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<blockquote data-quote="Rotsne" data-source="post: 213875" data-attributes="member: 6326"><p>Maybe it is blown out of proportions. I dont know but after more than 5 year of warnings from the Danish People Party about the dangers of non-Danish cultural activities, parents have been told to be aware about who their kids are seeing. We have been told that none of the suicide bombers who have killed both your soldiers and ours have been drinking alcohol and because we have no homeland security and a ocean between us and the middle east the population has been alerted by our politicians.</p><p> </p><p>In both school, in the public and in the workspace we tend to remove ourselves from persons who stand out so they cannot mingle and sabotage our support to the war against terrorism. Generally we wont accept a situation where people drives through our steets with flags celebrating actions like 9/11 (which some did).</p><p> </p><p>We are all concerned to let our children look and act Danish while still give them as many free choices as possible. Some of my neighbors changed their last name to a more Danish because they were not called into job interviews and suddenly they did - even by firms who turned them down before.</p><p> </p><p>Danes drink - adult about 11 liters of pure alcohol per year. DUI's we dont have many off because the most important for a typical Dane is his or her job. In fact they lowered to almost nothing when Denmark introduced the 16 year limit to allow youth to experiment freely with alcohol before they can drive. Once they can drive they are very aware about the dangers of alcohol because they have tried it.</p><p> </p><p>I have some statitic here about DUI related accidents <a href="http://www.sikkertrafik.dk/a5c83e80" target="_blank">(link red=died, Yellow=hurt)</a>. Unfortunately the number of people dying have increased but we are a member of the European Union and when the economy was good a lot of drivers from the Eastern Europe came to Denmark to work and they have no tradition with fighting DUI at all. We are about 5,000,000 people so if you compare the numbers per 1,000 with the number in your state, you can see that our casulty rate is low.</p><p> </p><p>I hope that answer some of the questions made by our cultural differences.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rotsne, post: 213875, member: 6326"] Maybe it is blown out of proportions. I dont know but after more than 5 year of warnings from the Danish People Party about the dangers of non-Danish cultural activities, parents have been told to be aware about who their kids are seeing. We have been told that none of the suicide bombers who have killed both your soldiers and ours have been drinking alcohol and because we have no homeland security and a ocean between us and the middle east the population has been alerted by our politicians. In both school, in the public and in the workspace we tend to remove ourselves from persons who stand out so they cannot mingle and sabotage our support to the war against terrorism. Generally we wont accept a situation where people drives through our steets with flags celebrating actions like 9/11 (which some did). We are all concerned to let our children look and act Danish while still give them as many free choices as possible. Some of my neighbors changed their last name to a more Danish because they were not called into job interviews and suddenly they did - even by firms who turned them down before. Danes drink - adult about 11 liters of pure alcohol per year. DUI's we dont have many off because the most important for a typical Dane is his or her job. In fact they lowered to almost nothing when Denmark introduced the 16 year limit to allow youth to experiment freely with alcohol before they can drive. Once they can drive they are very aware about the dangers of alcohol because they have tried it. I have some statitic here about DUI related accidents [URL="http://www.sikkertrafik.dk/a5c83e80"](link red=died, Yellow=hurt)[/URL]. Unfortunately the number of people dying have increased but we are a member of the European Union and when the economy was good a lot of drivers from the Eastern Europe came to Denmark to work and they have no tradition with fighting DUI at all. We are about 5,000,000 people so if you compare the numbers per 1,000 with the number in your state, you can see that our casulty rate is low. I hope that answer some of the questions made by our cultural differences. [/QUOTE]
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