We are down to earth and kind and you are dumb and fat

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This American guy asked some Danes in Copenhagen what stereotypes they have about Americans and also what are Danish people like.

This dude was hilarious, he cracked me up. Basically, "We are down to earth, kind, may be a little reserved at first but very friendly and you are dumb, fat and have ridiculous laws." Cool.

And yay to "free money, free education and beautiful women" of course.

Here he is at 7:49:

And here at 2:49:

Comments

[diejacobsleiter.livejournal.com]

I have a friend in London. His daughter, who has a last Russian name too long and unpronounceable for Brits, was in a group of students with some Iceland girl, who has a long and unpronounceable Iceland name. Funnily, these two names were the first ones that the group memorized and learned to pronounce perfectly. The effect of a challenge...

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Yes, it often works like this. Why bother memorising John Smiths of the world? Now Hrafnhildur Lúthersdóttir is a cool one to remember ).

[diejacobsleiter.livejournal.com]

Exactly!

[diejacobsleiter.livejournal.com]

Lúthersdóttir seems to mean "Luther's daughter", it's a patronymic name. Quite easy to memorize.

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If you know it, then yes but not if it is the first time you see such a name.

[diejacobsleiter.livejournal.com]

Hrafn = raven, Hildur = Hilde. Raven's Hilde. Nice name for a girl, isn't it?

And yes, icelanders are interesting. There is the list of ALL icelanders in wiki. And they know their genealogy 1000 years back, to the times of ancient sagas and can tell whose grandgrand...pa is that guy in a saga of IX century.

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Most Icelanders do not have family names, patronymics are used instead. Some do however.