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DanneSandin said:

Honestly, immigrants complain about other immigrants like hell. I've heard a kurd bitching about arabs, and arabs bithcing about africans (boy, that is SUCH a generalization!!) and so on and so forth. I think it gets harder to integrate into a society the firther away you came originally simply because the difference in cultures will be wider. Italians, Spaniards and Greeks are all Europeans and we all share some cultural history, while if you're from Turkey (or anywhere from the Middle East) the cultural difference will be even bigger.

And the question is if we as a society is better at integrating other Europeans. I've heard of doctors and and professors from the Middle East and India working as bus drivers, or other "low end" jobs - their competence isn't taken advantage of.

That's just nasty leftist propaganda. What do you mean "competence isn't taken advantage of"? What competence?? If you're a specialist in one field it doesn't automatically mean you are good at any other job. In Sweden we have high standards for health care professionals, and if you can't meet those standards you simply don't get a license. That's the the reason why there's many medical doctor's with a third world education not being able to work as doctors in Sweden, because they simply have failed to meet the standards despite being allowed to enter training programs for foreign doctors at Swedish hospitals (and actually the standards are set lower for the foreign doctor than what they are for a native one).

I'm a doctor myself, but I'm not particularly good at anything else. If I lose my doctor's license I would be forced to work as a taxi driver too.