Lots of new interesting udates on www.faroeislandsreview.com

Updates on www.faroeislandsreview.com in week 7, 2010:

- Anna Is Through To Another Round in X-Factor
- Shrimp war: Faroe Islands blast Canada’s ports ban in fishing dispute.
- bARBARA i gONGINI Continues To Get Rave Reviews
- Funny Story About Faroese Drunken Sailors in 1972
- Another Timelapse Video From The Faroes
- Funny Ride From Tórshavn To Klaksvík
- Interview With Dutch Film Director And Author Threes Anna making research in the Faroes
- Oil-Industry: Three Wells In Prospect Off The Faroes
- Shrimp War Continues: Faroes And Greenland Make Breaking News In Canada
- Remember the old 'hit' "Farewell Faroe Islands"?
- Anna Nygaard Made It To The Next Round Of The Danish X-Factor Show
- Faroese Short Film "A Bad Day" Screens At European Indie Film Festival 2010
- Canada closes ports to Faroe Islands
- Copenhagen Fashion Week 2010: Faroese Designers Get Good Reviews

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Week 5-6 on www.faroeislandsreview.com

If you haven't visited www.faroeislandsreview.com lately, check it out! There are lots of new updates. Here is an overview of the latest updates in week 5-6, 2010:

FAROE STORIES TOLD ON STAMPS

Faroese stamps are an exciting treasure chest for stamp collectors and others interested in Faroese history, geography, nature, mythology and foklore.

SINGING PEOPLE - THE YOUNG GENERATION

Watch the trailer to Singing People, a 30-minutes documentary filmed in the summer 2008 about the young generation´s identity on the Faroes.

NEW SECTION

Watch webcams

THE FAROE ADVENTURE OF A FOOTBALL FAN - PART TWO

Episode 41 of the Faroe Islands Podcast is out! Guest: Dave Scally

FAROE ISLANDS IN GROUP C IN UEFA 2010

Follow the Uefa Euro 2012 qualifying draw - as it happened.

SYNARCHY RELEASES TWO NEW SONGS ON MYSPACE

Faroese heavy metal band Synarchy just posted the demos of two of the featured songs from the upcoming album.

NEW BOY CAN MAKE A FAROESE IMPRESSION

Unkown Newcastle new boy Joan Simun Edmundsson has been backed to make an impact on Tyneside.

LONELY PLANET PRIZES THE FAROE ISLANDS

Quote: "The proud, stoical Faroese character has been forged from Viking blood, Christian piety, Scandinavian openness and an awe for the humbling nature that’s all around."

PRE_SELECTION TO EUROVISON SONG CONTEST 2010

Denmark: Listen to Jens Marni Hansen sing the song Gloria

Iceland: Watch Jógvan Hansen sing the song One More Day

INTERVIEW WITH ROCK SINGER JENS MARNI

Jens Marni speaks to Escdaily.com: Jens Marni is one of the ten participants of Dansk Melodi Grand Prix

WHALE SLAUGHTER CLAIM MISLEADING

Quote from article opposingviews.com: "The recent video depicting the slaughter of long-finned pilot whales in the Faroe Islands was misleading..."

TÝR: VIDEO INTERVIEW WITH HERI JOENSEN

Sheila Doki of Metalholic.com conducts an interview with guitarist/vocalist Heri Joensen of Faroese Viking metallers TÝR.

THE FAROE ADVENTURE OF A FOOTBALL FAN - PART ONE

Episode 40 of the Faroe Islands Podcast is out! Manchester City football team's fan Dave Scally became a celebrity in the Faroe Islands after his intrepid North Atlantic pilgrimage. Guest: Dave Scally

INTERVIEW WITH SINGER JÓGVAN HANSEN

Jógvan Hansen, participant in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 preselection in Iceland speaks to esctoday.com

PÁLL FANGI _ THE 3rd FEATURE FILM IN FAROESE

View the trailer to one of the first three feature films in Faroese language.

EL CUADERNO DEL FEROÉS

Blog en español

FISHING DISPUTE HEATS UP

The conflict between Canada and Denmark (Faroe Islands and Greenland) is heating up over the northern shrimp.

Enjoy, folks!

Best regards

Elin Brimheim Heinesen, editor of

www.faroeislandsreview.com

Is Faroese Silence Rude?

Today I said goodbye to Threes Anna - a Dutch writer and film director (view her website here: www.threesanna.com). She leaves tonight with the ferry Norrøna after having done research for three weeks in the Faroe Islands for a future novel.

Threes Anna and I have met four times while she was here - and we have talked a lot about the Faroes and the Faroese people. Yesterday we talked about the fact that she had sent Emails to a lot of Faroese people prior to coming to the islands but she got no answer back from most of them.

She was not complaining about it - only wondering how it could be, because at first glance it seems like a rude way to behave but when she had met some of these people they turned out to be really nice and sweet people. So she asked if this was a special Faroese phenomena.

It got me thinking. I have heard other foreigners say exactly the same thing. So here are my thoughts about Faroese silence - I wrote it in an Email to Threes this afternoon:

It's true that the Faroese often choose just to say nothing (like not answering Emails!) because that's (in their opinion) the safest way to behave. They really don't think that their opinion matters that much to anyone else. So they choose just to say nothing. Then there is nothing to argue about either. Writing is even more dangerous because you can't see (or foresee) the reaction of the receiver, so people prefer to meet in person before they say anything.

This often proves to function well locally in the Faroes, where nobody expects anything else and people easily bump into each other by chance all the time. Here people also have developed a kind of silent body language between them. They read each other by their body language and thereby know what other people think (or at least they think they know). There is no need for saying that much.

The old men sitting on the bench by the harbour can sit there beside each other all day long saying nothing and still think they communicated very well! :-)

But this does not work well in the rest of the world! That is what people here will have to understand - IF they want to make other people feel more welcome, they need to be better at communicating with words!

I think, though, that the young people understand this better. Many younger people are much more outgoing than the older people. If you had met Sunneva from the bar Sirkus you would have met an example of exactly that.