Some cool facts about Denmark. Don't take the title so seriously ;).
Denmark has given the highest proportion of its GDP to Ukraine since 2022.
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In How To Be Danish, Patrick Kingsley wrote about Denmark’s 70 folk high schools, which are attended by about one in ten adults, of all ages. Indeed it’s not uncommon for people to die of old age while enrolled, which Danes apparently consider a good death. Perhaps there is some sort of social democracy version of Valhalla where those who died in the middle of adult education go to.
The Folk High School was the brainchild of Danish national hero Nikolai Grundtvig, who coined the concept of folkelighed, or what historian Knud Jespersen called ‘mutually committed community’. Jespersen wrote in A History of Denmark that ‘The key concepts in this were folkelighed, tolerance, openness and liberal-mindedness: the means were enlightenment and committed dialogue.’
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Denmark also had the highest casualty rate among American allies in Afghanistan, losing 43 servicemen in the war to avenge 9/11.
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The secret to Denmark’s success is their high trust and sociability, and Booth also wrote how, ‘according to the Danish think tank Mandag Morgen, they belong to more associations, clubs, unions, societies and groups, and have larger social networks, than any other nationality – 43 per cent of over-sixteens belong to something or other… There are 83,000 local and 3,000 national societies and associations in Denmark – on average every Dane belongs to three. Over a third belong to a sporting club or association. These range from your common-or-garden leisure-orientated groups – the Bittern Spotters Club, say, or the Danish Flødeboller Association – to the still-powerful trade unions, which have a combined membership equivalent to a quarter of the population.’
This is absolutely true, and that has been built over more than a century.
It all goes hand in hand with good social services, free education, healthcare for all. These are not just 3 benefits that should be obvious to have for all countries, but the principles permeate all of society, and is possible because of trust, but is also a foundation for maintaining this trust in society and each other.
Danes are no inherently better than people in other countries, but very few Danes are in a position where they have to hustle to get through the day.
If the systems work and you are doing fine, you don't need to cheat. Of course some people do it anyway, but for instance corruption is 100% not accepted here. Someone like Trump would never be possible to come into power here.
Neither his psychopathy or corruption would be socially acceptable.
Political representation yes, because we are a very liberal country, where only 2% of the vote is needed for a party to get representation, and that is a good thing, because it protects our democracy from the extremes to gain popularity from being oppressed and victimized. And the idiocy of the extreme is revealed for what it is before it becomes powerful.
The Nazi party is actually legal in Denmark, as long as they work within the rules. They have even had their leader on TV for interviews, and everybody can see how stupid they are. Last I heard they were not much more than a couple of dozen members.