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Anon has a German girlfriend (sh.itjust.works)
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[-] [email protected] 95 points 1 year ago

Met a guy at a German language meet-up who let me know that I was first person who didn't ask him any questions about / discuss WW2 or nazis.

He actually grew up in East Germany in the 80's— also not great, but no one he talked to even knew that Germany had once split. They only wanted to talk about WW2. It made him very uncomfortable.

We got to discuss a lot about American culture and people's weird obsessions and developed a close relationship. It was fun!

[-] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago

If I had a dollar for every American mentioning Germans/WW2 when I told them I'm Dutch, I would be retired now.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

You'd rather they ask you about Anne Frank or the wooden shoes?

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I'd rather they ask dumb questions about the correct, yeah.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

as a northern european I'd ask how many dikes do you own

edit: dikes is not a spelling mistake (i think)

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

"dyke" is British English and "dike" is American English for a levee or flood bank. I don't own any of those because they belong to the government.

Both spellings are also slang for butch lesbians, and owning those has been illegal for about 160 years now.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

How about windmills, you must own a couple of those

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

My dad owned part of one of the first wind turbines in the country, does that count?

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

That's weird. Germans are used to that. In my experience it's especially brits that ask about it.

Every German I know has the answer memorized: yeah, it was terrible but we are a different population now and we are making sure it won't happen again. Do you want a beer?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Every German I know has the answer memorized: yeah, it was terrible but we are a different population now and we are making sure it won't happen again

And yet the rise and rise of the AfD...

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

We're in the US. I just don't think he was used to the amount of extended ignorance, sometimes purposeful.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Americans don't know about the iron curtain? hm

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

You mean the ability from C&C: Red Alert? What does that have to do with Germany? It's a Russian superweapon, and Einstein removed Hitler from that timeline.

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