Dopey ... I suppose the dragon is a metaphor for the way social, political, economic, religious and cultural pressures manifest themselves in Northern Europe.
The dragon sleeps and sleeps through all manner of provocation until it gets to the point where almost everybody believes the dragon is actually dead. It may even get to the point where people believe the dragon is a myth. And then BANG! All of a sudden, the dragon awakes and incinerates everything.
Very few people ever anticipate the dragon's waking; those that do and speak about it are treated as thought they are, at best, eccentrics because the thought of the dragon awaking is absurd. And even when the dragon does wake, people still don't believe it until it is too late.
In other regions, pressures are released in smaller, more frequent bursts -- more like a sloth of a bears, say, or a pack of wolves. Provocation causes more riots, more skirmishes, more guerilla movements, more paramilitary organisations, more mafiosi ...
Or there are more avenues to release the pressure through shadow state structures, familial or tribal networks, alternative networks of civic provision or more black markets. And, if you are stuck and have exhausted every avenue, there's always the purchasing of privilege through baksheesh.
Northern Europe just does not have these avenues, and you also find Northern European cultures highly value the expression of civic conformity in a manner that you just do not find elsewhere. Historically, Northern European peoples have not had the extreme multi-cultural, multi-ethnic, multi-religious societies that you find in Southern Europe, the Middle East or South Asia so the cultures, the beliefs and the civic understandings of Northern Europe don't suit a climate of extreme diversity.
This is why you are getting a lot of mutters about "British values" or "Dutch values" or "German values" or "French values". It's the Northern European "civic conformity" value kicking in, which is pretty much the behavioural foundation for society and the state in these countries. But you can't have conformity to one set of civic values in an extreme multicultural society: it's an oxymoron. Culture, by default, involves beliefs and part of those beliefs pertain to civic values; if you have diverse cultures, you therefore have diverse civic values.
The thing is that modern Northern Europe works wonderfully for immigrants so long as they understand this concept of civic conformity. Modern Northern Europe will pretty much accept and tolerate anyone of any religion, race or creed so long as they behave like an Englishman, a Frenchman etc.
If you don't want this, you can go to other regions that have a greater legacy of extreme multiculturalism but, to my mind, the price you pay for living in such a climate is far higher.
There tends to be a lot more racism and classism between groups and subgroups. Certain industries and occupations are sewn up by particular factions. Politics tends to be more confessional. Pressures are released in smaller and more frequent bursts, and there are more shadow structures, corruption is rife, and you end up having to conform to your "identity", often in a rather restrictive way ... all of which were, incidentally, some of the main reasons that, after partition, a lot of the first wave of Muslim postwar migrants came to Britain in the first place.
To my mind, a lot of more recent British Muslim immigrant communities do not understand just how fundamental the value of civic conformity is within Northern European cultures. They do not understand that supporting "freedom of speech" is an expression of civic, social and cultural conformity in Northern Europe whereby you support freedom of speech within certain conformist parameters. The term "freedom of speech" does not actually mean freedom of speech; it means freedom to say what European society and culture thinks it is okay to say.