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Emigration rose again at the turn of the 20th century, reaching a new peak of about 35,000 Swedes in 1903. Figures remained high until World War I, alarming both conservative Swedes, who saw emigration as a challenge to national solidarity, and liberals, who feared the disappearance of the labor force necessary for economic development.
From 1840 to 1930, over 1.3 million Swedes migrated to America, with a particularly significant influx of 92,000 between 1920 and 1930. [4] Predominantly, they chose to settle in the Midwest, especially around the Great Lakes, while a smaller number journeyed to destinations like Canada or Cuba.
A woman is going viral after sharing the biggest “culture shocks” she experienced after moving to Sweden. The list of surprising cultural differences comes courtesy of a TikTok user named ...
According to the 1934 Estonian census, 7,641 Swedes (Swedish speakers, 0.7% of the population) lived in Estonia, making Swedes the third-largest national minority in Estonia (after Russians and Germans). From 1943, during World War II, almost the entire community of Estonian Swedes fled to Sweden. Today there are, at most, a few hundred ...
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Men selectively attend to attractive people more than women, it has been suggested that this could be because men are less invested in their offspring, so they are less choosy when it comes to sexual partners, and therefore they are more easily attracted. As a result of selective attention, people end up giving a group rating which is biased as ...
A woman is going viral after sharing the biggest “culture shocks” she experienced after moving to Sweden. The list of surprising cultural differences comes courtesy of a TikTok user named ...
During the refugee crisis of 2015, 29 percent of Swedes polled in September thought that Sweden was taking too many refugees – in November 2015, that figure had risen to 41 percent. [49] Among people receiving residence permits in Sweden during 2009–2017, 55.2 percent were men or boys, and 44.8 percent women or girls. [50] [a]