Kansas City also has two Danish fraternal societies belonging to the Danish Brotherhood and the United Danish Societies, both Danish-American organizations. The Danish immigrants often have a tender feeling for their mother country and their social heritage. Danish-American immigrants often visit the home country and such a trip is considered one of the great events in the life of the immigrant. Before the World War Danish-Americans also occasionally celebrated June 5, the Constitution Day of Denmark. In Grundtvigian communities there has always been a great deal of community singing.
People sing when they visit as well as at the more general gatherings.
The songs used are both Danish and English and they are of a humanistic rather than of a distinctly religious character, except at church meetings. Danish-American women are often deft needleworkers and seamstresses and usually good cooks. Churches and societies help the immigrants to preserve their social heritage. Where no organizations exist, Americanization is more rapid, but perhaps also more of a veneer than a transformation towards a better life. The immigrant press is another factor in the preservation of the immigrant's spiritual values.