Edit: This is a reply to a comment that's now deleted. So this orphan reply doesn't make much sense without the parent. Things are changing: "Sweden on Tuesda

Edit: This is a reply to a comment that's now deleted. So this orphan reply doesn't make much sense without the parent. Things are changing: "Sweden on Tuesday became the first European Union country to announce it will give asylum to all Syrian refugees who apply." : http://tribune.com.pk/story/599235/sweden-grants-blanket-asylum-to-syrian-refugees/ http://tribune.com.pk/story/599235/sweden-grants-blanket-asy... And yes, immigration is already causing problems. Here, have some riots, happened just over one year ago: http://www.economist.com/blogs/charlemagne/2013/05/swedens-riots http://www.economist.com/blogs/charlemagne/2013/05/swedens-r... So maybe we won't need to wait for the "decade or two" you mentioned. But for what it's worth, while living there (in Umeå, actually) for half a year I got the feeling that people really do set priorities differently. I'm hoping Swedish society will more or less stay that way. Even if that society is based on "peer-pressured conservative egalitarianism". For I like to know that there's a place I can go when I've had enough of peer-pressured competitive consumerism.