i am seeing the movie ‘sound of music’ about austria.. look you can be seeing yodeling here ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6j376yOlm4 ) ..but im thinking it must be being annoying if you find americans are always bringing up that movie..
like what other cultural thing is an america being associate with austria?? its mostly being ‘sound of music’ right??
its like if you are american and going to austria every one will be thinking of the stereotype like ‘you are fat and dumb and ignorant..’ like stereotype is being of american tourist saying ‘why dont yall speak english..wheres the mcdonalds being??’..
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Most Austrians won’t understand a “Sound of Music”-reference anyway, since that movie is totally unknown here
Maybe just me, but I hate when people bring up the Austrian-Hungarian empire and habsburg monarchy as something awesome and glorious. Fuck monarchism and imperialism, Austria is better off without it.
It is annoying to be seen as “little Germany” – just go to Ireland for example and tell them they are practically English to find out what the “ire” stands for…
mozart and sisi, yodeling, skiing. everyone sings and wears Trachten all the time.
if they mention hitler I’m almost proud of them for not being *that* ignorant and having listened in history lessons.
(but hey, germans have it way worse for always being portrayed as bavarian)
Wait, Americans are NOT fat, dumb and ignorant?
I’m a bit proud of the fact that the guy who killed Hitler was Austrian.
Des is de nächste depperte frog!
Where are you from?
Did you know that the actual Trapp family had (prob. still has) a VERY dark side:
Maria Trapp was a raging narcissist and the kids suffered terrible.
She also very much likely fucked the priest family friend and had the youngest boy with him. They also never actually fled Austria in the sense implied in the movie (not even mentioning the geographical nonsense depicted there), they simply bought train tickets and even holiday-ed in Austria after their emigration and during the Third Reich period in Austria.
Also, Mister Trapp was never a Baron (he was a Ritter, abolished 1918) and Maria (who was also never a actual nun) never had either a „von“ title nor was she a „Baroness“. That is pure fabrication.
She also straight out lied about her life pre-marriage and when her Austrian son-in-law, historian Ernst Florian Winter, called her out on this she threw giant fits and NDA‘d her kids…
Just to set some feelings about that movie and family (away from touristic exploitation for big bucks) straight.
As someone currently living in Salzburg, I find it extremely annoying to get associated with Sound of music. Especially, when I have to give a presentation to a group of people who want to see the Stiftsarmstollen in Salzburg and every half an hour we have severe delay in the tours because the Sound of Music bicycle tours stop near us blaring the songs from Sound of music from every speaker on the bikes basically making it very difficult to hear anything else.
The history of the Stiftsarmstollen far more interesting than kitschy Sound of Music.
I also had Americans (probably from a southern state judging from their accent) who told me that I should stop lying to them because they “know German and Austrians don’t speak German”.