I know thousands of German's who are totally different from me, so we're not alike, we're not the same.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My friends often tell me how very German I still am.
I'm German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn't exist any more.
People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.
Few people know that I grew up in Germany and that my family still lives there.
I do not deny my German identity. But I also feel Swiss. Of my eight great-grandparents, seven were born Swiss. I have been living in Switzerland for more than 50 years.
Germans don't speak in a German accent, they just speak German.
Being German, I think we don't really express a lot of things.
German is more familiar now since I live part of the year in Rome and part in the German part of Switzerland. But it's not difficult to sing in German; it's difficult to feel in German. This takes time. It's a culture.
The German public knows me quite well. I have been in their kitchens and living rooms for years.
The thing that I like about Germany is that Germans are so much like us. It's not like going to some other countries, where the differences are overwhelming and you walk around in a fog. Germans are so similar to Americans.