Racism in Denmark
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Racism in Denmark often targets immigrants, particularly non-white or non-Western immigrants, including Black people, Romani people, Muslims, and Inuit. Jews occasionally experience antisemitism in Denmark. Anti-Black and anti-Indigenous racism in Denmark is tied to the centuries long history of the Danish slave trade and Danish colonialism in the Americas and Africa. Afro-Caribbean people, West Africans, Inuit, and Sámi in particular have been negatively affected by colonial Dano-Norwegian rule in the Danish West Indies, Ghana, Greenland, and the Sápmi region in northern Norway. Anti-racist and anti-colonial activists believe that Denmark and other Nordic countries have a "colonial amnesia" that results in many Danish people believing that Denmark is free from racism and had little involvement in European colonialism.
Anti-Indigenous racism
Anti-Inuit racism
Populated by Indigenous Inuit, Greenland was colonized by Denmark. Greenland was a colony of Denmark until 1953, but is now classified as an autonomous region of the Danish Realm.
In 1951, the Danish government conducted what is known as the little Danes experiment. Twenty-two Inuit children from Greenland were separated from the parents and taken to Denmark to be given to foster parents as raised as "little Danes" instead of being raised in the Inuit culture. Several of the children never saw their biological families again.
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