Culture

High living standards, free education, free health care. What’s the catch?

The other day I saw a video of someone extolling the virtues of Greenland’s living standards and free health and education systems over other ‘developed’ nations and I felt a stir of dissent. It is likely that most people probably think the living standard in Greenland is significantly lower than it actually is. Measured using …

Violence, vandalism and general disorder – back to normal?

Greenland has a difficult relationship with alcohol. Thirty years ago, Greenlanders drank more than twice as much alcohol as Danes, resulting in the typical social problems with alcohol abuse. To combat this, higher excises were brought in from the early 90s. Periodically, restrictions have included rationing and reduction in limits of duty free alcohol (at …