Hello everyone from Sweden! You may get annoyed with us Americans, so do I. But I have a lot of ancestry from Sweden and I'm very interested to meet some of you and learn more about Sweden in general. Music, food, pop culture, slang. All of it.
I play video games (of course) and love space and science. I'd love to make a discord and get to know some of you, maybe play some games on steam as well.
Since this is reddit, you may already be exposed to much American media and culture, but I can offer to teach you anything you'd like about America or explain any current events over here as well.
Nice to meet all of you in advance, adjö!
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The original was posted on /r/sweden by /u/Weewoofiatruck at 2023-07-08 06:28:32+00:00.
Danne_H at 2023-07-08 08:37:17+00:00 ID:
jr4qxhqSure. So Swedish society has gone through a couple of decades of rapid demographic change (it's nothing as crazy as is often portrayed, "Swedistan" etc. But it is noticeable and it has presented large issues).
As a result, Islam has gone from something that didn't really exist in the minds of many, to something our society now actually has to decide on how to functionally incorporate. Most Swedes are secular, most muslims (non-U.S) are traditional, add one of europes most far-reaching freedom of expression legislations into the mix and you're bound to have clashes.
At first basically a few people on the hard right organised quran-burning events (personal/PR reasons aside) mostly to expose the issues these differences in values/way of life present to our country.
Now it's turned into a thing where people from allover the political spectrum want to do it. A formerly torturted Iraqi refugee just did it in protest of Islam. You have leftist wanting to do it to delay/hinder our NATO application (Turkey is not a fan of them) now even crazy cat-ladies want their time in the spot-light.
Weewoofiatruck (OP) at 2023-07-08 08:42:29+00:00 ID:
jr4ralyAhh, well this makes sense.
Different problems require different approaches.
Just because I need a screw driver for a screw in America shouldn't mean I think you're crazy for using a hammer if you have a nail.
Also turkey is a real bitch about most things. Especially NATO. Sorry if that offends anyone in this reddit but turkey's government has been hard to watch as a foreigner
Danne_H at 2023-07-08 08:47:58+00:00 ID:
jr4ro1nYeah you're not going to get much push-back there. Turkeys government is opportunistic as fuck.
I wonder how many F-16's our NATO entry is going to cost you guys in the end.
Weewoofiatruck (OP) at 2023-07-08 08:53:12+00:00 ID:
jr4s17oPersonally? We've wasted military money in dumber places. You can have them all, come on in! Lol
WagwanMoist at 2023-07-08 09:09:44+00:00 ID:
jr4t6j4It's Turkey that's going to get the fighter jets. We make our own stuff, we're smol America in that regard as we also make a bit of money selling weapons all over the world.
Weewoofiatruck (OP) at 2023-07-08 09:23:28+00:00 ID:
jr4u4laWell.. fuqqq em, you can have the f-16s and join.
Daily double haha