Swedes Cool Towards Ethnic Diversity

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David Landes, The Local (Stockholm), October 24, 2008

According to the annual diversity barometer carried out by researchers at Uppsala University, the percentage of the Swedish population with extremely negative attitudes toward ethnic diversity has increased by 50 percent since 2005.

“The extremely negative attitudes are increasing, and we believe it’s in line with what’s happening in Europe. It’s not only older, but also younger who are negative,” said Orlando Mella, a sociology professor from Uppsala University, to the Dagens Nyheter (DN) newspaper.

However, Mella added that in comparison to the rest of Europe, Sweden is generally quite positive toward diversity.

Overall, 5.7 percent of the population in Sweden indicated they have extremely negative attitudes toward diversity, up from 3.8 percent in 2005.

Among men, the instance of negative attitudes has increased from 5.3 to 7.5 percent since 2005.

Unexpectedly, however, the prevalence of negative attitudes toward ethnic diversity among Swedish women has nearly doubled from 2.3 percent to 4.1 percent.

“It’s surprising for us that there are more women in the group [expressing negative attitudes]; that’s not something we expected. Swedish women tend to be quite positive toward diversity,” said Mella.

Despite the growth of unfavourable views towards diversity in Sweden, Mella believes the country is better equipped to integrate immigrant groups than other European countries and that public perceptions of social exclusion among immigrants in Sweden is exaggerated.

“The large number of immigrants are on the way to or currently are being integrated,” she said.

Nevertheless, Mella said that continued growth in the number of Swedes expressing hostility toward ethnic diversity has the potential to affect Swedes’ attitudes more widely, noting that rising unemployment presents a challenge for politicians.

“But we should remember that there aren’t deep ethnic conflicts in Sweden like there are in France or Great Britain,” she said.

Original article

Email David Landes at david.landes@thelocal.se.

(Posted on October 27, 2008)

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Comments

1 — Praise God wrote at 11:30 AM on November 1:

“when a native people become the sports prey of murdering non-white racist predators, it’s bound to colour the views (excuse the pun) of indigenous inhabitants for the worse”

Only those who are directly ‘impacted’ or affected. The other half of the population will believe what they see on the news (where only people of color can really be victims, and we should all be really sorry).

They will doubt their own experience. Half the victims will offer forgiveness, or apologize themselves. It’s as if we act out the parts performed by the actors on TV. Defense lawyers will ask the white victim if this had anything to do with racism (the racism of the victim) and the victims or their families will reply, “this had nothing to do with race”.

2 — Taurus689 wrote at 9:38 AM on November 2:

I wish that it were possible to return to this planet in 200 years to see what has become of it. The great contributions of European/Euro Americans will all be vague footnotes in History Books if there are still a few people who’ll be able to read.
The Globalist diversity seekers have done their job well. “May they all sleep tight down in Hell tonight.” (Shane McGowan)

3 — ghw wrote at 5:28 PM on November 3:

The Globalist diversity seekers have done their job well.
Posted by Taurus
………………..
Indeed they have.
And why?

They organized, planned, and worked assiduously … sometimes for many years, or even decades (or generations), to achieve what they have accomplished.

We did not!

It’s not a case of whose cause was better or more righteous or moral (though they would like to have you believe that).
It’s simply a matter of who worked harder. And planned better.

The committed Marxist fanatics and their social engineers applied themselves at the task of “changing” our society, while we rested on our laurens.

We took for granted everything — and did nothing.

Hence the results.

It’s like the diligent student who does his homework and prepares for a test, and the lazy one who can’t be bothered.
Who’s going to do better?

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