as an Englishman is not a Swede

And neither, with respect, WAV, is a naturalised Australian who has only lived in in England since 1993 in any sense an Englishman. You demonstrate this by your persistent failure to pick up on the subtler cultural nuances which to the rest of us are English as Ceilidhs, King Prawn Chow Mein, Bhangra, hip-hop, Mosques, and Polish puddings in Leeds market. You also demonstrate it by by your self-imposed cultural pedantry by which you seek to objectify your own subjective perceptions, no matter how misguided these perceptions have been proved to be.

The pedant laments things for not being as they ought to be, the pragmatist appreciates things for being as they are. Things were never any different, WAV - and the only thing you're really demonstrating here is just how little you've learned about us in the last 15 years.