Swedes celebrate Easter religiously, but religion
has little to do with it. It's more about witches,
egg hunts, colored feathers and salmon. Confused?
Gisela Karlmark finds out what newcomers think.
Kevok Bozarslan moved to Sweden from Kurdistan when
she was 10 years old. She is one of nearly 1.5
million people in Sweden with foreign roots.* Coming
from a Muslim family, Easter means little to her.
“Personally, I couldn’t care less. I prefer to go
away for Easter. I see it as a long weekend break
and, if it was up to me, I would keep it that way.”
Bozarslan has two young children, however, and feels
that they should celebrate Easter the Swedish way.
“My mother painted eggs with me and my younger
brother when we were kids,” she says. “We boiled
them with onion to give them that nice color. It was
fun, but we did it for no other reason than that.”
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Kevok Bozarslan
is determined to introduce her children to Swedish
Easter traditions.
Photo: Sweden.se, Tom Eriksson |
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