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Originally Posted by Ustwo
I think it means that Iceland is protected by its stronger non -expansionist neighbors and therefore has no need for a military. I would aslo suspect that Iceland has a very low number of minority groups and is in fact almost all caucasian and of the same subgroup of caucasian. One of those sad facts that its not PC to talk about, and of course will get you called a racist, is that diversity of culture leads to crime and violance.
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Incidentally, Iceland was a charter member of NATO and had American troops stationed on the island since then, until the Americans pulled out earlier this year. So you would have been right in the last 60 years, except for recently.
Iceland has no military protection currently, as far as I know.
In terms of minority groups, actually that is changing quite a bit too. In the last 10-20 years, there has been a huge influx of immigrants to the country, mostly from Eastern Europe and Asia. A ton of these are mail-order brides, but most of them are labor migrants whom the country welcomed in order to work the dirty jobs no one wanted. You are correct in saying that crime has increased in recent years, but I am not sure if it is directly correlated to immigration; a great deal of crime in Iceland is related to drug use, which is almost entirely engaged in by the dominant caucasian population and not the immigrants.
So, I am not convinced that diversity of culture is a direct cause of crime/violence. Humans, unfortunately, make it that way... due to a run on limited resources (often resulting from prejudice and barring minorities from equal access to resources, though sometimes it's just a problem of demand exceeding supply). But I have seen diverse cultures where crime/violence does not always increase as a result.
In any case, I find it immensely relieving that there aren't a bunch of guns lying around in Iceland, whether with the police or otherwise. There are plenty of other violent crimes, mostly fights between drunken Icelanders on the street at 4am, but gun violence is just not part of the culture in Iceland. People do hunt (mostly birds... there isn't much else!
) but otherwise it's fairly easy to control the flow of guns into the country due to it being a tiny island.
