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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"We should have more people from places like Norway"
Why on earth would someone from Norway want to move to a country where they'll have to pay exorbitant prices for healthcare, sky-high tuition to send their kids to school and really no system or program to allow them to retire with some quality of life left to enjoy.Not to mention, a country governed by a lunatic and his band of thieves.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)Nobody in their right mind, not EVER
BigmanPigman
(51,608 posts)can I move to Norway? PLEASE!!!!! I had to leave the US in 2004/5 or else I would have ended up in a Loony Bin or a jail for any number of anti- Bush actions.
Bradshaw3
(7,522 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,731 posts)trying to sneak into the United States?
Me neither.
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)tanyev
(42,564 posts)Even more so in the last year.
lpbk2713
(42,759 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,731 posts)lpbk2713
(42,759 posts)It never lets me down.
G_j
(40,367 posts)LeftInTX
(25,364 posts)With their Nordic features and cool knit sweaters saying, "We don't want to go to that America shithole country".
meadowlark5
(2,795 posts)The patriotic, flag waving good 'murican deplorables would be so outraged
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,731 posts)They speculate that PM Solberg must have made a good impression, but:
whathehell
(29,067 posts)We don't need to insult our own country because Ignorant Chump insulted others.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,731 posts)the white supremacist who shot a bunch of people a few years ago and is now in prison.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)VOX
(22,976 posts)Remember, it was mostly kids killed at a Labour Party youth organization summer camp, some as young as 14. He killed 69 people there, and eight with a bomb elsewhere.
And Breivik's far-far-right political beliefs place him squarely in Trump's camp -- he'd fit right in.
Cha
(297,275 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)Normay is a hell hole. Norway is the good place.
🇳🇴 🇳🇴 🇳🇴
rurallib
(62,420 posts)Orange Free State
(611 posts)They drink lots of Cofveve.
Heartstrings
(7,349 posts)Many people have told me this. Normay is now on my bucket list to visit!
Vogon_Glory
(9,118 posts)The average Northwestern European (including ALL of Scandinavia) is better off than most middle-class Americans, and has been for several decades now.
In point of fact, many of us vote against the Republican Party and their wealthy backers because we fear that they want to turn the USA into a third-world sh$$-t-hole through their policies.
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)He is after all a WHITE SUPREMACIST. Of course he wants more white people. The trouble is, most everyone on this planet hates his guts.
Sam McGee
(347 posts). . . check out these bodacious Norwegian babes who slipped on their bikinis when the temperature got up to 35 degrees!!!
Do you suppose they let dirty old men like me in?
hurple
(1,306 posts)This was "dog whistle" for aryan.
tclambert
(11,087 posts)I think he's an actual dues paying, card carrying Nazi.
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DesertRat
(27,995 posts)Marty Marzipan
(67 posts)... can I take your place in Norway? I can learn Norwegian!
Straw Man
(6,625 posts)Kind of a "citizen exchange program."
PatrickforO
(14,576 posts)Much less stress. Healthcare. A government organized around the needs of people.
However, we DO have something the Norwegians and other states in Europe do not. A while ago, I had the privilege of attending an Economic Development luncheon that featured Katty Kay as the keynote speaker. For those who may not know, Kay is the anchor of BBC America News. Her keynote was brilliant. It really was very thoughtful.
One of the points I remember her making is that we've done two things very well. First, Trump has been very good at getting NATO countries to cough up money up to 2% of their GDP to support the alliance. That's good, because as Pat Schroeder, an elder and highly esteemed stateswoman from Colorado (used to be a US Representative) used to say, we pay for the defense of all these other countries and it doesn't leave us money for programs that help Americans. She was right then, and is certainly right now, if you look at the sheer magnitude of our military/national security spending in relation to everyone else's.
Secondly, and most germane to this post, she said that one of the things we have going for us here in the US (in spite of these xenophobes) is we're really a melting pot, or salad bowl, or whatever metaphor you want to use. In plain English, we do assimilation pretty well - not perfectly by a long shot, but pretty well. Specifically, she said that Muslims in America are Americans first, then Muslims, where in Europe, because of the failure of these more homogenous cultures to assimilate immigrants, they consider themselves Muslims first and Europeans second.
Below is a link that exposes the 'dark side' of Norwegian culture for minorities such as the Sami and Romani, as well as Muslims.
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2017-07-24/is-life-in-norway-as-happy-as-its-cracked-up-to-be
erronis
(15,290 posts)That were inflicted against the original natives and subsequent non-English and northern European immigrants. There hasn't been an ethic/cultural/racial group that hasn't been targeted by verbal and frequently physical abuse by the groups that have already been established.
I think the "melting-pot" phrase was a cute term invented in the feel-good 50's to help cover up our mutual atrocities.
Having lived and worked in a few countries in Europe I think the assimilation and cohabitation has been pretty damned good. Don't forget all of the people of color (and others) that left the US in the 1900's to thrive in Paris, London, Berlin.
Humans are not far removed from their tree-living tribal roots. We tend to prefer similarly looking, thinking cohorts. And we should not fight this tendency but use it to make the fabric of our societies more interesting.
muntrv
(14,505 posts)mikeysnot
(4,757 posts)NSFW if you speak the language...
madaboutharry
(40,212 posts)Last edited Thu Jan 11, 2018, 11:06 PM - Edit history (1)
The Norwegians love living in Norway. They are very patriotic, they love their King, and they love the Norwegian flag- which the put on everything. They have a great culture and live in the most beautiful country in the world. The last place they would want to move to is America.
SunSeeker
(51,564 posts)We do have that going for us...
madaboutharry
(40,212 posts)The Fjords are really something!
Butterflylady
(3,544 posts)Then we both said they have much better than we do, why would they want to leave.
bhikkhu
(10,718 posts)My overall impression is that it is a beautiful, prosperous, clean, well-run nation. Most of the people there don't want to go anywhere else, certainly not to a poorly-run shithole with approximately 60 million angry-idiot voters.
getagrip_already
(14,764 posts)They send us the short, dark haired people without huge bank accounts. Rump can fix this! We need rules that say immigrants can't have black or brown hair, can't be under 6' if male or 5'6 if female, and must own shares in trump company.
(that was snark for the ironically deprived).
MFM008
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Stellar
(5,644 posts)... since ever he loves it so.
wishstar
(5,270 posts)Response to Stellar (Reply #36)
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IluvPitties
(3,181 posts)Skittles
(153,164 posts)Last edited Fri Jan 12, 2018, 03:52 AM - Edit history (1)
they would have DETESTED a sick, racist asshole like Trump
MoonchildCA
(1,301 posts)JI7
(89,251 posts)spanone
(135,843 posts)loyalsister
(13,390 posts)The "nordic superior race" was the US version of the genetic ideal in the early 1900s