Austrian stereotypes!

A few weeks ago, we, in our school welcomed an exchange student from the UK. As you can guess, he had some serious stereotypes about the austrian people and I wanted to clarify some of those.

So let's start with the first stereotype:

He said he was really suprised that we didn't wear the traditional "Lederhose" or "Dirndl" at his arrival. So this is one thing that needs to be clear! Like all the other people on the world we like to dress traditionally, but not all the time. In austria we also have the normal stores like H&M or Zara where you can buy trendy clothes just like in the UK. We're only wearing traditional things, most of the time at festivals like the "Oktoberfest" and so on.

That brings us to the next stereotype, which is that austrian people really like to drink a lot of beer at these festivals. Well, that's not completely right because we austrians really like our beloved beer but as much as we love beer we also like vine or "Most", aswell as Non-alcoholic drinks.

The last stereotype was that austrians are always on time. This is mostly correct as we take an appointment very serious, but I think for the younger generation it's not the biggest priority anymore 'cause sometimes it happens that you sleep a lot longer than you wanted to, so it's not completely correct.

So these were pretty much the most important stereotypes according to austria, I hope you liked it!