The aim with this essay is to emphasize the problems that ethnical belonging causes at schools today. We have chosen to examine and compare two schools with each other, one school is called ”the new school” situated in Stockholms kommun and the other school is called ”the old school” belonging to Huddinge kommun. We have had contact with these two schools for a longer period as substitutes and students. This essay is based on how these two schools prominently differ from each other. The old school in Huddinge kommun is more or less characterized by ”matters of ethnicity” and where the ethnicity is seen as an obstacle for the schoolwork, whereby the identity as ”immigrant” is problematized and therefore signified in a negative way. The new school seems to base their communication on other reasons. The belonging to a certain nationality does not have the same importance and being an “immigrant” has defused much more. Under these circumstances the ethnicity seems to be a more of a decorative feature rather than something decisive for the pupils.