In 1978-9 I was living and studying in Denmark. But in 1978 – even in Copenhagen, one didn't see Muslim
immigrants. The Danish population embraced visitors, celebrated the exotic, went out of its way to protect each
of its citizens. It was proud of its new brand of socialist liberalism won in development since the conservatives
had lost power in 1929 - a system where no worker had to struggle to survive, where one ultimately could count
upon the state as in, perhaps, no other western nation at the time.