What is the German stereotype?

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thumberlina

Stereotype...?

well blonde, blue-eyed pale aryan
No Humour
diligent
steal the sun loungers
Goes on holiday to Spain - like the Brits
cold
direct
beer drinking
meat eaters

Lobocito Marino

less sense of humor, rigid, highly organized, schematic, hard-working,militaristic,wary,
industrial and good technicians, exact, punctual, too serious, academical
beer,sauerkraut,sausage,schnaps consumer

A folk dance fest may include a lumberjack scene :)

jenshensnest

I never heard one from the USA, but all our soldiers are falling in love with Germany, and want to go back.
Your doing something right.

sarah

On holiday you get up at the crack of dawn to put your towels on the best sunloungers, but don't use them for about 4 hours!

Zengirl

When I met Germans as I was travelling throught New Zealand, the stereotype was that Germans did not have a sense of humour and spoke with rough accents. You are also considered highly industrious and very serious.

Having said that, my impression of the Germans I met was one that was generally favourable. They were always dependable and helpful. I enjoyed being around them and have kept up correspondence with a number of them.

HiLight

Precision, exactness, order, courteousness and like to eat pork-products and potatoes. Excellent beer by the way! ;)

HANS LAXMAN RAJ

You guys are seven foot tall have blonde hair blue eyes, the guys are muscular while the woman are voluptuous. Germans are very hard working and intelligent but don't have much of a sense of humour.

g.m

always seen with a "beach towel" at the ready::!!!

keith

Personally i wouldn't care what the stereotype is if i was you as most if not all stereotypes are false and unfair.

But since you asked, in the UK it is that you are generally big (in both height and weight senses) and hairy. However as i said i wouldn't take this too seriously.

And as far as what you do my personal stereotype for that in Germany is that most people have professional office jobs or are in the general service sector

Elsa

I'm German and live in the US, so I always wonder about this too. And it doesn't really help that I have blonde hair and blue eyes...

About German humor...I think most people just don't understand our humor. If you understand German humor, we don't seem like boring, rigid people. We can be very silly if we want to. Other countries just don't really get us :)

La Bouche

always closing windows and shouting 'es zieht' (afraid of catching a cold)

sleeping all sunday, only wakening up to watch Sportschau (soccer, mostly)

complaining 'bout his neighbors' having a good time (even if its saturday, 8 p.m.)

accumulating saturdays first in the supermarkets with wife and kids, then moving to stand in line at the car-wash

On my first visit to Germany, I noticed that there is a starkness about the place. The public spaces were full of people with blank expressions. Not much smiling or chatting. Very subdued. However, the family that we were visiting are lovely people. They come to the US quite often. But, overall, Germans seem to be very serious and conservative. Perhaps that is why there is a large consumption of beer. It helps them to lighten up.

AppleJack

When on holiday the germans pinch all the sunbeds, get all the best rooms, and the girls have hairy armpits and hairy legs.

spirit of radio

99 red balloons and underarm hair. as for the men, Fawlty Towers anyone?

zoeksalamander

Deutsche grundlichkeit.

Al_ide

Germans are all fat men in leather shorts who drink lager while listening to oom-pah bands.

lover_not_fighter

Well, this is just a stereotype. So I don't believe it. But Germans usually have red hair, freckles, and do lots of folk dancing. I don't believe that... but that's the stereotype. What about Americans?

Natin90s

when i see white large man or woman with staring eyes i, the first thing comes to mind is GERMAN..

James

you all have no sence of humour, german women are hairy, you all smell........ theres a couple

oh and you steal sunbeds!!!!!!!!!

(do not mention the war)

dolly

hahahahaha (that called laughing) thought i might have to explain it to the dry hairy germans reading!!!!

Crispy O.B.E

well Germans are nasty aggressive people who enjoy shouting very much and have little sense of humour

MiZz RuBy

well your football team looks like Frankensteins!
it used to be natzi but your the germans now!

Gay Man

Oompah-pah band playing, sausage and sauerkraut eating, beer drinking, grandchildren of Nazis who drive Volkswagons and make kinky pornography.

Wunderbah!

(Well, you asked for it! What do you expect? Polite answers?)

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