Hi harfna I follow all your videos and loved all of them, I love and obsessed with your country and already been there twice. I would like to know what I have to do to become a permanent resident there I am single and a US citizen thanks
Hrafna! 😃 I am watching “Down to earth with Zac Efron” on Netflix and in the first episode they are making rye bread in Iceland 🇮🇸 in the sand! Is this done where you live too!?
I'm almost positive that the cutsie elf-loving stereotype comes from Björk. For a very long time in the United States, Björk was the only point of reference for Iceland for us lol We'd really benefit from seeing more of the world lol
I was just about to say the same exact thing. I think that stereotype is 100% Bjork, whose name I just recently realized I've been pronouncing incorrectly.
Yep, reckon so - and the Viking woman stereotype comes from the 3 Icelandic women who have dominated women's Crossfit championships for the past decade or so. Annie Thorisdottir has a deserved reputation for having an iron will, that started when she was a little girl & her grandfather dared her to go lie in the waves on the beach when it was *freezing*. She did, and didn't give up or get out till her granddad got her out.
@@keptins Probably true, but that's kind of the context that comes up when you hear about her in the USA. Bjork! Goofy outfits! Iceland! Land of elves and really gentle, friendly, quirky people!
I think compared to other countries, Iceland can be really lucky about their stereotypes (the stereotypes are not as offending)... coming from a German.😅
Let's see, German stereotypes... hard work, punctuality, intelligence, engineering - that all sounds pretty good. The bad ones are "cold, unemotional, with a harsh language" Overall Deutschland doesn't have a bad mix either.
High Ground Productions but these are not the ones that most Americans think of. Most Americans still think Germany is a dictatorship etc. And the „cold“ and „unemotional“ part is actually true😂 I think it’s not a bad character trade tho.
@@linajurgensen4698 I've never heard even the most ignorant Americans I know they say that Germany is still in a dictatorship. I live in a pretty ignorant part of the country, and I have never heard that stereotype. I think there is still an association between Germany and Nazism, but Americans don't think that Germany is still under Nazi dictatorship, it's more of a word association thing. In fact Americans are more likely to make the socialist association because of the NSDAP, but we're not super smart about socialism in general so, there's that lol
Linda Jürgensen well, as an American in the Midwest, we don’t see your country as a dictatorship currently. Rather the first thing we think of when we think of Germany is the Nazi ideology, which I admit is not too much better. 😅 Personally, I know Germans have tried their damnest to shed their Nazi past and hate when foreigners ask questions/tease about Nazis because it’s such redundant question or teasing.
In sense8, the bast majority of the actors that play the main characters are actually from the country they are playing in... I never understood why they chose a British actress instead of picking a truly icelandic actress to play 'Riley'
@@ylfawh3336 yeah, I also never got the whole 'Riley name' thing, I mean... That name is so Anglo, the only icelandic about her was her last name Guðmundsdóttir I think.
@@ylfawh3336 The point of the name was that her father (classical musician) really loved the song "Baba O'riley" by The Who and decided to name his daughter Riley because of it. He sang this song to her since she was very little and it kinda comes back as a theme in their relationship.
My favorite Icelandic stereotype is a people that jailed corrupt bankers who collapsed the nations financial sector. Oh wait, that's not a stereotype, that 's just brilliance.
I can't help but agree. As an American millennial my first introduction to an Icelandic female, or even an icelander for that matter was björk in early middle school. However, she did inspire me to write a middle school geography paper about iceland and spawned a fascination with the beautiful "wild" nation.
She's the first thing I think about when I hear the world "Iceland" tbh. And when I hear her speak I don't know if I should find it cute or just downright funny. She's a legend tho.
It kinda seems like "[insert nationality] girl fetish" exists for every realatively small country that is "remote" and "exotic" from the anglosphere's perspective. Or why not "x guy fetish" as well in some cases
The country doesn't need to be small, it can even be a bunch of countries placed together, for example, there exists a fetish for latino people and we are "remote" and "exotic" from the anglosphere's perspective but we are a lot of people and Latinoamerica is huge.
@@QuantumPandita the fetishes happen even inside Latin America. I've seen lots of Brazilian women receiving ridiculous messages on social medias from Latin guys.
Well, she did drop the mansplaining trope, so you already have an idea where she's coming from and where her biases lie Best to ignore people like that
Well, Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson is happily married since 2018 so the lasses will have to cool it if they have the hots for the Mountain, but I daresay there are a few other big guys there.
everyone: "omg you cant just make stereotypes and expect them to be true" me when i see a stereotype of my country:" i have never seen such a hurtful truth"
Sigur Rós was one of my favorite bands in high school! Glad to see them in your famous Icelandic people. (I also like Bjork and Of Monsters and Men). Next time you make a "How to Pronounce" video, can you do Sigur Rós?
I think he replied in icelandic on the Walter Mitty one because he was panicking about the situation and not thinking it through properly, this was just before the eruption if I remember correctly and they were evacuating the area.
I love Iceland so much, I travel there once a year (fingers crossed its possible this year ...) - but I hate it, when people a stereotyped. On all travel-websites or the facebook groups I am in, its always the same: Icelanders are soo nice, never angry, always happy, more chilled than mid-Europeans. To me this is mostly bullshit. Icelanders are normal people, of course they are nice to their guests, like every other nation is. But there I also met quit impatient Icelanders. Its like saying, all Germans are super accurate, or all Dutch are stoned... To me, it doesnt make a difference, from which nation you are from. Just be nice and treat others with respect ...
It's only been in the last couple years I've really gotten to know much about Iceland and its culture. You seem like a unique and wonderful people and at the top of my bucket list is my wish to visit your country someday
You got me with “this necklace represent the largest glacier here” I want it 😭 it’s so cute 🥰 I MEAN WHO DOES THAT ???? “This is my favorite chunk of ice so I made it into jewelry”
Lol I know how the lopapeysa thing can get a little annoying. In my country those sweaters aren't even a thing amongst the locals nor have they ever been but these sweaters with colorful Andean designs around the collar and chest are sold as "traditional" and almost every foreigner in the city walks around wearing one of those sweaters.
If I am coach right, perhaps I can do much better. I believe I understand a little better from the first two videos. If I am direct correctly I can accomplish and get a he job done and everyone will be happy
This is super interesting! It definitely is in keeping with a lot of the stereotypes of women where we can only be one of two ways, either very demure and quiet or loud and brash. It's very interesting to see how this applies to the case of Icelandic women in particular and I see some similarities with how I feel I can be stereotyped as a Latina, so I feel so much empathy for the feeling of being forced into a box, so to speak. While our communities may have very different histories and contexts, there are some experiences of womanhood that are so common. Thanks for your perspective, Hrafna!
Can’t wait to see this❣️Our first trip to Iceland had to be postponed from this fall to next year. So YOU are our vicarious trip to Iceland in the meanwhile 🙂 Thanks, Hrafna!
Oh, I would love to see a Video on Icelandic sayings. I am learning Icelandic, and sometimes those are really funny. For example: Rúsínan í Pylsuendanum - it took me really long, to translate and understand it :-D
Haha, I think that's the same saying as in Danish: Rosinen i pølseenden/ Raisin in the sausage-end. Basically meaning: "the very last one" (and sometimes also best/important) of something or someone 🙂
I watched Sense8 for a bit. It had a great concept that had the potential to ask deep and meaningful psychological questions. Instead it became obsessed with sex, homosexuality and transgendered prejudices. I don't mind that those topics are covered, I do mind when it overrides the plot of the story. The relentless not-so-well-hidden agenda killed it for me. That and the cheesy/cringey dialogue.
Very interesting and all, but can we take a moment to appreciate her eyes? Idk what you did with makeup and lighting but in this video your eyes pop so much and look so pretty. Wow. P. S. Didn't know about the fetish thing. Apparently foreigner men from all over the world fetishize whatever ethnicity and try to find this magical innocent fairy-tale woman lol (eg. Japanese, Korean, for Asian people sometimes American women are seen as submissive and soft etc.).
Random Artist I have to say, I don’t know of ANY Americans who think that of our country’s women. Maybe some others around the world do, but...we have to live with them, and it is a rare thing, indeed, to find any such creature in the U.S., anymore. That might be why some here find certain foreign women, right or wrong, more attractive, as some ideal they might have largely created in their own heads.
Hrafna! 😃 I am watching “Down to earth with Zac Efron” on Netflix and in the first episode they are making rye bread in Iceland 🇮🇸 in the sand! Is this done where you live too!?
I think it would be a lovely idea if you started some kind of series where you do some sort of activity (visiting some part of the country maybe?). I think it would help the channel to diversify and grow
What is with People thinking that all languages sound Harsh if it's not english? I think Iclandic sounds cool, not really harsh at all. :D I have like zero Stereotypes for Icland. Ok maybe one, are you guys having Trees? xD Cause I saw a Song Video and there where no Trees. 🤔 Weird that I think of Vikings kinda more of Norway haha but Icland would count in that too I think xD
I could be wrong, but hasn't Bjork kind of disseminated the ditzy elvish Icelandic girl stereotype? even though she is very strong, smart and talented, sometimes I think she plays the character of elvish girl....
I didn't see your comment until just now (otherwise I wouldn't have made my comment LOL), but I totally agree with this. Björk is definitely the reason for the stereotype IMO
I agree that it comes from Björk. I don't recall seeing enough of her specifically to know if that's how she comes across (other than the infamous swan dress) or if it's just one small thing that got amped up for comedic reasons when people impersonated her. But either way, I think that's the source.
@@electricia I think she was known for having a very high-pitched/affected voice when she spoke on English, and I think there was an interview of her talking about like the elves or something in Iceland, which probably was misconstrued or extrapolated to an extreme degree. She definitely had a Persona here in America, it would be interesting to see if she also had that Persona in Iceland.
I don't know where the "super bubbly" stereotype for Icelandic (and to a lesser extent, Scandinavians in general) came from for a fact, but I have a hypothesis. In America, the state of Minnesota (and the northern Midwest in general) has a high concentration of descendants of Scandinavian immigrants. We have an associated stereotype of "Minnesota Nice," where we're perceived as genial, kind, friendly (perhaps overly so), and potentially just a bit thick (being unaware, for example, that being so uncommonly nice is creeping out people not used to it). Now, this does have some basis in fact: we are pretty friendly and polite as a rule, but we can be just as rude as anyone else in the right or wrong circumstances, and there's a tinge of passive-aggressiveness to it, especially if we're rankled. So as this relates to stereotypes of Scandinavians, I think that, perhaps, if American writers are unfamiliar with Scandinavian people enough to stereotype them, they presume that they'd be like northern Midwesterners only more so, and so exaggerate "Minnesota Nice" into upbeat, bubbly insanity. Anyway, that's my best guess. I could easily be wrong.
IGF ... lol ... if that bothers them, then they have a lot of free time on their hands. Most people on planet earth would be complimented to be considered attractive. Having to be a mindreader and pretend to know the inner workings of a person's mind so you can judge them as a person who fetishizes .. which is very judgmental ... just seems like their life is so free of stress and concern that they are inventing things to worry about.
Interesting!! I thought there was only the Viking stereotype!🙂 Here in Canada there's so much stereotypes with the first nations(native American) even if we live so close. Sad!
Love your vids and reactions, but honestly the white circle in ur eyes, damn, i can't focus on the vid or what ur saying i keep looking at it, seems like an editing issue.
Stereotypes are only that. Stereotypes. American films and series are full of stereotypes about other nations. They can’t help poking fun at other cultures. You should get usted it like the rest of the world 😂. However, I do think people should be more knowledgeable about countries and its traditions.
I'm scrolling through the comments and laughing, because this is the first time I haven't seen a bunch of creepy guys telling you how beautiful you are 🤣
That's funny. We are a sexually reproducing species so the attraction between men and women is hardwired into us. Yet men who find women attractive are accused of being creepy. This is hilarious and anti-science.
Hrafna, "Walter Mitty" is such a cute film. Hope you've seen the whole thing. I'm a sucker for films where nice, ordinary people wind up together. And as usual you did a good job on your episode.
What’s the best program to learn Icelandic online? I was born on the old navy base in Keflavik back in 94, and I’d like to actually learn the language !
As a Taiwanese, we do not have much stereotypes of Iceland but incredibly beautiful landscapes and people. Probably that's why I enjoyed all plots about Iceland in movies.
Did'nt know igf was a thing😡never thought of you that way, hope to hear you speaking my favorite language again soon. Love this vid as alway's be waiting for next one.🖤🖤🇮🇸🇮🇸
Icelandic people are so few and rare that they are the unicorns of the world. Most peolple have nerver met a real person from Iceland wich of course makes them a fairytale people surrounded by myths and wierd expectations
A thing I have noticed about Icelandic people speaking English is that they keep pronouncing V as a W and sometimes W as a V, for example Wiking, like you also say at 6:02. Interestingly, Germans do the same thing.
I just came from a week in Iceland and Icelanders told me that the people are quite racist (especially about Poles) and also that they love their country A LOT. So what do you think about it? Btw..the Icelanders I got to know where one of the nicest people I've ever met and we described their personality as 'pure' being good to everyone. And Iceland is an astonishing country! Definitely have to come back. Love from the Czech Rep.❤
Hrafna I have no idea what personality types and character types make a stereotype Icelanders I live here in the United States and I have very little contact with people from Iceland so you’re going to present to me in this video what you have noticed as Icelandic stereotypes in popular entertainment just an education for me
Hrafna, I recommend you watch Sense8, particularly the first season as Riley and Iceland gets a lot of coverage. There are scenes set and filmed in Iceland. It would be interesting to hear your reaction when you've seen more.
If she says, in the interview, that she watched a lot of things on RUclips to prepare for the roll, I have to believe one of those was Hrafna's videos.
One of Sheffield Wednesday Football Club best player's was from Iceland his name was Sigurður Jónsson played for us way back in 1984 till 1989 great footballer, not many could beat Sigurður Jónsson.
Walter Mitty is one of my fave movies! If you do another one of these videos can you please talk about the scene where he trades stretch Armstrong for a skateboard? 😂
"I don't know where that stereotype [of women being soft spoken and elf-like] came from." I mean, you're aware that most Americans and Brits immediately think of Björk when thinking of Icelandic women, right? All the actresses are just doing impressions of her
Hello, Hrafna! I just recall this : ruclips.net/video/uhE_zYc5RSY/видео.html (I haven't seen the whole episode) and I wondered if you find it funny (I do!!! :-)
I don't really get this because YOU personally contributed to the icelandic stereotypes by helping make the video "dating an icelandic girl". SOOO many men fetishized icelandic women because they're under the impression from that video and that they sleep with everyone...sigh.
I live in a city that has a larger population (518,012 as of 2019) than the whole county of Iceland. Multiple ethnicity's. No stereotypes from me. I accept people for who they are and love them for it.
Ya I think the "ethnicity women fetish" problem is just a men having weird nationality fetishes. I remember going to Korea, Germany and Italy and all the guys kept on trying to get us to talk to them in English and they clearly thought we (as women from United States), were basically extremely liberal, rainbow hair dying, attractive women just based on where we came from. I personally don't understand it
Hello, I like the Icelandic sweaters 100% natural wool like they should be made.😯 all I come across are the part wool and the rest.synthetic materials which is harmful to our environment.😯😩
Fuck, I think I'll just not speak to Icelandic woman. Don't want to be hated any more for being an American from the southern part of the USA, I am out lol.
I have a lopapeysa I bought from Iceland. I found a charming little store Thorvaldsens Bazar. The sweetest old ladies helped me pick out the right one just for me. Besides paying the ladies who do the knitting and buy the wool, they donate the profits to help woman and children in Iceland.
As for swedish stereotypes; it is true that most swedes are pretty quiet and reserved in our everyday life, and you will see this if you are visiting. But when it comes to hanging out, night life or other types of partying, we go all out. So when there is a foreigner who comes here with an understanding and mature mindset about these stereotypes that they have, we just love to play along and even exaggerate it for them. We like it, and we can laugh at it together. There's really not a lot of things that could offend us and we are actually really friendly, but we like to break the ice with some harsh or dumb methods if that makes any sense. But yeah... swedish life-style in a nutshell; Be reserved and busy - let go when you have the time over.
100%. Many foreigners mistake it for cold-heartedness, but it’s just a big sense of personal privacy and giving others their privacy. The Finns, on the other hand, are very devoid of positive feelings/dreary most of the time.
Let me know if you have more movies/tv shows/skits you want me to react to! Stay safe, be kind ❤
Hi harfna I follow all your videos and loved all of them, I love and obsessed with your country and already been there twice. I would like to know what I have to do to become a permanent resident there I am single and a US citizen thanks
What is your favourite norse story?
Can you review Neil Gaiman's Norse mythology stories for any misinformation?
Hrafna! 😃 I am watching “Down to earth with Zac Efron” on Netflix and in the first episode they are making rye bread in Iceland 🇮🇸 in the sand! Is this done where you live too!?
Hrafna! You never told us in Iceland you don’t have to shovel snow because the roads and sidewalks are heated!?!?!? Wowowow!!!
I’d love for you to react to lazy town 😂
I'm almost positive that the cutsie elf-loving stereotype comes from Björk. For a very long time in the United States, Björk was the only point of reference for Iceland for us lol We'd really benefit from seeing more of the world lol
I was just about to say the same exact thing. I think that stereotype is 100% Bjork, whose name I just recently realized I've been pronouncing incorrectly.
Yep, reckon so - and the Viking woman stereotype comes from the 3 Icelandic women who have dominated women's Crossfit championships for the past decade or so. Annie Thorisdottir has a deserved reputation for having an iron will, that started when she was a little girl & her grandfather dared her to go lie in the waves on the beach when it was *freezing*. She did, and didn't give up or get out till her granddad got her out.
100% comes from Björk. A very whimsical sounding and soft version of the accent that you don't really hear with other Icelandic speakers.
Björk is hardly a cute elf.loving woman though.
@@keptins Probably true, but that's kind of the context that comes up when you hear about her in the USA. Bjork! Goofy outfits! Iceland! Land of elves and really gentle, friendly, quirky people!
I think compared to other countries, Iceland can be really lucky about their stereotypes (the stereotypes are not as offending)... coming from a German.😅
Let's see, German stereotypes... hard work, punctuality, intelligence, engineering - that all sounds pretty good.
The bad ones are "cold, unemotional, with a harsh language"
Overall Deutschland doesn't have a bad mix either.
High Ground Productions but these are not the ones that most Americans think of. Most Americans still think Germany is a dictatorship etc.
And the „cold“ and „unemotional“ part is actually true😂 I think it’s not a bad character trade tho.
@@linajurgensen4698 I've never heard even the most ignorant Americans I know they say that Germany is still in a dictatorship. I live in a pretty ignorant part of the country, and I have never heard that stereotype. I think there is still an association between Germany and Nazism, but Americans don't think that Germany is still under Nazi dictatorship, it's more of a word association thing. In fact Americans are more likely to make the socialist association because of the NSDAP, but we're not super smart about socialism in general so, there's that lol
Linda Jürgensen well, as an American in the Midwest, we don’t see your country as a dictatorship currently. Rather the first thing we think of when we think of Germany is the Nazi ideology, which I admit is not too much better. 😅 Personally, I know Germans have tried their damnest to shed their Nazi past and hate when foreigners ask questions/tease about Nazis because it’s such redundant question or teasing.
At least you have stereotypes about yourselves. When I say I'm from Austria I either hear "Kangaroos?" or "I've never heard of that".
In sense8, the bast majority of the actors that play the main characters are actually from the country they are playing in... I never understood why they chose a British actress instead of picking a truly icelandic actress to play 'Riley'
Erick Candell I havent watched the show but I also dont get why she was named Riley, like thats not an Icelandic name at all. Idk I find it weird
@@ylfawh3336 yeah, I also never got the whole 'Riley name' thing, I mean... That name is so Anglo, the only icelandic about her was her last name Guðmundsdóttir I think.
Erick Candell Yeah it would be much more realistic if she had an Icelandic name
Oh okay, didn't know that! Would have been super cool to see an Icelandic actress play Riley!
@@ylfawh3336 The point of the name was that her father (classical musician) really loved the song "Baba O'riley" by The Who and decided to name his daughter Riley because of it. He sang this song to her since she was very little and it kinda comes back as a theme in their relationship.
My favorite Icelandic stereotype is a people that jailed corrupt bankers who collapsed the nations financial sector. Oh wait, that's not a stereotype, that 's just brilliance.
As an Italian, who also speaks English and German, Icelandic doesn't sound that harsh... it actually sounds very melodic :)
Being German I agree... German is harsh...
From an American's perspective I think the naive, innocent, Elvish stereotype came from Björk.
I can't help but agree. As an American millennial my first introduction to an Icelandic female, or even an icelander for that matter was björk in early middle school. However, she did inspire me to write a middle school geography paper about iceland and spawned a fascination with the beautiful "wild" nation.
Yup. Was just going to comment on this.
She's the first thing I think about when I hear the world "Iceland" tbh. And when I hear her speak I don't know if I should find it cute or just downright funny. She's a legend tho.
Fabrício Soares Just don’t attempt to talk to her in an airport, lol.
@@jonp3890 Why, what happens when you talk to her in an airport?
It kinda seems like "[insert nationality] girl fetish" exists for every realatively small country that is "remote" and "exotic" from the anglosphere's perspective. Or why not "x guy fetish" as well in some cases
The country doesn't need to be small, it can even be a bunch of countries placed together, for example, there exists a fetish for latino people and we are "remote" and "exotic" from the anglosphere's perspective but we are a lot of people and Latinoamerica is huge.
@@QuantumPandita the fetishes happen even inside Latin America. I've seen lots of Brazilian women receiving ridiculous messages on social medias from Latin guys.
Well, she did drop the mansplaining trope, so you already have an idea where she's coming from and where her biases lie
Best to ignore people like that
@@z0phi3l wat
Well, Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson is happily married since 2018 so the lasses will have to cool it if they have the hots for the Mountain, but I daresay there are a few other big guys there.
Mighty Ducks 2 - Team Iceland are the big “bad” guys lol
Oh I have to check that out! 👀
Hrafna, I REALLY wanna know what you think of D2
"Greenland a covered in ice, and Iceland is very nice".
YES!! This would be an awesome reaction video... I mean Iceland being both evil and being the best in the world at ice hockey? 🤪 Come on!
everyone: "omg you cant just make stereotypes and expect them to be true"
me when i see a stereotype of my country:" i have never seen such a hurtful truth"
Sigur Rós was one of my favorite bands in high school! Glad to see them in your famous Icelandic people. (I also like Bjork and Of Monsters and Men). Next time you make a "How to Pronounce" video, can you do Sigur Rós?
I think he replied in icelandic on the Walter Mitty one because he was panicking about the situation and not thinking it through properly, this was just before the eruption if I remember correctly and they were evacuating the area.
Yes I agree! Just like with the second clip 🙏🏻
Hrafna, what do you think about LazyTown?
I def want to see a vid on that.
I love Iceland so much, I travel there once a year (fingers crossed its possible this year ...) - but I hate it, when people a stereotyped. On all travel-websites or the facebook groups I am in, its always the same: Icelanders are soo nice, never angry, always happy, more chilled than mid-Europeans. To me this is mostly bullshit. Icelanders are normal people, of course they are nice to their guests, like every other nation is. But there I also met quit impatient Icelanders. Its like saying, all Germans are super accurate, or all Dutch are stoned... To me, it doesnt make a difference, from which nation you are from. Just be nice and treat others with respect ...
Yeah, Foreigners are weird... everywhere
ᛚᛁᚨᛗ ᛏᛟᚱᛋᛟᚾ makes sense.
First Time i saw you talk or show something about Of Monsters and Man ♥
Sense8 was weird but I loved it. I would definitely say Riley fit that stereotype. Harry styles sounded German to me 😂
It's only been in the last couple years I've really gotten to know much about Iceland and its culture. You seem like a unique and wonderful people and at the top of my bucket list is my wish to visit your country someday
You got me with “this necklace represent the largest glacier here” I want it 😭 it’s so cute 🥰
I MEAN WHO DOES THAT ???? “This is my favorite chunk of ice so I made it into jewelry”
Lol I know how the lopapeysa thing can get a little annoying. In my country those sweaters aren't even a thing amongst the locals nor have they ever been but these sweaters with colorful Andean designs around the collar and chest are sold as "traditional" and almost every foreigner in the city walks around wearing one of those sweaters.
I‘m so happy that you showed the Icelandic Handball team❤️😊
There are many awesome handball players & trainers from Iceland.
If I am coach right, perhaps I can do much better. I believe I understand a little better from the first two videos. If I am direct correctly I can accomplish and get a he job done and everyone will be happy
This is super interesting! It definitely is in keeping with a lot of the stereotypes of women where we can only be one of two ways, either very demure and quiet or loud and brash. It's very interesting to see how this applies to the case of Icelandic women in particular and I see some similarities with how I feel I can be stereotyped as a Latina, so I feel so much empathy for the feeling of being forced into a box, so to speak. While our communities may have very different histories and contexts, there are some experiences of womanhood that are so common. Thanks for your perspective, Hrafna!
Can’t wait to see this❣️Our first trip to Iceland had to be postponed from this fall to next year. So YOU are our vicarious trip to Iceland in the meanwhile 🙂 Thanks, Hrafna!
Oh, I would love to see a Video on Icelandic sayings. I am learning Icelandic, and sometimes those are really funny. For example: Rúsínan í Pylsuendanum - it took me really long, to translate and understand it :-D
Haha, I think that's the same saying as in Danish: Rosinen i pølseenden/ Raisin in the sausage-end. Basically meaning: "the very last one" (and sometimes also best/important) of something or someone 🙂
Sense8 is a great show and deserves to be watched.
I watched Sense8 for a bit. It had a great concept that had the potential to ask deep and meaningful psychological questions. Instead it became obsessed with sex, homosexuality and transgendered prejudices. I don't mind that those topics are covered, I do mind when it overrides the plot of the story. The relentless not-so-well-hidden agenda killed it for me. That and the cheesy/cringey dialogue.
@@SeemsLogical There was no hidden agenda, it's a show about diversity and being on somebody else's shoes.
@@SeemsLogical Sexual diversity needs more representation.
It’s a terrible show
Very interesting and all, but can we take a moment to appreciate her eyes? Idk what you did with makeup and lighting but in this video your eyes pop so much and look so pretty. Wow.
P. S. Didn't know about the fetish thing. Apparently foreigner men from all over the world fetishize whatever ethnicity and try to find this magical innocent fairy-tale woman lol (eg. Japanese, Korean, for Asian people sometimes American women are seen as submissive and soft etc.).
Random Artist I have to say, I don’t know of ANY Americans who think that of our country’s women. Maybe some others around the world do, but...we have to live with them, and it is a rare thing, indeed, to find any such creature in the U.S., anymore. That might be why some here find certain foreign women, right or wrong, more attractive, as some ideal they might have largely created in their own heads.
Hrafna! 😃 I am watching “Down to earth with Zac Efron” on Netflix and in the first episode they are making rye bread in Iceland 🇮🇸 in the sand! Is this done where you live too!?
Hrafna! You never told us in Iceland you don’t have to shovel snow because the roads and sidewalks are heated!?!?!? Wowowow!!!
Not everywhere. Only in certain places where there is a lot of people. You have to shovel snow in plenty of places.
Oh! Thanks for the info
Just after 37 second of upload I watch it
I think it would be a lovely idea if you started some kind of series where you do some sort of activity (visiting some part of the country maybe?). I think it would help the channel to diversify and grow
What is with People thinking that all languages sound Harsh if it's not english? I think Iclandic sounds cool, not really harsh at all. :D I have like zero Stereotypes for Icland. Ok maybe one, are you guys having Trees? xD Cause I saw a Song Video and there where no Trees. 🤔 Weird that I think of Vikings kinda more of Norway haha but Icland would count in that too I think xD
I could be wrong, but hasn't Bjork kind of disseminated the ditzy elvish Icelandic girl stereotype? even though she is very strong, smart and talented, sometimes I think she plays the character of elvish girl....
I didn't see your comment until just now (otherwise I wouldn't have made my comment LOL), but I totally agree with this. Björk is definitely the reason for the stereotype IMO
I agree that it comes from Björk. I don't recall seeing enough of her specifically to know if that's how she comes across (other than the infamous swan dress) or if it's just one small thing that got amped up for comedic reasons when people impersonated her. But either way, I think that's the source.
@@electricia I think she was known for having a very high-pitched/affected voice when she spoke on English, and I think there was an interview of her talking about like the elves or something in Iceland, which probably was misconstrued or extrapolated to an extreme degree. She definitely had a Persona here in America, it would be interesting to see if she also had that Persona in Iceland.
I don't know where the "super bubbly" stereotype for Icelandic (and to a lesser extent, Scandinavians in general) came from for a fact, but I have a hypothesis.
In America, the state of Minnesota (and the northern Midwest in general) has a high concentration of descendants of Scandinavian immigrants. We have an associated stereotype of "Minnesota Nice," where we're perceived as genial, kind, friendly (perhaps overly so), and potentially just a bit thick (being unaware, for example, that being so uncommonly nice is creeping out people not used to it). Now, this does have some basis in fact: we are pretty friendly and polite as a rule, but we can be just as rude as anyone else in the right or wrong circumstances, and there's a tinge of passive-aggressiveness to it, especially if we're rankled. So as this relates to stereotypes of Scandinavians, I think that, perhaps, if American writers are unfamiliar with Scandinavian people enough to stereotype them, they presume that they'd be like northern Midwesterners only more so, and so exaggerate "Minnesota Nice" into upbeat, bubbly insanity.
Anyway, that's my best guess. I could easily be wrong.
Talk about Björk on the next video
IGF ...? That’s hilarious do Icelanders laugh like regular folks idk. Random but answer my other question first Raf
IGF ... lol ... if that bothers them, then they have a lot of free time on their hands. Most people on planet earth would be complimented to be considered attractive. Having to be a mindreader and pretend to know the inner workings of a person's mind so you can judge them as a person who fetishizes .. which is very judgmental ... just seems like their life is so free of stress and concern that they are inventing things to worry about.
Bjork has a lot to do with the stereotype lol
Thank you for your wonderful videos Hrafna! I can't wait to come back to Iceland 😍🇮🇸
Interesting!! I thought there was only the Viking stereotype!🙂 Here in Canada there's so much stereotypes with the first nations(native American) even if we live so close. Sad!
Your hair looks so pretty with the curls! Great video :)
Okay but lip syncing visas are real though right?
Love your vids and reactions, but honestly the white circle in ur eyes, damn, i can't focus on the vid or what ur saying i keep looking at it, seems like an editing issue.
Stereotypes are only that. Stereotypes. American films and series are full of stereotypes about other nations. They can’t help poking fun at other cultures. You should get usted it like the rest of the world 😂. However, I do think people should be more knowledgeable about countries and its traditions.
There's a scene in which Riley says eyjafjallajökull. SHould have included thattt
Yess you did it!!! I really love your Channel Hrafna :P
I'm scrolling through the comments and laughing, because this is the first time I haven't seen a bunch of creepy guys telling you how beautiful you are 🤣
That's funny. We are a sexually reproducing species so the attraction between men and women is hardwired into us. Yet men who find women attractive are accused of being creepy. This is hilarious and anti-science.
Hrafna, "Walter Mitty" is such a cute film. Hope you've seen the whole thing. I'm a sucker for films where nice, ordinary people wind up together. And as usual you did a good job on your episode.
I've seen it a couple of times and I absolutely love it! Such a beautiful film❤
I really appreciate your educational videos. Thank you.
What’s the best program to learn Icelandic online? I was born on the old navy base in Keflavik back in 94, and I’d like to actually learn the language !
As a Taiwanese, we do not have much stereotypes of Iceland but incredibly beautiful landscapes and people. Probably that's why I enjoyed all plots about Iceland in movies.
LOL funny Hrafna funny video I liked this video yes!!!! 👍😅
I love your channel. Thanks for posting
Did'nt know igf was a thing😡never thought of you that way, hope to hear you speaking my favorite language again soon. Love this vid as alway's be waiting for next one.🖤🖤🇮🇸🇮🇸
I think people who speak about IGF have DYG and UTV.
Those wool sweaters have a similar stereotype in Ireland and Scotland lol that people wear them all the time.
Do the local people where them in Ireland and Scotland? I visited those two countries in the summer so I have no way of knowing lol
Can't believe you missed the incest stereotype.
Cuz most people think of America when they think of incest (cuz of the south)
Я люблю твои видео♡
I love your videos
how can stereotypes exist when so many people hardly know Iceland exists
Please list those shows on instagram .
Icelandic people are so few and rare that they are the unicorns of the world. Most peolple have nerver met a real person from Iceland wich of course makes them a fairytale people surrounded by myths and wierd expectations
A thing I have noticed about Icelandic people speaking English is that they keep pronouncing V as a W and sometimes W as a V, for example Wiking, like you also say at 6:02. Interestingly, Germans do the same thing.
But Icelandic and German have the V sound, why does she pronounce Viking as Wiking?
Gorgeous !! im definitely gonna visit iceland one day
How to annoy an Icelander: create a new country and call it "CREAMLAND".
Bruh
You are so cute I don’t even know how you do it
I just came from a week in Iceland and Icelanders told me that the people are quite racist (especially about Poles) and also that they love their country A LOT. So what do you think about it? Btw..the Icelanders I got to know where one of the nicest people I've ever met and we described their personality as 'pure' being good to everyone. And Iceland is an astonishing country! Definitely have to come back. Love from the Czech Rep.❤
First comment . I love Iceland first view . Pray I will soon in Iceland 🙏❤️
Iceland is the only pagan country on earth. There Will not be much praying
@@metalvideos1961 it's ok love 💗💖💙
Iceland is not really religious so nothing for you😉
im icelandic and people call me cute elf girl but i was told since iceland wasnt very known it wouldnt be a fetish smh
1:06 this is here is my baby , I really really hope you guys buy it😂
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Ha, ha, when you say that you learn English in the school not in Instagram! :)
Hrafna
I have no idea what personality types and character types make a stereotype Icelanders I live here in the United States and I have very little contact with people from Iceland so you’re going to present to me in this video what you have noticed as Icelandic stereotypes in popular entertainment just an education for me
Hrafna, I recommend you watch Sense8, particularly the first season as Riley and Iceland gets a lot of coverage. There are scenes set and filmed in Iceland. It would be interesting to hear your reaction when you've seen more.
I was on set for some of the takes here in iceland and it was a lot of fun :)
Darling, you are an Icelandic stereotype. Beautiful blonde with Nordic features. Also, a bodybuilder.
This play exemplifies the strong Icelandic Viking woman she talks about. ruclips.net/video/fDQfc2HadNQ/видео.html
you know that means theres a very real possibility the sense 8 girl studied your accent
Exactly 👌 but people criticizing the name so you can't win. There's always something to critique
You should watch Sense8. It’s an excellent series.
Are there any Icelandic wedding tradition?
Ngl the Eurovision movie was pretty funny and nice vid honestly didn't know the stereotypes before
I think you can thank Bjork for the origin of the weird pixie girl stereotype
I think the Icelandic English stereotypes come from Germans and how they supposedly sound lol
If she says, in the interview, that she watched a lot of things on RUclips to prepare for the roll, I have to believe one of those was Hrafna's videos.
That was my first thought haha! However the show came out in 2015, before I started doing my Icelandic lessons!
Netflix is great for Icelandic crime dramas. I can recognize Icelandic actors as readily as those in Hollywood. IMDB helps.
Well I think you are, uh how do you say in Icelandic? Uh sæt? 😬😊
my first touch your channel , I believe that, I will learn lot of thing from your channel and perspective ( icelandic ) .
One of Sheffield Wednesday Football Club best player's was from Iceland his name was Sigurður Jónsson played for us way back in 1984 till 1989 great footballer, not many could beat Sigurður Jónsson.
Walter Mitty is one of my fave movies! If you do another one of these videos can you please talk about the scene where he trades stretch Armstrong for a skateboard? 😂
Nice video! The last season of Blindspot has an Icelandic gangster, it would be cool if you coud react to that.
"I don't know where that stereotype [of women being soft spoken and elf-like] came from." I mean, you're aware that most Americans and Brits immediately think of Björk when thinking of Icelandic women, right? All the actresses are just doing impressions of her
Hello, Hrafna! I just recall this : ruclips.net/video/uhE_zYc5RSY/видео.html
(I haven't seen the whole episode) and I wondered if you find it funny (I do!!! :-)
I don't really get this because YOU personally contributed to the icelandic stereotypes by helping make the video "dating an icelandic girl". SOOO many men fetishized icelandic women because they're under the impression from that video and that they sleep with everyone...sigh.
Do a video about the Icelandic cases please!
I live in a city that has a larger population (518,012 as of 2019) than the whole county of Iceland. Multiple ethnicity's. No stereotypes from me. I accept people for who they are and love them for it.
or when they try to do swedish accents in american films/series and they end up sounding more like german ;D
Ya I think the "ethnicity women fetish" problem is just a men having weird nationality fetishes. I remember going to Korea, Germany and Italy and all the guys kept on trying to get us to talk to them in English and they clearly thought we (as women from United States), were basically extremely liberal, rainbow hair dying, attractive women just based on where we came from. I personally don't understand it
Non-stereotype about Iceland is that the girls are amazing. That's a fact
This is simple... Norsemen/Vikings! What else do you need to know..
Hello, I like the Icelandic sweaters 100% natural wool like they should be made.😯 all I come across are the part wool and the rest.synthetic materials which is harmful to our environment.😯😩
Fuck, I think I'll just not speak to Icelandic woman. Don't want to be hated any more for being an American from the southern part of the USA, I am out lol.
I have a lopapeysa I bought from Iceland. I found a charming little store Thorvaldsens Bazar. The sweetest old ladies helped me pick out the right one just for me. Besides paying the ladies who do the knitting and buy the wool, they donate the profits to help woman and children in Iceland.
I only heard that Iceland is a very happy country. That's it here in Romania.
The SNL skit was combining Icelander with dumb blonde. Which is not true for Icelanders but its comedy, it not suppose to be serious.
As for swedish stereotypes; it is true that most swedes are pretty quiet and reserved in our everyday life, and you will see this if you are visiting. But when it comes to hanging out, night life or other types of partying, we go all out. So when there is a foreigner who comes here with an understanding and mature mindset about these stereotypes that they have, we just love to play along and even exaggerate it for them. We like it, and we can laugh at it together. There's really not a lot of things that could offend us and we are actually really friendly, but we like to break the ice with some harsh or dumb methods if that makes any sense. But yeah... swedish life-style in a nutshell; Be reserved and busy - let go when you have the time over.
100%. Many foreigners mistake it for cold-heartedness, but it’s just a big sense of personal privacy and giving others their privacy. The Finns, on the other hand, are very devoid of positive feelings/dreary most of the time.
We Finns are a way more shy that the Swedes.:-D Hälsningar från Finland! :-) Terveisiä Suomesta! :-)
The "quirky little elf" stereotype is a thing too. Björk didn't help things...