Could you possibly be referring to Hawai’i Minnesota?
(plays "the force theme") (starts reading like an old man telling a story):
In the middle of the 1800, there was an interesting historical event in Swedish history. There were hard and bad times in Sweden (poverty and bad crops) which lead to a lot of people feeling bad and depressed. And in that moment of time, a lot of people sought out to "the land of the free"
, America. Where everything should be happy. Where the crops grow big and everlasting joy. The first thing they saw was the Statue of Liberty (which must have look like a sign of wealth and prosperity for them) and they later settled and try to get into the society. But as time passed that "land of the free and prosperity and etc." wasn't "that" good after all. Sometimes you find a job, next day you didn't. And the dreams became more grey (but still maybe better than in Sweden, as those years in Sweden were dire). And they experience some hardships like "living in some ghetto" (there is a place called "Swede Hollow" which many went on to, thinking that they have it better living with more Swedes (but it turned out the other way, as the place became or was a ghetto). And a lot of Swedes actually settled in Minnesota (who knows why, no clue). And some Swedes actually got it better, there was some story of the "three lucky Swedes" who made a fortune of finding gold (which you could keep in the US at that time and probably also nowadays. Which you couldn't in Europe then and maybe not even nowadays, as it had to be returned to the king or the state/nation.). So if you were lucky, you could get rich. Other also succeeded but not to that extent. But through working hard, and finding like the best place to live (like a nice little western village). There they could have it better than in like Swede Hollow as it wasn't a "ghetto" but a nice village. So they could have a better job (but which probably was pretty rough, but all jobs back then were rough), but they really had trouble with the language and also getting accustomed to the new land (in Sweden they knew all the names of everything, trees, flowers, birds etc., but in the US the knew nothing, it was brand new for them), which created some anxiety and doubt and homesickness. But in the end of the story, some succeeded and others failed, it is as simple as that. And after those years the situation became better in Sweden, the land grew up from it's poverty which lead to that the migration stopped.
All of this did I hear from a documentary at Christmas Eve (which is the day we in the Scandinavian countries celebrate Christmas on, because reasons, look it up yourself), which was really interesting. The "Swedish migration to America" is known as big event in Swedish history, and a famous Swedish author, Vilhelm Moberg, has written
a tetralogi about it. And that series is very well known and popular in Sweden, basically "a Swedish literature classic".
Cool seeing the bonds we have with America.
