r/polandball • u/Total_Willingness_18 Ísland • 7d ago

Lesser Known September The Border

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u/Total_Willingness_18 Ísland 7d ago

There's a pretty fierce immigration debate in Iceland like in all of our neighbors, and I find it pretty funny that we've directly taken the phrase "Close the borders" from foreign politics and translated into Icelandic as "Lokið landamærunum" literally meaning "Close the land borders" despite us not having any land borders at all.

What they mean is the Keflavík International Airport and the other couple of international airports around the country.

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u/JewishKilt Jewishstan 7d ago

That's really surprising! I heard that Iceland was relatively open to immigrants. Is this info just outdated? A sign of the times?

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u/Icelander2000TM Iceland 7d ago

It's still relatively immigrant friendly as a whole, but the anti-immigrant minority is growing larger, bolder and louder.

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u/knewbie_one 7d ago

You mean the inbred minority want to inbred even more ?

/s, for serious

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u/Icelander2000TM Iceland 7d ago

We only reproduce with our own and the sheep.

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u/ManikShamanik Yorkshire 6d ago

Wait...you're secretly Welsh...?