I wasn't born in Denmark, I don't have a danish passport nor do I speak much danish or let alone have danish roots. But I do live in Denmark, I go to a danish school, I have danish friends and I am learning the language along with other danish customns and traditions. After a whole year here will I be able to claim a danish identity?! Or is it unachievable for me simply because I wasn't born here. The government currently reconizes me as a temporary citizen of Denmark. Like all other danish citizens I'm covered by the health care system, my schooling is payed for, I have a CPR number and I have a residents permit. I myself don't identify as a Dane; I'm a Canadien. I'm the daughter of a french and a german immigrant but despite my roots I identify as a Canadien because it is the country I grew up in and have come to love. My parents also identify as canadien despite having grown up in Europe because they say 'Canada is where there heart is now'. That being said, if I fully embraced Denmarks customs, traditions and cultures, speak fluent danish and truly fall in love with the country, all by the end of the year would it be correct for me to say I'm a Dane?