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Jan. 30th, 2017 06:15 pm
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This is a quote from a “letter to the editor” from the largest newspaper in Sweden. [There’s]So many misunderstandings and distorted notions right now about Sweden around the world. We Swedes who meet these prejudices must pull together to defend our homeland. Here is my contribution:
It is say that right wing trolls in both North American and in Europe likes to paint Sweden as a hellhole. This because they think our government take horrible political decision like allowing immigration and possible also planning to become one of the first fossil fuel free countries in the world*. The trolls say that ordinary people can not go outside at night. So here is my anecdotic evidence that we’re not a hellhole. I have taken many, many walks at night when I couldn't sleep, and I never feel unsafe. The worst thing that has happen to me was that one time a police car slowly followed me some meters, like to check who it was that was out walking at that time of the night.
To be fair my immigrant and student neighborhood is not the worst neighborhood in the country, but it’s an built in the 1960s meaning the standard is low for being in this country. Yeah, the key word might be that it is an immigrant neighborhood, not the standard of the buildings. I live in an immigrant neighborhood and I can still go out at night. Sure this is just my story, and one part of that story is that I'm a guy. There are other stories, good and bad, about this country. But we do not live in a dystopia, not even in an immigrant neighborhood. To trust the trolls and think we can not go out at night, is just ignorant, a little bit like thinking everyone in Africa suffer from starvation or malnutrition or that everyone in Iran wear burkas.
*http://www.government.se/government-policy/fossil-free-sweden/ Related, you know it was a Swede who first described man made global warming: Svante Arrhenius. And now Trump tries to give the credit to the Chinese. Anyway more releveant is that it was Svante Arrhenius who recommended Sweden to build hydropower plants. And he was also the first swede to get a Nobel prize and is supposed to have witten a sexist letter to Marie Curie.
It is say that right wing trolls in both North American and in Europe likes to paint Sweden as a hellhole. This because they think our government take horrible political decision like allowing immigration and possible also planning to become one of the first fossil fuel free countries in the world*. The trolls say that ordinary people can not go outside at night. So here is my anecdotic evidence that we’re not a hellhole. I have taken many, many walks at night when I couldn't sleep, and I never feel unsafe. The worst thing that has happen to me was that one time a police car slowly followed me some meters, like to check who it was that was out walking at that time of the night.
To be fair my immigrant and student neighborhood is not the worst neighborhood in the country, but it’s an built in the 1960s meaning the standard is low for being in this country. Yeah, the key word might be that it is an immigrant neighborhood, not the standard of the buildings. I live in an immigrant neighborhood and I can still go out at night. Sure this is just my story, and one part of that story is that I'm a guy. There are other stories, good and bad, about this country. But we do not live in a dystopia, not even in an immigrant neighborhood. To trust the trolls and think we can not go out at night, is just ignorant, a little bit like thinking everyone in Africa suffer from starvation or malnutrition or that everyone in Iran wear burkas.
*http://www.government.se/government-policy/fossil-free-sweden/ Related, you know it was a Swede who first described man made global warming: Svante Arrhenius. And now Trump tries to give the credit to the Chinese. Anyway more releveant is that it was Svante Arrhenius who recommended Sweden to build hydropower plants. And he was also the first swede to get a Nobel prize and is supposed to have witten a sexist letter to Marie Curie.