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It's allways funny to me how the perspectives can be so different. In school at young age, end of class years of the subject, we used to watch movies or reports showing the late 1800s to early 1900s big wave of European immigration to America, the poorest of the poor.
Starving Germans, Scandinavians, Irish, Italians refugees so and so on. And each of them especially when group together in same working class neighbourhoods (italians and irish), facing massive amount of discrimination and xenophobia from Americans. Or even immigrants that assimilated just a decade before them.
Same exact nationalities who gave the same type of harsh treatment to immigrants or just any minority groups in their old countries. Circle of life kinda moment watching that as a young child.
Everyone needs an Other to blame. Doesn't matter who.
My first time visiting London as a kid in 90s, we spent the entire first day in down town central London, without hearing any English spoken. Heard Spanish, French, Italian, Arabic, Greek, Hindu etc. Apparently my father was amused by my confusion when I asked when are we visiting an English city lol
Shortly after we went to Leicester @JuveJay , and I wished I was back in the confusing cosmopolitan tourism melting pot within an hour lol
Hahah yeah that makes perfect sense actually. While I recall any first mention of Vikings in primary or middle school history class here in Sweden was like "naughty seafaring traders who sometimes took more then that was owed them"
Tho the earliest Europe immigration wave to the americas was not in the history class. More of social studies I think.
I think a lot of cities are like that now. If I walk around my home town Coventry and go to the city centre I can walk around for 15 minutes and not hear English spoken. Or if it is it's some tramp asking for change. That wasn't the case 20 years ago. There are so many students and defo a large influx of immigrants.
I probably notice it more in my little white village I live now, but you see the change more from a distance as well.
I probably notice it more in my little white village I live now, but you see the change more from a distance as well.
I live in a big renowned Uni town. Like clockwork, every end to summer to around winter, I notice more nonstop English being spoken in my commute to work.
Not even about the usual immigration, but for my town it's the influx of international foreign students for the Uni. They stand out more cuz unlike the ethnic swedes or most immigrants who over time gotten the nordic social cues of you avoid eye contact or be more subdued demeanor in collective traffic lol
The usually colourful Anglo or western foreign students instead travel in groups and noticeably stand out when they loudly socialise in English. Also my fault for moving into neighbourhood filled with students lol
Not even about the usual immigration, but for my town it's the influx of international foreign students for the Uni. They stand out more cuz unlike the ethnic swedes or most immigrants who over time gotten the nordic social cues of you avoid eye contact or be more subdued demeanor in collective traffic lol
The usually colourful Anglo or western foreign students instead travel in groups and noticeably stand out when they loudly socialise in English. Also my fault for moving into neighbourhood filled with students lol
