeg vil også fremheve 

filmen «When the wind blows», 

som er en animert og håndtegnet 

katastrofefilm med musikk av 

blant annet David Bowie. Filmen 

blir vist på Cinemateket 28. mars. 

Foto: FreeIcons 


SATIRIKUM 

Adrian McAllister 

Skribent 

Illustrasjon: Unikum // Adrian McAllister 

BG: AdobeStock // BRIAN_KINNEY 

Student-Supremastercy 

Strømpriser 

Krympflasjon 

En potensiell verdenskrig 

Sophie Elise? 

Det er ikke mangel på store samfunnsutfordringer for tiden. For 

optimistene (les idiotene) som trodde at alt skulle gå på skinner etter 

ronaen har nok virkeligheten satt de på sin rette plass. Det norske 

samfunnet må ta seriøse diskusjoner om vindmøller klassifisert som 

menneskerettighetsbrudd, våpenstøtte til klasebomber, og voksende 

matkøer. Og selv om alle disse (og flere andre) verdige formålene 

krever både oppmerksomhet og ikke minst ca$h, må vi ikke glemme 

en viktig gruppe som trenger all den hjelpen de kan få. 

For alle disse utfordringene trenger jo faktisk kompetente og 

tenkende mennesker til å sklitakle de rett i kølla. Og de eneste med 

gode tanker i dag er jo så klart studenter. Det er de som finner den 

nye kunnskapen. Det er de som er lederne i morgendagens verden. 

Det å dedikere årevis av livet sitt til å jobbe heltid med å tilegne seg 

dyp innsikt i verdens mangfoldige prosesser og funksjoner er et 

beundringsverdig og viktig mål. 

Om du er fra et mindre sted som meg vet du at det kun er de mest 

intelligente og strukturerte som tar steget og kommer seg ut av 

distriktshelvete. Og i motsetning til knølene hjemme så vet faktisk de 

med studiegenet hva dedikert arbeid er og betyr. Vinnere gamer ikke 

hele natta, vinnere skumleser ikke fem minutter før prøven. Vinnere 

leser alt pensum alltid. Vinnere dykker dypere, lærer mest og blir 

best. 

Jeg har master i klassisk gitar. Og den har jeg oppnådd med blod, 

svette og tårer. Daddy Laanekassen har vært snill å hjulpet meg med 

studiestøtte så jeg har kunnet bruke fem år på å bli en mester i å fingre 

G-Strenger. Ja, jeg har og drukket i snitt 480 pils hvert av disse årene, 

men dette er nødvendig for å slippe ut stresset som en opparbeider 

seg som en hardtarbeidende student. 

Min studentrabatterte pils, kollektivtransport, konsertbilletter, lege 

og andre helseutgifter er faktisk meget fortjent. Jeg jobber jo faktisk 

hardere og på noe viktigere enn tullete ting som å bygge hus eller 

kjøre matvarer. Det er kun de med master IQ som finner sannheten 

av hvordan å best oversette Roald Dahls bruk av “feit”. Folk som ikke 

kan forklare det kategoriske imperativ strekker bare ikke til. 

Nå kommer du kanskje med poenget at mange utfordringer studenter 

må hanskes med også deles av unge og nye/uetablerte. Og at kanskje 

jeg mangler innsikt i hvordan verden fungerer? 

Da sier jeg: 

Kilde takk? 

aaaaaaaaaahhhhh Satire!!!!!!!!! 

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CULTURE 

LINGUISTICA 

Poetry Night Poems 

Poetry Group ‘Lips’ 

Celebration 

Celebrate life, 

Slice it with a knife. 

Colourful abundance, 

Sweetness. 

Gift? Your presence. 

The child of our past, 

A taste that will last. 

Enjoy it together, 

Let’s be friends forever. 

Leni Vindfjell 

Ophelia 

Grant me a beautiful death 

In dark and murky water 

Let me draw my 

dying breath 

As Millais’ painted daughter 

Grant me a scenic demise 

A river bathed in twilight 

Let me close my tired eyes 

And give my days a rewrite 

Grant me a picturesque end 

And fill my hands 

with flowers 

Let me smile and 

play pretend 

In pensive final hours 

Grant me perpetual rest 

While dressed in fine attire 

Grant me but one 

more request 

Fulfil my heart’s desire 

Let me cast my rotten pride 

Show the one I am inside 

Paint me true as what I hide 

And not a filthy liar 

Ahmed Al Saidy 

Rebirth 

Forget it all, 

Remain reason. 

Walk with me so, 

To entertain. 

You know nothing, 

You were just born. 

Therefore question, 

That which you know. 

What is this world? 

What are these walls? 

What is this floor? 

But these are wrong. 

What is this thing, 

Which we deem “world”? 

What are these things, 

Which we deem “walls”? 

We interact, 

With many things. 

Are we then so, 

Another thing? 

A strange feeling 

Why am I here? 

Wait -- Who am I? 

-- Did I forget? 

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POEM 

Dikt hjørne 

Illustrasjon: AdobeStock // BrAt82 

Paul Daniel Golban 

Writer 

[resemantization] 

A sound 

and its own halo 

above me 

constructing new horizons 

[metonymy] 

They say the night is young 

But I have an old soul 

They say it doesn‘t matter 

But it is not a question of matter 

of views unseen 

Yet I remain myself 

Behind the grazing fields of sound 

A new world 

of poetics 

[poetic license] 

Poems like to talk about themselves 

And hide behind metaphors 

But I am not like that 

I recoil when I hear my name 

But everything is fine 

As long as you call me 


AK TUELT 

Parvana Rasim 

Writer 

Racism 

in Kristiansand 

Illustration: Freepik // freepik 

As we know, the killing of George Floyd, a black man, by the police in 

Minneapolis in 2020 highlighted the still existence of racism in America 

and worldwide. After the case, the Human Rights Council held an urgent 

debate in June 2020 on «current racially inspired human rights violations, 

systemic racism, police brutality and violence against peaceful protests» 

and the Council adopted resolution 43/1, requesting the High Commissioner 

to present a comprehensive report on systemic racism, violations of 

international human rights law against Africans and people of African 

descent by law enforcement agencies. 

When I came to Norway, a friend congratulated me and told me that you 

are going to the cradle of democracy. Kristiansand, where I currently 

study and live, is truly democratic for me. It is possible to see people from 

different countries, religions, and cultures in this city. 

An international cultural event was held among the students when I 

came to Norway in January 2023. Everyone presented their own culture 

and food, and everyone got to know each other. I met 29-year-old Cristina 

(name changed at her request) from one of the African countries at the 

event. She came to study in Kristiansand, and she shared the challenges 

she experienced due to her skin color. She experienced this in the first days 

of her arrival in Norway. After that, I wondered if there really is racism in 

Kristiansand. 

Cristina’s story 

Cristina 29 from Ghana, is a student in Kristiansand. She had 

experienced racism at one of the banks, but she asked me not 

to disclose the bank’s name. She says before going to the bank 

to open the account “I have to do some procedures like logging 

in and filling all the information about myself. But I had 

challenges with the procedure.” 

Cristina and her colleague who isn’t from Africa 

went to a bank in Kristiansand. “We waited our 

turn in the bank. When it came my turn the 

woman who worked at the bank said, ‘you have to 

make an appointment’. But I said ‘you did it for 

my colleague without making an appointment. 

If it is possible can you do that for me, please, 

without an appointment?’ The woman said, 

‘no I can’t do it’. I said, ‘why because I am 

black?’ She answered ‘yes, it is what it is’.” 

“Everyone heard it in the room. I cried all day. Can you imagine? I felt so 

bad and like I didn’t belong in Kristiansand” she says. “You had to see my 

face. I felt underestimated because of what the woman said.” Cristina says 

that she was traumatized after the case. 

“I heard about racism and people share their stories of being insulted 

and abused because of their color. But when it happened to me I couldn’t 

believe that. That is why I couldn’t share it for a long time.” says Cristina, 

having a confidence problem now. 

Racism happens everywhere and includes negative traits toward people 

based on their perceived belonging to cultural, biological, religious, or 

national origin. The victims of racism suffer from multiple forms of 

discrimination. 

Cane’s story 

Cane 28 came from the war conflict zone, Syria. She says “One day we 

applied for a job in a store for a friend who wears a hijab. She is Muslim. They 

called us for an interview, and we went. A man came. While interviewing, 

he told my friend that you are covered, so we can’t hire you. I got angry 

and said, ‘how do women with head coverings work in the branches of 

stores?’ We told the man we would report him to the police. But the 

representative said, ‘that it is up to you. We cannot hire you’.” 

Cane noticed that people are nice here and respect each other. 

But sometimes it is, unfortunately, possible to see unfair behavior 

because of color or having hijab which is very sad.” 

The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) 

2021 report on Norway says positive steps have been taken in the 

country on racism but says: «Many incidents of hate speech 

are not reported to the police or other authorities» 

Laura Führer, who is a sociologist, has written a 

doctoral thesis on race, skin color, and everyday 

racism in Norway. According to her interview with 

the University of Oslo (www.sv.uio.no), the topic is 

a taboo topic to talk about. She emphasizes in her 

interview that “the public authorities need to find 

a way to recognize that people experience their 

everyday lives differently while agreeing that 

there is no real difference between people.” 

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Vil du lære noen enkle tips for å kunne være mer tilstede i nuet? 

Hva er mindfulness? 

- Bevisstgjørelse av handlinger og tankemønster. 

- Meditasjon er den viktigste øvelsen man gjør under mindfulnessparaplyen. 

- Kan hjelpe oss med å gi slipp på spenninger i kroppen. 

Mindfulness er oppmerksomhetstrening; oppmerksomhet rundt hva 

som foregår i hodet. Tipset er å stille seg spørsmålet om man planlegger 

eller bekymrer seg for mye. 

Ha en ikke dømmende 

holdning til deg selv 

Unikum ble med på et 3 timers langt 

Mindfulness-kurs arrangert av SiA 

Helse i midten av februar. Nina 

Kristin Rostrup holdt kurset gratis for 

studenter. Hun er blant annet utdannet 

som mindfulnessinstruktør i Oslo. 

- Om dere vil ta med det med inn i livet deres, vil dere gradvis 

trene dere opp til å være tilstede, forteller Rostrup. 

Ingenting kommer gratis, legg innsats i 

det om du vil ha endring 

- Hvis dere vil trene dere opp til å være 

mer i nuet og til stede i livet, anbefaler 

jeg mindfulness, sier Rostrup. 

Når det gjelder bekymring, er det 

vanskelig å løse utenkte problemer. 

Vent med å bruke energi på problemer 

til det faktisk skjer, her må man endre 

tankemønster. Mindfulnessinstruktør 

beskriver det som et mantra. Bryt med 

mønstrene nok ganger. Når du har 

gjort ting igjen i 66 dager har du laget 

et nytt mønster i følge forskning. 

- Dette er absolutt en tålmodighetsprøve, forteller hun. 

Et viktig ord i mindfulness er aksept og takknemlighet. Man irriterer 

seg ofte over at andre er annerledes, men man kan ikke endre andre, 

her må man bruke det magiske ordet aksept. Still deg spørsmålet: 

“Hvordan kan jeg gjøre det beste ut av det?” 

- Aksepter det som har skjedd og sett deg realistiske mål. 

Planlegg ila dagen, lag en god, realistisk og gjennomførbar plan, og 

gjennomfør det du forventer av deg selv, forteller Rostrup. 

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Mobil er en fiende og distraksjon innenfor mindfulness. Bruk mer tid 

på å være tilstede uten telefonen. Det man går glipp av er selve livet. 

Ikke vær redd for 

stillheten 

Øvelse 3: Flyte-øvelse 

Den siste øvelsen minnet om den første. Vi satt alle i en ring og holdt 

armene i fanget og lukket øynene. Vi fokuserte på pusten, men i denne 

runden skulle vi også gå mer aktivt inn for å observere følelsene. 

Jeg er ikke følelsene 

mine, jeg observere 

dem 

Kurset inneholdt informasjon, fakta og egne erfaringer rundt 

mindfulness. På deler av kurset fikk deltakerne praktisere og prøve 

ulike øvelser i fellesskap. 

Øvelse 1: Pusteøvelse 

Det såkalte pusteanker; vær bevisst på pusten din. Her skulle vi sitte 

i ro, fokusere på pusten og koble av. Jeg opplevde dette som svært 

avslappende og avspennende. I noen sekunder føltes det som jeg 

sovnet i sittende stilling. Vi koblet av noen minutter og lyttet til vår 

egen og andres pust. Det skulle ikke mer til enn dette før jeg følte 

batteriene hadde ladet litt opp. 

Tips til øvelsen: 

Sett deg daglige huskeregler for pusten. Dette gjør deg mer tilstede i 

løpet av dagen din. 

Gjør øvelsen regelmessig for å få effekt 

Tenk over hvor det går an å 

legge inn noen pusteøvelser i 

hverdagen. 

Øvelse 2: Rosintest 

Øvelsen gikk ut på å bruke 

sansene til å beskrive en rosin vi 

fikk utdelt i hånden. Kvaliteten 

øker når vi er i kontakt med 

sansene våre, og dette gjelder også kvaliteten av rosinen. Vi skulle 

observere den, føle den, lukte på den, høre på den og til slutt smake 

på den. Det å bruke alle sansene førte til en opplevelse av at rosinen 

smakte mer. Ved å bruke alle sansene, og til slutt smakssansen førte 

til at rosinen smakte desto mer. 

Øvelsen var lettere sagt enn gjort, men med visuelle forestillinger fra 

Nina ble det lettere. Hun ba oss se for oss at følelsene du har inni deg 

tilhører ulike skyer. Skyene på himmelen observeres av oss på jorden, 

men vi lar dem flyte forbi. 

Mindfulness trener oss opp til å bli en observatør av vår egen kropp 

og tanker. 

Øvelse 4: Kroppsskanning 

Mindfulness kan hjelpe oss med å få unødvendige stresshormoner ut 

av kroppen vår. Kroppsskanning gir slipp på stress og anspenthet i 

kroppen. Vi startet med nederste del av kroppen; tærne. Fokuserte 

på at tærne og føttene var avslappet og urørlige. Deretter skannet jeg 

kroppen videre oppover, kroppsdel for kroppsdel. Dette var en veldig 

behagelig opplevelse, og har i ettertid hjulpet meg med å sovne lettere 

og fortere. 


Gjør dette når du sliter med å sovne 

Planlegg smart for å legge til rette for mindre stress i hverdagen 

Råd til nybegynnere er å gjøre mindfulness i 3-20 minutter. I starten 

kan det være krevende nok å fokusere i bare 3 minutter. Nina sier 

hun får mest ut av mindfulness som varer i 20 minutter. 20 minutter 

mindfulness hver dag i 8 uker har dokumentert effekt. 

Hvordan du tar 

det bestemmer 

hvordan du har det 

Målet med mindfulness: 

- Målet er ikke å bli tom for tanker i hodet, 

men å bli oppmerksom på tankene, pusten 

og tilstedeværelsen din. 

- Stopp opp, observer, aksepter og la gå 


Bruk sansene generelt for det det er verdt og gå inn for å kjenne etter 

alle sansenes signaler. 

Sansene får ikke med seg hvor mye du spiser med en serie foran deg. 

Fokuser på smaksopplevelsen uten distraksjoner. Dette vil gi deg en 

følelse av mer tilstedeværelse. 

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Medito - App 

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OPINION 

Will you 

turn into 

a Nazi? 

Rahul Mitra 

Writer 

In school, I used to think that Pakistanis were either an exceptionally 

evil or else an exceptionally stupid people. To my juvenile mind, it 

seemed that all of them were high on religion, obsessed with India, 

believed in fake history and the most bizarre conspiracy theories 

and were full of hatred towards other religions and societies. 

Many terrorist attacks on India originated from extremist groups 

in Pakistan, and it’s TV channels were full of talking heads; ranting 

and raving about the honour and pride of Pakistan, strange and 

colourful characters talking about the global Hindu-Zionist- 

Illuminati conspiracy against their country, and serials talking 

about the exceptional bravery, fidelity and fighting qualities of the 

Pakistan Army and it’s many victories against the cowardly and 

scheming Indians. From the outside looking in, it looked like the 

perfect extremist madhouse. 

I used to think the same about Germans of the World War 2 era – 

that they must have been either really, really evil or a very robotic 

people, utterly devoid of human emotion, I mean, how else can you 

explain an entire nation blindly following a foaming-at-the-mouth, 

fancy-dress fascist with a toothbrush moustache? Did the Germans 

of that era really think that Mein Kampf actually made sense? 

Above all, how could an entire society either actively support or 

else meekly acquiesce to the methodically-planned, cold-blooded 

murder of millions of their fellow human beings? 

And I don’t for a moment believe the post-war German civilian’s 

plea that they didn’t know what was going on. They might not 

have known the exact workings or the extent of what was going 

on, but they sure as hell knew that SOMETHING was going on. And 

a critical mass of that society either rabidly supported it, or else 

quietly went along with what was happening. 

How is it possible for an entire society to be so evil and inhuman? 

Today, we can’t even imagine such horrors, leave aside identifying 

with the people who did them. The people who did these things 

– they must have been utter psychopaths, or at best, uneducated, 

superstitious and desperate. After all, you and me would never do 

such things, right? 

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Wrong! 

The people who did those things were exactly like you and me, like 

your neighbours, like the favourite aunt of yours from childhood. 

They were an absolutely ordinary set of humans caught in the 

perfect storm of circumstances which moulded them into hatefilled 

creatures. 

I say this because when you sit in class and read about the slave 

trade, you are being taught that humans are equal, but when it 

was actually happening there was an entire set of values, attitudes 

and entire branches of pseudo-science designed to show how the 

African was inferior, child-like, and indeed, almost a different 

species. When the British or the Belgians embarked on the colonial 

project, they were not committing atrocities 

or genocides, but nobly shouldering ‘the 

white man’s burden’ by bringing civilization 

to the savages. A similar kind of logic was 

applied to women over the centuries by 

different societies and religions, justifying 

the controls and restrictions placed on them 

as being for their own good, for they were 

too child-like to make their own decisions. 

When the next great atrocity comes, it 

will not come neatly wrapped, with a card 

inviting you to participate in the evil of the century. Instead, it 

will drop as if from heaven, the answer to everyone’s prayers, 

whispering seductive promises of delivering justice, prosperity 

and reclaiming the lost glory of your race, religion or country. 

For extreme ideologies and evil leaders do not come to happy 

and contented populations, but appear in countries where at 

least a section of the population has long suffered injustice and 

humiliation, or else is in danger of losing their traditional rights 

and privileges. They do not appear in static, closed systems, but in 

societies witnessing rapid change, where traditional moorings are 

falling apart. It is from such fertile soil that the evil leader sprouts 

promising quick and ready justice, a return to a pristine (pure) past 

and someone to blame for all your failures. 

Now, to be fair, there is nothing wrong in promising justice, 

Looking at these changes, 

I realise that one way for 

politicians to gain immense 

power and for big business 

(who bankroll the leader) to 

capture a country is to turn 

people into hate-filled zombies 

prosperity or glory. Politicians all over the world make such 

promises, and in a few rare cases, have even managed to deliver on 

them. However, if you find that these promises of national renewal 

are contingent upon the exclusion of certain minority groups 

from society, or if you are told that the path to national unity 

and discipline requires you – the common citizen – to give up on 

certain rights; if you find the media and public discourse suddenly 

saturated with hatred and negativity; if the government and media 

tell you that more and more sections of your fellow-citizens (such 

as professors, journalists, artists, students, homosexuals etc.) are 

traitors; or if you find narratives, slogans and viewpoints tying you 

more and more to one particular identity (German/Jew etc.), then 

you should at least be a little suspicious of the new religion and its 

messiah. 

Of course, this is much easier to spot in 

theory than it is in practice. For, in reality, the 

seductive promises that will be whispered in 

your ear will be surrounded by propaganda 

and popular support telling you that this 

hatred, the need to expunge traitors, the 

need to build a united, disciplined society is 

the right thing, the moral thing to do. There 

will be journalists and politicians, and 

media backed by big business telling you 

over and over again that your moral duty is to protect yourself, 

your society and your values from ‘the other’. What is confounding 

about this is that some of the popular discontent against a minority 

group might be built around a few actual kernels of truth, but these 

kernels will have been built into existentially threatening castles 

using propaganda. 

Yes, perhaps there are some kernels of truth, perhaps the minority 

group is over-represented in crime or indeed, has values that you 

think are ’anti-human’. Yet, there are always perfectly reasonable 

explanations for these conditions. These are very human problems 

and there are always mature ways of dealing with these challenges 

without falling for the politician’s, who frame this as an ‘us vs. 

them’ problem. For, the moment you fall for this ‘us vs. them’, you 


elieve that this group is something fundamentally different from 

you, and you leave the door open to believing (with sufficient 

repetition and authority behind it) the outright conspiracy 

theories that will follow. Add propaganda to this way of seeing 

your world, and you, and your society are already on the slippery 

slope towards fascism. 

Even if you belong to the minority that is not swept away by 

the lies and the propaganda, resisting evil is not easy. You and 

me, can sit in class and reflect on the inhumanity of the slave 

trade, and thereby bask in the warm glow of being a do-gooder. 

However, standing up to the evil of our times, one that has through 

relentless propaganda been framed as the moral imperative, 

means standing up and in effect, saying “yes, I am selfish, I do 

not care about my nation or my race, because it is my hunch that 

what everyone around me thinks is right is actually wrong”, and 

“Yes, I am fine with the vile things the minority or the traitors are 

doing and no, while you send your sons to fight for the country, 

I will not join you in defending our nation”. That’s what it will 

sound like to the ears of everyone around you, and as your voice 

and arguments get drowned by propaganda from the media and 

the pulpit, resisting or speaking up will basically be like saying 

that “yes, I am an evil person”. 

This was the fate of those who stood up to the Nazis, as they were 

branded as traitors and ‘Jew-lovers’ who were weakening the 

nation and the race. Numerous Italian families were humiliated 

and driven out of their homes to jeers and ridicule from their 

own neighbours, friends and family, all of whom thought they 

were in the right. There is no warm glow of being a do-gooder 

here, but the opprobrium, humiliation and ostracism from your 

friends, relatives and colleagues. And this is just one part of 

it, for in places like Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union and in 

regime after regime like this, it is the concentration camp, the 

gulag or death that would await you if you spoke up against what 

was happening. That is why even people who may not be fully 

convinced about the ideology of the times, go along with it. There 

«This constant stream of 

traitors serves to channel 

the revolutionary and 

perhaps violent impulses of 

a society away from those 

in power and towards some 

convenient ‘fall guys’» 

is also always a small section of people who see through the lies, and 

yet jump on to the bandwagon to promote their business and gain 

money, power and influence. 

So, yes, it is ordinary people like you and me, who either due to 

brainwashing or out of fear or greed, provide the critical mass 

required for the birth of such horrors. I say this on the basis of 

things I have seen happening around me in India. As I told you 

at the start, I used to dislike Pakistanis and Germans and thought 

that they were exceptional and very different from us Indians. 

Today, I am not so sure. We have had a right-wing government 

in power in India since 2014, and to my mind the India of today 

resembles very closely my conception of Pakistan as a teenager. 

(It is not there yet, in terms of on-ground reality, but it is certainly 

there in terms of the mentality and mindset of the people). Over 

time, I have watched with dismay as otherwise decent and amiable 

friends, relatives and colleagues have transformed into irrational, 

hate-filled zombies. 

And this is what I want to stress through this article – these are 

perfectly ordinary, decent human beings, who sacrifice for their 

family, who donate to charity, who are giving to their friends and 

have a sense of duty and propriety. Many of them (just like you) love 

puppies and feed stray animals (not just cows) and are vegetarian 

to boot (just like Hitler was). Yet, caught in a vortex of economic 

and social inequality, real and perceived humiliations and a sense 

of historical wrongs, a deepening identity crisis due to the breakdown 

of traditional structures and relentless propaganda and fake 

news backed by big business, they have developed an itch to feel 

strong and powerful, to be told how great and glorious their identity 

was and to blame someone for all the things going wrong. And the 

merchants of hatred have been scratching that itch and adding a 

dollop of lies on top, ratcheting up the hate to fever pitch, for that is 

how people are controlled. I realise now that the same thing must 

have happened in Pakistan, where the Army took power decades 

ago, and used the media, the history books and popular culture to 

relentlessly brainwash and thereby control the population. I say 

this because the language and the tactics being used in India are 

exactly the same as what I saw on Pakistani television channels as 

a child. 

Looking at these changes, I realise that one way for politicians to 

gain immense power and for big business (who bankroll the leader) 

to capture a country is to turn people into hate-filled zombies. It’s 

not easy and requires a combination of many other factors to pull 

off (such as a floundering economy, high levels of inequality, a lack 

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of independent institutions, a sense of historical victimhood and a high number of frustrated, possibly unemployed individuals who 

can latch on to an identity – either religious or national or racial – to boost their ego). But, if pulled off, it can result in a politician’s 

dream – a set of people who are so drunk on religion or nationalism that they have no time to think about or demand jobs, education 

or infrastructure. In fact, in many such societies, ordinary people can be convinced that their rights are being taken away for their 

own good, a sacrifice in the cause of the struggle for nationalism or religion. And, since it is the very nature of politicians to try and 

gain power, and of big businesses to try and capture markets and form monopolies, I believe all struggling societies or economies are 

vulnerable to such movements. 

So, in this article I will first list some of the changes that I believe happen in such societies and then try to list the kind of personalities 

or attitudes that might be able to resist this brainwashing. My hope is that if such a time ever comes to your country, you will be able to 

identify it based on the prevailing discourse all around you and will be able to maintain an independent and questioning mind. I also 

hope that the next time you read about historical atrocities in your textbook, you identify with the perpetrators instead of dismissing 

them out of hand as something you would never have been. 

So, what are the changes that take place in society when an evil regime takes over? Based on what I have seen in India and Pakistan, here 

are some of the key ones: 

- Lies and bullshit: An all-pervasive atmosphere of 

unreality and lies everywhere. This achieves two 

things, a) show us how great the leader is and how well 

he is doing, and b) distracts from or outright denies all 

failures and mis-steps. TV shows devolve into shouting 

matches to obfuscate rather than actually analyse 

any issue, fake news spreads over social media and 

people are kept on a roller-coaster of highly charged 

non-issues to outrage over (usually involving religion, 

honour or the debauched lifestyles and morals of the 

elites) designed to distract and confuse. Any time any 

bad news related to the economy, inflation or a failure 

of the government comes up, it is quickly followed up 

by some high-emotion controversy that is designed to 

take over the airwaves and drown out the earlier news. 

And if the bad news comes from international sources 

or ratings and rankings, it is all part of the conspiracy 

against us. 

Over time, this also leads to a state where people are 

no longer able to separate truth from lies, and the most 

twisted and bizarre conspiracy theories are believed as 

real explanations for simple, straightforward events. 

- Traitors everywhere: If you live in a country where the 

list of traitors just keeps growing and growing, there is 

probably an evil regime at the top. It starts first with 

the obvious identified minority group, but then grows 

to include those corrupt journalists; the university 

professors in their ivory towers; the mollycoddled 

students studying effete, useless subjects (liberal arts); 

the artists and intellectuals who haven’t done a day 

of good, honest work in their lives; the westernised, 

debauched city dwellers and their loose, westernised 

women; the homosexuals who will destroy family life 

just by being homosexual in their private lives; the 

atheists; and finally, even the villagers who don’t want 

to give up their land for a mining project or farmers 

protesting against government policies – are all part of 

this cancer affecting the body politic of the nation. 

Celebrity TV anchors (just like the one in ‘V for 

Vendetta’) hold impassioned programs asking for these 

traitors to be eradicated, and the list of traitors is 

never-ending. In some senses, this need to find traitors 

everywhere arises from the psychological needs of 

society. The psychoanalyst Otto Fenichel, when writing 

about antisemitism in Europe, says ‘the working classes 

in Europe were positioned in a dual and paradoxical 

relation to political authority; they simultaneously 

sought to rebel against those who held power and desired 

to obey. As a ‘condensation of these most contradictory 

tendencies’, antisemitism channelled the proletarian 

urge to ‘rebel against the authorities’ as well as offered 

an opportunity for a ‘cruel suppression and punishment 

of this instinctual rebellion’. 


In other words, this constant stream of traitors 

serves to channel the revolutionary and perhaps 

violent impulses of a society away from those in 

power and towards some convenient ‘fall guys’. In 

reality, anyone who questions the government or 

protests against its actions is being labelled a traitor. 

- An increased focus on religion: Religion starts 

appearing in spaces you never saw earlier, everyone 

and their aunt are overly pious and concerned about 

the religion and people with religious backgrounds 

start commenting on the economy and the right way 

to run a country, and surprisingly their views are 

listened to with respect. 

I saw this happen first in Pakistan, women got the 

headscarf, men started growing beards, everyday 

speech became full of Inshallah and Mashallah, 

some people’s social media feeds became full of 

religious sayings, and the greatness of the Prophet 

and all of this competitive, performative religiosity 

increased side by side with a slide in public morals 

and an increase in corruption, crime and inequality. 

- Right and wrong history, art and science: If many 

books/artworks/documentaries/movies or certain 

intellectuals, artists and historians need to be 

banned or burned for being subversive, promoting 

dangerous or ‘wrong’ ideas, then you must know 

that you are in a regime that is trying for thought 

control. If academic history starts being attacked 

as a conspiracy to hide the greatest achievements 

and the true glory of your race, nation and religion, 

and the government changes the history being 

taught to children for ‘ideological’ reasons, you 

should be suspicious. Even science in Nazi Germany 

was thought to be useful only to the extent that it 

was useful to the state, and so it is with many such 

movements. 

- Power as the ultimate ideology: It is clear that 

the whole focus of the great leader is on retaining 

power, but what is surprising is that the foot soldiers 

– the people making up the rank and file of the party 

and part of the social media teams – also adopt the 

dictum that all means to achieve their ideological 

ends are justified. Many of these ideologically driven 

followers know that the people are being lied to, but 

they justify it to themselves as a necessary sacrifice 

required to usher in the new golden age. 

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In conjunction with this, the party at the top has 

a compulsive need to bring under its own control 

every institution in the country. Whether it be 

universities, Bollywood or sports bodies, the party 

must control all. And if any institutions seek to 

maintain their independence, they must be ground 

down and brought to heel using the media and all

the powers of the state. 

- The cult of the strongman: In Pakistan it was the 

cult of the Army, while in many other countries 

today we have a strongman who with his charismatic 

personality will single-handedly ‘drain the swamp’ 

and save us. Per the propaganda, success in this 

society has only one father – our great leader, while 

failure has many fathers – almost everyone else. If 

the economy is failing, it is because of that stupid 

minister or the inefficient bureaucracy, but if oil 

prices suddenly dropped it is because a great leader 

personally negotiated prices with Saudi Arabia. In 

reality, the situation is just the opposite, for the 

great leader tightly controls everything and every 

minister on his cabinet says and does what the great 

leader wants. 

The great leader is also the only thing standing 

between us loyal citizens and our complete 

debasement and downfall. When traitors attack the 

leader, in reality they are not after him, they just 

want him out of the way so they can exploit and 

destroy you and your family. The great leader just 

happens to be standing in the way. 

Another power of the great leader is that TV cameras 

magically appear around him, showing his random 

acts of kindness and machismo. For instance, this 

strongman might decide to drop in unannounced to 

meet his mother and sit by her feet. When he goes to 

meet her, her drawing room is already filled with TV 

cameramen who have set up their lights and camera 

angles, and this footage is then played to gushing 

anchors getting teary-eyed over the great man’s 

devotion to family. Through many such events is 

the cult of the brave, incorruptible leader built, and 

most people believe every bit of it. 

- The glorification of the military and a focus on 

patriarchal values and concepts such as honour and 

self-respect: The soldier and our military deserve 

the greatest amount of respect. They stand tirelessly 

on our borders and protect us, while the traitors 

sleep peacefully thanks to this protection and yet 

have the gall to question our society and tradition. 

Have they ever thought of the sacrifices made by the 

lonely sentry, spending their time away from their 

family and guarding our borders in the hot desert or 

the bone-chilling cold of the Himalayas? 

Also, the military deserves all respect, effete and 

depraved artists and intellectuals and scientists 

do not. The most important values that you hear 

about endlessly in TV debates are our honour, selfrespect, 

sacrifice and prestige. Fairness, equality 

and justice are forgotten. Probably, those values are 

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The trends I have listed above might seem 

cartoonish or even funny to a European 

reader today. Indeed, these trends are 

very distinctive to the Indian/Pakistani 

milieu. Yet, I believe that if the correct 

(or wrong) historical conditions appear, 

a customised version of these trends 

could as well appear in Europe. 

Think about it. The world has had almost 

70 years during which the free-market 

based; democratic, liberal world-order has been dominant. 

And while it can be argued that this is the best period in 

history to be alive, we have also seen unrestrained corporate 

greed, the hunger for profits and power drive wars, injustices 

and ever-increasing levels of inequality. The system has not 

delivered on its many lofty-sounding promises, and today, 

as people grow frustrated with the promises of liberalism, 

grow insecure about their place in the world with growing 

globalisation, and are just plain tired of being exploited by the 

elites, there is a danger that they throw out the baby with the 

bathwater, and instead of refining or bettering the existing 

systems, go for a radical, purification performed by individual 

strongmen. This is already happening in a number of countries 

and one cannot blame the voters for this. Ironically, in many 

of these countries, the leaders themselves are usually backed 

by big business (the real elite), while re-directing people’s 

anger towards writers, artists, professors and journalists as 

being part of ‘the establishment’ that has ripped them off. 

So, there is every chance that such a movement could arise 

democratically in your country, especially if the economy takes 

a turn downward. The anger and the voting can be understood, 

but when many such movements seek to completely control 

the media, subvert the very democracy that brought them to 

power and destroy independent institutions – that is the point 

at which a population starts getting brainwashed. 

Think about Norway – a largely homogenous society that has 

seen less inequality historically than most other countries. 

What happens as young Norwegians, growing up in affluence 

and a comparative lack of challenges stop empathising with 

the poor and the homeless? As many of this generation believe 

that their wealth is a result of their intelligence and work 

ethic, will they not start questioning why the Government is 

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And now let’s come to 

the elephant in the roomimmigration. 

What happens 

when a tightly-knit society 

united by a set of values 

and culture is faced with 

people from a very different 

cultural background? 

taking so much of their income as taxes 

and distributing it amongst ‘the lazy and 

the unproductive’? 

And now, let’s come to the elephant in 

the room – immigration. What happens 

when a tightly-knit society united by a 

set of values and culture is faced with 

people from a very different cultural 

background? What if their values clash 

with your most cherished ones? There 

is also the danger that the descendants of immigrants might, 

perhaps due to a few incidents of racism, start feeling like 

outsiders in Norway, and fall back hard on their ethnic or 

religious identities, as a way of boosting their own ego and 

self-worth. What happens when this section starts aggressively 

pushing their ‘problematic or incompatible’ values as a way 

of being seen, as a way of affirming their existence and 

identity? A disgruntled person who feels like they have been 

wronged by society is also likely to be vulnerable to extremist 

ideologies. These are all very real, and very complex problems 

that have no easy answers. They are also inevitably human 

problems that cannot be reduced to ‘oh this lot is evil’ or ‘that 

lot is racist’. 

But if such problems do come up in a society that is seeing 

rising levels of inequality (as is already happening in Norway 

today), an economic shock or widespread unemployment, then 

how long before a power-hungry leader comes up promising a 

return back to the glory days when the ‘land was pure’? Then 

all that I have outlined above, in this essay, could start looking 

like a possibility, even in Norway. 

If this happens, will you also turn into a Nazi? 

Who becomes a Nazi, and who doesn’t? My experience is this: 

If you are an ordinary, well-adjusted citizen of your country, 

I believe that when the majority turn to extremism and get 

brainwashed, so will you. That has been my experience in 

India. If, on the other hand, you are not well-adjusted, belong 

to a minority group due to your ethnicity or sexual orientation 

or due to the circumstances of your upbringing, or are just 

plain ‘eccentric’, there is a good chance that you will remain 

an ‘outsider’ to society and be able to see through the web of

lies and the brainwashing that is in fashion. 

If you believe in absolute moral values rather than relative 

ones, that is, if you have clear red lines (such as murdering 

people is unacceptable) that are non-negotiable. This is because 

there will be very compelling reasons for doing something that 

is morally reprehensible such as fixing the ‘Jewish problem’ 

for the greater good of the German nation, for the protection 

of your women and children etc. Such actions are always 

justified as being a means to a greater end. Only if you have 

clear red lines, a sense of absolute moral values, will you be 

able to withstand the pressure to participate in the evil around 

you. But make no mistake – this will be at a cost. You could be 

seen as unpatriotic, or as a lazy, coward that does not want 

to participate in the defence of the nation. Or it could also be 

much worse. 

If you are an artist of any kind. I can say this from personal 

experience – for as people all around me in India were being 

brainwashed and were falling for it, the only social arena 

where the majority of the people were against the ongoing 

trends, was at a meetup of writers I was a part of. This was 

incredibly refreshing, and I believe that this is because 

artists are usually independent minded and have some level 

of empathy. Indeed, there is a very good reason why most 

despotic regimes make artists and intellectuals as their first 

targets (In Pol Pot’s Cambodia, anyone who wore glasses was 

automatically a target for the Government – wearing glasses 

was seen as a short-hand for being educated and informed). 

If you are very well-informed and educated. If you are the kind 

who is curious and reads anything and everything, there is a 

chance you will be able to spot the bullshit and the lies being 

spouted. On the other hand, if you are the kind who enjoys 

their own life and is not too curious about history, about other 

societies etc., it might be harder for you to see the parallels 

with every other PR-fuelled, despotic regime in history. 

If you do not own a TV or are not on Whatsapp and social 

media: This sounds like I am joking, but never underestimate 

the power of small bits of propaganda delivered 

consistently over days and months and years. Repeated 

propaganda moves people slowly and surely over time 

towards slightly more extreme positions. In such a milieu, 

just the simple fact of not owning a TV can help a person 

remain unaware of, and therefore un-swayed by propaganda. 

If you come from the elite class: If you come from a very 

privileged background (in comparison to the rest of society), it 

is likely you have not faced the same psychic humiliations or 

troubles that make many people easy targets for believing in 

extremist ideologies. You have also likely escaped the worst of 

the historical wrongs that your compatriots are mad about, and 

are to some extent aware of the ways in which the ‘unwashed 

masses’ are manipulated. The chances that you will be fooled 

by the propaganda are lesser. 

On the other hand, if you belong to a sizable and powerful 

elite, in a rapidly changing society where traditional markers 

(your ancestral privileges) are rapidly disintegrating, there is 

every chance of you falling for reactionary movements that 

intend to ‘teach the peasants their place’. 

If you have many interactions with the vilified groups: If 

the minority groups or the traitors live far away (perhaps in 

ghettos) and you have no interactions with them, it will be 

much easier for you to believe anything you are told about 

them. If, on the other hand, you have wide-ranging interactions 

with them, you will realise over time that they are just like any 

other group on the planet with both the good, the bad and the 

ugly amongst them. 

In the final analysis, it is always hard to predict who turns into 

a Nazi and who keeps an independent mind and does not fall 

for the prevailing evils of the age. As shown by the Stanford 

prison experiment, all of us human beings have an evil side to 

us. And this evil side is often brought out by amoral regimes, 

using seductive promises, slick propaganda and convincing 

arguments about one’s nation, culture and religion. It has 

been so throughout history and there is no reason to think 

that our generation of humans is in any way different. So, 

next time we read about historical atrocities, let us not ‘other’ 

the perpetrators as being somehow less – less educated, 

enlightened or moral – than us. Let us understand that we, 

as humans, are just like them and with this awareness of 

ourselves, guard against repeating the horrors of yesteryears. 

Only by recognising the darkness within us, can we hope to 

fight it. 


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TOPICAL 

Overcome the obstacles 

of finding a job with 

a foreign name 

Jaamac Philip 

Skribent 

Illustration: Freepik // storyset 

Who hasn’t heard the stories of people changing their names to be 

able to get a job? Nothing else changes. It’s the same person with the 

same experiences, qualifications and education, but with a new – not 

foreign – name. And sadly, it works. Suddenly, they receive answers 

and are called in to interviews. 

I am a foreigner myself. In 2015 I moved from Germany to Norway and 

due to my Somalian mother I also have a Somalian first name. I still 

have the same name and, nevertheless, I still got jobs. At Karriereuke 

I had the opportunity of sharing my experience. 

I wish there was an easy answer, like do these three things and 

you’ll get a job easily. But if there is one thing my master’s degree in 

counselling science has taught me, it’s that there are no easy answers 

to complex and interconnected problems. So, we have to start at the 

beginning. 

As I’ve already written, I am a foreigner myself and this helps me 

to understand the troubles and experiences my audience has. I have 

also worked as a recruiter for Academic Work while I was taking my 

master’s degree in Trondheim. In this position I had many recruitment 

processes with foreigners, who wanted to enter the Norwegian labour 

marked. Now I work as a career counsellor for Agder municipality 

where we offer free career counselling for all inhabitants (19 years 

and older) of Agder. In this job I often meet foreigners, and often they 

are low-spirited with a brittle confidence. 

But there is more. There are not just the foreigners with foreign 

experience, foreign education background, a foreign culture, and so 

on. There are also the Norwegians, who are born here, have grown 

up here, and do not know anything but this country, but who have 

inherited a foreign name from their parents. The cynical truth is that 

even those people are not spared the discriminatory experiences. But, 

why? 

What is the situation that foreigners are currently facing? 

The labour marked is currently affected by different conflicting 

factors. There is quite a low unemployment rate which should be 

beneficial for people who are looking for a job. We often talk about 

that this is the “employee’s market” where the potential employees 

can choose whom they want to work for. But there is also a high 

degree of uncertainty sparked by high energy prices, a war in Europe, 

many inner-European refugees – who shall enter the labour marked 

as quickly as possible – and the post-Covid problems. 

There are also some structural factors which could be observed in 

the Norwegian labour marked over the last decades. These factors 

were not widely influenced by the current factors above. And it is 

these factors which make it more difficult for foreigners to enter the 

Norwegian labour market than necessary. Because we know that 

the Norwegian economy is (and will increasingly be) dependent on 

foreign workforce. Those factors are mainly: 

- Still highly affected by network structures. 

- There are strong protectional laws for employees, which leads to 

employers being careful when hiring. 

- High degree of standardisation of education and high degree of 

academisation, which makes it harder to enter the Norwegian labour 

marked with a foreign education. 

- Two of the biggest sectors – health and education – are highly 

regulated regarding qualifications. 

- Norwegian employers tend to be conservative regarding education 

background, which benefits Norwegian education since it is more 

known to these employers. 

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What can I do? 

As I said before, I wish there would be the one thing to do. However, 

the problem is individual to each and everyone. Still, there are some 

things that tend to help entering the Norwegian labour market. One 

basic rule is as easy as it is complicated, as logical as it is contradictory: 

The best way of getting a job in Norway is by having (or have 

had) a job in Norway. It seems like many Norwegian employers 

do not necessarily have a problem to hire a person with a foreign 

background or name, but they do not want to be the first one to give 

them a chance. An “easy” way of avoiding this problem, is to get a job 

at a work place owned by a foreigner. My first permanent job was at a 

Japanese restaurant owned by a Japanese who thought that a German 

might be more persistent than a Norwegian. 

Another problem that many foreigners meet is the disregard for 

foreign education or experience. Many foreigners who come to 

career counselling are depressed – and also often mad – because they 

feel that their foreign education or experience is not worth anything 

in Norway. The truth is often that foreign experience is quite valuable 

as soon as it is combined with Norwegian education. As soon as there 

is a Norwegian education – which is trusted by Norwegian employers 

– added to all that foreign experience, all this experience and “extra” 

education is seen as an big advantage. 

If you want to make it easier for Norwegian employers 

to understand your education, and you do 

not have the time or possibility to “add” 

a Norwegian education, you can 

send your documents to NOKUT. 

They are the ones to assess 

foreign education and will 

provide you with a written 

feedback about which 

Norwegian education 

your foreign education 

resembles. While I 

worked as a recruiter 

I had some NOKUT 

assessment letters 

that were added 

to the application 

documents and it 

seemed as if it was 

really depended 

on the employer 

how “valuable” this 

document was. 

There are also some 

general tips which may 

work for the most people who 

are looking for a job in Norway: 

- If you cannot yet speak Norwegian, you should learn it! 

- Be proactive – call the contact person in advance and ask relevant 

questions about the position or the company. That also will give 

them the possibility to hear that you speak Norwegian. 

- Be creative – do not sell your ideas for free, but if you already have 

some good ideas about how to solve a certain task/problem, you 

might add a short draft of your ideas. 

- Follow up if you do not get feedback or get a rejection. That might 

be a possibility to learn about something that you can do differently 

next time. 

- Get the help you need. UiA Karriere or the career counselling 

service of Agder municipality are places you can go to and ask for 

feedback on your CV or motivation letter. 

- Make yourself “findable”. Register and maintain your CV at finn.no 

and at the websites of different staffing- and recruitment agencies. 

Look for jobs at social media. LinkedIn is a nice possibility if 

you use it actively. And even if it sounds like a boomer advice – 

there are some Facebook groups where you might be able to get 

a part time job if you post a short (and nice) presentation about 

yourself. It worked for me. 

So, is my foreign background just a bad thing? 

I really hope that you do not think about 

your background that way. Even 

if it sounds lame, you should be 

proud of who you are and the 

background you have. There is a 

change also in the Norwegian 

labour marked and diversity 

is more and more seen 

as a big advantage. Also 

you have another view 

on things, which might 

make it more difficult to 

enter the labour marked, 

but who also gives you 

an unique selling point. 

You have to see your own 

background as a strong 

suit and make the best 

out of it. There will 

be a lot of people 

who will walk all 

over you, but you 

should not be that 

person yourself! 


SHORT-STORY 

Soda Bottle 

Tulips 

Anjali Mariampillai 

Web Editor 

Photos: Unikum // Anjali Mariampillai 

Illustrations: Freepik // callmetak // hannazasimova 

The smell of fresh coffee tickles my nose as I sit across of a much younger me. I smile at 

her, watching her eat the orange slices I cut up for her. She looks curiously at the slice 

in her hand, watching how the juice is trickling down her small fingers. She lifts her 

head up to look at me, and meets me with the softest smile on her face. The cup feels 

warm in my hands on this cold sunny day - the first day of spring. How could anything 

feel lovelier than this moment right here? I am startled by Alina’s voice as she starts 

to speak. I keep forgetting that she’s growing up. Suddenly she’s four, forming full 

sentences and more curious than ever, when it feels like only yesterday when I saw 

her smile for the first time. I’d come to love that precious smile more than anything. 

“What flower is that?” she asks pointing to the turquoise glass vase full of freshly cut 

flowers that stands on the kitchen table. “The colours are pretty.” 

“They’re called tulips, honey.” I smile at her as she still looks curiously at me. The 

colours are indeed gorgeous. The pink and the purple ones were impossible to leave 

behind when I saw them in the store. 

“Are they your favourite?” still looking at the flowers as if she’s analysing them petal 

by petal. I can’t help but feel my heart warming up instantly - little did she know what 

she had just sparked in me. 

“I would say so, yes,” still grinning her way. She moves her gaze to me and nods her 

little head in satisfaction of my answer, and returns to fiddling around with the orange 

slices, making a mess for me to clean up later. 

I look down at my coffee cup, the steam rising from it still, and the memories come 

flooding. Suddenly, I’m twenty-one years old, and standing in front of her door with 

the bouquet of pink grocery store tulips, beside my roommate Jade holding a bouquet 

of yellow ones. 

She opened the door swiftly and an instant smile formed on her face as Jade, and I 

stood in front of her - the first of day of spring needed to be celebrated and Olivia had 

invited us for breakfast. 

“Guuuys, you didn’t need to!” she exclaimed as she hugged us both in one motion and 

gestured us into her hallway. “We wanted to, as a thank you for having us over!” Jade 

looked at me with a smile and then back at Olivia as I nodded with her in agreement. 

She took our jackets and put them in the corner as we stepped out of our shoes, ready 

to warm up in the kitchen of her student housing, coming in from the sharp spring 

cold. 

The sun poured into the room and veiled the table she had set for us in a golden hue. 

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“I’m sorry for the tiny plate, I only had two big 

ones! I can sit there though, take my place.” 

Olivia said to me, while taking the kettle of hot 

water off and placing it in the broad windowsill. 

“I don’t mind really, it’s fine Liv!” I answered her. 

She scurried me away from the plate setting, 

guiding me to one of the other chairs. “No, I 

mean it Keerthi, you’re my guest so I’m taking 

the tiny plate!” I laughed with her, trying to insist 

but she didn’t let me. Jade fiddled around with 

the two tulip bouquets by the sink. “Liv, where 

do you want these?” she asked while she opened 

the cupboards above the sink to try and find a 

vase. “Shit, I should’ve brought mine for you 

to borrow, I forgot that you didn’t have one!” I 

said to Olivia while she moved around the table 

trying to make room for all the spreads, juice, 

and bread. “Give me a second, I saw this thing 

online a while ago. Let me try something.” She 

put the apple slices she was holding down on 

the table and ran into her room for a second and 

came out with a plastic soda bottle. She smiled at 

us like she had come up with the greatest idea in 

the world. It was always quite funny when she 

had that look on her face. You never knew what 

she could come up with. 

She put the bottle down on the cutting board 

and with full force, she cut through the top of 

the bottle with the breadknife she had just used 

for the warm bread from the oven. “Look! Now 

I can use this as a vase,” she excitedly laughed 

as she grabbed the tulips that Jade had prepped 

for her and arranged them with a little water 

in the plastic soda bottle. We laughed with her, 

because this was so clever and so dumb, and it 

was often like that with us, it was the peak of 

being a student. “That’s pretty good actually, it 

works great” Jade agreed with her with a big grin 

on her face. I smiled at them as Olivia brought 

the bottle of tulips and placed it in the middle 

of the table. “Well, sit down then! Why are you 

standing there? Let’s eat!” she exclaimed at us. 

The steam from kettle danced vividly in the sun 

by her window, as we settled down by the table. 

“This marmalade is so nice!” I hummed to Olivia 

in satisfaction. The butter and marmalade had 

mixed into this sweet and salty concoction on 

my slice of bread, and it tasted like a big bite of 

spring. “I know right? My dad is really proud 

of it,” she laughed. “He sent with me three jars 

of it when I met my family this weekend. You 

should’ve heard him talking about it.” She 

smiled; her eyes lost to memories past. 

We chatted like that, reminiscing for a while. 

It was always like that with us. We would chat 

about small and bigger things for hours and 

hours. It could be the most ridiculous of topics 

sometimes, like which one of us could have 

survived The Hunger Games. “Keerthi would die 

during the first five minutes,” Jade jokingly said 

and bumped my shoulder lightly with her fist. I 

laughed in agreement with her - I wouldn’t even 

make it to the Games without dying first from 

a panic attack. We discussed what the name of 

our bar would be if we ever opened one, and we 

talked about love and death and which guys we 

were currently dating, and how the twenties are 

so stressful. How it’s painful to see our parents 

grow old, and how we have to spend more time 

with them. We talked about how we wanted to 

be at each other’s weddings someday, and how 

time is flying by way too fast. I think mostly, 

these chats were coloured by the inherent fear 

of growing up. 

“Sometimes, it hits me that we aren’t going to live 

together after this summer,” I said filling in the 

silence. We had been thinking the same thought, 

I felt it in the room. It was a bittersweet moment, 

and the silence told the whole story. Jade looked 

up at me from playing with the cucumber slices 

in her hand. She nodded with me slowly. “I 

mean, it won’t be like this again ever, after this 

summer,” Olivia added to my sudden thought. 

The tulips in the bottle had already begun to 

open up. “When we’re like forty and have kids 

and big girl jobs and maybe a husband, I hope 

we still live close,” she continued. “Imagine if 

we could pick each other’s kids up from school, 

and go to cafés with our strollers like those cool 

moms who look great instantly after having 

given birth. We could totally be those moms!” 

she laughed with a hint of sadness in her voice. 

I licked the little speck of marmalade on my 

fingers, the tangy and sweet taste left me with 

a satisfied smile. We sat in silence for a little 

while longer, nibbling on apple slices and brown 

cheese, taking in the moment for what it was. I 

looked down into my cup of coffee and saw a 

bit of my own reflection in the small pool at the 

bottom of the cup, a twenty-one-year-old with 

little to no idea of what was going to happen 

after that summer. 

“More coffee, Keerthi?” Olivia turned to me and 

started pouring before I managed to answer her. 

The tulips had opened a little more, beautifully 

in harmony with the gorgeous spring day. I 

admired them petal by petal, watching how they 

shone in the golden sunlight. 

- 

It tastes bittersweet on my tongue - the last sip 

of coffee. My train of thought is interrupted by 

the sound Alina’s voice talking again. “Take it 

mommy!” she cheerfully adds as she tries to 

hand me one of her orange slices over the table. 

It’s funny how this small child can’t fully reach 

over, and I find myself chuckling softly at her. 

I can’t help but smile at the innocence of the 

moment as I accept the fruit from her - feeling 

her tiny fingers against my hand, no matter how 

messy and mushy it looks, orange juice dripping 

down at the table as she hands me it. The tulips 

are glowing in the lovely spring sun, in pink and 

purple hues and immensely beautiful. 

Every time I glance at the flowers, I wonder if 

they are in their own kitchens, having breakfast 

with their kids, and doing okay too. 


ANBEFALING 

Embla Eskilt Hagalisletto 

Skribent 

Illustrasjon: Freepik // freepik 

Foto: Unikum // Embla Eskilt Hagalisletto 

I’ll Take you to the 

Thrifty Shop 

Bruktshopping, også kalt thrifting, blir stadig mer populært. Sliter du med å finne fram 

blant bruktbutikkene som Sørlandet tilbyr? Her får du en rask oversikt! 

Kollektivet 

Midt i Markens finner du min favoritt, nemlig Kollektivet. Den har 

blant annet vintage Levis jeans, college gensere, 80 - talls jakker 

og skinnjakker. Mesteparten av klærne importeres fra USA, og er 

av god kvalitet. Butikken selger også andre varer, laget av lokale 

produsenter. Helhetlig er dette en stilig og ryddig vintagebutikk. 

Litt dyrt, men absolutt verdt det (og de har studentrabatt)! 

Mølla Grim 

Beliggenheten og bygget i seg selv gjør det 

verdt å ta seg en tur til Mølla Grim. Denne 

store butikken har mye møbler, mye servise, 

mye sko og en del klær. Noe av det som skiller 

denne fra andre bruktbutikker er det store 

utvalget av gamle radioer, høyttalere og 

vinyl – platespillere; denne avdelingen er en 

skattekiste for musikkelskere. 

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NLM gjenbruk 

På Lumber i Vågsbygd ligger NML gjenbruk. Et stort pluss med 

denne butikken er den er ryddig og oversiktlig. I tillegg kan du 

finne klær av god kvalitet, til en god pris. Alle inntektene går til 

veldedighet, deriblant sykehus og barnehjem i Afrika. 

Fretex 

Fretex på Lund et godt alternativ hvis du leter etter 

lave priser og en butikk nær universitetet. I motsetning 

til kollektivet er ikke alle klærne av like god kvalitet 

og butikken er mer rotete. Men den som leter skal 

finne! Klærne er i utgangspunktet billige, og med en 

studentrabatt på 20 % er det bare å starte skattejakten. 

Søgne brukt og antikk 

Søgne brukt og antikk har det meste, blant annet klær, sko, LP 

plater, skrivemaskiner og 60 – talls fasttelefoner; her er det utrolig 

spennende å lete. Denne butikken er en perle for de som interesser 

seg for antikviteter og gamle, sjeldne gjenstander. En hake er prisene, 

som er en del høyere sammenliknet med andre bruktbutikker. 

Mulig gjenbruk 

Rett ved Fretex (på Lund) ligger bruktbutikken Mulig, som har 

alt mulig. Butikken er midt i blinken om du leter etter møbler 

og servise. En ryddig, stilig butikk, med varer som fremstår av 

god kvalitet. Også er det så billig! 

Ei hjelpende hånd 

Blant alle bruktbutikkene jeg har vært i Arendal – Grimstad området 

er nok dette den beste. Ei hjelpende hånd, som ligger på Bergmoen 

er en av Norges største bruktbutikker. De har masse fine vesker, 

kofferter, sko, klær, servise, møbler, bøker, LP plater og så videre. Stort, 

ryddig og svært billig. Pluss - overskuddet blir gitt til veldedighet. 

Andre butikker som er verdt å sjekke ut er Gjenbruken i 

Lillesand, Shalam bruktbutikk Slettheia, NMS Gjenbruk og 

Fretex som begge ligger i Sørlandsparken. 


ANMELDELSE 

Bokanmeldelse 

EN NASJON I SJAKK 

Mattias Johannessen 

Skribent 

Illustrasjon: AdobeStock // andry7 

En mystisk og ukjent terrorist, et spill 

med sjakk hvor hver brikke som 

slås ut av spillet vil medføre døden 

for en samfunnstopp, en kidnappet 

statsminister med en tikkende bombe 

under seg – Dette er «En Nasjon i 

Sjakk». 

Av fjorårets tilskudd til den norske 

krimmen og thrillerkategorien 

innenfor skriftlig litteratur, kan vi 

finne en bok med den overraskende 

tittelen «En Nasjon i Sjakk». Ved første 

øyekast, virker ikke denne boken så veldig spennende; omslaget kan raskt 

gjøre at en kan forveksle den med en hvilken som helst annen bok som 

omhandler sjakk – men bokens tittel, og en nærmere titt på omslaget, er 

det som gjør at en innser at her er det ikke snakk om noen håndbok for 

hvordan en skal spille sjakk. Omslaget på boken er uhyggelig og nøye satt 

sammen, og sammen med bokens tittel, får dette frem et tydelig budskap 

om fortellingens handling; det norske demokratiet og Stortinget er i fare, og 

alt står og faller på sjakk. 

Handlingens utgangspunkt er egentlig ganske enkelt; den norske 

statsministeren blir kidnappet, den norske kongefamilien blir forsøkt 

bombet, og en omfattende aksjon igangsettes for å spore opp statsministeren 

og finne de som våger å angripe det norske demokratiet på denne måten. 

Midt under etterforskningen, kommer plutselig et svært vogntog rullende 

opp utenfor Stortinget. Veggene på hengeren blåses av med sprengladninger; 

inni et glassbur sitter statsministeren bundet og kneblet, på toppen av det 

som snart skal bli oppdaget til å være en svært kraftig sprengladning mer enn 

kraftig nok til å drepe selve symbolet på den norske staten. Samtidig leveres 

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en mystisk pakke til Stortinget og kriselaget; et nettbrett med et sjakkbrett 

viser seg å være inni. Kampen for livet, og en kamp mot klokken, er i gang, og 

det hele skal foregå med et parti sjakk som grunnlag. Hver part får 24timer 

på seg i spilletid; statens gjenværende spilletid gjenspeiles i et display festet 

rundt halsen på statsministeren; går tiden ut, sprenges sprengladningen, og 

spillet er over. Settes statens konge i sjakkmatt, settes også sprengladningen 

av. Kriselaget på Stortinget kan heller ikke benytte seg av noen datamaskin 

for å gi seg selv en fordel, og de kan ikke ta med seg nettbrettet som styrer 

sjakkpartiet ut av Stortingsbygningen – dette skal være en kamp spiller mot 

spiller, mellom «makten og folket» slik terroristen selv kaller det. Kampen for 

å forsvare selve symbolet på det norske demokratiet er i gang, og det er opp 

til den erfarne og høyt respekterte aksjonslederen for Beredskapstroppen – 

Anton Block – å fakke terroristen før det er for sent. Sammen med ham stiller 

den dyktige og skarptrente Björk Jônsdottir, den første kvinnelige operatøren 

i Beredskapstroppens historie. Sammen kaster de seg i gang i kampen mot 

klokken. Men det blir snart klart for dem at samme hvem denne mystiske 

terroristen er, så ligger de minst fem skritt foran statsmakten og politimakten, 

og snart begynner brikker på brettet å falle, og terroristen er tro til sitt ord: 

første brikke viser raskt at de mener alvor, idet første offer tas av dage. 

En Nasjon i Sjakk tar leserne med seg på en nervepirrende, uhyggelig nøye og 

kalkulert sammensatt, og på grensen til fryktinngytende, kamp mot klokken 

og en kamp for alt det som det norske demokratiet står for. Handlingen er nøye 

konstruert og satt sammen for å gi et realistisk innblikk i krisehåndtering og i 

det som, i hvert fall for leseren, kan virke som en reaksjon og håndtering fra 

en Beredskapstropp som kunne ha funnet sted i det virkelige liv. Forfatteren 

har vevet sammen en kompleks og inngående forhistorie til handlingen som 

periodisk og strategisk dras opp for å drive handlingen og terrorangrepene 

videre og for å gi ytterligere substans til hvorfor hvert offer blir satt som mål 

på den måten. Og historien har nok av vendepunkter til at selv den mest 

forventende leser, kan tas med overraskelse. Her er det vendepunkter som er 

plassert strategisk til, slik at akkurat idet en tror at en har begynt å gjette seg 

til hva det er som skjer, så kastes det inn en kjepp i hjulet som får hele kalaset 

til å totalt endre retning. Dette er en thriller av en bok som virkelig griper 

tak i leseren, river dem med seg inn i handlingen, og som holder en nærmest 

fanget gjennom uhyggelig nøye planlagte angrep mot samfunnstopper, og 

gjennom uventede avsløringer. 

MEN. Historien er ikke perfekt. Forfatteren knoter det dessverre til med 

handlingen også: det er nemlig noen røde tråder som tas opp, og som det 

bygges opp en forventning rundt, men som av mystiske grunner ikke tas opp 

senere for å avslutte disse røde trådene. Det kan ikke sies mye om disse uten å 

avsløre handlingen i historien for mye, men det er noe som en som leser kan 

bli sittende å forvente gjennom hele bokens handling, uten at det blir gjort 

noe videre med det, og det er også litt synd, siden foruten disse løse trådene, 

så sitter det som et skudd. 

Endelig dom for En Nasjon i Sjakk; terningskast 5 


CULTURE 


Editor in Chief 

Photo: Freepik // frimufilms 

UNIKUM‘s 

Corner of HiddenTreasures 

Unikum’s Corner of Hidden Treasures is a column in which Unikum recommends pieces of media they believe more people should know and love. 

Owl City’s ‘Ocean Eyes (Deluxe Edition)‘ 

here to pick up that gauntlet. 

So, if you’ve never heard of 

Owl City (‘Fireflies’, ‘Good 

Times’) you are either way 

too young or a feral creature 

that needs to find a better 

place to live than beneath a 

rock. But hey, this is a column 

about underrated stuff, why 

am I talking about this? Well, 

although the song ‘Fireflies’ 

originated from this album, I 

barely hear anyone talk about 

the rest of it. So that’s why I’m 

I’m not here to preach I was one of the shining beacons of the 

community that was there “before they were mainstream”. I came to 

Owl City the same time as most others with ‘Fireflies’, however, I stayed 

, because honestly, I don’t get how ‘Fireflies’ took off when almost every 

other song is a banger on this album! 

Let’s start of with saying that the album stays within the same 

electronica music genre throughout it all, if you didn’t quite like the 

style of ‘Fireflies’ nothing else is probably going to win you over, 

although there are some differences in tempo and the style that might 

persuade you. The songs all vary from sappy love music to the most 

random things like going to the dentist. One of my favorite aspects is 

the range of emotions the album covers. No matter what mood you’re 

in, ‘Ocean Eyes’ has something to encapsulate it, a portrayal of your 

emotions in the grandiose symphony of music. 

As eluded to previously, the song selection is a conjoining of a weird 

selection that somehow is able to work so effortlessly together, from 

the ethereal titles like ‘Vanilla Twilight’ to something as frank as ‘Dental 

Care’ which contains no metaphor, it is quite literally describing going 

to the dentist. And that’s the beauty of it, there is no rhyme nor reason to 

it, we’re at the mercy of whatever wild tangent Adam Young (the artist 

behind Owl City) has decided to embark on. Something is layered in 

beautiful metaphors rooted in average situations, others have nothing 

beneath the surface and that’s completely fine, because what they don’t 

offer in elusive thematic, the make up for in up-beat music. 

But I can waste words trying to persuade you to listen to this music, but 

music can’t really be described in the same way as movies or literature, 

because it doesn’t relay as much on the semantic nature of language, 

music is its own language in a way. However, I implore you to give the 

album a chance, and if not its entirety, at least listen to these: 

- ‘Tidal Wave’ 

- ‘Vanilla Twilight’ 

- ‘Hello Seattle’ 

There’s no real way to end this segment, so instead, I will use the final 

verse of ‘Tidal Wave’ because I think it’s a beautiful string of prose, that 

I think everyone deserves to hear: 

“It hurts just to wake up 

Whenever you’re wearing thin 

Alone on the outside 

So tired of looking in 

The end is uncertain 

And I’ve never been so afraid 

But I don’t need a telescope 

To see that there’s hope 

And that make me feel brave.” 

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Illustration: AdobeStock // aurora72 

UNIKUM‘S 

photos 

Cover Art Result 

The dust has finally settled so have the judges’ votes! 

And what we have is the result you see before you. 

in Kristiansand 

Now, some of you might disagree, certainly others in the editorial staff 

did, but the judges stand by their decision. 

Our first place won our hearts simply by how humorous it is. It is a simple, 

yet funny encapsulation of what the life of a student in Kristiansand is, 

and made us chuckle a good few times. Extra points for the entire thing 

being made in Microsoft Paint. 

It was a close race between first and second place, but ultimately, first 

place won due to the laughs it gave us. Second place is a gorgeously 

drawn picture that won many votes due to it’s simple, yet beautiful style, 

but alas, we felt first place capture the student “spirit”. 


MENINGER 

Thomas Thorgersen Bråttum 

Skribent 

Illustasjon: AdobeStock // rudall30 

SPISEFORSTYRRELSER – 

kontrollen tok kontroll. 

Spiseforstyrrelser, et fenomen mange har hørt om, og har en viss ide av 

hva er. Klassiske kjennetegn er hvordan tanker og atferd om mat og vekt 

begrenser livskvalitet og livsutfoldelse – det innskrenker måten man 

forholder seg til mat, egne tanker, følelser og emosjoner. Antagelser og 

myter som ytres skaper en forestilling og fortelling, som ikke nødvendigvis 

er hele realiteten – hvis noe av realiteten. Noen av mytene og antagelsene 

som florerer, er: (1) det påvirker kvinner i størst grad, først og fremst 

tenåringer; (2) det er forårsaket av forfengelighet og kroppsidealer; (3) 

et «rop om hjelp»; eller (4) spiseforstyrrelser er ikke nødvendigvis basert 

på vekt. Vanligvis er myter arketyper, med stor symbolsk effekt. Likevel, 

som alle myter, under forstørrelsesglasset som er virkeligheten, begynner 

de å vitre. 

Uansett årsak, grunn eller tilfelle, kan spiseforstyrrelser være vanskelig 

å håndtere – enten det handler om det sosiale, mentale eller fysiske. 

Hvorfor ønsker jeg å skrive om det? Jeg ønsker å skrive om det fordi jeg 

selv har hatt det – og sliter delvis med det enda – og jeg tror flere sliter 

med det, men ikke ønsker å prate om det, erkjenne det, akseptere det eller 

innrømme det – ovenfor seg selv eller andre – som et problem. Det er 

vanskelig å si om det er sosiale, psykologiske, biologiske eller fysiologiske 

faktorer som påvirker. I mitt tilfelle, av egne antagelser, var det de sosiale 

og psykologiske. Jeg hadde (har) lav selvtillit – både når det gjelder egen 

kropp, utseende og kompetanse – og følte meg utilpass i de kulturelle 

normene og idealene. 

Fra tidlig alder på barneskolen kunne jeg bli kalt ‘feit’ eller ‘tjukk’. Det var 

selvsagt sårende og ikke gøy. Likevel, som jeg kan huske, påvirket ikke 

det mitt forhold til mat. Jeg tror jeg spiste vanlig – kanskje litt usunn – 

mat hele oppveksten og følte aldri et press hjemme om å begrense eller 

passe på hva jeg skulle spise. Det er noe jeg i ettertid ser på som veldig 

viktig. Gjennom hele barneskolen, ungdomsskolen og videregående skole 

var jeg, tror jeg, klar over at jeg kanskje veide noen kilo mer enn andre. 

Likevel er det viktig å presisere at når jeg sier ‘noen kilo mer’, så er det 

kanskje 3-4 kilo mer. Kanskje utgjorde de en forskjell på meg som ikke 

var den høyeste der ute og da ble oppfattet som ‘feitere’ enn hva realiteten 

tilsa. Ikke før på universitetet begynte jeg å få visse tanker og ideer om 

egen kropp og hvordan jeg ikke var helt fornøyd med den. Det var på 

den tiden jeg selv ble eksponert for sosiale normer og idealer. Plutselig 

begynte jeg å få et bevisst forhold til egen kropp, på en helt annen måte 

en tidligere. Min allerede eksisterende usikkerhet og lave selvtillit ble 

utsatt for ytre faktorer jeg ikke evnet å styre eller kontrollere. Av det, tror 

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jeg, begynte jeg å endre atferd, tankemåte og handlinger. Ikke 

nødvendigvis synlig for andre, men for meg gjennom mat og 

trening. Jeg begynte å studere i en alder av 20 år, men det tok 

likevel tid før jeg forstod at jeg hadde et problem. 

Grunnen til at jeg selv erkjente spiseforstyrrelser, var en dag 

jeg gikk på badevekten (som sto på soverommet), for ca. 5 år 

siden, og vekten viste 69 kilo. For meg ble det en ordentlig 

‘vekker’. I to døgn tenkte jeg nesten utelukkende på vekten. Jeg 

forsto at det var alt for lite, at jeg hadde et problem, men visste 

ikke helt hvordan jeg skulle håndtere det. Hva jeg gjorde, var å 

fortelle det til min mor. Det var på ingen måte enkelt å fortelle 

min mor det, en av menneskene som sto meg nærmest, om 

hva jeg opplevde, kjente og følte på. På dette tidspunktet var 

jeg 25 år, og innså da at jeg hadde ‘lurt’ meg selv i mange år 

med å si at jeg ikke hadde et problem. Selv om jeg innså det 

da jeg var 25 år, slet jeg med det i minst 3 år før det – hvis ikke 

mer. Hele tiden sa jeg til meg selv: ‘’jeg har kontroll’’. Dessverre 

var det slik at det var kanskje det eneste jeg følte jeg hadde 

kontroll over i livet – altså kontrollen over vekt og matinntak. 

Det ga meg en følelse av mestring, og mestring gir ofte en god 

følelse – man føler en oppnår noe. Formodentlig gjorde det at 

jeg fortsatte med å si til meg selv at det ikke var et problem, jeg 

har kontroll. Likevel, de to årene før jeg erkjente problemene 

mine, forsto jeg nok innerst inne at det var et problem – selv om 

jeg ikke erkjente eller sa det til noen andre. I de to årene gikk 

jeg rundt og følte jeg måtte besvime hele tiden. Jeg besvimte 

aldri, noe som forsterket troen på at jeg kunne fortsette å spise 

minimalt med mat, trene og ikke fortelle andre om noe. Noe 

annet det gjorde med meg, var at jeg isolerte meg, både fra 

familie og venner. I stedet for å være sosial, valgte jeg heller å 

sitte hjemme – for der hadde jeg kontroll over hva jeg spiste og 

drakk. Kontrollen tok kontroll over eget liv. 

Også nå, etter å ha innsett at kontrollen hadde kontroll over 

meg, ikke vice versa, kan jeg fortsatt føle og tenke de samme 

tingene som før – at jeg er ‘feit’, ikke god nok osv. Likevel, 

kontrollen har ikke like stor kontroll på meg lenger. Jeg evner 

i større grad å håndtere og prosessere de negative tankene og 

emosjonene. For å bearbeide forsøker jeg å tydeliggjøre eller 

virkeliggjøre de negative assosiasjonene slik at jeg enklere 

innser hvor irrasjonelle og dumme de tankene og følelsene 

egentlig er. Det gjør jeg enten ved å prate med mennesker jeg 

stoler på om de tankene og følelsene jeg har, eller gå i meg selv 

og forsøke en indre dialog. 

Hensikten med å skrive dette er ikke å si eller hevde at folk har 

et problem. Formålet er heller å si at det er problematisk at det 

fortsatt er et problem. Heller løfte debatten ut der og si at det 

er ‘problematisk at vi ikke evner eller ønsker å være åpne og 

transparente om det’. Personlig var det viktig å prate om det, 

både med venner og familie, men også andre personer. Finn 

gjerne noen mennesker du stoler på. Uansett hvem ‘denne’ 

personen er, så kommer de sannsynligvis til å møte deg med 

varme, forståelse og respekt. Å være ‘denne’ personen er, i høy 

grad, en tillitserklæring! 


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