8 Strange Habits of Icelandic People
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- Icelandic people are lovely but they do have some strange habits. Well, strange to some foreigners. Here are 8 that I have observed. Let me know in the comments about strange habits of Icelandic people you have observed or strange habits of people where you live.
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My grandparents came from Iceland! 💚 I had to laugh because I do a lot of these things or have the same tastes and I have never even been lol ...it’s on my bucket list💚💚
arborcidal maniac 😢 who hurt you? 😂
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@arborcidal maniac That may be true, but alternately so do most men. The idea behind it is to save time pussyfooting around.with social foreplay and then finding that you are sexually incompatible. Icelanders also have a ‘cousin App’ on their phones to alert them if they are related. This may shock US pseudo puritans who glorify war but ban the sight of a female nipple or a mother breast feeding her baby. I worked in 6 US cities including Birmingham, Alabama and Atlanta. Give me Iceland any day!
@arborcidal maniac You are lucky. I have never had a ‘round of applause’.
It was so fun to watch this as an icelandic person. The ice cream thing is so true! I think our weirdest habit is that we know all about our weather and how it changes in like couple of minutes and still EVERYTIME the weather changes we are so shocked and say ''Now where did this come from?!'' Everytime... also we dress like it's summer and complain about how cold it is.
Loved your video. xoxo
LOL. Thanks for watching and leaving a comment.
@@oddurhjaltason7223 First off, there is no reason to insult someone just because you don't agree. Secondly, the comments you have left are mean and insulting for absolutely no reason. Many Icelandic people, including the person you just left a comment under relate to many of the things I mentioned in the video. If you don´t agree, that's fine but calling someone stupid is not ok.
Yeah, I‘m pretty used to „weird“ weather changes as a german. Especially in munich we sometimes tend to have three weather seasons (rain,snow,sun) in a day during spring or autumn - but Iceland was really another level.
Like every 30 minutes or so from rain to windy to sunny.... on the other hand I've never seen so MANY rainbows in one week like I‘ve seen in Iceland. Quite amazing and beautiful. 😎👍🏽
Sounds like Colorado, hahaha. We have so many mountains it messes with the weather like crazy, we'll have a sunny day and all of a sudden we'll have a really intense downpour of rain and 30 minutes later it'll be sunny again, and you can never really tell when it'll rain or snow. It's July and we still have snow in places, haha.
Sigga Ósk We do that in the UK. lol.
Not worrying about leaving your infant outside is truly wonderful. How lucky to live in such a safe society where children are respected and loved.
trying hard to make it a 10 min video for cash from utube? stop talkin shit kthanxbai
~Yeah; that's fairly common in Denmark, too.
I’d be more worried about the cold than other ppl
Our mom put me and my siblings in baby carriage and take outside to sleep and it was ok back in late 80's and early 90's.
Tara king and the 70's. Remember very occasionally a new mum would forget and go home, remember then dash back to the shop? Baby and pram (real prams) would still be there? I never did but heard of it. Lol.
"Icelandic people tend to stare"
~India has entered the chat~ lol
~Spain has now entered the chat~
@@nlee4724 los viejos en España have enter the chat lol
At least they only stare and are not like Chinese that like to touch and take pictures... :S
@@cocalero for real?? I thought chinese people respected other people's personal space!
@@luciafrau125 Maybe you're confusing japanese with Chinese.
It's honestly amazing how many people are shameless with their stares. In cars people seem to believe they are invisible for some reason. It's also a known thing that Icelanders will slow down their car if they are going past an accident to see what's going on for longer and thus creating a traffic jam. They stare at people waiting for the bus, walking around. I've had a staring contest with a man on the bus (I won).
LOL thanks for sharing.
Bananainacar 😄
Um people all around the world slow down when they drive past a car accident. It is all associated with morbid curiosity and there is even a term for it called rubbernecking. Just wanted to point it out cause it’s not like an exclusively “icelandic” thing. And I easily space out myself and just stare into the blue but as soon as I catch myself staring at someone I feel so awkward that I snap myself out of it lol. The idea of staring at someone or being stared at is so creepy, dunno why people would do that.
@@AllThingsIceland Thanks for staring*
BRENDA DLS dear brenda, please don't come with racist generalzations on a video about iceland. Have a nice day.
This might have just as well been 8 strange habits of Finnish people :D We have all of these habits too. My husband is from the US and has honestly taken quite well to all our "strange" things - he even likes our salty liquorice (salmiakki). Also, my absolute favorite thing as a kid was to sleep outside and I kept insisting on napping outside even after I outgrew my stroller.
LOL nice. Did your parents let you sleep outside after you outgrew your stroller?
@@AllThingsIceland Yes - with my legs hanging out 😂
@@Jneian They didn't get you a tent and sleeping bag?
@@elderscrollsswimmer4833 Not at that point... Though I do faintly recall having a small tent on the backyard when I was a bit older...
I loved the frequent option of licorice ice cream in Finland
i’m only a minute in, but i already love your personality!!! 😆😆😆
Thanks! :-)
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I had not thought about Iceland but I have been considering moving to Finland for a year or so now. I first heard about leaving babies outside in carriages on a video about Finland which is why I have been considering the move. Feeling safe in the country that I live in huge for me. I really just want to be in a safe place now. Your videos are very enlightening. Thank you for the information.
Fun video :) Just wanted to comment on that mucus thing. I´ve heard before that foreigners find this disgusting, being from Iceland myself I find this totally normal :) In fact, when I hear people blowing their nose THAT I find digusting! Yeah, I know by doing that you´re cleaning out your system much better and more efficiently, but eww! It´s just a question of what you grow up with, and maybe the weather is a big part if this? All this crappy weather does make your nose block up more than in most other countries I would guess :)
And the licourice thing, showering naked with strangers before going into the pool, letting children nap outside etc, these are all things I grew up with and find totally normal. When you grow up going to the gym and to the swimming pool during your school and showering before/after with the other children, you get accustomed to it very quickly hence making it "normal". Every country has it´s customs, some make sense, some don´t. I think we Icelanders have many bad habits, my Ukranian girlfriend certainly has many things to say about that subject :) And mostly I agree with her.
We do stare a lot probably, I´ve never noticed it much. Maybe part of it is because we mostly are from a small town or village and everyone knows each other. This can be a good thing but...
It can become too much I think. Everyone has their nose in each others business. Just human nature I guess but I think it´s more noticable in smaller communities. Interesting observation.
Thanks for a fun vid.
LOL Thanks for watching and commenting. It was fun to make this video. Yea, I have noticed that my nose runs a lot more here. It is funny what some people consider normal.
I would love to know what your Ukranian gf considers to be bad habits that Icelandic people have.
Regarding the staring, it totally makes sense. It has taken me a long time to adjust but now I am fine with staring back. I have to remember to NOT stare when I visit NYC. LOL.
Thanks again for watching.
@@AllThingsIceland well, she mostly talks about our lack of manners :) that we do not show proper respect towards women and our elders for example. How we should never start eating until everyone has received their food (women getting their food first). How we should hold open the door for a woman/older person. Stand up on the bus and offer our seat.
The old-school manners I guess. Which I actually totally agree with her on, even if I don't really know proper manners myself :)
But we are a bit basic, I will be the first to admit. I have heard this from other foreigners.
One Englishman told me that at first he was quite offended by our almost total lack of manners until he realized that we just did not know any better :)
Perhaps because we did not have much influence from our neighbors, being a cold and inhospitable island in the North Atlantic might have something to do with that :)
Ah ok. I see what you mean now.
I still wait for everyone to get their food before eating. I think it is a nice thing to do. My husband's family thinks it is strange and they try to convince me to eat right away. LOL.
I think it would be nice if everyone held the door for each other. I do it for my husband and vice versa.
Yea, I definitely think isolation had a lot to do with it. The upside is that the atmosphere is more relaxed here. Most countries with a lot of manners usually includes people that look down on others for not being as "sophisticated" as them. It can be tiring to try and keep up with so many rules. :-)
Also with the mucus. In the winter time a lot of people get colds and think if everyone used tissue to get rid of snot?
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That first one, speaking on the inhale, startled me when I first met my Norwegian boyfriend. I thought he may have a speech impediment. Then I started hearing so many nordmenn doing it! That's great to know! :)
Oh, a expat in Iceland?
I have Icelandic family and live in Norway so find this kind of content super interesting. ^^
This just got better and better after each #- I wanna go to Iceland now. Thanks for the video. They sound like very warm and fun people.
“Snorting your mucus?”
Me being VERY icelandic: Doesn’t every one do that?
No & yuck!
Yes most do it.
Nooooo!
Nope disgusting 🤢
No. In the us it’s considered rude . You’re supposed to blow your nose with a tissue.
What a great video! Thank you. My son has just come back from 7 days in Iceland and I think he left his heart there!
For us in Germany it's not strange to share your bank account number too. It's a totally normal thing.
It's the same in Czechianad probably most of EU.
You have a beautiful smile...
I think so too. And she seems fun and approachable.
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The breathing in is so true im icelandic 😂
LOL
@muhammad Asif what the hell is wrong with you
@muhammad Asif khuda ka khawf karo
Same as with Finnish too. I think Swedish as well. I think it's a Nordic thing.
Yeah i do that😂
The speaking on the inhale thing is a kind of Northern European thing; I'm German and I do that as well (even when speaking English). Also, my mum tells me she would leave me outside whilst she did a shop in a store that was too small for the baby carriage. And mucus is just kinda gross, no matter how you get rid of it, but the snorting noise is so loud! Thank you for sharing your observations, they were super interesting.
Very interesting and thanks for sharing that you talk on the inhale when speaking German as well. I have been wondering how many other cultures do it. Thank you for watching and commenting. :-)
I think the staring thing has mostly to do with how few of us there are. If you're out in public, odds that you will know some of the people you pass are relatively high. I automatically scan faces and have found it a surprisingly hard habit to break when I'm abroad. ^_^
mrTwisby yup lol same for us germans we tend to stare a lot as well i’m gonna be going to iceland in a few months i bet i might get a lot of stares lol
Hahaha... great video!! I enjoyed this because it reminds me of Finnish people! I’m an American who lived in Finland for 4 years and can totally relate to almost all of the things you mentioned!
I love ice cream in freezing weather too and I'm in Virginia lol!
LOL nice!
Me too and I'm from Massachusetts.
Me too, in Indianapolis.
I'm Scottish and these are all super normal to me. My brain can't comprehend that in the US these would be strange, now Im wondering what my US colleagues think of me 😅
Stina C I’d say theses are generalizations for one American, not all. We certainly eat ice cream year round, announce when we’re going to the bathroom, showering before going swimming, etc
@@letarogers6380 what about the inhale talking?
I’m from Texas, USA, and it is SO hot here. Iceland and its a safe place? So refreshing!!
Love your energy, and your sweet delivery!!
Iceland is definitely not hot. Yes, it is a very safe place. Thanks for the lovely comment and for watching.
Love the way you expose the weird things in Iceland. Greetings from Lima
Just found your channel today and have watched SOOO many of your videos. Love them! I've always wanted to visit Iceland and you make it sound so wonderful. 🥰💗 Thanks for sharing!!
I’m glad to hear that Iceland is such a safe place. I’m coming in June for vacation ALONE and I was a little worrisome.... but now I can’t wait.
Yay!!! Iceland is perfect for a solo traveler. I hope you have a great time.
What would people do with my bank account number? Send me money? What's the deal? They would need to know a lot more info to use my account for anything else than to give me their money.
That's an interesting question.
It no different than handing someone a “check”
My parents generation in NZ used to leave babies (us) outside for naps (1hr-30 mins). I was told babies sleep deeply because of the lower temperature and the nature sounds.
Lol this isn't Iceland only, but we do the same in all the other Nordic countries: Sweden, Denmark, Finland, or at least here in Norway. We to can often say yes while inbreath. And it's not necessarily due to your skin color/race. I grew up in a predominantly white ethnic Christian country, being brown and openly gay isn't exactly easy. I'm adopted so my parents are white. Even though we do learn as kids that staring is rude, people do stare, but it's your ability to be able to interpret those stares from hate, curoscity, interest/attraction etc. which will benefit you in the long run. Or just simply ask what they are staring at lol. Often they are not aware themselves that they are staring tbh, and they will become extremely embarrassed. As a Norwegian who's boyfriend is Icelandic I've been to Iceland many times and I love it! They are way more liberal, open minded etc. than Norwegians. Way more chill, laid back, loud, and basically doesn't give a fuck. You wanna experience racism? You should come here haha. Nah. Not that bad, but due to the political climate that we are in right now, thanks to certain world leaders, it has only gotten worse. Tho the majority of Norwegians are good people. There are bad apples in every culture. You just need to understand the culture, social norms and our mentality. Here we just stare back, and the other person will usually look down, or avoid eye contact. My mom sees nothing wrong in getting a cup of coffee, buns or some ice cream, sit down on a bench in public, and just stare at people walking buy, because that's normal haha. I think that asa person of color, or any minority it's too easy to take this personally and think it's all about you and your skin color, when it truly isn't. So it's important to really be aware, and not take things personally. And even if some are racist, it's not really you, but them. They are the ones who has a problem. They are the ones that needs help, education/knowledge as that's the key to fighting ignorance, racism, and fear which are all connected. Our societies are built on trust, and charity. That's why we are so ''trusting''. The shower naked thing in public is very Icelandic tho, and more of a generation thing here in Norway. Tho we are not prude either. I would never leave my kid or infant out alone in the USA. Ya'll crazy over there lol. Here it's fine tho.
Gotta love how all Nordic countries get almost all these points. (I've lived in several.) Our social security numbers are freely and widely available in lists online for if your forget someones, just like address and phone number found at the same places, and you can have my bank number if you want. This whole thing is because we have something that America might want to look into - Security. The absolutely only thing you can do with my bank account number (for any of my different Nordic national bank accounts) is to give me money. So, sure, go for it. ;)
I must be a Nordic as I have bought ice cream in winter in Iceland and sat in the car eating it. When we got cold we bought hot drinks to warm ourselves up.
The first time I heard their New years fireworks was shocking. The sound was like a war zone.
They eat rotten shark, I never will.
I had to get used to the radiators being heated with hot water from the geothermal supply.
Many haven't seen the Aurora borealis!
They are taught to knit at school.
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I was eating in public at a restaurant and I just kept getting looks. Not bad, just like...stares or even fascination or just confusion. But I’d look back up and they’d just stare and smile a little more and then look back down. Or they’ll say something about you, not expecting you to not understand. But when I do and reply it’s like amazement then laughter
This woman is beautiful and classy!
David thank you!
Agreed!!!
This brings back memories from my childhood, we had this icelandic kid who just had moved over from Iceland starting at our school and he only spoke icelandic. He was running around with sticks being sorta aggressive towards the other kids, acting like a animal I thought, starring, mumbling in icelandic. One day I challenged him, I didnt like how he went about on the schoolyard. I was sorta teasing him in my own language and I imagined him swearing at me in icelandic as he spoke back aggressivly, teacher came rushing to seperate us as he like usal had a stick in his hand and he had been known to clubbing kids before that... so they had an eye on him.
How nice to be so trustworthy and comfortable in your own skin, I would view some 1950s English shows and babies were always being left in front of shops while mum is shopping always found that fascinating. Thank you for being so informative 😃😃 hello from Toledo, Ohio 🇺🇸
We also don’t have as many chemicals in our pools
THIS is real multiculturalism, where it is mutual, consensual & respectful & just genuinely learning about different cultures. I do NOT want my super safe country (Iceland) to become dangerous via the insanity that is mass immigration/migration to the rest of Europe. We're lucky that we're so isolated. Sorry for bringing politics into this but I think it is an extremely important point which is on my mind a lot... also BABYMETAL in the West :)
I know exactly what licorice she’s talking about lol cause my friend from Finland gave a bag to me and I was like *what the heck is this*
Alessandra Aviles 😂 it’s so intense!!
Interesting!!!
In Czech Republic, we also shower naked before entering a public pool. It is considered rude to not to do it, and there are signs in the showers saying "Please, shower naked". The same with kids and fresh air, sleeping outside even during winter (not through the night, of course).
Would be kinda cool if you showed examples in the video. Like normal convo between people and how the inhale speach sounds, etc.
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When I was a baby in Canada my mom put me outside for my naps in winter so that I would get sunshine and my body would make vitamin D.
I love your eloquently spoken commentary on the subject of Iceland. Thank you!
Hey boo love Iceland beautiful place is it
In Norway we don’t usually share our social security number, but bank account number is pretty available, as long as you (ofc) don’t show them your CVC
Speaking on the inhale is common here in Ireland as well...they call it the Gaelic gasp. Worried me too!
Winter is my ice cream season too. Along with spring summer and fall of course.
Im a French born Cameroonian and Id like to visit such countries as Bjork's and Gudjohnsen Isle and Shetland Isles as love nature too!visit non well visited coutries
Khemt291223 I hope you do get a chance to visit all the places you want to see. 😊
That was my life as a baby. My mom would put me on the balcony in Montreal Quebec in the winter on a nice day to nap.
The social security thing is bizarre. I thought my husband had lost his marbles when we moved here and I got my card. He locked up in our safebox, made me promise to not share it with people. Ask him if I’m not sure I should share it. We had been married for some time living in my Country ( South Africa) and I swear to God I thought I was seeing this dark , paranoid side of him. Turns out that’s just a thing here.
😂😂 it is bizarre and now it is weird that I’ve adjusted to living in a place where it is no big deal to share your number.
I didn't know Americans were like this. I'm from Brazil and here we have to give our number Everytime we buy something online. To transfer money to friends bank accounts to paying stuff is also very regular.
Having your accounts accessed by someone else is a terrible inconvenience. Loss of time and effort. Even if you're insured, it's destabilising, makes you not trust anyone.
I remember back in the '70's putting an SSI number on checks using for id number on medical or school accounts was a common thing... and the internet came along... Limits on where that number could be used... and not also using it for things like Medicare or other government accounts... can be fairly directly related to the rise of Scamming as an industry.... via phones and emails, websites and so on... the general rule anymore no one with valid business... government or business will ever ask for id numbers of any kind of they were to call you... the scammers are very clever... if you call someone with a valid reason to know the information... It was a major social change, I would assume number system created after the issues with criminal use were understood, then confirmation systems were developed... and are still developing... a cultural paranoia has developed for reason. Also there is a whole TH-cam genera of anti-scammer videos that has developed.... a deep rabbit hole.
The first sound that everyone makes while taking the first breath of air is just like "Já" !!! 😆😆
I think the speaking on the inhale thing is a general scandinavian thing. My mom is Danish and does it all the time haha, especially when saying "Ja"
I am iclandic and this is al true
YES!!!!!!! You mentioned it! FIRST habit mentioned!!! " JÁÁÁÁÁÁÁ!!!!!"
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I'd like to start with what an incredibly lovely and respectful, not to mention beautiful person you are! The licorice (samiakki) thing... I'm Dutch, and salty licorice (drop in Dutch!) is THE national sweet of Holland! If you've grown up with it like I have, it's totally addictive but understandably an acquired taste for people not used to it. I find root beer - a soft drink (soda) with a very medicinal flavour, Cherry cola (I taste bitter almonds, not Cherry!) and everything flavoured with cinnamon an odd thing but to Americans, they're so normal, they would never consider how strange they might be to foreigners. The staring thing...I was in China last year and random people would ask if they could take my picture...I guess I stood out being fair-haired and white with blue eyes! So it works both ways.
Thank you for the lovely comment and watching the video. I can totally understand that when you eat something all of your life, it doesn't taste strange. I know I was just shocked by how intense the flavor was when I first tried it. Yes, I bet being in China was quite the experience. Thanks for sharing.
Not wanting to be seen naked in public doesn't make you a prude.
Most of these facts are true in Scandinavia aswell
And in Finland
Same as Malaysian indian😂 stare+angry face
In which scandic country do you leave your child outside and force people to shower naked before others?
@@laminjatta1659 In all Scandinavian countries we leave our babies outside to sleep. Its healthy for them to breath fresh air and its easier to sleep in a cool temperature.
@@secret4354 no we don't im norwegian/Swedish and never slept outside nor have I ever seen anyone sleep outside
great work!
Just discovered your channel. You are a DELIGHT!😄
One thing. The dressing rooms in swimming pools are separate for each sex. So women do not have to dress down in front of other men and vice versa :)..
And yes.... Icelanders should stop snorting their mucus in public because it is just disgusting. I stopped this myself when it was pointed out to me.... oughhh.
B Agustsson I don’t think it’s disgusting and when you do it in Iceland as an Icelander it should be totally fine.
Others need to integrate in your country, you don’t need to change for purpose of others. You have a beautiful country.❤️
@@linajurgensen4698. I already like you much more than this prejudice woman picking on our bad habits :)
And the second you said I agree to 100%
And with that said I became your 50th subscriber :)
B Agustsson Thank you so much!❤️
I‘m from the most northern part of Germany and I wanna visit Iceland so bad!😊
I‘m also really interested in learning icelandic and to generally learn more about the culture, if I would live in Iceland, I think I could integrate very well, I also would love to support the protection of the nature there, so people are able to see the beauty of this country for many years in the future. :)
@@linajurgensen4698 So go to The University of Iceland. There is very good and effective program to learn Icelandic. I once met a guy from Switzerland in March in the Blue Lagoon and he was already speaking good Icelandic. And he started in this program in September the year before. So I believe that is the way to do it if you are really interested like you say.
B Agustsson Oh that’s cool! Thank you so much for this tip!😊
As an American I can tell you that Ive seen my people clean off their yucky nose in the coat sleeves. Kids do it in winter time but Ive seen many adults do it too. I feel if Icelandic people snort their own yucky it keeps it inside their system and not spread it on other things like door knobs or other things people touch. It kinda keeps germs from spreading. Ive never been to Iceland but I rather have someone take in their own yuck and not cleaning it from clothes and spreading germs around. Other than the weather factor I think this is why so many Americans get so sick. The pool hygiene thing, the yuck snorting...it makes sense now.
Love your videos, as being from Colombia but living in the US, I would love to find an Icelander husband and learn from his culture and experience life in beautiful Iceland.
Glad you enjoyed the video. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Great video! I've been to Iceland a few times, and I never noticed that Icelanders were actually inhaling while saying "já" (yes), nor did I notice that Icelanders were often staring at people. I guess I wasn't paying attention...
However, you're absolutely right about licorice candies, they really taste funny! Not to mention that hardcore licorice is harmful for blood pressure.
Another thing that can be strange and quite bothering in Iceland is the smell of tap water that contains high amounts of sulfur. It's safe and natural, but this smell reminds me of rotten eggs... It's OK once you get used to, but when you take showers or bathe in the Blue Lagoon (bláa lónið), get your nose prepared!
The best challenge in Iceland is to learn Icelandic language!
If you already know English, German, Dutch, or another Scandinavian language, you won't have much trouble understanding most of the Icelandic words since Icelandic language belongs to the same Germanic branch, but Icelandic grammar and phonetics are a real nightmare to learn, but it's worth trying. 🇮🇸
Thanks for the comment and checking out the video. LOL yea, the water part definitely takes getting used to. I am currently learning Icelandic. It is difficult. As you mentioned, the grammar can be a nightmare but learning it in chunks helps a lot.
@@AllThingsIceland I'm from Iceland and I have always admired people who try to learn Icelandic. Usually when foreign people ask why this and that sound like it does or is written or said like it is in Icelandic, we have a hard time to explain it. It just does and we learned it when we were growing up. For example when to pronounce the same letter with an soft accent or hard accent (like the name Halli with a soft accent, when the same word halli with a hard accent means slope - how do we know when we read the word to use hard or soft accent, I have no idea, we just know).
But sadly it has become a problem that young Icelandic children are losing their skills and understanding of their own language. More and more children are starting to think in english and talk to each other in english, even down to 3 or 4 year olds. This is because they watch so many videos from very young age on youtube and play video games in english. And of course it's not their fault, it's the society's fault.
And by this I'm not saying your video is in any way bad or part of the problem, I love it and I think most Icelanders love it. We love to hear what foreigners think about us and we love to be the "strange ones"! We even have a saying wich says: Glöggt er gests augað - in english translation: Eye of the visitor sees what we don't see. So please keep us informed!
Danish people breathe in when speaking too. I used to think only Icelandic people did it. There is also a phenomenon in Sweden where you suck in air to say "yes".
We love your video! Returning to Iceland in November. We can’t wait. Last March, we had the most amazing mushroom ice cream at Fluda Sveppir, Farmers Bistro in Fludir. This time, we will be going to Snaefellsnes Peninsula.
Winter is when I most crave icecream. 🍦😁
Yeah, you shower before getting into a pool, but that's because their pools don't use nasty caustic toxic chemicals like chlorine and shock, so they want to keep it clean as possible. In Japan they also scrub down before soaking in the pool or tub... there's an area designated for that right next to the tub in every private home and public facility. In fact, they don't drain the hot tub water, everyone soaks in it, and it's covered to insulate it afterwards, rather than sending it down the drain. Many people think Americans are weird for soaking in a bathtub of dirty water, rather than showering and getting rid if your dirt.
These are all so interesting because all of these happened in Finland and being a black woman from the Bahamas I too found them strange. The one that found most strange was the breathing and talking. Iceland is on our bucket list. It sounds like a magical country
About the snorting, it is considered more rude to blow your nose, especially around the food table than to snort. The thought is that, as long as the snort is inside you, it is more considered than exposing it to others around you.
As an American, I would say both options are not appropriate at the table or in front of others. Blow your nose in the bathroom or outside for sure.
@@jennysnook Yeah I would agree that the best solution is to blow your nose in private. However, in may (central) European countries, Germany for example, it is (or seems to be) more acceptable to blow your nose, no matter in what situations you are.
Wow this is very interesting and strange to me. Very informative, thanks for sharing
Glad you enjoyed it
I love the salt licorice. As far as the ID issue, all the colleges I attended in the states used my SS# as my school ID. The naked swim shower is just don't stare (okay to stare at clothed people). The winter outdoor baby and kids has always worked there in and in other Nordic countries, and yes, we had ice cream in a freezing cold open-air shop in the winter and we all survived. I have family in Iceland but I am not Icelandic.I quickly adapted to everything except.....the Christmas-time ammonia-smelly fish (skate)!
OMG, Skata is really intense. I've never eaten it but I have smelled it plenty of times and that was enough for me.
I eat ice cream in winter too I also like iced coffee and frappe any time of year lol
I've been in Iceland and I was asked not to blow my nose in a tissue in public...they found it disgusting
Wow! Did an Icelandic person ask you not to blow your nose in public?
@@AllThingsIceland Blowing your nose into a tissue and then put your, possibly infected, body fluids in your pocket or wherever is less disgusting than keeping your body fluids inside your own body, really? I do understand where you are coming from, but this is solely based on social conventions with absolutely no rational reasoning.
Per Wicken 1. The infection is not that active if it’s dry. 2. The most important is that if you keep it in you, keep being seek, keep coughing/sneezing and infecting people around. That’s disgusting and selfish. And no, you don’t keep it inside your body, you stay sick longer by not cleaning your nose and infect more people by breathing in public transport. So there is a very reasonable explanation. The more you clean your nose the faster the infection is gone. The tissue dries out. And wash your cloth more often for Gods sake, if you wary about pockets.
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1. For the sake of your health i hope your sinuses never get that dry.
2. I can't see that this claim is correct. The amount of time you are sick depends on your immune system. Its ability to find and produce anti genes to conquer whatever is making your cold. Blowing your nose also builds up high pressure inside your nose and might actually blow infected material back into your sinuses and damage (body)tissue inside your nose which might accommodate new dwellings for your infection.
There is a study from the University of Chicago that tends towards what I am stating here. it is commented on here < www.nytimes.com/2009/02/10/health/10real.html?no_interstitial >. However, I cannot find any definitive scientific claims one way or another. Do whatever you want as long as you do it discretely. Many will find it gross either way. Personally I stick to salt water rinsing, occasionally a nose spray, sucking up or blowing (into a tissue). The main problem is how much your up in other peoples' noses while doing it.
Per Wicken actually I meant it gets dry in the tissue. So the bacteria’s don’t survive. Yes I find it gross when someone eats their mucous with the sound to the point of throwing up reflex. And blowing noses is usually done in the toilet or at least behind the corner where none sees. But you can eat your mucous politely hiding your self. That way not being rud or selfish .
I used to live in the Bahamas and the stare thing was interesting to me, and it’s to see if they know you or your family! It took a while for me to understand the culture, but I love this country I became adaptable for over 17 years! My cousin, married a Bahamian too, 38 years and counting💝💞💕❤️🎊💓
I'm German and we do the bathroom announcing thing too.
Now that I’ve spent over half of my life in in the USA all these Icelandic habits are really funny to me. Maybe because they ring true. The strange thing about the Nafnumer (soc) is it our birthday +3 digits.
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Having a shower before entering the pool, hot springs etc. is definitely a must in Canada. Even when I had my own pool I did that. I also do not like licorice. In regards to hawking up your own phlegm...that is a no-no I can not get used to that at all! I'd still visit Iceland though lol. Thanks for sharing
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Eating Ice cream is actually more common in the winter in Missouri, all the rest are pretty strange though.
Pretty Much all things we in the Upper Midwest share. The only one I don't share is not having a tissue to blow my nose. I have even been known to talk on the inhale. Love Licorice from outside US.
About the ammonia in liquorish, it indeed contains ammonia, or actually it is Ammonium chloride. Liquorish contains salmiac. Salmiac is the product from the reaction of hydrochloric acid and ammonia which are both extremely toxic, if not deadly, for humans but combined they form a yummy candy :)
In the US, you can access someone's bank account to put money in. Not done much; I had a tenant who'd go to my bank, write a check and deposit it in my account. I did the same for a daughter when she was away at school.
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A new very happy subscriber from Israel.
I'm fascinated about how the half live.
Every country has it's own culture habits language etc.
Neva met anyone Icelandic or living in Iceland.
Leanne
I luv salty liqorice very popular in Holland. Thought it was Dutch
Six (bathing in front of everyone) and seven (leaving children outside in baby carriages) were very surprising to me.
There are a few criminals and a few druggies in Iceland and most people already know who they are, occasionally there is the sad crime of passion like murder (maybe 1 or 2 per decade) otherwise it is a very safe place to live and visit. However when the bars let out at three am street fights breakout and friends have to pull it apart. Just a funny thing I noticed during my year long visit
I am from Siberia, and we love to eat ice cream in the winter outside too, we do it all the time. and yes babies sleep outside too, even if you are at home, the moms would roll the stroller out on the balcony.
I LOVE SALTED BLACK LICORICE!!🖤🖤
Love this. Had a huge smile the whole time
Yay! Thanks for watching!
Thank you! ❤️
Did you mention anything about the belief in elves? (I fast forwarded a bit lol). Interesting info!l though!
Although it doesn't snow where I am, I do crave ice cream more in the fall and winter.
STARING: I've done it. Most memorable stare was when I stared at Julia Stiles ('Save The Last Dance', '10 Things I Hate About You', The Bourne Movies) on Hverfisgata, in Reykjavik, around the time she was filming 'A Little Trip To Heaven' (directed by Baltasar Kormákur) - I stared at her for WAY longer than could be considered appropriate. And I was SCOWLING as I stared, I think because my brain couldn't make sense of the fact that the lady from the movies was on Hverfisgata, just walking like a regular person. 😬😬😬
Norwegians speak on their inhalations also. Everyone I know eats ice cream all the time. You said you are from New York. Try Phoenix or Southern California in January.
Thanks for a good laugh 😂 my Icelandic girlfriend was like “ yes” “yes” “yes”
The bank account thing shocked me, but just because I don't understand why is it dangerous in the USA? In my country (Dominican Republic) is very very common to share your bank account and even your ID number so people can transfer you money.
You're gorgeous ( beautiful teeth, too), and love your mannerisms!
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My sister-in-law is from Estonia and she put her babies outside in the stroller in the back yard to sleep. They were save behind a locked gate, but she would bundle them up in the winter never in the rain though!
The banking account number does seem odd to give out, but it's printed on every check you write (at least when we wrote checks), so that one seems okay once you realize that. I remember 10 years ago getting that info from a landlord so I could set up auto rent payments -- we agreed it seemed strange to get used to.
I live in Chile and here we have a R.U.T number (basically the SS#) and we have to use it for EVERYTHING! I was also kind of weirded out at first when I would see my friends just giving their RUT to complete strangers just to complete a simple transaction like accepting a delivery or shopping online. Very strange lol
The total population there amounts to a small provincial town in the South (US). Many ignore this fact.
I just started watching all of your videos, and they are fascinating. So many of the things that you talk about in this video seem to come from Icelanders just sort of being like a big, extended family. I heard someone say the same thing about Israel, which he called the Cousin Filter. He said you have to turn on your Cousin Filter when you go to Israel because everyone acts like they are everyone else's cousin. Sharing personal information, staring, showering, and leaving your kid outside seem like the sort of things that you do when you feel like everyone in the country is your extended family.
I believe the ice cream thing is genetic. My Dad is 3 generations removed from being born in Iceland but looking at him (and his Mom) you immediately would think Icelander. Anyway, he LOVES ice cream. He would rather have it than regular food!
I love Iceland! I have been fortunate to visit twice. 2014 and 2017.
That's awesome!