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“I think it’s called integration,” says Björn Johnson, professor of social work at the University of Malmö. Stock Photography.
Parents try to resist, but young people of non-European origin have an impression of the Swedish alcoholic culture. After five years or more in Sweden, more than a quarter have started drinking alcohol, according to a study conducted in eight small Scanian municipalities.
– I think it’s called integration. It’s at least a kind of integration, says Björn Johnson, a professor of social work at the University of Malmö.
But he emphasizes that the study gives a picture of the situation in small Swedish cities rather than in the country as a whole. In smaller cities, young people live more integrated.
– In these small municipalities, young people of foreign origin coexist to a greater extent with those born in Sweden. There are no areas where only people of immigrant origin live, as it can be in Malmö, for example. It is not certain that this adaptation process takes place in the same way in a big city, says Björn Johnson to TT.
The researchers analyzed the responses to the questionnaire of approximately 3,700 students in the ninth year during the period 2016-2019.
Big differences
Young people of Swedish origin are the ones who drink the most: 40 percent of them drank alcohol on two or more occasions. Among ninth graders born outside of Europe, only 12 percent had done so.
But there is a big difference between newcomers of non-European origin and those who have lived in Sweden for five years or more. In the latter group, almost 27 percent have drunk alcohol at least twice.
It looks very similar among young people who were born in Sweden, but who have non-European parents. Among them, 33 percent have drunk alcohol at least twice.
Many immigrant youth say in the survey that their parents stubbornly oppose youth drinking alcohol, according to first- and second-generation immigrant youth.
– The vast majority of these young people come from Muslim countries. That is certainly the explanation for the restrictive attitude of parents, says Bo Johnson.
Less people drink
Compared to the turn of the millennium, today there are far fewer young people who drink alcohol. This is not because of other intoxicants being used, but because of a different way of life. Young people are more at home and socialize via computer or telephone, says Björn Johnson.
– I think it’s excellent that you postpone the debut of alcohol. The risks that exist with alcohol refer both to the things you can do or to which you are exposed that you would not have done otherwise, and to the long-term risk of having problems with alcohol in adulthood, which is higher the sooner it starts.
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