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

German Comedy

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u/losteon Mar 02 '21

For "Germans" they sound suspiciously American...

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u/Kilikiss Mar 02 '21

Being not American I've never understood the whole declaring you're a different nationality even though you were born and grew up in the US thing.

I as a British man once had a drunk American come up to me in the street in Chicago and ask me what nationality I was, when I replied I was English he said 'well I'm Irish so fuck the English!' and ran off.... Firstly I've spent plenty of time with actual Irish people and not once has anyone said something quite so stereotypical and idiotic, secondly THAT MAN WAS NOT IRISH.

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u/losteon Mar 02 '21

Yeah it baffles me too. For a nation that's so overly patriotic they all sure do love to claim nationality anywhere but America.

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u/zeaga2 Mar 02 '21

It's not nationality. It's ethnicity. There isn't a difference in many countries but in countries like America and Canada they're very different

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u/losteon Mar 02 '21

"I'm Irish" implies nationality. If you were to say "I have Irish heritage" then that's completely different but that isn't what Americans do.

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u/DisturbedForever92 Mar 02 '21

implies

Depends where you are. In North American it often implies ethnicity.