Sounds like it's time to point your speakers up at the ceiling and play your favorite war movies as loud as you can. Invite the Swede to a marathon of America saving the world and European ineptness like "A Bridge Too Far", "Patton", "Band of Brothers", etc. Point out to him that the original Star Trek crew had an Iowa farm boy in the center seat, a Kentucky gentleman doctor as the chief medical officer, a Scot in charge of Engineering, a Russian at helm and even an alien as science officer but not one damned Swede -- or Frog, for that matter.