Movin around

Wow, Cortney writes good article here on the integration of foreign Swedes back into their roots. Tough stuff!

Moving to Sweden from the U.S. or England poses no great threat to security and future employment in the long run, according to international recruitment companies, in fact it makes a statement of individuality. However, it may play havoc on one’s emotional stability – when one comes to realise how different one is from a ‘typisk’ Swede. I have only been here since 2005, yet, personally, I think the pay distinctions between genders is off-kilter for a forward-thinking society.

A country that I used to think as futuristic, is moving backwards, slowly, into the present.

Guess which side of the pond is “cool” as opposed to “rude and uneducated”. (don’t even try to say un-edu-macated) No humour here! (humor)

Stories of grand European forefathers are the dreams of sweet tipsy grandmothers with Gene Kelly/Brigadoon fantasies, heather in bloom and enduring love.

Not to mention the anger of a beer soaked fisherman/warrior with dreams of a vanquished or vanished nation, hate and retribution, which can, through time, become a beacon of ‘the way it should have been’.

Only now, in hindsight, are these children returning to the ’scene of the crime’, be it France, Poland, Germany, or some sort of Snow-Laced-North-Land, beloved by Grandmothers, Santa and Exhibitionists galore.

Some stories have been exaggerated, I was told of forest ambushes in 3 or more feet (91cm) of snow when the Russians/Nazis killed my grandmother/great-grandmother. These feats of strength that kept our families breeding and breathing are necessary, although not necessarily true. Not all.

So we return to the returnees with vague name associations and bloodlines to this land, to which both Cortney and I have an undeniable birth right. If we are offended, how must others feel? Cosmopolitans will soon be force to reckoned with. Outsourced trailblazers are here to stay.