Greenlanders drink less than Danes, but the prejudices portraying Greenlanders as suffering widespread alcohol problems. The recent debate in the Danish media has once again brought the obvious discrimination against and prejudices about Greenlanders to the surface. Derogatory expressions such as "Greenlander drunk stiff," "Greenlandic rolls," "The Greenlandic embassy," and "Greenlandic pubs" appear in the Danish language and simultaneously reveal persistent prejudices about