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Loading... The Xenophobe's Guide to the Germans (Xenophobe's Guides - Oval Books) (edition 1999)by Stefan Zeidenitz (Author)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. For being a German it is really funny and also weird to read that book. And I gotta say, that I definitely seen myself in some of the written facts. :) ( ) This is an amusing enough entry into the "Xenophobes' Guide" series, but has a negative undertone that can get wearing. It's not that I think that everything should be sweetness and light. But this book does seem to emphasize the negative aspects of current-day Germanness at the expense of more endearing traits. Since the authors are German, they know whereof they speak and can do so without grating. Still, their view of Germanness seems to me more reminiscent of the Germany of thirty or forty years ago than of Germany today. no reviews | add a review
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This is one of a series of guides designed to tell the truth about other nations, using sweeping generalizations and observations as a base, detailing what to expect and how to cope with it. The guides try to explain why things are done the way they are and they try to allay the feelings of trepidation with which the xenophobe approaches new territory. This particular book looks at the Germans. No library descriptions found. |
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