{"id":1537,"date":"2005-12-14T22:46:43","date_gmt":"2005-12-15T02:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blg\/2005\/12\/14\/how-about-german-behaviors\/"},"modified":"2023-09-07T04:57:48","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T09:57:48","slug":"how-about-german-behaviors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/14\/how-about-german-behaviors\/","title":{"rendered":"How about German behaviors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hebig.com\/archives\/003564.shtml\">Heiko<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Germans like to complain. Even during the best of times, Germans will nag about&#8230; pretty much everything. That&#8217;s why, for example, German tourists have such a bad reputation<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Germans like to read about failures. It helps us ignore that others are more successful<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; We think German is such an important language that we can expect all foreign language aired on TV or radio to be dubbed. Technically, a lot of Germans do speak rather decent English (and French, Russian or even Spanish). Often enough though we don&#8217;t speak it perfectly well so instead of being prone to make mistakes we rather pretend German is the only language we know.<\/p>\n<p>Because i lived in Germany i do agree with this last point about the language, it scared me the whole time i was there. Germans of my generation, not speaking a word english or french? me not getting it. Scared, she flew back to Canada.<\/p>\n<p>and i thought Germans where cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Heiko: &#8212; Germans like to complain. Even during the best of times, Germans will nag about&#8230; pretty much everything. That&#8217;s why, for example, German tourists have such a bad reputation &#8212; Germans like to read about failures. It helps us ignore that others are more successful &#8212; We think German is such an important&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/14\/how-about-german-behaviors\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How about German behaviors<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9347,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537\/revisions\/9347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}