I'm a simple emigrant and I don't live by stereotypes

On the other hand, I think stereotypes don’t arise from nothing. When it comes to nationality or any other social group, they’re like that old “judge by your clothes” thing. They require time and more personal contact for you to be taken seriously. What stereotypes do we know about Germany and Germans? Like punctuality, like a lack of sense of humor, like Germans drink beer at breakfast, lunch, and dinner, what else is there, add it in the comments! Such conclusions are usually drawn by people who, at best, have interacted with the country or its inhabitants for five minutes. Of course, painting everyone with the same brush is usually a pretty poor idea, but, as I wrote above, you can understand where it comes from. What amuses me most is when Germans themselves joke about each other based on these same stereotypes. It’s like in classic plots: only Asians can joke about Asians, and girls about girls, so that no one gets offended. So I’m sitting here with a German friend and his father, shopping for groceries for a party; the father wanted to read the shopping list, but as usual I wrote it in Russian-English-German, apparently so that no one except me would understand this millennium-old secret. And then the father says: “What is this? It’s your party; you had to take care of it yourself.” Right, really typical German potato… 🙄 What, in a loose translation, means “what’s this—this is your party, you should take care of it,” you’re basically a typical German. Usually “German potato” as an insult is used only by Germans toward each other. But if you have very close German friends and you want to ironize, yet do it in good spirit, now you know what to do! #language