I thought it was only Australians (not to be confused with their 'lesser brethren' Aussies) who suffered cultural cringe of such magnitude... for instance Germaine Drear.Sibylle Berg, a German writer who lives in Zurich, complained recently that the Germans wanted to turn Switzerland into "another Majorca".
She added: " I cringe more and more often whenever I hear German phrases, am served by Germans or meet them in restaurants or trams."
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