• Kallioapina@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    As a finn that had to deal with a week long Erasmus university intense course with mostly german masters students… Yeah, americans of the Europe was the exact impression I got. Everyone else from all the other participant nationalities were respectful and professional, but the german students just couldnt.

    Gods, I fucking hated to see the eyes of shame in the german professors faces watching their students go through their shenannigans and fits. My previous stereotype of germans as a nationality or as a culture being rational and collected died very quickly during that week.

    Sorry for any germans reading this, but I consider you as the Americans of the EU after that experience.

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      9 months ago

      As an American reading this, I think this is hilarious to read. You wouldn’t call them “the Americans of Europe” if you saw American students in Europe.

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        9 months ago

        Australians are the Americans of Oceania and south east Asia. Most of the Americans that come here are the thoughtful ones so it’s a bit diff. Imagine it’s similar in Europe.

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      9 months ago

      There’s a reason i tend to dislike interacting with germans online. When they mainly speak english they’re usually fine but with german communities I haven’t had great experiences. I mostly just pretend to not be german.

      We even have our own Texas (Bavaria), there must be a connection.