Confession Bear

When I first came to America, all the waitresses called me "honey" and "sugar". I thought, what a great place!

Lol. People have told me that over in England the expression is "love." "Can I help you, love?"

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Sorry forceful ... I had to say this ^^

Last summer I visited my parents in Germany and I chose to take the train. Therefore I had to cross one of those inner cities (high unemployment, high crime rate, mainly all lowerclass people, etc.).

So I ran with my luggage (I was late) through the crowd on the sidewalk and I bumped into many people. Even it was my fault THEY offered an excuse to ME ("Bonjour Monsieur. Pardon Monsieur", "Bonjour. Excusez-moi, Monsieur!", etc.) when I ran into them. Those guys (almost all French people, no matter what background they had or which color their skin had) are so gentle and also neat, I really was astonished.

In the evening I reached Cologne, went to another track and one of my fellow countrymen came towards me and without saying "Good afternoon"/"Hello" or "Excuse me, please" he said to me: "Yo man, spare Change? I'll give it back to you tomorrow, man!"

I felt so horrible!

We Germans are very often SO arrogant ... and unable to show a certain degree of politeness

Damn. I don't know how to respond to that. The only time I've visited a foreign country is a trip to Canada and that was by car. And I must say everyone their we encountered was very nice. Although we did stay in the tourist zones. Who knows if we were in the wrong place at the wrong time we may have gotten robbed I just don't know. I think every country probably has a crowd that have no manners or regards for other people. Don't write off all your countryman as rude and arrogant. I'm sure it was just the section you were in.