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Responding to Ray's excellent posting "Stern's Gallery of Stereotypes" on anti-Americanism in Germany's leading magazine, Lou Minatti provides some hilarious German alternatives: "Let's have some fun with stereotypes."
Example: The '68er aging leftist
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I like these ones better!
Check out the "customer reviews"! :-)
Posted by: Martina Zitterbart | March 25, 2005 at 11:38 AM
Heute wollte ich einen scheinbar harmlosen Aufklärungsbeitrag der Onlineausgabe des Spiegels über korrektes Formulieren von E-Mails lesen und was springt einem da ins Auge? Subversiver Antiamerikanismus vom Feinsten.
http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/zwiebelfisch/0,1518,347956,00.html :
"Wir leben nicht in den intellektuell unterentwickelten USA, wir brauchen diese penetrante Form der Dauer-Belehrung nicht."
Wer belehrt denn hier wen?
Posted by: S|Z | March 25, 2005 at 01:36 PM
Glückwunsch, S|Z, sie haben es abgeändert, jetzt steht dort nur noch
"Wir leben nicht in den USA, wir brauchen diese penetrante Form der Dauer-Belehrung nicht."
Posted by: Martina Zitterbart | March 25, 2005 at 07:55 PM
Dunno, the "68er" looks a bit like the great mastering engineer Steve Hoffman.
Posted by: SleepingInSeattle | March 25, 2005 at 11:24 PM
haw haw comedy gold.
better than german "scheisse porn"
Posted by: llortsklov | March 26, 2005 at 04:52 AM
"Glückwunsch, S|Z, sie haben es abgeändert, jetzt steht dort nur noch"
Yeah, but the meaning of the idiotic statement hasn't changed much. I think this is the 3rd time this month that SPON has been influenced to make changes in their articles because of anti-american comments. Thanks, of course, to "Medienkritik" and their readers.
Perhaps it's SPON that needs a "penetrante Form der Dauer-Belehrung"--like lots of "no more anti-american propaganda" e-mails!
Posted by: James W. | March 26, 2005 at 07:44 PM
Very funny post. I really enjoyed it especially the one with socks. As an American who lived in Germany for 8 years (in the Army) and still visit my German wifes family, I always wondered what style represents a typical German. I have a hobby of people watching and I pride my self on being able to determine someone's nationality based on the style of clothes. The dark socks with sandals and shorts is always a dead give-away that the person is German. I live in Arizona now and I can spot them from a mile away at the tourist spots.
czcdude
Posted by: czdude | March 27, 2005 at 08:54 PM
@ James W.
> I think this is the 3rd time this month that SPON has been influenced to make changes in their articles because of anti-american comments.
One of us two forgot the irony tags, I guess. :-)
Posted by: Martina Zitterbart | March 27, 2005 at 09:03 PM