Tribalism in Europe

Funebo provides a contemporary example of how ethnic nationalism, far from being a solid foundation upon which a harmonious, stable society can be built, is instead a seed sowing distrust among peoples and how it also can awaken meaningless territorial ambitions “in the name of the X people” [insert preferred tribe, Ed.]

Under the heading Dansk Anschluss?, Funebo writes

Det sistnämnda gav tyvärr Dansk folkepartis folketingsledamot, kyrkoherde Sören Krarup, prov på idag, när han till danska nyhetsbyrån Ritzau höll öppet för att återansluta tyskt och svenskt territorium med kungariket Danmark.

De naturliga (sjö-)gränser som Danmark idag har med Skagen i norr, Bornholm i öster, samt Padborg i Slesvig och Blåvandshuk på Jyllands västkust vid Nordsjön kan – om Krarup och den hårda linjens män inom Dansk folkeparti får bestämma – komma att kompletteras med Skånes, Blekinges och Hallands landgränser med ett reducerat Sverige, och där Padborg blir en stad inte vid tyska gränsen utan mitt i ett helt danskt Slesvig.

Translation:

The latter is regrettably what Dansk folkeparti’s (Danish People’s Party), reverend Sören Krarup provided an example of, as he, to Danish news agency Ritzau did not rule out the re-joining of German and Swedish territories with the Kingdom of Denmark.

The natural (sea-)borders that Denmark has today with Skagen to the north, Bornholm to the east, and Padborg in Silesia, and Blåvandshuk off the west coast of Jutland by the North Sea, may be—if Krarup and the hard liners within Dansk folkeparti gets to decide—amended with the borders of Skåne, Blekinges and Halland [regions of southern Sweden, Ed.] with a reduced Sweden, and where Padborn will be, not a city by the German border but, in the middle of a wholly Danish Silesia.

The criteria to decide where Denmark’s borders should be drawn? Where the Danes are in a majority. Wouldn’t it be better instead to ensure that the country you live within secures the freedom and equal treatment before the law of all citizens, irrespective of ancestry?

The reason Funebo brings this up is because Dansk folkeparti is held in high esteem among Sweden Democrats. He sardonically concludes that statements such as these from representatives of Dansk folkeparti may lead to Sverigedemokraterna having to distance themselves from their Danish brethren in spirit, in order not to be seen as traitors to their own country.