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  • Yvonne Yan

    they are not rude, but just not expressive

    dodane przez  Yvonne Yan w  Niemcy forum 

    German and American are kind of two foreign cultures that I was exposed to most. I worked for a german company, learn a bit german, lived and studied in US... To me, the germans I met (let's say over 20 of them) are very friendly. Especially when I was expatriated to the UK by my company, I was with a group of german colleagues, they always remembered to invite me to diners and activities as they knew I could be bored alone there. When you talked to a german, he/she does listen to you, yes, they stare at you and listen what you say. they might not agree or give you negative comments but I just took it as a joke or an icebreaker. Sometimes, I felt their seriousness was quite cute... however, when I got to germany, I do see people are kind of cold, not in a rude way though.... On the other hand, americans are so hard to get along with, they often get impatient when you are talking. I speak fine english but cannot speak as interesting as them. Because, without a "deep" understand of their culture, you might not be able to talk anything interesting to them. They are only interested in america, nothing else. To me, that is a bigger rude. And they often squeeze you out amid conversation because they speak louder and faster.... and do not expect americans to take you serious for a friendship if you don't grow up there... Not to offend anyone, just want to share my experience.

    Back to the topic, one bad experience is when I dated a german guy... totally a jerk lawyer. He haunted me for a while and always blamed me for not giving him attention, but when you want to meet, he stood me up and don't think anything wrong with it... that's totally rude. I'm out of speech regarding what respect means... also, another german I dated, just in a few hours, the guys spoke explicitly about sex and gave me ugly hint, I was shocked and offended.

    I think I need to know more germans in order to decide whether I should reverse my assessment or not.

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