Tuesday, March 02, 2004
/rant II/
A while ago I made a couple of lists, weighing staying in London against going to Denmark to live. Hey-ho, here's a grim reason to stay put: the Danish right wing party Dansk Folkeparti (Danish People's Party, I guess) has attacked a Pakistani born Danish politician Kamal Qureshi for going to a party at the Queen's, dressed in traditional Pakistani dress. How petty can you get? Instead of embracing the diversity of Danish so-called Democracy, this party questions the politician's nationality and feels that he has now chosen to present himself as Pakistani, i.e. as a fiend of Denmark (presumably???). This narrow-minded, dictatorish push of a false idea of patriotism combined with plain stupidity is one of the reasons why I sometimes find Denmark hard to swallow.
/end rant II/ (And I'm sorry about the Danish-only links)
A while ago I made a couple of lists, weighing staying in London against going to Denmark to live. Hey-ho, here's a grim reason to stay put: the Danish right wing party Dansk Folkeparti (Danish People's Party, I guess) has attacked a Pakistani born Danish politician Kamal Qureshi for going to a party at the Queen's, dressed in traditional Pakistani dress. How petty can you get? Instead of embracing the diversity of Danish so-called Democracy, this party questions the politician's nationality and feels that he has now chosen to present himself as Pakistani, i.e. as a fiend of Denmark (presumably???). This narrow-minded, dictatorish push of a false idea of patriotism combined with plain stupidity is one of the reasons why I sometimes find Denmark hard to swallow.
/end rant II/ (And I'm sorry about the Danish-only links)
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