Danes

The Feudal System For about two centuries Europe passed through an epoch of the deepest misery.

Danes and Scandinavians ravaged her from the north-west, Saracens from the south, so that only the upper Rhine and Danube, harbouring a rich Teutonic civilization, escaped destruction.

The Carlovingian empire broke into pieces, Frankish, Lothringian or Burgundian, and Germanic, with the last of which went the imperial title.

And this disintegration might have continued indefinitely to chaos had not feudalism appeared to fortify and steady declining civilization.

How does Denmark and Copenhagen create that sense of sociability and belonging in everyday life?

I think in several ways, a lot of Danes are member of organizations, cycling clubs, knitting clubs, book clubs.

There is a saying that if you get three Danes together, they will form an organization.

So there's a lot of sort of community life.

Secondly, There is also a lot of consideration in how to build spaces and places that facilitate connection.

Recently, we were part of a study where we looked at, we surveyed more than 100,000 Danes, and we also looked at sort of if people live in the city and live in apartments, do they have a yard? Do they have a nice yard or boring yard or no yard at all? And then looked at sort of metrics for how much does the neighbors interact? Do they babysit each other's pets? Do they invite each other over for meals? Do they share tools, et cetera.

And on every metric, having a yard, is better than not having a yacht in terms of facilitating interaction, but having a nice yacht also beats a boring yacht.

So you can, to some extent, build relationships.

From my personal experience, I don't think it's hard to make friends with Danish people.

You have to get yourself out there where the Danes are and then just see who reciprocates.

For me, it's down to the individual.

But why do you think or do you even think the government has a responsibility to ensure that the individuals, internationals are integrating? Like, do we want them in our social lives? I'm not sure if I want their help making sense.

I understand that.

But again, I'd put it back around the other way and say, is it really an integration problem or is it a wider social issue? Because really, actually, it's not just internationals who feel alone or excluded.

There are apps literally for Danes looking for friends.

And again, I ask, can and should a government policy make people be friends with you? And is it just internationals? Because there's lots of very lonely Danes as well.

Not sure because a Dane...

I have quite a little experience with Danes

now.

But I think he's a good Dane.

Like, not in general a lot of good Danes.

It's not only

me.

There's so much fear and anxiety in especially juniors throughout Europe.

Well, basically, in protest against the way in which the politicians have tried to rush us into this decision without telling us exactly what it entails, I feel that there are several hidden agendas in the treaty.

And I feel that agreeing to the Maastricht Treaty as it stands today would mean a loss of control over how Danes live the values that we have.

It will entail considerable centralization of political power embedded in pretty incomprehensible layers of bureaucracy.

You were worried then, Jackie Ryle, a bit about losing Danish identity here in a larger system?

So a lot of people felt they were being pushed into saying yes then, voting yes.

Oh, definitely.

And I think the Danes as a people are quite anti-authoritarian.

And I think that a lot of people voted in protest against the way things were done.

don't think it's a contradiction.

There are lots of Danes who are passionate about European matters and passionate about thinking about and talking about politics.

But if you go among the average Dane, even in what I and Anders, we studied political science, where you would expect to find most EU enthusiasts.

And I would still say that's the case.

Because I, together with Anna, as you already revealed, we went to Jeff Danmark at the Young European Federalists during our studies.

And I had the ungrateful role of being the spokesperson for federalism in the national organization in Denmark.

which is a terrible task if your audience is Danes, because for them federalism is automatically something foreign and nothing you should strive for.

And what I learned in that is that arguing for federalism will never get you anywhere.

Right, Mango? Yeah, so Dylan is obviously hitting the mark perfectly once again.

But the Danes are actually much bigger fans of their national flag than most people of most countries.

They fly it for all kinds of occasions, including things like birthday parties, graduation ceremonies, funerals, and even at Christmastime.

It might sound strange, but for many people in Denmark, displaying the flag is a way to express festivity rather than nationalism.

Some people think it's a miracle banner.

It just arrived in the nick of time.

And it happened when the Danes were currently locked in a losing battle against the Estonians.

Now, luckily, it wasn't just soldiers on the battlefield that day.

For about two centuries, Europe passed through an epoch of the deepest misery.

Danes and Scandinavians ravaged her from the northwest, Saracens from the south, so that only the upper Rhine and Danube, harboring a rich Teutonic civilization, escaped destruction.

The Carlovingian Empire broke into pieces, Frankish, Lothringian, or Burgundian, and Germanic, with the last of which went the imperial title.

And this disintegration might have continued indefinitely to chaos had not feudalism appeared to fortify and steady declining civilization.

Right.

The Danish government explicitly stated that they just did not recognize any distinction between Jewish Danes and non-Jewish Danes.

They were all just Danish citizens subject to Danish law.

And the practical application of that policy on the ground is really striking.

And this is where the dissemination of the warning transitions from a targeted alert within the Jewish community to a completely spontaneous nationwide mobilization of the broader Danish public.

It's amazing.

As the rumors of the impending raid leak out from the initial contacts, non-Jewish Danes realize the gravity of the situation and they just independently initiate massive outreach efforts.

we see these incredible decentralized logistical networks just forming in real time.