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by peterfirefly 33 days ago
> don't understand the language

Seriously? It's not like the Somalis have been in Sweden that long.

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Their children might not speak their language.
Most of those children wouldn't be able to communicate with their own parents, if that were the case.

Somalis are usually not spread out among the natives. They tend to clump together in ethnic enclaves where it is very easy to learn Somali (and where life is unpleasant for the unfortunate child who doesn't learn it).

And some parents do learn Swedish so their children might not know their parents native language. Or have you inspected every Somalian family in Sweden? It might not be that many, but doesn't make his point any less true.
I'd say it makes it "fewer" true ;)

Surely we can agree that if such kids exist then they must be very, very few in number?

So its okay then I guess?
Do you know of one, or is this some hypothetical think of the children argument to get sympathy?
But they do.

That's actually one of the biggest problems with mass migration - that all incentives go against integration into the host culture.