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You Can't Have Denmark Without Danes
What a small, happy country can teach a huge and fractious one. And what it can't.
Trust counts.
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Somebody stole my phone in Copenhagen. I was aghast.
I grew up in New York during the gritty years when the city was a sort of Hobbesian war of all-against-all. Somehow, I never got mugged, never got my pocket picked. For that to happen I had to travel to one of the safest cities in the world, a place where an acquaintance lost a scarf in an amusement park and found that someone had picked it up and put it on a nearby bench, neatly folded.1519150226358