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Originally Posted by abaya
Cyn, I will just gently point out that you were pretty damn excited about me being Icelandic (even if I'm only half, and not really culturally)... why did it matter so much to you? (I certainly don't mind, I love celebrating my two immigrant parents' halves... I call myself "Thaicelandic" as a really lame joke!)  |
I have been pondering this all day.
I've started responses, then scrapped them. I haven't been able to organize my thoughts into any more than bullet points for some reason today.
1) I think you're a good friend to your friends, (I hope that I'm going to be included at some point in time as IRL friendship,) because you call it like it is. I have a number of friends like that and feel it's important to keep myself real. I appreciate you pointing it out and calling me on it.
2) My interest in Iceland is genuine. I know alot about Icleand that it impresses some Icelanders, from history to locations. With only 290,000 Icelanders in the world, when I encounter them I try to meet them. There isn't a way to tell if they are Icelandic just by looking at them, I have to wait until they speak. Okay the Flight Attendants that I walk past have the Icelandair emblem on their uniforms but they are so hot I cannot talk to them. We hope to own a house in Iceland within the next few years. If we could expatriate to Iceland for a few years, we'd be there already. (She tried to get a job at Lati Baer (Nickolodeon's Lazy Town) but wasn't able to negotiate through all the political stuff.) I did not approach you and ask you what your heritage was, I picked up on it in mid thread.
3) What has fascinated me since I went to Iceland for the first time was meeting other Asian decents that did not speak their heritage tongue nor did they speak English. They spoke strictly Icelandic (Skogafoss had to translate.) It was an eye opening experience for me because I made the assumption that all Asians would have learned and spoke english. Since that time, I have paid close attention when travelling to other European countries how the Asians perceive themselves and how they are perceived. Meeting Chinese/Koreans in Madrid that spoke perfect Castillian Spanish but no English, unlike the shop owners here who speak somewhat broken Spanish to the customers and laborers.
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