Posted on 11/24/2018 4:26:23 PM PST by robowombat
For over 800 years, Finnish has been Sweden’s largest minority language, but, thanks to the recent influx of asylum seekers from predominantly Arab-speaking countries in the Middle East and North Africa, Arabic has now replaced Finnish, Stockholm University researcher Mikael Parkvall argued in an opinion piece published in Svenska Dagbladet.
The estimated number of Arabic speakers in the Scandinavian country of 10 million is “over 200,000.” According to this calculation, the number of Arabic speakers has doubled over the past decade, while the aging Finnish population has been shrinking.
Parkvall highlighted the lack of official statistics on this matter, which he found “strange,” given the fact that Sweden takes pride in its statistical tradition.While the United Nations and the Council of Europe have both suggested that Swedish authorities show an interest in this issue, their proposals have seemingly fallen on deaf ears, Parkvall noted, stressing that Sweden has no qualms about keeping records on potentially sensitive things like political sympathies, STDs, or cannabis consumption.
“The reason is the sensitivity of the matter. Mapping out language affiliation is considered to be almost the same as identifying ethnicity, and mapping ethnicity is almost the same as plotting genocide. It is thus in reference to ‘personal integrity’ that the Swedish state is most proud of its ignorance of the issue,” Parkvall wrote, citing Finland, Switzerland, and Canada as multi-language countries that are perfectly able to maintain their democratic traditions while keeping track of their language use.
In recent years, Arabic has been gaining ground in the Swedish media and public life. Swedish Radio has had broadcasts in Arabic since 2013. In April 2017, Sweden arranged its first-ever Arabic book fair, epitomizing the growing importance of Arabic in everyday life.
[[[ Mapping out language affiliation is considered to be almost the same as identifying ethnicity, and mapping ethnicity is almost the same as plotting genocide.
Safe. Prosperous country.
Why would they import their own destruction?
Anyone who thinks the massive Muslim influx to a countries like Sweden that have a vastly different religion, climate, language, and culture and VALUES is anything but a deliberate colonization is a MORON.
How long until it becomes the first?
goodbye Sweden. it was pretty nice knowing ya...
The same ignorance of reality that leads a society to adopt socialism, leads them to commit political suicide - as Sweden is unquestionably doing. It’s been a long time since I’ve been in Stockholm. I loved that city, but will not go back until they sort out their society.
I wonder if Arabic speakers are the ones doing the raping.
How long until it becomes the first?
How far behind is Great Britain? It is just a hunch of mine but sooner or later there will be a fall out and it will not be pretty.
1. - "Get off me!"
2. - "Get off my goat!"
It’s Arabic speaking men doing the raping, check out Voice of Europe - horrific.
There was a time when our Anglo-Saxon and Norman ancestors would have repelled an invasion forthwith, in fact, as recently as June 10, 1940.
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