Fuck race. I'm not talking about race.

I'm talking about ethnicity. Look it up in a lexicon and understand the term, then come back and discuss. And stop creating straw mans by putting words in my mouth.

"Just like it's done in research and in official statistics all over the world."

All you have to do is backup your claim. Why is it so difficult for you? It's to be safe that your claims are actually supported and not just nonsensical.

When I follow your logical then I can safely assume that YOUR offsprings will be just as racistic as you are. Is that correct?

How does integration work then? How do compromisses are possible at all? Why are people leaving the culture of their parents? Things like that shouldn't be possible according to you.

It's more that there's a correlation between the culture a foreigner originates from and criminality. If you look at the 1996 and 2005 reports from Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention (Brå), only certain types of immigrants are overrepresented (e.g. those from the MENA region). Immigrants from other regions such as East Asia are underrepresented. So, it's not much to do with ethnicity, but the cultural background.

Well, here's what I found in regards to ethnicity: Ethnicity, however, refers to cultural factors, including nationality, regional culture, ancestry, and language.

OK, so many Swedes born from immigrants have Swedish nationality, can speak Swedish, and are familiar with the culture of Sweden. So it cannot be those thigns that you are talking. So you must be talking about things like their ancestry (in other words, their race).

Of course, but cultural background is included in the term "ethnicity".

So, that's make it ok to use the word ethnicity instead of cultural?

Definition ethnicity:

"an ethnic group; a social group that shares a common and distinctive culture, religion, language, or the like: "

So, better to be sure and blame all of the features instead of just the culture.

Right, but ethnicity is a general term since it contains multiple attributes. Cultural background is still a bit general, but it does narrow things down to specific variables such as laws and customs.

"Just like it's done in research and in official statistics all over the world." was in reference to VGPolyglot questioning whether it's relevant to compare crime commited by the offspring of immigrants with crime commited by ethnic Swedes.

This official Swedish government report does just that:

https://www.pdf-archive.com/2011/05/08/br-1996-2-invandrares-och-invandrares-barns-brottslighet-1/

"Criminal acitivity of immigrants and their children"

I may be called VGPolyglot, but I don't know Swedish, so I can't really read that.

Just look up on the definition in Wikipedia:

An ethnic group or ethnicity is a category of people who identify with each other based on similarities, such as common ancestral, language, social, cultural or national experiences.^[1][2] Unlike other social groups (wealth, age, hobbies), ethnicity is often an inherited status based on the society in which one lives. In some cases, it can be adopted if a person moves into another society. Membership of an ethnic group tends to be defined by a shared cultural heritage, ancestry, origin myth, history, homeland, language or dialect, symbolic systems such as religion, mythology and ritual, cuisine, dressing style, art, and physical appearance.

Ethnic groups, derived from the same historical founder population, often continue to speak related languages and share a similar gene pool. By way of language shift, acculturation, adoption and religious conversion, it is sometimes possible for individuals or groups to leave one ethnic group and become part of another (except for ethnic groups emphasizing racial purity as a key membership criterion).

Ethnicity is often used synonymously with ambiguous terms such as nation or people. In English, it can also have the connotation of something exotic (cf. "White ethnic", "ethnic restaurant", etc.), generally related to cultures of more recent immigrants, who arrived after the founding population of an area was established.

Depending on which source of group identity is emphasized to define membership, the following types of (often mutually overlapping) groups can be identified:

• Ethno-linguistic, emphasizing shared language, dialect or script — example: Gaels
• Ethno-national, emphasizing a shared polity or sense of national identity — example: Iraqis
• Ethno-racial, emphasizing shared physical appearance based on genetic origins — example: African Americans
• Ethno-regional, emphasizing a distinct local sense of belonging stemming from relative geographic isolation — example: South Islanders
• Ethno-religious, emphasizing shared affiliation with a particular religion, denomination or sect — example: Sikhs

In many cases – for instance, the sense of Jewish peoplehood – more than one aspect determines membership.

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You really don't believe this affects criminal behaviour?

And just no. Race is only a small part of the wide concept of ethnicity.

I use the term ethnicity on this subject, because it includes culture and foreign origin, and not just purely socio-economic factors or citizenship.

How can this be so hard to understand?