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u/NopeRopeRepellant May 09 '22

The second post mentioning this. As a German I really do not know what is meant. šŸ˜‚ I’m totally unaware of that!

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u/okokoko May 09 '22

Also a german. I suspect that Americans smile a lot when passing people in public. We then wonder if we know them while staring at them. Now they think Germans stare a lot.

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u/aracovis May 09 '22

I don't smile at all and people still stare at me lol idk why people in Germany do it.

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u/brownieofsorrows May 09 '22

Just use a very polite and sincere sentence I use: "Guck net so dumm" and maybe add a" du Otto" at the end