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It's not a success for Sweden. Unless the migrants cause Sweden to become safer and more prosperous, it is a failure. Swedish culture is also of value, but will
by tropo 10y ago
It's not a success for Sweden. Unless the migrants cause Sweden to become safer and more prosperous, it is a failure. Swedish culture is also of value, but will be extinct within a generation or two.
There is something demented about a country that puts the rest of the world first, destroying itself in a futile effort to save the world.
- alkonaut 10y agoThere is a difference between regugee and non-refugee immigration. Refugees will be somewhere and im the first to acknowledge that it would be great if more countries helped. Further, there is a difference between permanent and temporary asylum. I think giving temporary asylum to people fleeing war is the least any country can do. I just don't understand what the option would be? Send more aid to build larger miserable camps in nearby countries? Not sure that's better to be honest.
- tropo 10y agoThe obvious is that they could go to places with similar culture. Syrians could go to numerous nearby Muslim nations, particularly Iran. Camps are not needed; these countries can offer citizenship just as well as Sweden does. The other option I suppose is what Israel does, meeting the minimum treaty obligation: Israel has a refugee camp. It turns out that many refugees are uninterested in going there. This suggests that they aren't really all that fearful.