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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Scandinavians have amazing social services.  They don't worry about healthcare, retirement or college costs.[/quote]

That is because of the homogenous society -  shared values, shared culture, everyone pays into the system.  
A country cannot have these nice things if there is unlimited illegal immigration, people that do not pay into the system and divergent cultures.  
I know that vexes a lot of progressives, but there a lot to be said about homogeneity.  [/quote]

Where do you get this weird notion that immigrants to Scandinavia aren't paying in?[/quote]

A lot of them are recent refugees and have no money. They’ve also brought crime, at least in Sweden.

Sweden went from one of the lowest rates of gun violence in Europe to one of the highest, and something like 90% of suspects in shootings have an immigrant background.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/11/17/even-sweden-doesnt-want-migrants-anymore-syria-iraq-belarus/[/quote]

Refugees are treated well, educated, and assimilated into the society. If you pay any attention to Scandinavian life, they are included everywhere. [/quote]

Some, for sure, but not all of them. Sweden is having problems.

There is a tension there that wasn’t there before. Something like 100 policemen were injured in riots last year, and politicians this year have started burning Qurans to make a statement. Even the PM had acknowledged that integration has failed and that crime is up.

Where Sweden goes from here I don’t know, but it does seem to indicate running the country was easier when the country was more homogeneous.

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