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The Denmark secret: how it became the most trusting country

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Re: The Denmark secret: how it became the most trusting country

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post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s not a “whistle.” Culture is virtually co-extensive with ethnicity in most places in the world. I come from a country whose name literally just translates into “country of $ethnic_group.” To the point where the largest country in the world, China, has lumped myriad different populations into the ethnic grouping of “Han Chinese” to cultivate cultural uniformity.

> a country whose name literally just translates into “country of $ethnic_group.” FYI, this is the case with Denmark as well (as long as you permit Dane to be an ethnic group)

Is Denmark named after Danes or are Danes named after Denmark.

Re: The Denmark secret: how it became the most trusting country

#122
post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s not a “whistle.” Culture is virtually co-extensive with ethnicity in most places in the world. I come from a country whose name literally just translates into “country of $ethnic_group.” To the point where the largest country in the world, China, has lumped myriad different populations into the ethnic grouping of “Han Chinese” to cultivate cultural uniformity.

> a country whose name literally just translates into “country of $ethnic_group.” FYI, this is the case with Denmark as well (as long as you permit Dane to be an ethnic group)

And "England" - land of the Angles (whence is derived the Anglo- part of Anglo-Saxon).
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