Gashad said:
Considering Sweden accepted around as many refuges from Iraq then the rest of europe combined these accusations seem quite ungrounded(Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_refugees#Refugee_settlement_beyond_the_Middle_East).
Now I would admit that Swedens refugee policy isn't as good as it should be it has generally been one of the most open during the last 20 years or so and we have large Muslim and Balkan population to show it. Don't know about the rest of Scandinavia as xenophobic parties are doing frighteningly well there(then again that unfortunately seems to be the trend in Europe as a whole, with the Swedish equivalent also doing too well for comfort[Albeit its thankfully much smaller than most of its nordic and european equivalents])
On topic: As has been previously alluded Sweden is a nice place to live, but I can't really think of any must see sights(the nature is nice if you are into that kind of stuff). One major benefit may be that nearly everyone will be able to speak decent English so Language won't be a very big problem.
You know, the accepting of refugees hasn't been a very popular move. Like with most countries our government tend to do stuff even when most of the people don't agree with the governments decisions, and the immigration is one of those decisions where the government has just gone ahead and steamrolled over the general population and simply not giving a fuck about what the people thinks about it.
I for one don't have all that much against immigration, I just feel that Sweden had enough social problems as it was before and should have adressed these BEFORE accepting this huge stream of immigrants and refugees. The social services were overworked already. Adding hundreds of thousands of refugees certainly didn't help that fact, especially not since, in the eyes of the Common Svensson (our equivalent of "Average Joe"), it looks like immigrants are recieveing more help than the Swedes themselves who are in need of social security.
Also add to the fact that crime rates have spiked since this huge acceptance of immigrants, many Swedes feel that their own government is letting a bunch of criminals into their own country and no one is putting a stop to it.
Of course, people like myself who have a better understanding of the situation realize that the problems stems from the fact that the Swedish government has been lousy at integrating all these refugees into the Swedish society, which will naturally lead to a large number of them acting in anti-social and criminal ways. I feel that the Swedish government really ought to close it's borders for a while and adress these social issues and properly integrate immigrant families into the Swedish society, instead of constantly biting off more than it can chew, making the crime rates even worse and at the same time alienating the native Swedes and also drive them to even more xenophobic behaviour and racist opinions.
The fact that government officials constantly stress the "importance" of political correctness, and that any signs of discomfort over the Swedish policy of accepting all immigrants is "racist" and "bigoted" and that you will almost suffer a public lynchmob if you ever ventilate remarks of discomfort about immigrants out loud, certainly doesn't help in keeping voters from voting on the extreme right wing parties that have REAL racist opinions and agendas.
But now I have probably derailed the thread a little. I just felt that it was an issue that should be adressed and extraplated upon a little.
Suffice to say that the general Swedish population can be a bit xenophobic, and the government certainly doesn't help preventing this xenophobia, due to it's blatant disregard of what the public wants.
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