“By the way, thanks for your posts and views. As you know FR is, ahem, a little American centric and it gets a little boring. You are a good defender of Europe from some of us more jingoistic Americans. Post with assurance that your views are looked forward to.”
- Sincere thanks.
I hope it shows that I am very pro-American too. Many intelligent and well educated Europeans admire the US and are aware that Europe and the US both have a lot to gain from collaboration.
Furthermore, I don’t think The US should or even could become like Scandinavia, just like I don’t think Scandinavia should become like USA.
We Scandinavians should stick to our egalitarian, Lutheran culture and make the most of it and I think Americans are right in defending their tradition of individualism and small government.
As long as there is freedom, work ethics and patriotism both our parts of the world will prosper.
I’ve always been fascinated with Scandinavian culture. It does appear that your type of government works well for you yet would not here in the US.
The Swedes in Minnesota were the most prejudiced people I ever Met.
The Dumb Swedes were always calling Finns the “Dumb Finns”!
But the Dumb Norwegians did the same.