the fuck is with these comments? yall never leave the united states? this isn’t about race. you can absolutely make a ton of informed observations based on so many social cues, styles, speech, and so on. and as others pointed out, the guests tell you too lol.
Honestly it’s fucking weird you guys think this is racist. makes me wonder if you even understand what racism is
Palli, hahah
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.
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.
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!
I am outraged by this!
They come here, to this country, and they take away our outrage!
Lemmy’s participants, by and large, make me happy. Thanks, guys.
Stop being so easily outraged, it outrages me.
Alright this is getting out right outrageous.
Lemmy users sure are a contentious people.
YOU JUST MADE ME OUTRAGED FOR LIFE!
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!”
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.
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.
British people hate people from the next county over more than they hate Gypsies and foreigners combined
It’s more sibling rivalry than hate. It’s far more terrifying. It gets even more so when something actually threatens either one. Anyone who’s seen the result of picking on the youngest of 3 brothers knows exactly what I mean.
It’s like a regional version of “better a heathen than a heretic”
As an American, in Tennessee, I don’t understand it. It’s not like the Brits have to deal with fucking Kentuckians, the cousin banging weirdos. Why do they hate on their neighbors so much? I mean, I have to live next door to yankee posers who fuck their sisters and made meth the state bird. And you don’t see me hating on the neighbors like that!
made meth the state bird
where’s this joke from? it feels familiar.
If I got it from somewhere I’ve forgotten. Closest similar joke I know is mosquito is the state bird
Next county? What about those swivel-eyed, inbred, sister-marrying, six-fingered, funny-talking loons from… the next town along?
Doesn’t even have to be the next county over for Newcastle and Sunderland
Scousers’ opinion of people from Sefton, Knowsley, St Helens: yeah, sound, bit odd but whatever. Scousers’ opinion of people from the Wirral: plazzy Scousers, the dark side, woollybacks… It must be something to do with rivers.
Gateshead is just getting caught in the crossfire
FYI loath vs loathe if you’re interested (unless it was a typo)
Typo
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.
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.
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.
Probably, but they figured out they could save time by just hiring Björn here.
His name is bernd!
Who burnt it?
How’d it get burned!?
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
All they need to do it check all of the passports to make sure his selections are accurate!
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.
What if you are VERY mixed race? Is that an automatic “American”?
That’s what he picks if you tell him you’re Irish.
Assuming someone very mixed race is American is definitely an automatic “America”.
Believe it or not, straight to the detention camp.
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.
I assume this is to select the country the passport is from or something?
Nm i’m in the wrong place 🙂
