German flag

[Captain2]

lol actually i live in canada and I have a German exchange student that I and my friends will go to lunch with, since still in school

I actually make fun of him severly, mostly because hes a strong nationalist, so it always funny to argue agianst someone who you know more of their history than they do of yours

jokes or facts I have used to bother him. I have compiled agianst the poor kraut

1: Germany is a provence in the country of europe
2: "your Kaiser is named after a Crusty bun"
3:We have your Fuehers head in a box in Moscow
4: Germany signed a paper saying you started WW1, so we keep telling him they started it
5: "if you dont be nice we'll put the wall back up"
6: Barbarossa drowned while swimming in his armour, we tell him he was probably the most intelligent German leader ever
7: Germany is 0/2 in World Wars, if they smarten up and join Britian maybe third time will be a charm

but frankly I think hes just happy i know enough about Germany to make fun of them, and he knows i'm not serious, or stupid enough to mean anything I say

 

[Princeps]

I have no, or very few, prejudices about Germans. I've been to Germany twice, they're normal people and if someone says he's German I have no problem with it, and no problem with Germans waving their flag either - as long as they do it in appropriate place and time.

More then correct.

How can you be more correct than correct?

 

[Bluemofia]

I'm perfectly fine with Germany. I am taking German instead of French or Spanish.

Afterall, you can't judge an entire country by the actions of one political party.

 

[sysyphus]

I'm Canadian with German heritage. Generally I find that people enjoy their jokes (e.g. where's your brown shirt? Poster child for the Aryan race etc.) and my step-mother-in-law did make a crack about me looking like I was Hitler Youth (she's Jewish) but nothing too severe except for a threat from one Jewish guy.

I've always enjoyed the Germans episode from Fawlty Towers because it is a good satirical look at the stigma that follows Germans and those of us with German ancestry even to this day.

All that said, I think flag waving is ridiculous regardless of the country involved.

 

[Captain2]

lol yeah that fawlty towers was pretty good

 

[Bungholio]

people assosiate germany with nazis still I guess, and southerners shouldn't wave confederate flags. Except for georgia.

 

[tomsnowman123]

I think flag waving is overrated as a whole. Unless it's this flag:

You don't have to have pride in your country, but ceratinly shouldn't feel afraid to have it.

 

[Zardnaar]

Wave away. The Germans I've met are usually quite nice. have a tendency to complain alot though- "Back home in Germany......"

 

[Yeeek]

Sadly your point of wiev is not shared by many people in say France, UK or US.

Really, well honestly i've never heard french people complaining about german waving their flag. I frankly have no idea where did you come up with that.

I lived in germany for some time but i was a baby so i can't tell from my own experience but my parents are quite pleased from the few months they lived there. It was in the 80 and to be more precise near Nürnberg. I went back in Germany years later for a student exchange. I was in Frieburg for a few weeks. Beautiful city i may add, though not different from the cities on the other side of the frontier because Freiburg is not too far from it.

My exchange student's family house had their grand parents living there too so we had a family meal (not too sure if it is the right word, excuse my english) once during my stay there. And what was bound to happen, happened. I was very surprised, but in a good way that we could talk about the war so openly. To be honest, i thought it was a taboo but apperently far from it and it is a good thing.

 

[Captain2]

the German guy I know is pretty good about talking about the war, unless you bring up the Luftwaffe, since his Grandfather was shot down

 

[bhsup]

Germans should be able to be proud of themselves and be able to wave their Flag with Pride like other contries do.

The above statement cannot be improved upon.

(and this is coming from the mouth of an American )

 

[NinjaGnat]

Whoever posted saying that the only flag waving German's you'll find are the zealous soccer fans, I can back that up. Being in Germany for two weeks last summer, I only saw a person with a flag once, and that was a group of soccer fans driving around Berlin. Its strange, you just don't see stuff like car dealerships surrounded by flags like you do here in the United States.

I think the new political "in" think for saying your patriotic in Germany is saying you're "lucky" to be German, since saying something like "proud" carries an overly-nationalistic tone with it.

 

[Yeeek]

I only saw a person with a flag once, and that was a group of soccer fans driving around Berlin.

Same here and that was back in 1998 for the world cup. I believe beside the Americans not many countries wave their flag that much.

I mean i never walked in the street here with flags at every door. The exepection being the champs elysees the 14 juillet.

 

[sysyphus]

Same here and that was back in 1998 for the world cup. I believe beside the Americans not many countries wave their flag that much.

Canada isn't as bad as the US for it, but we're pretty bad for it too.

 

[Mega Tsunami]

We don’t wave our flags around too much here but you can already see England flags on cars at the moment and when the World Cup starts in a couple of weeks they will be everywhere. And I mean everywhere.

I have mine all ready to fly from the back windows of my car…

 

[sysyphus]

There's tonnes of flag waving during the World Cup here in Canada, just that the Canadian flag isn't one of them (for obvious reasons. ). Everyone flys the flag of their heritage instead. I'll be supporting Germany, and to a lesser extent England, but will not be flying any flags.

 

[kronic]

the German guy I know is pretty good about talking about the war, unless you bring up the Luftwaffe, since his Grandfather was shot down

What an idiot.

 

[aussieboy]

I am an admitted Germanophile, and think that nationalism is not that bad, one needs to be proud of their country's achievements, while acknowledging that others have made other achievements. I see Germany as the home of Beethoven, Luther, and Niemoller, and of course our Pope. There are many more good things about Germany than bad. Pity people remember only the bad.

 

[sysyphus]

The current Pope is not a German, he's a Bavarian. Bavarians are really just Italians with blonde hair.

 

[nonconformist]

I found a repro Imperial Navy flag, complete with eagle and Eizerne Kreuz.
However, I didn't get it, partly because I didn't want the negative connotations that would come with it from the majority of people ("Hey, dood, why you got Nazi flag?")and because I didn't want to be contacted by skinhead eejits.