Comments on: More Danish Freedom

By: Someone

Someone — Thu, 28 May 2009 17:47:01 +0000

Hi, WJ,

The two countries for which Danes need no visa are Niger and Vietnam. They don't need a visa for Brazil either, but they need a visa for Mongolia and Equatorial Guinea (ProjectVisa.com says only US citizens can travel visa-free to this African country), so it is not a perfect overlap.

By: Someone

Someone — Thu, 28 May 2009 17:42:16 +0000

Hi, WJ,

The two countries for which Danes need no visa are Niger and Vietnam. Swedes don't need a visa for Vietnam either.

But, US citizens can travel visa-free to Mongolia and, according to ProjectVisa.com, they are the only foreigners who can travel visa-free to Equatorial Guinea.

Like US citizens, Germans (I am one) can travel visa-free to 155 countries, including Brazil, for which US citizens need a visa.

By: Someone

Someone — Thu, 28 May 2009 10:47:01 +0000

By: Someone

Someone — Thu, 28 May 2009 10:42:16 +0000

By: goabroad

goabroad — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:55:18 +0000

very informative post, thanks for sharing

By: Joe R.

Joe R. — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 05:46:48 +0000

I'm less bothered by the fact that I need a visa for a few countries (which usually involves an application and a fee) than I am by the fact there are certain countries that I cannot visit at all. Near-total bans seem to be an American specialty.

By: Cordelia

Cordelia — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 05:33:27 +0000

T Man – Get your history right! The second world war in Europe was fought primarily by the UK and USSR. The US got in when half the war was already over. Not to save innocent Danes, but because it was upset that it's harbour in Hawaii had been attacked… Nobody in Denmark considers the US to be its saviour. Apart from that particular decade, relations between Germany and Denmark are great.
Danes already speak good German as a second language..

I am neither Danish, nor German, just a European who got taught the facts rather than the glofiied pro-US version of history!

By: Carsten

Carsten — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 20:30:38 +0000

And the idea that the globe has free travel because of US military spending occurs to me as weird, or at least about 20 years outdated.

When will Americans ever understand that it is not the size of your gun, but the moral persuasion of your ideas which matter?

By: Carsten

Carsten — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 20:24:01 +0000

T Man,

The Cold war ended in 1989.

Im a Dane. Do you have any idea which country in the world has suffered most casualties per capita in Afghanistan. You get one guess. Now go to Helmand and shut up.

By: Carsten

Carsten — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 20:19:59 +0000

And the interesting part is that Brazil have a policy of reciprocal visas. Because they are annoyed the US requies visas for Brazilians they do so for Americans. If the US wants to get to the top of the list, some paranoid homeland security legislation has to change. Somehow I doubt it will.

A Dane

By: mrputter

mrputter — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:26:44 +0000

> the Federated States of

Bah. Nevermind, I totally misunderstood that page.

By: mrputter

mrputter — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:22:12 +0000

> What countries have an agreement with the USA but not Canada, I wonder.

Well, the Federated States of Micronesia, for one.
http://www.fsmembassydc.org/visa.htm

By: T Man

T Man — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:16:55 +0000

I'm just trying to follow Will's argument to its logical conclusion. If the US were to become more like Denmark and spend a little bit over 1% of GDP on defense, it seems to me that the global freedom to travel would be much limited.

By: todd

todd — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 13:15:47 +0000

no reason to turn this blog into a linguistics forum, but english is a germanic language, which comes from middle english, which comes from old english, which comes from a proto-german language group. english, qualitatively, is most closely related to dutch among modern languages. the vocabulary of the romance languages (latin, french, et al….) came hundreds of years after old english was established, mostly after 1066.

danish, like all scandinavian languages is also a germanic language.

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