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Originally Posted by MolsonExport
I'm in Kauai. The beaches are peerless.
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Nice. I've been to a lot of beaches but the ones in Hawaii are best. Warm water, nice sand, beautiful surroundings and not too many sea creatures that sting, bite or otherwise make life unpleasant.
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Originally Posted by Acajack
90 people out of 6,000 in Gimli have Icelandic as a mother tongue.
Whether in Canada or elsewhere, I highly doubt anywhere outside of Iceland is "truly Icelandic" to any appreciable degree.
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Gimli sure isn't. Most of the Icelanders arrived 100-150 years ago, and there are probably just as many if not more people of central/eastern European descent as those waves of immigration arrived later.
There may still be a handful of old timers who speak the language but by and large Gimli is fully generic Canadian. The Icelandic festival is a nice way to celebrate that aspect of the town's heritage, but let's not pretend that Gimli is a little piece of Iceland or whatever the tourism office would have people believe. Although that sort of thing is kind of a Canadian fetish.