@ANormalSeniorGuy , what? I can’t let your statements go unchallenged. Not all Swedes are blonde and blue -eyed. This thread is truly frightening if kids in college are buying into this absolute claptrap. If you want to see an example of people who have amongst the highest living standards in the world, you will find the Swedes, not Americans.
Quite amazing how people growing up in a land where crazy people can and do commit mass murder with free access to guns are more concerned about sensationalized news stories. You will find that here in the good old USA you still have a much better chance of being shot, getting an inferior education, and dying in childbirth than you do in Sweden. Let me ask you how the increase in immigrants has affected your life here. Probably not much. I think you might benefit from finding out how many Swedes have in fact been killed by refugess, then compare how many Americans have been killed by home-grown lunatics. The numbers will surprise you. Sweden will still be Sweden, despite refugees.
There’s such as thing as too many guns, too many Big Macs, too many shopping malls, too much waste, too much poverty, too much ignorance and too much intolerance. I don’t think too much diversity comes anywhere near the other issues I named.
Now if you want to hear a story about diversity, albeit from the perspective of a white person, here it is: I grew up poor. We ate welfare food. I lived in the mountains and put bread bags over my shoes when it rained. So I knew about being poor. Then I moved to a wealthy area. I went to college. Then I travelled and eventually settled overseas in one of Europe’s most diverse and populated cities. I lived there for half my life by the time I moved back. My child went to school in this city literally with kids of every skin color and every faith. A mosque and a temple and a church were all within waking distance of my home. People got along just fine.
Sure, there were probably murders, probably nasty, racist incidents, but meanwhile here in America there were a bunch of massacres and David Duke was still pretty famous. So I guess it all balances out equally, but there is literally zero evidence that too much diversity is a bad thing. Meanwhile, I have never seen such blatant racism hiding behind nationalism in my 50+ years on this planet as I have seen in the last couple of years in this land of the free and the home of the brave. What a sad state of affairs. I truly hope that the majority of today’s college students are not all buying into this kind of thinking.