David Heinemeier Hansson
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first heard Aug 2025
last heard 26 Aug
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Very difficult.
As a blonde, blue eyed woman who've putting in all sorts of efforts of learning the language and doing everything, still very, very difficult to assimilate to to Danish culture.
In a way where if if that had been the other way around at
And she had been Danish and moving to the US, it would not have been that difficult at all.
And this was the other thing.
I mean, living in a country like Denmark with a an American wife who is of Scandinavian heritage and has put in all the effort and still realizing, man, assimilation is incredibly difficult, even when you're ninety-seven percent there all the way.
Holy smokes must it'd be almost impossible if you come from a completely foreign culture and foreign norms and
the rest of it.
And of course, that's what the stats I just quoted bear out.
That the more dissimilar the culture is and the further it is, the less likely to be successful.
Yes, but not
Just that alone, I would say, is more of the great divide that happened around twenty twenty where I think a lot of these political fault lines really opened up.
And I mean, the shorthand in the US I think is where you woke a knot and
Clearly I had a bunch of people that I I thought I had good relations with for m many years, who suddenly once that political fault line opened up, they were clearly just not anymore.
And
I think that's regrettable.
And I think I've I've
I've tried to put an effort into
um sort of both understanding where that comes from, in part because I've changed my mind on several of these topics over the years.
And it was like, well, sometimes you just change your mind after time, sometimes you change your mind after you get new information.
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