Malmö is positioning itself to be an international city. People are coming there to study, to make a living, to do business and for leisure. The immigrants and city developments benefit each other and make the city colored.
“Malmö is a really great place to study. Whatever students need is available and accesses for education facilities are easily got,” says Wisnu, an Indonesian student of World Maritime University in Malmö.
Studying in Malmö is fortunate for the 28-year-old man, as he didn’t have such favorable experiences studying in his home country. In this northern city in Sweden he gets email access 24 hours a day, a complete library, democratic class atmosphere that makes students are free to argue even with their teachers, student card for free city transportation, comfortable condition for studying and many more exciting reasons. Students find living in this city is very comfortable.
“Here is the place where people live with respect for one another. We discover the beauty of ancient Europe through the buildings and landscape. People obey rules and facilities are sophisticated. One more thing, even as a student we feel honored for once in a year the major of this city himself treats us to a special dinner as a welcoming greeting. This is really new for me because in my hometown a major don’t hold a dinner party for students nor even international students,” says Sidi, a student from Kenya.
What Wisnu and other foreign students see and feel indicate that while Malmö was once known as an industrial city, it now has a brand new image as a knowledge city . But Malmö is also a city where 25 percent of the population was born in a foreign country. . Those immigrants bring color to Malmö.
“I have been living here more than 23 years. I cannot say this is the nicest place in Europe. I have to say that living here is too calm and steady. Besides living here is not easy because it is hard to earn a living here. If you want to have a job you must register to employment agency, of which the process takes long time and most of the time you will be rejected because of your poor appearance. Indeed government gives homeless people donation but that is not enough to decrease homelessness number on the street,” says Bianca, 65, a Poland-born. .
Very much different opinion from her, Harry, 27, British man, finds Malmö a nice place to live. The rules and the calmness make Malmö special. For young people like him the city provides; entertainment like leisure time in the cafés around Gustav Adolf’s Torg or Folkets Park, going to cinemas to watch the latest movies, gathering with pals in Laserdome, Bryggeriet/Skateboard arena.
“Of course I cannot compare this city to London. But anyhow, this city is wonderful place to live and it is making its own to be a developed one,” Harry, who works as a restaurant waiter to earn his living in Malmö adds.
Malmö is making steps to be an international city. According to official statistics, immigrants from Yugoslavia first with approximately 10,000 people, Iraqis with more than 6000 immigrants and others from Denmark, German, Lebanon and few numbers from Asian countries. The local government can attract more international people to visit and invest their business here by using the existence of these multicultural settlers. They want to show that Malmö is welcoming people over the world.
“Malmö is a really great place to study. Whatever students need is available and accesses for education facilities are easily got,” says Wisnu, an Indonesian student of World Maritime University in Malmö.
Studying in Malmö is fortunate for the 28-year-old man, as he didn’t have such favorable experiences studying in his home country. In this northern city in Sweden he gets email access 24 hours a day, a complete library, democratic class atmosphere that makes students are free to argue even with their teachers, student card for free city transportation, comfortable condition for studying and many more exciting reasons. Students find living in this city is very comfortable.
“Here is the place where people live with respect for one another. We discover the beauty of ancient Europe through the buildings and landscape. People obey rules and facilities are sophisticated. One more thing, even as a student we feel honored for once in a year the major of this city himself treats us to a special dinner as a welcoming greeting. This is really new for me because in my hometown a major don’t hold a dinner party for students nor even international students,” says Sidi, a student from Kenya.
What Wisnu and other foreign students see and feel indicate that while Malmö was once known as an industrial city, it now has a brand new image as a knowledge city . But Malmö is also a city where 25 percent of the population was born in a foreign country. . Those immigrants bring color to Malmö.
“I have been living here more than 23 years. I cannot say this is the nicest place in Europe. I have to say that living here is too calm and steady. Besides living here is not easy because it is hard to earn a living here. If you want to have a job you must register to employment agency, of which the process takes long time and most of the time you will be rejected because of your poor appearance. Indeed government gives homeless people donation but that is not enough to decrease homelessness number on the street,” says Bianca, 65, a Poland-born. .
Very much different opinion from her, Harry, 27, British man, finds Malmö a nice place to live. The rules and the calmness make Malmö special. For young people like him the city provides; entertainment like leisure time in the cafés around Gustav Adolf’s Torg or Folkets Park, going to cinemas to watch the latest movies, gathering with pals in Laserdome, Bryggeriet/Skateboard arena.
“Of course I cannot compare this city to London. But anyhow, this city is wonderful place to live and it is making its own to be a developed one,” Harry, who works as a restaurant waiter to earn his living in Malmö adds.
Malmö is making steps to be an international city. According to official statistics, immigrants from Yugoslavia first with approximately 10,000 people, Iraqis with more than 6000 immigrants and others from Denmark, German, Lebanon and few numbers from Asian countries. The local government can attract more international people to visit and invest their business here by using the existence of these multicultural settlers. They want to show that Malmö is welcoming people over the world.
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