• Plastic_Ramses@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    How about identifying why these people are joining gangs rather than just “brown people join gangs because theyre brown”

    Perhaps its because they are treated differently than their swedish compatriots or perhaps its a socioeconomic reason.

    Sadly, i do not have the ability to conjecture without data. However, i can make one thing clear. Theyre not joining gangs “just because”.

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      2 years ago

      Perhaps it’s because there was a country they could just go to without any supporting reason and live on welfare.

      I live in Russia, I’m confident they’d have the same problem with Russian immigrants if there were a lot of them and if the same rules would apply to them. It’s definitely not culturally superior to Syria, LOL.

      Ah, and to some extent you are right, Swedes are a bit unconsciously racist, I think I’ve seen anonymous polls etc about “whether you’d accept your daughter marrying a ME person” with surprising results. That’s a downside of non-inclusiveness being completely unacceptable in the public space, people are still racist, but there’s no chain of small steps for them to become less so.