role reversal

This one has been sitting in my "future post ideas" box forever, back from the early days of the Iceland Report. And I guess its time has come. So the gist is, what if America's and Iceland's positions in the world were reversed? What would be some of the implications of that?

• Tourists from Iceland expecting Americans to speak fluent Icelandic, Americans having been raised on a steady diet of sitcoms and movies from Iceland. Verðbréfaspilið: The Movie.
  
• Americans have no idea why President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson so popular in Iceland, thinking Icelanders a bunch of idiots for electing him.
• Icelandic Navy Base in Maine provided significant chunk of American employment until Icelanders closed it down last year.
• Icelanders ask, "What language do Americans speak? Do they have their own language?"
• Americans grow up with specific ideas of places they want to see in Iceland. "I've always wanted to see Egilsstaður."
• Young Americans sprinkle their English with heavily-accented Icelandic idioms and phrases, older Americans frown on the practice. "I ran into her at the party. Það er ekki gott maður."
  
• Icelanders think America just another one of their territories.
• A young Icelandic professional moves to America and gets asked at least once a week, "Why did you come here?"
  
• "Icelandic Style" restaurants in NYC and Boston serve up lamb and potatoes, salted cod.
• Americans take regular shopping trips to Iceland, come back with suitcases laden down with wool and skyr.
• Kids on the streets of NYC shamelessly wear KR hats, having never seen a single soccer game.

OK, kids, I'd like to see more of these in the comments section!