Monday, April 20, 2009

Multiculturalism - good or bad?

I had a discussion with a friend about whether multiculturalism is good or not. He meant that there isn't a well needed discussion about it and that it is not clear that it is a positive thing. It's not the first time I've heard that kind of opinion. Frankly I don't see how multiculturalism ever could be a negative thing. I can't help think that only people who has lived in a tiny world of mostly people who are just like them and never really been in a international situation. I am not saying that it always is easy and without problems but how could ever be a reason to avoid multiculturalism? The best thing in my life is all the interesting, different and wonderful people from all over the world who has entered my life since I was born. It is also in that international context that I've learned most about myself and the world around me. Life is easy when nobody talks back to you or question your way of living and thinking. By the way, I am the only person talking back at this guy, at least within our common group of friends. The rest always sits quiet and listen when he talks.

On Thuesday afternoon I am "guaranteed" a nice time with some multiculturalistic touch. I am going to have a coffee with my very nice new friend who is Muslim and Lebanese and who came to Sweden at the age of 16. In conversation with him I learn new things that no one else of my friends could teach me because his experiences and his background is unique, just like everybody else's.

Friday, April 17, 2009

No title

I don't have any title on this post because I just want to write what my friend from Bulgaria wrote this to me tonight. It made me smile.

"i just want to say the world will be much better if people like you are determine the rules.."

Friday, April 10, 2009

Pengarpengarpengar

by Svenska Akademien

Pengar pengar pengar
Pengar pengar pengar
Kronor i timmen minut ena sekunden
slita slänga, krita kränga
tom i grunden, dum och bunden, till

Sture:
cash och konto, svarta vita,
jäkta jaga, låna krita,
leta efter minsta möjliga, slita,
skicka räkning för allting du gör,
tänka trissa, kapa klura,
fiffla fuska, lyfta luras,
leta efter, skicka fetast faktura,
och va den som har mest när du dör,

jäktar jagar men du har ingenting,
annat än prylar, ytligt bling bling,
pengar som de ända målet dem når,
rött eller blått har blit blandat till dassig grå,
alltid samma nyans, konkurans,
lögner om att alla har samma chans,
har gått i väntan lång, tillväxt tanketrång,
pengar är vägen till vår undergång,

Räven:
Kan man inte få segla,
iväg utan sedlar,
kan man inte få leva,
utan att behöva skreva, för pengar,
o sleva från anndras mun,
andas deras luft som redan e för tung,
pressa sista droppen vatten nu,
de törstandes brun,
med pengar istället för kärlek som grund,
pengar är hårda men världen e rund,
istället för pengar,
kärlek som grund,
frihet som grund,
kärlek som grund,

GeneralKnas:
Vi måste byta valuta få de sjuka o sluta,
med kärlek som grund ja vi klarar oss utan,
kom till denna världen för o skapa och njuta,
du kan inte köpas vägra ta mutan,
tillväxts hetsen, köpa pruta,
i denna kulturen e formerna gjutna,
vill ut ur buren men viljorna e brutna,
buren inom oss vägarna e slutna,
torsk för pengar, som pundar på sin spruta,
men gå håll dig på din plats, men gå håll dig på din ruta,
över mig kan ingen besluta, hög tid att byta valuta,

Tuesday, April 07, 2009

A nightly poem

Nat i Natten,
jagar katten.
I det blå,
där du förstå,
finns en skatt gömd,
inte bortglömd,
utan mitt i allt

/My friend "Marsving" says good night

Thursday, April 02, 2009

My former friend - the racist (about Roma people in Slovakia)

An ok day just turned ugly. My heart was beating so fast when having this chat conversation with what I used to consider a friend/buddy from Slovakia. I have just shortened it a little and unfortunately I missed to save the first part of the conversation which included how this guy says that he thinks that Roma in Slovakia should die. His "arguments" for this are shown below. He also told me about how they stop buses by standing in the middle of the road to rob them and that they teach their kids to do the same. Another thing he said when I called him a racist is that he isn't one, that he likes white, red, yellow, black just not Roma people, as if they don't count when it comes to racism. I have now erased him from my list and have no intention to have further contact with him. Unfortunately this is far away from a unique opinion among Slovaks about Roma.


21:38M

in the school

and they never finish it even its for free


21:38Natasja

Do you say that they receiveeducation like all ther kids?


21:39M

yes

many


21:39Natasja

no


21:39M

oh yes


21:39Natasja

That’s a lie!


21:39M

that is not


21:39Natasja

they don't get education like everyone else....


21:39M

there are schools mostly around kosice


21:39Natasja

that just shows how little you actually KNOW about them


21:39M

lets call them white kids

they have to pay for lunch

at school


21:40M

they have to buy the books and pens


21:40Natasja

the white kids?


21:40M

everything

roma kids

they get lunch for free

transportation or dorms for free

books and pens and everything for free

and what happens

as i said

they dont go to school

if they go


21:41M

they steal from there

and they dont even finish it

what matters

?

education

last time they were trying to educate them


21:42Natasja

what kind of education?


21:42M

it was some kind of an american project

like 10 people from usa

they came

like how they will change them and teach them i dont know what

they came

after 3 days

they got robbed

romas took everything they had

even their passports

and americans went home

end of the storry


21:44Natasja

you're such a racist...


21:44M

milions and milions are spent on support of any kind for them

effect?!

nada

they take destroy and then they ask for more


21:45Natasja

so they are not worth as much as others?

so what? Slovaks steal and rob too? Did you think that slovaks don't??? In what universe are you living in?


21:46M

nope they are worth much more, coz others are working their asses of paying taxes

and they hardly survive from month to month


21:46Natasja

I am talking about human worth not fucking money


21:46M

of course slovaks do


21:46Natasja

so, what's you point?


21:47M

but we are talking about 10 percent top


21:47Natasja

so?


21:47M

in case of romas it is 95


21:47Natasja

you are nothing more than a racist


21:47M

slovaks are having 1 or 2 kids top

coz they can not afford more

but one roma 30 years old has ten kids

just to get the money from the state

that is all

and if that makes me a racist fine, i am a racist like everyone who lives in slovakia and is not roma


21:51Natasja

as I said, slovaks are infamous for their racism..


21:51M

well

too bad

go there try something teach them help them

change their mentality

and then we can talk

they live there coz they recieved nice house with appartaments

poor romas they live in the suburbs without electricity and water

that is not there

they had a nice house with water electricity

they were not paying for water nor electricity btw


21:57Natasja

I will end this conversation know. Bye


21:57M

they destroyed the house selling everything they could including water pipes

they destroyed the house selling everything they could including water pipes

and the house fell down

they said build us a new one

their ooown fault

and btw, i have rome friends, mother rome father roma kids roma.I know this family since forever.And they are great, but that is sadly those 5 percent i mentioned!

i dont have a problem with the fact that they are roma

coz they live and they behave like people

and they hate and they have the same oppinion about the roma u are so fighting for as i do!!!!

weird isnt it?!

bye