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59 posts & 17 voices | Started 11 months ago by molgrips | Latest reply from Mikkel

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oddjob - Member

I have a school friend who is of Indian descent who also lives in Copenhagen and has a different experience of the place than I do. There is constant reference to 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants causing social problems and an underlying mistrust. If you are a 3rd generation immigrant Dane then you are just a Dane as far as I can see. You can also look at the rise of the Danish Peoples party who are pretty right wing on these things.
I went to school in Coventry and to me I would say that the Danish middle class is significantly more racist than the English.
I am not saying that racism doesn't matter, I am merely saying that it will not directly affect you if you look Danish as I am lucky enough to myself

I don't know about how you pay the car import duty, but I know tha IF you move your "life" here then you will have to pay it, there aren't really any loop holes otherwise everyone would abuse them.

Posted 11 months ago #
ocrider - Member

Just think of all that Mikkeler single hop IPA and things will be fine.

Posted 11 months ago #
oddjob - Member

Beer is certainly good and pretty cheap in supermarkets ( in every other respect, however, the supermarkets are rather developing country-ish)

Posted 11 months ago #
DrJ - Member

( in every other respect, however, the supermarkets are rather developing country-ish)

Again - I moved here from Holland so my supermarket is calibrated different from somebody used to Tesco

Posted 11 months ago #
oddjob - Member

Holland is at the bottom of the list of European countries I would want to live in.
Bad food, too much traffic and the people are annoying to work with although oddly enough, they are very nice socially IME.

The Brits are certainly more spoiled with supermarkets than most of them realise...

Posted 11 months ago #
Mikkel - Member

I can see exactly where the Racist thing comes from.
immigrants been the main issue in politics for so long now, that i am almost glad i don't live there anymore.

Certain politicians will insist that they are not racist, but there is a very big "them and us" feeling many places in Denmark.
Its not something you will really notice as oddjob say, unless you are not white.

Go to the west coast would be my advice ;0)

Posted 11 months ago #
chewkw - Member

I thought immigrants only flock to countries that have manufacturing capacity but Denmark? I only know bacon as the main export so not sure why immigrants go there.

Posted 11 months ago #
Mikkel - Member

Well according to Danish people party, they go there to steal and rape.
Not to mention eat all the cake at local doctor surgeries.

Posted 11 months ago #
oddjob - Member

Apparently they invited a lot of Turks over in the 60s when there was a shortage of workers much as the UK did to Indians and others.

3 generations later they have become unwelcome...

The Danes think that they immigrants want to take advantage of the social security and avoid paying taxes and therefore cheat society they also seem to think that native Danes would never do that

Posted 11 months ago #
chewkw - Member

Mikkel - Member

Well according to Danish people party, they go there to steal and rape.
Not to mention eat all the cake at local doctor surgeries.

Cakes at local doctor surgeries !? Woohoo! I AM definitely going so make sure you get the cake ready. Organic chocolate/vanilla please. I was banned for 18 days after missing one appointment at my local GP so any local GP with cakes will definitely get my vote. Banned for 18 days! FFS!

Steal & rape ... hhhmmm ... surely you get one or two bad apples that slipped through?

oddjob - Member

Apparently they invited a lot of Turks over in the 60s when there was a shortage of workers much as the UK did to Indians and others.

But which industry did they go into? I mean the Turks ... bacon? Hog ridding? Thought they don't eat bacon. UK is understandable.

Posted 11 months ago #
molgrips - Member

Lots of immigrants in all sorts of places you would not expect them. Many Turks in Helsinki for instance.

Posted 11 months ago #
chewkw - Member

molgrips - Member

Lots of immigrants in all sorts of places you would not expect them. Many Turks in Helsinki for instance.

Again what/which industry? I am really struggling to understand this.

If it is gun manufacturing in Finland ... perhaps yes but what else? Farming? Suomi does that ...

The only thing I can think of is kebab shop but how many kebab shops do you need there?

Posted 11 months ago #
molgrips - Member

I dunno.

Many of them seem to own pizza parlours for some reason, and make absolutely heavenly pizza too. The best I've ever had in fact.

how many kebab shops do you need there?

Apparently lots! They are all sit down eateries though which is a bit weird - you get to eat your kebab with a knife and fork!

Posted 11 months ago #
chewkw - Member

molgrips - Member
Apparently lots! They are all sit down eateries though which is a bit weird - you get to eat your kebab with a knife and fork!

So it's some sort of "corner" shop but selling kebabs ... LOL!

Kebab with knife & fork ... Excellent!!!

Many of them seem to own pizza parlours for some reason, and make absolutely heavenly pizza too. The best I've ever had in fact.

Not a pizza person me so can't judge any of them. I think I last ate pizza about 7 years ago and it tasted shite. Bloody rip off too. The reason they tasted good because they taste like nan bread ... Try making one with proper lard ... top with olive at the last minute.

Posted 11 months ago #
Mikkel - Member

I am sorry if i got your hopes up about the cake.
Never experienced it myself and don't know any who have, but still the before mentioned party came out using this as one of the problems with the immigrants.
That due to their big families the doctors had to stop serving cakes as those families ate it all.
And sadly i am not making this up.

Posted 11 months ago #
Mikkel - Member

And the immigrants in the 60-70s came as there was a general lack of workers.

Posted 11 months ago #
molgrips - Member

I am sorry if i got your hopes up about the cake.
Never experienced it myself and don't know any who have,

That's cos the immigrants ate it all, dur.

Re the turkish pizza - huge, but with a base so thin it was like some kind of flexible bready tasting wafer that actually melted in your mouth and tasted amazing.

Posted 11 months ago #
chewkw - Member

Mikkel - Member
That due to their big families the doctors had to stop serving cakes as those families ate it all.
And sadly i am not making this up.

No more cake But I am sure if there is anything free it will vanish rather quickly. Human nature.

Sadly, many think of the promise land as paradise where they are welcome with opened arms. No sure why they get the idea from. Sad.

And the immigrants in the 60-70s came as there was a general lack of workers.

What did they do? Really I am puzzled.

molgrips - Member

Re the turkish pizza - huge, but with a base so thin it was like some kind of flexible bready tasting wafer that actually melted in your mouth and tasted amazing.

That's not pizza. That's must be something else because pizza cannot taste good ... well in my experience pizza are poorer cousin of nan bread. The toppings are a mixture of plastic cheese and some dry salty meat in thin slices.

Posted 11 months ago #
Mikkel - Member

Ashamed to say i don't really know what they did.
But just been searching for info without to much luck.
but i assume a lot worked in the heavy steel industry.
One little article said the work was often "dark and dangerous"

Posted 11 months ago #
DrJ - Member

This is good news for me. The job would be with a well known shipping company, I assume their offices are down the docks, although working in IT I might not end up there.

I work for that company - feel free to mail me if I can help!

Posted 11 months ago #
DrJ - Member

The Danish Peoples Party, though a loathsome bunch of scum, are not entirely stupid, and have hitched their repulsive racist ideology to a bunch of populist policies about being nice to animals, helping ladies across the road etc. that appeals to a large segment of the population especially old people, so they get a vote which does not correspond (I hope) to the number of people who agree with their xenophobic agenda. I just wish the main parties would grow some and refuse to work with them.

Posted 11 months ago #
chewkw - Member

Mikkel - Member

Ashamed to say i don't really know what they did.
But just been searching for info without to much luck.
but i assume a lot worked in the heavy steel industry.
One little article said the work was often "dark and dangerous"

Luxury ship building? That's a skill labour that North East loss out to many years ago. I am also not sure if they would fit into luxury shipbuilding industry but we can never know. Heavy steel ... hmmm ... that's a new one to me with Denmark. I thought it was Sheffield only in those days ...

"dark & dangerous"? Cannot be true. The only place on earth that's dark and dangerous is the mine shaft in the North East ...

Unless the meaning of "dark & dangerous" refer to criminal acts which I assume might be the case ...

So unless they were hog riding or pig farming I am not sure where they could find work. The takeaways could only absorb so much so who feed the rest ... hhhmmm ...

Posted 11 months ago #
chewkw - Member

DrJ,

Is that M*e*sk you are referring to? I thought they are Ch*nese? Or at least being bought over by Ch*nese?

The party just doesn't like funny looking people hanging around so can you blame them?

Posted 11 months ago #
Mikkel - Member

was quite some ship building in Denmark.

They where not all build up on the Clyde.
And i think a lot also worked on the farms of course, all those sugar beads needed weeding.....

Posted 11 months ago #