American-German issues
Yesterday I watched the last episode of “Gilmore Girls”. One of my favorite TV-series – over. Then a friend sent me a link to a site that said that there will be no 4th season of “Veronica Mars”. That kinda pissed me off. After that – to follow the theme of the day – I […]
Since I first heard of feet and inches, I’m asking myself, why anyone would use them. No, “Because that’s what we’ve always been using” is not a satisfying answer. When I went to school I learned the metric system. I instantly liked it. It was a logical, intuitive and elegant. Of course I’ve had heard […]
From all your answers to my call for prejudices about Germans I have collected the 15 most common. I’ll talk about them in detail and tell you whether I think they are right or wrong. Oh, and when I say “we” I mean “Germans like myself”. I don’t know every German and as in every […]
Whenever people talk about the USA, it doesn’t take long until you hear sentences that start with “That’s typical. Americans are all…”. Well, what are you? I’ve asked around, talked to people and this is a list of the 10 prejudices I’ve heard most often. – Americans are extremely superficial.I tend to blame this on […]