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Different and yet the Same
There is a joke about traffic in Denmark: The Danes do not follow the rules but expect others to follow the rules. Jan also talked about this paradox that the Danes want to be exceptional but yet not different from the group. Morten agreed and said the Danes love the exception and ‚the crack in everything’ („That’s where the light comes in..“). The Germans love perfection, the Danes the exception? Jan said it is important here to have consensus within the given situation wich can be anywhere, public space, inside a home etc.
Does this have to do with the ‚Jante Law: Don't think you're anyone special or that you're better than us.’ In Wikipedia I find: Jante Law (Danish and Norwegian: Janteloven; Swedish: Jantelagen; Finnish: Janten laki; Faroese: Jantulógin) is a concept created by the Norwegian/Danish author Aksel Sandemose in his novel A Fugitive Crosses his Tracks (En flygtning krydser sit spor, 1933), where he portrays the small Danish town Jante, modelled upon his native town Nykøbing Mors as it was in the beginning of the 20th century, but typical of all very small towns, where nobody is anonymous.
All those words like Jante Law, consensus, huege start rotating in my head...
16.11.2007, 18:27
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