i think (i'm not sure) the hatred of the american soldiers had less to do with the occupying and then after the war, the NATO protection deal (or whatever it was) that led to them sticking around until like 2009, and more to do with how they had nice houses to live in and good wages and good clothes and the icelanders, at the time, did not. in the countryside, turf houses were still common, and in the city, people were slumming it. few jobs, no industry (aside from fishing), and the country really struggled for a while after gaining independence from denmark. so i think for a lot of people, the american soldiers became a symbol of things they couldn't have? i'm just speculating here.
:''D socialrealism as a genre was all the rage in the 80s, lol. and it usually wasn't neat stuff, it was people working through national and personal trauma and other shitty stuff. funny how that's how socialrealism works...you never get the happy stories with that one.
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Date: 2019-01-06 10:28 pm (UTC)i think (i'm not sure) the hatred of the american soldiers had less to do with the occupying and then after the war, the NATO protection deal (or whatever it was) that led to them sticking around until like 2009, and more to do with how they had nice houses to live in and good wages and good clothes and the icelanders, at the time, did not. in the countryside, turf houses were still common, and in the city, people were slumming it. few jobs, no industry (aside from fishing), and the country really struggled for a while after gaining independence from denmark. so i think for a lot of people, the american soldiers became a symbol of things they couldn't have? i'm just speculating here.
:''D socialrealism as a genre was all the rage in the 80s, lol. and it usually wasn't neat stuff, it was people working through national and personal trauma and other shitty stuff. funny how that's how socialrealism works...you never get the happy stories with that one.