I am not trying to catagorize anyone but maybe it's the culture that I don't understand. Serious comments please.
2006-08-29 19:58:11 · 11 answers · asked by Nikki 2 in Social Science ➔ Other - Social Science
It is their culture.
2006-08-29 20:03:46 · answer #1 · answered by Lee J 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
As an ex German I can tell you it is the way they think talk and answer in another Language it sounds rude for the thinking German it is not , People have asked me That Why are you so rude when I thought about it deeper I finaly found the reason and I hope that the corections I have made are working.
To summe it all up it is the proplem within the german Language which makes it hard to translate / the senstiveti's of other Language.I know what you mean But find it very hard to explain do the lack of education on my side (never had an English lesson in my life).
Take care!
2006-08-29 20:38:15 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is a culture misunderstanding. You might see them as rude and overtly arrogant while thy see you as equally as arrogant, lazy and ignorant. It all stems with the media portrayal of both cultures.
When you think of the French do they seem like rude and problematic? It's all the same thing. The Germans I have met have been quite reserved and polite, perhaps overly polite in an attempt to make a good impression. I was an exchange student in Franfurt am Main (Eshborn area) I was loved as I took the time to actually attempt to talk to them in their own language and realized I was a guest in their home not as my overseas servants. (which can be easily abused in the difference)
Germans are usually serious in most of what they say as I make a statement of stereotypicalness, although many of them might be completely different in a one on one conversation :P
The culture as a whole does not have some of the same stigmatisms American culture has. I mean seriously, they don't have a drinking age that is as strict as America's. I was an outcast at many of the castle parties I attended in the exchange. I was 17 years old at a party with serious drinking and I was constantly looking out for the police, when really they were stationed down the road a ways to make sure nothing outright terrible happened, not to bust the "underage drinking".
You're just reading entirely too much in your interraction with these select few you are talking about. The more you think they are being rude when they talk to you, the more they will pick up on that attitude and eventually become their version of rude to you....which of course in our world would make you call those few vile and wicked. Just relax and accept them as they are and stop seeing them as rude....and in turn they will stop seeing you as the fast food eating McDonald's eating lazy peacock, that they have misconceptions of.
2006-08-29 22:47:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
When we first moved to Germany last year, a few came across as rude to me too...and like you, I am not trying to be rude or generalize either.
But living here has opened my eyes to their German culture and heritage and no, they are not rude. Germans are very proud of their history (Adolf excluded) and many are hard-working, no- nonsense kind of people who are extremely honest and say what they mean. I think that we Americans are just not used to that and to us it comes off as being rude, at first anyway. But then you grow to appreciate the fact that many Germans are not snakes who will lie to your face and go behind your back.
2006-08-29 20:23:41 · answer #4 · answered by < Roger That > 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I have 2 very dear friends that are german. They are very nice and kind.
I don't think as a rule germans are rude. Hitler dies a long time ago, even when he was alive. the germans had to do what they did because they had to protect themselves and their familys.
Still when people hear german they remember hitler ans are insulted or made fun of,
since you lmade a general catagories. how would you do I someone said that evvery one in the U.s. are selfish warmongers?
2006-08-29 21:22:04 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't know what you are talking about. I ride in a German motorcycle club as an Nomad in the US and my brothers are no different than me. Since my days as a hangaround my German brothers have been nothing but courteous and polite. I think you are barking up the wrong tree here.
And for everyones info, Hitler was Austrian, he was not a native German.
2006-08-29 20:11:29 · answer #6 · answered by caveman_frmc 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am marrying into Stumpf, a german family. They are all so terribly nice. Maybe you have a negative feeling towards a german person or a person you think might be German and you expect them to be rude to you.
Try being nice and if the person in question is rude it might not be that he is German it might be that he is just a rude person.
2006-08-29 20:08:34 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
if you hate to generalize, then dont... ask why the few you know seem rude to you...
2006-08-29 20:03:01 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
IF you think Germans are rude
wait till you come across Israeli!!
2006-08-29 20:05:01 · answer #9 · answered by peter gunn 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
They simply don't like you. Don't take it personal, but it really is you they don't like
2006-08-29 21:15:39 · answer #10 · answered by Colorado 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋