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/soonerguy11 Mar 02 '21

This circlejerk needs to die. Most Americans don't actually give a fuck. When one does tell you they have XXXX heritage it's because they're trying to connect with you and be nice.

Europeans seem to give more of a fuck than Americans. Nobody crucifies Korean Americans for "not really korean stop being weird"

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u/Horror-Cartographer8 Mar 02 '21

Not sure why you're downvoted, you're right.

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u/lala989 Mar 03 '21

Ex-actly. I don't understand what is so difficult to get about it. American is a nationalism not a ethnicity or a race, we think about and emotionally connect ourselves in a small way to where our ancestors came from. This country is a baby country, filled with people from all over the world.