Rosengård, Malmö - Photo from FlickrThe children in municipal after school programs in Malmö, Sweden, are only allowed to speak Swedish. The ones speaking their native language are reported to be punished or asked to leave.
The interviewed head of the program offers an incoherent and irrelevant explanation referring to their rules: The children are to respect one another, and violence is not tolerated. Anyone breaking these rules will first get a warning, and for a repeat offense the child will have to leave for fifteen minutes.
One is left to wonder, whether the children expressing themselves in their own language is considered violent or disrespectful. For those of us more concerned concerned about the municipality not respecting a fundamental human right of the children, the statement seems a sorry excuse for double standards.
This kind of thing is always because the swedes are paranoid that anyone saying something they don't understand is badmouthing them.
ReplyDeleteAn integration policy based on assimilation will always fail because it is against our nature as human beings to deny ourselves.
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