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Thread #2483   Message #1270094
Posted By: Rasener
12-Sep-04 - 01:17 PM
Thread Name: Req: If You Want People to Like You, Learn German
Subject: RE: If you want people to like you, learn German
I am sure older dutch people don't like people speaking German. Ask my father in law. Oh you can't sorry, because he is dead now, but when alive he didn't trust any German after what they did to Holland and some of his Jewish friends in the war. He wasn't Jewish. The stories he used to tell me about Holland when it was taken over by the Germans. If my father in law was still alive, he would always send a German in the oppsite direction to where they wanted to go.

Fortunately, the younger generation have forgiven and do not look at the Germans in the same way.

I speak Dutch, maybe thats why my wife liked me :-)