People sometimes get confused and decide to praise the Norwegian work ethic.
It's not work ethic. It's five big cups of coffee a day.
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Much like the Nazi efficiency was less a cultural trait, more society-wide amphetamine abuse.
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(Yes, a tasteless comparison, but I'm a bit tired of people idealizing my home country.)
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Fairly sure the Nazis were well ahead of everyone else in it, even so.
But yes, it's funny when they add it as some sort of cultural dissonance between e.g. Americans and Nazis in fiction. It wasn't. Only the extent was.