Social Democrats, the party of the current prime minister, Mette Frederiksen won the 2019 elections in part as they shifted to an anti-immigration platform.

They won from the right-wing party (Venstre) then led by the man now described as a potential kingmaker (Lars Løkke Rasmussen, man with pipe) who pioneered those policies.

Since then Denmark has just shifted more right-wing and anti-other-people.

In some towns in our "rural" community openly xenophobic parties got 35% of the votes.

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You don't notice it when you go to the large cities.

But you do notice it in the more rural (and still rich) areas like the one we call home.

Being openly xenophobic, even being openly racist.. is not a reason to be shunned these days. Instead it's a position you and your neighbour can "debate".

For those patriotism for "Danish things" is often a thin cover for nationalism, (open) xenophobia & racism. People genuinely believe in a Danish native superiority over "other peoples".

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#hygge

@brekke Oh true. And it's not that new either. It's often in the little hidden things.

The name of our child (born in Denmark) on their original birth certificate is not the name on their (not-Danish) passport (we went to a formal name change outside of DK). Reason is that Denmark has a system to "protect" kids from getting the wrong name. It just happens to be flawed towards certain groups..

It's a known issue, but no party dares even to attempt to fix this. Most say "it works as intended".