I'd say that my background has gotten to be pretty much "global mutt" over the years; I was born and (mostly) raised in Denmark, lived in France for part of my childhood; live in Spain as a teenager, went to boarding school in the UK for three years; lived in Spain again ages 18-20... then college in the US.

Culturally, though, I'd agree that how Scandinavians express themselves is different in the sense that understatement and humility were valued extremely highly when I was a kid. Bragging and "thinking you were anything special" was strongly frowned upon.

Ned pretty much just understood how to have good hair, and how to skate below the radar. I think we are in a really good position... and thanks to communities like LeoFinance and 3Speak and Splinterlands people are now starting to NOTICE.