AHQ/AHC: Anti-Scandinavian Sentiments a thing?

[Byzantion]

Ant-Slavic sentiment has long occurred throughout history, as did Ant-Italian and Amti-Irish sentiments, where all of them were discriminated and persecuted against. However, has anti-nordic sentiments ever happened, where people from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Iceland (and Finland) were historically discriminated against? If this is not the case, how could this hypothetically happen, especially in North America?

I suppose a good option would be Anti-Lutheranism movements, or something to do with a longer-lasting and more successful New Sweden colony.

So OTL during and after the Thirty Years War and the whole 18th Century Swedes had be labeled as cruel and brutal in German territories. There had been boogyman bedtime stories about evil Swedes to scare children. Swedes had been associated with pillaging and warcrimes. Swedes had basicially been seen as Baroque Version of Vikings.

 

[Jurgen Wullenwever]

I heard that in parts of Spain today, where there are Swedish settlers, if a crime is committed, they usually suspect a Swede beforehand.

 

[Emperor-of-New-Zealand]

A timeline where Christianity is unable to spread to northern Europe effectively (possibly a different outcome of the Saxon Wars) could achieve this. A heavily, reactionary Christian southern Europe (France, most of Germany, Italy, Iberia) against a pagan or pagan-adjacent northern Europe (Norse-infused Britain, Scandinavia, probably eastern Europe and Russia). If we accept colonisation as an inevitability, you could have a situation where the global stage is still dominated by Christian powers and people of Scandinavian descent, with their weird beliefs and traditions, are generally looked upon with suspicion and therefore exist on the periphery even where they are legal migrants.

 

[JohnBull]

If Sweden manages to keep as a Great Power, holding Finland, Estonia, Latvia whereas Denmark-Norway join the Partition of Africa, concessions in China, Scandinavia would a more active actor on the world stage and therefore an anti-Scandinavian feeling could arise in Russia, Poland, Africa and Asia.

 

[Billy the Goat]

while the idea might be a bit ASB one possibility is if much of Scandinavia remains pagan (the Óðr timeline is a good example of how that could happen). i such a scenario there'd likely be a huge stigma against Scandinavians by the rest of Christian Europe, especially as their neighbors would be less likely to trade with them leaving Scandinavia as less developed than OTL further pushing the stereotype of them being backwater barbarians

 

[twovultures]

Since OP included Finland, it's worth pointing out that the Finns got to be a hairs' breadth away from being excluded from immigration to the US on the grounds that they were not White Europeans, but rather 'Orientals' in the early 20th century If it went the other way, immigration from Finland would have stopped and the existing Finnish community would probably face a very strong stigma. I've heard people from here in Minnesota talk about how Swedish-Americans and Finnish-Americans had essentially an ethnic rivalry, and were discouraged from socializing with each other.