I came across this during work today. It's a video made by the children of immigrants to Germany. The humour is very much along the line of the wonderful comedy series "Goodness Gracious Me" on BBC Radio 4 with a bunch of Indian comedians. Basically, they took the kind of comments that Indians in the UK heard and turned them round.
The same thing happens in this video. I particularly like the simple sketch of people trying to pronounce the name Sven as though it's something very hard and exotic. My father goes by the name of Gwyn. My German family thinks it is too hard to pronounce so they use his first name, Ernest. Only they use the German version "Ernst". I find it hard to believe that a German can't pronounce 'Gwyn'. I should pronounce their names using English pronunciation rules and see how they like that.
Anyway, here's a laugh for you:
I used to love Goodness Gracious Me!
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