Posted on 05/23/2013 12:07:34 PM PDT by oxcart
HUSBY, Sweden (AP) -- Sweden has long been a bastion of generous social welfare and an egalitarian political culture. So many people were shocked when scores of youths hurled rocks at police and set cars ablaze during rioting in several largely immigrant areas near Stockholm this week.
Few dispute that the violence was probably touched off by the fatal police shooting of an elderly man who had locked himself in an apartment wielding a knife. But some residents in the area accused police who responded to the violence of racism.
For some, the real reason for the unrest is the high unemployment and isolation of youths in the southern and western Stockholm suburbs where the violence occurred - ones who see little future for themselves or access to Sweden's prosperity.
"The segregation in Stockholm increases all the time, and it's happening fast," said Nina Edstrom, a social anthropologist who promotes integration at a center for multiculturalism in Fittja, where some of the violence occurred. "There are very large social differences. There are many unemployed, frustrated young people. I'm not surprised something like this happens," she said.
Still, Edstrom added, it would be a mistake to see the youths involved in the riots as political activists.
Overall, about 15 percent of Sweden's 9.5 million people were born abroad, compared to 10 percent 10 years ago. The influx has mostly come from war-torn countries such as Iraq, Somalia, former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and Syria.
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What sez you?
That’s it. When your population is THIS retarded, there is no hope.
ah... the STRENGTH of diversity.
Ain’t it grand!
“The segregation in Stockholm increases all the time, and it’s happening fast,” said Nina Edstrom, a social anthropologist who promotes integration at a center for multiculturalism in Fittja, where some of the violence occurred. “There are very large social differences. There are many unemployed, frustrated young people. I’m not surprised something like this happens,” she said.
Nina Edstrom - “social anthropologist” and full time idiot.
Unfortunately she has a lot of oher company among the western elite cognoscenti.
Check out the empty shelves in the super-markets, corner malls, and electronics stores in the area, and I think you’ll soon learn what this was really about.
“youths” my a$$
Yeah. blame the Swedes not the formerly-bearded savages.
Could be Islamic whackos too.
Nah, couldn’t be.
Sweden has the very best economy in ALL of Europe.
If muzzies can’t be happy there, they can’t be happy ANYwhere.
And they’re NOT.
Take a look at ANY city world-wide, and you’ll find that people allways congregate with others like themselves.
Why does she think there are little Italies, Chinatowns, and other ethnic enclaves every where you look, because people forced them to?
Even birds flock together. It’s so mired in our genes that it’s impossible to avoid.
Now stick that in your Leftist Hymnal and read it once in a while until it sinks in.
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A few people of an ethnic group move in.
Word gets around and more relocate.
Soon the former population notice, and they move out.
Pretty soon you’ve got an enclave where the whole makeup of the population has been flipped.
Not much of a social anthropologist is she...
Importing savages, what a concept!
Diversity is a strength but only when you have the same goals.
i think the roman empire was the first to do this....
Exactly. I say keep them in the old country, and let them be happy there with things being run as they think they should be.
The 19th century had it right when it showed savages in circuses and county fairs!
I say that Islam << any other culture.
Import scores of animals from 3rd world hell holes then wonder why your own society is collapsing into anarchy.
>Nina Edstrom, a social anthropologist
There is a cure for that...it’s called reality. Sweden had better hurry up and elect some people that know how to survive because this will end badly. What an idiot.
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