tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6935370618605188900.post3593032838263880556..comments2024-03-28T19:17:05.394-04:00Comments on Paco Enterprises: Eyes openedPacohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08004124282907287652noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6935370618605188900.post-5933986945329744962018-02-21T10:11:43.900-05:002018-02-21T10:11:43.900-05:00Once in a while a rube self-identifies.Once in a while a rube self-identifies.RebeccaHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15113907852048577121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6935370618605188900.post-90938536686854558412018-02-20T00:48:16.409-05:002018-02-20T00:48:16.409-05:00This week, I saw a Somali woman who immigrated to ...This week, I saw a Somali woman who immigrated to Sweden years ago lament that her once safe neighborhood is now unsafe, because the new refugees do not want to assimilate and become Swedes as she and her neighbors did.<br /><br /> Deborahnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6935370618605188900.post-69950714027626315182018-02-19T16:55:59.066-05:002018-02-19T16:55:59.066-05:00What's the old saying- there are none so blind...What's the old saying- there are none so blind, as those who will not see? <br /><br />And just as bad are those who see but refuse to act, out of fear.rinardmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01084346073021788172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6935370618605188900.post-32945429732436064382018-02-19T16:31:42.461-05:002018-02-19T16:31:42.461-05:00Actually, of course they talk more freely to my wi...Actually, of course they talk more freely to my wife because she's foreign (and she raises the topic). I guess they're scared to raise these topics among themselves or, shudder, go public like this woman has. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6935370618605188900.post-46053888394467497982018-02-19T16:15:34.547-05:002018-02-19T16:15:34.547-05:00My wife has an old friend who is the son of a NATO...My wife has an old friend who is the son of a NATO general (one of Helmet Schmidt's advisers), and we've talked to lots of other Germans, and everyone talks like this in private. <br /><br />In fact I used to correspond with a Swedish social worker 25 years ago who said much the same as this woman, but had to continue in her job. I was trying to persuade her that cultural differences were paramount, as I was then studying Max Weber at university, ('Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism'). <br /><br />That's when you notice that we Anglo-Saxon/Scottish are different from continental northern Europeans with their submission to 'authorities' no matter what. brucenoreply@blogger.com