Re:Law of Jante
by FelixGommen on Sunday October 01, 2017 @04:40PM
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Well - that is how things evolved - but in the early 800, when the ejderen border was created no one thought of themselves as german.
Re:Law of Jante
by interfixus on Sunday October 01, 2017 @11:27PM
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Probably not. Although I am getting ever more suspicious about the latter day dogma about the nation as a purely modern invention. Denmark was well enough defined and understood a thousand years ago.
The second war, in 1864, ended with a huge loss of Danish territory to the emerging German superstate. The northern half of this territory was returned to Denmark in 1920, with the southern remaining German. This was the result of a referendum in the wake of World War 1. Everything was orderly and civilized, and the border region to this day remains a model of how to handle such things without undue upheaval - thus exactly confirming my point above.