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[quote=Anonymous][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 80% of the people are Swedish and a good portion of the rest are white people of some sort, correct?

You’re not making the point that you think you’re making.[/quote]

People on this thread should take caution on any European country talking about what percentage of their country is “foreign born”

In Europe, an Italian living in Germany is considered foreign born. Which is tangential to a New Jersey Italian living in Wisconsin.

The info you want is specifically non-eu %

Euro countries loathe to release that info and most don’t do statiscal collection on race/ethnicity.

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