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It is kind of fun to see white supremacism discussed in the context of Sweden. Sweden is historically inhabited by europeans who happened to settle there over
by thriftwy 9y ago
It is kind of fun to see white supremacism discussed in the context of Sweden.
Sweden is historically inhabited by europeans who happened to settle there over the course of centuries, and then to their amazement later discovered they are "white". They probably just thought they were people back then.
I haven't heard about Swedes participating in slave trade (vikings aside) and there was nobody else for them to oppress (vikings aside), so it's kind of strange idea that Swedes now has to make up for centuries of white supremacism ("people supremacism"?)
A lot of things which make sense in context of history of USA (when european colonists overran the land and then imported black people agains their will to exploit them) doesn't extend on Northern Europe.
- lostboys67 9y agoUm no one of the busiest slave markets in that time was Dublin only Constantinople was bigger.
- vixen99 9y agoSlavery has been a characteristic of almost every human grouping at some time or another. It seems you are not aware of the large number of Europeans and Africans (and in East Asia) who were enslaved by Muslims in the 18th century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery_in_the_Muslim_world https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery_in_the_Musl...
- vim_wannabe 9y agoWe don't talk about that.
- Brakenshire 9y agoSpeak for yourself! I've had quite a few conversations about this in the last year, about the Barbary slave trade in the late middle ages, or the treatment of black slaves in the Arabic slave trade. I saw a European TV programme about the latter. I also saw some artifacts related to it in a museum. If you're hoping to get a reasonable coverage of history from reading newspapers or watching tv news, you're setting yourself up for disappointment.
- empath75 9y agoYeah, I don't think people in the US worry about white supremacy in Sweden so much. But racists in the US like to play up their so-called "pure" heritage by co-opting Scandinavian culture.
- digi_owl 9y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_people