While Sweden absolutely can be much stricter with background checks, in my experience in Scandinavia, y'all are racist jerks.
I'm a brown guy who's grown up in North America their entire life, and day-to-day conversations with people there suck. There absolutely seems to be a mentality that if you don't fit a specific trope you can't be Swedish.
No amount of token representation in Scandinavian TV will change that. There needs to be a persistent societal change in Sweden to better manage diversity.
The Swedish left sucks by infantilizing minorities and the Swedish right sucks by actively demonizing them. No one actually tries to communicate actively with minority or immigrant communities - they just use "community organizations" to do it for them.
Honestly, despite all the issues the US has - managing diversity is definitely not one of those.
I'm a brown guy who's grown up in North America their entire life, and day-to-day conversations with people there suck. There absolutely seems to be a mentality that if you don't fit a specific trope you can't be Swedish.
No amount of token representation in Scandinavian TV will change that. There needs to be a persistent societal change in Sweden to better manage diversity.
The Swedish left sucks by infantilizing minorities and the Swedish right sucks by actively demonizing them. No one actually tries to communicate actively with minority or immigrant communities - they just use "community organizations" to do it for them.
Honestly, despite all the issues the US has - managing diversity is definitely not one of those.