Icelanders

Icelanders as a nation is both a collective term of all Icelandic citizens as well as the name for the ethnic group that puts on Iceland with 96.5% of the population majority.

The Icelanders are often referred to as one of the most homogeneous peoples of the world. There is, consequently, efforts to explore the " gene pool " of the island and to achieve commercial benefit from the research results. The project is very controversial because of privacy and the fact that the investigation can take place without the consent of the affected are too little attention to the opinion of the opponents. The homogeneity of the population is also not seen in science as absolutely secure. It is believed that the immigrants from the Nordic countries brought with them a large proportion of Celtic slaves of the British and Irish islands in the settlement and have offspring were generated between these groups of migrants in land acquisition. Isolated by the sea has the people - compared to many other nations - changed relatively little until the Second World War. Technical progress and the increased mobility has the immigration of other ethnic groups favored since.

  • Ethnic group in Europe
  • Icelander
  • Germanischsprachige ethnicity
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