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silverscrub44 karma

Being Swedish I wouldn't call it denial. Most people knows about the poorer suburbs being worse off but the majority of people don't live there and are never effected by it.

If you ask Swedes if they are personally suffering from a migrant crisis the answer is for the most part "no", because most people are not suffering.

silverscrub26 karma

Long term? I think the biggest problems are short term. Take a year that sticks out like 2015 when we had an unusual high amount of refugees, financed by the same population of Swedes. It has a short term effect with more money being spent without adding more money to the system.

Long term I believe the effects are erased more and more. The differences between Swedes and previous migration waves from for example Finland (WW2), Jugoslavia and Bosnia are now more or less non-existant (although it might take longer for non-european migrants since the cultures are further apart).

silverscrub15 karma

I'm not sure about that, more than the obvious that cultures further apart takes longer to assimilate. But well kebab and kebab pizza is like the Swedish National dish now so maybe we'll assimilate to the Turks instead. :)

silverscrub14 karma

You mean Islam as a culture within the Swedish culture?

silverscrub9 karma

Then they don't?