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To: Libloather

Why would the Danes in Denmark really care?

There are likely more Danish Americans than Danes.


2 posted on 01/24/2025 5:44:43 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2
"Why would the Danes in Denmark really care?"

No kidding. How many Danes have visited Greenland? How many could find it on a map. When a purchase price is finally put out there, the Danes may change their minds.

Denmark has 6.00 million people. Greenland has 0.06 million people, 1% of their "Motherland." I cannot imagine there is much affinity between the two places.

90% of Greenlanders are of Inuit extraction. They are strongly admixed with early European immigrant strains. One-tenth of the people are Danish, most of them born in Denmark.

So 6,000 people in Greenland have some association with Denmark. That's not a strong tie.

On the downside, the national dish of Greenland is suaasat, a soup made from seal meat. If we acquire Greenland, will they export that dish to us?

20 posted on 01/24/2025 6:13:36 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (They were the FA-est of times, they were the FO-est of times.”.)
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