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How Peaceful Sweden Became Europe’s Gun-Murder Capital
This link is probably paywalled for most, so some of the salient points:
It might also be helpful to look at this article in conjunction with this Free Press article on violence in Sweden: Two Bombings in One Night? That’s Normal Now in Sweden.
At least on its face, this situation has a clear cause (migration from non-Western countries) and a simple solution (stop accepting migrants and remove many of the migrants that are already in Sweden), but to even state these facts gets you labeled a "right-wing populist" (nice of WSJ to omit the customary "far right populist").
I do see where the Left is coming from here. Most migrants aren't committing violence, and it does seem cruel to kick out people who have been living somewhere for years or even decades. But I also think a given community has the right to maintain the integrity of its society and culture. That's also why I'm more okay with something closer to open borders in the USA: Our culture is already so hollowed out that migrants moving here are probably adding, not subtracting, from whatever "culture" there is in the US.
It seems overall there are two things floating around. Some want to say the US use to run an immigration successful on some argument of lots of demand for manual labor plus strong culture. But we still have a large amount of African Americans who have failed to ever adapt to America. And some may save native Americans too. The reservation population seems to have never integrated and I’m guessing the non-reservation population probably intermixed too much.
The Hispanic population in America does seem to be approaching the mean on a lot of categories. Like the Italians and Irish. Educationally I believe there are still gaps but criminality I believe is the same as whites now. That gives me a lot more faith that 50 years from now the Middle East population in Sweden will be ok. They are basically white adjacent or just white so the long term hbd concerns wouldn’t seem as big. At worse probably approach the Hispanic community in the US of close enough on criminality but lower educational attainment. Especially at the talked about 5-10% of the population.
Unfortunately they didn't arrive as voluntary immigrants though, which is a relevant difference. And Native Americans don't exist as an immigrant minority either, but as dispossessed and defeated aborigines.
The most relevant difference from the typical immigration story is that both groups were functionally prevented from assimilating. It's hard to paint with a broad brush with respect to the Native Americans (many had no interest in joining the US and attempted to resist), but there were multiple attempts made by NA groups to integrate into the growing US, only to be rebuffed (sometimes violently) and mostly isolated on reservations. With African Americans, we can simply point to the history of segregation and interracial marriage bans across the country.
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