I can never understand people like this writer. Both sets of my grandparents did everything short of outright murder to scrape enough money to emigrate from Sweden.
I am more genetically Swedish than a substantial number of Swedes. I can cook typical Swedish foods (typical if you lived on a farm 75 years ago). I can speak Swedish (but not well). And so what?
Sweden sucks, I've been there. The people live in dumpy little apartments. They eat generic Eurofood. They wear the same drab, ill-fitting fashions you can buy anywhere (except the business guys - they are sharp). They have less take home pay than I made mowing lawns as a kid.
I'm happy to be 100% American.
I am in total agreement, my great grandfather left Sweden for a reason....it really sucked! As did most immigrants, there is no place like The United States of America.