Comments by "Luredreier" (@Luredreier) on "Can a new bridge unite Sweden's divided society? | Focus on Europe" video.

@ryanmcfall1127 Sweden doesn't have a immigration problem, but a integration problem. There's a housing shortage so prices are high, and Swedes tends to register in queues for cheaper homes for years and years in advance, sometimes people are registered at birth. The system tends to lead to immigrants all endings up in the same neighborhoods forming ghettos. Not good for integration. The welfare system while in general great is implemented in such a way that it discourages immigrants who are often less competitive in the highly competitive Nordic labour markets (where education is king) from actually getting jobs, instead encouraging immigrants to stay at home providing a barrier to entering the job market and therefore also integration etc, etc... While I dissagree with pretty much everything that the far right populists here in Norway believe in the need for more effort in the integration process is one thing they did get right, and that they managed to implement together with other parties. And while our immigration laws are inhumane and quite frankly something I'm ashamed of at least the immigrants that do get in here tends to get integrated far better then the ones in Sweden...
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@ericsohn5084 Don't give up on trying other cultures. Try traveling more. There's schemes where you can work for food and a roof over your head and sometimes a little bit of money in various countries for a short amount of time. That could allow you to sample a few cultures and see what you feel comfortable with. I think that you'd enjoy that. The Anglophone world in general and the US in particular feels to me like it has taken a lot of the bad elements of both the Latin worlds culture and the Germanic worlds culture. And you might like either in a purer form better.
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@ericsohn5084 Consider another part of the world? The Germanic parts of Europe have a much better work-life balance that might help you with getting at least time to integrate. On the other hand it's harder to integrate culturally. Alternatively the Latin world seems to be pretty open towards strangers for better and worse, not that I'm an expert in their culture or anything like that...
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@ericsohn5084 nods That's one thing that's good here. With our welfare system you can always feel safe, as our government looks after everyone. Society is safe etc.
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@everyone in this thread, please look at the thread by @felipewozmiak. I'd rather not write everything twice...
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@yourstube66 May I ask what that's a reply to?
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@kaiserleo1383 And that's another factor. Men are expected to work and provide, while women are expected to stay at home. Where she's less likely to learn the language. And less likely to be able to help her children with their homework... We've even debated banning homework here in Norway due to how skewered its impact can be.
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@TheHans-lq2yw What frustrates me about the political right is that they just see threats instead of seeing the people who are suffering everywhere...
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@NiklasHansen-yr2wl What do you mean? What is just escapism, and what is it that you believe is the roots?
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@KNYD That's definitely a big part of it. But not the whole story. This involves everything from psychology to city planning to lack of aid with the homework to racism and so one and so forth... Yet the immigrants that are integrated (not assimilated) actually contribute to increasing the overall innovation in a society.
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@gozy4182 Agreed.
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@alrightletstalkhockey What do you mean?
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@thekbsessions The parts of the world that's significantly influenced by the Roman empire. That includes Italy itself, but also any areas under Roman control that still maintain a Latin culture, like the Iberian peninsula and to some degree, France and Romania. And areas colonised by Latin cultures, like most of central south America. That's the Latin world. It also sort of includes Italian and French speaking parts of Switzerland, most of the micronations, etc, a few places in Africa and Asia. But I think that you get the picture.
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@fallenknight2580 I don't know... People have different talents or lack of it for languages... People who genuinely struggle to learn a language shouldn't be punished. Also it might lead to additional stress and the health issues that might entail. People struggling with anxiety might be essentially rendered disabled by that additional complication to their lives. Don't get me wrong, I do see the advantages. But I'm not sure if it's the best approach.
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