This is very accurate. As a Swede going to visit the US, a country which I love dearly, the last summer my main fear was filling out forms incorrectly or the airports security procedure. And Sweden is more or less a total ally to America, if unofficial, and a major trading partner. It's hard to find someone less threatening than a Swedish citizen.
Which really is a shame, because in general Americans are a friendly bunch of people.
At least you don't need green cards. Poland is more or less USA troyan horse these days (see Afghanistan, Iraq, missile defence, etc), and still to go to USA you need to participate in lottery..
I think it's somehow playing out for Poland good - it makes brain drain a little slower.
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
I flew into Salt-Lake city when they decided that all 'foreigners' were going to be subjected to special security. Which meant putting us into a glass booth behind the x-ray machine for an hour while we waited to be `secured`.
The only foreigners on the flight were me and an elderly women clutching an Israeli passport. But America (or at Least Utah) was kept safe from the threat of a very small UK-Israeli invasion.
Although in SLC - even the TSA are nice polite smiling mormons.
Which really is a shame, because in general Americans are a friendly bunch of people.