English humor really comes from another world, I don't have that in my textbook. English jokes, I know a lot of them, just replace "a Belgian" with "an Englishman" and is super funny.
Americans have no idea what a crumpet actually is. It is just another thing American types say without knowing the actual meaning of what they are saying. That happens a lot.
It is as if we said, of a typical American, "shouldn't he be eating bread in a can with a glass of root beer?" as if that was perfectly normal of all Americans all the time.
I'd be prepared to bet hardly any American in the US has actually ever eaten a crumpet. Finding one that knows what it really is, how to serve it and what time it would be typically eaten, would be a hard task.
Finding one, that is, without him quickly looking up in Wikipedia first... and then presenting it as their first hand knowledge.
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Do you remember that news piece about the Austrian ambassador being greeted in an official US government event to the tune of Edelweiss from the Sound of Music? It was being played so as to represent the true Austrian nature of the event. The Austrian ambassador was nonplussed and had never heard the tune in his life before.
It is entirely an American creation that had zero context for Austria.
It was more of a demonstration of how little the US knows of the actual world, having its own set of 'stereotypes' that actually tend to demonstrate more of the American mind, than it does of the people it is meant to be stereotyping.
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Do you remember that news piece about the Austrian ambassador being greeted in an official US government event to the tune of Edelweiss from the Sound of Music? It was being played so as to represent the true Austrian nature of the event. The Austrian ambassador was nonplussed and had never heard the tune in his life before.
It is entirely an American creation that had zero context for Austria.
It was more of a demonstration of how little the US knows of the actual world, having its own set of 'stereotypes' that actually tend to demonstrate more of the American mind, than it does of the people it is meant to be stereotyping.
Stereotyping people isn't unique to the US. You just spent two post stereotyping the US. lol
Americans have no idea what a crumpet actually is. It is just another thing American types say without knowing the actual meaning of what they are saying. That happens a lot.
Well, I certainly don't. Looks a bit like an English muffin, though...but different.
If I was meeting an Austrian I'd say "G'Day, Mate. How's yer Shiela"
I wouldn't say anything. My mom told me not to speak to strangers. She didn't say I couldn't get into their van if they have candy. But that's a different story.
English humor really comes from another world, I don't have that in my textbook.
I just think its doesn't translate well, I was in France a few years back and my girlfriend asked a French friend what's the French term for "Cheeky Monkey", he thought about it for a moment and said there isn't one. The closest he could get to it (and he couldn't stress enough that this would mean nothing to a French person) was "Singe Insolent"
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Biscuits are originally French (the etymology comes from the French for Twice Cooked). Of course, the French know nothing about food so never considered twinning them with a cup of tea.
I bought some Yorkshire Tea for the first time in ages recently
I don't get Yorkshire Tea. Yorkshire is rightly famous for many things: stoicism, rolling hills, talking out the side of your mouth... but why Tea?
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