Blogs etc
These are links to other sites or blogs by foreigners in Denmark. If you are curious about coming to Denmark, you are strongly encouraged to check out other people's opinions - don't just take my word. Are few seem to like it here. Most don't.There are of course Danes who think as we do (these blogs are in Danish)
If you want to do a link exchange with me, feel free to contact me at something.manky at gmail.com.
Articles
Most of the articles on my blog are from Danish news sites, which I translate into English. Occasionally someone else puts an article up though, and if I find them, I'll add them here.
Other stuff of interest
Random things ...
- Don't ask foreigners if they're happy in Denmark. This is what you get.
14 comments:
The Foreigners in Denmark forum is pretty much a useless forum these days. I'm pretty sure a prospective visitor would learn very little from a visit there except perhaps a bit too much about what its most active members think about male armpit hair.
There is a fairly active Green Card sub-section, however, which might be of use to potential green card applicants.
http://shetalkslikejune.com/
is a cracking read.
Agreed the FID forum is balls now. It is just, as Fuzzy says, about pubic and underarm hair. Occasionally someone says something critical about DK and are given a beatdown by three very angry women.
Also, the person who runs it thinks that someone calling Thai women prostitutes "balances" someone saying they find Danish politics offputting or whatever.
It is absolute garbage now.
Thanks for the link to She Talks Like June. Had a quick peruse, seems nice, added it. It's a lot more upbeat than what I'm doing. I have another "real" blog which is more the real me, but I'm not comfortable mixing real me with this stuff, so I'll remain incognito. I've noticed a lot of people are keeping their blogs private.
There doesn't seem to be that much activity on the FID forum, but I'll link to it just to be thorough. I'm not a big fan of forums in general because I find they often lack structured content and direction. Blogs are so much more convenient - wish more people would do them.
Yeah, sadly, quite a few of us went underground with our blogs. I seemed to attract a growing army of Danish men/sympathy trolls, and I just grew tired of the all-too predictable comments I was getting. Oh my, I wish I'd kept the anti Dannebrog post public, as the denial in the comments was classic!
would have loved to have made your list....
I actually LOVE my life in Denmark...
Well Kelli, it's good to know someone made it to the mountain. You might be the first foreigner I know who's said that. And you made the list :)
Ooh! seasonticket..thanks for pimping me :)
Mr.Manky- yes it is upbeat- not because humour is the best form of aggression but because Deekay causes ROTLF in me. It does.
I mean how can not laugh at an ant that thinks its an elephant.
You know what. I love it here too but that does not stop me from seeing flaws and wanting to improve things by discussing it.
I am not trapped here by marriage or circumstance, I choose to be here for *fun* and I happen to think I will be here a lot longer than the other bloggers I know.
Doesn't stop me wishing they would stop being such a bullying bunch of passive aggressive robotic racists. Ik'også?
Hey now steady on. I just think that expatriates who do claim to be over the clocking moon with all that is Danish perhaps don't have the same challenges to contend with as those who are unable to cheerlead the whole YAYDANMARK team.
Not everyone is having a tough time living in Denmark. Some people came here specifically to enjoy life and they aint gonna let a pesky little thing like the state of realplay here ruin the big plan.
I mean schools will be shutting, hospitals failing, taxes frittered away by hapless kommunes, meteors falling from the sky and the sunshine brigade will still turn round and say: "I don't know what you are talking about, this is great!"
But I will wager, the many who are ceaselessly not noticing the alarming tendencies at play here tend to NEED to be in Denmark, a good job helps, the love connection also. Perhaps these are the things that help a person overlook the rot in Denmark?
I used to think it was simply those who were new here who were wearing rose tinted glasses (I know that is what i did), but now I know that sometimes people pretend that everything is alright in their lives here because moving to Denmark is akin to moving to an island in the middle of nowwhere. They cannot lose the plot or they will freak out.
It is a hardcore choice and sometimes people need to gloss over stuff they don't like because that is what keeps them going, and because to admit, for example, that one was being bullied at work, or that one doesn't really have any Danish friends to speak of, or that one is a raging alcoholic would be letting the dark side win!
The only thing I absolutely must point out is that those who spend their time in Denmark long term (i.e: without frequent trips abroad) tend to be rather more depressed than those who tend to take lots of holidays and trips to other places.
It doesn't follow that those with loads of money are happier here either, because they can only buy so many blue and white china plates and funny chairs before they get bored to distraction.
I say, let the sunshine brigade have their moment in the sun, statistics show that the higher one climbs the harder the fall. We must be gentle and patient and accept that really, no matter what a person presents on a blog, we don't know the whole story.
I am well used to people cracking and crawling to my cyberdoor to tell me: "You know what? It isn't what it looks like!" at some point. It is a total classic that people love it here and then hate it. Some people have to appear to be alright because if they don't everything would fall apart. Pride comes before a fall.
What would be interesting to hear of though, is people who hate it initially but then learn to love it? Anyone?
If not for my work and the people I meet at work plus the constant travel outside of Denmark, I think i would have gone mad by now.
I think there are two types of foreigners who can lvoe it here. The first being those who need to be here and enjoy all the benefits of the system. There was a guy who posts on Copenhagen Post singing praises about the welfare system and signs off as "the artist". What does it tell us? An artist in Denmark can survive much longer financially than in USA or else where where there is no one subsidizing their artistic pursuits.
The second type are the ones who have good jobs, pay special low taxes (25%) and probably live in a company paid house on Strandvej. These foreigners are above the system so they don't feel half as reaped off.
The rest of us will just have to be content with paying taxes like a danes but not getting half the rights/services.
Durian Girl is an absolute moron.
She, coming from a so-called decoratic Moslem country, ought to know better what it feels like to be living under the tyranny of incompetent decision-makers and yet she is constantly dissing about a country in which she has not much knowledge of AND one that she herself has willingly chosen to live in.
She never describes how the minorities in her own country are treated as second class citizens and how her political leaders seem to put the blame on migrant foreigners (Indonesians and Filipinos) for the country's social ills.
She doesn't mention of the other injustices - NEP, ISA, unaccounted tax payments, Syrariah laws, etc but chooses to be partake in affairs which she has no concrete grounds for.
And Durian Girl, why don't you tell of cases such as in a situatuon where a Moslem can obtain a scholarship to read in universities even if he/she gets the uttermost wretched grades? Or about how your taxes are primarily used to feed the 9/10 rulers (and their wives (up to 4 wives each) and their very extended royal families. Or how about if anyone should critize the government or the powers-that-be, he/she would be handcuffed and shipped off somewhere because he/she is a threat to internal security. Or how about in some truly Islamic states of her country, males and females MUST queue in separate check-out queues because it is forbidden for different sexes to mingle. Or how about Moslem women who insists to be covered in the purdah when going swimming despite the danger they are bringing on to themselves. Or how about her country also trying to project a one nation identity, akin to Denmark's integration intention - learn Malay, emrace the Syariah laws, do away with all haram Western influences, etc. Or the fact that her own ethnic group is constantly being told to get out of the country if it can't live under the hood of an Islamic nation.
Nope, she doesn't say a thing (probably afraid for being an internal threat) and yet continually resents and criticizes the country, its laws, etc.
Groovierivers,
I suggest you read my blog before jumping to conclusions. Have you lived in Malaysia before?
What you quote here is mostly propaganda. If you have lived in both countries, like I have, then what you observe for yourself will have more credit.
Groovierivers, you're utterly full of crap. You rattle off the worn-out illogical argument that anyone with any kind of muslim background has no right to criticize Denmark because islam is pure evil and Denmark is automatically right. I call your strawman.
Yeah, what crap!
So...
Malaysia = Bad
∴ No one from Malaysia may say anything about Denmark (no matter how fair, balanced or gentle).
Your assumptions are based on prejudice and blind faith in people who are manipulating you and your "logical" leap of silencing anyone not from The Most Free Country is pathetic.
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