>>5232805It is a distain for our lack of colonization.
When the rest of the major European powers were conquering the world, we were preoccupied laying the groundwork for what would later become the most civilized country in the world.
However, this privillege is often lost on modern Danes. The wasted opportunities throughout our history overshadow our domestic accomplishments.
Nowadays, especially in the more colloquial parts of the daily narrative; we are too often focused on how pathetic the last vestiges of our "empire" truly is.