The section involving the World Wars wrongly stated that the Nazis were involved in *both*. Changed Nazi to German for historical accuracy.
The main body of the article strongly implies that it was American humor that birthed this stereotype, yet I've seen it so often in British humor as well that I'm wondering if it either is a case of parallel humor evolution, or the article writer was American themselves and naturally ascribed the notion to their country of origin?
Typhon
I removed the paragraph about Charles de Gaulle, because it was both factually inaccurate and full of natter.
In my opinion, having a 'real life' section on pages about national stereotypes of any kind is a bad idea. It leads to highly questionable, if not outright wrong, summaries of hopelessly debatable points. Since we don't want to turn TV tropes into Wikipedia, let's just not have that.
Typhon
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Why we cannot put Real Like example for Jerkass but it is okay for French Jerk ?
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"Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries!"