@ Veronica

I'm really sorry that you have such an ignorant instructor in your language class. If I were you'd stop going to the class and ask to get my money back and say that she said insults to you because of your nationality.

If she had said things like that to someone from Afghanistan for example she would get fired but to generalize about Americans seems ok to some people. In my opinion it's a double standard. Stereotypes are always bad also if they are directed against Americans or Germans.

I have lived in the US and I know that many Americans are very educated and polite people and that you have beautiful cities with a lot of museums and culture and also good food.

I wonder how the instructor had could use school shooting in Winenden as an argument that Americans were "bad". The tragedy in Winenden showed that Germany has the same problems with school shootings.

I also wish that some day we can live in a world without stereotypes and prejudices. But reading this forum makes it seem like that day is still far away. Like there is this Brazilian troll who writes hateful things under various names.

fight ignorance ! 27 Mar 2009, 09:38 - Report