Are there ANY GERMANS here?

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frackledJJ

Hey there!
Jep, there are Germans here. This one for instance. ;)
About the stereotypes: You are right, but on the other hand: I can hardly convince those people that we are not. They want to believe what they want to believe, no matter what (and than tell us we are all racists...), and all the Germans on here could write up a storm, it wouldn't help.
And the next thing: Even if they would have been or would come to Germany: Some, I guess many, of said group would actively practice selective listening and only let those words reach their ears that can be interpreted as rude, loud, and whatnot.
Sure, there are rude, aggressive and bad people in Germany. So there are in other countries. But if one acts rude and snotty to other people, one should be able to handle the echo. You wouldn't kick a dog and expect it to lick your hand in adoration afterwords, now, would you?

I, for my part, have met many rude ands obnoxious US-Americans and UK people. I still love those countries, am looking forward to going there again as fast as I can and sometimes miss them very much. Does not mean I don#t miss Germany when I'm over there!

Markus ATA Ā®

Native German here
About others envying our beautiful country there is a nice German proverb
'Viel Feind viel Ehr'
Translation Many enemies much honour.
I think that says it all ;)

Mr Renee

Theres a German at My Australian school on exchange
She's awesome
she tells me so many awesome stories from her home and you all seem to live the life

your great people

Vermont Kendo Hero

Rude, bad, aggressive, fat ? - I thought these are stereotypes for us US guys.

Alwin E

Showing up as native, political left-winger with a national attitude (yes, that's possible! Bayern MĆ¼nchen is the best football club in the world!), and I can get really bad about football. Fat, well, I could work on that; but aggressive: Yes, against extreme nationalists (I hesitate to call them Nazis, as at least the nazi leaders had brains, and the neos have none of it).

Yes, I can be rude. If someone does discuss with me on a specific topic and doesn't bring up arguements, I bring up mine and say "you're wrong, because:", instead of seemingly agree and softly turn his mind around. I know some Germans adapted to that, but I think denying one's culture of discussion in such a way does not promote the advancement of society either way. Instead it brings us back to a cosy group of animals in a cave who gather around the campfire and are afraid of their neighbors.

Harry L

Never heard those stereotypes about us before.
And there are too many overweight people here. Like in a lot of other industry nations.

But I often hear: trying to do things too perfectly, being too direct in what we say to others, insisting on our opinion....
Maybe someone else can come up with more. ;-)

Jon B

theres germans everywhere

Biedronka

Ich wohne in Berlin, aber komme aus SĆ¼d-Afrika. Tja - es gibt DummschwĆ¤tzer, was denkt,daĆ jeder Deutscher Lederhosen und Dirndyl tragt. Das ist total doff, aber na ja, so ist es...
Sie sind alle neidisch, weil Deutschland gut FuĆball spielt.

Mich

Might want to try the German version of Y!A (click on the German flag at the bottom of the page).
I'm not German, but I'm marrying someone from Bielefeld and have been there twice. For Americans to call Germans fat and aggressive is just ridiculous - the opposite is more true. Rude? Manners are a cultural thing. The Germans I know are all nice people, and even if they might occasionally blurt out "rude" things by American standards, it's clear they mean no harm by them.

Bill

We had a German foreign exchange student in our American home when I was in high school (I am half German)

He was an awkward, unpleasant, condecending dieselhead

My impressions have nothing to do with stereotypes, they're firsthand

I knew a nice pretty German girl later on, she said that Americans were way friendlier

passat_hobby

Hi, german here - lol.
Sorry, on my many trips to the US I saw much more fat people than overhere !
And Bayern Munich is a bad example - many people dont like that "Kicker" !

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