It is purposefully exaggerated. If you watched the entire video, you would see that the other nationalities represented, including the American, were ridiculous parodies of the average person from those countries.
I was born there-- I have six children, all of whom have substantial German heritage.
One of my daughters is moving there next year to study, and my son. Maxwell*, intends to follow her the next year.
*(Although originally believed to be Scottish in origin, the name Maxwell is in fact bastardised German. The name dates back to the 10th century. A local lord of Eil near Koln was ousted by his people and recieving no help from his leige lord he fled to England. On which was promised in return for calming a local war he would recieve the land which would now be Dumfries and Galloway. In succeeding in their task they were justly rewarded with he land as a feif. Wanting to localise themselves they took the name eil of where they were from and instead what would be used to day as in von they toook sons of or son of Mac. And so from it is Gealic Mac Eill.
-- Anonymous User 1/13/2006)
I truly meant no malice to anybody, not Germans, not Italians, not Japanese, not French, not even Americans.
I believe I even stated in the opening post: "Still, some of these are hilarious, especially because pf the amusing exaggerations of the "German"!
If you want to criticize people for being mean, maybe start with the very few people around here who seem to at times enjoy tearing fellow DU members down.
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