I did get around Norway and noticed a rough difference even in physical stature between those from royal or elite families and those who fit the sturdy Norwegian farmer profile. Sturdy Norwegian farmers are my kind of people, I later married one, American, but all Norwegian lineage. Urbanization is happening here in the US too. The metropolitan populations are creating regulation for the sparse rural populations that sometimes make rural operation difficult. There is an increasing disparity in understanding between rural and urban dwellers.
nostr:npub14eng8plhflea40cu3lafnw6nwkxsp5te2v7hzy74lz6a9mjhpaks0wm4rw "most Norwegians" gets a little weird when you're not from where most Norwegians live these days (urban areas) but you are from where they used to live traditionally (rural areas). Hard and honest work was the mentality for most of this country's history.
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nostr:npub14eng8plhflea40cu3lafnw6nwkxsp5te2v7hzy74lz6a9mjhpaks0wm4rw That disparity is fairly long-standing in Norway. There's always been some antagonism. Fights about who gets to define the country. It runs so deep that we have two official written forms of the language, and the rural areas fight tooth and nail to keep existing. We live on the outskirts of Europe, where few other people want to live. This whole country kind of exists out of sheer determination.
What you wrote aptly describes the notions I had while there. 🤘🏻