Being a a child of immigrants here in Sweden is like a rollercoaster. Sometimes you feelextremely happy and lucky for living here but sometimes you’ll feel like an outsider. You feellike you don't fit in society. You feel like an alien. You will be looked at with a negative pointof view. Not from all though but from some people. You might be living in a villa but theywill claim that you are living at a apartment at the hood side of the city. If you have a nice carthey will asume that the money for the car is drug money etc. They will always asume the worst of you just because you look different. It doesn’t matter if you’re born here, integratewith the society, learn their culture and language they will still treat you different.
If you want to apply for a job they will discriminate you because of your foreign name and also your gender.
Where ever you live, work or studie you will face some sort of discrimination, unjustice, unfairness and feeling of not fitting in no matter how much you try.
If you’re from middle east they will automatically see you as an terrorist or as a muslim eventhough you might not be a muslim. You might be a christian or a jew or something else, butit’s just lack of knowledge that people have. The point is that it’s not fair making theseassumptions about people, not at all. But unfortunately that is what you can face in a dailybasis. If there is a white guy and a foreigner next to him and we say the white guy committeda crime, the police will automatically asume that the foreigner is guilty.
There is still a lot of prejudice here in Sweden but if you compare to other countries, Sweden is better. Sweden is trying and is putting an effort about improving when it comes to thissubject. There is still a lot of work to do but it is directing to the right way. People need to have right knowledge and right mindset to move forward. So that our society can develop and we can be more united. It is hard work but hard work pays off.