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It wasn't just the Japanese. "Korean time" was a thing back when Korea was one of the poorest countries in the world. Germans also used to be stereotyped as dis

It wasn't just the Japanese. "Korean time" was a thing back when Korea was one of the poorest countries in the world. Germans also used to be stereotyped as dishonest, thieving, dull and overly emotional before their country industrialized. There is correlation between stereotypes and GDP.

baud147258 8y ago
Like the sterotypes common in (Western) Europe regarding Eastern Europe, like for the Polish people?
kingofhdds 8y ago
>Germans also used to be stereotyped as dishonest, thieving, dull and overly emotional before their country industrialized. Any links on this?
- j9461701 8y ago
  >Any links on this? https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=3739&context=gradschool_theses https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=h... TL;DR (it's a 213 page grad thesis) Old Germany used to be basically Hufflepuff, a simple-minded, loyal, obedient rustic bumbler who's too stupid to really be a threat or even much of a partner. New Germany arose post-German unification and especially post WW1, where the stereotypes shifted to the modern more sinister concept of a nation of amoral mad scientists and clockwork soldiers - largely as an attempt to justify Germany being the great rival of England.
  - barry-cotter 8y ago
    That’s just extending the already existing stereotype of Prussians to all of Germany.
psergeant 8y ago
The Brits used to be > passionate, melancholy, romantic, and tearful https://m.huffingtonpost.co.uk/thomas-dixon/british-stiff-upper-lip-our-emotional-past_b_1929511.html https://m.huffingtonpost.co.uk/thomas-dixon/british-stiff-up...
paganel 8y ago
> overly emotional before their country industrialized. After all some of the most famous Romantic artists came from Germany: Heine, Beethoven, Hölderlin and Goethe himself. The latter's Werther was the most emotional novel until at least Madam de Bovary, which was written about 80 years later.

baud147258 8y ago

Like the sterotypes common in (Western) Europe regarding Eastern Europe, like for the Polish people?

kingofhdds 8y ago

>Germans also used to be stereotyped as dishonest, thieving, dull and overly emotional before their country industrialized. Any links on this?

j9461701 8y ago
>Any links on this? https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=3739&context=gradschool_theses https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=h... TL;DR (it's a 213 page grad thesis) Old Germany used to be basically Hufflepuff, a simple-minded, loyal, obedient rustic bumbler who's too stupid to really be a threat or even much of a partner. New Germany arose post-German unification and especially post WW1, where the stereotypes shifted to the modern more sinister concept of a nation of amoral mad scientists and clockwork soldiers - largely as an attempt to justify Germany being the great rival of England.
- barry-cotter 8y ago
  That’s just extending the already existing stereotype of Prussians to all of Germany.

psergeant 8y ago

The Brits used to be > passionate, melancholy, romantic, and tearful https://m.huffingtonpost.co.uk/thomas-dixon/british-stiff-upper-lip-our-emotional-past_b_1929511.html https://m.huffingtonpost.co.uk/thomas-dixon/british-stiff-up...

paganel 8y ago

> overly emotional before their country industrialized. After all some of the most famous Romantic artists came from Germany: Heine, Beethoven, Hölderlin and Goethe himself. The latter's Werther was the most emotional novel until at least Madam de Bovary, which was written about 80 years later.