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Stupid sexy Danes. This'll show em for not wallowing in filth.
Note: many accounts from Native Americans circa 1500CE describe Europeans as being absolutely disgusting, stinky, pockmarked, dirty savages.
One of the dismissals from natives to Portuguese colonizers was “go bathe”. It’s still used to this day in Brazil when you’re fed up with someone’s antics.
The Aztecs, it's said, would follow Cortés and his soldiers with burning incense to mask their smell (though that might be hearsay).