Ah, youth.
Posted on 11/23/2019 10:10:16 AM PST by Olog-hai
At times it seems like Malmö has more in common with Baghdad than with other European cities. This year 29 bomb explosions rattled the city of 317,000 as of November 11. Police reported 50 shootings in the Malmö region by the end of October — in a country where guns are hard to come by legally.
Formerly an industrial town known for shipbuilding, Malmö has remade itself since the Oresund Bridge, which connects it to the Danish capital, Copenhagen, opened in 2000. Sweden’s third-biggest city has become a knowledge hub, with a new university drawing students from Scandinavia and abroad and more and more companies, including gaming industry giants Massive and King, setting up shop on the eastern side of the straight. It’s also the country’s most diverse city: Around a third of its people are foreign born.
Malmö residents are used to seeing almost daily reports about violent crime. On Tuesday, for example, public broadcaster SVT reported that gang members had forced a grocer to allow them to stash drugs in his city center store. Police have been struggling to contain the violence, which they attribute mainly to gangs that deal drugs.
The latest efforts have been prompted by a November 9 shooting in front of a pizzeria, which killed one 15-year-old boy and put another in hospital. Police declared a national “special event” and set up a task force to quell gang violence. […]
Violent crime in Malmö has declined since 2017, when a total of 58 bombs exploded and 81 shootings took place in the region. But there’s still a long way to go until it loses its reputation for crime. …
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I use the analogy of a neighborhood, or your street.
Your street has houses, each with a single family living within that house. Your street can have families from all kinds of cultures living on it, in harmony. That’s because inside of each house, each family can live the way they wish, and use their resources as they wish. If you are a guest in their house, you respect the rules of the house, and you expect any guests to your house to do likewise. A nation, therefore, is a house, on a street full of houses.
What muticulturalism is is putting multiple families with different cultures under the same roof, sharing the resources. You can easily see where conflicts will arise, it doesn’t mean one family is better than the other, but it’s just human nature to want to control your surroundings.
Great analogy!
"in a country where guns are hard to come by legally"
Note tagline.
Diversity is such a strength!
Ah, youth.
Some are stupid. They don't get over it.
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