Posted on 01/31/2006 11:03:47 AM PST by restornu
Across Europe, societies that were once solidly white and Christian are being recast in a multicultural light. The arrival of large numbers of people from the Middle East, East Asia and Africa—many European countries now have minority populations of around 10 percent—is pushing aside old concepts of what it means to be French or German or Swedish.
In Sweden, nowhere is the change happening faster than in Malmo, the country’s third-largest city behind Stockholm and Goteborg. It is a gritty shipyard town of about 265,000 people. Once a major industrial center that drew people from abroad with the prospect of jobs, Malmo has lately fallen on hard times as factories have closed.
About 40 percent of Malmo’s population is foreign-born or has at least one foreign-born parent. The bulk of foreign-born people come from the former Yugoslavia, Iran, Iraq and the Horn of Africa. Among school-age children, 50 percent have at least one foreign-born parent, and analysts project that the number will soon reach 60 percent.
But the biggest problem in Malmo, and in other parts of Sweden, is what people here call “ghettoization”: White Swedes typically live in certain areas, in this case the city center, while immigrants are increasingly clustered on the outskirts in their own communities. As Hosseinkhah put it: “People physically live in this area, but they mentally live in their former countries.”
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The multiculturalists are beginning to reap what they've sown.
Happening all over Europe. What the Islamists could not accomplish by conquest in the 14th century, they're doing by immigration in the 21st.
Forced busing will be next, followed by the "white flight".
The swedes are aborting themselves out of existence. The fertility rate is 1.6 children during a woman's lifetime (and the rate is dropping like a stone). 2.1 is needed just to maintain the population.
By 2075, native swedes will be a distinct minority in Sweden. It is the same in all of Europe.
The US has a fertility rate is 2.07 children during a woman's lifetime, by comparison. The 16 lowest fertility US states are deep blue, all won by Kerry.
bttt
When the Muslims ban ABBA then the Swiss will wake up.
The Danes living across the strait from Malmo told me it is essentially a no-go zone for Swedish police. They cannot even send intercountry trains through Malmo anymore with assurances of safety.
I guess it's becoming Ikeastan.
The article implies that it's a bad thing, everywhere else (but Sweden).
A sad ending for the Vikings who once ravaged the coasts of North Africa and the East and were the scourge of the Mussulman.
Yes. It's stunning to me that so many of those countries refuse to acknowledge what's happening. If this continues, the Europe with which we grew up will be gone within a century. Mass migration from Islamic countries, the declining European birthrate, and the decaying cultures of "Old" European countries are all playing a role.
there media is like ours and this did come from the Wash Post
It is a puzzle for many because we allowed ourselves to be placed between a rock and a hard place!
If its ok for the Musilim to be natianalistic than why not other nations?
The US and the UK (&large cosmopolitan cities) are unique becaus of the the common ground, many try to strive to respect one anothers culture and race an faith etc.
If we don't respect oursleve and stand up and be counted, no others will respect us!
Keith Richburg also wrote "Out of America" about his experiences as WP's correspondent in Africa.
Excellent reading, he concludes "Thank God I am an American" and that his ancestors survived the voyage on the slave ships.
Yeah, exactly. 'Multiculturalism...the thing that makes us civilized. And anyone who thinks otherwise is a racist.'
Why are the media like this? I mean, really, why? The agenda is pure socialist ideals? Total dependency on the state? Why are so many people in journalism like this?
OUT OF SITE OUT OF MIND!
If at home an in the schools and every day life the only things you hear is one side the opposition what do you think America is producing!
It's scary, because if this trend keeps up, the David Dukes of the world will end up with enough reluctant supporters to gain real power. Where are the voices of reason, who want to protect civilization without promoting racism, anti-Semitism, etc.?
Meanwhile on the domestic front, we've been aborting our way to prosperity while riding a floodtide of illegal immigration. But, as long as they work cheap, don't urinate on the walls of our custom-built, gated-community estates, and someone else has to pay for their health care, who cares?
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