By: Azad Karimi
I like to have different activities in life. I am grateful to have the ability to work with doing peoples life better. I love it when a complete stranger come to me, to thank me for some political decisions I have contributed to do (complete).
Interview
Norwegian Welder Randi Walderhaug Frisvoll
By Azad Karimi
If you live or travel in the coastal areas of Norway, you will see many berths, docks, and ships both large and small colorful are anchored along regular shorelines. I have been tempted many times to buy a small motorboat because traveling with it is very interesting and exciting...for example, when you take the helm and steer it, it is very interesting. I tried it once in North Trondelag and I really enjoyed it.
Boating, mountaineering, and skiing are part of Norwegian culture. Of course, many large international shipyards have also invested in this country but the main owners of these factories are Norwegian shareholders. I do not really know the details of this type of investment, but I do know that Norway has been very successful and advanced in maritime transport since ancient times.
Another thing that is interesting in this country is the active participation of women in the administrative, commercial, and work affairs of this country. You usually see Norwegian women in any place called "workplace".
As a man, I defend the presence of women in society and wish that women in the Middle East and other underdeveloped countries be freed from oppression.... I think if I were a woman, I formed a group and was arresting the convoy of anti-woman rulers, and I was delivering them over to the war crimes tribunal ... First of all, all the Shi'a and Sunni mullas who have four wives and sexually exploit them and They claim it is the command of heaven. Then I would arrest the leaders of Iran and Turkey and force them to be in the kitchen and cook ... to sleep there as well. They are both very proud of the food of their countries, so they should spend all day preparing difficult and complex Iranian and Turkish food. However, it is the women who should know their rights and try to get it, so that men like me can help them.
Interestingly, the likes of these leaders argue that a culture of European freedom promotes homosexuality and promiscuity. I ask myself, are they joking? These claims are really like jokes.
Turkey, for example, withdrew from the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women or the Istanbul Convention. The violence that considers women as Avret and by this argument, woman should be locked up in her home and no one but her husband should see her or hear her sound. Of course, these false and illogical expressions are due to their fear of progress and social awakening.
If you read the text of my interview with Randi, you should feel proud and happy .... because she is an industrial welder in a shipyard in this area where I live. I know Randi closely and she is my friend. She is a very worthy woman. Please imagine she was born in Iran, Turkey, Iraq, Yemen, Syria, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. What was her fate?
I prefer not to write. It is enough! I'm sure these painful things are difficult to understand but there are. I wish success to dear Randy. I wish her and her dear family happiness.
God bless Norway. These words are not flattery. If you were me, you would be more grateful.
Thank you!
Vestland-Norway
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1- Please present yourself: Name, education, Civil status and...
.My name is Randi Walderhaug Frisvoll,High school, Certificate of apprenticeship, industrial welder. (Fagbrev Industrisveiser).I’m Married, have four children and two grandchildren.I Have som beehives, and love to make honey .
2- What is your job specialization?
.I work as a welder at Vard Brattvåg Shipyard. Building special vessels.
From November 2019, until november 2023 (4 years) I have permission from work and are now working full time political. Regional and community politics for The Christian Democrats (KrF).
3- When and how did you become interested in this field?
.Well, since I in a way have two jobs. I become a industri welder in 1995 because the maritim industry in my area needed workers, and I thought it seem interesting... I also started to interest me of politics in 1997, and my political activity increase trough the years. I find it satisfying to be a part of politic influence, and contribute to building an open society based on Christian and humanistic values in which responsible and value oriented citizens serve each other.
4- Who was your motivator?
.My mother, she always care for the weakest in the society, and practice this every day in her life. That make me find the meaning in engage me in politics.
5- What was your parent’s reaction?
.My parents have always support me in my choices in life. When I started to weld in a male-dominated working place they where skeptical of course, but since my father, and generations before him has been sailors, and work in maritim business, this was in a way acceptable for them, my choice of untraditional choice of working place. About my increasing interest in politics, and my ever increasing possions, that make them proud of me.
6- When did you become such a professional welder?
.I started in 1995... 25 years ago.
7- Are you thankful and happy because of your activities?
.I like to have different activities in life. I am grateful to have the ability to work with doing peoples life better. I love it when a complete stranger come to me, to thank me for some political decisions I have contributed to do (complete).
In my work as a welder, it is satisfying to see the result of my work, to see the boat complete, the satisfied customers, and to work with god colleagues.
8- How do you see the view? I mean Maritime transport, maritime industries and shipbuilding?
.The view of Maritime transport, maritime industries and shipbuilding, I belive that, as long as we have the sea, we will need the boats. The maritime industry has gone trough many challenges by the years. For example the finance crises som years ago, make several huge problems for our industry. But by adaptable actions and creativity, the industry make the possibility to raise the business.
9-Please tell us: What is connecting Maritime and culture?
.Maritim industry, og maritim culture, has a thousand years history. This has affect the way of living at the Norwegian coast. The way we built our houses and boats, and how we see each other.
Because people from the west coast has travel with boats, from our coast, through all of the world, in years and years. And this people, came back, with new knowledge, histories, and strange things, I mean people along the coast to day, are more openminded to new way of see things. More acceptable, and less skeptical by nature. This is also the reason why ship builders, trough years has increased high skills in technical solutions in shipbuilding.
10- How you see Maritime transport impact on cultural development and economic progress and raising social welfare in a political system?
.As i wrote above, and that this industri has been successful, make it possible to progress and raising social and welfare in a political system. I think also Hans Nielsen Hauge as a religious leader, and a skilled business- man, has been a great influence to the way of thinking and welfare in our area.
11- Can you become one part of the cultural movement for motivation in youth or new generations in your country and so on?
.I think I am now, as a politicians.
12- How can you help our world become a better place to live?
.I dont know you, until I have walked in your shoes. We shall not judge each other, but be open minded. I can not tell you to bee a good person unless I live my own life as a good person.
13- Have you more words to say or suggest for our readers?
.I belive in people, I belive in give one another a new chance. To forgive, and encourage each other. Find the love in your heart, and share. And you will never be a poor person.
