After about a minute the bouncer asked "English?".
I said "Well I speak english but I'm American, from Tennessee". He immediately smiled broadly and opened the door for me to enter.
My unsolicited advice to people wanting to visit the city has always been to not go during UK long weekends and if they're only looking for drugs and sex, that both can be sourced closer to home.
There's also a large rivalry in soccer and balconing; combined with history and Brexit it really isn't a mystery.
https://glosbe.com/en/de/football%20hooliganism
rowdytum:
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/german-english/r...
rowdy:
english(-american) rowdy, origin unclear
"thug; hoodlum," first found in British newspaper police-court reports in the summer of 1898, almost certainly from the variant form of the Irish surname Houlihan, which figured as a characteristic comic Irish name in music hall songs and newspapers of the 1880s and '90s.
Many brits cannot behave when they are on vacation, mostly because of alcohol. Not all of them, but a significantly high portion of them compared to other countries. But german have similar reputation regarding being drunktards especially when in large groups.
Other nationalities may have their own reputations and clichés. Spanish people are loud, french people complain about everything and don't make a single effort to speak the local language, etc.
As always it is always about statistics and the biggest groups tend to have the more stereotypes and generalizations. But clichés often exist for a reason.
They dress loud, but AFAICT that's only a Spaniards in Berlin thing. They guy with the top hat, circus vest, short shorts and tights and golden wings on his sneakers, very likely Spanish.
We sat down at the Stammtisch.
The waitress kindly told us that we should move. Then everybody in the place was kind of cold to us, until someone picked up from our conversation that we were from the US. The waitress tentatively asked: "Are you Americans?" Yes. "Oh, we thought you were English." All of the sudden the whole place warmed up to us, and they even brought us complimentary glasses of the house liqueur, which I can tell you was quite potent.
I don't know why they liked Americans better than English, and we didn't press the matter.