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**ricochettty** · 10-19-2010, 08:39 PM

By the way, here many people use the term 'immigrant' for third world or developing countries immigrants, and foreigner for well-off or middle-class (usually European) non-native people. It's not correct, of course. Is it the same in Sweden/Denmark?

In Sweden, immigrant (Swedish: invandrare) usually means Third World (particularly MENA) immigrants, no matter if they have moved here or are born here. It happens that politically correct people attack individuals with a background from neighbouring countries if they have a negative view of "immigrants", but they are generally not called immigrants. They are instead called what they are (Finns, Danes, Norwegians, Germans etc).

10-19-2010, 08:39 PM	#8
ricochettty Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 521 Senior Member	By the way, here many people use the term 'immigrant' for third world or developing countries immigrants, and foreigner for well-off or middle-class (usually European) non-native people. It's not correct, of course. Is it the same in Sweden/Denmark? In Sweden, immigrant (Swedish: invandrare) usually means Third World (particularly MENA) immigrants, no matter if they have moved here or are born here. It happens that politically correct people attack individuals with a background from neighbouring countries if they have a negative view of "immigrants", but they are generally not called immigrants. They are instead called what they are (Finns, Danes, Norwegians, Germans etc).
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