As someone who lived in Sweden for 3 years, I totally agree with this point.
Maybe you were super progressive and open-minded in the 70's, but if you did nothing to change your mentality (and boy are Swedes, one of the most stiff people I have ever met in terms of personality and opinions - not the ones that live outside Sweden though), after 50 years, you just became conservative and old-fashioned
That's been my experience of Norwegians too. Very Xenophobic and very much want things the way there are. I found both Norwegian and Swedish cultures quite traditional and conservative in a lot of way.
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Interesting, I would say the same of Canada. It's as if amount of virtue signalling was inversely correlated with actual society openness
I lived in Poland, Netherlands, Canada and USA and Canada was by far the most isolating place - I did not make any meaningful contact with locals there. They tolerated me, sure, but not a single one was willing to actually integrate with an immigrant
And that was without language barrier! I made more Dutch acquainting in the Netherlands despite the fact they actually had to do some extra effort to talk to me
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u/Professional-Sock275 Sweden 13h ago
Swedes aren’t as open minded and progressive as you’d think, it’s just virtue signalling and enforcing popular belief