What are some words that depict very stereotypical German/Austrian/Swiss things or objects?
“Alles in ordnung” – which is German for “all is in order.” Stereotypically, people who are German/Austrian/Swiss keep all of their things or objects well organized and in order? Both my grandparents were Pennsylvania Dutch which is really “Deutsch” or German. There was a large German/American extended family on that side. They spoke German. Maybe there are some sloppy disorganized German people, but I haven’t met them. “Lederhosen” (“leather trousers” in German) are a stereotypical alpine German item of dress – though they are rarely worn. Leather shorts with suspenders. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lederh… Beer is associated with Germans, but every literate civilization in history has made and consumed beer from Sumerians to Babylonians to Egyptians and to the present day. The Nazi thing was only 12 years of German history, but that has become a stereotype. Anti-Jewish sentiment is a German proclivity t
