OSLO, NORWAY—Not wanting reports of the happy, healthy lives of its citizens to demoralize people living outside the Scandinavian nation, Norway announced Monday that it would start hiding its standard of living to make other countries feel better about themselves. “In an effort to not lord it over the rest of the…
Depends on how old he was. Things were less rosy before the oil. The Norwegian-American “exodus” is still part of Norwegian cultural memory (if nothing else there are children’s songs about it) and apparently there’s some remnants of Norwegian-influenced culture around Minnesota or something like that.