Post-independence Norway built its national identity on being the generous savior.

Evidence

As she concludes of Norway’s relationship to India, as evidenced in the media, Indians’ ‘lack or deprivation is constructed as something we (i.e. good Norwegians) can help them improve.’ Norway’s emerging national self, following its independence from Denmark, drew heavily on this notion of goodness to provide the nation with its imagined community. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 281

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘good nation as savior’ construction parallels the white-savior and goodness-as-imagined-community threads from earlier chapters in the book.