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ze Germans

  • 13-12-2010 7:02pm
    #1
    Fuinseog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,371 ✭✭✭


    what't the deal with all the kraut bashing in this country?

    the Germans are still a people we love to hate, yet they (although they have been financing our little island for decades) seem to love us.



    perhaps because we receive our world views from our former colonial masters who still want to keep the spirit of World War 2 alive.

    i hope the mods will not take umbrage at this post. i have read teh forum rules and feel it is not out of place here.


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  • #2
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Fuinseog wrote: »
    what't the deal with all the kraut bashing in this country?

    the Germans are still a people we love to hate
    What kraut-bashing? Haven't a clue what you're on about. It seems to be intrinsic in several cultures to take the piss light-heartedly out of the Germans for WWII and the seriousness/lack of humour stereotype, but bar the odd one-off case of idiocy (e.g. holding all Germans accountable for the Holocaust) I've never heard of any serious German-hating.
    perhaps because we receive our world views from our former colonial masters who still want to keep the spirit of World War 2 alive.
    Perhaps not? (Bar in your head).


  • #3
    Truley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,628 ✭✭✭Truley


    I never noticed any German bashing :confused: Ireland, particularly the North-West has a sizable German community and from what I've observed they are generally respected and well-integrated in their communities. Probably more so than any other immigrant culture here. Could you give some examples?


  • #4
    Eliot Rosewater
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,745 ✭✭✭Eliot Rosewater


    A certain standard is expected in the Humanities forum, and this thread does not meet that standard, so I am locking it.

    Fuinseog: if you want to start a discussion here please contribute something substantial. Your OP isn't based on much at all; you don't even give examples from your experience of this percieved cultural slight, and you throw in what can probably be described as a conspiracy theory (Britain and WW2??). This lackadaisical approach is reflected in the thread title ("ze Germans", which doesn't give anyone any clue as to what's the discussion's supposed to be about) and the OP itself ("kraut bashing"?).

    /mod.


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