Comments by "Halfdan Ingolfsson" (@Halli50) on "CNBC Make It" channel.

  1. Icelander here: I'm glad that you feel at home here and that are now an Icelandic citizen. You will find bigots and racists everywhere but the color of your skin is , at best, a curiosity here. If you can get by in Icelandic (don't be shy about it, just flaunt it!), just say something in not-perfect Icelandic, and the ice is broken - you are one of us!
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  2. Happiness is being content with what you have, not what you COULD have. Once you reach a certain threshold (income, security, personal life) there is little point in chasing that elusive "more" that seems so pervasive in the US. How do you describe colors to blind people? Try describing "happiness" to 'Muricans... We Icelanders have become addicted to our version of Sauna - no wood-burning stoves (our few trees are sacred), we are electric or geothermal. What we have in common with the Finns is the lack of perversion regarding nakedness. This is the way we were born, this is the way we will be buried: Without a stitch! I truly think our hot-pot and sauna culture is something we enjoy just as much as the Finns, even if our traditions do not reach as deep (well, our hot-pot culture does, even Snorri Sturluson had one). Danish "hygge" is not something you consume. You do not come home from a stressful day at work and instantly switch to "hygge". That is not how it works. If you regularly have stressful days at work and are unable to have "hygge" at home, it is time to find a new and more fulfilling job, which is just what Danish society supports! Getting extra education for a new role in life is just the ticket, usually supported by the government. One cannot help feeling sorry for the citizens of the US the way things have been going for the last 40 years. Add a global catastrophe on top of a truly horrible head of state, and you have the recipe for a true disaster, along the lines of what happened in Germany and Italy following the Great Depression.
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