Courtesy of English writer Tom Utley, here is a summary of the characters of various Europeans:
Belgians: mad, boring.
Frenchmen: arrogant, chauvinistic, garlic-breathed.
Germans: humourless, ruthless, efficient, greedy.
Spaniards: lazy, hot-tempered, bloodthirsty.
Irishmen: drunk, lazy, self-pitying, dishonest.
Italians: volatile, sleazy, vain.
Swedes: sex-obsessed, robotic, conformist.
Greeks: smelly, hirsute, untrustworthy.
Austrians: fat, wannabe Germans.
Finns: pessimistic, sun-starved, suicidal.
Dutchmen: clog-wearing, tulip-fancying dope addicts.
Portuguese, Danes, Luxembourgeoise: too insignificant to bother about.
The Brits: upright, honest, fair-minded (excluding the Scots, who are mean and belligerent, and the Welsh, who are blathering windbags).
And Americans? Americans are all of the above (except when they're Canadians, in which case some of them are Frenchmen and most of them are Brits).
