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Originally posted by utabintarbo
Exactly what data are you basing this assertion on?
This is an "apples and oranges" analogy. It is unrealistic to compare a (relatively) homogeneous, isolated society such as Sweden to a diverse, pluralistic, and cosmopolitan society such as exists in the US.
This diversity has its downside to be sure, but the advantage lies in the great "mixing bowl" of ideas that it breeds. There are a lot of problems, but it is in the solving of those problems that progress lies.
Bob
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I wouldn't count Sweden as ahomogeneous society when there lives about 8,5million people, 500 000 people are registred muslims and the number of people from former Yugoslavia, Iraq, Iran, Italians, Greeks, Turkish etc a quite large part of the population so I would count that we aren't so isolated. We are one of the countries in Europe with the who has allowed large numbers of foreigners to move in during the 90's (in % to the total population). In my city we have people from over 190 diffrent nations. In my class during elementary school over 50% was first generation or second generation immigrants. So we have have the advantage of a great mixing bowl of ideas and the problems does exist. And they are getting worse and we are solving them.