[Aussiebabe]

I can't argue with what you post. I wasn't saying that the culture of the Scandinavian countries is anything like the Middle East. In fact, some of my favourite people are the Danes (now, as a Swede, but probably hate that statement). But nevertheless, to try to compare how these tiny country populations with the USA is not realistic. I mean, look how the tiny amount of immigrants from the Middle East and Eastern into your countries are already messing up your cultures.

[WesternCulture]

“I wasn't saying that the culture of the Scandinavian countries is anything like the Middle East.”

No, of course not and I didn't interpret what you've written that way.

“But nevertheless, to try to compare how these tiny country populations with the USA is not realistic”

- I can't see any reason why differences in population size would make different sorts of comparisons pointless.

You can always compare how successful two given countries are in different areas, even if one has a large population and the other has a pretty small one. You can look at how educational systems function, crime rates, economic growth etc, etc and make different conclusions about how well societies perform in these regards, try and finds reasons to the actual results and so on.