Sweden’s reputation as a tolerant, liberal nation is being threatened by a steep rise in anti-Semitic hate crimes in the city of Malmo.
Category: Europe
Low Expectations for new UN Agency, UN Women.
The UN forms new agency to combat gender inequality, UN Women. Will it be able to beat the poor track record of UN bodies dealing with controversial issues?
Sweden Rejects the ’Melting Pot’
Swedish policy makers now openly reject the ‘Melting Pot’ as their model for integrating immigrants into society. Recent proposed changes to the Swedish constitution pose basic challenge to the nation-state and the principle of equality before the law. The term, the Melting Pot, is commonly used to describe immigration, especially into the US, moving from…… Continue reading Sweden Rejects the ’Melting Pot’
Things America should adopt from foreign cultures
I would like to simply endorse a few aspects I found to be superior in Japan that we do not have in the USA. I’m also sure I’ll continually update this list as I think of more items but for now, this is what I’ve got.
’Support the troops’ – the transformation of a nation and its armed forces
I grew up wondering what it meant when, on American TV shows, the statement ‘Support The Troops’ always seemed to trump all other arguments. Saying it was usually followed by a moment of stunned silence while the person who had said it gloated and the opponent gathered himself from the shock of being accused of not ‘supporting the troops’.