Prejudices Against Germans.

Sauerkraut ? Beer ?
i´m curious........pump it out of your system. now.
me and noisemonster are statementing whether it´s true or not.

I'm not prejudice against you Krauts..You're all Nazi's and are cruel, right? Do nothing but guzzle beer and eat sausages? :duh:

Do I even need to explain that I'm kidding? My 2 favorite teachers of all time were German and one was the reason I took the language in high school..I'll be there in 2 years for World Cup..:D

[Edited on 11-11-2004 by poobs]

It's funny you should ask! I've got a ton of them.

I feel as if I'm fully prepared for Germany now, Batcave..Thanks!!

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Originally posted by seacaptain Excuse me, sir, do you happen to know a little German? Yes, he's sitting right over there.

I seem to be easily ammused today.

wow, that´s a list indeed....let´s see. noisemonster!!! i need assistance ...yes, our castles are beautiful though we don´t have as many and as nice ones as the Southern Tyrolese people. Castle Neuschwanstein is worth a trip, but even more looky looky is the castle Linderhof -both castles built by Ludwig.

In general one can say that there are massive differences of Northern Germans and Soutern Germans. The wealth status, the dialect, and most of all the view on certain things and their way of behaving. Often people say that e.g. people in Hamburg arent´s as friendly as people in Bavaria but i am not sure whether one should generalize it. ......anyways. it´s the "Wessi" (West German) and "Ossi" (Eastern German) prejudices some people still have.

Bratwurst ..mmmh, i think the Nürnberger people make the best ones even though i´m not into them that much. i go for the Augsburg-based Bosna sausage or a good old decent Curry Wurst at times. (will this end in a penis / chorizo topic again after that statement ????).

World Cup 06 ...aaah, i´m scared of that. that many people here. but i don´t think i´ll live in Germany still by then. i think on moving to another country next autumn. and just coming over to visit my family as often as i can.

hey batcave, you didn´t only adapt "Kindergarten" from the German lingo but also "Rucksack" ....tsk. word heist. what kills me on America is that various places have the names of European cities. Vienna etc. why ? an attempt for cultivation ???

we eat a lot of bread ...mmmmh, i´ve been told this before by Italians. might be true. we like to have a bread or semmel with marmelade for breakfast, we sometimes eat bread along to lunch and sometimes in the evening also. i don´t .....seldom. and if i do then in the evening for dinner. to Germans a bread with cheese and sausage on is like a subway sandwich to an American i suppose ...

the average German speaks like 7 languages ? no no no. most Germans are capable of English ("zee man lives in zee house" :lol but not too many know more than like 2 languages. maybe 3. if you go to high school here you have to take Latin or French so you´re capable of that one as well...

i´d say that Germans are pretty much into the concept of politics, stock market, ikea, h&m and above all - in love with safety, cleaniness. they like things to be settled and organized as well as original. well, that´s all there is to say now.

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Originally posted by EvilMotivator Good to know.

It's a movie* reference... Poobs picked up on it.

*Top Secret

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Originally posted by Jette i agree. mainly becaue i know fuck all of politics..

Nothing to do with politics all Sebs posts are tiresome and bore me

I think Dyler's on the rag..

I think Dyler's a hag!

And a nag..

Nag..

Hag..

Fag.. :P

bare with the youngin.........:duh:

Didn't someone have to explain arse, too? You should watch more English films..

i found this on the internet.

Germans drink beer at the Oktoberfest, in lederhosen and a silly hat. Proper Germans are blond and have blue eyes. They live on sausages with sauerkraut. And their music does not go beyond Beethoven and Bach. Clichees abound. Always good for a laugh when you try to find an answer for what is typically German. But what is typical, when you are talking about a country with a population of more than 80 million?

Is it typical, that Germans have a hard time being positive about themselves? You can’t think of anything either? How about hospitality, generosity and a readiness to help. Punctuality perhaps and zeal. Whatever, in the past ten years, German society has changed. Influenced by many people of different nationalities who have come and now call Germany home. And as a result, many of the old clichees just don’t work anymore.

Yet the tale of the "nasty German", who has such a problem with his image in the world, was one Boris Becker and Claudia Schiffer could not get around either. But if you come to Germany with an open mind, you’re in for a surprise. You will find Germans with dreadlocks. And Germans who eat kebabs. Germans who like to laugh and live it up. In many places the mentality of ordinary Germans is closer to those in neighbouring countries, than it is to Germans in other (Bundes)Länder. Modern Germany is far too diverse and complex to fit into a simple clichee. There is something new to discover that is "typical" everyday. And that is probably "typically German" as well.

here's my statement about my home country germany. (in no particular order; just 'brainstorming'. haha, prejudices about ourselves..

language: we have a kind of complex, complicated language, although for (most of!) us, it's easy to speak. many have difficulties with foreign languages, this results in that special funny accent of germans speaking english (you all know). but as 7cut said, there's a quite good foreign language education in school.
germany has a whole lot of dialects, not all of them are easy to understand. and: we use more and more anglicisms, even ones that do not have the original meaning (did you know that the englishgerman word 'handy' means 'mobile phone'?)

food: yesssssssss, we are eating bread, bread, bread. (well, not me really, but the 'normal' germans do). and it's not only that white, soft bread, but often wholemeal bread and breadrolls. but the fast-food scene is slowly taking over the eating preferences of the young. and: i guess we eat way more döner-kebab than the turkish people. i think döner is even more popular now than hamburgers or schnitzel.
haha, the one of you who said beer is absolutely right! there are some alcoholics here, but in my experience the russians and polish are the real alkies.

the east/west-conflict: even if we wish it wasn't so, there's still a gap between ossis' and wessis' thoughts. i think this also results from higher unemployment rates in the east. there are way more people electing neonazi parties in the east (not so long ago, it was more than 10% in sachsen? or was it brandenburg?) of course, you cannot generalize that. we're slowly mixing up. there's a lot of narrow-minded people in the western part, too.

music/scene: unlike other european countries like sweden, we have v e r y few bands that are known outside germany (, and switzerland, austria, and maybe the netherlands). don't know the reason for that. (there are many good bands, but all not well-known, or if, then only here.) many of the 'alternative' people listen to emo/hardcore, or university students might listen to hamburger-schule-bands. i'm an absolute exotic with my taste of mainly, let's call it electropunk.

bureaucracy: this is extreeeeemely annoying here. you have to fill out myriads of forms, and no one really understands officers' or lawyers' german.

and (bai ze veh):
q (by a german): can i become a beefsteak?
a: oh, i hope you won't, sir!
(haha)

.......now i bored you, eh?

:D i'm off to the phoenix show in frankfurt. laters!

Hey Noisemo, do the Americans have "Semmeln" ? i tried explaining a friend of mine what it is but failed horribly...

i never asked an american about brötchen. aren't they called breadrolls?
hey 7 - do you call a normal brötchen a wasserbrötchen? when i moved to southern hesse, i didn't know what this was, the bakery staff girl looked at me like i was retarded or something..

whaaat ? never heard that term before ...but i know that Berlin-people call a "belegtes Brot" a "Stulle" ... a normal "semmel" is a "Sternsemmel". or just "semmel".

Oh my Gosh Turtle! I love your avatar! Yeee-hawww!