Adopt an Icelander - Black is White and White is Black

When Iceland's economy crumbled in 2008, so went the leisurely party lives of thousands of young Icelanders. They are called "The Cuddly Generation" (Krutt-kynslotin in Icelandic), and they need your help. Please donate whatever you can - money, plane tickets, alcohol or kind words (they all speak English). Anything to help these beautiful, fun-loving viking progeny reclaim the free-spirited times of no work and all play to which they grew so accustomed... even if it's just for one wild night.

If you are an Icelander longing for your glory days, send me a photo and your story; I will tell the world how carefree your life once was, and how depressing and lame it is now. And if you are a humanitarian who would like to contact one of the Icelanders whose story you saw here, email me and I will forward your message to them.

Call me Rhys Southan.

rhys ( @ ) adoptanicelander (DOT) com

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Black is White and White is Black — The Iceland Weather Report

“It was so clearly evident that my elderly neighbour, beneath a thin veneer of pleasantries, was absolutely seething. Yet her anger was not directed at those who should be held accountable, but at those pressing for change. It was pretty creepy. And for the first time I found myself literally face to face with the disturbing power that the old establishment in this country seems to hold over so many individuals, almost like they have been hypnotized to believe that black is white, and white is black. And people wonder why things don’t change around here.”

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