Arrival in Lund a.k.a. How I Became a Literal 3rd Culture Kid

Figure 1. First impressions are important

Sweden is the third nation beyond my parents' culture I will be spending an extended period of time in. The first one, USA, barely counts as I was four years old and still more or less a blank slate in terms of formal socialization into a specific cultural ethos. Scotland however, is significant as it is the most recent foreign culture that I lived in and I have not wasted any time after leaving there in finding a new place to discover.
Many would say these countries and Finland are all similar to the letter in that they are liberal free market democracies that embrace individualism in a conformist kind of way. An accurate observation, yet not even a half truth in the sense that people across the four countries I have now lived in live remarkably different lives. Nordics, Highlanders and Americans can find each other completely alien even in the most mundane social situations they don't perceive to have any other approaches beyond their own.
This is what this blog is going to be about. As a Bachelor of Social Sciences, I find it is completely in my right to engage in public banter that essentializes my current and former host nations, draw simplified conclusions about them, and just stand above all of it like a narrator from an Ayn Rand novel pushing a thinly masked ideology to unsuspecting 20-somethings convinced of their intellectual superiority. I am looking to start a career in PR or journalism, so this is necessary practice for many reasons.
Blogging is a format I have dabbled in, however neglected. I love writing, but I hate the part where I have to get started and come up with an original idea. A new life in a new country seems to be self serving for this purpose, but I have seen many good ones of people's university life and exchange years. One of the best ones being my younger sister's so there is also a healthy sibling one-upmanship in play here. Nevertheless, the comparison of my experiences and observations will functions as the spine or leitmotif of my brainvomit here. Most entries will have the poorly satirized tone of early 20th century anthropological writing as I rob the Scots, Swedes and Finns of any agency one at a time when describing my observations from the past and present. If you find this approach interesting and engaging, we should definitely go have a beer and have me talk about myself more. That's another thing I am good at. That and modesty.