Danish sense of humour...

Perhaps you still remember the crisis caused when the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published some cartoons of Muhammad a couple of years ago. Only after living in Denmark, the top free country for the Press according to Reporters Without Borders, to understand their sense of humour...

This cartoon below was published this Monday on Politiken, one of the main newspapers in the country:


If this cartoon would be published by Folha de São Paulo (Brazilian newspaper), we would probably have a crisis involving the Federal Government, the Army and the Editors of the newspaper. Globo TV would probably make an special on "Fantástico" showing offended officers claiming for dignity (and more funds). Or maybe they would reveail an underground of porn industry linking Military officers and some worehouse in the middle of nowhere, making a big dramatic soup-opera out of a cartoon... :)

What would be the reaction in other countries??

For more daily Danish cartoons, in English: http://wulffmorgenthaler.com

For more info on the Danish cartoons controversy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_cartoons

Compassion and (self) Organized Societies

A few days ago I completed one month working cleaning restaurants. I do 23 hours a week cleaning 3 small restaurants in town. It's simple but boring, and you get tired after a while, but that's what I need to do at the moment to get the money to pay for living in Denmark.

Last night I realized something very interesting, that makes a lot of sense: I'm respecting more the places I go to, helping to keep it clean. I always check toilets and I understand how easier is to clean if people simply keep it nice. Imagine a Society when everybody at a moment of their lives had to deliver newspapers, worked as supermarket cashier, cleaner, bartender, etc... isn't natural to expect organization and cleaness? And even compassion towards other people working at these situations?

That's a new theory I have about Denmark... what do you think?