Apartheid

[Park Life 71]

The better (more interesting) Germans are from former East Germany and those Czech's and the like. The actual Germans who have been sanitised by their education/work system are done for sadly.

[Meenzer 15722]

The better (more interesting) Germans are from former East Germany and those Czech's and the like. The actual Germans who have been sanitised by their education/work system are done for sadly.

But like the Murphy's, you're not bitter.

[Park Life 71]

The better (more interesting) Germans are from former East Germany and those Czech's and the like. The actual Germans who have been sanitised by their education/work system are done for sadly.

But like the Murphy's, you're not bitter.

 

 

Mrs P was technically Austrian so shut it fucko!!

[Richie J 0]

I'll never forget the time I was mistaken for German.

 

Went into the Natural History museum and asked at the counter "what time do you close?"*

 

She asked me to repeat it three times and then said she'd get their German translator.

 

Cockney bint.

 

*It might have been more like "Whendjuzshut?"

 

Haha aye that sort of thing used to happen to me loads when I lived in London... I've got a strong accent and musn't look particularly English, and the number of times southerners mistook me for a foreigner was beyond a joke. They usually used to think I was French for some reason, which I was none too happy about, but I've had German, Italian and Norweigan as well off the top of my head.

[Richie J 0]

I've got the French eating out of my hand (not really) However Richie is right, the Germans are more adapt at finding quick solutions not problems. It boils down to whether inductive or deductive reasoning dominates the thought process. I was told that so am not sure what it means....

 

That feeling of superiority that you sense is often a reaction to how people (you yourself) come across though. When i first worked abroad i was constantly comparing life to life back home (which is inherently judgemental) and also unable to conceive of idiotic foreign ways (i.e. things done differently to the expected way) being anywhere near as good as back home. Its also often to do with being the 'outsider', which can make you feel like everyone else thinks they are superior. In reality, they are jealous of your command of English and bemused by your friendliness. I do also have to say that most Europeans also feel the same way about us when they visit the UK, its not like we are that different ourselves in that respect.

 

Thats changed now as its nearly 5 years since i started working abroad, i dont compare anymore, i accept differences and and as a result, imo, rarely am i treated in a superior way. Apart from waiters in restaurants but to be honest, when i get a polite waiter i'm a bit disappointed nowadays.

 

Oh absolutely, I doubt foreigners are treat any better in England than in other countries. Just the other week one of my Poertuguese colleagues was telling me that her brother, who lives near Blackpool I think, has had to move their seven year old to another school cos all the kids at his last one were calling him Paki... didn't know what to say when she told me that - for some strange reason I felt personally responsible. Almost said sorry!

[Lazarus 0]

My only experience of germans is through work and they love their paperwork like.

 

and its all comes with these fucking enormous copper staples.

[The Fish 10970]

I've got the French eating out of my hand (not really) However Richie is right, the Germans are more adapt at finding quick solutions not problems. It boils down to whether inductive or deductive reasoning dominates the thought process. I was told that so am not sure what it means....

 

That feeling of superiority that you sense is often a reaction to how people (you yourself) come across though. When i first worked abroad i was constantly comparing life to life back home (which is inherently judgemental) and also unable to conceive of idiotic foreign ways (i.e. things done differently to the expected way) being anywhere near as good as back home. Its also often to do with being the 'outsider', which can make you feel like everyone else thinks they are superior. In reality, they are jealous of your command of English and bemused by your friendliness. I do also have to say that most Europeans also feel the same way about us when they visit the UK, its not like we are that different ourselves in that respect.

 

Thats changed now as its nearly 5 years since i started working abroad, i dont compare anymore, i accept differences and and as a result, imo, rarely am i treated in a superior way. Apart from waiters in restaurants but to be honest, when i get a polite waiter i'm a bit disappointed nowadays.

Parky must seethe when sense invades his thread...

[Park Life 71]

I've got the French eating out of my hand (not really) However Richie is right, the Germans are more adapt at finding quick solutions not problems. It boils down to whether inductive or deductive reasoning dominates the thought process. I was told that so am not sure what it means....

 

That feeling of superiority that you sense is often a reaction to how people (you yourself) come across though. When i first worked abroad i was constantly comparing life to life back home (which is inherently judgemental) and also unable to conceive of idiotic foreign ways (i.e. things done differently to the expected way) being anywhere near as good as back home. Its also often to do with being the 'outsider', which can make you feel like everyone else thinks they are superior. In reality, they are jealous of your command of English and bemused by your friendliness. I do also have to say that most Europeans also feel the same way about us when they visit the UK, its not like we are that different ourselves in that respect.

 

Thats changed now as its nearly 5 years since i started working abroad, i dont compare anymore, i accept differences and and as a result, imo, rarely am i treated in a superior way. Apart from waiters in restaurants but to be honest, when i get a polite waiter i'm a bit disappointed nowadays.

Parky must seethe when sense invades his thread...

 

I said it was a good post a few posts back numbnuts.

 

You can all glide over the surface about this and that and the everyday, but having lived there for 5 years I think I have some idea about the deeper realities of the Deutsche psyche.

[Rob W 0]

I once went to Aberdeen to meet two guys who I'd only spoken to on the phone - one sounded as if he'd never left Aberdeen in his life and the other was Bob Marley's uncle

 

Luckily someone said "be careful"

 

When I got there there was a white guy and a VERY black guy -

 

as you can guess the black guy was a pure Aberdonian and the white guy came from an poor white family who'd lived in Jamaica since 1750 .................