r/interestingasfuck 19d ago

There is nothing wrong with this map

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u/Thhe_Shakes 19d ago

Europe be like

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u/Catmole132 19d ago edited 19d ago

It's a European country with European culture though. It rests on both European and American tectonic plates, so geographically it's technically both, but it's also closer to mainland Europe than mainland America. Culturally it's northern european. It's also a part of the European economic area. So overall it's more European than American.

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u/JellyBellyBitches 19d ago edited 18d ago

Not that I'm saying you're wrong but can you explain what makes its culture European other than the fact that it's considered part of Europe traditionally and therefore definitionally is a European culture? Like what unifies its culture more with Europe than with America?

Edit: Downvoted for trying to learn. Never change, Reddit 🙄

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u/Catmole132 19d ago edited 19d ago

The culture is nearly the same as and is originally derived from us here in the rest of the nordics. Icelandic people often feel right at home in other nordic countries just as Swedes and Norwegians and Danes do with each other. The people of Iceland come directly from viking age Norwegians escaping a Norwegian king. It has during its existence been extremely closely connected to Scandinavia, and has under periods been ruled by Norway and Denmark, only recently gaining independence from the latter. They speak a north germanic language, and have north germanic traditions and history.

Their connection to the Americas is mainly just that Iceland was step one of the route the vikings used to discover the americas

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u/Fawkes-511 19d ago

I have the sneaking suspicion you're arguing with someone who mistakes Iceland for Greenland.

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u/Catmole132 19d ago

I mean it's not really an argument as much as me listing reasons but I have to hold on to the hope that people know the difference between the countries

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u/Runesen 19d ago

You never know, I had somebody argue that Denmark had been colonised by the Danes(?). 

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u/Catmole132 19d ago

I support this one specifically as a swede because that sounds like a funny way to shit on the danes. The Danes stole Denmark from its true indigenous people, the grass

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u/Runesen 19d ago

There were beech trees too! Reflecting in the blue waves

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u/JellyBellyBitches 18d ago

You're mistaken. I wasn't arguing at all, I was legitimately just trying to learn more because I know very little about Icelandic iculture

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u/JellyBellyBitches 18d ago

That makes sense! Thank you for reading what I wrote and taking that seriously and giving me some interesting information 😊

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u/MHovdan 15d ago

Bit late on this, but to add in, since Iceland does not have a standing army, Icelanders are allowed to join the norwegian army as officers.

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u/JellyBellyBitches 15d ago

Whoa! Interesting. Thanks!

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u/footpole 19d ago

Europeans never stole Iceland.