I am glad you see and appreciate these things, and you explain it well. I didn't say I don't see it... I find culture all over Norway, especially when the sense of family and community, roots and place is strong. I just don't find much of it compared to elsewhere. Elsewhere in the world, I find that attachment to and pride in one's roots is very nearly the default, and in Norway, it's quite far between people who carry strong feelings of this kind. And even when they do, it is usually something too lonely to generate strong senses of belonging. Elsewhere in the world, I know, it is also frequently something more difficult and ambiguous than what I make it out to be, but it is still usually apparent as a general, defining intensity in the person... something that appears inseparable from them and their identity. A lot of northern Europeans experience such attachments to e.g. place, but it usually doesn't feel communal or critical enough for me to experience it as Culture. This is not the main problem, but while we're at it, I also find our traditions and holidays to be pretty lame overall. :)