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Norway was not that poor before oil. That’s a myth. Relative to some other European countries, yes. But it was still a country with a long history of trade, industry and natural resources.

Though I’m not surprised a Swede thinks of us mainly as poor farmers ;) (no bad feelings, you literally had an empire so the attitude is understandable)

> Sadly now I feel like it is 25% indians, 25% arabs and only 50% Swedes left in my country...

I don't need to downvote you for your nationalism, but I do need to downvote you for your casual racism.

For anybody who was interested in the stats: The correct number is c. 20 perc are immigrants. The largest group is from Finland followed by Iraq and Iran. It's a bit higher in the capital.

I wouldn’t say poor, fishing was the backbone for over a thousand years and generated its fair share of wealth, so did timber. Seafood is still second after oil, even if oil of course is much bigger. Norway benefits greatly from being a massive country with a small population and enormous natural resources. This makes governing far simpler compared to many other countries, and the culture is of course vastly different too.

I’ve only ever been to Lofoten but it was lovely, I think that’s how humans are supposed to live, too bad I can’t afford to move there.

Wait are you from Norway or?

Sorry, I have that image due to, just the image of a "poor" fishing country. Now we envy you and I heard all my life that we in Sweden are Norways poles/polacks due to cheap labour from Sweden.

That said we in Sweden where extremely poor too, see the famous book "Utvandrarna" for how it could be so miserable that people left.

Now we are the ones causing issues - "det svenske tilstander"

Well, I say "we" but these are not the Kalles Kaviar looking people. It could get to that point though...

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