andydes wrote:TomViolenz wrote:Should I feel racially offended, because every thead mentioning Germans ends with a discussion of beer and a picture of someone in a Dirndl or short leather pants?!
We are so much more than just beer (and war
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@HowIMetYourRacism
Well, of course- there's also techno, efficiency, and sausages.
That's better than our reputation- a country of single teen mums with crooked smiles throwing up outside a kebab shop at 3 in the morning.
You get famous for your beer, we get famous for downing it.
Sometimes we get credited with a decent sense of humour, but when you have bad teeth and a failing liver, you might as well laugh at the world.
But the country that marked one of the defining moments in world history by inviting David Hasselhoff to sing for freedom goes to the top of my list of places to be.
Germany ftw
I think I should give some context for my remark. When I made that post, I had just read that there was a storm in a tea cup brewing (AKA Twitter) about alleged racism in the series "How I met your mother" because apparently Asiens were stereotyped in one episode as being great in martial arts, always have a wise, but incomprehensible nugget to share and have a funny accent. I literaly rolled my eyes!
I'm all for not being racist and all, but shit, stereotypes exist and they are FUNNY
BTW: Did you assume there was some post modern irony involved in having David Hasselhoff sing "I'm looking for freedom" at the New Years party 1990 at the Wall?! Oh, how I wish it would be so....
And this stain on our otherwise perfectly good stereotype record, will never go away I'm afraid
Well, that and the war, I guess
