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What you talk about, concerning "trust in the Danish society", is clearly a cultural matter. And, as I highlighted in the other comment, cultures neither coincide with countries, nor they should.
We could spend weeks discussing what to "meaningfully affect someone else" entails, but that would be pushing a boundary line back and forth between points of a gradient, to force a conclusion for either side. (That's always a problem when trying to handle quantitative matters with qualitative labels.)
However: no matter where you put that line, it won't coincide with the country, because some people from other countries affect you more than some people from the same country as you. Perhaps because they're shaping what you think, perhaps because they have political power (even over other countries than yours), so goes on. (The opposite is also true - you're likely affecting far some people from other countries than some other people from within your country.)
If I may be honest, the argumentation that you're using is mostly the same as I've seen coming from other people. It is not a matter of "lack of understanding", but disagreement.
I think that's very reductionist. Countries clearly have a large influence on culture and culture often forms around countries as people in a country share borders and law and politics and all that.
Anyways, we can agree to disagree if you insist. I do think you're being slightly closed-minded in this case though, but it's not a big deal.
To influence is not the same as to dictate. And the ways that a country influences culture of its citizens are, most of the time, shitty - cue to the linked example of Vergonha. (It's actually a mild example, when you remember that massacres are a damn efficient way to have "a large influence on culture".)
And, sure, there are even milder versions of that. And considerably less efficient.
And it forms also across the borders too, to such an extent that "we have the same head of state" and "we're subjected to the same laws" become just a drop in an ocean. Food gets shared, people learn each other's languages (or make a contact language in the spot, that eventually is passed to their children), fashion and architectural trends get mimicked... even the laws get mimicked. Or they simply are born in a place and move 5km next door, and that happens to be the other country already.
Of course, as long as the countries aren't artificially trying to prevent that from happening.
I don't think that I'm being closed-minded, but that I'm taking more things into account than you are.