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Swedish State Television decided to enhance the "boring and oppressive" native Swedish tradition of St. Lucy's day that dates back to the 4th century by making it a bit more "multicultural" at the annual celebration in 2012. The government owned channel decided to replace the traditional, blonde Swedish Lucia with a dark-skinned foreigner and the melancholic church music was enhanced by an Arab ganster rapper who calls himself "L.X." and freestyle-raps about drugs and sex on Youtube.
Naturally, this tasteless move generated some outcry among Swedish patriots - who were, as always, silenced by the media as racists and bigots.
Sane people can only shake their head in disbelief at the amount of self-hatred Swedes seem to have for themselves and their traditions. But most of this image is portrayed by the foreign-owned media in Sweden. The level of ethnomasochism portrayed on Television does not reflect the entirety of Sweden.