Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/12/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Actually, I meant it as between the Europeans themselves. Such as East-West, North-South, and everything in between. S. Dimitrov - ---------- >From: Daniel Ridings <daniel.ridings@muspro.uio.no> >To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >Subject: Re: [Leica] Go to the front of the line >Date: Tue, Dec 23, 2003, 9:46 AM > > Yes, so true so true. > > Here in Sweden I see politicians (mostly local ones) doing things that > anyone with the slightest sense of history would realize was a mistake. > The US, as in so many other things, was a forerunner when it comes to > tackling racial issues. It was simply forced to ... the issues were there. > > Europe was, at the time, fairly homogenic. Pasta was exotic in Sweden at > that time, putting a cucumber or tomato on your sandwich was simply > unheard of ... not done. > > Now Europe is acquiring a multicultural mix and is going to face, probably > 50-60 years later, the same problems the US was faced with in the sixties. > > So what do Swedish (local/county) politicians do? The refugees come. They > come from anywhere in the world that has been hit by conflict, Africa, the > Balkans, the Middle East, Vietnam, you name it. The politicians build a > bunch of housing in the sixties a day-late-and-a-dollar-short. Slam-bam, > throw 'em up. > > No noone who can afford it wants to live there. In fact, before the > refugees came, they were starting to tear them down. But some smart guy > said: "Hey, we can accept all kinds of refugees, get money from the > national budget and stick these people out in the housing areas no one > wants to live in. We can actually make money off of that crap instead of > tearing them down." > > So now these areas are 100% refugee populated (ok, maybe 98%). Talk about > "planned-ghetto-making". > > So what do they do? They start to bus the kids around, close local schools > and send the kids across town. Go to a PTA meeting concerned with the > local school being closed down and say "We're ashamed of this" ... can you > imagine? Addressing the parents of the children and telling them that you > are ashamed of them? > > Ticking bomb, tick, tick. > > Daniel Ridings > Lindome Sweden, Oslo Norway > > > On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Slobodan Dimitrov wrote: > >> Addressing the intra-european racial/ethnic tensions will go a long way on >> making some head way on that road. >> S. Dimitrov >> >> >From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> >> >To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> >> >Subject: RE: [Leica] Go to the front of the line >> >Date: Tue, Dec 23, 2003, 8:02 AM >> > >> >> > It is so reassuring to know that America's racial problems were solved >> > in the 60's, and that we can eliminate affirmative action and other >> > because black Americans are now living their lives on an even playing >> > field.... ;-) >> -- >> To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html >> > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html