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This made the news last night. I live near Seattle. It happened to be not windy so the flag was draped in a down position. So in comes a complaint to a news room about the Confederate Battle Flag being flown at a private residence. In liberal Seattle that might have provoked a riot or a burning of the residence.Had the wind been up just a bit it would be safe to assume this would not make the news. Especially near Greenwood as that is the old area outside of Ballard where all the "Norsky" fisherman lived until it got gentrified and crappy homes now sell for a million plus.Having traveled a bit when I was younger it is pretty interesting to learn how much you do not know. But I think with America being so vast and open and so much to just see here that Americans don't put as much emphasis on world travel. We don't learn about other cultures. National Geographic isn't in middle class homes like it was in the 50's and 60's.Our society doesn't reward anything but hard work. Employers don't grant a month off at full pay so you can travel and explore culture. That is always the dream of retirement to have sufficient wealth to travel. Americans travel but mostly in America.

No, they’re different people and very different places.Most Canadians are Scottish, Irish, many are English, French of course, German, Dutch, Italian, then various smaller groups.Most Canadians have no desire to visit Scandinavia let alone move there. They sadly, often view Scandinavians are snobby elitists and are intimidated by the Scandinavians’ health, height, style and often, good looks. There’s some envy but they deny it. They aren’t overly curious and think basically “Why go there, further north and no sunlight?” and that’s about as far as they think about it. “Hot blonde naked women everywhere, and pornography! No thanks!” Canadian women often feel threatened by that and don’t want any chance of losing control over their men to a Norwegian sex goddess for example. Sort of like the American 1950s show Leave it to Beaver. June is looking at the movie listings in the newspaper “Flowers in Springtime, oh that sounds like a happy picture.” Ward: “Ah, June… it says -filmed in SWEDEN-…?” “Oh, well, nevermind then.” Or how Homer Simpson tells Marge he’s going on tour with his B-Sharps singing group and she cries, then he says, “Oh, honey, it’ll only be till we finish our tour of Sweden!” and she cries twice as loudly from hearing that part.People look for excuses to dance in the streets in Scandinavia. It’s basically a non-stop dance party in EuroScandiLand.Believe it or not, Northwest Europe has either the 1st or 2nd highest genetic diversity in the world. They’re not a blond(e) mono-race, that’s for sure.Many are into stewardship of nature and caring for animals (and various creatures):NRK Super - PlanetpatruljenMan er aldri for liten til å gjøre noe stort og alle kan gjøre litt. Et miljøprogram for de yngste.https://nrksuper.no/serie/planetpatruljen/DNRR63001319/sesong-5/episode-1There’s also a fair bit of enthusiasm for order, including responsible sorting & recycling, which I really like:NRK Super - PlanetpatruljenPlastavfall. Plastsøpla til Snublerud er i ferd med å blåse på havet. Rekker Planetpatruljen frem i tide?https://nrksuper.no/serie/planetpatruljen/DNRR63000619/sesong-5/episode-8Culture and quality is never hard to find:Hemsingfestivalen 2017Søstrene Eldbjørg og Ragnhild Hemsing inviterte i februar internasjonale musikervenner til den femte Hemsingfestivalen i deres hjembygd Aurdal i Valdres. Festivalen ønsker å gi publikum intime møter med stor musikk. Hovedscenen fulgte musikerne tett, og vi var med på konserter i vakre Aurdal kirke, i Smia og ble med publikum på ski i "klassisk stil" til konsert i Aurdal Fjellkirke. Programleder Arild Erikstad.https://tv.nrk.no/serie/hovedscenen-tv/2017/MKTV15011117?fbclid=IwAR2BVhao-V8Bph1lFMa-WYGf8ogVv3kqUQSSA7xqjVwixTHNr0eV8ukO0GgI think this might be the best pop-rock song and video ever made. Dagny is unreal in this with the colour, shots, composition, direction, her, her moves, her choices of fabric and effects. In the arts, or anything else really, it’s difficult to be simple, to be that pure, but they did it here. She’s from way up north in Norway, from Tromsø. The song, production, drums, beat and feel. Piano as well. Guitars, the lighting… obviously her voice. Even the font, standard ‘cool’ Scandinavian, my taste for sure and first noticed years ago on the album cover/sleeve of First Band on the Moon by The Cardigans from Sweden. How does this even exist?That ad was from 5 years before I was born in Ontario as a mostly English Canadian (with Scandinavian heritage, distantly from Denmark, Sweden and Norway in my mix).The ad didn’t help.Canadians got lazier and fatter and sicker as I grew up and it’s getting worse all the time.60 year old Swedes are still about as fit as probably 25 year old Canadians now, maybe it’s still 30, but I bet it’s dropped back a bit here.Scandinavians enjoy an amazing climate, thanks to the Gulf Stream keeping coastal Norway mild and also the Baltic is quite nice too. I’ve been around all three countries in summer (it’s often mild but it can get hot) and winter (it’s milder and nicer than Canada, so is England btw). North and East England are basically part of Scandinavia but most people don’t know that or speak as though that’s the case.Not many Scandinavians come from there to Canada. There are some pockets, like some Icelanders (Nordic, not actualy Scandi) and so on. Many Norwegians and Swedes are in Minnesota, USA (about 15% Norwegian and 7% Swedish) but those are from waves that came, not a steady stream. There are some Minnesotans actually, going back to Norway after being over here for I think more than a couple generations. I have seen the odd story about this over the past few years like “Why did my ancestors come here and leave -there-?!” That’s sort of my life experience and story too. I always loved many things about Ontario but from about age 5 I wanted to know, well, why on earth did our families leave England to come here? England looked so great (and it is, way better than I thought). I thought I must have idealised it as a far off dream growing up, just seeing what I wanted to see. I adjusted my expectations and knew, ok, England can be rough, it’s not a fairy tale, and so on but by my 30s when I got there… I couldn’t believe how much better it was than I could have imagined. I think Norwegian and Swedish Americans and some others are having these experiences and feelings too and now with YouTube and Google Earth and so much more knowledge and possibilities I think this trend could grow at least a little bit.Canadians with Scandinavian heritage are usually partly Anglo-Scandinavian, meaning, English that have heritage from the Great Heathen Army that settled in England in the Viking Age. Or some from islands off Scotland such as Shetland, Orkney and the Hebrides.As a Canadian who’s spent some time in Norway over several visits and has visited south Sweden and seen most of Denmark, I can tell you… Canada is nothing like these amazing countries.The people are quite different as mentioned, but so are the landscapes.Canada has tornadoes, ice storms, black flies, mosquitoes and Canada is a penal colony (not my heritage, but many are). Norway can get mudslides/sinkholes and even tidal waves coming up the fjord wiping out villages at night (terrifying!) and rockslides, but overall, still amazing.There are mosquitos in say, northern Sweden but in all my times ‘over there’ I barely encountered any bugs, just the slugs on the North Sea trail in Norway.Canada’s lakes and rivers can be nice but even the water smells fresher, nicer in Scandinavia. The air from the North Sea in Rogaland made me start lucid dreaming more in a few months than in 36 years in Ontario. More oxygen, no pollution from cities to the west (it’s open sea and then ocean), maybe some trace minerals too. Woodlands and cosy hidden valleys are often nicer in Norway than Canada too.Scandinavia is in many ways, another planet. You really have to go to experience it. Many of the people have nicer voices too, not just better genes, but nicer voices, kinder, gentler, in their language or English, not just nice accents, but nice voices.There are drawbacks of course, e.g., Canada has 90 brands of deodorant in the store and Norway may have say, 20 types to choose from. Oh darn. What a letdown.Cops are nicer in Scandi too, in general.Polish people seek to work in Norway for example to pick strawberries and apples. 3 months of that and they can live off the money back in Poland for a year, which they enjoy doing.Canada gets more immigration because of marketing, size, proximity to America and similarity to America as well. People think they can leave India for Canada, work, save, send money back to India and move to California or wherever.I don’t think most of the world really considers moving to Denmark, Sweden or Norway. Many may study there then leave or take a cruise, climb, feel “Yeah, we did Norway. Next.” and really miss out on most of what it is. Even those few that may go to Norway for sports once or spend time there with NATO don’t seem to feel much draw to go back. They seem to watch, listen, interact a bit, but then withdraw to Canada and kinda shrug “Lots of blondes… kinda windy at times…” Most people I think, view bigger as mostly better so Canadians will often revert to North America for access to Las Vegas, Florida and North Carolina. You can have North Carolina, I’ll take Denmark thanks. Sheltered seas with nice beaches in ancient ancestral homelands vs. a colony and an ocean (the Atlantic) became a no-brainer, but if I’d never felt drawn to Denmark, I’d probably have never learned that or ever questioned it.Sweden does get more immigration but it’s still not that much overall. Most tourism goes to France, Italy, I guess Spain as well, yet Denmark’s got over 400 islands (mostly uninhabited), shallower, sheltered, less cool waters and endless beaches are really nice and barely anyone thinks to travel there, which is another plus. Denmark is my top overall (it’s close with a few others) food and drink destination. Quality, presentation, selection, setting/atmosphere, style, people of course, and overall vibe.I always figured I’d enjoy living in England at least for some amount of time. England is more amazing than I ever dreamed it could be and I would live there for sure. I didn’t expect to fall in love with Norway, but I did. I figured Sweden would be nice and it is really great. Denmark… wow… just an incredible place. I figured it would be nice but it blew away my expectations.As a Canadian I would love to spend more time in England, Norway and Denmark (and south Sweden which is basically Denmark anyway) on rotation. I’m not sure if I could settle on one, but if I had to, I guess it would be Norway. I can see Scandis wanting to visit Canada but I doubt any would want to stay here. I met almost no Canadians in my travels over there, I was usually the only Canadian and the only Canadian anybody knew or knew of. The odd Aussie, Kiwi, some English as well, Germans, Spanish, Latvians, Russians, etc. A few Americans, but not many. Lot of Polish.Canada and Norway share:-mountains-winter-skiing-moose-red sweaters-hunting & fishingThat’s about where it ends.For me, Norway is great because it has elements of Canada, England (including Yorkshire), Sweden, Denmark and even in some ways, Germany. The people, history, landscape, language, even the food (and I don’t eat pork or seafood), music, fonts, designs, roads and walkways, gardens, all of it really is just the right mix for me. Nearly perfect.Some Norskis ask, aren’t we just like shy Canadians? I usually counter, have you been to Canada? No. Well, then, no, you aren’t. People share common human nature everywhere, naturally but there are definitely differences in so many things. A Norwegian man, using a 4x4/ATV/quad and a Stihl chainsaw in the woods, cutting down a tree is doing the same activity as a Canadian man doing the same thing, with the same gear, and yet they’re not the same men, not the same creatures. There are people in Canada who are like Norwegians and some in Norway like Canadians of course but for me, more or less I have really observed so many differences.Many examples all through these boards:Mark Hirstwood (markharrisonhir) - Profile | PinterestSee what Mark Hirstwood (markharrisonhir) has discovered on Pinterest, the world's biggest collection of ideas.https://www.pinterest.ca/markharrisonhir/

My answer depends on what you do for a job, or daily tasks, how you accomplish your tasks and how deeply you think and analyze during what you normally do. I had a clinical supervisor while doing an internship when I was earning my MEd & CAS. The internship was performed at what is considered the oldest & most respected substance abuse facility in the U.S. (probably the world).My clinical supervisor & the 2 clinicians on staff were remarkably talented; Phil, Joe & Deb - I’ll never forget them & the incredible talents they displayed, modeled and help me to incorporate into my skill set. Phil, the Unit Manager had been trained as an attorney & he was one of the most analytically-gifted people I have ever encountered.Anyway, when a client from the primary care unit would interview with Phil, it was not uncommon for Phil to end up with one of his arms extending up from the shoulder & bent behind his head and neck & down his back, with his hand between his shoulder blades. He would usually tip his head to one side and his mouth would drop open & occasionally, he would drool.Phil was a giant guy, 1/2 Irish & 1/2 Minnesota “Norskie,” about 6’ 3” tall and burly, with a full head of strawberry blonde hair & Coke-bottle glasses, and a full beard. He was a genuinely kind human being, as were Joe & Deb. I found myself wondering how such a unique, “strange” guy became one of the most respected clinicians at what was probably the world’s finest treatment center.Well, I ultimately understood how such a respected substance abuse clinician would apparently become unaware of his physical position, to the point of contorting and drooling, while meeting with a client. Phil was the “go to guy” when the entire facility needed a stand in Director; confusing to me, so I initially never considered anything except that he had been somehow “damaged,” during his days of alcohol abuse, perhaps I was partially correct about that, but I eventually realized how incomplete my assessment was.What I came to realize was that when Phil was doing his assessment of a client, his mind would work so intensely, intuitively and incisively, he lost track of his body, probably only continuing to breathe because it was an autonomic function. Phil would come up with such incredibly incisively accurate & acute assessments of clients, merely by listening to them share a narrative - I became convinced he functioned at a genius level, focusing his incredible mind so intensely upon physical and verbal cues, and who knew what else, that he assessed clients incredibly accurately & devised treatment plans essentially perfect for their needs.Phil’s office was filled with cool toys & flags - a captain of a freighter sent Phil a flag from his ship & success stories from around the world took to sending him small flags, usually about 18”X24” inches, or so & he displayed every one; after my internship, I sent Phil a small ship’s flag of the Massachusetts State Flag, one of Rhode Island’s Flag & a white flag with a red lobster on it, from a lobster boat.Anyway, what I’ve been trying to explain is that my experience with Phil taught me he was so fundamentally capable, intelligent & focused on the task to which he was committed that he lost track of nearly everything else. Perhaps that is similar to what you experience.