It is selfserving folk that see it as a great career path, and ideologists that see it as a socialdemocratic mission of peace and prosperity and bigger is better kind of mentality. With a bit of self-loathing added to it, you can find something of all these in the typical EU enthusiaist.
Who has been teaching Icelanders to loathe themselves? It’s not as if Icelanders suppressed any indigenous population, had colonies, or started wars.