Can you think of any proper counterexample? I have only one: the US! But if you look closer, they DO share a very strong cultural value overriding anything else: individual economic profit… Now, I much prefer the Danes! Especially when looking to considering what places like Malmö have become under the more open Swedish immigration policy.

I think “integration” means “accepting and encouraging somebody coming from a different culture to merge with the society of his new country and culture”. Otherwise let’s stop using “integration” and switch to some US-style “melting pot”… would you prefer that? I don’t.

BTW I’m an expat myself being from Milano (Italy), residing in Denmark, and travelling for work to several different countries within and outside Europe every year. Before that, I have worked, lived and studied in several other countries, not only in the “rich EU”. But I would always choose Denmark over any other country, including my own, as a place for me and my family to live.

In Denmark I’ve never felt discriminated for being a foreigner, even though my Danish is still quite bad… I simply try to understand, appreciate and adapt to the culture of the place I live. After all, nobody is taken by force to Denmark, and I would say immigrants from troubled or less developed contries, perhaps escaping war and misery, should be even more appreciative of the peaceful and developed country they settle in. Of course it is difficult and it takes good will, but without effort you never achieve anything.

I guess that when the Danish People’s party get their legislation passed in the parliment, all “suspects of crime” of non-Danish ethnic origin will be subject to deportation and the Danish prisons won’t have to deal with these elements.