Danish etiquette: "ignoring people is polite here"
What The Denmark | Danish Culture for Expats, Internationals and Danes
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The Social Contract Between Human Beings Is That You Are Not Helping
I find it difficult to find a logical way to split it in my brain that danes are looking at it and saying, for me, it's like, this person needs help to geti this baby shroller off a train, but i'm not going to help them. I think the other thing about this mentioning is that you don't want any one to feel a victim either. So we are so worried about doing that that we actually are just not helping. That's what i meant by reciprocating, because that that creates an inequality between you, right? Because you can do something that that person can't. And and the dant hate inequality more than anything else, the idea
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