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...policy. Each Sunday, the Morrisons traveled to the Wuchang Protestant Church and joined dozens of Chinese to listen to the word of God as sanctioned by the Chinese state. While other Christians spread their message through illicit underground church meetings held in basements and anterooms, the Morrisons preferred to attend one of the seven officially registered churches available to Wuhan's 7 million citizens. "We want to work within the boundaries of Chinese law," says Valori. "We know we must honor authority...
Suman Grewal and Katarina Käll are friends. Not best friends, the 14-year-old girls are quick to clarify, but good friends nonetheless. They attend Hjällboskolan, a school on the outskirts of Gothenburg, Sweden's second-largest city, where the student body covers such a spectrum of backgrounds that headmaster Lars-Peter Ekenberg estimates more than 100 nationalities are represented. Suman, whose parents are from India, was born in Sweden. Katarina's family has been in Sweden for generations, but the same is not true of most of her classmates and friends. "I hang out mostly...
...llboskolan and the public school system to which it belongs were once the only real possibility for Olofstorp parents, a growing network of private schools-heavily subsidized by the government-now gives them a range of choices. Ekenberg estimates that a fifth of the children from Olofstorp attend private schools. "A surprisingly high percentage of immigrant parents also choose private schools," notes Lärjedalen official ?sten Carlson. "If you thought they are forced to choose [public school] because they don't know any better, it is simply not so." Interestingly, for immigrant parents the key criterion in selecting...
...offer can offset the attraction of private education. Though heavy immigration and rising unemployment have strained Sweden's tradition of openness, even in Olofstorp there is a recognition that, as Holmqvist says, ultimtately "you have to leave the village." Anders Olofsson, a resident of Olofstorp whose two sons attend Hjällboskolan, agrees. "Sooner or later you will meet the real world of how Sweden looks today," he says. "It's better if both the parents and the kids meet that reality earlier in life...
...food or blankets or even a kind word. At work you eat with colleagues, and every third one is already fatally ill. You whisper about a friend who admitted she had the plague and whose neighbors stoned her to death. Your leisure is occupied by the funerals you attend every Saturday. You go to bed fearing adults your age will not live into their 40s. You and your neighbors and your political and popular leaders act as if nothing is happening...