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An American take on the Danish experience
Jun 4, 2006
To follow up on the Danish experience, I thought I'd point to today's NYT piece on Solvang, the California town recently made famous in the movie "Sideways." It's a faux Danish village, one of the first faux European villages built in the US (I saw several in my 2001-02 road trip).
There's something very American about accepting, indeed physically transporting, the best parts of a foreign culture onto US soil... while mixing in lots of plastic throughout.
Solvang (Danish for "sunny field") is an incongruously situated quaint Danish village with enough faux half-timbered homes, palaces, towers, gabled roofs and windmills to fill a volume of Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales. Many of the buildings even have plastic storks perched on their roofs, a traditional symbol of luck in Denmark.
