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Sweden has much more of an immigrant / foreign-born parent population. About 25%-30% vs. 13-15%. As of 2017, Statistics Sweden reported that around 2,439,007 o

Sweden has much more of an immigrant / foreign-born parent population. About 25%-30% vs. 13-15%. As of 2017, Statistics Sweden reported that around 2,439,007 or 24.1% of the inhabitants of Sweden were from a foreign background: that is, each such person either had been born abroad or had been born in Sweden to two parents who themselves had both been born abroad.[22] Also taking into account people with only one parent born abroad, this number increases to almost a third in 2017. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Sweden#Migration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Sweden#Migrati... Immigrants constituted 13% of the population at the start of 2015, and an additional 2.6% were born in Norway by immigrant parents[12] (up from 8,3% and 1,5% in 2006[13]). The same year, 19% of births in Norway were to immigrant parents. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Norway#Ethnicity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Norway#Ethnici...

ikeyany 6y ago
GP isn't denying they have more immigrants, they are saying it makes more sense to point to their reaction to the pandemic than to point at their number of immigrants. This explanation is both more simple and it doesn't have strange racist undertones.
- ceilingcorner 6y ago
  I was just replying to the idea that the demographics are the same.
- evbpcapfxy 6y ago
  Pointing out an observation in relation biology and vitamin d production, even if totally incorrect, does not mean it's racist. If anything, if someone with darker skin living in Sweden would get their vitamin d levels checked and correct it because the comment above, it would help them.
  - ikeyany 6y ago
    > Sweden has much more of an immigrant / foreign-born parent population. This was said in response to the statement that Sweden has 10x more deaths than Norway.
bildung 6y ago
For the same year, 2017, it's 24.1% for Sweden and 16.8% for Norway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Norway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Norway And in both countries almost half of the immigrants come from Europe or similar latitudes. This doesn't explain the factor 10 difference in outcome.
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ikeyany 6y ago

GP isn't denying they have more immigrants, they are saying it makes more sense to point to their reaction to the pandemic than to point at their number of immigrants. This explanation is both more simple and it doesn't have strange racist undertones.

ceilingcorner 6y ago
I was just replying to the idea that the demographics are the same.
evbpcapfxy 6y ago
Pointing out an observation in relation biology and vitamin d production, even if totally incorrect, does not mean it's racist. If anything, if someone with darker skin living in Sweden would get their vitamin d levels checked and correct it because the comment above, it would help them.
- ikeyany 6y ago
  > Sweden has much more of an immigrant / foreign-born parent population. This was said in response to the statement that Sweden has 10x more deaths than Norway.

bildung 6y ago

For the same year, 2017, it's 24.1% for Sweden and 16.8% for Norway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Norway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Norway And in both countries almost half of the immigrants come from Europe or similar latitudes. This doesn't explain the factor 10 difference in outcome.

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