• sunbeam60@lemmy.one
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    3 months ago

    Denmark too. You’re not a success in Denmark until you have a flagpole, an electric car, a robot mower, a robot hoover and a sunken trampoline.

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      3 months ago

      I moved to Denmark recently. The Danish love to fly their flag. Half of the houses have a flagpole. It’s weird for me because no one in Poland does this.

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        3 months ago

        It’s a long story of course, but goes back to a wave of nationalism that arose after the 1864 wars against Prussia. The Danes often said “what is lost externally must be gained internally” and it lead to a break with Pan-Scandinavism so Danes really had nothing but flags and flagpoles left. And boy did they use them.

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          3 months ago

          They also tried breeding a pig with the Dannish flag on it. Also its the oldest continuously used falg, coloration and minor size differences not withstanding.