[dalke]

Please do more research. Your views may have been true two generations ago. They are not now.

Sweden has accepted a huge number of people from the Middle East. I live in Sweden. Today I went to a hamburger place owned by someone from Iraq. Another person there came from Lebanon. My wife just went across the street to get a pizza, where the owner is also from the Middle East.

Sweden started opening up to immigrants (as I understand the history) back in the 1970s. They took in people fleeing the dictatorship in Chile. (They also accepted US draft dodgers in the 1960s and people fleeing the Soviet bloc.) There are currently some 126,000 people born in Iraq who now live in Sweden, and 64,000 from Iran. That alone is 3% of the country. The total immigrant (non-Sweden born) population is about 1.5 million out of 9.5 million, or 16%.

That's about the same as the US, where about 12% of the population was born in another country.

And why did you post that link to the NYT? That talks about The Netherlands, which is not a Nordic country. ("Amid Rise of Multiculturalism, Dutch Confront Their Questions of Identity")