Entre Sofie y Tovelille. Las escuelas de la comunidad danesa frente al problema de la identidad nacional de las generaciones nacidas en la Argentina (1886-1930)

Abstract

This study examines certain aspects of the process of adaptation to a new society faced by a north European ethnic group: Danish settlers in rural districts of the central-southern province of Buenos Aires, The author attempts to analizae the influence among Danes in Argentina of a religious movement, widely extended in Denmark in the last three decades of the nineteenth century, which aimed to revive Danish nationalism after the defeat during the war against Pussia in 1864. The Danish Lutheran Evangelical Church in Argentina tried to maintain the religious and national identity of these inmigrats, and encouraged community schools to create a double national identity, by the preservation and propagation of the social and cultural values of Danish national iconography among successive generations born in Argentina.