Maktkamp24 Magda Omerspahic why Nyheter24 launches series #iminoritet and lift people from different minority groups.
Magda Omerspahic is a news reporter at Nyheter24.
She tweetsMagdaOmerspahic.
– Nyheter24′s article series #iminoritet be faced Parliamentary elections illustrate the hatred and discrimination faced by minority groups and
– serving as a guide for all those who know less about the group and for anyone who wants to know more.
Do you know now in retrospect that we can not lift a group?
Please contact Magda at: magda.omerspahic@nyheter24.se.
Today begins Nyheter24 series #iminoritet where people from different minority groups to sue – in part for his team – but mostly for and about themselves.
Before the parliamentary elections in September, we want to illustrate the hatred and discrimination that people from these groups are exposed for. But we also want to highlight issues that are important for the groups to create more understanding between people.
I myself #iminoritet. The year when I came to Sweden was the same year that I turned seven. I started in what was previously called the “immigrant class” and also named in the yearbook 1993.
Six months later I got a start in an ordinary Swedish class. I slipped and not after school and in the third grade I could read and write Swedish language like any other Swedish school ever.
I grew up with lots of books and magazines Kamratposten, Frida and VeckoRevyn. For every page I browsed until I instinctively looked for a name or a face sticking out – it did not necessarily have to be from the Balkans – but I found it very often.
Over the years, something began to happen, and people with different ethnic background than Swedish appeared increasingly in the media. Each time I felt “proud” because it was an “immigrant” as “we” could point to and say: “You see, there are also skilled immigrants.” But it was really a lack of role models in the media – there was no one could identify with.
A summary of prejudice and true facts from my högstadietid: it bought the “n-balls’ in the cafeteria. “Lebb” and “Gay” was the words. The Muslims got “special food” and go from measuring cone and to the side to get beef instead of eating pork. Regardless of religion, attended all happy with both the Lucia celebration, graduation, first Advent and painted yellow chicks for Easter. It was okay, there was no opposition. We had two black people in the entire high school. People who sat in a wheelchair was “cp” and “disgusting”. We had no explicit gay guy or girl but all the guys who dressed a little more projection was “bögjävlar”. We really had no transgender and god knows how hen had been received.
Today, things are different and the variety is wide both in terms of ethnicities, religions and sexual orientations and gender affiliations. But there is still much to work on.
I’m still in the minority – and that’s okay – the difference today is that I have a number of examples that I can look up to and recognize me.
But it still needed more #iminoritet.
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