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Puppyroach said: That is not to say we don´t cherish some of the more common swedish traditions (some of which goes a couple of hundred years back in time). Christmas is huge, but not as a christian holiday. New years eve is big aswell. Halloween is big but has traditionally been celebrated in a different way than the US version. Easter is huge aswell, where kids dress up as witches and go around collecting candy. And the big one is Mid summers eve, where se drink schnaps, eat "sill", raise a celebratory pole and sing songs. We also have Cray Fish parties with funny hats and a party where we eat fermented fish. |
The concern isn't whether or not the large numbers of immigrants like Christmas, meatballs, or Ikea. It's civil-rights that have been hard-worked for for decades and centuries. Gender equality, racial equality, sexual equality, freedom of speech, assembly, religion, freedom of association. The right to trial by jury, etc, etc.
These things have taken generations and generations, people don't come around to these ideas once they get a nice job and a house. You're now importing a very large number of individuals who have not yet developed these mindsets, as they are simply not the reality of the places where these people are from.
