I haven't seen anything to complain about in your posts. After reading this thread I looked at a few in case I'd missed something. However people have different perspectives.
As for Britain or more precisely the UK, I haven't lived anywhere else,like it here and wouldn't emigrate. Also like being European and would be pleased for that to continue. People who have settled here from other countries are welcome as far as I'm concerned, they make life more interesting.
We don't own the country we are born in, nationalism is stupid to me. Pre-referendum campaigns (UKRAP)stirred nationalsim up which is unpleasant. About time we looked around and realised how lucky we are. Always room for improvement but we can work on that.
I think nationalism is important. It is like family pride. It keeps people together and works for their welfare. It does not mean you don't respect other families. In fact once we take pride in our family we respect everyone who does the same. Nationalism is the same.
Allowing others into the country is fine but where do you draw the line?
I think many people get programmed to think in certain ways and are unable to change or 'delete' these ways of thinking at the appropriate time. They just continue thinking the way they thought earlier but which is dysfunctional under changed circumstances.
Sweden seems to have problems now.....and Trump seems to have been right after all!
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/02/23/europe/sweden-trump-refugees-integration/index.html**********
When Donald Trump suggested something was going wrong in Sweden -- long hailed a glowing example for its decision to welcome so many refugees and migrants -- his remarks were met first with confusion, and then with derision.
But after riots broke out here in Rinkeby, a short drive from the center of Stockholm, just days later, one local resident told CNN he thought Trump's comments were "spot on. I think everything he said is true."
he argues, immigration to the country -- and to his neighborhood -- has now gone too far.
"It is out of control. There is a lot of them, there is no place for them," he says. "The real problem is the refugees. They come here and think they can do whatever they want."
"In the cities, you see almost no Swedish people," she explains. "They have moved out, so it's almost all people from different countries, and there are so many people on the streets, begging ... it's so sad; there are so many, and [the government] can't take care of everybody."
"I would describe it as a crisis. I have seen serious problems with law and order," Karlsson tells CNN. "If you don't control the borders, if you have an irresponsible refugee problem, you will get problems. And we have serious problems here."
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