Racism against people from Greenland must stop
People might state that we Danes only want to put an end to stereotyping people from Greenland who took the long journey to Denmark.
The use of terms like "Grønlænderstiv" which is a part of the Danish dictionary (means drunk as a person from Greenland) should be phased out.
A lot of the racism against people from Greenland is based on that they often tend to gather in certain parts of the towns where they gathered on streets and squares to socialize when they were off work or in between works. These gatherings in the open are not something you see in most Danish towns among Danes with Danish ethnic origins.
Danes drink too. In fact, the most important victory for the trade unions were when they forced Henry Ford himself to allow the workers in his factory in Copenhagen to drink alcohol in lunch breaks. However, the unofficial Danish constitution known as the "Law of Jante" clearly states that people should not bring attention to themselves. That is not the Danish way!
In one part of Copenhagen known as Sydhavnen, people have speculated in selling their apartments with big profit if they kept is until a new metro line opened. But this area also was the primary gathering place for people who immigrated from Greenland. The investors have tried to bully the immigrants away calling them smelling and noisy which could scare the potential buyers away.
If Trump has done nothing else, at least he has put the spot on this kind of racism. The view of how people socialize in public should not be based on the possibility of profit, it should be based on the acceptance that these immigrants have fulfilled their full potential and now they should be allowed to celebrate it.
Another issue is the way people live in the small villages up in Greenland. They try to express concern that there are plenty of cases involving grooming and minors could get hurt. Research prove that it is not worse than any other boarding school in Denmark. At the "efterskoler" several cases of grooming have been reported but still the association of this category of boarding schools claim that it is a "non-problem". If cases are discovered, a settlement is made with the teacher and then the case is often closed when the teacher is gone. Some also compare the conditions seen in the villages in Greenland with the movie production scene as it was in the 1970's and 1980's where many great movies targeted against the youth market were made. There have not been convictions so if the media industry can accept certain norms, why should we not accept that Greenland is not Denmark, so they should be allowed to live like they want?
Part of the problem are also that the local government in Greenland has not move very fast toward their own independence. They had like two decades to take over administration of a lot of areas. They have not done a lot of work.
Would there be an independent Greenland? Most Danes believe that it will be so in the future and why not. We only need to ensure that this new nation will not be occupied like it happened to East Timor. Whether they decide to seek help from Denmark or the United States, is their decision. Not the state of Denmark, not the United States but Greenland itself.
As Danes we are urged to change a bit in our dictionary, rename some of our ice creams and try not to be judgmental in how they decide to run their lives in the small villages instead of forcing laws from Copenhagen down over them like the people in Jutland suffer due to speed limitations on vehicles are put down over the citizens in Jutland.
We need to realize that the "Law of Jante" is protecting us in our way of life but it is a Danish set of norms and it should not be the norms for Greenland too.
Personally I wish them the best of luck regardless of how they decide their future
