22.10.2024
Today we went to an ice hockey game again. You can maybe tell we like going there 🙂
In the breaks we talked about stereotypes from our countries. Here are some stereotypes from the Netherlands we told Emma:
- We don’t wear clogs, but some farmers do wear them
- Dutch people are very direct. We will say what is on our mind
- A lot of foreign people think every Dutch person lives in Amsterdam. Of course that is not true.
- ‘’Dutch people smoke a lot of weed’’
- A lot of foreign people refer to The Netherlands as Holland. But if you say Holland you only refer to two provinces of the twelve we have. They are called: Noord-Holland and Zuid-Holland.
Emma taught us about the German stereotypes:
- Germans are very punctual. She said that this is not true, because if you look at the train system about 80% of the trains are delayed in Germany. That was something I did not expect
- Germans can’t party. She said this one is true. She read in a study that 62% of the participants have said that they go out less than once a month. 12% never goes out and 2% said they go out more than 4 times a month. I always thought Germany was a party-country. Especially with the Oktoberfest
- Germans wear sandals with socks. This stereotype is very true she said.
It was fun to learn and teach about the stereotypes of our countries. Because this is often a subject you don’t really talk about.
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