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" I play soccer with a bunch of people, a friendly pickup game. One thing about this crew is that it is a very mixed group of all countries of this world. We even let a Frenchman play with us. We don&amp;#039;t really take him seriously, of course, but we let him play. There&amp;#039;s Englishmen with bad teeth and drunken Irishmen, Scots with their sheep, fat Americans, lazy Italians -- every nation you can think of.  In the beginning when I made intemperate remarks about the English or the French, I would be reprimanded by my American girlfriend: &amp;quot;You can&amp;#039;t say these things -- it&amp;#039;s insulting.&amp;quot; But it actually isn&amp;#039;t, at least not to people with a sense of humor. The countries of Europe have been at war with each other for thousands of years. I think it is much better to just tell the English to go brush their teeth than to shoot them. Living here has taught me to walk on the eggshells of PC, but it&amp;#039;s tough to adhere to these standards. You have to avoid saying &amp;quot;Chinese laundryman,&amp;quot; even though the laundryman is, indeed, Chinese. I can&amp;#039;t even make fun of the Swiss without being reprimanded. It seems the only group that is not off-limits is us Krauts. Even our own companies come up with utterly ridiculous commercials for American TV. But that&amp;#039;s okay -- have a go. You see, we are not humorless, after all. The author is a German who has been living in the U. S. for about ten years. He is often angry. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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