Lisa/Anders - Ninja Transvestit Danmark
Hygge
Among the many intriguing little curious things about Denmark, we learn that we danes have over many centuries developed skills, ways and means, to nurture and improve one of our rare cultural habits called ”At hygge sig”.- (To "hygge" oneself)
This concept ”hygge” does not exist other places in the know universe, which will prove and explain any attempt to translate it futile.
Hygge is very important to danes. It sort of defines a dane and often a dane abroad can recognize a fellow countryman alone on the specfic way they ”hygger” them self.
Children coming home from visiting friends on an ordinary day in Denmark would typically be asked immediately after entering the door if -> ..the visit was ”hyggeligt”? - Answering "Yes" would be greated with a smile, where as answering ”No” would raise immediate suspicion.
The same thing would happen even after a VERY suspicious husband has been sitting up all night, waiting for his wife to come home from the yearly christmas party at work. Even though only one question would be on his mind and even though he would be DYING to ask it, danish tradition roots so deep that even in this stressed situation, our relationship with the hygge is so fundamental that he would as the first thing ask her if ->”..the party was ”hyggeligt”?
Obviously you look at this picture thinking how on earth this picture can illustrate what hygge is ”and..” you think to yourself ”perhaps it is something to do with.. with.. nice!?” - Now you are beginning to think like a dane ;o) But nice.. is just nice. Hygge SEEM nice at first, but then it creep up on you and suddenly you realize calling hygge for ”nice”, is like.. calling T-girls for ”Tomboys”. No, it takes years of intensive study and close immersion into danish society to understand but the upper layers of the deep sea one will find Hygge to be, when first one has broken through the soft surface of what would at first admitted, appear to be ”just” nice. But in depth to understand the many layers of the hygge, to absorb and fully grasp the introspective dimensions of the concept, one will have to study the hygge so closely among danes and throughout such long periods of time, that when one finally wake up one morning truly understanding the hygge. One would find one self... to have become.. A dane.
Hygge
Among the many intriguing little curious things about Denmark, we learn that we danes have over many centuries developed skills, ways and means, to nurture and improve one of our rare cultural habits called ”At hygge sig”.- (To "hygge" oneself)
This concept ”hygge” does not exist other places in the know universe, which will prove and explain any attempt to translate it futile.
Hygge is very important to danes. It sort of defines a dane and often a dane abroad can recognize a fellow countryman alone on the specfic way they ”hygger” them self.
Children coming home from visiting friends on an ordinary day in Denmark would typically be asked immediately after entering the door if -> ..the visit was ”hyggeligt”? - Answering "Yes" would be greated with a smile, where as answering ”No” would raise immediate suspicion.
The same thing would happen even after a VERY suspicious husband has been sitting up all night, waiting for his wife to come home from the yearly christmas party at work. Even though only one question would be on his mind and even though he would be DYING to ask it, danish tradition roots so deep that even in this stressed situation, our relationship with the hygge is so fundamental that he would as the first thing ask her if ->”..the party was ”hyggeligt”?
Obviously you look at this picture thinking how on earth this picture can illustrate what hygge is ”and..” you think to yourself ”perhaps it is something to do with.. with.. nice!?” - Now you are beginning to think like a dane ;o) But nice.. is just nice. Hygge SEEM nice at first, but then it creep up on you and suddenly you realize calling hygge for ”nice”, is like.. calling T-girls for ”Tomboys”. No, it takes years of intensive study and close immersion into danish society to understand but the upper layers of the deep sea one will find Hygge to be, when first one has broken through the soft surface of what would at first admitted, appear to be ”just” nice. But in depth to understand the many layers of the hygge, to absorb and fully grasp the introspective dimensions of the concept, one will have to study the hygge so closely among danes and throughout such long periods of time, that when one finally wake up one morning truly understanding the hygge. One would find one self... to have become.. A dane.