I live in Denmark and after moving here, the casual racism towards Greenlandic people here really shocked me. There is a real economic and social problem for th

I live in Denmark and after moving here, the casual racism towards Greenlandic people here really shocked me. There is a real economic and social problem for them here, many of them ending up homeless. Of the homeless, they regularly meet up in large groups outside train stations etc and drink a lot of alcohol, which people both hate (complaining about the police not doing anything while constantly conflating antisocial behavior and simply being from Greenland) and also claim doesn't exist (there is a pervasive belief among Danes including young and left-leaning ones that Denmark isn't racist unlike "those countries" or that there are simply no homeless people because of benefits etc - they aren't visible because they are typically hassled by the police and begging is harshly prosecuted). Meanwhile having a slightly non-danish name/face (photographs are near mandatory on resumes and Danes are shocked when told its a terrible idea) makes it significantly harder to get a job, at least in my anecdotal experience from my fellow students. Not to mention several of my friends being confronted in public and subject to verbal abuse based on their skin color. It's a society very much in denial about having problems, which makes it appear much better from the outside. I can't speak as much for other wealthy western european nations but from my understanding from others its also very much the case there. There have also been several successive significant political scandals around treatment of immigrants. Such as systematically forcibly separating couples at the border, theft of valuables from immigrants in exchange for asylum, deporting folks back to syria during the civil war there etc. Several successive immigration ministers have been literally prosecuted yet the laws they made remain in place. Turns out when your news articles aren't in English, things like this are much easier to hide. The country has been good to me personally, and I try to do what I can to help (volunteered with Frelsens Hær, especially over covid etc. Incidentally, heard lots of horror stories while volunteering there about the dysfunction of society in Greenland proper, largely due to government/colonial interference in families in many ways such as this & moving children thousands of km to take school far from their parents, refusing to teach in native languages etc, all happening far more recently than anyone wants to admit). It (Denmark) is a nice place in many ways, and I don't want my negative comments to dissuade anyone from a visit, I just sometimes feel I have to balance the often unquestioning and glowingly positive view that exists out there.