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Article: Danish dilemmas: South Schleswig after World War II and "unassimilated" immigrants today.
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- World Affairs
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- September 22, 2004
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Denmark faces a dilemma today of the first order. It is a victim of its own self-image as a proud, distinctive nation, boasting a thousand-year-old kingdom with the oldest flag in Europe, yet many Danes like to see themselves as ultraliberal and multicultural in all matters pertaining to new immigrants who are racially, culturally, and religiously distinct from them. In referenda, Denmark has already rejected the European Union and then approved it by the narrowest of margins and, most recently, refused to be part of the common Euro currency. On the other hand, many Danes like to assert that their country is an open, tolerant, multiethnic society. There undoubtedly will ...