Published June 12, 2021 at 8:23 pm
Column. The Swedish people's biggest weakness is that we have chosen uneducated politicians who give away our property to foreigners who refuse to adapt. Economists have a simple rule: “There are no free lunches”. But does it really apply to those who immigrated to Sweden? Jan Tullberg wonders.
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When the Swedes in the great migration more than 100 years ago left for the west, questions were asked about cultural loyalty and adaptation to the new country. There was a great desire to be assimilated into the new culture and this could sometimes be done with fairly simple means. Svensson crossed out one of the s in the middle and got an American name.
Americans sometimes claim that “all names are American names”, but it is a truth with modification. Some names are quite American and others are very un-American. A strange last name can be accepted, but the first names are quickly reduced to Tom, Sue and Joe. In a modern country, efficiency in communication is required, and the guest must adapt.
A guest receives hospitality as a gift, but the gift is only unconditional for a short time. The relatives who come to visit usually have three days before it is time to go home; “First day guest, second day party, third day plague”. The guest is quickly reminded that hospitality is conditional and that it requires a return in order for it not to be seen as a failed investment.
If the first generous outcome is to lead to a friendship, the guest must understand that it is not the result of an unconditional love, but rather a calculated chance. If the contact grows into friendship and close ties, it happens after reciprocity and new gifts and reciprocal gifts to an escalating extent.
In a similar way, it happens with negative sanctions. An offender may be met with indulgence in his first crime, but then the trust capital decreases rapidly. The offender can step into the legal community or even choose the criminal world.
The same question of loyalty arises when immigrating to a new country. Which culture is chosen and which is chosen? American Paul Collier believes that the migrant comes with one of two attitudes. An immigrant can choose to seek to be assimilated into the culture of the new country. But he can instead choose to become a “settler”, a settler, who introduces his own culture in a country that is currently dominated by a, in his eyes, worse culture.
An immigrant who came to America was not so interested in embracing Native American culture, but American culture appealed to many, but only in the long run. Swedes settled with Swedes in a diaspora and then tried to interact with other non-Swedish Americans. However, there were no illusions that the Americans loved to take care of the Swedes – the immigrants had to support themselves. Gradually, they began to interact with Americans and become assimilated. Name changes are a sign of a desire to assimilate. The one who insisted on being called Klas-Göran Pettersson with two t's and two s was less interested than it was with an English variant.
Immigrants to Sweden face the same problem and make similar choices. Many choose to keep the family name, but Swedishize their first name. Some are looking for few Swedish friends, which is probably more difficult than in many other countries, but others choose not to be assimilated but live in the diaspora of their culture in Sweden.
In recent decades' immigration to Sweden, it seems of foreign names is becoming more unusual. It may be a decision at the individual level, but it will have an effect at the group level.
Swedes are told, like Americans, that “all names are Swedish names”, but they know that this is directly untrue. We get people who stick to the religion of the home country, which is also an important marker, not just an individual religious choice. The Swedish school teaches home language, although the immigrants' home language must now be Swedish.
A worrying sign is how few immigrants take an assimilation-friendly line and bid on the name issue. You do not want to be seen as disloyal in your diaspora which you perceive as sensitive in this matter. The Swedes seem to tell themselves that a Swedish cultural difference is the highest stage of civilization. Swedish cultural neutrality is, however, on closer inspection, not so neutral. An approved culture must be fossil-free, equal and anti-racist (to name a few of the many pre-selected “musts” that are part of “Swedish openness”). If the immigrants get confused, the Swedish state has a big debt in this.
The immigrant should therefore listen more to the lessons about human behavior he received in his home country, less to Swedish disinformation. Sweden can appear as Santa's Christmas workshop, where it works hard to then let everything be donated. The Swedish Migration Agency informs about almost infinite human rights, but the Swedish people as a whole have the same expectations as a reciprocal individual.
Services should be rewarded with reciprocal services for not terminating. The fact that abuse and fraud are accepted by the authorities is not a sign that the population also intends to accept this indefinitely. The biggest shortcoming of the population is that they have uneducated politicians whom it does not dismiss and punish for their crimes, whether it is incompetence or outright treason.
Swedish politicians seem so ego-tripped that they want to take advantage of every opportunity to waste taxpayers' money. Most recently, 150 billion to the EU's recovery fund for corona, which mainly goes to a deficit in the Eurosystem, which the Swedish people in a referendum in 2003 chose not to participate in. But now we do it anyway. It is not inexplicable that many immigrants see Swedish politicians as senile donors looking for fundraisers in which they can squeeze money.
But for a long-term relationship with the Swedish people, immigrants should see Swedes as more equal people in their home countries, they dislike strongly skewed relationships where they themselves belong to the losers. Economists have a simple rule: “There are no free lunches”. Unfortunately, the Swedes have chosen uneducated rulers who insist that immigrants have the right to just such lunches and that this should never end.
The main culprits for the Swedish waste are Swedish politicians. In Sweden there is a large mosquito economy and in it one should perceive the Swedish authorities as principals, and the benefit addicts as accomplices. Swedish. In Sweden, the word “assimilation” is considered intrusive, and the authorities use the diffuse word “integration” instead. That word indicates that it is perhaps primarily the Swedes who are to be assimilated. And maybe that's what's the idea in this new, less Swedish, Sweden.
JAN TULLBERG
Jan Tullberg is an author and associate professor of business administration. He is the author of the book & nbsp; Låsningen: An analysis of Swedish immigration policy & nbsp; which was published in 2014. More texts by Tullberg can be read on his website.