QUOTE (Mapleleafdude @ Mar 29 2008, 6:39 pm)

really?
Yes, although they're usually great fun to be around there's a strong feeling when working in Denmark that only a Dane can do a job properly and while foreigners have their uses they're not to be left with responsible work. I worked for two years in DK in a small telecoms company, that ultimately went bust, and think I got a fairly good insight into how Danes think. It all seems to stem from them being a small country and so wanting to preserve their gene pool, which of course ultimately won't do them any favours, so they try to protect everything (from their wonderful social system upwards) so that only Danes get access. In my experience every country in Europe has a newspaper that's full of scare articles about foreigners coming in to steal from the country's benefit system, and the reason why most foreigners choose
our country, but the Danes believe this like a religion. I've also heard of them forming Danish mafias abroad when small groups of them work at the same company.
Still, if you're working outside Denmark then this won't be so apparent, and I made many good friends up there and had a lot of fun with them.