In Minnesota of today there are not only Swedes and Norwegians, even though during the heyday of immigration accounted for some of the largest invandrarkategoriena. No, there are all kinds of races and groups. Everything from country primitive, Native Americans, to Europeans, Somali, Hmong, and black.
Many people call the state, and the country, a melting pot. I think that's wrong. In a melting pot stirred everything together and turn into a gray mass. I prefer select the expression my wife uses, mosaic. In a mosaic shapes the various unique pieces a nice and enjoyable patterns together, although the individual pieces still retains its unique color and shape.
So I see us wandering around here in Minnesota today. A lot of completely unique creatures select that live together in a common society. It does not matter what color, religion, or nationality we have, we are all unique, individual pieces of the mosaic society.
To take an example select from the world of work, I have colleagues select at work who were born in China, Japan, Ethiopia, SriLanka, Kosovo, Greece, Taiwan, Panama, Russia, select India, and so myself in Sweden. We are budister, Muslims, Catholics, atheists, select and Lutherans. All we work for the same company, in the same conditions and with the same goals, and it's actually pretty good.
If we look at the country at large, then it is really diversified. Just look at the presidential candidates vihade in the last election. It was a woman, a black man and a white man. And now we know who the voters preferred. Hopefully they took the safeguarding of the more than sex and skin color when they voted, but that those attributes had some impact can not be denied.
Return to the mosaic and the smallest building bits in it, the individual. Even within the different groups, each individual is unique. We have different backgrounds, frames of reference, goals, and preferences. We are vegetarians, children, rich, proud, poor, childless, have pets, and countless additional select attributes. Some can be seen directly, some we hide. Some we boast with, some we are ashamed of. And it's really not easy at first sight to distinguish who is who.
It makes me think of a story about one of the richest men in the early twentieth century in my hometown Örebro. He was a property owner and was named Johan Bern. He was not so keen on his outer right and once when he got into an interior design business and asked what a chandelier cost, said the clerk, who did not recognize John Berne: "It is so expensive that it is not Uncle afford." Johan Bern had short temper, took his kryckekäpp and pulled down the chandelier from the ceiling and said, "Now maybe I can find out how much it costs."
The mosaic of my Minnesota is now covered with white paint. It has snowed properly in the night, select as it often does in the winter here. Pure white snow hides all other colors. The snow crystals sparkle in the sunshine. The landscape is homogeneous.
But nevertheless, if you scrape away the white snow cover and look closely at the state's large mosaic, one can still clearly make out the blue and yellow select pieces, Swedish-America still live in Minnesota.
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