This weekend was the `welcoming weekend` for the summer program and damn it was exhausting!! Really interesting to be on the staff end of things. Of course last year I had a burning need to interact and be known by people... but I don´t really have that impulse now. Much more of a listener role. Just by human nature people treat people in positions of authority differently. It is just so hilarious though because I´m not much older than many of the participants and younger than many others. Ironically though just by seeming somewhat ´disinterested´ by hanging back a bit you seem more ´cool´. Human nature is hilarious.
The Danish interns are really wonderful and have been super keen on including me in their social group. I am focusing on remaining in the present with the program - it isn´t that hard for the most part because there is so much going on but I also can´t help but think about my life this fall! Like I know I´ve said before...
On Saturday we had THE most famous journalist in Denmark come speak to us. Unsurprisingly - he is a TV personality as well as editor etc - he was an incredibly engaging speaker. So much of what he was talking about ran all through my thesis - theories of civic and ethnic nationalism, the formation of the Danish state as a response to massive territorial loss, nationalism as scary-bad but Danish nationalism as not SOOO bad.... all these things about perceptions of immigrants. The way Denmark has responded so much more harshly and racistly to immigration than Norway and Sweden though they share much of the same dialogue on other politics and obvious cultural connections. Right now I am SUPER tired so I should go to sleep... More soon! Love, Alice
The Danish interns are really wonderful and have been super keen on including me in their social group. I am focusing on remaining in the present with the program - it isn´t that hard for the most part because there is so much going on but I also can´t help but think about my life this fall! Like I know I´ve said before...
On Saturday we had THE most famous journalist in Denmark come speak to us. Unsurprisingly - he is a TV personality as well as editor etc - he was an incredibly engaging speaker. So much of what he was talking about ran all through my thesis - theories of civic and ethnic nationalism, the formation of the Danish state as a response to massive territorial loss, nationalism as scary-bad but Danish nationalism as not SOOO bad.... all these things about perceptions of immigrants. The way Denmark has responded so much more harshly and racistly to immigration than Norway and Sweden though they share much of the same dialogue on other politics and obvious cultural connections. Right now I am SUPER tired so I should go to sleep... More soon! Love, Alice
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