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Good film...bad stereotype


Norwegian Muslims immigrants, especially Pakistanis are not gangsters. Pakistanis in Oslo for instance are 3% of the population but 15% of the doctors in Oslo. This is a highly educated people. Oslo has unlike the rest of Europe attracted skilled immigrants. This movie is bad in that it portrays them the same way in which say Arabs or Somalis, who are uneducated migrants because of low doestic birthrates in NL, Sweden.

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Don't forget 30% of the gangs in Oslo as well. The stereotype is very real, look here for a video of fighting and shooting between pakistani gangs in the city centre couple of weekends ago:

http://www.nrk.no/norge/mulig-hevnmotiv-bak-mona-lisa-skyting-1.12356584

They are certainly creating a lot of noise for a minority.

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