The Beauty of Iceland

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    How easy or difficult do you think it would be to vacation in the country you have been studying for one to two weeks? To live in that country for one year or more? What challenges would you expect to face in the process of adapting to the culture in that country? Use one or two specific cultural examples from your previous blog posts to support your claims. What can you do beginning today to make cultural adaptation less difficult or troublesome? (See pp. 384-386, Managing Culture Shock and Enhancing Acculturation)    It wouldn't be that difficult to vacation in Iceland since most of the population knows how to speak English, and I can communicate with individuals I may interact with while I am there. As I have mentioned in my blog posts, Iceland welcomes newcomers; they always will help others and are the friendliest. It would be a fantastic opportunity to live in the country I have chosen to study, mainly because I have seen all the beautiful pictures on...

  The education system in Iceland is divided into four different sections. The first section is ECEC, which stands for Early Childhood Education Care Level 0. The services provided to children started when the child was around 18 to 36 months until they reached the age of 6. These services they provide are the following, according to Eurydice , “ monitor and encourage children’s general development in close cooperation with parents and guardians; provide systematic linguistic stimulation and contribute to general skills in the Icelandic language; provide children with mental, intellectual and physical care according to the needs of the individual child, so that they may enjoy their childhood; encourage children’s broad-mindedness and strengthen their moral values; lay the foundation necessary for children to become independent, autonomous, active and responsible participants in a democratic society that is undergoing rapid and continuous development; cultivate children’s expressive...

             After doing some research on Ireland’s Healthcare system and I was impressed Iceland has a total of seven different kind of healthcare plans for there citizens. According to Government of Iceland states following The Health Services Act provides for the organisation of healthcare services. Its objective is to afford all Icelanders with access to the best available healthcare which can be provided at any given time. Everyone needs the services of the healthcare system at some time, although to a varying extent, and the system takes into consideration the different needs and circumstances of persons through all stages of life. The work of public health and preventive medical services are an important part of improving or maintaining good health and increasing well-being in Iceland” ( U.S. National Library of Medicine) . I honestly think its super great that Iceland provides great healthcare for each person’s needs as I was doing my rese...

       The business world in Iceland is very different compared to other cultural norms. As I mentioned in one of my previous blogs to Icelanders, it is imperative in their culture that when someone comes to a work meeting that they are correctly greeted with a handshake and that the individual makes some eye contact with them and, if possible, handing out business cards within other business partners or people they may even know. In Icelander culture, it was fascinating how they view and perceive their business meeting in the most conclusive way but at the same time. They also try to make it enjoyable by interacting with one another and getting to know the person or the business partners they will be working with. In most cases, it is odd that people from Iceland invite their business associates or partners from other counties into their homes and continue their business plans and discussions. As I mentioned in one of my previous blogs, Icelanders are all about punc...

    1.      Why is it important to understand as much as possible about the nonverbal language of a particular culture when interacting with others from that culture?      I think the reason why it’s important for one to understand the nonverbal language of a cultural is so that they can have a better understanding of the person’s body language. Another important concept that I would also like to add is that with nonverbal communication is present in a cultural aspect. One must be very careful how they interact with others because in some cultures as we learned in chapter nine in our textbook nonverbal communication can be interpreted differently depending on the cultural that you are interacting with. A great example could be that in several cultures it can be seen as disrespectful if you don’t greed someone whose walking by or when you don’t make eye contact it can be taken the wrong away as if you were offending someone for example. ...

     The official language of Iceland is " Icelandic ," and most of its residents speak this language. Britannica states, " It belongs (with  Norwegian  and  Faroese ) to the West Scandinavian group of North  Germanic languages  and developed from the Norse speech brought by settlers from western  Norway  in the 9th and 10th centuries. Old Icelandic, usually called  Old Norse , is the language in which the  Eddas ,  sagas , and  skaldic poems  were written in the  Middle Ages " .  The last paragraph shows us that this language has been around for a very long time. It was very interesting how Icelandic came together from several different languages. In the following paragraphs, I will review a bit about each foreign language and how it came to be (Britannica, T. Editors of Encyclopedia. (2022, September 26).            Old Icelandic, also known as  Old Norse , is a...