Swedish Pride

I had the horror of hearing someone utter the evils now current in parts of Swedish Christendom on youtube.

However, right after, there came a reason to take pride in my Swedish heritage from older days:

Perhaps the greatest contribution of New Sweden to the development of the New World is the log house building technique. The colonists of New Sweden brought with them the log cabin, which became such an icon of the American frontier that it is commonly thought of as an American structure.[31][32] The C. A. Nothnagle Log House on Swedesboro-Paulsboro Road in Gibbstown, New Jersey, is one of the oldest surviving log houses in the United States.[33][34]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Sweden

For those who want to know more, the footnotes 31 to 34 read:

31) Henry C. Pitz, The Brandywine Tradition, Weathervane Books, 1968. pp. 4–5.
32) Mary Trotter Kion, "New Sweden: The First Colony in Delaware". July 23, 2006; accessed 2010.03.10.
33) "Nothnagle Log Cabin, Gibbstown". Art and Archtitecture of New Jersey. Richard Stokton College of New Jersey. Archived from the original on July 19, 2011. Retrieved May 24, 2011
34) Oldest – Log House in North America – Superlatives on Archived March 28, 2019, at the Wayback Machine. Waymarking.com. Retrieved on July 23, 2013.

From link on "33":

around 1638 by Swedish or Finnish settlers

Sweden back then included Finland as a Duchy. Both ethnicities live in both modern countries. The third ethnicity living in them, Lapps, was not likely to get across the Atlantic in 1638./HGL