Really wish people would look at the demographics of Nordic countries before citing them. They are models, but they are also facing completely different dynami

Really wish people would look at the demographics of Nordic countries before citing them. They are models, but they are also facing completely different dynamics than pretty much every other country. Wealthy and secure and: * Denmark - 5.7 million people, 80% of whom are Danish * Norway - 5.1 million people, in 1992 95% were native * Sweden - 10 million, the largest non-Swedish ethnic group being the Finns at 150k You can drive an hour's radius through many big US metros and cover more people than those countries and within that radius find swaths of hundreds of thousands of people of various ethnic groups. These population numbers really pale compared to anything in East Asia though even if they are homogeneous (don't discount how much that helps social dynamics). The demographics are shifting in Nordic countries but they a really are extreme outliers worthy of praise and recognition that they are outliers. edit to include reply: You are talking about demographics. How can it be irrelevant? The US is in the situation it is in because an entire demographic was transplanted here against their will due to slavery. Nordic countries do not have this situation (good!) so the potential remedies are different. The only way to solve problems is to effectively diagnose them. You might not like that the US isn't a country of 5 million people with 80% native population which makes policy a lot easier, but that's reality. We can't make things better unless we recognize that and figure out the proper solution within this setting and not some other. It's not racist to recognize that and it's wrong to call someone a racist because they are searching for solutions.