That is a very fascinating subject. In addition to the 20% who were born outside of Sweden, another 6% are born in Sweden to parents both born outside, meaning over a quarter of the population today is not ethnically Swedish. It's a radical shift, compared to under 2% before WW2 and under 7% in the 70s. I'm curious how that social experiment will pan out in the end.
huh well. stuff like this just makes me very insecure at times.
My partner is Swedish but she was born in Hungary I'm currently a resident of Australia but originally from India and plan to move to Sweden sometime later. Both of us speak Swedish are fairly integrated into the culture.
Maybe you're implying that only x% of the population must be born outside, non-ethnical Swedes.
> Both of us speak Swedish are fairly integrated into the culture.
Indeed, as they say, when in Rome, do as the Romans. There's a good bit of evidence to suggest that the integration of migrants vastly different culturally has been difficult at best. When you go from having negligible amounts of foreign-born people to having a quarter of the country be foreign-born within one person's lifetime, it's hard not to introduce social disturbance. And that's why I am calling it a social experiment: to what end?
Besides, Australia doing well is hardly an example of anything other than how blessed they are in a number of ways[0].
Our cultural identity is one of a nation of immigrants, but over the past couple decades many European countries have become just as much if not more so. Among OECD countries the U.S. is middle of the pack: https://data.oecd.org/migration/foreign-born-population.htm