Yeah, the average Swede has been the same way here, unfortunately including our politicians. It's funny how our prime minister just last spring was answering media questions about how many immigrants we could take with "There is no limit" only to six months later go out and desperately try to slow the flow down with border controls and saying "We've probably been a little naive". No shit. Who would have known bringing upwards around 200,000 people from cultures with the worst views on women, human rights and corruption into a country who's leading the stats in those areas would cause any kind of a clash.
Yeah, it's the same situation here. Every year our PM says he wants to keep keep immigration low, when the official figures come out, it's hundreds of thousands that have come here. It's the same shit. Nobody is happy about it but nobody has the balls to actually do anything about it.
I am certainly not a racist myself, I have friends of all skin colors and I judge people mainly as individuals and not as groups, but I am still capable of identifying various problematic behaviour in cultures (including my own) and it's frustrating to get called a racist for virtually anything you say even though there's nothing actually race related about the arguments.
I agree. One of my closest friends at little school was as black as an ace of spades. He was a ballet dancer so he got a bit of flack for that. And I've sat next to various people at work over the years including Asian, Black, Chinese, Polish, - you name it. Well, never had a choice really. I mean the stuff I've said in this topic, I would never say at work. Like I said, you can't say anything these days without offending somebody.
Yeah, we have a party as well that is very anti immigration, the Sweden Democrats, who got 13% in the last election in 2014 and apparently opinion polls are now showing they are today the biggest party with around 25% support. Whereas voting for them a few years ago could (and did) get you fired from your job and your house spraypainted on and your car tires cut (for being a "racist") it's today become a lot more accepted and more and more people are realising we need to vote for some more extreme alternative if we're going to stop this chaos before it does major irreparable damage.
Surely, your votes would be private so nobody would know who you voted for?
You get that similar view here really. Well, there is a lot of prejudice (?) about far right parties like UKIP. They do get a lot of protests against them. Every other party constantly criticizes them the first chance they get. They're the only party willing to do anything about the problem.
Sadly I couldn't vote in the last election because I was out on a rescue call that day but it's not like my vote would have made a difference anyway.
Don't say that! If everybody thought like that, nothing would ever get done. Same situation here though. My area is a safe Labour area so my vote never made any difference. UKIP did come second though. But the thing is, I did get a bit of a thrill when I put my slip in the voter box. Oh, and my UKIP candidate was actually an old pal from school coincidentally.
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I heard about the latest attack in Sweden. Many men stormed the train station in Stockholm and started beating up lots of children who didn't look ethically Swedish, lol. Some poor sod got beaten up said he was actually Swedish. It sounds harsh but if your police can't be bothered to do anything about the refugees, things like this are going to happen more and more. You weren't kidding though when you said Sweden had it bad.
I was reading in my local rag yesterday that my district is going to be getting 100 Syrians over the next three years. I work my arse off every day to make ends meet. These lot come here and get housed for free along with benefits? My grandad would turn in his grave if he was alive to see this today.
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