I don't hang out in Solvang for many reasons: the Chumash Highway of Death, Pee Soup, Hansel and Gretel, windmills, and bent-over old ladies and Hollerback girls, but that doesn't mean I don't respect them folks..them Dutch folks..or are they Danish..is there a difference? Well, if I was a paid writer for the News-Press, I might expend the effort to find out, especially for a front page story..and I don't want the editor to fire me..oh, wait, the News-Press doesn't have an editor! if they did I would know the difference between a Dutch girl and a Danish
so if you go to Solvang, you might want to understand it's all about Denmark, not Holland.... not Dutch, but Danish...Dutch is Holland and Danish is Denmark.... if you go to the celebration, you can't treat the two as interchangeable....
now, America could learn something from Denmark, with a mixed market capitalist economy and a large welfare state, ranks as having the world's highest level of income equality. Denmark has the best business climate in the world, according to the U.S. business magazine Forbes. From 2006 to 2008, surveys ranked Denmark as "the happiest place in the world", based on standards of health, welfare and education. The 2009 Global Peace Index survey ranks Denmark as the second most peaceful country in the world, after New Zealand. In 2009, Denmark was ranked as one of the least corrupt countries in the world according to the Corruption Perceptions Index, ranking second only to New Zealand.
I coulda been in the 'happiest place in the world", too!
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