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A Swedish teenager has been arrested by Thai police on suspicion of stabbing an 18 year-old man to death in a Thai hotel room, and is now facing murder charges for the grisly triangle drama, reported local newspapers.
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As for the likes of Rod Munch, you can go and munch on your rod you xenophobic racist prat!
http://www.scandasia.com/viewNews.php?coun_code=th&news_id=10967
Would be great if people throwing names publicly so easily, would consider giving their own name or their sources instead of staying so cowardly anonymous.. so pathetic
The sami aren't any more of a native people than the germanic people and the swedes never tried to eliminate them. We are talking about people that arrived 8000-10000 years ago. The germanic tribes from the south and the sami from Finland/Russia. Pretty much everything, especially the coasts, except the inland in Lappland has been dominated by germanic peoples and finns.
The whole argument that the sami is the native people and the germanics are invaders was created in the twentieth century to copy/paste native americans and the developments of USA on Sweden. It's just a narrative used for political ends and has nothing to do with any real history. The reason why it has become popular is coupled to the needs of the swedish establishment to weaken the claims of the native swedes that Sweden somehow is coupled to them. The government want to have an official history based on an idea that everyone is an immigrant to create arguments about the immigration we have today. They also want to shame the swedes to feel bad about ourself by projecting racism in all our dealings with other peoples and that we somehow stole the scandinavian land mass from another people. It's lies but lies that are needed for ideological reasons and therefore projected by the establishment.
When it comes to the article then the proper characterisation is swedish citizen. A swede has a dual meaning and means both the ethnic group and swedish citizen.
It isn't that hard really. Everyone in the world can become a swedish citizen but to become a member of the ethnic group requires some kind of connections by blood and preferably history. This is exactly how all other ethnic groups in the world also functions. The reason they call everyone swedes is mostly political to murky the waters.
That is my point also. Although i'm pretty confident that the swedish citizen of iranian descent was brought up in Sweden. The vast majority of Iranians in Sweden arrived during the eighties up to the nineties and in this case it's someone with dual Iranian and swedish citizenship.
It's a tragic murder case and has nothing to do with either swedish or iranian culture.
A Swedish national was arrested in Thailand on suspicion of murder.
"So, it was Morrocco who won the Eurovision song contest, not Sweden."
You are confusing states with nations. The swedish nation state has been abolished, on the ground by 35 years of immigration, officially through the huge change to the swedish constitution 2010. So, sweden today is an administative area, not a nation. Nobody cares anymore what citizenship someone has when they win this, that or the other. Cept for the media but they are truly bonkers.
"Can someone please define Swedishness for me? If someone was born in Sweden, grew up in Sweden and holds Swedish citizenship is he still not eligible to be Swedish?"
Correct. If you live here for 3 generations. And dont mix blood with us swedes. You are a colonist, not a swede.
i'm sure their goal is to become more skin cancer susceptible and looking older by getting lighter.
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