Perhaps all this is true, but these assertions are offered as just that, assertions, without much evidence. As in her essay on North Vietnam, we never learn what the Swedes themselves think. Would they have been surprised to hear that they have “a relatively weak drive toward differentiation as individuals,” for example?48 What did they think of her statement that “the ruling class of this country is genuinely benevolent and filled with good intentions”?49 We never learn—any more than we hear whether “the Swedes want to be raped.”50
