[The Xenophobe's Guide 01] • To the Austrians
- Authors
- James, Louis
- Publisher
- Xenophobe's Guides
- Tags
- travel , humour , reference
- ISBN
- 9781908120069
- Date
- 2000-04-20T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.38 MB
- Lang
- en
The Austrian needs lots of persuading to have his traditions tampered with in the name of modernization and efficiency. He is attached to his sausage, his insipid beer, and the young white wine that tastes so remarkably like iron filings. He prefers the familiar, tried and tested to the novelty, the latter almost certainly being an attempt by persons unknown to make money at his expense. Xenophobia is an irrational fear of foreigners, probably justified, always understandable. Xenophobe's Guides - an irreverent look at the beliefs and foibles of nations, almost guaranteed to cure Xenophobia