Joffrey, is what people call him here.

Joffrey’s at it again I see.

I pay for my parents to visit me instead.

Stop going to the usa on holiday. Its not worth it.

When I first moved here as a Scot I was treated well but I was working an unskilled job and met a wide variety of people. Since transferring to academia there’s a lot less of it. But the states is on the good list for Norwegians. Which is probably why the little dude thought he would be fine and all the talk of fascism must be made up.

Ok but where are you originally from. Because they have a very short list of good countries. And a good many of them will say things like “yeah but you’re not one of those immigrants”. I’m not saying everyone is like this but a large number are, especially after a few beers.

TBF, when I first heard of this I didn’t realise dude was a tromsøværing. He probably isn’t that way just young and dumb.

Norwegians have this fanciful notion that all European and north American countries are essentially the same and that nothing is as bad as it’s made out to be by those hysterical foreigners. This requires some degree of cognitive dissonance because they also feel like there is no country as good as Norway and everyone must really want to be Norwegian.

So he probably assumed it wasn’t nearly as bad over there as people are saying and if he was to get into difficulty he could just say he’s Norwegian and people would just let him off because everyone loves Norwegians. Also he’s 21 so not terribly smart yet.

Not to mention that he’s probably never been in a situation where a border control person takes your phone.

Yes because the legal system was sooooo effective last time.