What culture?
I’ve been to Northern Europe, Western Europe, Central Europe, Southern Europe, Africa and Asia.

I’ve lived in 7 countries on 2 continents, but I never saw any trace of culture in Norway.

Norwegians are hence more composed, meaning they can share their ideas and thoughts more constant and be accurate with body language and indirect communication. And they are more observant.
Coincidence that Norway has a greater literary tradition? Or is this maybe because Norwegians have been more reliant on being able to read other people. These writers Knausgård, Ibsen, Hamsun were all part of the informal collective of Norway, where you have to be pretty good at knowing what other people think.
Want to integrate in Norway? Be outgoing and share more of what you think, and accept their relational mentality.

Sometimes Norwegian people are not intirely aware that this competence is very Norwegian, and it brings challanges for certain people:

Those who just came here, or moved here later in life.
Those who maybe more verbal and less outgoing.
Those with anxiety, without the means to communicate indirectly.
Those with a background from a to different country, with different indirect means off communication.

As such norwegians may conclude that there is a disagreement, when there is none.

Some of the comments here I can imagine is due to the loss of control, that more formal platforms otherwise would bring. It takes knowing how to integrate this pool of information, based on relations. But can be done.
Norwegian people have often been described as informal. This has been attributed to ‘hygge’, but I think this has as much to do with they don’t like an artificial distance between people that don’t need to be there, which formal roles and procedures sometimes produces.

Norway is also infamous for its Janteloven, but if janteloven is that is not accepted to be ambitious and successful, I’m not sure that Norway is worse than most other places in Europe, and it shouldn’t be off-putting if one is considering moving to Norway.
The reputation Norway has in this regard, I think is that some other aspects of Norwegian culture is confused with Janteloven.
Such as the high degree of reliance on each other meaning that if you are to introvert and don’t get involved and to little communicative, then it is off-putting to Norwegian people.
You don’t just live in Norway, you take part.
And, then there is the strong Christian heritage, meaning that you don’t throw the first stone. But that is not really success being frown upon.
Maybe this has changed in later years, but I don’t think being ambitious should be a reason not to move there.

Totally agree, and just being Norwegian can be paid 3 times than the well performed foreigners. And the Norwegian will take all the foreigners credits and still get paid 3 times more.

True

I’m kind of agree, everytime someone says something bad about Norway, they always ask you to go back.

Jeg forstår din frustrasjon siden jeg siden 1993 har bodd on/off i Norge.
Vokste så og si delvis opp i København men har også bodd i Sverige flere ganger pluss Tyskland, Nederland, Ungarn, India og 2 ganger i Romania.

Jeg sliter veldig med å i det hele tatt få forståelse for at jeg er vant til en annen (og kanskje mere sofistikert, profesjonell og/eller større standard/arena) enn her men jo som regel møtt med jantelov og misunnelse da og får høre at jeg “skryter”.

Faen så jeg hater disse JÆVLA bøndene!
Forbanna fjøsnisser som sitter og synser verden fra fjøsaket sitt.
Har de vært noen steder så er det oftest på ferie med mamma og pappa som liten til “Syden” (hvor i faen nå det enn må være).

Verste jeg opplevde var å være helt borte i 8 år og så måtte være nødt å flytte tilbake.
Kultursjokket var helt sinnsykt.
Jeg måtte ta en taxi til en bensinstasjon for å kjøpe en hamburger klokka 2 på natta f.eks.
HAR DU HØRT NOE SÅ DUMT FØR?

Og den taxien kosta noe helt vilt!

Men det var så mye annet jeg måtte venne meg til.
Hovedsaklig at jeg var 30 år bakover i tid på alle tenkelige måter.
Og å få forståelse for det kan man bare glemme.

Yup!
I know people in Norway that are between 35 to 65 who act like spoiled little children.

They also strangely somehow think they know EVERYTHING from reading an 2-4 paged article about something or are EXTREMELY international because they’ve seen some bullshit fake travel show on TV or watch a lot of movies or TV-series from a specific country without hardly having been outside their own town ever in their life.

It’s too such a level that the older I get the harder it is for me to even FATHOM that this is even real ’cause I’ve never met people like this in the 7 other countries I’ve lived.

Spoiled little peasant shits in a tiny insignificant, historically isolated nation that only recently, from an historic, perspective struck it rich.

This somehow made them think they are unique in the universe when the reality is they are unsophisticated peasants in a completely insignificant banana republic that never ever has proven it’s worth on the international scene.

THANK GOD I started traveling 32 years ago!

As a Norwegian I concur.
Thank God I’ve traveled and lived in other countries so that I am able to see this.
I’ve always known it during my 48 years on the planet but it has become abundantly clear the last 20 years.

Toss the receipt? What do you want them to do?
Kiss your ass in an over-friendly fake American way?
It’s pretty much the way it is most of the world.