Comment: Reply to 'Non-Danes kicked out of Mentor Group'

As long as Danish institutions continue to hire Danes to resolve problems associated with diversity, the solutions will be inadequate. Put another way, if Danish universities had hired those of us non-Dane highly educated people in DK who came for family-reuinification purposes AND applied for jobs in your international "afdellinger" . . . you might not be spending our taxes shooting in the dark trying to solve problems by grasping at straws.

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To Director of Studies at Faculty of Humanities: Congratulations! You've just confirmed all existing stereotypes that foreigners have of Danes! No, I'm not talking about a questionable command of written English, I'm talking about the utter lack of a theory of mind that you've displayed in what you wrote! Foreign students started this group in order to get advice from people capable of understanding their plight. One of the problems that foreign students face may be that Danes don't interact with them, but that DOES NOT mean that eliminating access to people who've shared their experiences is the solution. Did it ever occur to you that maybe the DANISH students are a problem? That many of them are so closed off to foreigners that this might be creating the alienation?? Rather than removing mentors with REAL, LIVED, EXPERIENCE, why don't you education the rest of the student body?? Hello???

Wait, wait! I know why! This sounds familiar! Oooooohhhh, that's right! This is the same country that forces its immigrants to live in locations other than the might desire so they can "interact" with Danes and Danish society!! Because uprooting people from a community that might have helped them navigate the massive levels of structural discrimination and racism they will invariably face in "the best country in the world" will HELP THEM! And that's what Danes do best. They "help" us. They never reflect on themselves, they only put a microscope on us Others. Look. Did it ever occur to you that foreign students (not to mention foreign-ers) might not want the help of people who are utterly incapable of understanding what it is like to be not ethnically Danish in your perfect samfund?? Or of seeing past all the dejlige og hyggelige facets of Danish society??

You've made a major mistake here, and your explanation shows how incredibly short-sighted and incapable of real understanding you actually are. My advice to foreign students?? While University of Copenhagen is "the best school" in "the best country of the world," if you are looking for a cultural experience that actually involves you interacting more than superficially with the natives, go somewhere else.

To the Director of Humanities: You are CLUELESS on this matter. Hopelessly CLUELESS. But I get it, I really do. It isn't your fault. You've been taught since birth that thinking critically about Danish society or its inhabitants, is forbudt. Forbudt, forbudt, forbudt!!

For the students who want to network with international students (danish included!) and get involved in activities or organize activities and events, I suggest to take a look to the International Student Society of Copenhagen (http://isscopenhagen.wordpress.com), a just born independent no-profit student association, created and run by students, whose main goal is to network students from different faculties and different universities in Copenhagen.