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Originally Posted by Vincent
I have no opinion on this. The Austrians I've meet didn't like the idea about Austria being Germany and them being Germans. They defended their Austrian identity. That's at least the experience I had in Vienna.
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That is understandable. I would compare that to the example that in Denmark, Germans are very stigmatized, being German is stigmatized. Our word for German can even be used as a curse word, and the worst thing a Swede can call a Dane is "halvtysker" (half German).
But history must have something to say about this. The similarity/identicalness between Germany and Austria can hardly be a coincidence.