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Last I checked Sweden had a roughly the same percentage of immigrants as USA so I am not sure that is a good reason. Population size on the other hand it is cl

• saraid216 14y ago
  The type of immigrant matters, too, I'd suspect. The United States has 13.6% Africans whereas Norway has 1.4, Sweden has 0.8, and Finland has 0.37. [1] I have also suspected that the availability of pioneer country has made it easier for Americans to refuse integration, or the "I don't like the people here; I'll vote with my feet" effect. This is speculation, though; I don't really consider it evidence until people have studies and analyses done and such. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_diaspora http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_diaspora
  • mongol 14y ago
    From your link: "The term has been historically applied in particular to the descendants of the West and Central Africans who were enslaved and shipped to the Americas by way of the Atlantic slave trade" Meanwhile: "103,077 African-born people were resident in Sweden as of 2009." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_immigrants_to_Sweden http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_immigrants_to_Sweden) which means that more than 1 % of residents were actually _born_ in Africa, while your link refers to residents that are descendants, sometimes since many generations.
• notdrunkatall 14y ago
  The percentage of immigrants is not the only determining factor in cultural homogeneity.