• Kiosade@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I remember back in high school there was this Danish foreign exchange student one year, and she would not shut up about how this or that was better in Denmark.

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      1 year ago

      Those kind of people exist anywhere, that isn’t tied to any nationality. Guess it stemms from insecurities and chasing some weird need to feel superior about something.

    • SoyViking [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      The average Dane is firmly convinced that Denmark is the most perfect place on earth, a paradise that the rest of the world can only dream of. It follows that any reasonable person who’s not already a Dane must have a desire to become one. If they don’t, there must either be something wrong with them or they simply haven’t heard enough about how good Denmark is.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      Well in fairness if you came to America and saw what a depraved, decaying shithole it is after being raised on a diet of airbrushed American media you’d probably be appalled, too.

      I can’t count how many stories I’ve heard of people visiting from civilized parts of the world and breaking down crying in the street when they see how American’s treat homeless people.