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Being able to swim.
Was recently driving a bunch of other girls to our university maintenance class after it had poured and we came to a part of the road where it descends into a depression before fully rising back up. That day the depression was flooded, making a lagoon. The back-up road would take us an extra 30 kilometers around, so after briefly stopping, I decided to rush forward and go through the water. Every last passenger started silently panicking (silently enough I didn't notice) and one threw up out of fear, and thinking it was car sickness, I stopped the vehicle, which made everyone panic more and try to "abandon ship" because they thought the vehicle was going down and need help because it was the areas beside the road which were actually deep. And here I am thinking "this place is as wet and flood-prone as Hurricane Harbor, what have you been doing all your life that you can't swim". If someone can't, why?
The answer for me amounts to shame. Being in that scenario once did not help.
This has been a mandatory part of the Swedish schools for many decades.
Sadly, due to migration, new culture norms and parents have stopped bringing their children to school when they know it is swimming on the schedule due to boys/girle sharing the same pool.
So wait, school isn't mandatory in Sweden of all places? How does that work?