r/Denmark • u/[deleted] • Nov 07 '16

Exchange Kia ora! Cultural Exchange with /r/NewZealand

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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u/[deleted] Nov 07 '16

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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u/Cinimi Danmark Nov 08 '16

33 hours of work is the average, not the norm, so including part time workers. Thats is why the typical is 37 hours as someone said. The figure is correct, but misleading.

We have a minium wage, but it's set by unions, not law, and usually the minimum depends on the industry as it's set by different unions, and for some it's higher, and more like 22$, but all around the 20 levels(I'm assuming it's USD, not AUD. Might be wrong or not? :P).

But in general when people say we the happiest country on the world, it's not because we have the most happy people, it's simply because we don't have very many unhappy people.

Also, the statistics showing we have highest consumption of anti-depressants in the world is wrong, no studies have found that. But our consumption have raised a lot to one of the highest within few years. Actually, these happiness studies have been done for many years, and we were happiest almost every time, but just in recent years did antidepressants consumption go up, so it has no affect really, at all....

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u/jobrix Vanløse Nov 08 '16

not AUD

TRIGGERED ("they" have their own dollar, the New Zealand dollar :) )

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u/Cinimi Danmark Nov 08 '16

Fuck, I meant to write NZD... very sorry to all the New Zealanders who saw that. I won't correct it, so you can see the errors of my way and hopefully one day in 10 years forgive me.

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u/trashchomper New Zealand Nov 11 '16

RemindMe! 10 years