(I'm not native to .dk, but I have lived there for a very long time. "Integrated", as it were.)
#1: The surveys are probably right, but maybe the Danish are just more optimistic and haven't been terrified by Krampus at an early age (and thus been conditioned to live up to some ridiculous ideal)?
#2: I must admit, I have a hard time interpreting that quote about "shameful to to be unhappy". People I talk to pretty regularly go "meh" when asked "how do you do?". As opposed to the Americans I've met that go "GREAT!"... where I'm pretty suspicious that they've been truthful at all.)
#3: Naw, doesn't really apply any more except in the Danish equivalent of the Daily Mail (or whatever).
#1: The surveys are probably right, but maybe the Danish are just more optimistic and haven't been terrified by Krampus at an early age (and thus been conditioned to live up to some ridiculous ideal)?
#2: I must admit, I have a hard time interpreting that quote about "shameful to to be unhappy". People I talk to pretty regularly go "meh" when asked "how do you do?". As opposed to the Americans I've met that go "GREAT!"... where I'm pretty suspicious that they've been truthful at all.)
#3: Naw, doesn't really apply any more except in the Danish equivalent of the Daily Mail (or whatever).