• samus12345@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Germany: “Fine, fine, we’re Germany to you. You could have called us Dutchland instead of using that for people from the Netherlands, but whatever.”

    USA: pointing to people who settled Pennsylvania from Germany “Pennsylvania Dutch!”

    Germany: ಠ_ಠ

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      3 months ago

      Could be worse, I know that some Germans who settled in the US got the name Black Germs cause they were from the black forest.

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      3 months ago

      Also the Dutch angle in cinema, named after the expressionist German film of the early 20th cinema (think Nosferatu)