I see your point. But on my visit to Sweden (one of the otherwise most beautiful and pleasant countries I've been to), I did find some "threatening Swedish citi

I see your point. But on my visit to Sweden (one of the otherwise most beautiful and pleasant countries I've been to), I did find some "threatening Swedish citizens", first hand. I just wanted to point out that painting all your fellow-citizens with the same brush as yourself is perhaps too idealistic. The US may have their reasons for not absolving all Swedes from their customs procedures (silly as the procedures are). EDIT: made my experience more PC to stop the downvotes