Servais (il/le)@discuss.tchncs.de to YUROP@lemm.ee · 1 month agoSorry, Deutsch peoplediscuss.tchncs.deimagemessage-square156fedilinkarrow-up1907arrow-down115
arrow-up1892arrow-down1imageSorry, Deutsch peoplediscuss.tchncs.deServais (il/le)@discuss.tchncs.de to YUROP@lemm.ee · 1 month agomessage-square156fedilink
minus-squaresamus12345@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up56·edit-21 month 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-up5·1 month 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-up2·1 month 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)