What a great video. It was great to see this topic, from another point of view. As a Dane, I have seen racism, but mostly it is towards people, who behave badly, and after awhile, that group, if they keep behaving badly, will get a reaction that will target the group, instead of the individual. I think it is mostly towards people from the middeleast. It is not because of the religion or colour, but because there are a lot of incidents of people from middeleast, breaking the law. So in the end a lot of people will generalize. Some of the old old generation will be racist though, because the simply dosen't know any better. They still believe that all africans, live in huts, and have never seen a car or a telephone before. They are uneducated. And the same people will have a problem, with Danish people from across the country. Danish people also get picked on for beeing Danish, by others. Sadly I think that it is hard to get rid of prejudices intirely. It was great to see the interviews, and hear what there experiences have been.
I am as white as we come, it very much depends on where we are, on the bus, leave us alone :D, if I am in the mood for it, I will small talk with anyone, but I get the same responses from time to time, if you start to talk with a stranger. They will look at you, are you talking to me? why would you do that? :) but if you are positive, maybe joke, small talk can be initiated. For me personally if you are nice, I will return the gesture, I could not care less of where you come from or your skin color, how you behave and act is how I will behave and react to you.
I am German, i have witness "racism" on some work place towards my West-African colleagues i spoke to the underboss to shut up and treat them like anyone else. He always screamed at them, yet to us he was calm. However this is not a one way route. Next example, i sit in the Train watching the Station Display so i don´t miss the exit. African diude next to the display starts to believe i am starring at him and starts a fuzz with me. Other Day other African dude harasses old lady in the train because she closed the window (old people above 70+ freeze even in summer, aks your grannuies). He starts yeling about Africa. I ask if he treats old persons in Africa the same? He shuts up, but first calling her racist, just for closing a window.*Facepalm Many People like this Lady in your video don´t know what racism is. Saying country X is full of diseases is not racism its at best chauvinism or ignorance. Feelings or Body language is not racism. particular in a different culture people tend to interpret any different experience as bad faith. I think both sides can learn from each other. Peace
Excellent comment! We must be careful with attaching intensions to other people, and I claim that we are not racists. But extremely culture-etnocentristic Like, if you sit down next a Dane in a bus - and you could have avoided it - the Dane is likely to move to an other seat. It's got nothing to do with your skin colour, but they are trying (indirectly) to teach you "That's not how we do it in Denmark". NOBODY sits next to each other - if it's avoidable. At the busstop: First person arrives, second person will stand 10-15 away from first, third person EXACTLY between 1st and 2nd. Hereafter the rules get more complicated 🙄 Blond, blue eyed Danes living around this bus stop will behave like that. Trust me, if a blond, blue eyed Dane comes up and stands next to any of them, they will shy away, and give her "the look". But if you're foreign, you can't know that it's got nothing to do with YOU. It's all about US being weird 🤣 I moved to a small village and took the bus every morning. It took a WEEK before I got the other person waiting to growl "Morn" back, when I said Good Morning! We are of cource both as Danish as they come 🙄 - but I'd lived abroad and gotten weird 🤣🤣
i think, sadly, that some people who arent danish and "of color" or however you can phrase it nicely, kind of seek out racism and try to nonstop try to figure out, if things are because of racism or not. kind of paranoia-racism, if you will. I'm not saying it never happens, but i personally know a few somalian guys, who definatly have said "oh that was racist!" when it definatly wasnt
It did happen in Denmark, so she might have rated racism among Danes better. She also said you could read it from body language, but that's not a reliable way of telling due to cultural differences and individuals being different from each other...
@@Korfax124 The world have a problem with racism no doubt and most of us want it solved. Almost as big of a problem in fixing this is people searching for racism. And you are part of that problem and a little less her too
Every country has racism. But a thing with the danes, is most of us don't care about racism at all. we simply don't think about it... For good and bad. So if a dark person experience racism. The dane has properly not though about it to be racism at all. Danes just speak there mind. So alot af people around the world, could see it as rude or racism, no matter the color. As a native Dane, we sometimes find people offended by what we say, and we first figure out that the person thinks its racism, when they tell us. The good thing is that when someone feels that a dane is a racist. He is for the most part not. If you are adopted or born into the danish society or lives like a dane, as a dark person. People will not put more into it, than if you had red hair or blue eyes, or a pink shirt. So danes could say. "Give it to the dark/black man" but for us its like saying "give it to the man in the pink shirt."
@@TheChrisMiR through my many interactions with Danes, this actually sums up everything! This is why these conversations and contributions are significant. Mange Tak
I don't care about racism in as much as it is not systemic. I live in Finland, and the system treats me as stipulated in their laws. If any brainless animal gives me a middle finger, I will surely respond in the same manner. It is called ''Self-defense''. Thanks for your effort, Stephen!
I think there is a vary blurry line between "real" racism and in a "in the moment" negative encounter. We as humans are vary visual, so its much easier to call a black person a black slur than to argue a personal opinion or stance on a subject in the heat of the moment. There has also been some unfortunate incidents or policies in the past becouse of ignorance, not stemming from racism such as accidentaly creating ghetos inwhere refugees has all been placed in the same area, making it extremely difficult to intigrate into the Danish socioty. Thies unfortunate past incidents where highlighted by the press, becouse they make for interesting stories scewing public perceptions. And its a few small single incidents involving a tiny number of people.
@@nbgoodiscore1303 Actually I am danish, by birth. So does my ancestors. Going back some few 100 years give or take a decade. Mit navn er gået i arv igennem min familie side begyndelsen af 1700 hvidkål. Med den udtalelse, kan jeg sige at du ville nok havde været dem som vi kaldte landsforrædere lige umiddelbart efter befrielsen fra 1945.
I really like and don't like several of the comments, why is everything today about color, i am white and how cares about that, i don't, and I live in West Africa, happily married to a beautiful black women, raisimen comes from a person, no matter color, who is afried of the ghost told by stupid people, we are all human, people and should be kind to everyone
A former colleague of mine found a, second wife, after a divorce, a woman from Uganda who had got a Danish Education and a fine, well paid IT job, also from home. They bought land in Uganda and built an - extra home and a Plantagen area with bananas, near her mother and family in Uganda also, as his bad back felt better from the warm weather. His wife like coming back, at intervals, but not eventually being stopped by Police and Blackmailed to be allowed to continue, in their Taxi! And when trading, his black wife agrees to a price, and then he comes to pay, to the Shop-owners angry faces!!! It also goes the other way round!
Of cource we've got our fair share of both idiots, and grumpy old folks😉 But, like you point out, we can't talk about "Systematic racism". It is ILLEGAL to registrer people's race, their political, sexual and religious orientation. "The system" can only know your name, date and place of birth, your occupation and adress. Bonus info: I think we learned during WWII, when the Nazis got the names of all our communists from the trade unions 😱 At least they had to do their own "research" to find our Jews! Peace and love
As long as you fulfill criteria, criteria are things like being selfsufficient, language (danish skills), understanding of how danish culture/society works, not being a serious criminal (we're not counting your speeding ticket), more violent crimes, drug seller, organised crime. And of course having stayed a number of years, only ones that get a "discount" on some of these are other nordics, because languages and cultures are so closely related.
I've lived abroad and was shocked to find out my race was registered EVERYWHERE, even in the bank 🙄 WTF??? In Denmark it's illegal to registrer people's race and ethnicity, their political -, religious -, and sexual orientation. You see, when the nazies occupied Denmark, they raided the trade unions' offices: They had made notes of which members were communists. Essentially a shopping list for whom to send to concentration camps 😱 When the Nazis wanted our Jews, they had to make their own "shopping list", and in the time it took them, we manage to hide "the goods" 😆 A very, very serious lesson learned!
Disclaimer: I am an, ethnically white, Dane... It would be very rude for anyone to sit next to me on a bus, if there is another seat available. But it would be be much more rude of me to move seats because of someone sitting next to me, no matter their ethnicity ... That is quite a conondrum for a Dane, I know it sounds silly .... at 46 years of age I still have not figured out the correct way to act ...
A black Dane would probably instictively WANT to move too 🤔 but her brain would stop her. I mean, she wouldn't want to be rude 🤣 This is about OUR culture. It has nothing to do with YOU and the colour of your skin. Peace and love
@@jakobm.tilsted5333 Ghana has a long history with Denmark which most Danes are oblivious of I’ve found out hence I’d first recommend to visit Fort Christiansborg (named after Denmark’s King Christian V) also known as the Osu Castle. The central region Cape Coast is quite rich in historical sites and resorts. Aqua safari is the best resort i can recommend for relaxation and nature. Wli waterfalls, Busua beach for good waves to surf and good swimming. Time of the year to go will probably be between October to March. You may end staying longer and forgetting Denmark if you go partying in December 😄. I personally haven’t had an experience with a travel company obviously, but I’ll find out and revert
FYI, you explained the meaning of racism in your intro.. tribal discrimination of the same race isn't racism.. And yes, to hell with what racists think based on poor immigration their governments flood into their countries.. as you see its up to you to work hard, respect others like the ones in the videos. Patriotism isn't an excuse to discriminate or defend your countries because we can also be patriotic and force shutdown our mines and this whole machine shuts down.. when governments in EU strategically bring a specific type of migrant to divide and rule whilst they sell arms, make trillions offcourse the ones at the bottom will hate even more than they had/have been programmed.. its a complicated issue
i'm a dane and i think Steven from the 17:30 mark pretty much summed it up, without overly explaining it. It's a really simple mindset that we have, and he seems to understand it perfectly. There will always be prejudice and stereotypes/stereotyping if you "come at us sideways" in a sense, and we don't mean that in some sort of indirect-low key way of insulting anyone, it's just a sideeffect of what we have been seeing becoming an increasingly larger "trend" of people from mostly the middle east, but also from african countries, coming in, with some sort of weird vengance-mission, and it that's how people chose to come at us, we will definatly use your skin color against you, just like you are using ours, against us. That being said, we're not racist at all. But if we deem a person from another country to fit a certain bill, most danes will raise and eyebrow, and look at you sideways, and probably will end up being pretty nasty verbally, if you push the envelope. But i feel like that applies world wide, so it's probably not a danish thing. One more thing that sadly fuels prejudice, is what the western world is seeing a lot of nowadays, which is blatan anti-white-ism, and we have a lot of Haters coming in, to pretty much be a problem, so sadly, for the good people coming in, you will probably get mislabeled as a bad person even if you do not deserve that. It's not a white or non-white thing, but as Steven pretty much said, we probably have a pretty "aggresive" style of defence in that sense. if we feel like somebody is here, and is blatantly against us on some hater-type behavior, we're not going to shake your hand, to put it mildly. and Sorry for boring wall of text
Please keep it to yourselves.. As a 150% discriminated (by my very own racist state) Dane, I can assure you I will never again set my feet there and please small Danes: stay home in DK at all times. - nobody want your hateful Xenophobia! 😱
@@TimeWithStephen great. I want to make the move but with this russia war stuff going on and denmark looking like they want to join I am just waiting to see how it all plays out
There are several answers to that question. Btw. Denmark is the easiest country in the world to start a business. "If you are a Nordic or EU/EEA citizen, you can start your own business in Denmark. If you are a citizen from outside the Nordic countries, EU/EEA and Switzerland, you have to apply for a residence and work permit in order to be self-employed and/or operate an independent company in Denmark."
@@Lin.Do.n that’s true. I’ll have so much work to do on videos in Denmark😆. By the way, I’m shooting a 5 minutes max interview about Denmark being the second happiest country. I’ll be glad if you grant me audience 🤗
