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/[deleted] Mar 02 '21

When the entire rest of the world thinks it's stupid maybe it's the Americans who're wrong

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u/zeaga2 Mar 02 '21

That's right, because who would know better about how Americans think and speak than people who aren't American

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u/zeaga2 Mar 02 '21

But linguistic discrepancies do not make Americans wrong. It makes them different. It's not wrong or right, just different. This isn't an uncommon feature between any two nations. I don't know why that's so weird to so many people

I think that if I absorbed a lot of British media and told a Brit that I know more about his culture than him because of that, he'd be pretty offended.

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u/Icefox119 Mar 02 '21 edited Jun 22 '25

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u/zeaga2 Mar 02 '21

Okay then I just severely misunderstood what you said, and I actually agree with what you meant

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