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> A thing I noticed when I was away is how stupid and mundane Danish everyday local politics look That's... surprising. I lived a few years in Denmark, and wha
by cplanas 10y ago
> A thing I noticed when I was away is how stupid and mundane Danish everyday local politics look
That's... surprising. I lived a few years in Denmark, and what characterized the country for me was the extreme anti-immigrant tone of the media and the politics. Now I live in the US, and what is happening with the current POTUS seems pretty moderate to me in comparison.
Actually that's my five cents on the "reverse culture shock": now I empathize much more with the situation of the immigrants back home.
- roel_v 10y agoI interpreted his comment as 'what seems so big when you're living somewhere, is most likely just noise when you look ay it frim a larger perspective'. In times when I live away from the country I call 'home' (well I've only had 2 countries like that, it's not that I switch every few weeks), I find that I don't miss anything by not keeping up with the details of the news - on the contrary. And in fact, for reentry and reassimilation, it's more important to know what tv shows are popular in the home country than who is minister of foreign affairs.