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05/02/2008: "'It's as if we immigrants stink of rotten fish'"

I had to move to another city because of the job. I soon found that
looking for accommodation became a never ending quest. People were
really willing to rent out their apartments to me as I was earning good
money. Everything was fine unless they actually met me and got to know
that I was an immigrant. Then I got the big .no..

In Gothenburg I dealt with one of the major housing companies and found that they are not inclined to make any offers to non-Swede. Even if they do make an offer, it is always for
areas where only immigrants live. Immigrants are never offered any places where Swedish people live. Why this division?

Then there is discrimination in everyday life. Whenever an immigrant sits on a bus or a tram and leaves one empty seat next to him, I have found out that the probability of a Swedish person sitting next to him/her is almost zero. When the bus gets absolutely full, most people
would prefer to stand than sit next to an immigrant. It.s almost like they think we stink of rotten fish.

[ Is that so? Then why do Swedes continue to vote for parties that allow immigration to continue rather than stopping it by voting for nationalists? The immigrants will soon outnumber the Swedes and then what? ]

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on Sunday, May 4th, Osama bin Laden said

Perhaps you would like to move to an black inner city ghetto, Mr. Arnold, to gain "better understanding" of the black people. The rest of us live in reality about racial differences.

on Saturday, May 3rd, S.Arnold said

More than being racist its the human insecurity thats the root course for most race gender etc based discrinmination and rather sulking over it ways shold be cultivated to promote better understanding of others.