February 13, 2012
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A Swedish lesbian couple who wanted a mortgage were told by a bank clerk that they should change their lifestyle and think about living apart.
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But in reality there is discrimination in every place.whether, its working place, shopping or traveling.you feel it everywhere. But I don't understand why ppl pretend that they are not.
Personally i feel sorry that that couple had to face sexual discrimination...and good for them that they took their business somewhere else...
I will say this much for Swedbank. They are consistant.
Maybe Swedbank should stop imposing its lifestyle onto innocent customers.
you are such an idiot. What the hell has discrimination against same sex couples got to do with rights for pedophiles. Perhaps you should spell your name Amerishit.
you're perfectly right.
(FYI - methinks Amerikat also goes by "leroy")
I agree with Tutu, the bank clerk might have handled it more sensitively, but I suspect these two people are on the make.
this is both sad and funny I feel!
bet they got the loan from a male @ nordea??
For starters, we had booked an interview at the branch at S:t Eriksgatan in Stockholm, and were seated in a horrible corridor with our backs to a passageway--no sense of privacy or security whatsoever, but that's not the discriminatory part.
Now THIS is what was discrminatory: the banker woman, wouldn't so much as look me in the eye, talked only to my wife and ACTED LIKE I WAS INVISIBLE the whole time. She was quite cold, patronizing at best, and never asked any of the right questions. Even though our papers and references were immaculate, it was like she had already decided we weren't to qualify for a loan because of my skin color.
On the verge of making a complaint, we simply decided to bring our business elsewhere. I wasn't treated the same at the next bank, not even close, and I am now the happy co-owner of a beautiful house. Swedbank later got back to us (informing my wife and not me!) that we hadn't qualified, HAHA!
Why didn't we complain? Because there was nothing tangible, nothing she said which we could pin her on. But the discrimination I/we felt and experienced was unmistakable. While it's true that top management cannot force each and every employee to be non-dsicriminatory, bad attitudes as a rule flow from the top down. Such discrimination, if nothing else, is always due to poor management and the lack of attention, emphasis and education on such matters.