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What would be the personality of a German who talks like and appears to be British?

I have been working with a guy who is from southern Germany, he's 100% German. Yet when he speaks English he has a flair which seems entirely British. When I first met him, I thought he WAS British. His English is excellent, so I would not have known he was German. He even looks British.

He claims to be 100% German in decent.

What would you assume about this guy's personality? Generalizations, stereotypes, psychoanalysis?

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  • 9 years ago
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    I don't like stereotyping people...Just look at the British Royal family..they are all not pure Britains..because they are decendants of Queen Victoria whose mother was German and Prince Albert, Queen Victoria's husband and first cousin was German and she married most of her children off to some German cousins..so there is always some Germanic blood in the British Royal family..

    There are some Germans who speak an excellent German. Germany is in Central Europe not in the Jungle...why would it be so difficult to behave in a civilized way as a German? What's your idea of being typically British..if even Queen Elizabeth II is not 100 % pure British due to her ancestors..who decended from Germany..The Royal Family of Great Britain has a partly German ancestry...

    What's a British look?

    I am German and I have lived in Britain and now live in Canada and I have not come across someone looking typically British...maybe if we went back to the 1930's and we all talked like P.G.Wodehouse's Jeeve's and Wooster...those guys seemed to talk very British..back then...Love that series..Jeeves and Wooster with Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry..that was Britain at it's most British...xxx Nowadays, there is no typical British look...that's just imagination..maybe the humor is different..I am married to a Brit...apart from that I don't think just by seeing a person one can judge..and Helen Mirren speaks a perfect British and her ancestors come from Russia..her parents were Russian..and her name Mirren is a name she adopted when she became a famous actress...x

  • 9 years ago

    I would assume that you can not assume.

    He may be a pretender or he may be genuine.

    Time will help you learn his true personality.

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