I’ve been there this summer. There’s a sign asking you to tell your nationality while passing the person. It’s just for tourist demographics and completely voluntary.
That ruins the outrage!
Poser racists think all Asian people are Chinese, all Hispanic people are Mexican, and all Black people are African. Professional racists can identify your home region by the minute traits that they loath about you.
“The slight trill in their accent and the width of the bridge of their nose tells me that they are from the Cassidian Provence of Blahgistan just north of the Arno Mountain range… bloody Cassidians taking our jobs!”
I learn more about other cultures so I can be racist more accurately
I mean, being racist is such a huge part of your life. Why wouldn’t you want to do it well? Anything worth doing is worth doing right.
Seriously, racists are so lazy nowadays. Judging people based solely on skin color? Back in the day, they treated that shit like science.
GeoGuessr, but with people.
“I can see that the hair has split ends so we can narrow it down to 45 degrees of the equator, that hair clip that has 3 black stripes in the middle so that means we can narrow it down to Southeast Pennsylvania. Actually that scar looks like it was made from the fence surrounding the Walmart on Driver Road…”
That and absolutely nobody wins.
FYI loath vs loathe if you’re interested (unless it was a typo)
Typo
Icelanders can definitely tell a fellow Icelander from a foreigner just by looking.
I married one, so it always amuses me to see Icelandic shop staff look at us both and struggle for a second to work out which language to use.
Imagine a NK General in uniform walks by and he clicks Japan lol
Being Danish and intimately acquainted with my neighbours, I actually think you can tell Norwegians from Swedes fairly easy by looking at them. Not based on science, but… nevertheless.
Norwegian here: Yes. There are definitely some people that look very stereotypically Danish or Swedish, to the point where I feel like I know where they’re from before they say anything. Once they start talking, any doubts are of course out the window.
This job does not take your casual racist; no this takes a competitive racist to identify them.
Exactly what I hoped it was
Surely that info is freely available on the passport they are using to go through the airport.
Probably, but they figured out they could save time by just hiring Björn here.
His name is bernd!
Björgúlfur or something, surely.
Also, is Iceland falling so far behind in racial stereotyping that they’d bring in a German to do it for them?
It’s a german inside joke, explained in this video (in german).
There is a far right politician named Björn and who was mistakenly called Bernd by a local newspaper and got angry. To annoy him, a satire show calls him Bernd all the time. This caused enough confusion, that a public broadcaster messing up.
Edit: spelling
Who burnt it?
How’d it get burned!?
All they need to do it check all of the passports to make sure his selections are accurate!
Iceland’s in the Schengen area so there’s a lot of flights coming where they don’t even ask for your passport. That’s how it was done when I was there in 2019 or so, anyway.
Passports are checked by some government authority, they don’t give you access to the data, so the professional racist is there for statistics used by whomever.
Surely they can extract just that data. Though it might depend on that country’s specific regulation.
I wasn’t aware nationality and race were indistinguishable. Yet.
hol up, whats wrong with his face? is it melting? is his eyebrow below the top of his ear?? lol
I’ve self diagnosed with face blindness, so I’m not certainly not the greatest expert on this subject, but I think that might be an eyelid combined with an odd camera angle.
What if you are VERY mixed race? Is that an automatic “American”?
Assuming someone very mixed race is American is definitely an automatic “America”.
Believe it or not, straight to the detention camp.
That’s what he picks if you tell him you’re Irish.
Brazilian, I guess? Ethnical diversity is a known characteristic of the Brazilian history.
I like to think of myself as European, thank you very much.
Palli, hahah
Pyytäisitkö palliasi lopettamaan twiittailun, Matti. Vähintäänkin voisit pyytää siirtymään Mastodoniin.
I assume this is to select the country the passport is from or something?
Nm i’m in the wrong place 🙂
