Servais (il/le)@discuss.tchncs.de to YUROP@lemm.ee · 3 months agoSorry, Deutsch peoplediscuss.tchncs.deimagemessage-square124fedilinkarrow-up1888
arrow-up1888imageSorry, Deutsch peoplediscuss.tchncs.deServais (il/le)@discuss.tchncs.de to YUROP@lemm.ee · 3 months agomessage-square124fedilink
minus-squaresamus12345@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up52·edit-23 months agoGermany: “Fine, fine, we’re Germany to you. You could have called us Dutchland instead of using that for people from the Netherlands, but whatever.” USA: pointing to people who settled Pennsylvania from Germany “Pennsylvania Dutch!” Germany: ಠ_ಠ
minus-squarevaultdweller013@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up5·3 months agoCould be worse, I know that some Germans who settled in the US got the name Black Germs cause they were from the black forest.
minus-squareVittelius@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 months agoAlso the Dutch angle in cinema, named after the expressionist German film of the early 20th cinema (think Nosferatu)
Germany: “Fine, fine, we’re Germany to you. You could have called us Dutchland instead of using that for people from the Netherlands, but whatever.”
USA: pointing to people who settled Pennsylvania from Germany “Pennsylvania Dutch!”
Germany: ಠ_ಠ
Could be worse, I know that some Germans who settled in the US got the name Black Germs cause they were from the black forest.
Also the Dutch angle in cinema, named after the expressionist German film of the early 20th cinema (think Nosferatu)