What do you like and dislike about Germans/Germany?

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thumberlina

I love teaching them -
I don't like the shops - miss shopping in the UK and I also miss UK mentality - people are different here

But I do like you
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Al_ide

Like- Germans make good lager
Dislike- The German language sounds like an angry Klingon. Athough for me, that might actually be a plus.

Sahra

I have to say when going on holiday, they are really arragont.

They leave the towells on the sunbeds and go out all day.

On my last holiday, there was just 2 sunbeds with towells on and an umbrella. In this place sunbeds and umbrellas were quite hard to find as the pool area got pretty packed. So we asked my friend (one of the lifeguards) for an umbrella so I could have a bit of shade for a bit and he took theirs seeing as nobody had been there for about 6 or 7 hours. When they came back the man came stomping up to us saying "Why did you take my umbrella? Its not yours!" and I'm like "Its not yours either!" anyway my mum told him that my friend gave us it much to my annoyance and he spent the rest of the hour looking for him.

Bexs

they always get the sunbeds first when you are on holiday. They make great cars though. .......................

Winette

Well, I'm 25% German but I think the whole Adolf Hitler/Nazi thing tends to bother people most.

julie travelcaster

When I don't know them, I dislike that they can be very distant. They really like their personal space, and are not as open, or maybe as in your face as Americans. About the country, there is nothing I dislike, except that it can be expensive to travel to.

What do I like?
About the people, when they do become close to you (when they start using the word "du" to speak to you) then they are genuinely warmer and more accepting than most people I have ever met in my life.

About the country
Wine
Beer
The beautiful Rhine River
The excitement and modernness of Berlin
The fact that history is so vivid so recently. You can talk over beer with someone who was there when the wall fell. You can visit the Concentration Camps (I don't like that piece of German history, but I don't blame it on the present-day Germans.)
Their real sense of history
The outstanding museums.
The FABULOUS transport system.
The majesty of Cologne's Cathedral
The stories that are everywhere
Did I mention wine?
Pfifferline mit Rahm!
Castles - especially Burg Elz and the Wartburg
Outdoor festivals and such
GlÃ¼hwein and hot nuts
Englisher Garten in Munich - nude sunbathers in a conservative city.
Berlin - I LOVE BERLIN
Karnival in KÃ¶ln
The language - when you learn it you find it is much prettier than it gets credit for.

That just scratches the surface.

Gizmo

Like Sausage, beer and the girl they call Heidi. Dislike the were forever sorry routine for the War.

et_hÃ¤tz_is_kÃ¶lsch

We have such a bad reputation in the uk and ireland?
good to know for my next vacation in london! *lol*

i dislike about germany:
the politics,
the money ->euro,
the weather,
the bad movies and actor......................................

i like about gemany:
the beer,
the language (the angry klingon sound *lol*),
only the nice people (like me ;-D)
that all !
i think!
oh... maybe the german music: rammstein, sido, tom gaebel, wir sind helden..............

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dragonpepe

. i love the bratwurst and beer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. i like the girls. the nazi probably bother s people the most

MaryBeth

I am neutral about them--no strong feelings one way or the other.

The flag is ugly.

wqoeirmfd

They are well behaved people rich or poor. Germany is very clean. If the states has an equivalent unemployment rate, many parts of the states will be war zones.

mattclaptongad

I want to applaud first the last (very informative and the longest entry) answer. Germany is amazing! Sometimes cultures that are heavily stereotyped or made fun are the ones where its been a matter of course to "accept" these generalizations. Every culture has its widespread quirks but massive generalizations can lead to people not TRULY attempting to discover a culture. Germany is one such place. Its alive and pulsating with people that genuinely are mindful of trying to do their very best. Much respect to Deutschland. Yes try LEARNing the language instead of just poking fun at it. I like it! Its a fun language that is interesting to learn how to inject your emotion into. I I enjoy reading it to try to find things that resemble English. Funny I still encounter people that think that English is a roman based language but its Germanic. So a little of what you would read in German as an English speaker will translate since the words came from German or the Germanic language base!

Dry Dreamer

I love their rallies of the 1930,s

Lewisthelab

Like the beer, dislike da u boats

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