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Surely that info is freely available on the passport they are using to go through the airport.
Probably, but they figured out they could save time by just hiring Björn here.
His name is bernd!
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?
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
Who burnt it?
How'd it get burned!?
All they need to do it check all of the passports to make sure his selections are accurate!
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.
Surely they can extract just that data. Though it might depend on that country's specific regulation.
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.