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Sweden is as diverse as the US, or more so.
by flexie 9y ago
Sweden is as diverse as the US, or more so.
- gaius 9y agoWell, it has had a massive influx of Middle Easterners in recent years but this study dates from 2004.
- walshemj 9y agoActually in terms of other more diverse countries like the UK and USA probably not just seems a lot as Sweden had virtually zero BME migration until recently.
- BigBuzzKill 9y agoThat’s patently false.
- rayiner 9y agoNot even close. The vast majority of Sweden is ethnic Swedes. The big minority group is ethnic Finns. 87% of the country is Lutheran (as of 2012). In the US, probably no ethnic group (e.g. Irish or English) has more than 20%.
- flexie 9y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_ranked_by_ethnic_and_cultural_diversity_level https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_ranked_by_... Check out the list based on Alesina’s analysis. Or go to Sweden. In the younger population groups, muslims are now are huge minority.
- rayiner 9y agoThat index lists Canada as more diverse than the US, which is definitely false having been to both. Online sources suggest about 30% of Stockholm is non-Swedish, and most of those people are European. New York and Chicago are only about 30-35% European descent, and that’s mixed between Irish, German, Swedish, English, etc.
- flexie 9y agoEnglish, German, Irish, swedish descent = Christian, white population, all speaking English as a first language, all from similar cultures. It’s way more diverse in Sweden. I lived in NYC, and have travelled a lot in Sweden. Nowadays, large Swedish cities are much more diverse.
- ZeroGravitas 9y agoCanada ranks highly on these lists partly because they have a large population group that speaks a second national language and were relatively serious about independence. For whatever reason that objective "diversity" doesn't seem diverse to some people. They also seem to have more but smaller (as a percentage of the total) ethnic groups than the US. Again, while mathematically more diverse than a big chunk of African or Latin-Americans, people seem to view this as less diverse.