Overheard

I just got back today from the sunny Islas Canarias so it will take me a few days to adjust to these temperatures. I'll report more extensively later about my holiday and provide some tips on how to have a perfect Canarian vacation (this was my third visit so I have learned from experience).
Anyway I wanted to post this gem to start with. As I can recognize almost every European language and I take an active interest in guessing unknown ones I was able to say with certainty that the following nationalities were in attendance at the children's swimming pool in our complex on Saturday morning - Dutch (in the majority), Irish, Spanish, Polish, French, Lithuanian, British and Norwegian. Note that there were absolutely no Germans there and it was quite crowded.
Imagine my surprise at hearing the following conversation between a Norwegian and a young British girl:
- Have you met anybody while you've been here?
- Not really, there aren't really any English people.
- No, there are no Norwegians either. This place is just full of Germans.

I was flabbergasted. Ironically, the day before the British girl's mother had complimented me on my excellent English (evidently middle class Irish accents are not Irish enough and because I was speaking Polish to my wife I was automatically precluded from being a native English speaker). Anyway she had mentioned that she hadn't realized that it was a German resort. I did tell her that there were actually way more Dutch people than Germans. She did say that she couldn't tell the difference. For English speakers it probably is not so easy to distinguish but for a Norwegian!
It's sad that there is this in-built anti-German bias anyway. Why can't people give them a break? Especially when they are not even there unless we are all Germans now or something.