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Societies of today are more opening to one another than ever before by trading human- and material resources. But in the trend of so called ‘globalization’, the main focus of attention of policy makers and scholars is placed on how a society can be developed without being lagged behind other society. What they agreed on was a fact that varieties in a society can be worked both as a driving force for developing the society and as a basic source of conflict in the society. On such a theoretical ground, policy makers and scholars have developed different kinds of models which can increase varieties in different societal areas and integration of their members according to their historical, social, economical and political conditions. In Sweden, a multi-cultural model has been applied for the social integration, which means that they accept different cultures, languages, religions and identities of different groups of people. Furthermore, the Swedish government has been developing institutional welfare systems under a long period of time. On such ways, they prevent the society from being broken up and consequently integrate social members with different ethical backgrounds.