The French and The Germans: A Comparative Study in "Local"

[Joe H]

http://www.thelocal.de/national/20130122-47491.html

I can't resist sharing this. The above is from The Local, an English language website for Germany which I follow. It is a particularly interesting study of the people of both countries.

[darkstar965]

Love this. Reminds me of a joke I once heard from a national team soccer player:

Q: Why do the Dutch have big ears?

A: Because when they're very, very young, their mothers take them to the border with Germany, pick them up by their ears and point, saying "look, junior, that's where the world champions live!"

Have to be a football fan to fully appreciate that.

[kirite]

Love this. Reminds me of a joke I once heard from a national team soccer player:

Q: Why do the Dutch have big ears?

A: Because when they're very, very young, their mothers take them to the border with Germany, pick them up by their ears and point, saying "look, junior, that's where the world champions live!"

Have to be a football fan to fully appreciate that.

During the Cold War De Gaulle famously said that he loved Germany so much he was glad that there were two of them. The biggest surprise for me in this neat article is that the French birthrate is now higher than the German.