What is it with Eritrean festivals? Same shit happened in Germany a month ago.
The same thing happened recently in Germany. I guess the little dictator of Eritrea is trying his hand at foreign influence. This makes the North Korea of Africa much more influential than the real North Korea.
I want to be clear about something that isn’t said in this article.
The riot is between Eritrean people and Eritrean people with different views on their regime at home. There is no riot of Swedish people there protesting this festival.
I couldn’t care less. Have your festival. But as always. Do so peacefully.
I genuinely think we need to have immigrant quotas.
I can’t help but think part of the issue with Swedens immigration is the over-reliance on a very few specific countries. An immigration number should be set (say 50k or whatever) and then 5% of those visas go to SE Asia, 5% to Africa, etc..
Hahaha alltså Sverige, magiskt
Best Eritrean festivals are in Eritrea
They were at it last year in Copenhagen. The police detained 150 people at a festival.
Sweden is a silly place. I kinda like it tho with all their random dramas and weird complexes.
Basically sectarian violence. Together with the immigrants you import their problems. Same thing happened in Germany
What I wonder is what the loyalists are doing in Sweden? Or do they just blame the hardships of Eritrea on the opposition. Like I fully understand why the regime opponents are fuming over a festival that supposedly celebrates the very system they fled. Also the fact that the Eritrean government still hasn’t come clean about the kidnapping of [Dawit Isaak](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawit_Isaak)
What the hell are eritrean government loyalists doing in Sweden? What are they fleeing from?
Maybe I don’t quite get this but I’d feel immense shame if I was anyone involved with this.
If I lived in Europe full time, the idea that I’d engage in violence over, for example, views on Donald Trump or Joe Biden would be anathema.
I mean, of course I’d have my own cultural expressions as an American transplant but I’d feel the need to adapt and represent my heritage as positively as possible if I’m making a new home somewhere.
I came from Italian and Lebanese immigrants – and my family has stories of how they hardly taught their children Arabic (I don’t agree with hiding your original culture) to force them to be as “Americanized” as possible (trying to assimilate is very important). They stayed out of trouble and worked their asses off for the American dream so that I could become a lawyer and live in relative comfort. I’m permanently in debt to that immigrant working culture but my point is I think it’s absurd that you’d shame yourself and poorly represent a marginalized class by causing criminal violence.
Being an asylee or adapting to a new home is very difficult. It’s isolating. It’s toil and you feel marginalized. However, the only real way forward is to represent yourself with pride and try to adapt to the new culture’s cherished values while demonstrating the strength and vibrancy of where you came from.
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Clips of cars burning and riot police:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJPK8TeyxQo
One of the biggest newspaper got some good clip:
https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/kaos-vid-demonstration-pakar-och-stenkastning/
What is it with Eritrean festivals? Same shit happened in Germany a month ago.
The same thing happened recently in Germany. I guess the little dictator of Eritrea is trying his hand at foreign influence. This makes the North Korea of Africa much more influential than the real North Korea.
https://www.thelocal.de/20230710/berlin-condemns-clashes-at-eritrean-festival-in-germany
I want to be clear about something that isn’t said in this article.
The riot is between Eritrean people and Eritrean people with different views on their regime at home. There is no riot of Swedish people there protesting this festival.
I couldn’t care less. Have your festival. But as always. Do so peacefully.
I genuinely think we need to have immigrant quotas.
I can’t help but think part of the issue with Swedens immigration is the over-reliance on a very few specific countries. An immigration number should be set (say 50k or whatever) and then 5% of those visas go to SE Asia, 5% to Africa, etc..
Hahaha alltså Sverige, magiskt
Best Eritrean festivals are in Eritrea
They were at it last year in Copenhagen. The police detained 150 people at a festival.
Sweden is a silly place. I kinda like it tho with all their random dramas and weird complexes.
Basically sectarian violence. Together with the immigrants you import their problems. Same thing happened in Germany
What I wonder is what the loyalists are doing in Sweden? Or do they just blame the hardships of Eritrea on the opposition. Like I fully understand why the regime opponents are fuming over a festival that supposedly celebrates the very system they fled. Also the fact that the Eritrean government still hasn’t come clean about the kidnapping of [Dawit Isaak](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawit_Isaak)
What the hell are eritrean government loyalists doing in Sweden? What are they fleeing from?
Maybe I don’t quite get this but I’d feel immense shame if I was anyone involved with this.
If I lived in Europe full time, the idea that I’d engage in violence over, for example, views on Donald Trump or Joe Biden would be anathema.
I mean, of course I’d have my own cultural expressions as an American transplant but I’d feel the need to adapt and represent my heritage as positively as possible if I’m making a new home somewhere.
I came from Italian and Lebanese immigrants – and my family has stories of how they hardly taught their children Arabic (I don’t agree with hiding your original culture) to force them to be as “Americanized” as possible (trying to assimilate is very important). They stayed out of trouble and worked their asses off for the American dream so that I could become a lawyer and live in relative comfort. I’m permanently in debt to that immigrant working culture but my point is I think it’s absurd that you’d shame yourself and poorly represent a marginalized class by causing criminal violence.
Being an asylee or adapting to a new home is very difficult. It’s isolating. It’s toil and you feel marginalized. However, the only real way forward is to represent yourself with pride and try to adapt to the new culture’s cherished values while demonstrating the strength and vibrancy of where you came from.