Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/12/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]That too ... just add it to the pot that is already boiling ... Daniel On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Slobodan Dimitrov wrote: > 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 > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html