Danes not always welcome - in Denmark :(

Danes are not always welcome in Denmark! Especially if they have lived for some years abroad. A very strange tradition. We just received the regular magazine publisked by the organisation "DANES WORLDWIDE". In each issue it presents concrete cases. Young people who come back with exams from other countries and are often not accepted at Danish Universities. We even know a case where a young Danish lady student after rejection at the University in Copenhagen was immediately accepted at the University of Cambridge But we haven't only to read about it. Most Danes living abroad can tell many personal stories about it. People who come back from working abroad, also for ministries, are very often looked at with great suspicion by their new colleagues. And normally they have to start working at a lower level than their experience would entitle them to. When Danes from abroad visit friends and family in Denmark it is very rare that anybody (apart from the very closest relatives) asks questions about life abroad. You can go to parties after parties - without having a single question about how you are "out there". This is not a personal complaint. But a serious question about what's behind all this! We "Danish foreigners" have often discussed it. But without finding a solution. Perhaps Danes living in Denmark is SO much an inward-looking TRIBE that the surrounding world by definition is without much interest. Perhaps. I wonder, if other people living outside their home country sometimes feel the same??