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In Sweden there are no ‘bustling British pubs or Southern European tavernas.’ Swedish people may have developed their lack of smalltalk and avoidance of talking to people on the streets through centuries of a sparsely populated lifestyle. They're used to being alone or in their small group, and not meeting other people from outside this. Sweden didn't have largescale immigration from more chatty cultures the way other Western nations did, and they're not skilled in smalltalk.