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Ten tell-tale signs that you've gone native
Published: 21 Jun 12 11:48 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.de/lifestyle/20120621-43293.html
Do you wait religiously for the green man? Do you leave passive-aggressive notes on your neighbours' bikes? You may have been in Germany too long. The latest Local List diagnoses the various stages of this serious condition.
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Obviously, integrating the immigrant community is an important part of successful social cohesion, but beware - if you are suddenly outraged when public transport comes a little too late, or you are beginning to enjoy public nudity too much, you may fall in to embarrassing situations back in front of your family members.
It's fine, laudable, even vital to become semi-German, when settling in the Vaterland - but no one ever, EVER, goes FULL GERMAN.
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Really?
There are countries that like that?
I do not care if I was just playing a game or doing work, if you show up uninvited, that's just plain rude to me.
I have been here for several years and the only thing on the list that applies to me is being more comfortable with nudity. However, I am a convert of waiting to drink making a cheers when having a beer with friends. Red lights are for hand ringing sissies :P
@Lucksi - my friends are always welcome to stop by, if I am busy I will just tell them so. I find it strange that you think otherwise so yeah, it might be a cultural thing.
Or as someone else put it "You might be German if you think that the latest reform on government healthcare is an acceptable debate topic at a party"
Wo-hoooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What are you talking about? Napoleon invited them over in 1805.
Then, germans DO cross at the red light. Older people and parents with kids generally don't, but it's for the best.
Doner is eaten as a normal meal in numerous european countries, nothing german here.
Stage 8 is rude everywhere and stage 9 is experienced in many countries, english speaking countries as well...
Then, never heard or experienced stage 10...
Hey The Local you know what, stop the stereotypes lists...
You have an unhealthy imagination. Youŕe overstimulated with German sex-appeal,
it's way off your chart, easy to understand your infatuation with German
bodies. Strange that sentiments like these should come out of the same corner as
the invitations to "show us your tits" during springbreak... do that here, and you have a
lawsuit to cope with for sure, at least the sexual-harrassment-scam is true.
Shops close at 5? Where? In down-town-Liverpool because the cash is tight?
A little mix-up?
@mesca...
Oh lighten up. You should hear the stereotypes the Germans come up with for people in the USA. ... I'm not offended by their good-natured kidding. The difference is, the Germans (well... at least my relatives) can dish it out a lot better than they can take it.
We are making generalities. Yes, it's true that some Germans cross against a red light, but it is a general truth that far more people in your culture than in ours stand there and stare at the "Heiligenampel" as though it is an all-knowing deity. :) I see a young man (about 17 years old) stand at the light on a T-junction every morning near the bus stop. No cars are coming in either direction, but he presses the button and waits for a good solid minute. Then the light changes and stops ten cars, and he goes. So that's 11 people waiting instead of no one waiting. And that's efficiency...?
and yes the shops do close in general earlier here. Plus they are often closed on Sunday and others have "Ruhetag" usually on Mondays, but that can vary as well from shop to shop...
You demonstrate another typical German trait...That you all know better than the rest of us. That's why Germans regularly insist on knowing my language better than I do.
Still almost get mowed down by cyclists in Munich when visiting and.
Still get in the car on the wrong side when I want to drive.
Stil love a proper english builders breakfast on a Sunday morning with lashings of tea followed later by the rost Fleisch Totties and Yorshire pud!
I am still sacastic as possible yet no one gets it.
And i still dont find German jokes funny!!
But My local born girlfreind say I am almost intergrated.
I think its another of these German jokes :(