Germans

[Goldengirl123]

I don’t mean to be rude as I know it’s different cultures but I am on holiday in Mallorca in a predominately German area. The German people seem to have no manners and they are very unfriendly. They are coming across as very, very rude. Slate me if you have to but I’m just wondering why?

I used to work with someone and he went on a holiday to Majorca. Hotel had lot of Germans staying there and he noticed the Germans were offered a wider choice on the menu. He was told they pay more. He also mentioned getting the airport bus and the Germans were orderly but his coach had the British guests getting on with beer, generally roaring. He just wanted to be with the Germans

They just don’t seem to have any manners. Push past to get to the left or the food etc

I know, they have no consideration for anyone else!

Not here. That definitely is not the case

Using Magaluf Germans as a template for what the people is like as a whole is like using the British blokes on a stag do in Prague as a template for what we're all like.

Why do you say that?

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I would say you’re not very well travelled OP or worldly wise to other cultures.

This thread takes me back to that Faulty Towers episode.. what ever you do OP, don’t mention the war! 😆

Sorry I didn’t mean it to come across like that. I’m just saying that all of the people we have come across just seem to have no manners but as I said, it’s different cultures

Well that’s a good thing surely.

I think that’s fair.

Also, I’ve never lived in Germany and my German is pretty basic, but several friends and family members have married Germans, in Germany and elsewhere. The one thing they all say is that cultural norms differ widely across the regions.

I can imagine OP already has a few times - to which the Germans would have replied 'but the goal in '66 was never IN'...

I am not talking about direct talking etc. I’m talking about them being crude for pushing in and having no manners. If you let them go for or hold a door for them they don’t say thank you.

Google translate (for any rude or obnoxious nationality)

Hey, there's a queue, get back!
Hey, Stop that, why are you so rude?
Hey, (when they don't acknowledge you opening the door etc.) THANK YOU IS THE RIGHT WORD THERE.
And so on.

I do it all the time. Don't get much recognition, but occasionally get a startled look, but it gets the resentment off my chest!

Why should they? Brits are so full of self importance. You are not relevant to them.

My great grandmother on my mum’s side was German from Metz but when it was under German rule. I think she originally had British origins as her surname was Brick. She married a dual national French man (great grandfather) who worked for the nobility and they lost everything twice over in WWI and II when they lived in Germany, they’d lived in Luxembourg too. Nazis were horrible to them and normal Germans were too but strangely enough not the children. A undertaker took them in and was nice to them in Bonn. Great grandmother was brought to England before WWII to live with her son (my grandad) for safety (the Germans apparently asked my grandad and nana if they were going to war with the english) and also to bring up my DM who was 5. She’d look up at the German war planes in the sky and say “my boys”. Apparently she was a lovely woman, perfect manners, wore hats and hat pins, said there was good and bad in everyone no matter where you were from. Didn’t stop some local shopkeepers in London refusing to serve her and being rude.

Germans don't really say thank you over everything, that's our custom.

When I was doing my year abroad, my flatmates found all my pleases, sorries etc very funny - obviously must have sounded a bit incongruous in German, some of the instances when in English those social niceties would have been required, as I was accused of being „scheiss-höflich“ 😂

Sorry I thought this was a thread for perpetuating stereotypes. Just thought I’d throw the Brit stereotypes in to go with. The German stereotypes.

I'm British and often really click with German people. They are generally friendly and laid back in my experience.

Good grief you must be sensitive. Since when is it offensive to shorten British to Brit??

The increasing levels of racism are frightening. Try living here. Not just the overt stuff. The general chat is awful and some people will get very upset if called out.

In my experience, Germans are great. Last year I was in a German city, using public transport. There was a last minute change when en route and I didn’t have a clue what was going on. Several Germans, picking up on the fact I wasn’t a local and didn’t speak (much) German, went out of their way to explain what was happening and to help me know what I needed to do.

They’re direct and tend not to indulge in pointless pleasantries and faux politeness, which can take some getting used to, but that’s a cultural thing, it’s not rudeness.