Myself I admire the Norwegian culture of hard work, thrift, and so on. Lots of good ideas. 
Here in the US we have lots of good ideas too. Good ideas though are not coin when we have a rotten ethical foundation. For instance here we have hypocrisy as coin. An illegally gerrymandered district put Pete Kelly back in office. So we get his opinion when instead that election should have been nullified. Until we get our leadership problems cleaned up and get campaign reforms that are real none of these exercises in looking at others good ideas mean anything.