• Sweden -- Yes, Sweden -- Leads Anti-Immigration Shift
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[QUOTE=Big Bang;46663565]No no, anybody with a degree, as in, anybody who spent the time getting educated, should be able to get a job, and due to you being Swedish you have an advantage over everyone else, as the Swedish educational system is both one of the best in the world, and it's free. Somebody from Venezuela, like me, has to work significantly harder than you ever will to be considered for the same jobs, just because the country I was born on hasn't invested as much as it should in education. This is actually the reason why I consider emigrating, by the way. I have free education in Venezuela but it is not of the same quality than in the First World. In America education is expensive, it's expensive in the UK as well, my other options are Europe or Asia. The culture shock from Asia would be way to heavy for me to bear, so my only option left is any country in the EU. Of those countries, the most notable which have free education are basically only the Scandinavian and Nordic ones, Finland, Norway, Denmark, and Sweden. Of those, only Sweden gives undergraduate courses in English. I could finish my undergraduate education in Venezuela but the economic situation in my country is getting more grim by the minute, so I have to find somewhere else to live on. Just like me, there's a thousand more prospective immigrants who are merely looking for a better opportunity, who are looking for a chance to succeed in life, which their home country doesn't provide.[/QUOTE] Well, that's kind of the opposite of what I had a problem with. That people come to Sweden to study and get jobs with high pay, I have no problem with. I just don't like the idea that I should be required to have a university degree in order to have a job and live, just because it's much easier to study in Sweden compared to most places. As I said I would have no problem work at say, a local steel mill for example. Atleast not for just a year or two in order to get some experience in that line of work and maybe get some contacts for future jobs. The problem is that there are so few positions open and youth unemployment is very high as well, so bringing in even more people who want these kinds of jobs with Swedens immigration policies(very high compared to most countries) certainly can't help. It might sound entitled, but I do think a country should think of it's own citizens before that of others.
[QUOTE=Starlight 456;46661246]As far as I know, Sweden [I]still[/I] had mandatory sterilization for transgender people just a few years ago.[/QUOTE] Isn't that somewhat false? In that for a transgender person to be legally recognised as a member of the sex they consider themselves to be they had to undergo SRS. As opposed to rounding up TG people and sterilising them.
[QUOTE=wraithcat;46667753]Isn't that somewhat false? In that for a transgender person to be legally recognised as a member of the sex they consider themselves to be they had to undergo SRS. As opposed to rounding up TG people and sterilising them.[/QUOTE] My memory of the law is somewhat shakey since I haven't heard about it in a while and I'm not Swedish, but as far as I can remember, once you started hormone treatment, you had to undergo sterilization. There's literally no reason for it, too, since HRT tends to make you sterile already, so it's just dehumanizing and needlessly stressful.
[QUOTE=Big Bang;46663565]No no, anybody with a degree, as in, anybody who spent the time getting educated, should be able to get a job, and due to you being Swedish you have an advantage over everyone else, as the Swedish educational system is both one of the best in the world, and it's free. Somebody from Venezuela, like me, has to work significantly harder than you ever will to be considered for the same jobs, just because the country I was born on hasn't invested as much as it should in education. This is actually the reason why I consider emigrating, by the way. I have free education in Venezuela but it is not of the same quality than in the First World. In America education is expensive, it's expensive in the UK as well, my other options are Europe or Asia. The culture shock from Asia would be way to heavy for me to bear, so my only option left is any country in the EU. Of those countries, the most notable which have free education are basically only the Scandinavian and Nordic ones, Finland, Norway, Denmark, and Sweden. Of those, only Sweden gives undergraduate courses in English. I could finish my undergraduate education in Venezuela but the economic situation in my country is getting more grim by the minute, so I have to find somewhere else to live on. Just like me, there's a thousand more prospective immigrants who are merely looking for a better opportunity, who are looking for a chance to succeed in life, which their home country doesn't provide.[/QUOTE] In europe, university is also free of charge in Scotland, Germany, Austria, Czech rep, Greece, Slovenia, Estonia, Luxembourg; if you say you have EU citizenship. And denmark offers english undergrad courses aswell. I think Finland and Norway might be more conservative about their language, but I wouldn't be surprised if they had English courses too. [editline]8th December 2014[/editline] Or in places where you do pay; the fee is low; 700euros/year in Belgium for example.At KU leuven, one of the top universities in the world and one of the oldest, that's what you'll have to pay. Basically, a month's part time wage for a year of study.
[QUOTE=godfatherk;46669837]In europe, university is also free of charge in Scotland, Germany, Austria, Czech rep, Greece, Slovenia, Estonia, Luxembourg; if you say you have EU citizenship. And denmark offers english undergrad courses aswell. I think Finland and Norway might be more conservative about their language, but I wouldn't be surprised if they had English courses too. [editline]8th December 2014[/editline] Or in places where you do pay; the fee is low; 700euros/year in Belgium for example.At KU leuven, one of the top universities in the world and one of the oldest, that's what you'll have to pay. Basically, a month's part time wage for a year of study.[/QUOTE] Mind you, unless you get naturalised as a citizen of an EU country, you'll be paying pretty significant ratess. Not US ones of course, but it does get a big bump. [editline]9th December 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=Deng;46663932]So what justifies antifa breaking up nazi protests? A bit of a double standards thing here?[/QUOTE] While I find a lot of what ANtifa has been doing locally a bit batshit insane these past few years, what you're looking at are two very different groups idealogically. a) Fascists - a group dedicated to supplanting everyman's rights as well as removing certain securities baked into a democratic state b) antifa - a group which claims to be dedicated to maintaining constitutional everyman rights and fighting those who wish to reduce them or set them up for only select groups. The ideological background and reasons for their rallies are significantly different and you can actually go out and say - this rally is not good and should be broken up and this rally might not be good, but it's fully within their democratic right.
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