I'm an American, but I've known a lot of Germans. The main problem is that Germany is a society in which people grow up learning to say whatever is on their mind, no punches pulled, no political correctness, just whatever's on their minds.
Because of this, we Americans tend to take things the wrong way. Whereas the British are over-polite and loquacious, and the Germans say whatever is on their minds with little concern for how it makes someone else "feel", Americans are somewhere in the middle.
With most of the Germans I know, words don't have hidden meanings, and they're not uttered simply to gain a desired response. They're not designed to confuse, they're quite simply, the most honest people I know. Sometimes painfully so.
I think we could learn a thing or two from the Germans about how to REALLY say what's on our minds without being so damn politically correct and WHINEY about it.
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oh yeah, go fuck yourself.
