Talk:Danes/Archive 1

message: I know there is a small Roman-Catholic community in Denmark, but does it consists of ethnic Danes?  Too a larger degree than ther other religious minorities, like jews or moslems?  Or scientologists, or Jehovas Witnesses and whatever?
I'd expect most of the roman catholics to be not completely assimilated immigrants and decendans, rather than remnents of the pre-reformation catholic community.--Per Abrahamsen 20:54, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Roman-Catholic 

message: There are some descenters of Danish origen in the US. But what about those after the Treaty of Roskilde in the 16 Centery? Where the Danish provinces of Scania, Halland and Blekinge was given to Sweden.
:They have been subjected to a rather heavy-handed, if incomplete, swedification.  I believe their official status is a seperate Swedish minority, rather than as a Danish minority in Sweden.--Per Abrahamsen 17:05, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The Skåne region (the terriority in question) has a unique regional identity, claiming to be neither Swedish nor Danish. Almost to the point, the flag of Skåne is a yellow cross over a red background and thus a perfect mix of the Swedish yellow over blue and the Danish white over red. Justpedersen 23:14, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Danish descenters

message: This article is included in the category Germanic peoples along with other modern national groups (Swedes, English, Dutch), although no source is given for the claims. I nominated the category for deletion - see its entry here - because it includes modern groups under a historical term (Roman period to mediaeval). The category is being used for a political agenda, to promote the idea that ethnic groups and nations in north-west Europe are "Germanic". That claim is typically associated with neo-nazi groups, for the association of the term Germanic peoples with Nazism, see Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Lebensraum, and for instance Hitler salute. As with the Swedes, the issue here is also whether Danes describe themselves as a "Germanic people".Paul111 20:55, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You do not have to place the exact same message on every talkpage which falls into the Germanic peoples category. 1 is enough.Rex 21:47, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I have often heard Danes being described as Germanic people, and never with any nazi-connotations.  I believe it has most to do with language, learning another one of the Germanic languages is a lot easier than learning a Latin-based or Slavic language.--Per Abrahamsen 09:23, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I have unfortunaltely engaged this person in discussion of this topic at Talk:Norwegian people. Paul has placed a disputed tag on the article itself because he disputes the Norwegians being a Germanic people. Are the Swedes, Danes and Norwegians Germanic peoples? If not what are they? Any contribution is helpfull.Inge 14:01, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Danes a Germanic people? 

message: For dedicated editors of this page: The "Related Groups" info was removed from all  infoboxes. Comments may be left here. Ling.Nut 23:02, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "related groups" info removed from infobox 

message: Why not also adding living persons like Viggo Mortensen or Peter Schmeichel? AlphaBo 09:49, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: In which case he is also Danish. Besides that calling him Danish-American is no more correct than calling Peter Schmeichel Danish-Briton. Dylansmrjones (talk) 04:53, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  The photo box of famous Danes 

message: Most Danes are members of the state Church and identify themselves as Christians, but not religious.  Going into what people believe in things get really muddy.  I don't believe an info-box is the right place for that.  --Per Abrahamsen 08:26, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Religion 

message: "Some Danes today also live in St. Petersburg, Russia." Yes and some Danes live in London, Paris, Berlin, Malmö etc. It will be a long list if you have to mention cities where "some Danes" live. And St. Petersburg would certainly not be at the top of that list 193.149.191.1 12:03, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Danes in St. Petersburg 

message: I have selected Karen Blixen since it needed at least one woman. Peter Schmeichel because it needed a sports/entertainment star, and i changed Canute the Great with Sweyn Forkbeard, since Sweyn had a bigger status in Denmark since he has founded many towns in Zealand and Scania, and likely founder of this day's capital Copenhagen. --Mrjungle (talk) 14:25, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  The new image of famous Danes