I'm a big fan of Scandinavia. But the lack of racial diversity there and reports of various levels of hostility to outsiders doesn't sit well with me. Of all the countries in the world, I think the Scandinavian ones are the most enlightened. But on racial grounds, perhaps not?

I am lead to believe, based on info known to me, not all Scandinavia is one, is like Denmark. For example, I am not aware of similar issue in Sweden. This said, perhaps every country in the EU been lets say circumvented, due to lack of united and clear EU policy, by influx of migrants in the past couple of years. As noted in the WP article, this particular issue is not direct consequence of the said influx bur rather longer term problem.

Norway has been applying itself with a certain amount of success to developing a national cricket team.

From wikipedia:

The following is a list of the 14 players and four reserves included in Norway's squad for the 2014 ICC Division 2 T/20 Championship in Essex 2014

Zaheer Ashiq (Captain)
Ehtsham-ul-Haq (Vice Captain)
Sheraz Khalid
Ansar Iqbal
Shahbaz Butt
Sufyan Ali
Safir Hayat
Fazil Mir
Babar Shahzad
Suhail Iftikhar
Damon Crawford
Wasim Tahir
Umran Shahzad
Prithvi Bhart
Santosh Kumar (Reserve)
Ali Tafseer (Reserve)
Faisal Shehzad (Reserve)
Iftikhar Hussain (Reserve)

Damon Crawford must be the token Aussie or Pom.

Globe wrote:I know it's bad taste to link to the Mirror, but unfortunately they are (this time) the ones with the most factual correct article.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news ... ng-8788662

In three of seven first year groups at Langkaer upper secondary school in Denmark, half of those attending will be Danish.

Because there is no fucking way anyone not the colour of pigs can be Danish... right?

Using a racial slur to criticise a group of people for their alleged racism. How classy of you.

Globe wrote:

johnbrandt wrote:So...only white countries are racist when they do things like this...? You do realise other non-white-European countries have some quite horrifying racism against anyone not from their racial or cultural group?

So if people in... lets say Bonn... start pushing kids off the pavement and into heavy traffic, it would make it less worse if people in Sydney started doing the same thing?

Can't you hear how stupid that kind of argumentation is?

Pushing kids into heavy traffic is not quite on the same moral level as having ethnic quotas on student intake, especially when you're talking about a society which has a particular ethnic group as its social and cultural foundation. The former is an unprovoked act of violent aggression, the latter is a non-violent act of collective self-preservation. Get the difference??

Ven. Kwan Tam Woo wrote:

Globe wrote:I know it's bad taste to link to the Mirror, but unfortunately they are (this time) the ones with the most factual correct article.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news ... ng-8788662

In three of seven first year groups at Langkaer upper secondary school in Denmark, half of those attending will be Danish.

Because there is no fucking way anyone not the colour of pigs can be Danish... right?

Using a racial slur to criticise a group of people for their alleged racism. How classy of you.

Yeah... I was sort of reluctant to drag in the poor innocent pigs into this, however it is difficult to find anything to describe the special colour of light scandinavian skin without resorting to targeting of those wonderfully intelligent beings.

Ven. Kwan Tam Woo wrote:

Globe wrote:

johnbrandt wrote:So...only white countries are racist when they do things like this...? You do realise other non-white-European countries have some quite horrifying racism against anyone not from their racial or cultural group?

So if people in... lets say Bonn... start pushing kids off the pavement and into heavy traffic, it would make it less worse if people in Sydney started doing the same thing?

Can't you hear how stupid that kind of argumentation is?

Pushing kids into heavy traffic is not quite on the same moral level as having ethnic quotas on student intake, especially when you're talking about a society which has a particular ethnic group as its social and cultural foundation. The former is an unprovoked act of violent aggression, the latter is a non-violent act of collective self-preservation. Get the difference??

You don't get it do you?
Those students ARE Danish.
Even if some of them were purple with neon green polkadots they would still be Danish.
The only "self preservation" acceptable is the attempt not to create divides in society by being racist asses who think that one skin colour is better and more right than others.

Globe wrote:

Ven. Kwan Tam Woo wrote:

Globe wrote:I know it's bad taste to link to the Mirror, but unfortunately they are (this time) the ones with the most factual correct article.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news ... ng-8788662

In three of seven first year groups at Langkaer upper secondary school in Denmark, half of those attending will be Danish.

Because there is no fucking way anyone not the colour of pigs can be Danish... right?

Using a racial slur to criticise a group of people for their alleged racism. How classy of you.

Yeah... I was sort of reluctant to drag in the poor innocent pigs into this, however it is difficult to find anything to describe the special colour of light scandinavian skin without resorting to targeting of those wonderfully intelligent beings.

Do you ever get migraines from all that cognitive dissonance? If you have such a bigoted low opinion of Danish people, then why are you so bothered about them not wanting to associate with you?

Globe wrote:

Ven. Kwan Tam Woo wrote:

Globe wrote:

johnbrandt wrote:So...only white countries are racist when they do things like this...? You do realise other non-white-European countries have some quite horrifying racism against anyone not from their racial or cultural group?

So if people in... lets say Bonn... start pushing kids off the pavement and into heavy traffic, it would make it less worse if people in Sydney started doing the same thing?

Can't you hear how stupid that kind of argumentation is?

Pushing kids into heavy traffic is not quite on the same moral level as having ethnic quotas on student intake, especially when you're talking about a society which has a particular ethnic group as its social and cultural foundation. The former is an unprovoked act of violent aggression, the latter is a non-violent act of collective self-preservation. Get the difference??

You don't get it do you?
Those students ARE Danish.
Even if some of them were purple with neon green polkadots they would still be Danish.

How so?? Because they have Danish passports, Danish citizenship, and/or permanent residency in Denmark? What about that "pig-coloured" skin you're so fixated upon? Did the genetic, linguistic and cultural heritage of these people magically disappear when they or their parents first set foot on Danish soil?

The only "self preservation" acceptable is the attempt not to create divides in society by being racist asses who think that one skin colour is better and more right than others.

Who here thinks that one skin colour is "better" or "more right" than others? As far as I can tell a Danish school in Denmark merely thinks that one particular ethnicity is more Danish than others, and, not having been totally brainwashed into racial self-loathing like so many of their fellow West Europeans, they have enough pride and enough sense of self-preservation in themselves to want to preserve their own culture. And considering what a prosperous and peaceful society Danes have managed to make their country into over the last few decades, I can't say I blame them! Anyone who doesn't like the situation is free to go to another school or find some other country where the locals have no qualms about letting foreigners quite literally shit all over them - Germany and Sweden in particular come to mind.

YOUR attitude and that of others of your ilk are the problem ...not the "foreigners"

Bigotry writ large.

Ven. Kwan Tam Woo wrote:not having been totally brainwashed into racial self-loathing like so many of their fellow West Europeans

The fuck...?

Who the fuck knows.

So.....

Could this thread be summarized as something is rotten in the state of Denmark?

Also, why hasn't anyone gone there yet? What is this place even becoming that we haven't gone there yet?

Do not forget flagellantism. I've been there. People were nice to me. They did not know my name and I looked like them.

Macdoc wrote:YOUR attitude and that of others of your ilk are the problem ...not the "foreigners"

I'll try to remember that next time a European kid gets raped by one of them at a public swimming pool.

How exactly is my attitude the problem as opposed to, say, the attitude of someone who uses a racial slur to criticise a group of people for their supposed racism??

Bigotry writ large.

Yes, comparing an ethnic group unfavourably to pigs is quite bigoted, isn't it.

Fallible wrote:Who the fuck knows.

Anyone who doesn't have their head up their arse

Well, the post in question was so measured and calm that I immediately accept every following statement you make without hesitation.

Fallible wrote:Who the fuck knows.

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