Sweden’s got a surplus of young men
And demographically speaking, 123 men to 100 women (as is now estimated to be the case in Sweden) is not usually a good thing, as China has already discovered :
Under each of these scenarios, large numbers of young men competing for dominance elevate local rates of violence, homicide and lawlessness…
China is already feeling the effects of so many bare branches. The economist Lena Edlund estimates that every one percent increase in the sex ratio results in a six percent increase in the rates of violent and property crime. In addition, the parts of China with the most male-biased sex ratios are experiencing a variety of other maladies, all tied to the presence of too many young men. Gambling, alcohol and drug abuse, kidnapping and trafficking of women are rising steeply in China.
But in China these extra men are Chinese, part and parcel of the dominant culture. They are the result of the reproductive policies of China’s government that encouraged one-child limits, and widespread abortion of female fetuses followed.
Sweden is different. There, the extra men are recent arrivals from Muslim countries. For teenagers 16-17, that country is most likely to be Afghanistan:
Sweden has received more asylum applications per capita than any other country in Europe – 163,000 last year. The country’s population is just 9.7 million.
What is surprising is that if you look at the breakdown of the ages of applicants in Sweden, there’s a huge bump in the figures at the age of 16 – often unaccompanied minors arriving without a parent or guardian.
And 92% of unaccompanied minors aged 16 and 17 years old are male.
The author uses the term “surprising.” But there’s nothing surprising about it. If you reward a behavior, you will get more of it, and word has gotten out that this is the way Sweden deals with its arrivals:
“If you’re underage, first of all, you get housing, you get more financial resources. You also have a lot of staff around you helping you with different issues,” says Hanif Bali, a member of the opposition Moderate Party in the Swedish parliament – which is on the centre right of the political spectrum. “If you need food, clothing, everything, you can go to the municipality and demand this money.”
But there is another even bigger benefit, which Bali believes is significant. “You have the right to family reunification. So you can bring all of your family to Sweden, if you are underage.”
So there are huge incentives for getting to Sweden before you turn 18. This might explain why many young people make the journey at this point in their lives.
Or do they? The article goes on to say that there is a strong suspicion that many of the new arrivals are lying about their ages in order to make themselves seem younger than they actually are. Makes sense. And since most of them have no papers and Sweden accepts them without those papers, one would expect a lot of lying to be going on. Apparently, the Swedes are considering being more rigorous about age, but it hasn’t happened yet, and it’s not clear what standards would or could be applied.
But the article ends on what I can only assume the authors think is a happy note. Or perhaps it’s a sarcastic note. I’m really not sure:
Long term, the gender imbalance in the group of people who are currently 16 and 17 may shrink. As refugees under 18 can invite their immediate family to join them, it’s possible that their sisters will one day also travel to Sweden.
Well, that could end the “surplus of young men” problem. But it certainly wouldn’t end the problem of how Sweden might avoid cultural suicide (see also this and this).
[Hat tip: Legal Insurrection.]
Given all we know, what basis is there for assuming that Sweden wants to avoid cultural suicide? In fact, arguably cultural suicide is the only way to end European’s cultural guilt over its colonial history. Guilt that European’s have accepted for far longer than have American’s.
Geoffrey,
It’s not just their guilt. It’s also a chance to show their moral superiority over heathens like British and American warmongers. They really have no understanding of cultural differences. They operate on their ideas, not experience.
expat,
Certainly that is a factor but IMO a secondary factor. Were their certainty of moral superiority over heathens like British and American warmongers their primary motivation, dhimmitude would not be acceptable. And make no mistake, every non-Muslim European is absolutely aware of just how fanatically repressive is Islam. The majority of Europeans fear and dislike religion and are well aware of how fanatically fundamental is Islam when compared to any other religion.
This is a societal death wish. And what they want to die is their guilt, no matter the price. Enslavement will be their penance…
But the article ends on what I can only assume the authors think is a happy note. Or perhaps it’s a sarcastic note. I’m really not sure:
Long term, the gender imbalance in the group of people who are currently 16 and 17 may shrink. As refugees under 18 can invite their immediate family to join them, it’s possible that their sisters will one day also travel to Sweden.
Well, that could end the “surplus of young men” problem. But it certainly wouldn’t end the problem of how Sweden might avoid cultural suicide (see also this and this).
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Are there any sane people left in Sweden or the EU?
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/01/30/eu-leaders-claim-no-link-cologne-sex-attacks-migrant-crisis/
@GeoffreyBritan
>> “In fact, arguably cultural suicide is the only way to end European’s cultural guilt over its colonial history. Guilt that European’s have accepted for far longer than have American’s.”
I think you’re slightly misguided.
In Europe, even in the worst cases, non-western population is around 10%, while in the whole EU it will be around 5%. And right now, in countries as France or Sweden, the 1st political party is the anti-immigration one (yeap, it has risen in Sweden and it’s starting to rise in Germany).
In USA, non-western population is almost at 40%, with states as California (as big as a European country) where western population has already become a minority. And there’s have been even not an anti-immigration political party.
US is doomed. It’s too late, unless western population gather in the north states, declare the independence and make a new country. Europe… well, maybe it’s doomed, or maybe not.
I like to think I have some understanding of both the French and the Swedes, from numerous visits and good friends in both countries. The French will wake up, after much more damage is done, because they have a strong sense of cultural/national identity. Colonial guilt only spreads so much butter on the baguette. The Swedes will also wake up more reluctantly, but when they do they will go berserker. It will not be delicate, nor pretty.
I tend to agree with Parker. I think that eventually, the Scandinavians are going to go Viking, and the Germans will go German, and we may even see the rising of the Frank in the French. It won’t be pretty, but I think it will be effective.
The anti-native faction have revealed their hand. This is literally a war on women, men, and babies, too. Obama’s premature evacuation, progressive wars, and “refugee crisis” merely accelerated realizing the outcome of a dysfunctional secular religion.
The female chauvinists established a pro-choice cult and many women became dodos in pursuit of wealth, pleasure, and leisure, while the chauvinists also enjoyed accruing political, social, and economic leverage. Mother Nature is simply reminding them that their orientation and behavior are incompatible with the matriarchy She established.
That said, “fetus” is a term of art in common use by the abortion industry and Planned Parenthood which debases human life for purposes of rationalizing elective abortion and clinical cannibalism services. Outside of an abortion clinic and Planned Parenthood office, a human life early in her evolution, from conception to some time after birth, is commonly referred to as “baby” in order to distinguish her from a “clump of cells”, organ ensemble, etc., suitable only for reduction, reuse, or recycling.
Sweden has a dearth of babies, and an ambitious left-wing who, after spreading the libertine opiate, hope to secure democratic leverage in order to establish their monopolies. While one-child policy is chosen by a ruling minority, selective-child policy is chosen by a larger population, and is evidence of a mass psychopathy. The normalization of clinical cannibalism is evidence of a progressive path.
And let’s not forget the horrible effect of polygamy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g30nwCpyaA