{"id":12809,"date":"2021-07-17T06:00:05","date_gmt":"2021-07-17T04:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toktali.com\/blog\/?p=12809"},"modified":"2024-11-29T17:17:19","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T16:17:19","slug":"austrians-are-stupid-and-racist-suggests-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toktali.com\/blog\/austrians-are-stupid-and-racist-suggests-google\/","title":{"rendered":"Austrians are stupid, suggests Google"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The most common search terms starting with the phrase \u2018\u00d6sterreicher sind\u2026’ reveals that Google – or rather Google users – do not think too highly of Austrians.<\/strong>
\nTop of the list is the factually questionable \u2018\u00d6sterreicher sind deutsche’ (Austrians are German), followed by \u2018sind dumm’ (stupid), and further down the list \u2018sind nazis’, \u2018sind unfreundlich’ (unfriendly), \u2018sind rassisten’ (racist).<\/p>\n

The fifth option is \u2018\u00d6sterreicher sind wie punschkrapfen’, referencing the famous saying by the late Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard who described the mentality of Austrians like the pink, chocolate rum pudding \u2018punschkrapfen’, because they are red (socialist) on the outside, brown (fascist) on the inside and always a little bit drunk.
\n(“Die Mentalit\u00e4t der \u00d6sterreicher ist wie ein Punschkrapfen: Au\u00dfen rot, innen braun und immer ein bi\u00dfchen betrunken”)<\/p>\n

The stereotypes do not fare much better for the Viennese, who apparently are \u2018unfriendly’ and \u2018arrogant’. The third most common thought people have about Vienna concerns their sausages. \u2018Sind wiener w\u00fcrstchen roh’ (are Viennese sausages raw) is third on the list after using the search term \u2018Wiener sind’.
\nSource: local.at<\/p>\n

Austria and its nasty secrets<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Austrian psychologist Erwin Ringel wrote a book, The Austrian Soul, in which he diagnosed a severe case of national neurosis. He compared his country to a house with two rooms – one in apfel-strudel order; the other – like the forbidden chamber in Bluebeard\u2019s castle – a locked room where hideous, unnamed horrors lurk, but which no one is permitted to enter.<\/p>\n

Attempts to deny or cover up some nasty secret have defined Austria throughout its history.
\nSome trace Austria\u2019s warped coldness to its geographic location.
\nOthers blame the Austrian neuroses on the greatest crime of all: the Third Reich. Specifically<\/p>\n

Austria\u2019s refusal to recognize that it was part of its native son Hitler\u2019s plan.
\nThe official Austrian attitude had always been that it was \u2018Hitler\u2019s first victim\u2019 – occupied in March 1938 ahead of Czechoslovakia and Poland. But the newsreels of the delirious crowds who greeted Hitler\u2019s entry to Vienna told their own undeniable story.
\nIn truth, as the Austrian-born British journalist Hella Pick recognised when choosing the title of her 2000 postwar history of the country Austria was a \u2018Guilty Victim\u2019.
\nSource: The Telegraph<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The most common search terms starting with the phrase \u2018\u00d6sterreicher sind\u2026’ reveals that Google – or rather Google users – do not think too highly of Austrians. Top of the list is the factually questionable \u2018\u00d6sterreicher sind deutsche’ (Austrians are German), followed by \u2018sind dumm’ (stupid), and further down the list \u2018sind nazis’, \u2018sind unfreundlich’ […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[660,447],"tags":[836,1295],"class_list":["post-12809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-nationalism-in-austria","tag-job-austria","tag-short"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toktali.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toktali.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toktali.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toktali.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toktali.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.toktali.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toktali.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toktali.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toktali.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toktali.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}