• Diddlydee@feddit.uk
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    5 days ago

    Surely that info is freely available on the passport they are using to go through the airport.

        • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space
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          5 days ago

          Björgúlfur or something, surely.

          Also, is Iceland falling so far behind in racial stereotyping that they’d bring in a German to do it for them?

          • anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            5 days ago

            It’s a german inside joke, explained in this video (in german).

            There is a far right politician named Björn and who was mistakenly called Bernd by a local newspaper and got angry. To annoy him, a satire show calls him Bernd all the time. This caused enough confusion, that a public broadcaster messing up.
            Edit: spelling

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        5 days ago

        All they need to do it check all of the passports to make sure his selections are accurate!

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      4 days ago

      Iceland’s in the Schengen area so there’s a lot of flights coming where they don’t even ask for your passport. That’s how it was done when I was there in 2019 or so, anyway.

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      Passports are checked by some government authority, they don’t give you access to the data, so the professional racist is there for statistics used by whomever.

      • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.world
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        5 days ago

        Surely they can extract just that data. Though it might depend on that country’s specific regulation.