Comments on: What do Icelanders call Black People?

By: Gunnar

Gunnar — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 04:29:47 +0000

Hi, Chimaobi. I’m from Iceland, “Feces” means “Saur” in Icelandic, I don’t know of any words that describe black people here that even resemble that word, the closest would be “Surtur”, which is usually thought of as derogatory term here (To the point of actually being on the same level as “nigger” in English), so its hardly ever used. An interesting side-note: Surtur is a fire jotun in the Norse mythologies.

However, Icelandic people generally call black people just “black”, (svartur/svertingi), white people are white (hvítur/hvítingi), there are no fancy/high culture words for races here, it just is what it is, the idea behind that is not really a racist one, its just that people here are mostly (not the older generation) indifferent to this stuff, because this shit just don’t matter here, which is in my opinion the best route to take, people are judged by their personalities and their traits, not by some superficial idea that has no real impact in the world.

By: Chimaobi

Chimaobi — Thu, 19 May 2011 09:27:44 +0000

Huh— That’s not what I heard last I spoke to some Brothers that live in Iceland.

As I understand, one word they have for black people contains the same word for ‘feces’. Iceland sounds crazy to me, and I live in Norway so it’sn not like I haven’t seen marginalization or discrimination.

Any one know about this?

Peace

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