Let's talk a little bit about the Germans : They have potato bellies and live of bratwurst (fried sausage) with sauerkraut (sliced cabbage preserved with large additions of salt in big barrels, may be eaten raw or cooked). That's why they were called by the Yankees (including over here Southern rebels, Western cattledrivers and Californian gays, too) Krauts.
Their main sport is stone lifting, which leeds to an excessive swilling of beer (a yellowish to dark brown liquid leading to abuse and causing temporary to eternal headaches).

I gave these characreristics of the tribes of my fatherland because I enjoy this thread very much.
Just do me one favour: Don't give a passport to B.S.! It's enough to see him on the screen over here!

And now let me plead "not guilty" for some US-Americans. We saw a lot of them over here; now they are fortunately deported to a Near Eastern contry studying geography the tactical way. A rough characterisation of the types you can meet:
1) The really interested ones (learning even a foreign language!) Once
I gave an American soldier a lift and I was dumbfounded how well he spoke German fluently. On leave he travelled all over Europe with German friends.
2) The slightly interested, even travelling abroad, but never preparing for a travel, like this student of geography from the Middle West we took with us from the heart of Germany to Palermo, Italy. The only word in a foreign language he knew was "arriba!" (Mexican influence presumed.)
He never got over the day when going to Italy we drove through 5 countries with 4 currencies, but only (thank God) 2 languages (Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Italy).
3) The totally interested. He thinks Germany is a big jungle crossed by a vast number of autobahns.

Wilfried