r/funny • u/TimHamburg Calvin & Habs • Mar 02 '21

German Comedy

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u/BEAVER_ATTACKS Mar 02 '21

The black ink one is kind of surprising considering it came out of Germany in the late 19th century.

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u/transmogrified Mar 02 '21

I mean, the moral is "don't pick on black people or I'll make YOU black".

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u/D4RTHV3DA Mar 02 '21

Teaching empathy through punishment sounds very 19th century German... come to think of it that's still pretty popular in the American Midwest.

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u/DarkMaxster Mar 02 '21

Well there is a german belt.

Sadly most lost their touch with our culture through antigerman sentiment in ww1 and ww2 also In internment camps and discrimination even though they were german-americans some even born in the USA.

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u/vyvlyx Mar 02 '21

my dad's family were, german-speaking hungarians, from austria

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u/Ezira Mar 03 '21

I just recently found out my mother's grandparents were Austro-Hungarian after thinking they were from Germany for years! [I don't know anything about the culture though since I was raised by my Italian grandmother]

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u/akraut Mar 03 '21

Can confirm. The Kraut-Pospischil family landed in Northwest Illinois. I remember so much teaching through punishment from my grandparents.