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Different clothes, different starting times, that\\u2019s not big news, but recently other forms of inequality have been increasing in Denmark.
\\nIn fact, according to the Denmark\'s Statistics, the GINI coefficient, which measures inequality, has been rising faster in Denmark than in any other country in Europe.\\xa0 It\'s now 27.9, compared with 22 at the turn of the century.\\xa0
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It reminds me sometimes of an old fashioned faucet, with the hot and cold knobs.\\xa0 Denmark is trying to turn one knob on, and the other one off.
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For example, there\\u2019s envy of each other\\u2019s geographical pleasures.\\xa0 Norway has beautiful mountains, great for skiing.\\xa0 Denmark has windswept beaches, which the Norwegians seem to love. Lots of summer holidays in Denmark. \\xa0
\\nThe real envy, of course, is about money. Norway has money, because of North Sea oil.\\xa0
\\nThere is a feeling among some Danes that some of that oil should have been Danish oil. During a meeting to divide up the waters between the two countries in 1963, the Danish negotiator, Per Haakerup was photographed with a glass of whisky in his hand.
\\nThe rumor is\\xa0he was drunk during the meeting, and gave up the Ekofisk oilfield to Norway, which has earned billions of dollars from it.\\xa0
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Danes also have stereotypes about other Nordic people.\\xa0Norwegians are seen as happy, friendly people with a humorous language.\\xa0 Everything sounds funny in Norwegian because everything sounds like singing.\\xa0\\xa0Swedes are seen as kind of stiff, humorless types who can\\u2019t dance, and can\\u2019t hold their liquour.\\xa0 Finns are silent, angry drunks that carry knives. Oddly, given their history, Danes really like Germans. \\xa0Really, really like the Germans. \\xa0Many Danes will say that Berlin is their favorite town.
\\nDanes also have stereotypes about each other, something that amazed me when I first arrived here.\\xa0 You have 5 million people, and you\\u2019re dividing yourselves into groups!\\xa0 But Danes themselves see a big difference between people from Sjelland, the island with Copenhagen on it, and Jylland, the bigger part of Denmark that is connected to Germany.
\\nAs the stereotype goes, people from Jylland are seen as quiet, reliable, trustworthy, and likely to marry young and start families. They are also sometimes seen as stubborn, and very tight with money. They want to drive a hard bargain. People from Copenhagen are seen as slick. Smart-ass, fast-talking, prone to exaggeration- everything\\u2019s the biggest and the best.\\xa0 The men wear expensive business suits, and everyone wears overpriced eyeglasses. They have jobs that are non-jobs, like Senior Communications Consultant or SEO specialist.\\xa0 People from Jylland have real jobs, like pig farmer, or Lego designer.\\xa0
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