I think your "hedge fascism" sounds like what I've heard about Jante's Laws in Scandinavia, Muhler, unless you mean something else? (So it sounds like Ari, too, never was accepted, then, unless perhaps by his family?)
All right, here's another question for the debate. If Verrett were still an African-American spiritualist from the same sort of background, but without the pathological lying, fraudulent tendencies, over-emoting and aggrandizment — would he be more accepted/acceptable in Norway, or would the cultural eccentricities immediately be enough to keep him out of the herd?
Hedge Fascism is a much better translation.
No, they are not the same.
Jante's Law is about not sticking out from everybody else, not showing that you think you are better at something than everybody else.
It's typical for a society that view itself as very egalitarian. And as Royal Norway has taught us, the Norwegians are fiercely egalitarian.
For the Australians, who also see themselves as belonging to an egalitarian society, it's the Tall Poppy Syndrome.
Hedge Fascism is about belonging. Total belonging.
If you join a tribe/village/community you are expected to be absorbed into the tribe. It's the tribe's way of doing things... It's the tribe's way of behaving.... It's the tribe's moral codes that matters. You are loyal to the tribe.
In return the tribe will embrace and protect you and treat you like one of their own.
But if you don't conform to the tribe's norms you are not accepted.
We saw it with Prince Henrik in DK. He never really conformed to the norms of the Danish tribe and as such he was only being accepted, more for his quirkiness actually, towards the end of his life. (He also had a tendency from time to time to set all he had worked for ten years back.) And Prince Henrik wasn't black at all.
ADDED: An archetypical hedge-fascist will often be in favor of pretty draconian measures against people who don't conform to the community's norms. - "Kick 'em out the country!" "Take away their welfare!" "A couple of years of hard labour will do them good!" "Ordnung muss sein!"
And tribal mentality and hedge fascism often go hand in hand.
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Your question is a difficult one!
Let me put it like this: The more different the African (but more normal) Durek's cultural background is from that of the Norwegian, the higher the tendency to also factor in his ethnic background, when looking at his suitability as a match for a Norwegian Princess.
That would be my best assessment.
I firmly believe that the resentment towards Durek in Norway is based on a general belief in him being a quack. His racial and cultural background being very secondary in this context.
That's why I believe the risk to his and ML's personal safety is very limited in Norway.
I could mention another Scandinavian country and a number of Continental European countries where I believe Durek's racial background combined with him dating a princess would constitute a markedly higher risk of an attack.
But that's outside the scope of this thread.
ML and sham are an example of diversity going beyond an acceptable social norm. I'm referring to ethnocentrism, an acceptance of culturally alike and rejection of the unlike. Ethnocentrism is everywhere. These two will face major obstacles no matter where they go, stay in Norway or move to the US. 
