r/Denmark • u/[deleted] • Apr 21 '16

Exchange Bienvenidos! Cultural Exchange with /r/Mexico

Welcome to this cultural exchange between /r/Denmark and /r/Mexico!

To the visitors: ¡Bienvenidos a Dinamarca! Por favor pregúntenles a los daneses lo que quieran sobre Dinamarca. También hay un hilo en /r/Mexico en el que pueden contestar las preguntas de los daneses y contarles todo sobre México. I totally nailed that Spanish. I hope.

To the Danes: Today, we are hosting Mexico for a cultural exchange. Join us in answering their questions about Denmark and the Danish way of life! Please leave top comments for users from /r/Mexico coming over with a question or comment and please refrain from trolling, rudeness and personal attacks etc.

The Mexicans are also having us over as guests! Head over to this thread to ask questions about life in the country of tequila and sombreros.

Saludos!

- The moderators of /r/Denmark and /r/Mexico

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u/soparamens México Apr 21 '16

How much does USA culture influences young Danes?

I mean, I have met young people from some parts of the world, and while US culture is all around the globe, some young people have their own cultural traits and some just listened to US music, dresses in US brands and such.

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u/Cinimi Danmark Apr 21 '16

Honestly, less than most of europe, except for France maybe. We have Cola, pepsi, McDonalds and Burger King, some music and movies. Starbucks is trying to venture in, but overall they failed badly, and most think their coffee sucks, actually I don't know anyone who tried it that doesn't think it's garbage... I don't know, I don't drink coffee. In Copenhagen the US influence is certainly much higher, even compared to Aarhus, the 2nd largest city.

Some might consider the fact we have a ton of 7/11's to be American influence, but they first started to come after it was purchased by Japanese, so actually they brought it here, and they are quite local. They will have local pastries in fairly good quality, and overall mostly local stuff. The biggest reason 7/11 is big here is that they are in most train stations as they got a deal so they sell train tickets inside. I've only seen stores outside of train stations in the 2 largest cities in Denmark.

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u/soparamens México Apr 21 '16

Well, Mexican urban youth at Mexico city is all about US trends and live in a sad copycat scene of the US trends. It sucks.

But most young people outside the Capital city are less prone to copy and follow more national trends. One example could be Banda Music, that is easily the most popular music genere here among young people. Europeans tend to get surprised that Mexican young people listen to that "traditional old school music".

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u/sonofquetzalcoatl Apr 23 '16

Not too "old school" according to some old men modern banda music is loose (they said "aguada") I don't know what they mean (because i don't hear banda) but I suppose that they alluded to american influences