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113 Post author: Yvain 13 May 2009 10:51PM

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Comment author: conchis 14 May 2009 03:24:33PM 2 points [-]

Places where people wave flags are scary.

As a counterexample, Danes seem to enjoy flag-waving quite a lot, but are IMHO pretty unscary.

I agree with your general point though.

Comment author: [deleted] 07 February 2014 07:37:01AM 0 points [-]

They do, but other than that when I was there I didn't get the impression that “Danish” is as much of an applause light there as, say, “Irish” is in Ireland, “American” is in the US, or “Argentine” is in Argentina.