Youth violence in Denmark

Denmark has a new bottom rung, announces Danish writer Jens Christian Grøndahl, who analyzed his compatriots' attitudes toward immigrants and social problems: "When it comes to the uneducated, traditionally oriented ghetto-dwellers of middle-eastern or north-African origin, the charitable Dane is torn between the anxiety he feels because he suspects the return of a class society, and his need to show someone his empathy and to improve his or her tough circumstances through socio-political initiatives. ... The accommodating, flagellatingly self-critical attitude of the welfare state has become second nature to such an extent that arsonists and killers are even seen as victims. In that sense, the generally failed integration is astoundingly successful: there's a very telling correspondence between the social-moral tendency toward empathy, and the oversensitive rhetoric regarding arsonists or fundamentalist Muslims."

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