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To: Rev M. Bresciani

The town I grew up in had a Norwegian-Swede divide, which also had an actual geographic component to it. I was a little kid when we moved there, and thought there was no difference until I was corrected by some grownups. I found this hilarious because - to a young outsider - these people could not be distinguished from one another except on Sunday mornings prior to about 1980.* The Anglos, Germans and Dutch considered the lot of them to be “Scandis,” which outraged Swede and Norsky (and probably the Danes) equally.

*In the mid-1970s, the “Swedish” church started to soft-pedal the Gospel and crank up touchy-feely, social issue humanism. Many fled to join the “Norwegian” church. Integration ensued, and now nobody under 65 wants to eat either lutefisk OR lutfisk.


5 posted on 03/15/2024 8:19:22 AM PDT by niteowl77
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To: niteowl77

Are there any Swedish bachelor farmers? Garrison Keillor used to talk about Norwegian bachelor farmers of Lake Wobegon.


6 posted on 03/15/2024 8:25:03 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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