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Why: On the Facebook quiz "What is your true Inner Nationality?"
SWEDEN! You are friendly, gentle, and modest, with a good heart and a lusty nature. You laugh easily, have a well-developed sense of irony, and tend to understand people intuitively. You are interested in new people, but will always maintain notions of insider vs. outsider, and this will lead you to commit to a group of friends and lovers who will be with you your entire life. If you have a weakness it's your timidity -- you feel pressure to remain 'lagom' -- on an even par with others. But this is also your strength.Answer: Variously: enough, sufficient, adequate, just right, in moderation, in balance, optimal, suitable, and average. But whereas words like "sufficient" and "average" suggest some degree of abstinence, scarcity, or failure, lagom carries the connotation of perfection or appropriateness.
Source: Wikipedia
The More You Know: The archetypical Swedish proverb "Lagom är bäst," literally "Lagom is best," is translated as "Enough is as good as a feast" in the Lexin dictionary. The same proverb is translated as "There is virtue in moderation" in Prismas Stora Engelska Ordbok.
