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There are indeed many more elderly people who are ethnic Swedes than young people.
No. It has sometimes been a PC argument that a large part of the people who settle here annually are returning Swedes and it may be that they are counted in those statistics, but they are not counted as immigrants.
Traditionally, our largest immigration group consisted of people born in Finland, but they have now been surpassed by those having backgrounds in both Iraq and Syria who are the biggest group of immigrants, and Arabic has surpassed Finnish, I read.
Well, Sir Julian Huxley argued that social welfare served as a more humane alternative to forced sterilisations for the "poor". Now, it seems that Western Europeans in general have created such a well-being for themselves that they have all gone sterile.
We must therefore concentrate on producing a single equalized environment; and this clearly should be one as favourable as possible to the expression of the genetic qualities that we think desirable. Equally clearly, this should include the following items. A marked raising of the standard of diet for the great majority of the population, until all should be provided both with adequate calories and adequate accessory factors; provision of facilities for healthy exercise and recreation; and upward equalization of educational opportunity. ... we know from various sources that raising the standard of life among the poorest classes almost invariably results in a lowering of their fertility. In so far, therefore, as differential class-fertility exists, raising the environmental level will reduce any dysgenic effects which it may now have.
Huxley J.S. 1947. Man in the Modern World. Chatto & Windus, London. Originally published in The Uniqueness of Man, 1941, pp. 68–69.
It seems that Huxley was correct here...
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