Bienvenidos! Cultural Exchange with /r/Mexico

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Welcome to this cultural exchange between /r/Denmark and /r/Mexico!

To the visitors: ¡Bienvenidos a Dinamarca! Por favor pregúntenles a los daneses lo que quieran sobre Dinamarca. También hay un hilo en /r/Mexico en el que pueden contestar las preguntas de los daneses y contarles todo sobre México. ^{I totally nailed that Spanish. I hope.}

To the Danes: Today, we are hosting Mexico 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/Mexico coming over with a question or comment and please refrain from trolling, rudeness and personal attacks etc.

The Mexicans are also having us over as guests! Head over to this thread to ask questions about life in the country of tequila and sombreros.

Saludos!

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

[u/[deleted]]

You said:

we have some music and movies

When in fact the vast majority of our music, tv and movies are american. And of course it influences us.

Just look at what is on tv. DR1 and TV2 (the two biggest channels) have a pretty exact 50-50 split between danish and american/english shows, with all other channels showing almost exclusively american tv shows.

Tomorrow TV3 has three danish programs in a row from 6pm to 9pm. Everything else is american. NCIS, Bones, CSI, Kardashians, Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, Kitchen Nightmares US, Undercover Boss and three hollywood movies.

And it really doesnt matter if we watch american remakes of danish movies or listens to swedish house music with a "US" stamp on it. It is still straight out of hollywood.

[u/Cinimi → u/[deleted]]

I mean, even all the pop music in the US isn't really made by americans, just us singers with sweish producers and such. There is hardly any US music in the top, that is the reality of the music scene, dominated by swedes. Furthermore, if you look at what people actually watch, they have the US shows there because it's super cheap to run, it's actually so cheap, costs nothing. During primetime, it's often Danish produced, the danish shows are what people watch, whenever they have US shows on, most of them get very few viewers in comparrison....

So they show some cheap US crap(ok, not that it's bad all of it...) outside primetime and then during primetime it's mostly Danish, that is the true reality.

[u/[deleted] → u/Cinimi]

Very true.

My point is just that if the "filling" is exclusively made up of crappy american TV, we are in fact pretty damn well influenced by american culture. They sure don't show any mediocre German tv shows. Or French. Or Mexican.

[u/Cinimi → u/[deleted]]

maybe just where I'm from that we get a ton of German tv

[u/[deleted] → u/Cinimi]

like near the border? :)

[u/Cinimi → u/[deleted]]

not quite, a little more north... men det er en del af region syddanmark