For full transparency, even though I, my husband and YMD are 100% ethnically Swedish, Junior has not had a single 100% ethnically Swedish friend in his entire life. Some of them have a Swedish mother or father, while the vast majority of his friends come from other parts of the world. Mainly from Asia.
This means that the offspring do not "see nationalities". Needless to say, he sees that everyone looks different, but he doesn't connect it to different parts of the world. The fact that he speaks English and has always spoken English with his friends becomes another factor that contributes to the fact that he does not see people as "foreigners" but as Swedes regardless of origin.
A recent survey by one of Sweden's daily newspapers shows that gang criminals are usually children of second-generation immigrants.
I had to explain to my son that there are certain types of people he must stay away from. That it's mostly guys in both lower and upper teens and how what clothes they usually wear. It may sound rough and unpleasant, but you can often see who belongs to the gangs.
I really want him to understand the danger without put everything under one roof. The talk about flowers and bees has taken on a different content.
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