Culture

Should I choose expensive, rude, and absent, or expensive, unsafe, and insecure?

We were getting sick of having our boat in the main marina in Nuuk. The draconian rules were designed to take advantage of every opportunity to squeeze more extortionate fees out of boat owners. Any change of ownership, common here where friends often co-own boats, required payment of a new full registration fee of about …

How is your lunch?

*Photograph by Hans Peter Kleemann . Child abuse. It’s not a subject most people want to talk about. And certainly not at the up-beat, pro-business Future Greenland conference, which brought about four hundred and fifty participants to Nuuk last week. There’s enormous interest in the future of Greenland. From long-time allies like the Americans, to …

Celebrating diversity in Nuuk

The multicultural festival in Nuuk this week seems like a good time to think about embracing diversity. There were activities involving food, art, and culture to celebrate Nuuk’s limited diversity. It’s needed. Since we moved to Greenland from Australia, I have noticed a marked change in my young son’s attitude toward foreigners. He notices people …