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Originally Posted by Vale
Yes scandinavians are in many ways "united", but I hold my norwegian identity higher than my scandinavian one.
As for a union, Im not for it at all, some swedes seems to suffer from what is best described as "great-swedishness" and want Norway back under the imperial boot of Sweden. Norway have been dominated in hundreds of years by our neighbours Sweden and Denmark and I reckon any norwegian with a nationalist sentiment would be against a union for that cause alone.
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Greater Sweden is not at all part of it as far as my idea of a union is concerned. When I mentioned centralisation along with negative connotations earlier on in this thread, I could have gone into greater detail. There have even been a forged revision of swedish history at the expense of regional culture so successful that most people believe it is the truth, so I am well aware of the danger of centralisation and dominance from the intranational experience.
Still I think you are entirely right. There are Swedes who suffer from that complex, and most Norwegians probably see it exactly the way you see it.
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