Tbilisi said:
BayernMan said:
I find it funny how whenever i meet people from different regions in Germany the other has some "interesting" things to say about the other...
Probably just ran into the wrong people in Hamburg but on the train in we got chatting to an old German lady.I asked her if she liked English people and she was quite honest and said no....this was due to a firestorm that killed 40,000 people in one night after an allied bombing...I was quite shocked and thought this may have been passed down to the younger generation.
Well I guess the older generation still has those sentiments against each other and I would assume its not any different amongst the older English folks (or French, Dutch, Polish whatever people).
I doubt that the younger generation has a problem with English people and to be honest I always found the English media/press trying to keep the "hatred alive". Just have a look at whats happening in the English press when we play each other in football....
For us a match against England is special as you are still a respected team and you invented this wonderful sport after all. But other than that that´s it from a German point of view, while I feel in England there is more to it than just a game of football.
Germany vs. Netherlands or Austria is much more tense than England - Germany.
Of course we like to make fun of you (believe it or not...we sometimes like to have a laugh, but only when no one else is around to witness it and spread the word) and while you call us Krauts we call you "Insel Affen" (roughly translated to Island Apes), but that´s just banter. :)