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Everybody thinks that Swedish girls are so exotic. You have an advantage when they hear that you are Swedish. [...] When I applied for my first job they said: ‘Oh you are Swedish!’ So I think that helped a bit. But most of all it helps to attract men. I have to say. But even now when you are older, I think people feel they have something to talk with you about. You’re a bit exotic compared with the Americans who grew up here. (Marie, 36, married to a US American and living in the US for 16 years)
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Lundström, C. (2014). Hierarchies of Whiteness in the United States. In: White Migrations. Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137289193_4
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