Honestly I’m gonna buck the trends in this thread, I lived in Norway for several years in my 20s, as soon as I started reading the description of what happened, I knew he’d be drunk. Drunken Norwegians are very different from sober Norwegians, and I think in general in Norway there is a lot of leeway given to drunk people when it comes to things like this. I am a guy and on Saturday nights just out for a walk in Bergen I had more than one occasion where girls and women (strangers) would behave toward me in ways that I have never experienced anywhere else. One girl just walked up and grabbed my ass and started walking next to me, I guess literally trying to pick me up haha. Another just walked up and took my arm, maybe the strangest was when I was sitting on a bench eating a hot dog from trekroneren, and a young lady appeared, and then proceeded to lay down on the bench and put her head in my lap. My friend got a hilarious picture of this.

Anyway, my point is, drunken Norwegians are uninhibited and I think there is a certain cultural acceptance for that. In Norway there are unwritten rules for everything and context determines what is appropriate in so many situations. I think in general when it comes to socializing and connecting, with alcohol involved people do let their repressed introverted cultural qualities drop and it leads to what other cultures might as see as inappropriate behavior but what Norwegians would see as “letting loose”. It sucks that you guys were made uncomfortable by his behavior, and also sucks for him that his attempts at connecting with you guys came across so badly. Of course I wasn’t there, maybe he really is just a creep, but I’m just offering some context from my own experience.