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Mocking others
DIR By: Alharacas
Date: December 4, 2018, 5:48 am
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HTML https://www.quora.com/Would-I-be-made-fun-of-in-Germany-if-my-German-isnt-perfect/answer/Jens-B%C3%B6ttiger
tl;dr
The guy claims the reason why Germans are famous for their lack
of humour is because we frown upon mocking others to their face.
This guy seems to be idealizing German culture quite a bit.
Still do you think there's anything to this? Or, if you don't
have an opinion on this, how is mocking others handled in your
culture?
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Re: Mocking others
DIR By: NealC
Date: December 4, 2018, 6:54 am
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It is not a great way to make friends, but friends (especially
male to male) in the US do it all the time. My apology for the
vulgarity but it fits under the heading of "breaking someone's
balls", an activity that can be positive between friends. A
study of that phrase and how it is used is an interesting
exercise and might be appropriate to this question.
But the poll doesn't have my answer :-(
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Re: Mocking others
DIR By: Nikola
Date: December 4, 2018, 8:10 am
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It's a very common thing to do in the Czech Republic. Anything
and anyone can be laughed at at any given time, nothing is safe
here. We can't help it. We've even been referred to as "laughing
beasts" but it was Reinhard Heydrich who said it so one has to
take it with a grain of salt.
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Re: Mocking others
DIR By: NealC
Date: December 4, 2018, 11:09 am
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I imagine a certain amount of courage was required to make fun
of Heydrich :-)
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Re: Mocking others
DIR By: Alharacas
Date: December 4, 2018, 11:49 am
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--- Quote from: NealC link ---
>
> But the poll doesn't have my answer :-(
>
--- End Quote ---
Sorry about that, Neal. What kind of answer would you have
thought appropriate?
#Post#: 9909--------------------------------------------------
Re: Mocking others
DIR By: SHL
Date: December 4, 2018, 12:36 pm
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Yes, Alharacas, I don`t know what Neal is talking about. Making
fun of people to their face? What´s that suppose to mean anyway?
For example.............?
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Re: Mocking others
DIR By: NealC
Date: December 4, 2018, 2:16 pm
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My answer is
It is not a great way to make friends, but friends in the US do
it all the time.
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Re: Mocking others
DIR By: SHL
Date: December 4, 2018, 3:47 pm
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--- Quote from: NealC link ---
>
> My answer is
> It is not a great way to make friends, but friends in the US
do it all the time.
>
--- End Quote ---
With friends like that, who needs enemies.
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Re: Mocking others
DIR By: Allie
Date: December 5, 2018, 5:00 am
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It’s extremely common in Brazil and that’s a way to make
friends… or at least it used to be so. People are getting too
sensitive these days.
Anyway, it’s (usually) not like this guy described, just banter.
We tend to think it’s better if someones mocks you in your face
than behind your back.
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Re: Mocking others
DIR By: Aliph
Date: December 5, 2018, 5:27 am
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--- Quote from: NealC link ---
>
> My answer is
> It is not a great way to make friends, but friends in the US
do it all the time.
>
--- End Quote ---
It seems a national sport in the US also when the president (and
serial Twitter) mocks his french colleague Macron about french
internal politics. Inelegant.
HTML https://www.france24.com/fr/20181205-gilets-jaunes-trump-concessions-climat
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