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There's a good follow-up to your article, where 5 writers answer:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/05/scandinavian-mi...

If that's the worst he managed to come up with, I guess we're doing pretty ok.

I think this comment on the article sums it up nicely:

"I have this feeling that Michael Booth was simply trying to respond to the highly selective, often fallacious Nordic image currently being peddled in the UK (with the Guardian as the worst offender) with an article employing the same kind of distortions. A rhetorical device, if you like."

I'm apparently not supposed to cry at funerals and I'm less of a man because of my nationality. The more you know...