Kosmopol

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About me

Gender Male
Industry Education
Location Linköping, Sweden
Introduction The not-so-simple country boy has turned 92 years old, something never imagines at most of the earlier ages. Will be writing about that here.
Interests Identity and Ethnicity as distinct from "race", Differences between Sweden and USA, Immigrant experience in both. Working at the Red Cross with refugees from just about everywhere. Playing trumpet in Ansgars-Missionskyrkans Wind Orchestra. Running every day except when the snow is deep.
Favorite Movies From my childhood. Gunga Din. And from my forever / Casablanca
Favorite Music This would take an entire book but just for starters Stravinsky' Rite of Spring, Charlie Parkers everything, and Turkish Kurd Aynur Dogan's Kece Kurdan.
Favorite Books One novel of special importance in my later life - Sorrows of an American begins with Huvstedts father's memoir about a Norwegian immigrant family that lived a life that of my own first generation Swedish family with one English grandfather who lived the same.