Here’s why I hate it when people like to compare boutique countries to the big boys. Norway is cool and has a lot going for it, I’ll give you that. But at under 5 million people, it’s barely twice the size of San Diego. 80% of the population belongs to the same church, 96% speak the same language. I’m sorry, you don’t get any prizes for getting a small group of people who think and act the same to think and act the same.
Maybe if I went to Boston and got everyone to agree the Celtics are good, I’d get your admiration too. Or maybe if I convinced the crowd at a Nascar event that beer and country music was a good thing, I’d win a prize. Of course being in lockstep has it’s downfalls.
And this fouled up, disjointed and uneducated country that we call home has something Norway doesn’t have, diversity. This isn’t a politically correct statement. Our little cauldron of inefficieny is responsible for the need of Norway’s oil. In fact thier daily life would be miserable without ours, not the other way around.
Their snowboards and their ice hockey rink resurfacers (things they should have come up with) courtesy of the misfits. Not to mention the birth control pill, ky jelly and buffalo wings, otherwise known as the ultimate trifecta!
