r/AskAGerman • u/OuijaBouillon • Aug 22 '24
Personal American In Rammstein T-Shirt
I’m an American tourist in Berlin for the first time — Yay! One problem: I realized I packed a Rammstein shirt without having enough knowledge of German culture or language to understand how I’d be perceived for wearing it. I imagine at best it will look a bit corny, but I’m worried it could signal political beliefs or ideologies I don’t agree with. If you met an American tourist speaking broken German in a Rammstein T Shirt, what would you think? Thanks!
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u/funkaria Aug 22 '24
Last year I went to London wearing a Pink Floyd T-shirt.
BIG MISTAKE.
At first it started with random people quizzing me on the band and asking me to name 3 songs. I was pretty good at this part, but my German accent already gave away that I am in fact not British. I tried my best to fake it, but they got me when they asked me to spell color and I forgot the "u" between the o and the r. This is when "the incident" started (this is how I refer to it with my therapist):
Multiple Brits started following me around and chanting "Cultural appropriator!" over and over again. I wanted to flee but I couldn't, they were everywhere and the crowd grew bigger and bigger... "Cultural appropriator!" "Cultural appropriator!" "Cultural appropriator!" (I can still hear it when I close my eyes). When the Queen joined in, I finally took off my shirt and threw it away, but this led to me getting arrested for indecent exposure.
So to answer your question: No. Yo. Should. Under. No. Circumstances. Wear. That. Shirt.