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	ellensmithee 2009-01-29 08:59 am UTC (link)
	Thanks for point this out. I (an American who's lived in Germany for over 20 years) didn't think I could get away with it without being accused of German bashing. ;-) Some Germans are very suspicious about modern technology and find pseudoscientific reasons to back themselves up. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ashenmote 2009-01-29 09:57 am UTC (link)
	You're welcome. I'm hopelessly suspicious about modern technology myself, but I despise pseudo-scientific blather even more, which puts me in an awkward position. So I refuse to use new gadgets just because a lot. :D (Reply to this)(Parent)

chikane
2009-01-30 11:09 am UTC (link)

Actually, this exactly is german bashing - which is especially hilarious when a US-American is doing it. Hey, pray tell, which nation had the pseudoscience-loving president for eight years? :D

Hint, for the future: Some humans are very suspicious about modern technology and find pseudoscientific reasons to back themselves up. Got little to do with them being german. But then, if we aknowledge that we couldn't stereotype, could we? :>

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	deviantdesade 2009-01-30 06:15 pm UTC (link)
	shrug I see it more as pointing out something that was noticed. For example, South Koreans and fans (see above). (Reply to this)(Parent)

ellensmithee
2009-01-31 12:08 pm UTC (link)

OK, I started out with another comment but it turned into a huge discourse about pseudoscience and homeopathy that went off topic, so I'll leave it. ;-)

I used "some" consciously to avoid stereotyping and German bashing, and the statement is 100% true for some Germans, just as it's 100% true for some Americans. It just bugs me more when Germans do it since I've lived here for my entire adult life and will probably be getting German citizenship a few years down the road. But I'm sorry if I offended you. :-)

Ironically, Germans don't really have an international stereotype as being afraid of technology to the extent I've observed in SOME of my friends and in-laws - on the contrary. In the U.S., they're usually seen as being humorless, self-opinionated, and judgemental on the negative side and hard-working and good with technology on the positive side.

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