What are the National charactoristics of the English, French, Germans, Italians, and Spanish?

Question

I would also like to here from French, Germans, Italians, and Spanish people. About National stereotypes

I am interested in this for research purposes / for a book I am writing in the near future. It gives the characters life.

Answer 1

I'm a spanish and i'll tell you how we see it:

English:Eat bad food, very very white people and bad weather. They like the tea. Boring. Good music.
French: women dont remove their body hair (disgusting)
they are fancy, dress good clothes and perfumes are very known, eat and drink good wine and cheese, they're liberals and secular.(dont like religion very much).Romanticism, pretty language.
Germans:I dont know about germans but we, in Spain, say that they speak as they were fighting, their language is ugly, not romantic.Maybe we call them nazis joking.
Italians: Spaniards only say that like italians because they're as spaniards. Mentality almost the same.
Spanish: Jealous. A little machists. Racists. Simple. Familiar. Craker. Eat good and slowly, not with stress. Likes soccer the sundays in the sofa or in the bar with the friends, tapas and beer (men). Dont like to work very much, they are lazy, they like the Fiesta (party) and the siesta (nap), always wanna have fun, weekends they like to go out in the night until the next day morning, they like to drink very much, the spanish from catalonia are known in Spain for being greedy and the Spanish from Andalusia for being lazier and funny than the rest. Like to go out walking in the streets, take a coffee in a terrace. They prefer to work for the governement than in private enterprise, you know why, because we prefer to live tranquil than to have more money. Well,that's generally, not all people but kinda. I Hope that helps you a little, i dont speak english well, so sorry for my language.

Answer 2

English - sometimes very funny, isolated, drunk, dirty, violent, word's most desperate and unsuccessful football nation

French - nice countryside, proud tradition and history, socialist, backwards and overrated cuisine, not very respectful, chaotic

Germans - clean, decent, honest, creative, still lack of self-esteem, one of the greatest football nations

Italians - great cuisine, beautiful country, pitiful mummy men, annoying women, lost in history, one of the most successful but boring football nations

Spanish - important language

Answer 3

Ok...let me give you the view of a german:

French: Germans dont like french people period...now dont ask me why... lol

Italians and Spanish people: we dont really have any stereo types about those two, we love them...

Now i think these are the typical stereotypes of what americans think of germans:

- ALL germans have blond hair and blue eyes (im tan, got black hair and brown eyes)
- ALL germans drink beer (i hate beer)
-ALL germans are Nazis (hell to the no!!)
-AlLgerman guys named hans and franz (i dont know any parents that would give their babies those names nowadays)
-ALL german women are hairy! (im not and so are none of my friends)

uuuuuuuhhhh i hate stereotypes!!! its 2007 people let go off those damn cliches!!!

Answer 4

Stereotypes:

English: Fat, Lazy & Ignorant

French: Eat Frogs & Cheese and Horses and Surrender a lot

Germans: Eat Sausage and start wars and steal sunbeds

Italians: Eat Pasta, have fat jolly women and sometimes are led by Fascists

Spanish: Sleep all day!

Hope that helps!

Answer 5

I don't believe in these stereotypes, it's just what I've heard.

English - proper, good manners
French - smoke a lot, dirty, nice accents, snobby
German - ?
Spanish - ?