In an article from the AP, the outlet highlighted how “immigration from Africa and the Middle East has transformed the demographics of Europe in recent decades.” The outlet also noted that while the United States was “sending one of its most diverse teams,” the team rosters for countries such as France, Germany, and Switzerland “look a lot like Sweden’s: overwhelmingly white and lacking the immigrant representation.”
“At the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, Sweden is sending a team made up almost exclusively of ethnically Swedish athletes, with NHL player Mika Zibanejad, whose father is from Iran, a rare exception,” the AP wrote. “That hardly reflects the diversity of the Nordic country: About 2 million of its 10 million residents were born abroad, about half of them in Asia or Africa, according to national statistics agency SCB.”
The AP article continued in part: The lack of athletes of color at the Winter Olympics - and in winter sports in general - has been a recurring theme in the U.S., which is sending one of its most diverse teams to the Games. It hasn’t gotten the same attention in Europe.
The Olympic rosters of France, Germany, Switzerland and other European winter sports nations look a lot like Sweden’s: overwhelmingly white and lacking the immigrant representation seen in their soccer or basketball teams.
WTF is wrong with the world anymore? Why are they so demanding that people from other places be included everywhere? How many Afghanis or Mexicans do you know that can speed skate, play hockey or ski slalom? Should people from Nigeria and Sudan be put on teams from Sweden and Italy just to add some 'color' to the team photos?
It's getting to the point that there is no such thing as journalism any more. It's all just agendas couched in editorials and opinions.
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