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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]
It’s not homogeneity, it’s egalitarianism. A society where everyone, regardless of race, has equal access to education, housing, healthcare, etc… is a happier society. It has nothing to do with race or immigrants. I know that’s hard for Americans to understand. We are so used to associating poverty with brown/black skin color. But it’s the systemic racism in this country that leads to inequality, poverty, crime, etc…[/quote]

This sounds good on paper, but has no bearing in the real world. America elected a black man president, not Sweden, not Denmark, not Norway.

When Sweden had their homogeneous society threatened by a wave of black and brown immigrants they went far right:

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/europe/article/2022/10/14/sweden-s-right-wing-announces-new-government-with-far-right-backing_6000299_143.html

Their socialist policies are only accepted by their populace because of their country’s homogeneous population, not in spite of it. [/quote]

20% of their population is foreign born and 26% is either foreign born or the child of two foreign born parents in Sweden.

They have long been other than homogeneous.[/quote]

So 75% is a pretty solidly Swedish ethnic block.  The white population is the U.S. is very ethnically diverse, unlike Sweden white population.[/quote]

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