Last week French born Prince of Denmark H.R.H. Prince Henrik passed away and the following days served as a very good blueprint what the happiest nation of Denmark really might be.
We’re a small country and we’re rich country. And despite being named happiest nation in the world it seems that there are plenty of insecurities in our society. And when that is the case it often ends up with exercising of our insecurities towards those who we see as superior in one way or the other.

It’s only human and it’s perhaps similar in most other cultures. But I happen to live in Denmark so this story is about Danes.

Danes do have plenty to be proud of. It is in fact one of the richest and most regulated societies. In many ways, this is one of the finest places on earth, yet in many ways this doesn’t seem to be enough. We might be happiest nation in the world (whatever that means), but at the same time 420.000 – appx. 1 in 13 of all Danes are using antidepressants (including those who are not old enough to be prescribed this medication). 860.000 – (appx. 1 in 6) consume too much alcohol.

Despite all the positive things about this society (and trust me there are many) there seems to be a shadow leering above the Danes, a shadow that often makes out worst sides to burst out. It’s as we can’t really get over the fact that we’re such a small country and we don’t really play any role in global power games. Perhaps we still have hard time coming to terms that it only took Nazis couple of days to take over the during the World War II. Despite the fact that we shine so bright. And perhaps we hate the fact that it was Russians who saved us from Nazis and not, say, Americans.

It’s that feeling that makes us support a government which feels comfortable passing a law that makes it legal to pull out golden teeth out of immigrants’ mouth in order to pay for their (temporary) stay – in one of the retches counters in the world.
At the same time we don't seen to be bothered that much about 20,000,000,000 € of Danes money is hidden in tax havens abroad. That's 2,5% of estimated total global capital in tax havens, despite the fact that Denmark's population is approximately 0,07% of world's population. One can't help, but think that it's this kind of Napoleon-complex that makes a big part of this society act like that.