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The Danish nation is to be distinguished from the legal concept of nationality, Danish nationals; i.e. persons fully subjected to Danish law.
The Danish nation consists, in theory, of all people the other members see as members.
In practice, it is a way to cover Danes in Denmark and in the formerly Danish Duchy of Schleswig by the same term.
Excluded are people from the formerly Norwegian Faroe Islands and Greenland.
The term can today also be heard in right-wing and populist rhetoric, often conveying anti-Muslim and anti-immigrantAnti-immigrant and anti-immigration are labels that are often considered inaccurate or prejudicial by those to whom they are applied. Immigration reductionist is a more neutral term. The distinction is that the term anti-immigrant implies xenophobia, nati sentiments.
Germanic peoplesThe term Germanic peoples may refer to: the Germanic tribes that in the first millennium were seen as a barbarian threat by the Roman Empire and its successors; the Germanic Christianity that in the second millennium came to dominate much of Northern Euro