I would say it applies to everyone including norwegians. Last couple of years Ive been in a city central southeast Norway and I am astonished how the fear for the unknown still can be so prominent in people. Living in a place like this it become so obvious, other places I can get around it with other like-minded and so but here everyone is lost in their own comfort. Besides this fear I think they are just as much afraid of anything that can rock that comfort of well being. Im sure if they could they would build a Donald Trump brickwall around this city to protect their own backyard.