"The Collapse Of Swedish...

Ms Loulou, and where did you see name calling? I just state facts. You should take your liberal bias and do some homework on Sweden. Your ignorance of the matter is overwhelming.

Ms loulou, Let me make this perfectly clear to you and your liberal lefties You will not take away my free speech no matter how hard you try. As you fail to see my remarks were about ppl in general who have various issues. the alcohol remark was because since I've been on this board (not very long) the person has mentioned she was drinking beer. So, recant your statement if your a big enough person.
Pay close attention to your liberal and cowardly PM. Today, they put a rule in place to shut down Google search. How does taken away that freedom effect you?

Ms loulou, ok. lets put this to bed once and for all. It is a myth to believe there're moderate muslims. If they believe in the koran and practice (or wish to practice) sharia, then they are part of of the cult. If they don't abide by the koran or practice sharia then they have committed the deadly sin of hypocrisy (punishable by death)

Why do you think the theater in Manchester was blown up? There could have been muslims in there. Becausew if muslims were in there and they were listening to MUSIC then in eyes of the attackers they committed hypocrisy, punishable by death.

Ms loulou, I never thought you would see my point of view. But, remember even when I'm wrong, I'm right

Micman----Had been considering going to Sweden to volunteer with traumatised refugee kids and their families. Thanks. Reports, such as yours, have me reconsidering. Aa.

Swedes are very difficult to like or respect and the Scandinavian model is an exclusive cut-above the default state of humanity. Sweden is the last place which should welcome hostile outsiders.

You raise an interesting point not yet touched upon, Chesney.
That being, how immigrants - any immigrants - would be received in Sweden/Scandinavia.

Swedes are somewhat stereotyped as being a bit reserved, one might say aloof, even amongst themselves.
A meme humorously depicts this trait.
Search - Swedes waiting for a bus meme
It depicts a few Swedes at a bus stop, but spaced out along the better part of a city block, thus avoiding interaction with one another.

This is not a put down of Swedes.
One's personal space varies by culture. It is not so much a question of what is 'good' or 'bad' but simply how things are done differently in different places.

The relatively small personal space accepted as 'normal' in, say, a country such as Japan would give someone accustomed to a large personal space, say, Swedes the heebie jeebies...drive 'em up a wall, as it were.

I've had occasion to work with Japanese folks within their context of personal space and my Murkun liking for a large personal space initially caused such a reaction in me.
Eventually I got used to it and came to appreciate that begavior I'd first considered quite intrusive wasn't really so bad...even kinda enjoyable.

Anyway.
Where am I going with this?
I'm simply expanding upon Chesney's point that a culture in which folks may be a mite standoffish even amongst themselves might make immigrants from a different culture feel they are being isolated - snubbed, if you will - when this was not necessarily the intent.

Swedes simply behaving in a typically Swedish manner may not make Sweden the easiest culture to assimilate immigrants. Any immigrants.

Good point, Chesney!

Cold & raining now in Ireland...

gg in Ireland.



it could also be Lou in Vancouver ANY time!

opinionated, old, ornery & argumentative...
...:mumbling.....

Interesting, red.
I'm Ginger, so I come by it pretty natural one might say.

What's your excuse?

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Mic, an article on Holland that fits in with your blof imo.

GOOD HEAVENS!
Only two more comments and I gotta come up with a virtual set of dandy steak knives!

Seems I've misplaced 'em...
It's remarkably easy to do. They being virtual, you understand.

Mic, just thinking about this solar panel wall idea, for the moment forgetting the angle to the sun they have be set at, if the wall is to be say 25ft high, looking at the cost of panels each foot of wall would be 25 sq ft of panel, rough cost of that $290.50, at 5280 feet per mile that's $1,533,840, so 1200 miles of that would be $1,843,608,000, then add the framework, same again? Then the transformers you'd need every few yards to get the voltage up, low voltage loss is huge over any distance, then add the cabling, then the labour, I don't know guess would be say 10 trillion?? As these panels will last say 25 years the whole project has to pay for itself in that time, then add interest on the loan for 25 years, plus the loan repayment, then consider solar panels don't produce anything at night, when most homes need it, so most of the electric will have to be sold to commercial users that only operate during the day & for A/C etc, I'm guessing that will be the most expensive electricity the world has ever seen

Congrats on winning the virtual dandy steak knives, gg!



I still haven't found the blasted things.
Funny thing 'bout virtual stuff
It gets misplaced so easily it's almost like it never existed at all.
Go figure.

But you hang in there, gal!
I'll find 'em or my name ain't miclee.



Which, except for on this site, it's not.
But you get the idea.