Icelander REACTS to ICELANDIC STEREOTYPES 

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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 think compared to other countries, Iceland can be really lucky about their stereotypes (the stereotypes are not as offending)... coming from a German.😅

As an Italian, who also speaks English and German, Icelandic doesn't sound that harsh... it actually sounds very melodic :)

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.

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'

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?

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!

Love the video and the education you also gave! Thank you for the video!!

I‘m so happy that you showed the Icelandic Handball team❤️😊 There are many awesome handball players & trainers from Iceland.

Your hair looks so pretty with the curls! Great video :)

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

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.

Yess you did it!!! I really love your Channel Hrafna :P

I love how you do disclaimers i crack everytime you play that shield, you so considerate very thoughtful!

Thank you for your wonderful videos Hrafna! I can't wait to come back to Iceland 😍🇮🇸

I love your channel. Thanks for posting

I really appreciate your educational videos. Thank you.

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

Came across your channel recently and am really enjoying your videos. I had a chance to visit Iceland in 2018 and loved your beautiful country. 😍 🇮🇸

Mighty Ducks 2 - Team Iceland are the big “bad” guys lol

Wow! I've never heard of IGF before! Thanks for sharing and going through these clips. I love how you don't take offense and still explain everything. 💚

First Time i saw you talk or show something about Of Monsters and Man ♥

From an American's perspective I think the naive, innocent, Elvish stereotype came from Björk.

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!

Great video Hrafna!!! I would love to travel to Iceland one day!!!

Greeting from Sweden Hrafna! Keep up the good work :)

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

Hi! i actually found your channel after watching the Eurovision movie and started youtubing Iceland! Im from New Zealand so in a way we are in a similar country (island nation, beautiful scenery etc) but I'm in the Southern Hemisphere and youre in the Northern Hemisphere!

Also cool designs on the sweaters and warm.😊

i appreciate that you mentioned you find it funny and not being critical

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.

Sense8 was weird but I loved it. I would definitely say Riley fit that stereotype. Harry styles sounded German to me 😂

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 ...

Gorgeous !! im definitely gonna visit iceland one day

I subscribed, I love listening to your accent 😍

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”

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.

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.🖤🖤🇮🇸🇮🇸

could you do a video sharing your favorite icelandic music to listen to? i would love to start listening to songs in icelandic!

Good Lord I just watched a update on the vulcanology report for the global climate and seismic activity in the past 12 days Hrafna, I know the people of Iceland have good history of management when it comes to volcanic unrest and eruption protocols that are very well the best world wide. I just want to send this to say I have had a great time over the past few years watching and learning about your culture , heritage and yourself as a person. Time is uncertain and I do not know if I will have the ability to say thank you for all youve brought to the world from so far away. You can know from the point of a person whos felt blessed to have the opportunity of your person and your great spirit thats been self assured and confident. Know matter what comes to past I thought I should say this in a note. It has truly been a honour to have been awarded the glimpse of a world through the eyes of a awesome woman as you are obviously in yourself. I will be praying that this whole world situation subsides and send hope and strength to you for all the days ahead we all as people will be able to witness no matter if its a new family member or unexpected world changes that are not within the scope of we as a part of all the people of this loved world may face. As a fact the day is all we really get for the future and as it is the future is within our hands as a person is capable to change for the best in any situation even for the moment if we rise to meet the challenge the victor in adversity. Godspeed and all the prayers to you and your family and all the people of Iceland of the world in these days of trials in tribulations ahead. Rise every day to meet the dawning of hope. As this I? hope to be able to drop a note every now and again at the very least to say hello and check in on a true worldly young star of Iceland. Farewell and be diligent as fundamental in the wisdom of our history for our benefit it is. sincerely DLS

I am American from the state of Texas, and to my ear, your accent is not harsh at all. I find it very soothing to listen to, especially when you speak Icelandic even though I don't understand what you are saying.

I'd love to see you take a deeper dive into "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," which is one of my favorite films. I was delighted to learn from this video that the innkeeper was saying "Don't you watch the news?" Prior to this I've only figured out "nuna" for now, and "drifa sig" for "hurry up." I got a laugh at how they moved the volcano and Stykksholmur way up into the Westfjords. It might be fun to do an online mutual viewing and comment on the film!

Nice video! The last season of Blindspot has an Icelandic gangster, it would be cool if you coud react to that.

Hi Hrafna, very nice video, thanks :)

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.

Just after 37 second of upload I watch it

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.

Do a video about the Icelandic cases please!

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.

LOL funny Hrafna funny video I liked this video yes!!!! 👍😅

Ngl the Eurovision movie was pretty funny and nice vid honestly didn't know the stereotypes before

hey Hrafna, have you made a video for people who plan to travel and live in Iceland and what kind of living they can expect and what kind of jobs they can find and so on? I don't remember if you made such a video already

Those wool sweaters have a similar stereotype in Ireland and Scotland lol that people wear them all the time.

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? 😂

Sense8 is a great show and deserves to be watched.

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

I watch you and you show the real Iceland. Not the stereotypes. I like you show the secret places where tourists don't go, and you always look lovely doing it.

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.

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!?

Awesome video. I subscribed!

First time watching you. You remind me of Logartha from Vikings. You seem to be very kind & you are beautiful. You have the potential to have a great legacy. I hope you do very well in life.

Hey Hrafna, I was an exchange student in Iceland and lived in Bifröst for half a year. I had an amazing time and learned a bit of the language too. I met a lot of people and heard a lot of different music from Iceland. Maybe you can dive in some Icelandic artist and bands for your next video;) Xx Maartje

Hrafna! You never told us in Iceland you don’t have to shovel snow because the roads and sidewalks are heated!?!?!? Wowowow!!!

Þú ert svo falleg, vloggs þínir eru geðveikir ❤️🙏 mikið af ást frá Indlandi

How to annoy an Icelander: create a new country and call it "CREAMLAND".

I love how Iceland is like a big family. You’re proud of each other and support each other. I wish the US was more like that.

Yeah, Foreigners are weird... everywhere

my first touch your channel , I believe that, I will learn lot of thing from your channel and perspective ( icelandic ) .

Hi from Canada! 🇨🇦 Just found the channel and I have to say I find it both informative and fun. I like how casual you are.

I love your videos Hrafna. You are awesome. Me and the wife hope to visit your Beautiful country in the near future. Keep up the good work. Heja Island

Ha, ha, when you say that you learn English in the school not in Instagram! :)

I love you and I love your content.

thank you!!

how can stereotypes exist when so many people hardly know Iceland exists

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.

While most people will reference a movie star or musician. I know of Iceland from Strongmen competitors. Such as Jón Páll Sigmarsson, Magnús Ver Magnússon and the most recent champion from Iceland is Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson. Also the viking lore from the Völsunga saga. Eric the Red and Leif Erikson.

Я люблю твои видео♡ I love your videos

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 !

wonderful!!

I have a question about Icelandic language: where is the different between verbs ending -a (for example "að þurfa" and verbs ending -st (for example "að kynnast", "að þarfast")?

There's a scene in which Riley says eyjafjallajökull. SHould have included thattt

Did not know there was Icelandic stereotypes, and had never heard of IGF until I watched this video.

I love Icelandic lopapeysa and have several of them. Best thing for a dog walk on a cold day. I admit that if I go up to London, I wouldn't wear one; but in the countryside, they're brilliant.

One of my ancestors was Sæmundur Sigfusson. I love Iceland.

so... no 'Jaja Ding Ding' song?? lol! 😁

If she says, in the interview, that she watched a lot of things on RU-vid to prepare for the roll, I have to believe one of those was Hrafna's videos.

I remember Kristen Wiig doing impressions of Björk more than 10 years ago that really exaggerated her idiosyncrasies (based on Björk in the early-mid 90s). The bubbly Icelandic woman stereotype may have originated there. Thanks for your informative videos. I started watching them in Boston and now I’m at the University of Iceland studying Icelandic :)

I think you can thank Bjork for the origin of the weird pixie girl stereotype

It seems I learned here. It was neat to see your take on stereotypes. I think I have more realistic take on Icelandic culture and people. 😃

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.❤

I see Harry styles and Hrafna in one video...I click

You should watch Sense8. It’s an excellent series.

im icelandic and people call me cute elf girl but i was told since iceland wasnt very known it wouldnt be a fetish smh

Hrafna, what do you think about LazyTown?

We love you ❤️

Are there any Icelandic wedding tradition?

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

What a cute channel. Keep it up kid.