A Danish author, I don’t remember who, wrote that we are a tribe, as much as any tribe of Africa.

There are effects of temperament and culture, calmness and an admiration of organisation, the small popuation, the winter and so on.

The institutions have varied wildly over the past century. (German occupation strengthened asabiyah, so did a bad institution strengthen society?). But Denmark was Denmark before the welfare state.

You can’t replicate Denmark without Danes.