I am blown away by the deluge of comments on my docu “RACIST SWEDEN?” from 1993. Amazingly this old doc still hits the buttons that make people react.
Firstly let me extend my apologies to all who thought Sweden to be some kind of paradise on earth and now see their dream shattered. Nobody needs to be preached to that racism is a delusion. But has it escaped anyone that there is a (primitive) part of our brain that stubbornly insists on a distinct quality advantage reserved for one’s own ethnic group? I would bet on a clear no on that one.
A Swedish joke proves at least some Swedes know they are tangled up in this just like anybody else.
A man from Dalarna (a historically nationalistic province of Sweden) was visiting Stockholm. Inspired to buy a souvenir he perused a selection of globes in a shop but couldn’t find what he was looking for. He turned to the clerk and said - Don’t you have one with only Dalarna on it?
Unfortunately the Swedes, like all other western nations that receive refugees, have bought their own PR, to the extent that they believe, that all arriving at their shores will magically be transformed to the advanced level they pretend to have achieved. The ironical twist here is that Sweden has its fair share of pedophiles, murderers, wife-batterers, alcoholics, drug addicts not to mention straight forward thieves and all kinds of criminals just like all other countries of the affluent West. Many are actually clinically depressed and quite a few psychologists infer this stems from social repression of the urge to express aggression...
If this makes you angry, sad, elated or confused I suggest you take a look at some of the unbelievable (sometimes shocking, but always entertaining) convictions expressed in another docu of mine: “I BELIEVE” also on TheCaravanTube. Then (if not before) take a butcher’s at what you really believe yourself. Who knows, maybe the penny will drop.
With the best wishes,
LF