Homework Help: Stereotypes

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American, raised in Hawaii, currently in Maryland

Sour foods, efficient, stout, industrious, martial, rigid, always sounds like they're swearing even when they're not (opposite of french in that way), beer, patriotic (actual patriotism, not the nationalism that pretends to be patriotism here in America)

[cdnspr]

hey loth, i got a video that sums up germans to me, but i dont wanna offend anyone's good taste, so ill sendja a link in a pm

[Lothoir]

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very classy, cdnspr

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your mother must be proud.


I'm going to go put out my eyes now.

[Tramau]

America - Illinois.

Industrious, precise, and willful. They are a very prideful people, and while I think there is some shame of their past, they are still proud of their people. They are capable of repeatedly turning their country into an economic powerhouse. They have do a sense of humor, it's just sometimes sort of twisted. There's a reason they have a word for pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others - Schadenfreude.

They also make delicious dessert foods.

[NaturalHazard]

NewZealand- also raised in south pacific islands of Samoa and The Cook Islands.
Really good beer, good sausages, saurkraut? dont know how to spell that. Some of the best cars and engineering. One of the most fun languages to swear in. Going to university in NZ the majority of germans I run into are international students. Havent really come across any of the butch dont shave armpit types that some go on about, but hey maybe most of those stay home in germany? The majority of young german women have been attractive blonde and very friendly if a little weird. Also from samoa my great grandmother was german. Back home in Samoa there was a lot of intermarrige with the german colonists, so quite a few families have german ancestry and surnames. My grandfather could speak german. Samoa which was called westersamoa at the time was a colony of germany from about the 1880's? till 1914 where on the outbreak of ww2 was annexed by New Zealand into the brittish common weath.

[cdnspr]

lol, what?
I meant to illustrate their advanced automotive engineering, and love of techno music

[Verrath]

There's a reason they have a word for pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others - Schadenfreude.

We have a word for everything. The advantage of compound nouns. We like to watch America's Funniest Homevideos because it caters to our Schadenfreude and we never used to have shows like this.

Interesting (and in some cases vaguely disturbing) - the things I've seen listed here so far.

[Urithrand]

English.

Germans are like gnomes. They like to stay at home and make gadgets and gizmos. The best manufacturers in the world. They also have a stupidly high level of education, even store clerks need A-Levels (or whatever their equivalent is). They do have a sense of humour, just no-one gets it, even fellow Germans.

I'm glad this could be cleared up with gnomish comparisons.

[Verrath]

Germans are like gnomes.

Uri, we need to talk.

[Urithrand]

Can we do it over turnip tea? >_>

[Doubtful]

British, loyal subject of the only true Empire to have ever graced our crowded sphere.

Germany: A nation that excels at engineering, art, beer, blondes and preventing the french from getting too uppity.

[Sonja BloodRayne]

The hubby and I were stationed in Germany for almost 3 years with the U.S. military. I found the German people to be very private but also friendly. Very proud and industrious.
Great food and beer. Know how to do a Volksfest right!!!

[Sacred Geometry]

American.

No sense for sarcasm, eat lots of meat, drink lots of beer.

[TheBlankStare]

Most of my thoughts about Germans have already been stated but I will throw this out for the sake of your paper.

Germans tend to be . . . stereotypically . . . German?

[Jai_V]

American: South-Eastern

My nearest "city" has a B/S/H factory (Bosch & Siemen's Home Appliance), so we have slightly less of a German presence then Hispanic, but slightly more then Asians (those being the other two big ethnic "transplants"). Most of the Germans I've had the pleasure of dealing with are polite and private in their day-to-day lives...but get them drunk, and they run the gamut from boarish loud-mouth to absolute freak.

I was very close with these three German ladies that were here for about 18 months and then sent to work in California. They were definitely not hairy, unwashed, or manly by any stretch of the imagination. They were, however, what could be considered lewd and immodest (;-D) by less progressive types. But, again, that was almost always behind closed doors.

I'm unsure if you can convert that into a stereotype of some kind.