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Det handlar om människans beteende

Emina Arnautovic

Torsdag, 25 Juni 2009 20:59

Helt nyligen blev jag uppmanad att i mitt politiska engagemang jag ska rikta mig mera till invandrarna. Att detta är den enda kvalitet jag har. Detta kom från en finländare. Jag blev lite förbryllad för enligt mig så har jag alltid gjort det, men min profilering har aldrig varit bara som invandrare, utan som människan. Dessutom har jag andra kvaliteter än bara der faktum att jag är invandrare. Enligt mig jobbar jag dagligen för invandrarna, integrering och för övriga människor i samhället. Varför kunde jag inte jobba för invandrarna genom att jag engagerar mig för saker som intresserar mig i övrigt? Varför kan jag inte jobba för vanliga människor bland andra invandrare också? Varför i fridens namn, måste jag jobba enbart för invandrare om jag är invandrare?? Kan jag inte jobba för oss människor?

 När jag kom till Finland blev jag tvungen att anpassa mig och att skapa ett nytt liv. Detta innebar också den stora sorgen att lämna en del av mig själv någonstans på vägen. Jag menar den vardagliga Emina. Detta innebar också lyckan att hitta nya, underbara saker i det nya samhället. Idag säger många att jag är en av de mest integrerade människorna de känner, men viktigare än det är att jag är lycklig. Det var svårt att hitta balansen mellan mina två kulturer, men jag har hittat den. Balansen som passar mig. Men är det plötslig så att jag är integrerad ”för mycket”? Hmm….

Kaskö har beslutat att inte ta emot några asylsökande, och det kan jag acceptera. Men det som oroar mig är alla kommentarer som kommer efter. Om man läser på nätets upplaga så kan man se dessa. Det är då jag blir orolig. Inte för att man kommenterar, nej, det får man göra, utan att på tio negativa kommentarer kommer en positiv.

Det är få politiker, humanister, invandrare och infödda finländare som kommenterar den här negativa utvecklingen när det gäller själva inställningen mot invandrarna. Den som tyckte att jag borde rikta mig i mitt arbete endast för invandrarna har aldrig själv (åtminstone har jag aldrig läst) kommenterat den här utvecklingen, offentligt. När jag säger kommenterar, jag menar inte den här bloggen eller att ha den allmänna positiva inställningen. Jag tänker att man konkret bemöter anklagelserna som invandrare får och modigt ta emot de reaktioner som inte lär vänta.

 Vi också måste acceptera att vissa kommuner eller rättare sagt deras invånare, vill inte ha flera invandrare. De är inte rasister för det. Människor måste kunna säga sin mening utan att bli anklagade att de är främlingsfientliga, och det är viktigt att någon lyssnar på deras känslor.

Men låt mig påminna alla er som läser dessa rader. INGEN lämnar sitt land frivilligt! Om jag skulle ge er nu, i den här stunden 2 millioner euro och sa att ni får flytta vart ni vill. Kairo, Monaco, Frankrike…Ni ska leva ett lyxigt liv ( ni behöver inte ens vara asylsökande)…men, ni får inte träffa era nära och kära, kanske får ni inte heller ta med era barn, kusiner och små kusiner ska ni aldrig någonsin kunna träffa, aldrig dansa kring midsommars stången, aldrig se norrsken… Ja, jag undrar hur många av oss skulle säga ja till det här förslaget!! Man lämnar allt detta bara om man måste!

Sedan är det upp till var och en att göra av sitt liv vad man kan, orkar och vill. Så är det för oss alla, inte bara invandrare. Jag undrar varför vi binder mänskligt beteende (oftast negativ sådan) med en viss folkgrupp. Det handlar om den individuella människans beteende, inte hela gruppens beteende!

Projekt

Ann-Jolin Grüne

Onsdag, 17 Juni 2009 00:04

Jag läste en gång en antropolog (som jag glömt namnet på) som skrev om biståndsprojekt i utvecklingsländer. Han argumenterade att medan de som startar projektet är eld och lågor så funderar killen/tjejen i utvecklingslandet på hur man bäst kan använda det för sina egna syften. De har sett projekten komma och gå. De har lärt sig att man kan få del av kakan om man behärskar blomsterspråket. Fastän det låter ironiskt behöver det ju inte vara det.

I Finland existerar ett likadant blomsterspråk. För att få finansiering måste man kunna projektblomsterspråk. Många goda initiativ hankar fram på massor olika projektfinansieringar, många bra initiativ dör ut. Vad är projektens funktion? Att skapa något nytt, antar jag. Att täcka för ett behov som annars inte blir försörjt för. Vad får vi ut av projekten? Hur mycket går till spillo?

Bridge, integrationsprojektet i Luckan som jag koordinerar, söker pengar för sin verksamhet. Helst kommunala pengar för att få verksamheten att bli mera bestående. Vi har jagat ESF pengar. Vi började med TE-centralen som hänvisade oss till Södra Finlands länsstyrelse, som i sin tur hänvisade oss till Länsstyrelsen i Lapplands län, som i sin tur hänvisade oss tillbaka till TE-centralen som meddelade att de har ingen aning om när projektansökningstiden blir verklighet.

RAY (Bridge finansiär) har meddelat att de inte finansierar finlandssvenska kulturevenemang riktat till invandrare. BRIDGE fortsätter att erbjuda dessa nästa höst men de finansieras av Luckan. Finska organisationer, föreningar och kultur förs fram t.ex. i Esbo av kommunen. Men finlandssvenska fattas från ekvationen. Nu gäller det att hitta en finansiär som är intresserad av detta…

BRIDGE stöder invandrare med arbetssökning. Vi skriver cv:n tillsammans med kunden, översätter arbetsannonser, hjälper med att skriva ansökan. Detta tycks ingen riktigt göra – för det tar så mycket tid. RAY skulle egentligen inte villa finansiera detta heller. De tycker kommunen borde ta mera ansvar. De har rätt. Kommunen borde också ta mera ansvar för ensikotin, drogrehabilitering och stöd för handikappade.

Inte undra på att man får huvudbry av det här. Varje finansiär tilltalas av det rätta blomsterspråket för deras organisation. Den som behärskar språket och orkar jaga hoppeligen lyckas.

Så, det finns två delar till Bridge: information och handledning samt den finlandssvenska kulturbiten. För mig är projektvärlden ny. Jag har massor att lära mig, vilket är spännande.

Integration – inte bara språk

Emina Arnautovic

Söndag, 7 Juni 2009 14:53

Det förs livliga debatter i vårt samhälle just om vilket språk borde man som invandrare lära sig. Med intresse läste jag på Magma, Olav S Melins artikel ” Integrationsdebatt om språkundervisning.” Han nämner Richard Järnefelt som enligt Olav klämmer i med att ” tvingas lära sig en dialekt som talas av mindre än fem procent innebär slutet för all integration”. Enligt artikeln, påstår Järnefelt att vi invandrarna, som lär oss svenska, lider av svenskans ställning, och det gör oss ointresserade att lära oss det nya landets språk. Tack Olav att för att du förstår den här frågan bättre än Järnefelt.

Jag blir alltid lika mycket förvånad om dessa experters uttalande speciellt som är inte själva invandrare.

Många av er som läser dessa rader talar fullständigt engelska. Betyder det att ni är integrerade i det Brittiska samhället då?!

Integrering är en kombination av ens identitet, trygghet och språk. Språk är ett verktyg för att integreras, men först ska man känna ett behov att integreras. Det här behovet är inte jobb, pengar eller status. I integrering ingår en stor dos av sorg och egna frågeställningar. Jag viste att jag måste skapa mig en ny identitet som är en kombination av min gamla och min nya kultur.

För att överhuvudtaget våga göra det måste jag känna mig trygg med människor runtomkring mig. Och då behöver jag känna mig välkommen och önskad, bekräftad och förstådd. I Närpes fick jag allt detta – på svenska! Om det var Seinäjoki som tog hand om mig skulle allt detta hända på finska!

Min dotter ska på sommar jobb i Ilmajoki, just för att lära sig landets andra språk också. Min inställning till finska har aldrig varit negativ utan en rikedom lika vacker och viktigt som svenska.

När det gäller att vi som lär oss bara svenska inte får kvalificerat jobb om vi inte kan finska kan tolkas hur man vill. Vad är ett kvalificerat jobb? Det som jag vill syssla med eller det som jag har utbildat mig till?  När jag blev tillräcklig trygg i mig själv här i Finland hittade jag jobb och intresse som enligt mig är jag kvalificerad till.

Ni som diskuterar och funderar vilket språk ska invandrare lära sig, vill jag meddela att den mänskliga språk kommer först, allt annat faller på plats vartefter!

When can we have a balanced and meaningful debate on immigration?

Martin-Eric Racine

Lördag, 6 Juni 2009 17:47

This question keeps on popping up in many recent newspaper articles, on discussion boards and in seminars debating immigration issues in Finland. At the core of the question is a general impression that, between the enthusiastic supporters of multiculturalism and the pessimistic nationalist rednecks, very little constructive discussion is possible in Finland.

At one end, humanitarian help organizations, as well as politicians from the Green Party and the Swedish Folk Party, keep on taking excessively generous initiatives towards refugees and asylum seekers, all while labeling their detractors as racists. At the other end, nationalist candidates in the National Coalition Party and True Finns Party keep on painting every immigrant as a refugee who is abusing social security and label their detractors as turning Finland into the easiest country to abuse social security, at the Finnish taxpayer's expense. In between, candidates from the Christian Democrats and Center Party spread equally among these two camps. Meanwhile, while the Left is currently avoiding discussions on this topic, Social Democrats have previously shown that they tend to side with the nationalists in labeling all immigrants as social security abusing refugees.

One interesting point is that, no matter at which end of the political spectrum one looks, the whole Finnish immigration debate keeps on focusing exclusively on refugees and asylum seekers, despite the fact that migrant workers and foreign spouses of Finnish nationals make up for a good 70% of the foreign population residing on Finnish soil.

This recalcitrance to discuss immigration from any other perspective than refugees is rather painfully noticeable. Some recent examples:

• At the Maailma Kylässä ethnic festival, last month, the podium was given to a number of speakers to discuss immigration issues. In once case, Minister of Immigration Mrs.Astrid Thors made an appearance at the tent of Demo, an NGO promoting active participation in the electoral process. Sure enough, Thors repeatedly brought back the issue of refugees, leaving other aspects of immigration completely out.

  The next day, on the Mekong stage, a panel discussion was introduced by the MC as "discussing issues that affect refugees", despite the fact that the program read "panel discussion on immigration"... In fairness, the organization sponsoring that particular time slot was the Refugee Help Center but, thankfully, issues brought by the panelists clearly discussed a much broader perspective than merely refugees:

  One Estonian-born researcher said that she'd rather avoid putting all immigrants into the same bag, because there's so many different reasons for coming to Finland and few of those have anything to do with seeking asylum and one cannot make any assumption about an immigrant's motives for coming here.

  The other panelist, a professor from the university of Turku, astutely said that, if it was up to him, Maailma Kylässä should not exist, because the actual intent of the event is not to give immigrants a chance to be heard, but rather to entertain Finns with exotic culture and food, which is not the right way to make immigrants feel a part of society, in his opinion.

• Independent member of the Helsinki City Council, Mr.Jussi Halla-Aho, repeatedly makes the headlines because of his blog's rather controversial statements. Probably his most famous stunt was the day he jokingly declared in his blog that, if the women of the Green Party are so keen on getting more immigrants admitted to Finland, they also ought to be enthusiastic at the prospect of becoming rape victims, cynically implying that immigrants all come from 3rd-world countries where women's rights are non-existent and, correspondingly, where the probability of women being raped is greater.

• National Coalition Party candidate at the EU elections, Mr.Kai Pöntinen, used as his campaign slogan a decisively nationalist Sosiaalipummien maahantulolle stoppi! (Stop the immigration of social security abusers). Further reading on his homepage shows a rather misinformed statement, alleging that immigrants are systematically taught Swedish in language trainings offered via the Integration Act:

  Myös kotouttamispolitiikkamme on metsässä, on täysin järjenvastaista että tulijoille opetetaan ensimmäiseksi kotimaiseksi kieleksi ruotsia. Kyllä ensiksi on osattava suomea ja sitten muita kieliä.

  Reality is that, unless an unemployed immigrant lives in the monolingual Swedish municipality of Närpes or on the Åland archipelago, the only language they can learn via integration measures is ... Finnish.

• At a recent "Meet the Immigration Department" seminar at cultural center Caisa, it transpired that the vast majority of the audience and of the employees working for the City of Helsinki's Immigrant Services department came to Finland as refugees. The moderator of the event also came to Finland as a refugee. Can anyone guess what issues were given preference by the moderator during that evening? 12 points go to ... those who answered "refugees and asylum seekers." Was there at least meaningful discussion about any aspect of the immigration process? As the former chairman of a particular Finnish political party's English section used to say:

  I will not tolerate this meeting turning into a Wall of Lamentations or a Complaint Choir! Are we here to discuss real issues or what?

What's remarkable about all these examples is how public opinion is so persistently hardwired into thinking that all foreigners living in Finland came here as refugees from 3rd-world countries whose culture is radically different from Finland's and that they all became perpetually unemployed, forever living off social security, to the point that even politicians who ought to know better go along with it.

When will we be able to have a balanced and meaningful debate on immigration, you ask? The day both multicultural hippies and nationalist rednecks will have been kicked off the podium. Of course, it would also help if the refugees themselves stopped monopolizing the podium, whenever the opinion of immigrants is solicited. Then again, perhaps these 3 groups benefit so much from the current status quo that they'd rather not see the day when others can participate in this debate on equal footing with them, so that a balanced and meaningful debate can finally take place?

Migration, integration and its challenges

Jay Nanje

Fredag, 5 Juni 2009 18:23

The content of this write up is subject to criticism and I take full responsibility for the grammatical errors. I do not intend to hurt anyone but to express my view based on a student and immigrant perspective.

I am grateful for this opportunity that the Director of magma, Mr Nils Erik Forsgåd, gave me. Sir, I thank you for allowing me to take part in the pilot magma seminar. I am also grateful that the Minister made room for me during the magma seminar to address my question. Ms Åkero Fredrika, thank you for interpreting the main points in Swedish to English so that I could follow the discussion. I would as well like to thank Olav S. Melin and Ben Fernstöm for encouraging me to join the blogging community.

I am originally from Cameroon, West Central Africa. I have lived in Finland for five years. I moved to Finland because I would like to experience something completely new as far as living condition, education are concerned.
I have a multicultural background. Some years ago I lived with my late uncle for more than a couple of years. He was married to a Nigerian woman. My wife is Russian. I am Cameroonian. Soon we are having a baby. We met in Helsinki. Today we live in Helsinki. Finland, I would say, has become our second home.

While in Finland I later realized that having the proper education would open the door for me economically in that I would have a place in the labor market and so I had to give up the many odd jobs I used to do in order that I continue my education. I am a final year student in Helsinki Metropolia University of applied sciences, department of healthcare and social services. I seem to be more interested in working with immigrants and ethnic minorities.

My desire to study in Finland increased when I noticed that studying in Finland is relatively less expensive to other countries like the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, to mention a few.
I enjoy working with people, observing them and asking myself why they behave the way they do. For the few years I have lived in Finland many questions have come to my mind after a close examination of the trend of events. What has struck me most is trying to understand why most of my friends and colleagues leave Finland for other countries after their education? Why do some leave even before completing their studies? Why do most, including myself, complain about the system? Why must immigrants move from Finland to other countries, why can’t it be the other way round i.e. migrant graduates moving to Finland? I understand that by nature human beings would always complain even when there seem to be nothing to complain about. This time around it seems to me that there is something worth mentioning.

Finland trains immigrants by providing them with ´´free´´ education. After graduation most cannot find work in their field of studies. What does Finland do with these immigrants who are ripe for the labor market? Somebody has to pay for an immigrant to complete a three and half-year study program in polytechnic. It puzzles me that after spending this much on migrants most of them do unskilled labour after graduation. I can only imagine how much it costs the taxpayer or Finnish government to fund the education of immigrants. Of course I do understand that many immigrants work extremely hard and pay their tax while studying at the same time. Lets get back to my worry before I get out of topic.

When my friends leave Finland because they cannot find work in their respective field of studies, to some extent I share their concern. It can be frustrating to invest time, money and energy in studies only to come out unemployed for many years. I have made some efforts to show my willingness to contribute positively to the Finnish society. I have tried to learn the language. This means that for many months I had to forgo the jobs that helped me pay rents and take care of basic needs. In most of the courses I had to pay 90euros for each.
I am also a member in associations that promote integration such as multicultural Finland. I am a member of the Finnish Red Cross and have voluntarily made a yearly payment contribution. I search for seminars and conferences. I ask questions and try to follow what is going on in the media. I remember at one point I woke up in the morning and spent almost the whole day sending applications to various employers. Before I knew I had sent about 50 applications that same day.
I have a feeling that things are beginning to get better slowly. But then better is not good enough. I think that if immigrants were given the opportunity they would put in their best and make this society a better place to live in. I understand how threatening it is for nationals who see the constant rise in the number of immigrants in their country. If I were a Finn, I would be ´´scared´´ somehow because it could be a threat to the culture. But it also could be an opportunity to cross-examine ideas and values and exchange of talents. I picture the situation much the same as preparing a delicious sauce. For it to be tasty there ought to be a combination of ingredients. Different migrants are the ingredients and their constructive contribution to the society, when given the opportunity, would be beneficial to everyone.

It has not been easy to find an internship place that suits my study needs. I personally searched for the current one I am in and I am still searching for the 3rd and final one. As a student I dream of a day when an opportunity would be given to students to do their internships in government institutions, for instance, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs/ Interior or in my case, Finnish Immigration service. This would ease integration, which would in turn give migrants access to vital resources and independent choices.

I had the opportunity to share my view on integration with Minister Astrid Thörs. It was such a nice moment and I agree with her that employers ought to give migrants more opportunities for work. In my opinion the very fact that the director of magma allowed me to take part in the seminar, and the Minister listening to me and answering my question, is in itself a process of integration because when I looked around in the room, I was a minority among the minority.

In sum I think integration is a two way process, the willingness of the host country to accept the immigrant and the readiness of the immigrant to show the host country what he/she has got to offer.
Every human being has got potentials. Under the right circumstances and when given equal opportunity, the potentials would be seen and would serve the common good of society.

Best regards

Jay

Migration, integration and its challenges

Jay Nanje

Fredag, 5 Juni 2009 18:23

The content of this write up is subject to criticism and I take full responsibility for the grammatical errors. I do not intend to hurt anyone but to express my view based on a student and immigrant perspective.

I am grateful for this opportunity that the Director of magma, Mr Nils Erik Forsgåd, gave me. Sir, I thank you for allowing me to take part in the pilot magma seminar. I am also grateful that the Minister made room for me during the magma seminar to address my question. Ms Åkero Fredrika, thank you for interpreting the main points in Swedish to English so that I could follow the discussion. I would as well like to thank Olav S. Melin and Ben Fernstöm for encouraging me to join the blogging community.

I am originally from Cameroon, West Central Africa. I have lived in Finland for five years. I moved to Finland because I would like to experience something completely new as far as living condition, education are concerned.
I have a multicultural background. Some years ago I lived with my late uncle for more than a couple of years. He was married to a Nigerian woman. My wife is Russian. I am Cameroonian. Soon we are having a baby. We met in Helsinki. Today we live in Helsinki. Finland, I would say, has become our second home.

While in Finland I later realized that having the proper education would open the door for me economically in that I would have a place in the labor market and so I had to give up the many odd jobs I used to do in order that I continue my education. I am a final year student in Helsinki Metropolia University of applied sciences, department of healthcare and social services. I seem to be more interested in working with immigrants and ethnic minorities.

My desire to study in Finland increased when I noticed that studying in Finland is relatively less expensive to other countries like the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, to mention a few.
I enjoy working with people, observing them and asking myself why they behave the way they do. For the few years I have lived in Finland many questions have come to my mind after a close examination of the trend of events. What has struck me most is trying to understand why most of my friends and colleagues leave Finland for other countries after their education? Why do some leave even before completing their studies? Why do most, including myself, complain about the system? Why must immigrants move from Finland to other countries, why can’t it be the other way round i.e. migrant graduates moving to Finland? I understand that by nature human beings would always complain even when there seem to be nothing to complain about. This time around it seems to me that there is something worth mentioning.

Finland trains immigrants by providing them with ´´free´´ education. After graduation most cannot find work in their field of studies. What does Finland do with these immigrants who are ripe for the labor market? Somebody has to pay for an immigrant to complete a three and half-year study program in polytechnic. It puzzles me that after spending this much on migrants most of them do unskilled labour after graduation. I can only imagine how much it costs the taxpayer or Finnish government to fund the education of immigrants. Of course I do understand that many immigrants work extremely hard and pay their tax while studying at the same time. Lets get back to my worry before I get out of topic.

When my friends leave Finland because they cannot find work in their respective field of studies, to some extent I share their concern. It can be frustrating to invest time, money and energy in studies only to come out unemployed for many years. I have made some efforts to show my willingness to contribute positively to the Finnish society. I have tried to learn the language. This means that for many months I had to forgo the jobs that helped me pay rents and take care of basic needs. In most of the courses I had to pay 90euros for each.
I am also a member in associations that promote integration such as multicultural Finland. I am a member of the Finnish Red Cross and have voluntarily made a yearly payment contribution. I search for seminars and conferences. I ask questions and try to follow what is going on in the media. I remember at one point I woke up in the morning and spent almost the whole day sending applications to various employers. Before I knew I had sent about 50 applications that same day.
I have a feeling that things are beginning to get better slowly. But then better is not good enough. I think that if immigrants were given the opportunity they would put in their best and make this society a better place to live in. I understand how threatening it is for nationals who see the constant rise in the number of immigrants in their country. If I were a Finn, I would be ´´scared´´ somehow because it could be a threat to the culture. But it also could be an opportunity to cross-examine ideas and values and exchange of talents. I picture the situation much the same as preparing a delicious sauce. For it to be tasty there ought to be a combination of ingredients. Different migrants are the ingredients and their constructive contribution to the society, when given the opportunity, would be beneficial to everyone.

It has not been easy to find an internship place that suits my study needs. I personally searched for the current one I am in and I am still searching for the 3rd and final one. As a student I dream of a day when an opportunity would be given to students to do their internships in government institutions, for instance, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs/ Interior or in my case, Finnish Immigration service. This would ease integration, which would in turn give migrants access to vital resources and independent choices.

I had the opportunity to share my view on integration with Minister Astrid Thörs. It was such a nice moment and I agree with her that employers ought to give migrants more opportunities for work. In my opinion the very fact that the director of magma allowed me to take part in the seminar, and the Minister listening to me and answering my question, is in itself a process of integration because when I looked around in the room, I was a minority among the minority.

In sum I think integration is a two way process, the willingness of the host country to accept the immigrant and the readiness of the immigrant to show the host country what he/she has got to offer.
Every human being has got potentials. Under the right circumstances and when given equal opportunity, the potentials would be seen and would serve the common good of society.

Best regards

Jay

Befrämjar främlingsfientlig diskussion invandring?

Ann-Jolin Grüne

Onsdag, 3 Juni 2009 18:35

Jag träffade idag på seminariet Integraatiofoorumi en EU- kandidat som är invandrare. Hon berättade att hon hade blivit uppringd på morgonen av en person som förklarat att han är rasist och tillhör Halla-Ahos stödtrupper. De samtalade en god stund och kom underfund med att de egentligen var av samma åsikt om mycket gällande integration och invandring. Till slut bad hon honom att sluta kalla sig rasist eftersom vad de egentligen diskuterade var rädslor och olika scenarior om invandring. Egentligen hade han ingenting emot mörkhyade eller utlänningar utan var tydligen mera orolig för att det sociala välfärdssystemet skulle utnyttjas felaktigt.

Samma kandidat hade även träffat Pöntinen som hade den olyckliga valreklamen i HS som jag skrivit om tidigare i min blog. Pöntinen berättade att han är från Seinäjoki och att där åtnjuter Sannfinnarna ett starkt stöd. Med sin reklam ville han också få några av dessa röster.

Till följd av rasistiska utspel har kandidaten som jag träffade fått mycket mediasynlighet. Varje gång någon uttalar sig främlingsfientligt ringer medien upp henne och frågar hennes åsikt.

Så, kanske har denna nya debatt om invandring, som i mellanåt går för mycket åt det ena eller det andra hållet, önskad effekt. Farhågor, rädslor, avundsjuka, intolerans och fördomar ventileras och diskuteras. Kanske, ifall vi bygger upp ett diskussionsklimat där man får diskutera även det som inte anses acceptabelt, kan vi på riktigt få fram ett mera invandrarvänligt samhälle överlag.

För visst bor det en liten rasist i de flesta. Alla har vi förutfattade meningar om andra och bär på fördomar. Vissa vet vi inte ens om att vi har förrän vi plötsligt säger eller gör något tokigt. Genom att diskutera märker vi våra egna begränsningar och kan hoppeligen överkomma dem. Skönt är det om man inte döms för evigt för ett tokigt uttal. Givetvis mot att man inte fortsätter på samma linje…

Så jag hoppas vi går mot ett mera öppet och starkt samhälle på det här sättet och inte sluter oss in i ett nötskal!