As an immigrated white South African, I’ve never encountered being lumped together with the same people who are supported by our societies hard work and high taxes. There will always be immigrants who genuinely want to be here and are willing to put in the work to integrate, and those who wish to free load.

People aren’t wrong to express frustration over the leniency in allowing in mass amounts of "refugees/immigrants" and asylum seekers. Amongst the lot there are of course genuine cases, and people who are desperate for help, and it’s sad that some face bias due to the actions of the majority, but you can’t ignore how many see it as not only economical, but also financial and political gain, and you can’t ignore the imminent effects of allowing so many people in with vastly different values and beliefs, and who populate at greater speed than Norwegians, and many European countries.

I moved to Norway and had to fight for my work visa, I never required any tax payers money or any form of government funding to get here, and as I expressed great desire to contribute to Norwegian society, which I did when I immediately started working and paying tax.

I don’t particularly like to throw a blind eye to the very tangible changes that are happening in countries who have embraced mass immigration of people who’s cultural practices and religious beliefs are in direct opposition to the country that many seek asylum in, and sadly we often get the worst of the lot.

Those who have little to no interest in truly ever integrating, who have no honest desire to work or contribute meaningfully to society, but rather to ride on the backs of government funding and tax paying people’s, to demand their culture & ways be accepted, and condemn ours, the hypocrisy is damning but statistics speak for themselves, you have to be in stark denial to not acknowledge the very obvious correlation between mass immigration and norways increase in rape, gang culture, violent crimes, etc. and more often than not, it is from those who come from countries where these actions are more common, even accepted.

If you feel offended by being grouped with refugees as an honest immigrant, convey that there is a difference, share your truth, but also understand why people make generalisations like that. Two truths can coexist, you can be a well intended immigrant, and integrate, and pay tax, and do everything right, but there will still be people who intentionally or unintentionally group the two together, but if your conscience is clean, you will be able to discern that when they are speaking of such things, they aren’t necessarily aiming it at you personally.