Social Sustainability
Train Bragging (Tågskryt)
The Swedish coinage for taking public pride in choosing rail over flying — flygskam's positive twin.
Definition
Tågskryt — literally "train bragging" — is a Swedish term, emerging around 2018 alongside flygskam (flight shame), for the pride people take in choosing low-carbon rail travel over flying, and their willingness to say so. Part of a cluster of Swedish travel-climate vocabulary (including smygflyga, flying in secret), it describes and creates a shifting social norm in which rail is the high-status choice for journeys where it competes.
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