{"id":22388,"date":"2023-12-06T14:04:35","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T19:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/?p=22388"},"modified":"2023-12-06T14:05:38","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T19:05:38","slug":"return-from-the-land-of-fire-and-ice-blog-post-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2023\/12\/06\/return-from-the-land-of-fire-and-ice-blog-post-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Return from the Land of Fire and Ice (blog post #3)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ironically enough, Icelanders are a very cold people; they tend to be a bit blunt and standoffish. Which I found presented a few interesting interactions that put me and my peers into situations that could&#8217;ve been resolved with little explanation and conversation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think it made for very confrontational moments. Especially with the culture of the program is don&#8217;t ask &#8220;squeeze bottle&#8221; questions; ie easily found out questions. This is understandable considering we were all in our 20s but I think it made all of us less comfortable to ask valuable questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think it depends on the family because not every Icelander I met was standoffish, so I think generally speaking if I grew up in the culture of Iceland was my home id feel extremely comfortable with the community and people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think having the basic blunt exposure for such a long period of time will give me the necessary understanding of what a globalized world means. How much the US impacts other cultures for better and worse. I also think that being abroad allows for a better understanding of the faults of my home country as I was so immersed in the ideals of my host country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ironically enough, Icelanders are a very cold people; they tend to be a bit blunt and standoffish. Which I found presented a few interesting interactions that put me and my peers into situations that could&#8217;ve been resolved with little explanation and conversation. I think it made for very confrontational moments. Especially with the culture of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":807,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[369,383,299],"class_list":["post-22388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sit","tag-rollinsabroad","tag-iceland","tag-sit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/807"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22389,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22388\/revisions\/22389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}