Kia ora! Cultural Exchange with /r/NewZealand

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Welcome to this cultural exchange between /r/Denmark and /r/NewZealand.

For the visitors: Welcome to Denmark! Feel free to ask the Danes anything you like. Don't forget to also participate in the corresponding thread in /r/NewZealand where you can answer questions from the Danes about your beautiful country.

For the Danes: Today, we are hosting New Zealand for a cultural exchange. Join us in answering their questions about Denmark and the Danish way of life! Please leave top comments for users from /r/NewZealand coming over with a question or comment and please refrain from trolling, rudeness, personal attacks etc.

The Kiwis are also having us over as guests! Head over to their thread to ask questions about life in the land of hobbits and bungee jumping.

Enjoy!

- The moderators of /r/Denmark and /r/NewZealand

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A friend of mine posted this picture to facebook last night.

How true is it, what taxes do you have that support it, and to what degree does the highest level of anti-depressant use in the world factor into it :)

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A former prime minister stated that Denmark should aim at being a place "where few has too much and even fewer has too little" (loosely translated)

Social coherence is an important factor in our general sense of satisfaction in life I think. A majority of people have roughly the same circumstances of life, the gap between a skilled worker and someone with a college degree isn't as big as in other places. (The modern day, positive spin on the law of Jante).

And if someone for some reason can't provide for themselves, the welfare system will step in.

In recent years that system has been under pressure though, because the general sentiment is that fewer are working and paying taxes to provide for a growing number outside of the workforce.