Racism in Sweden

Integration is when the native population accepts you. In Sweden it's a lot more difficult for Swedes to accept immigrants so why isn't the government encouraging an attitude change on behalf of Swedes rather than placing all the blame on immigrants?

Yeah, my experience was really a duel Sweden - the inner city Sweden and then suburban Sweden. The problem in my opinion is that the immigrants that have moved to Sweden are often very different culturally to the Swedes and come from troubled parts of the world like Somalia, Iraq, the Balkans and so on. Add to this they have come very recently and in very large numbers. So you get widespread residential segregation, and Swedes are often distrustful of the newcomers given Sweden is traditionally a very homogeneous society and it is a very big and quick change (happening really in the last 20 - 30 years)

I'm surprised someone from Serbia isn't racist. Isn't Eastern Europe full of racists?

Western Europe is full of prejudices about Eastern Europe and especially the Serbs, the last 20 years has told many lies about the Serbs, especially regarding the war.
I guarantee you that the Serbs are not a racist nation, we were always on the side of anti-fascism, many gypsies who were expelled from Hungary and Croatia living in Serbia, we are happy to receive them.
Unfortunately a lot of things you do not know about us, everywhere there are good and bad people, you can not generalize a nation

I wouldn't like to be black in Serbia. I'd much rather be black in the UK.

I personally find it offensive and macabre, it really lacks in taste..those who baked the cake probably thought it was a good idea..but ffs the Prime Minister (and her staff) should have thought about it.

What makes you think Swedish people are not tolerant of immigrants? Au contraire, Swedish people are very accepting however some immigrants are unwilling to integrate into the population and that's the problem. The problem isn't only among these immigrants but also within the government in terms of providing them with help learning the language, getting a job etc.

The notion of swedish people in general not being tolerant of immigrants is absolutely absurd. Sweden is more culturally diverse than most might think.

Western Europe is full of prejudices about Eastern Europe and especially the Serbs, the last 20 years has told many lies about the Serbs, especially regarding the war.
I guarantee you that the Serbs are not a racist nation, we were always on the side of anti-fascism, many gypsies who were expelled from Hungary and Croatia living in Serbia, we are happy to receive them.
Unfortunately a lot of things you do not know about us, everywhere there are good and bad people, you can not generalize a nation

Absolute lies Eastern Europe is racist, have you seen the way Russians treat people who don't look Slavic. The way they beat them up, it's absolutely disgusting.

I do not know for the Russians but I know that Serbs are not racist !

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A bit disgusting...especially since I was eating something when I opened the link.

Right I lived in Sweden for two years and this open and tolerant thing is BS! All the Scandinavian countries - Sweden, Norway, Denmark and so on are much more racist than Britain. Sweden is depressingly racist, and the trumpeting of themselves as the great multicultural country is a total lie. All immigrants of colour are in, in effect, ghettoes, and there is no mixing at all. The Swedes tend to openly dislike non white immigrants in Sweden. People talk about the shootings in Norway, but it is little reported that there was a serial killer targeting immigrants in Malmo recently.

Sweden also had a eugenics programme and was second only to Nazi Germany in the amount of people who were sterilised under it. In fact, Sweden's eugenics programme is still remains in place today - but now the only group whom the state systematically sterilises is transsexual people.
If you just read TSR you'd get this weird impression of the UK - i.e. that it is the most racist nation evahh!! It doesn't seem to matter to them the French vote in 10 times the numbers for the far-right, or that people like Jorg Haider have actually been in power in Austria, or the True Finns in Finland, or the Danish Peoples Party and so on and on.

There is a lot of sinister racist **** going down in Sweden, such as the recent murders of foreign-looking people and loads of other stuff if you follow the news. I knew a Chinese girl who was brought up in Sweden and told me that in England, she only gets racist remarks relatively infrequently, and that this is a great improvement on her life in Sweden. There is definitely a problem with racism in Sweden.