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by kbart 3468 days ago
Sweden is actually an example of how not to handle a refugee crisis. Just yesterday I met my friend who lives in Sweden and was at Malmö at the height of migrant crisis. I won't recite what he said and what is current opinion of common swedes themselves, because I would get downvoted to hell as xenophobic bastard.
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Malmö was a clusterfuck before the migration crisis. It's the garbage bin of the country. My feeling is that the crisis (and rioting a few years ago) just gave the locals a justification to talk more openly about the problems there without feeling racist.

Sweden did an amazing job in the last 30 years picking up the mess that the rest of the WHOLE WORLD keeps making. They have been left alone and now they are struggling. Germany is now reaching a similar status. It can't go on like that.

One thing that would likely help is linking seats on the UN Security Council to refugee quotas. You shouldn't be able to decide what goes on without accepting responsibility for picking up your rubbish.

"One thing that would likely help is linking seats on the UN Security Council to refugee quotas. You shouldn't be able to decide what goes on without accepting responsibility for picking up your rubbish."

Great idea, but it will never pass while certain countries possesses and abuses their veto[0] on pretty much any deal that has some impact on real world.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Counci...

Do you live in Malmö? I do and it's far from a clusterfuck.
Where did you explain Sweden is a bad example?

I mean nearly everybody knows that foreigners and xenophobia are correlated.

Just google it, it's not a secret of some kind: https://www.google.com/search?q=sweden+refugee+crisis&ie=utf...