I very much appreciate your efforts at compiling a vast array of different viewpoints and sources on this topic for someone as lazy as I to pour over. The history of strife between different groups in America continues to fascinate me. Ethnic politics is a relatively novel concept over here in Sweden. The Nordic countries have traditionally been relatively homogenous, but recent decades have seen an influx of immigrants - from the Balkans in the 90's to the 2015 refugee crisis. To be clear, I do not oppose this. Many of my closest friends are first-or second generation immigrants from the areas mentioned above, all of whom are extremely well adjusted. However, we are also dealing with integration problems reminiscent of those America has faced pertaining to urban decay and increasing segregation of society. The language barrier in particular is a difficult obstacle to overcome, as community leaders in these areas have been revealed to say one thing to the Swedish government and an entirely different thing to the newly arrived. This is, of course, a topic that has very easily utilized as a political battering ram by the more... dubious parts of the political right, even in America. My country is however no hellscape, and I am not worried about a growing minority of muslim immigrants subverting our government and establishing a Scandinavian caliphate or something. My concern is rather that this problem becomes a fixture in Swedish society, much like it has become in America. I understand that your focus is on American politics (as has been made abundantly clear by your coverage of the Russo-Ukrainian war), but what do you think small European countries should do to avoid the pitfalls that the US has struggled with in regards to, as Dr. King would have put it; "making the crooked places straight"?
On a completely unrelated note: when tf you getting back to the Aztecs? I've been waiting an E T E R N I T Y .
What books are you working from about upper class wasps using blacks as a battering ram to break up neighborhoods. Very curious about this due to family connections in places like Detroit and Philadelphia
Hello, Mr. Cooper.
I very much appreciate your efforts at compiling a vast array of different viewpoints and sources on this topic for someone as lazy as I to pour over. The history of strife between different groups in America continues to fascinate me. Ethnic politics is a relatively novel concept over here in Sweden. The Nordic countries have traditionally been relatively homogenous, but recent decades have seen an influx of immigrants - from the Balkans in the 90's to the 2015 refugee crisis. To be clear, I do not oppose this. Many of my closest friends are first-or second generation immigrants from the areas mentioned above, all of whom are extremely well adjusted. However, we are also dealing with integration problems reminiscent of those America has faced pertaining to urban decay and increasing segregation of society. The language barrier in particular is a difficult obstacle to overcome, as community leaders in these areas have been revealed to say one thing to the Swedish government and an entirely different thing to the newly arrived. This is, of course, a topic that has very easily utilized as a political battering ram by the more... dubious parts of the political right, even in America. My country is however no hellscape, and I am not worried about a growing minority of muslim immigrants subverting our government and establishing a Scandinavian caliphate or something. My concern is rather that this problem becomes a fixture in Swedish society, much like it has become in America. I understand that your focus is on American politics (as has been made abundantly clear by your coverage of the Russo-Ukrainian war), but what do you think small European countries should do to avoid the pitfalls that the US has struggled with in regards to, as Dr. King would have put it; "making the crooked places straight"?
On a completely unrelated note: when tf you getting back to the Aztecs? I've been waiting an E T E R N I T Y .
What books are you working from about upper class wasps using blacks as a battering ram to break up neighborhoods. Very curious about this due to family connections in places like Detroit and Philadelphia