7 THINGS THAT ARE NORMAL TO DANES BUT WOULD HORRIFY AMERICANS: The Weird Parts of Living in Denmark

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7 THINGS THAT ARE NORMAL TO DANES BUT WOULD HORRIFY AMERICANS: The Weird Parts of Living in Denmark
#Denmark #Danmark #DanishCulture
This video talks about some fun things we have noticed as American expats living in Copenhagen. We take a deep dive into the things that are normal to Danes but would horrify Americans. Many things are normal in Denmark but weird in America, and they’re listed below and explained in much more detail in our video.
One thing that’s often shared about how crazy Denmark is compared to America is the fact that Danes leave their babies outside, even in the winter - it’s just part of Danish culture. Danes, quite reasonably, say that there is no sense waking a kid that is sleeping and their baby buggies are much too big for small boutiques. We have heard claims that leaving the baby outside is good for them! That the fresh air helps to improve their breathing?
It my be cliche to hear, but Danes and Europeans are so much more comfortable with sex and nudity than Americans. On TV, in radio shows and all over advertisements, sex and nudity is something that’s a part of life in Denmark that would shock American people. Danes are much more comfort with sex, it’s just treated as something that isn't taboo.
Swearing is very commonplace in Danish society but is considered taboo in American culture.
People in Denmark curse a lot, and it would shock many Americans to hear it so often. In fact, some foreigners may even consider it rude to hear harsh curse words in the office. We discuss it more in our video, 9 Things Danes Say to Foreigners That Sound Rude (but are totally harmless). You can watch it HERE via @RobeTrotting • 9 THINGS DANES SAY TO ...
Danish humor is definitely something that is totally normal in Denmark but would be weird and misunderstood in America. Danes are known for their humor to be sarcastic and sometimes ironic, they enjoy joking around at their own expense and the expense of others. Danish humor seems to be designed to keep people in line and also to make them a little bit uncomfortable. It’s a bit different than American humor which is more wordplay, puns, cutesy and designed not to offend.
One thing about Denmark that would be surprising to Americans is the comfort with divorce and single parenthood. Marriage is nice, but not considered as sacred and moral as it is in the United States. Even though the divorce rate is similar to the American divorce rate, divorce in Denmark is just considered part of life and not stigmatized.
One thing that’s normal in Denmark that would be horrifying in America is how much freedom and trust kids have. This is in small things like taking public transportation to visit a friend or their education system across the country emphasizing school skills at an early age. There is no American helicopter parent mentality when raising children in Denmark.
Learn more in this video from @TravelinYoung and their video dedicated to the topic: • Top 5 Adjustments as A...
Public Intoxication and drinking culture in Denmark is very different from drinking culture in the United States. Social acceptability, teen drinking in Denmark, and morality in America all cause a very different situation around drinking. It’s definitely a major thing that is normal in Denmark but would be horrifying in America.
CONTENTS:
0:00 Intro
0:51 Danes Leave Their Babies Outside
2:43 High Divorce Rate in Denmark
4:52 Danish Humor
6:31 Parenting in Denmark
8:43 Cursing Habits in Denmark
10:53 Sex and Nudity in Denmark
13:06 Drinking Culture in Denmark
15:33 Closing
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Buggies Outside - Bjoern Kaehler/AP via NPR
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@RobeTrotting 2 года назад

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@SuiGenerisAbbie 2 года назад

I love the pre-video warning, LoL!

@SuiGenerisAbbie 2 года назад

** Leaving any child unattended, outside a shop or store, would freak me out. I mean I cannot fathom why anyone would do that, but, then again ... I am not a Dane, so. ** Divorces are common in Denmark, actually. They are handled with remarkable openness and candour. ** Danish humour tends to be gallows humour. ** Speaking of swearing, cursing in Polish (kurwa!) is very common in Poland. The running joke is that if you do not hear the words, "kurwa" or "cholodny" (hell or damn) then you likely are not hearing a true Pole speak. ** Nudity is NO BIGGIE in Europe. In Germany, they have nude parks, right out in the open. And, the media feature nude people as well. I like that attitude a lot more than Americans' prudishness. ** Alcoholism is quite common in Denmark. Open drinking is common. People are encouraged to drink, in fact. Public inebriation is not frowned upon.

@SuiGenerisAbbie 2 года назад

Funny and true story: At the rehearsal dinner for the now Crown Prince Frederik and his Aussie wife, Mary, one of the speechmakers spoke about how to please your man, in the boudoir. What did she say? Welll .... she spoke enthusiastically about the joys of stimulating the anus with one's partner's fingers, that's what, and how each partner in the union should do THAT for each other. The Crown Prince Frederik was laughing so hard he was crying, whilst his Aussie wife winced. Aussies are pretty laid back folks but, even she was ... well ... a bit ... put off, hahaha.

@davidguymon1673 2 года назад

Okay, you're gonna have to give some examples of this dark humor you are speaking of cause for me this rabbit hole goes deep. I'm a professional at sarcasm and puns.

@davidguymon1673 2 года назад

Also, when you speak of the whole kids going around unaccompanied it reminds me of some important lessons Johnathan Haidt speaks about in his book The Coddling Of The American Mind where he points out the damage of over protecting has stunted kids growth here in the US and gave rise to the fragile woke generation.

@dangle933 3 года назад

Understatement of the year: "It's a little bit safer in Denmark..."

@bibbobella 3 года назад

@Damien Nova This bot is getting old...

@mortenfrosthansen84 3 года назад

@@bibbobella uuhh yeah.. Perhaps the stereotypical hacker displayed in movies, are actually quite accurate. How stupid do they think people are? I always report it, but as with prerogative language, it seems RU-vid/google are still not aware of it..

@Galantus1964 3 года назад

LOL.. true...

@BigAndTall666 2 года назад

Nobody needs jesus....

@Creed667Gamer 2 года назад

This is My dads phone I live in Denmark Rødgrødmedfløde

@msfroekjaer 3 года назад

you wanna separate sex and nudity... Nudity is not synonymous with sex. Being naked or getting changed in the public after a swim is not sexualized.

@charismahornum-fries691 3 года назад

Totally true. It shouldn’t be either.

@Paul_C 2 года назад

Yeah, but not in the Puritan countries, the UK and USA. All the people that got kicked out/voluntary moved to the USA because their religious beliefs were, eh, weird. I mean, those Puritan values took a substantial hit on the amount of followers when the British kicked them out and moved to Amsterdam. Half moved to Leiden and the rest scattered. The next thing they did move to the America, the ship was the Mayflower...

@felix7062 2 года назад

I see lots of girls fully clothed getting sexualized by Danish men when you go out. You must live in Denmark from another reality? Also, I have many friends who complain about men they don't know at all grabbing/slapping them at certain places when we go out too. I live in the second biggest city btw. Totally not true

@ProfessorJayTee 2 года назад

Most Americans, and religious people everywhere, simply can't do that.

@altoclef6688 2 года назад

@@felix7062 It is true. As you said, those girls are fully clothed. It is the situation, not the level of nudity, that counts. That said, the grabbing/groping behaviour is an absolute disgrace. Go to a nude beach and see if you see the same behaviour - I bet you won't. So it is not a connection between sexualisation and nudity. Julie is right.

@ranaskip 3 года назад

I remember an American journalist interviewing the Danish minister of tourism and he ask if it was appropriate for porn shops to show everything they have inside the shop in the store window where children walking by could see it all. The minister replied that there was no way children could see it. What do you mean, the journalist said, its right there in full view. Well, the minister said, because of all the tourist blocking the view.

@israhelldid9119 3 года назад

porn is degenerate and nothing to be proud of

@favoritemelodies9995 3 года назад

😂 hahaha

@realitymatters8720 3 года назад

@@israhelldid9119 What a stupid thing to say...

@realitymatters8720 3 года назад

@@israhelldid9119 Yep, another stupid thing to say...

@bibbobella 3 года назад

@@israhelldid9119 Your name is "Israhell did 9/11" I think you should be the last person talking about what is and what isn't degenerate XD

@bestiary3208 3 года назад

I’m from Finland and I have to say all the points you made apply to Finland as well. 😀 In fact, probably all Nordic countries.

@RobeTrotting 3 года назад

You're right - they probably apply to most of the Nordics and even other Northern European countries and regions 😀

@doggytheanarchist7876 3 года назад

There's nuance. Swedish kids don't drink in the streets. They drink at home.

@MrWhangdoodles 3 года назад

@@RobeTrotting Yeah, other than the strollers and Christmas party, it's the same here in Austria.

@flemmingrostock5340 3 года назад

We will take the title of the happiest nation back soon. ;)

@dannyrasmussen4988 3 года назад

@@MrWhangdoodles You are normal too in Austria. :-)

@imajinallthepurple 3 года назад

I think we tend to use the F-word to emphasize what we're saying rather than it being a prophanity.

@antenna5726 3 года назад

Exactly👏😃

@Damogen 3 года назад

That is how everyone uses profanity, we just do it more freely. Also, some of the Danish swear words are quite a lot "stronger" than the english, we just don't think about it.

@gallitofeliz55 3 года назад

Fucking right :)

@charismahornum-fries691 3 года назад

@@smokedmessias1607 Those are also just used to emphasize or highlight a statement. Especially when you hit your pinky toe on a sharp object. -That’s the fucking worst. Sgu, for fanden i helvede av! 😆😄😄

@dfuher968 3 года назад

I remember that case about the Danish woman in NY leaving her baby sleeping in the stroller outside the restaurant. Its not like the baby was unsupervised, she was sitting right inside the window, there was literally only a window pane between them. That is totally normal here in Denmark, and apparently she had not been in the US long enough to find out, how different it was there. It wasnt just, that it was found unacceptable, it was also, that instead of asking/telling her to bring her baby inside, nobody talked to her, they just called the cops on her. She got arrested and detained, and it took the Embassy 2 days, I think, to sort it out and get her released and get the Americans to give her back her baby. It was a real uproar here in Denmark, every1, I knew, were so shocked, how she was treated like a child abuser and hardened criminal for leaving her baby on the other side of the window, she was at.

@livewithmeterandnomeasureb1679 3 года назад

Shes lucky when you're a poor American in the wrong state it is easier to become a foster parent for kids that have been shuffled around in the system than to get your own child back even if the child services mess up. (Or someone calls anonymously numerous times to harass you. ) Our gov doesn't like to admit when they are wrong. And forget it if you have a smaller part of the bureaucracy against a bigger part of it.

@EmilReiko 3 года назад

@Rita Roork thats why we really dont wan't to go to that shit stain 3rd world country in denial, US place... The place be awash with mentally challenged legalization

@Mille.N.A 3 года назад

@Rita Roork all other countries makes fun of the US because of people like you

@EmilReiko 3 года назад

@Rita Roork lol american delusions on display...

@Rale881 3 года назад

@Rita Roork And this is why we like Russia better.

@ane-louisestampe7939 3 года назад

About nudity, I just HAVE to tell you this true story. A family bought a fancy villa right on the beach north of CPH. They hadn't researched the neigbourghood propperly, as they were not aware that the beach in front of their new house actually is the local "nudist" beach. It's perfectly legal to go swimming naked at any beach, but each town has a stretch of beach, where the naked people hang out - it's just local knowledge. This "poor" family had a hard time excepting the locals went naked into the water, right in front of their house. So they put two signs up on the beach at the boundaries to "their" beach, saying something to the effect of: SWIMMING IN THE NUDE IS PROHIBITED. Big mistake: They got taken to court and fined DKK 10.000 for PULLUTING the beach with their ugly (and illegal) signs.

@RobeTrotting 3 года назад

Hej Ane-Louise, that's such a funny story - just picturing this family going crazy is hilarious! That's super arrogant to think you own the beach and can control how people use it 😂 they sound like a family of Karen's from America haha.

@fremenkiel1 3 года назад

that is fantastic

@ane-louisestampe7939 3 года назад

@@fremenkiel1 Not sure it's fantastic - just know it's so fåking Nordic (and count the Germans in there as well). And I looove the story! I especially like to tell it in countries, where the high ways, and hight streets, and low streets, and every where is plastred with more or less obnocious signs. At least we get a nice pair of tits in between - rofl

@fremenkiel1 3 года назад

@@ane-louisestampe7939 It really is, just I haven't heard that one ;) it is not fantastic, as in unbelievable, but rather that I love the story :)

@nanoqht285 3 года назад

@@RobeTrotting Fun fact: the name Karen originates from Denmark. The more you know.

@hjortenfeldt 3 года назад

Many years ago my wife and I took our kids to visit California. We’re a Danish family. Our kids were quite young at the time... my daughter was around 5 and my son around 2 years old. While strolling up Rodeo Dr. in Hollywood my son got angry (for reasons only 2-year-olds would understand) and he just refused to walk any longer and sat down on the sidewalk outside the window of some fashion store. I pride myself for being a patient dad, so rather than picking him up and carrying him out of there, I told my wife and daughter to just go ahead and that we would catch up in a few minutes after my son had calmed down. So they did. My son was still hysterical on the sidewalk crying (probably over his dad not allowing him to get a third icecream). So I squatted next to him and comforted him explaining calmly that two icecreams were enough in one hour and basically just waited for him to get over his tantrim and for him to want to continue walking on his own two feet. After a few minutes he realised that this time around, crying wouldn’t win him an extra icecream, so he got up again and took my hand and we picked up the nice strolling down the street. In Denmark that would have been the end of the story. But apparently somebody had seen me talking to my crying 2-year-old kid and I assume that they must have thought that I was a kidnapper or something... Because after walking about 50 meters away from “the crime scene” a cop came racing on a bike and stopped me. I had to show him photos on my phone of my son Denmark and even then, the cop was still suspecious. Then I had to call my wife, who on the phone confirmed to the police officer, that it was indeed our child walking hand in hand with me on the street... I understand that it’s better to be safe than sorry, but I was truely shocked by the lack of trust. Both by the police officer and also by the people who had called him. This is a fundamental difference between American and Danish culture. And the Danish trust in one another is why kids can be left in strollers outside a boutique, because come on, who the hell is going to to steal a baby? The risk of that happening is SO little compared to all other risks in life. It’s way more dangerous to take your child on a ride in your car, but that will not get you in trouble with the US authorities.

@jimmybaldbird3853 3 года назад

Could it not be the small homogenous nature of Denmark? I dont think there is much trust in Norrebro or Gellerup? I dont think Danes realize this.

@bibbobella 3 года назад

It has probably more to do with you being a man. Sorry, not sorry. Men are simply questioned way more hightly when it comes to children because apparently you being alone with a child implies you want to harm them in some manner... Seriously. Had it been your wife in this situation no one would have even questioned it even if the kid was screaming that it wasn't his mom...

@bibbobella 3 года назад

@@jimmybaldbird3853 There is. I grew up in Nørrebro. It is a "big" city so people aren't as preoccupied with others compared to in smaller towns but it is still more or less the same no matter where in Denmark you live. I wouldn't be scared of leaving a kid outside on Nørrebro nor would I worry about a man talking to a crying 2 year old and then walking away with them. I lock my door in the city unlike out on the countryside but that is really about the only real difference.

@hjortenfeldt 3 года назад

@@bibbobella I’m sure you’re right. So much for gender equality... ☝️😄

@hillehai 3 года назад

@@jimmybaldbird3853 You're onto something here. Something that is not allowed to be talked about.

@someguyfromarcticfreezer6854 2 года назад

American: "Y'all need Jesus" Danes: "Yes he is friendly delivery man from postnord"

@RobeTrotting 2 года назад

😂😂😂

@dianafanum2875 2 года назад

🤣🤣🤣

@Creed667Gamer 2 года назад

🤣🤣🤣

@christianknudsen1919 2 года назад

"Danish humor comes in one color: Dark!" that is very true. It reminds me of a story I hold very dear of my father. We've probably all tried at some point that somebody tell us the same joke time and time again, while not realizing it themselves. Like an oncle or something. So my father drove my mother crazy with the one about the doctor and the Chinese: The doctor says to his patient "I've been treating you for jaundice now for 25 years, and only NOW you tell me your Chinese!?!" (this was the 70's, so PC was somewhat different). He allegedly told her this joke a gazillion times, to the point of where ultimatums were given. Many years pass. My dad gets cancer, and gets very ill. Only a few days before his passing, lying in the hospital bed, barely able to speak he waves over my mom as best as he can. He gets her in real close and wispers "have I ever told you the one about the doctor and the Chinese?". The funny thing was that he had cancer of the liver, and was at this point himself completely yellow. Like, he was remoulade-yellow! Oh, the layers of ironi, and the light in that darkness - don't ever take yourself to seriously, not even on your own deathbed. My hero :-)

@RobeTrotting 2 года назад

Wow, you dad was a funny man and it seems like he lived a great life to have his loved ones still laughing at his jokes. That's a wonderful way of life and a great example of the Danish humor. Thank you so much for sharing this sweet story of your dad - so funny, ironic and dark (but still sweet). That's the real epitome of Danish humor 😀🇩🇰

@thomasbarchen Год назад

Beautiful!

@TheHenricochr Год назад

Lyder som indbegrebet af en dansk far du have. Bless him

@MattHanma 8 месяцев назад

Thank you for this.

@iblisthemage 5 месяцев назад

Respekt.

@stephanthierry 3 года назад

At 3:02 I noticed you changed "[in Denmark] they" to "we". An subtle but important sign - welcome on board, we are happy to have you! ;-)

@flemmingrostock5340 3 года назад

Welcome, you beautiful guys.

@bullerfugl 3 года назад

Shoutout to John Dillermand

@YourLocalDumbass_00 3 года назад

Lol han har efter hånden mange fans😂😂

@alfredroesen9784 3 года назад

No we dont talk about john dillermand

@YourLocalDumbass_00 3 года назад

Lmao

@MartinA-xh9ck 3 года назад

Come om do IT, just watch a few episodes.

@RobeTrotting 3 года назад

Is it worth the hype? I can't even count the number of American friends who contacted us about John Dillermand after there was an article about the show in Buzzfeed or some other online publication lol

@jesmarina 3 года назад

"Unattended" is a bit of a stretch. Often, a so called " baby-alarm" is on so the parents can hear any activity going on outside. Other times, the children are positioned in a place, where they are observable to the parents.

@RobeTrotting 3 года назад

You're right, we should probably have softened that a bit - we Americans tend to exaggerate which is very opposite! 😬

@BSnicks 2 года назад

No, some really leave the baby outside unattended! I remember a lady that lived on 3rd floor (2. sal). She left her baby outside on the 1st floor (stue etage). Then she came down and checked on her baby every 2-3 hours. It is true that the cold fresh air will benefit the baby though.

@kriss3d 2 года назад

Both my kids slept outside when they were babies. No alarms but we kept an eye on them once in a while. And yes even in the busy pedestrian street.

@knaugde 3 года назад

Divorce can be a good thing, children deserve two happy parents instead of two living in a bad marriage.

@treefrog101 Месяц назад

My parents should have divorced when they didn't and it messed me up as a kid. Much would have preferred two homes of healthier adults and going back and forth than two hott messes living together.

@shwetatamang3719 3 года назад

Just recently we overheard Americans talk to their Dane friends about how shocked they were with the whole nudity thing here in Denmark and to that my husband and I shared a small laugh “it’s shocking for Americans then imagine for us Indians”... 😀. But it a big learning point for us to be comfortable and respectful of the culture here and also to be comfortable with our bodies and embrace it!

@RobeTrotting 3 года назад

Yes, it's so funny - we usually say "I never realized how prudish we Americans are" and even now we feel very self-conscious and uncomfortable even though we try to fully embrace the norms here in DK 😀🇩🇰

@ingelinerussell2395 2 года назад

there is so little nudity theses days - probably due to cellphone cameras everywhere - it was more normal in the 1970s

@omega1231 2 года назад

@@ingelinerussell2395 It wasn't more normal in the 70s, it was just more common, since it was a counter cultural move from the hippie movement in Denmark - it was literally not the norm, today it is more so a norm but less common. For example, i highly doubt that a commercial for a boob job with bare boobs on a bus would be acceptable in the 70s, today people barely notice.

@fredmidtgaard5487 2 года назад

What you might not know is that the English word "F*ck" is actually ancient Scandinavian, originating from the Danish and Norwegian Vikings conquering England a thousand years ago. They said "Fokka" a lot (it is the sound you might make when having intercourse). The English liked the word and learned to use it (just as with so much else in the English language such as the weekdays and so on).

@frejak264 Год назад

Wauw that is so interesting 🙂

@lindaschriver1343 3 года назад

As a Dane I was always a little confused by “the talk” mentioned in American films and series. In my experience there never was an expectation for 1 talk about puberty and sex. It was more like a continued conversation (even though Danish still sex ed needs a lot of work).

@RobeTrotting 3 года назад

Hej Linda, it's funny to think of how the idea of "the talk" or "discussing the birds and the bees" (as seen in American movies and TV shows) is unnecessary and even weird in societies where appropriate sex education begins early. It's definitely much better the way things are handled in Denmark as far as our opinion goes.

@bazzakrak 3 года назад

Yup@@RobeTrotting sex ed is important I think in school. I remember those classes was lots of fun, being called upon, with 2 other boys, to demonstrate how to put on a condom on a plastic penis in front of the whole class ( I am sure we were chosen because we usually made lots of noise in class and were being disruprive) But it is important for young people to learn about those things like condoms, the pill and STDs so they are prepared. Not sure how young people now become sexually active, but back when I was in school (I am in the mid 40s now) it wasnt unusual to have the first experience at 14 or 15, and at that age we, or at least I, didn't know all I needed to know that is for sure.

@owayasomething9295 2 года назад

Sex ed in dk is still so shit. Its too focused on het penetrative sex and there’s still too much of a scare approach on STDs instead of just telling people to go to the doctor regularly.

@ingelinerussell2395 2 года назад

There is no, or very little sexeducation in American schools.

@MTMF.london Год назад

@@ingelinerussell2395 Because they are so afraid the kids will "learn" how to do it and enjoy it. You'd be surprised how many people think sex is dirty - they equate sex with porn.

@jrnmller1551 3 года назад

I think the divorce thing is down to the social system in Denmark,no divorced mother will be left without roof over her head and provisions for the kids,and a lot off women are able to take care off themselves without the men, that gives no fear off divorcing. in the US i saw a lot off women being dependant off parents and family if they divorced and the stigma!

@RobeTrotting 3 года назад

Hey Jørn, you're definitely right! The Danish system is what makes sure that everyone can have a life of dignity no matter their marital (or other) status. We wish America would take some notes on how to treat their/our people 😀

@christoffermaintz781 3 года назад

Another thing here is that we're not so incredibly... Selfish. In the US you'll always be seeing couples that split up where one party will want to take as much away from the other as possible, or get a larger part of custody etc. Child support for life based on the wealth you had at the moment of the divorce (and this rate will not change even if you end up homeless & broke) so on and so forth. Our system just isn't quite so... Horribly broken and capitalist as one would experience in the US.

@doggytheanarchist7876 3 года назад

This. And we have less religious shame and stigma here.

@TheSybil47 3 года назад

@@christoffermaintz781 And, if you look closely, quite a number of people get murdered in the US, because of divorce, custody fights, child support trouble, etc. etc. Sometimes even the kids gets killed.

@elisabethbjuhr3775 3 года назад

Also, since both parents are home with the young children, mom and dad are still active parents even if they divorce. Civilized countries put the welfare of their children first! 😍

@assmoose 3 года назад

A couple of points from a Dane: My parents divorce was the best thing that ever happened for me. And for both of them as well. I got lost all the time as a kid. Getting lost and figuring it out is one of the most important life skills there is. As one of my friends said: The kids will fall down at some point if I run after them or not... Language: Most of the simple and common Danish swear words suck and there are way fewer words in Danish than in English/American. You should thank Shakespeare for that. The weirdest thing in the world to me is how violence and fucked up shit are allowed in American movies and not swear words. And this relates to the sex thing as well. How is sex worse to see for kids than violence? I never had "a talk" with my parents. Because sex was around. It wasn't something you had to be told about or discover.

@Snarcksa 3 года назад

To add to this: Sex ed. is taught in every level of primary school, with the focus shifting from year to year so the kids (hopefully) are prepared for what's happening in their lives. Sex ed isn't a voluntary subject. It's mandated by law (Lov om Folkeskolen, §7)

@ane-louisestampe7939 3 года назад

@@Snarcksa Big smile from me. Always pleased to meet facts - especially when they give perspective.

@ane-louisestampe7939 3 года назад

@@Snarcksa Trafic education is also in §7. This is actually hysterically funny. Try tell that in Utah or Texas or ...

@ane-louisestampe7939 3 года назад

I'm very grateful my parents divorced! I saw more of my father, and had a more profound relationship with him, than any of my piers. I don't share farher with my siblings, my kids don't share mother with their sister. My son's bonusmother (who's a divorced child) has a daughter . Two of my sisters have bonus-children - one sister is on her second batch. My nephew has remarried, and she brings two children to the table. Sounds complicated? My son is "pregnant" with a lovely girl, who's got several siblings, of whom she only shares both parents with one. She's got two bonusmothers. If any body has a problem, it's not us! Just imagine all the family, that's going to be at the christening! 5 Grandmothers (that is, if Gina can make it from Central America) Look upon it as a Nordic version of the big families from more south. Children simply can't have TOO many, who loves them.

3 года назад

North americans and south americans put too much pressure on parents to stay married because of the kids. Fuck that. I wish my parents had divorced when I was a young kid. They waited too long, and as a consequence made everyone involved fucking miserable.

@HANSIMUSMAXIMUS 3 года назад

The home boys mentioned John Dillermand, epic

@juicyavocado784 3 года назад

Ah yes the holy show.

@Jegvedikkehvadjegskalhedde 3 года назад

Yes... Vi har john dillerman i Danmark:/ (...we have John dillerman in Denmark:/)

@ninatouchdown2500 3 года назад

Ja, jeg måtte lige fortælle hvad de skulle google. Den serie er simpelthen for sjov til ikke at blive kendt over hele verden. De amerikanere der bliver forarget over den er sikkert de samme, der bliver forarget over South Park.

@Jegvedikkehvadjegskalhedde 3 года назад

@@ninatouchdown2500 sikkert

@clopzi522 3 года назад

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@IMXFIT 3 года назад

I have been to many Christmas party’s, and it has always been accepted that not all wants to drink, and never has anyone told us that we couldn’t have our phones. That would be very unacceptable. Unfaithful behaviour has never been promoted by anyone, quite the opposite actually.

@alexanderludvigsen1893 2 года назад

never been promoted. but if it happens we don't talk about it

@createinmeacleanheartohgod6871 2 года назад

Denmark is a country of plenty of Laws, but no laws at all. It’s culturally christian, but atheistic in nature. It’s more wild than France.

@carolinafd 3 года назад

I am Brazilian and arrived in Denmark only a few months ago. Although my cultural background is pretty different than yours I am loving to watch your perspective regarding the danish life! Thanks for the fun vídeos! 😊🌻 I really appreciate how you portrait what you find unsual, without being disrespectful.

@RobeTrotting 3 года назад

Hey Carol, first of all - WELCOME - to our channel and to Denmark! 😀🇩🇰 In our experience, the expat community in Denmark has been awesome, both online and in-person (hopefully there will be the chance for more expat events in the coming months). It's so great that you're experiencing the tone we try to aim for in our videos, that cultural differences are interesting and something to celebrate 😀 We really try to look at each topic as if we're talking to our own selves, but from 4 years ago when we first moved to Copenhagen. Like many countries, there are a lot of "unwritten rules" in Denmark and it takes some time to learn them (and we're still learning) but we think it's a wonderful place to live.

@carolinafd 3 года назад

@@RobeTrotting Thanks for the reply and for such a warm welcome! 😊 I am also hoping to have some presencial expats events soon and to enjoy the first summer over here! I agree with you, every country is full with unwritten rules, but I admire many things about the Danish culture and lifestyle. I am also learning the language, as you have mentioned in another video, understanding the language can reveal a lot about how people express themselves and differentiate what is "being straightforward" and what is "being rude". Fortunately, so far I had to deal with the straightforward side only 😅

@sylla2 3 года назад

Welcome all of you!! 🙂

@Hejms 3 года назад

It's not really because it's english curse words, that we don't have a problem with cursing. We also curse a lot in danish. We also have words like "heck" and such in danish, that we use when we're at a place where we don't want to curse.

@mkpetersen1607 3 года назад

I came to Denmark as an Au Pair so I wasn't "exposed" to curse words in the first year while I learned danish. I was SO shocked the first few times I visited my now-husbands parents 😂😂

@valleygirl670 3 года назад

You are not American. When a dane curses using english, it sends a shock down the spine. Not the same in Denmark where cursing in danish is household norm. Children in Danish families that I know personally are never reprimanded if they curse, instead the parent just shrugs like whaddya gonna do?

@mkpetersen1607 3 года назад

@@valleygirl670 not sure if it was a reply to me or not 😅 The family was danish-australian and the danish mom didn't curse herself, I guess that's why the kids didn't either. And they were still in kindergarten, so too young to have picked a lot of curse words up outside of the home :)

@valleygirl670 3 года назад

@@mkpetersen1607 no you are fine lol just making my own opinions as i have lived here 18 years.

@pellejohansen 3 года назад

@@valleygirl670 its not so much whaddaya gonna do but more like we don't see it as a bad thing. My mom was like all kids can curse in my house as long as they are kind

@dixie31623 3 года назад

In regards to drinking. I was one of those teens that got shitfaced with my friends every other weekend. But by the time I hit 21-22 I remember riding home on a bus and thinking 'I am too old for this shit'. After that I learned to party on cola and it is just as fun when you are with good company.

@RobeTrotting 3 года назад

That's interesting in comparison to American culture where the legal age is 21, so the drinking culture really explodes for those Americans in their early 20s, during a time when they should also be focusing on career and adult life 😀

@brostenen 3 года назад

@@RobeTrotting Americans start drinking, when Danes stop.

@brostenen 3 года назад

@@RobeTrotting As a Dane. Then every time I see drunk spring breaker's from Florida, I am all like: Are they not a bit too old for that? Looks embarasing for people their age, acting like they were 5 years younger.

@TheMissyjazz 3 года назад

Me too. Efter age 20 drinking to get fuck up stopped being a thing

@bibbobella 3 года назад

@@TheMissyjazz Occationally it still happens but yeah. Usually I know exactly when to stop so I am simply drunk but avoid becoming shitfaced and make an absolute fool out of myself.

@hullahopbob 3 года назад

As a Dane I find this channel refreshing and fun to watch

@RobeTrotting 3 года назад

Hej Nicolai, thanks for the kind words and for watching. We really love living in Denmark and getting to share the fun of bridging cultures.

@jadeenglene 3 года назад

Everybody sleeps better in colder rooms or outside. Should help the immunesystem. And about the strollers in shops: I once visited a military area. Closed gates and everything with a friend from US. After a while I noticed she was hovering around my babyboy who I left in the main road of the mall because the shoppingwagons were to big to take along on the smaller sideroads. I had to ask her if she was alright and she told me it made her uncomfortable that I left him even though I was only 10 steps away. I honestly thought she was the crazy one right there and only later learned that we were brought up very much more laid back with a lot of confidence to eachother. Thanks for a nice video 🙂👍

@RobeTrotting 3 года назад

Hej Britt, thanks for your comment. I think you're spot on with what you mention about your friend - Americans are very much untrusting of each other and it's reflected in how we hover over our children (and then pass on that stress). A bit may have to do with the media but perhaps also in the "individualism" of the American society (it's a bit sad).

@winterchild6120 3 года назад

Fresh air is important to everyone, even when sick, especially if airway infection, it is good for you to be outside atleast an hour or more a day. Children in vuggestue and kindergarten are also taken outside to play when the weather is good, and they have the cribs standing outside all year round.

@CherokeeBear 3 года назад

There is a reason why we don't "trust others". When I moved to Denmark, it was very strange for me to learn that i don't have to look over my shoulder anymore. Most Danes don't understand how dangerous some parts of USA are, forgetting how much bigger and more populated we are. My workplace was(still is) a hotspot area for human trafficking kidnapping. Growing up I've had several situations where i was in danger but my parents taught me to be cautious and rightly so because it's surely saved my life on a few occasions.

@doggytheanarchist7876 3 года назад

@@CherokeeBear true. People don't steal babies in DK. The citizen registration is very thorough and rigid, (and the citizens are way less desperate than in the US) So you can't just turn up in a new town with a new baby and pretend it's yours. If it was yours, everyone would know. From the hospital to the city hall. Every person is registrered from fetus is discovered in the womb, till you're ashes in an urn. Yes. Even the ashes.

@thomasfromdenmark6894 3 года назад

I find that sleeping outside and merely sleeping in a cold room to be very different. There must be some physiological explanation, perhaps just that the air is constantly replaced outside and thus fresher. Babies aren’t just left in the cold wind of course, in fact they’d be tucked in well to not get cold, but it still works and then they can sleep outside pretty much all year round. Sleep like babies :)

@gittenygaard95 3 года назад

😂😂😂 as a Dane I completely agree on the most points. Makes me wanna share a absolute crazy story: As a baby my mom (of course) left me outside the store when grocery shopping. Nothing crazy about that in Danish standards at least. However, one day she forgot to pick me up again, and basically left me there. It was only when she came home and my older brother ask where I was, she realized that she had forgotten me in front of the store. So she ran back to get me, and I was - of course - still sleeping and did not notice anything even though I was left unattended for more than 1 hour. Yet another twist on the story was that the street she left me on was Istedgade, which probably is one of the worst streets in Copenhagen Crime wise. Anyway, nothing bad happened. And we laugh about it now. I most add that my mom is not proud of the mistake, but she continued to leave me out side to sleep.

@charismahornum-fries691 3 года назад

The people of and in Istedgade, knew where you were, who you belonged to and that no one would come near you except for the authorities or your mother. The people in the street knows every single tiny crack in the pavement and every car and every face and each other. A kid left there attracts a lot of attention.

@-Anjel 2 года назад

In Finland we think babies sleep better in the cold. The national recommendation is to wait till the baby is at least two weeks old, and not to leave them out if it's colder than -15°C.

@BeAColour 2 года назад

My dad did almost the exact same thing with my older brother, although he realised it on his way home, and yeah now it's something we all laugh about! xD

@wildflower314 Год назад

I can do one better. I worked on Bakken as a teenager, and one day sitting in the ticket booth at the radiocars, a young couple ask me to look after their baby while taking the ride. But when the ride ends - no parents appear! After some time sitting with the baby, waiting for them to realise their mistake, I lose my patience. So partly to get rid of it, partly to punish the parents,I turned it over to lost and found :-) Hope they had some red ears when they finally came for the baby.

@janhornbllhansen4903 3 года назад

Some nuance on divorces. The fact that Denmark has parental leave, kindergarten etc. means women are expected to eventually return to work even after they have kids and while we still have room for improvement in regards to gender equality (women also earn less in Denmark, than men on average), women are rarely financially dependent on their husbands, that means divorcing if a relationship isn't working anymore, is less stressful for both parties.

@omega1231 2 года назад

Except women don't earn less than men on average in Denmark, for the same job. Also, women don't choose a career path based on how much it pays, plenty of men do - if that alone was reversed then women would make more than men - it has nothing to do with equality, unless you think that having the freedom of choice is somehow inequality. Meaning, if you want to fix this, then you need to force women to choose career paths that make them more money, and that would be autocratic.

@TheMikZino 3 года назад

I love you guys! I am an American from Chicago and next week I will be living here for 15 years. Some of your videos make me cry but in a good way. It is so refreshing to see other Americans embracing the Danish lifestyle. I just found you guys last week and I have binge-watched almost every video over the last couple of days. LOVE YOU GUYS!

@RobeTrotting 3 года назад

Aw, thank you so much for the comment and we're SO glad you like the videos and can relate! 😀🇩🇰

@kathybrady4033 2 года назад

Loved this! I married a Dane 8 months ago, he is the most wonderful person 😊

@RobeTrotting 2 года назад

Danes really are wonderful people, congrats on your marriage Kathy! Thanks for watching 😊

@niebuhrsongs 3 года назад

About the babies in strollers: There are almost zero examples of kidnapping of babies in Denmark, so no reason to stress about it. Also, when you see thousands of strollers left on the sidewalks, in parks, courtyards, front yards and so on, in a city like Copenhagen, you realise it's completely safe here.

@RobeTrotting 3 года назад

Yes, it's so great that the city and country are as safe as they are - that's definitely the reason that Americans are so shocked by babies left unattended (and it says more about us than the safe country where people trust one another) 😀🇩🇰

@fremenkiel1 3 года назад

@@RobeTrotting to me America is so shocking, I mean how does one even contemplate that others will just kidnap your child? I mean what is the point, it is so out there to me

@fremenkiel1 3 года назад

@Rita Roork no not really I wonder how it possible can have come to this where such a law is needed.

@2xdrews 3 года назад

in Denmark there is a very big difference between nudity / body and intercourse. for us, nude bathing or the program with naked adults is not at all associated with intercourse. It all depends on the situation and the mood.

@hassegreiner9675 2 года назад

However, I can still for my inner eye recall the picture of 20 year old Vibeke who insisted on showering with us boys after a game of badminton now about 50 years ago. Totally non-sexual and still that picture lingers...;-)

@lavinamontoya8164 3 года назад

In the nurseries there are prams outside in the backyard under a roof where babies and toddlers sleep during the day, both summer and winter. The adults check on them once in a while while they sleep and they are of course dressed and covered according to the temperature. There are also skovbørnehaver that is kindergartens where children are outside in the forest everyday most of the year and some of them also during winter. I saw a video of an American I believe she was a teacher in a study trip long time ago who was flabbergasted by the degree of liberty the children had to climb trees, be around the fire and other "dangerous " activities. You should check that too.

@RobeTrotting 3 года назад

Hej Lavina, that's really cool to learn about how outside sleeping is even a part of the nurseries. We'll look for the video - Americans definitely have a weird way of parenting and supervising children that borders on unhealthy. We pick up on the subtle difference just relaxing outside in a park or going for a walk and observing - it's neat to see parents let their child fall down, get up and keep running instead of the American way which is often to run over and make a big scene (usually scaring the child in the process).

@havrefrasss 3 года назад

@@RobeTrotting I believe they're talking about the channel My New Danish Life :)

@RobeTrotting 3 года назад

@@havrefrasss Another great resource and channel, but in this case, we were referring to a different one (they're tagged in the description).

@castelodeossos5042 3 года назад

I saw a video about those forest kindergartens, where they reported that the only accident they ever had was a parent's car driving over someone's toe.

@srenkoch6127 3 года назад

@@RobeTrotting Well in my experience, if a kid crawls up in a tree, it's better if he/she falls down from 1-2 meters at age 6-8 and gets a bruise than the same kid at age 18 crawls up a crane or similar and falls and break bones or kills him/herself because he/she has never fallen and been hurt before and thus don't have that instinctive sense that falling down can hurt and may be dangerous.... I mean you can explain to someone how Newton works, but falling and getting a bruise teaches it in a more permanent way.... (And yes i have 2 kids and they have both been climbing trees in school etc. and gotten a few bruises along the way, but nothing worse than that).

@SagaDraws 3 года назад

Seriously, John Dillermand is the goddamn peak of everything danish. Its a masterpeice.

@clauseland9005 3 года назад

it was even mentioned by Steven Colbert

@clauseland9005 3 года назад

it was even mentioned by Steven Colbert

@brostenen 3 года назад

I was laughing, when he walked dogs. The leash bound to the middle, and a sausage on the tip. The way he said ouch all the time, was epic.

@MaMastoast 3 года назад

It's for kids so I don't find it entertaining at all.. But I love the spirit of it.

@brostenen 3 года назад

@@MaMastoast As a parent, I love watching it with my kids.

@jespermayland571 3 года назад

In my school we showered with girls up until about 3rd grade. When I was in American High-school in Vineland, NJ, NO ONE showered..! In gym, it was usually just me and another guy and we were considered weird..! I sat in some nasty smelly classes from time to time..! 😅🤧

@RobeTrotting 3 года назад

In high school the Euro foreign exchange kids were always way too good at soccer and way to comfortable getting naked in the locker room hahahah. And jesus we all did smell after having gym in the morning and then sitting in class! At least you got to become an Eagles fan!!!!

@jon3584 3 года назад

Jesper, we did too.. Im from 86.

@antenna5726 3 года назад

I was at a water park in Galveston Texas once. Only one other person showered after getting back in the locker room besides myself, But she showered in her bathing suit🤣🤣🤣 Never seen that before- But they must have thought I was the weird one😂😂😂

@juliamorales6620 3 года назад

You trotting guys mentioned party chats where people spoke about their sex act in detail to other guests. I found it hard to fathom as I would have been so embarrassed to the point of fainting. It would been comparable to someone chatting about his salary or work situations.

@meh23p 2 года назад

Okay I’m from 1988 and I never showered with girls in Denmark. Where did this happen?

@giathrixxie5857 2 года назад

When talking about parenting, I always grew up with my mum saying 'freedom under responsibility'. If I was responsible, I'd get to be free as a bird as I had proved I could handle it. As for climbing trees and being alone on playgrounds or throughout the city, that had never occurred to me that it isn't like that for every country? xD If I ever got hurt from falling out of a tree or getting smacked in the face with a swing on the playground, I dealt with it. Sure, it sucked to get hurt, but it was a part of teaching me as well. Maybe I shouldn't climb the tree so high, or I should've checked if the branch I was on was stable. Maybe I should've held on to something just in case it broke. You get to explore and figure out the world without being shielded from every little thing that might hurt you. Sometimes there's an adult with their own kid, but most of the time I remember I was alone with other kids. If something serious happened, usually one kid ran to the nearest house or to their home to fetch an adult who could help, but it was extremely rare for anything of that scale to happen at all - mostly a bit of bruising and scrapes, occasionally minor wounds but nothing that couldn't be fixed with a band-aid and a parent giving it a little healing kiss c: I was practically raised 'wild' in that sense: with my parents not hovering over me, but still being there for when I got home and had gotten hurt. I could always go home and cry if I needed to, and my parents made sure to raise me well enough to know that I wouldn't go with strangers. On that point, I never encountered anything like a stranger who tried to lure anyone - the only adults around had a kid there, and usually focused on their own kid unless another kid got injured. Usually, we didn't cry about small stuff, so if a kid cried it was usually because something REALLY hurt, even if it wasn't a serious injury c:

@MrMartinSchou 3 года назад

With regards to the babies left in buggies outside - this is pretty much harmless. In the US, some 150 kidnappings of children (anyone younger than 18) by strangers happen every year. A lot more go missing for a variety of reasons, including kidnappings by family members and family friends, but it's only about 150 a year out of a population of about 64 million children in the US. The vast majority of the children kidnapped are girls age 12 and up. In 2018, there were about 1,300 deaths due to SIDS, about 1,300 deaths due to unknown causes, and about 800 deaths due to accidental suffocation and strangulation in bed of children aged up to 1 years old. There are 22 times as many of these deaths as there are "actual" kidnappings every year. Unless you are constantly terrified that your child will die in its sleep, there is no reason for you to be terrified that your child will be kidnapped from a buggy outside a store.

@RobeTrotting 3 года назад

Hej Martin - interesting statistics, and when you break it down that way you would probably surprise a lot of Americans. I think the media plays a large role in shaping opinions and stoking fears around this! 😀

@-Anjel 2 года назад

In Finland we think babies sleep better in the cold, balconies in apartments are basically babies' napping place. The national recommendation is to wait that the baby is at least two weeks old, and not to leave them out if it's colder than -15°C.

@karolkupec2044 2 года назад

Where did you get those statistics from? Thousands of kids get kidnapped , murdered each year in US

@f1nn0 2 года назад

@@karolkupec2044 where can I find the statistics you lean on?

@TheKIMANO Год назад

@@RobeTrotting Another thing is that you will have a really hard time if you kidnap a child in Denmark. As you have learned " don´t mess with Danes" . The same thing would apply to a kidnapper.

@boduholm8463 3 года назад

Did you hear about the guy who had a bad week? The only positive was his Corona test...

@Noblemand 3 года назад

Ba dum tsss

@RobeTrotting 3 года назад

Bo 😲hahaha

@Zuzzanna 3 года назад

🤣😂👌

@HepauDK 3 года назад

Speaking of which... Not so long ago, a local grocery store had the cooler right inside the entry lined up with Corona beer. :)

@evaibenfalkenbergnowak7543 3 года назад

Love it! Ha ha ha ha so dark! :-)

@madbean555 3 года назад

Two things I had to mention about this video. IN America there is one day of the year where Americans celebrate independence. IN denmark we celebrate it 365 days a year, by teaching our young to be so and from a early age. Also when it comes to sex, or generally asking Danes questions. Don't ask things you would not expect us to answer. Because we generally answer questions even if they may be about sex etc. We are a very straight forward people, and we don't beat about the bush. So if someone ask you a dance a qestion, we tend to answer it, because why else ask, right?

@RobeTrotting 3 года назад

That's very true about the questions (and why we never say "how are you?" anymore haha). I love the line you mention about celebrating independence, it's so cool and such a great outlook!

@shanneunkerskov7947 3 года назад

I'm so happy to have stumbled upon your channel. I love it! Really good videos.

@christiansteffensen6344 3 года назад

As a Dane, I love your channel. Gives a great perspective on my own culture, and you guys are great presenters. Keep on keeping on!

@Charmingdane 3 года назад

I feel the same way, and having an american girlfriend to show these, makes it really nice

@magnushindborg 3 года назад

Danes like to joke with eachother.. the more savage you are to your friends the better you get along lol

@RobeTrotting 3 года назад

Yes! This is a fun quality 🤩

@Phiyedough 2 года назад

I don't think that is an odd thing about Danes, Americans are the ones with the strange culture.

@FatherDingo 2 года назад

It's for sure a form of endearment Also a way of bonding creatively, the weirder the insult the better.

@Lightflames85 2 года назад

think it depend on your pair group. But a bit of teasing never hurt no one as long as it dont get mean.

@daverosenblum8442 Год назад

Thanks so much for all of your videos. Fun, insightful and informative, with just the right amount of adorkable. I love em all!

@RobeTrotting Год назад

Thank you so much Dave 😊

@funnyyellowbanana7231 3 года назад

Great video, so much fun. Thank you 👍😂💚

@finnchristiansen6625 3 года назад

16 hyggelige minutters adspredelse uden irriterende underlægningsmusik. Dejligt.

@begitteolsen3784 3 года назад

Helt enig

@MikeThomassen 3 года назад

Great content, guys, both this video and in general :-) We do have some taboo's, even though they are very few. One of our taboo's is about alcohol. I have never been drinking, and I've only tasted it a very few times, and it wasn't for me. So I've never been drunk or even close. And I've been pressured by a kind of "society shame" all my life (I'm soon 35), and there are still situations were people expect from preconception that I do drink, and when they realize that I'm actually not going to dring, no matter how many times they ask me, they stop talking to me... I hope that you like it here, as Denmark is amazing in almost all other areas, so it's nice to see you guys here :-)

@kennethjanczak4900 3 года назад

nice😊😊 Thanks for taking the time to make the video and share it 🤘🤘😊

@jeffrosenberg8456 2 года назад

Thanks for a great video.

@Mette_Abildgaard 3 года назад

The part about nudity reminded me of when I graduated from secondary education in 2015. We’ve got all sorts of wacky traditions surrounding our graduation caps - one of which happens to be going for a swim wearing only the cap. Anyway, one of the hallmarks of graduating from secondary education is renting a “studentervogn” (basically a party bus) and driving around to homes of all the students in the class. By the time we were driving around in the bus, several of the boys from my class had yet to take a dip only wearing their graduation caps, so when we made a stop close to Nyhavn they saw the opportunity to strip and jump in the harbour. Given that this was late June, the weather was nice, and that Nyhavn is usually a rather busy area, I’m pretty sure plenty of tourists had quite the experience that day.

@Vikingvideos50 2 года назад

You guys are great. Love these videos. Very refreshing.

@RobeTrotting 2 года назад

Thank you Thomas 😃🇩🇰 and thank you for watching. So glad you enjoy them!

@alfredvberg 3 года назад

Another great video, keep up the amazing work

@RobeTrotting 3 года назад

Hej Alfred, thank you so much and we definitely will keep the videos coming 😀🇩🇰

@herlevh19 3 года назад

I remember going to a festival called "langelands festival" which my all means is really kid friendly. Lot of activities for kids and even the posibility to get your kids watched while the parents went of to hear some music anyway there was a booth where you would pay something like 50 danish kroner to get scolded/yelled at. I remmeber the line being really long, so it just goes to show that danes enjoy our sarcastic and sometimes rude sense of humor so much that we actually pay to be yelled at.

@RobeTrotting 3 года назад

Hej Lasse, that sounds like such a cool event and that booth would be a LOT of fun. I'd love to listen in for that haha. There's a restaurant chain in the States called Dick's Last Resort where the servers belittle you the whole time you're there 😀

@kaffegal 3 года назад

An example of danish humor. My dad was somewhere int, where people were to introduce themselves. So many bragged.. "I have this big car", "big house, in this fancy area" etc. etc. When it was my dad's turn to introduce himself, he said "Hi, my name is... I have a MAJOR cold and ALOT of paper tissues in my pocket". Just to say "Who cares. I've heard what you have - but whom are you?".

@Norseraider84 3 года назад

Nice one guys ! Was just watching your very first episode about Christmas beers , when this new video suddently popped up. Already feels like its Friday ! 😊 Looking forward to this one 😊❤️

@RobeTrotting 3 года назад

Oh, so cool! Welcome to our channel, we hope you enjoy them both 🇩🇰😃

@TheOneAndOnlyMedha 3 года назад

Well it is lillefredag after all 😂 so skål 🍻

@barrett7893 3 года назад

You’re such an amazing couple. I really do love your videos. Keep making these great videos.

@LightningSparrow 2 года назад

I'm danish and short. My friends made a chat called the hobbit-bullies. Everytime anyone think of a new short people joke, it ends up in that chat to me. 😂

@jespermayland571 3 года назад

Just a parental example : My sister moved out at 16 and hitchhiked to Paris with a friend and stayed there for a year working in a café. I left at 17 and went to the States for 4 years and left to Copenhagen upon returning. This was considered quite normal and we are for ever grateful for the love & trust that was granted us. It made us stronger individuals for certain..!

@Autumn8969 3 года назад

I can feel nice, open-minded and comfortable vibe from both of u. love u oxox❤️❤️❤️

@I23n00b 3 года назад

Thank you for this perspective. As a dane going to US I can say this is very useful the other way around as well.

@JRSofty 3 года назад

How this popped up on my feed I have no idea but I'm not complaining. I love the "legal declaration" at the start. I personally love Denmark, it's a great place for taking vacation. We're hoping Corona will allow us to visit this year!

@RobeTrotting 3 года назад

We're so glad you found us and that you enjoyed the video! We love living in Denmark and digging into the culture here. Hopefully, you get to plan a trip here soon 😀

@joheishan6589 3 года назад

Hey guys, just found your channel. Love both of you (Guy in blue for the broad shoulders, guy in red because he's got that cool Reed Richards thing going). You are so cute together.

@RobeTrotting 3 года назад

So sweet, thank you 😀 and welcome to our channel!

@joheishan6589 3 года назад

@@RobeTrotting Tanx guys, looking forward to more content

@hansen0000 3 года назад

I freaking love you guys and your videos, keep up the good work, and a warm welcome to DK

@RobeTrotting 3 года назад

Thank you so much - love right back to you! We will keep making videos and thank you for watching 😀🇩🇰

@inezwitkowski8309 3 года назад

Love your videos, and the chapter dividing is genius.

@RobeTrotting 3 года назад

Thanks so much, Inez, so glad you enjoy them! We finally added the chapters and are going to go back through and update old videos - such a difference and it doesn't take much time to do it 😀🇩🇰

@pipkin5287 3 года назад

Fun fact about the drinking culture: Alcohol, before Christianisation, was thought to be the drink of the gods, and you were honouring them when you got drunk on special occasions - like Jule/Yule celebrations. The julefrokost is quite an old tradition 😊

@Dennis-ow9dd 3 года назад

Danish humor is when a store in Denmark change the name of kanel snegle (cinnamon snail aka cinnamon bun) to dræber snegle (killer snails) when EU wanted to control the amount of cinnamon in them, because if you eat to much cinnamon you could get sick you eat waaaaaaaaay to much cinnamon in a day

@RobeTrotting 3 года назад

YES! We heard about that, so funny and a perfect way to poke fun at it! 😂🇩🇰😀

@Zubiila 2 года назад

I laughed too much at this! 😂 I wonder what the EU would think about the tradition to shower people in cinnamon when they turn 25? 😂😂

@theqwert228 Год назад

Dane here. 🙋‍♂ About kids walking around unattended: Sure there is gonna be some bubblewrap-parents, but they're not nearly as abundent here in Denmark. Kids get taught how to take care of themselfs at a very young age, pretty much from when they can walk and talk. It also helps that the community is not nearly as dangerous as in America to be around (I have friends there and they tell me how rough it can get sometimes). 😉

@xeon_girl777 11 месяцев назад

In the United States it is difficult in the slums, but the children go out for walks all over the city, that impressed me because many of my friends could not leave their houses before they were 18

@BeautyByKarin 3 года назад

Great videos!!😁👌🏻

@brittafrier2430 3 года назад

That t-shirt, though, "Y'all need Jesus", would require quite a bit of that dark humor to wear in public. I spend all of this video trying to decode wether it was a sarcastic move or not. :-D

@RobeTrotting 3 года назад

Haha, hey Britta - definitely sarcastic 😂 hope we didn't stress you too much haha

@pernillemuller3525 3 года назад

I never thought about how alot of these thing would be weird to foreigners, since I grew up with it, but it is funny how you guys find it "weird" since it is a completely different culture . The comment about teenagers/ young adult vomiting at Nørrebro hit me hard, since I was properly one of them when I lived in Copenhagen from age 18-25. btw I'm totally a responsible adult now at age 29... Big hugs to you guys!

@TTULangGenius 3 года назад

This has been a pretty cool vid. Subbed!

@RobeTrotting 3 года назад

Thank you, and welcome! That's so cool and we hope you enjoy more of our content 😀

@Knudjensen54 Год назад

You two are funny guys,I like the video,and there is nothing to change,its perfect! :-)

@jesperfrer1162 3 года назад

Hey guys. I've been using your videos to introduce my American online friends to Denmark, and they are a hit! Also, and I just wanna get this off my chest, one of you look looks like a modern version of Charlie Chaplin, and I mean that in a very postive way! Keep up the good work!

@jesperfrer1162 3 года назад

I might have been both naked and drunk while I posted this, I am Danish after all! ;)

@RobeTrotting 3 года назад

Hej, Jesper! Thank you so much for sharing our videos - such an honor. We really appreciate it and we're glad they're going over well! We'll keep them coming. And the Charlie Chaplin comparison is a first, but that's a compliment - thank you all around 🇩🇰😀

@RobeTrotting 3 года назад

Naked, drunk and with legos would be even nicer haha 😂🍻😎🇩🇰

@jimmichristiansen6630 2 года назад

@@RobeTrotting 🤣 - Belive me.. Even so drunk to the point of no return - It hurts so bad to step on a lego 😂

@rappel322 3 года назад

There is a saying here in Denmark: "Den man tugter elsker man". Loosely translated it means "the one you tease you love" so, the more you tease another person the more you like that person. So yeah, dark and sarcastic humor CAN actually mean you like someone (it doesn't always mean that though which makes us Danes even harder to understand :)) Love the channel. So fun to have a take on us Danes from people with another nationalty than Danish :)

@kinuuni 3 года назад

'tugte' is more like 'hurt'. As in You didn't tease people in "tugt og forbedringshuset.'

@klausolekristiansen2960 3 года назад

"Den man elsker, tugter man." Actually "tugter" means punishes, not teases. It is from a time when beating your children was considered OK. Fortunately this is no longer so.

@rappel322 3 года назад

@@kinuuni literal translation would be “to punish (often physically), submitting to (strict) upraising or discipline. But I take it that in this translation the “loose” translation tease would be more sufficient :)

@kinuuni 3 года назад

@@rappel322 Exempt for the fact that historically the sentence has been used to refer to people who were particularly harsh in the raising of their kids (as in, beat them). I might be wrong but I would bet large amounts of money that you will not be able to find a place, in any dictionary or any place that tries to explain this sentence, which might translate 'tugt' to 'tease'/'drille'

@YourXavier 3 года назад

@@kinuuni I think this is one of those expressions where the meaning has changed as the culture changed, maintaining the words of the expression, but not the sense. As such, the literal translation and the culturally relevant translation end up different.

@alfiepicton1339 3 года назад

Ok this randomly got on my recommended, nice video look like u guys got lucky the algorithm is recommending ur vidoes!!

@diddedamgaard2715 3 года назад

Loved your video 😂 It is all so true...

@benjamindaring7192 2 года назад

I'am a danish father. My children are my everything. Me and my childrens mother used to leave the stroller outside with a sleeping child in it. As you said the community feeling is something that has to do with it being okay, but just the way danes look at life. A child is everything. To actually do anything to a sleeping child is direct evil. And thoose things dont come across our little nation very often. we have belief in our fellow danes. We presume their morally capable of not doing something bad to a helpless sleeping child..

@GarmrsBarking 3 года назад

Nice shout out to the youngs._. Another great youtube creater is "a french women living in denmark " ._. Its more from the perspective from a french person.._ but as a dane i find her content both intformative and entertaining._.

@mariannetm 2 года назад

I love your videos!❤️ keep making them please… I’m from The Netherlands and believe me the Danes surprise us too😉😊

@ARTbomben Год назад

LOVE it when you say "I wasn't putting my beer down or anything, but..." :') I saw your husband paying attention to it as well :) Great videoes. Always good to hear some perspectives from the outside and in.

@tejjensen9402 2 года назад

13-year alcohol bans in the United States from 1920 to 33 still have their mark in the United States. It is therefore great that we Danes can enjoy a cold beer out in the open nature or in the cityscape without being punished by a police officer and American young people must know that it is legal in Denmark more than once. A free country can be seen from many points of view.

@RobeTrotting 2 года назад

Spot on assessment! There are still entire counties in our home state where alcohol is STILL prohibited. Even in Philadelphia, we weren't able to buy alcohol on Sundays until 10-15 years ago 😂

@wildflower314 Год назад

@@RobeTrotting wow on the no alcohol on sundays!

@Tomstok 3 года назад

As a Dane with American family they do get confused about how things are here in Denmark. Many of my friends from America are the same way. So us danes just try to casually explain it to them even if it makes no sense to them. We still get a good kick out of them because of their reactions. Great video by the way, keep it up.

@RobeTrotting 3 года назад

Yes, Americans can have trouble grasping that anything is done differently in other countries haha. So glad you liked the video and thank you for the kind comment, we'll keep the videos coming 😀🇩🇰

@chomo54andbabyaisha97 3 года назад

@@RobeTrotting Divorse is not a good thing. I don't know why anyone would charaterize that as anything positive. Socialism can be defined as one thing - it always leads to tyranny.

@Kerousmac 3 года назад

I live in Lancaster, PA but grew up in Jersey. Just found your channel today, and thought it was so funny you were from Philadelphia. I think I'd love it in Denmark. Things seem so much more relaxed, but still safe at the same time. Definitely will keep watching. Its very interesting.💚

@RobeTrotting 3 года назад

Oh wow, so cool to hear from another Pennsylvanian! You would love Denmark, it's a fantastic country and has a lot of the same spirit as PA while being very laid back and "live and let live". So glad you're watching and enjoying our videos 😀

@angelicmsp9638 3 года назад

You guys should have more subscribers... I’m learning so much, i didn’t know... You guys are seriusly SO good!

@RobeTrotting 3 года назад

Hej Isabella, thank you so much! Very sweet! And I hope we'll keep growing, we have only been making videos for a few months so we'll just keep them coming and hopefully get some more subscribers along the way 😀🇩🇰

@angelicmsp9638 3 года назад

@@RobeTrotting I KNOW that you will!

@angelicmsp9638 3 года назад

@@RobeTrotting Do you speak Danish?

@allanwielund9545 3 года назад

The Dillermand show and the educational show with nude adults are controversial in Denmark too, and sort of missed the mark in relation to it´s target group. Things are moving in a more prudish direction, and I think some TV producers are trying to push that back with shows like these. As a teacher I can see many school children reacting negatively to older educational materials, that contain more nudity than the newer ones.

@valleygirl670 3 года назад

Not true. Kids here think its hilarity and dont care. It does not even phase them. I know i have two kids.

@Tarllark 3 года назад

@@valleygirl670 Did you really just tell a teacher what he has observed with his students is wrong, because you have 2 kids? I mean........ Things kinda sorta hit everyone different :P So saying they're wrong is at best ignorant or naive.. but meh, believe what ya want, Denmark is somewhat free after all xD

@nicklasvej 3 года назад

@@valleygirl670 wtf XD Sorry but get a grip. You have 2 kids. I have 4 aka i am more right then you... and Allan is a teacher so he have 50 kids. Aka he knows more then both of us. TL;DR you are just wrong

@EmilReiko 3 года назад

Its absolutely not controversial, unless you label a small prudent minority acting up as a great controversy, and both got even less controversial as Danes discovered that the world at large took offence and banded together against the world...

@Unpronounceable_H 3 года назад

Regarding danish humor; it also sometimes can act as a pressure valve where we take something horrible and joke about it so as to bring it up, and agree on how horrible it is in joking about it.

@camillathobo-carlsen4587 Год назад

Thank you so much for all your videos! :-D I just love you guys!!! :-D

@nadiamcslide3180 8 месяцев назад

You guys always manage to make me laugh 😃. Thanks so much from Cleveland, Ohio

@emaginet 3 года назад

Leaving babies outside to sleep in their pram/buggy definitely has a health benefit ...in addition to all the other parameters you mentioned. Most people that leave a baby alarm in the pram.

@RobeTrotting 3 года назад

Oh awesome! Thanks for adding that they leave a baby alarm, we always wondered if that was part of the process 😀

@jimmichristiansen6630 2 года назад

@@RobeTrotting ther will also be a harness on the babies, so they don’t fall out..

@mjc63 Год назад

So neat you mentioned how Countess Alexandra remains a welcome part of the Royal family long after the divorce from Prince Joachim! They coparent their sons quite nicely. If I were to expatriate Denmark would be very high on my list! So glad I found your channel!

@RobeTrotting Год назад

So glad you found us 😃

@ginabiolzi3066 3 года назад

You did it again - spot on

@RobeTrotting 3 года назад

Thank you Gina, so glad you enjoyed it 😀🇩🇰

@evagelert2315 Год назад

Love you 😂😂😂You just so spot on👍

@Plysdyret1 3 года назад

In 1966, a baby was kidnapped from his carriage outside a shop. He was called "Basse, " and the case is still not solved.

@heinoberthel8404 3 года назад

de sager har vi en af hver årti....det sker dagligt i USA...jeg var avisdreng og kender til 2 avisbørn,der forsvandt i USA på min fødselsdag

@jeannecordua2616 3 года назад

Great fun to watch as a Dane :-D

@antenna5726 3 года назад

Looooove your disclaimer😝🙌

@CsCharlese 3 года назад

Just came across your videos, hope you love being/living in Denmark :)

@RobeTrotting 3 года назад

Hej Charlotte, thank you so much - we really do love living in Denmark. And welcome to the channel, thank you for watching 😊🇩🇰

@auritone 2 года назад

Throughout my lifetime it has been rather gratifying to see how views has changed on divorce and also how it affects children. It is very common now to refer to a stepdad or stepmom as bonus dad or mom.

@RobeTrotting 2 года назад

Yes! That expression is so cute, we love it. Derek’s parents are divorced and it was tough at first but then things got much better than before for every member of the family 😃

@maxmudita5622 3 года назад

One scorching summer I was smoking a big 'ol Joint at a bus stop (I'm done with that now) and some very noisy goth kids were hanging around the same spot, absolutely hammered, and I noticed an American family (mom, dad & two kids -very properly dressed but way too much clothes for that day) approaching just as I was exhaling a plume of thick smoke right in their general direction. The discomfort was almost palpable and I remember the woman asking her husband in disbelief "what is going on here!" The look on their faces were almost fearful and they huddled together. I wanted to tell them how this is not that unusual but I thought I should just let them take it in. I don't think they will ever forget that day.

@RobeTrotting 3 года назад

That's so funny! Yes, the typical American family from some suburban town would be scared to death from that scene haha. My family would probably just smile or laugh and keep walking but some are just so not built for the real world beyond their neighborhoods haha