Originally Posted by
nacho
I'm an ethnic Chinese lived in the UK, Denmark and Sweden, and I found Sweden is by far the most tolerant towards foreigners. The UK was by far the worst place regarding racism IMO. I think the Swedes are told to keep their feelings to themselves rather than expressing it out.
Overall, Sweden tends to be less xenophobic than Denmark; but southern Sweden is sort of special in being different, for better and for worse. Ethnic East Asians face far less racism in Sweden/Denmark than those with ethnic roots from more western parts of Asia or Africa face in Sweden/Denmark; and I chalk up part of that being a product of international child adoption practices in Sweden and to the immigration patterns being different for different ethnic groups.
There are ways to express xenophobia without verbalizing it.
While I have no doubt that anti-semitism had been (and still may be) a growing problem in southern Sweden, it's not so different a troublesome dynamic in Denmark too. That said, other forms of xenophobia have more widespread presence and acceptability in these parts, and it doesn't need to always be verbalized for it to hit.