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The cultural impact of coming to Sweden is great. You hear in the news and on YouTube about the issues that this country has had to deal with recently and you expect the worst from big cities like Stockholm and Malmö. In the rape statistics, Sweden is at the top, and crime and violence have been rising over the past decade due to the naïve openness that the Swedes have had toward the world. Their ideal of equality led to this result, but the question is whether that same ideal also had something to do with how the country has become so successful and utopian in the last century. And it truly is a utopia; it truly has that feeling of near perfection and efficiency on every level. Stockholm, the only city I have visited in Sweden, is dominated by a deep spiritual calmness, a tranquility I have never seen in any other big city. People are calm and polite. They are not pedantic, unlike the Germans. You can still see someone crossing on a red light when cars aren’t passing by, and that is t...