Why the Nordic model can't work in US/UK?

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The Nordic model of high taxes, generous welfare state, strong unions, universal public services, low inequality is often praised by eveyrone but the question is why can't the US or UK just copy Denmark/ Sweden/Norway?

The main counter argument I've seen for his is Anglo societies and mindset being fundamentally different.

Nordic countries are homogenous high trust countries Nordic countries until very recently were extremely ethnically and culturally homogeneous. Levels of generalized social trust are sky-high and they much more willing to pay 45-55 % effective tax rates because they believe that everyone else is also paying and the money goes to "people like us" rather than "some out-group"

Another argument I have read about is the anglo mindset. Anglos are cunning, opportunistic, capitalists who are driven by greed for money, power and individual benefits above the greater good of the group or anything else.

Nordics score extremely high on "egalitarian" values and low on "hierarchy acceptance". Americans and Brits (especially England) have a much stronger cultural belief in meritocracy, upward mobility through individual effort, suspicion of the state.
 
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How is the UK different?
 
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Anglo societies are pro-elitist and pro social classes
 
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Water. Homozygous Ethnostates are the only High-trust States ( - Tribalism )
The Reason relative Ethnostates in Africa cannot be as High-trust as Denmark/Sweden/Norway/Adjacent is cause of Competing Tribal Identities. Without any Competing Identities - Tribes & Other Races; Only then a State can begin build Trust in its Identity.
U.S and U.K are the largest Melting Pots - Every Member from Any single Tribal Identity you could think of is an Inhabitant. There isnt an Identity
 
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How is the UK different?
In the words of a redditor.

England is lowtrust, class obsessed, property worshipping, immigration skeptical country that already thinks its taxes are too high and its public services are rubbish. Trying to push it to full Danish tax rates (50-55 % effective on ordinary workers) would trigger a tax revolt, brain drain, and probably another decade of Tory rule.
 
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The Nordic model of high taxes, generous welfare state, strong unions, universal public services, low inequality is often praised by eveyrone but the question is why can't the US or UK just copy Denmark/ Sweden/Norway?

The main counter argument I've seen for his is Anglo societies and mindset being fundamentally different.

Nordic countries are homogenous high trust countries Nordic countries until very recently were extremely ethnically and culturally homogeneous. Levels of generalized social trust are sky-high and they much more willing to pay 45-55 % effective tax rates because they believe that everyone else is also paying and the money goes to "people like us" rather than "some out-group"

Another argument I have read about is the anglo mindset. Anglos are cunning, opportunistic, capitalists who are driven by greed for money, power and individual benefits above the greater good of the group or anything else.

Nordics score extremely high on "egalitarian" values and low on "hierarchy acceptance". Americans and Brits (especially England) have a much stronger cultural belief in meritocracy, upward mobility through individual effort, suspicion of the state.
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