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outsiders looking at the country’s news must think. Or not?
There is a small – I would say otherwise rahter meaningless – municipality in south west Sweden called Vellinge. They refuse, under the leadership of the moderate party, to accept refugee children. They claim these children should be sent somewhere northern. Maybe north pole?
Refugee children come from abroad, of course. There are no refugees in Sweden because everything works so well here. Nobody has to flee from terror at home or at school or at the workplace or in the local handball team; nobody has to flee from drunken perverts in Sweden.
Refugees come from abroad. Unfortunately there are spots in the world – bigger and even more dangerous than some of Swedens class rooms, appartments, public places – where people have to flee from.
If I remember correctly Bosnia, on the Balkan, used to be such a place some 15 years ago. Among those refugees who were scattered all over the world was also a guy called Zlatan. That’s not a Swedish name but Zlatan still had to grow up in Sweden because his parents stranded there. The Ibrahimovics.
Zlatan is today the biggest star in Sweden. Not a day passes by without him being on the front page of a newspaper, magazine, newsshow in Sweden. Zlatan is Swedish. And I am pretty sure that the newspapers and nationalteams games (Zlatan is a football player) are being watched and celebrated also in Vellinge.
Isn’t that schizophrenic?
Who knows if among these kids there is another brilliant mind or sportswoman the next nobel peace prize winner or nationalteam striker? Who knows?
Vellinge is not the only part in Sweden and in the rich part of the world where people from the poorer parts of the world really are not welcome. What we people in the rich part of the world forget is that it is our fault in the first place that the people in the poorer parts “want to” come here. It is us who pais the industries that exploit “their” homes; it is us who finance their childrens’ labour instead of their children’ school; it is us who bomb their neighbourhood so that we can drive by car to the next grocery store; it is us who are responsible for global warming and the catastrophes it brings to “them”. It is our leaders who wage war while we sit on the sofa and eat nachos. Isn’t it schizophrenic that we raise us from the sofa to go and demonstrate against the arrivel of a coupel of children from the places in the world we continue to exploit (read destroy)?
Schizophrenic rich people…
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