And so over a thousand years at least there were a lot of recluses, there were a lot of educated men who simply couldn't tolerate any more evil – they simply dropped out and they would migrate to small villages, to farms.
Then, in the 1970s and 80s, social and economic reforms triggered the start of a major transition to urban living and many of the country's small villages transformed into enormous metropolises.
Now, local residents that we spoke to here in the small village of Kulusuk said the American's tried to acquire Greenland in 1867 and in World War II and they failed.