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>Germans also used to be stereotyped as dishonest, thieving, dull and overly emotional before their country industrialized. Any links on this?
by 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 agoThat’s just extending the already existing stereotype of Prussians to all of Germany.