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While staying in a hotel called the London House Hotel in Bayswater, an area in central London, I met a large group of German students, and one night got to talking with a very friendly young woman named Gabby, who spoke English exceptionally well for having lived just outside Berlin all her life. This is fortunate because am unable to speak but a few random words of German, though I intend to learn. One of the issues we talked about during the two or three hours was that of stereotypical or prejudgmental attitudes, specifically that of the German and American people. We discussed how each individual person, no matter the nationality, creed, gender, or physical attributes displayed, is different. She told me of instances where in her travels she had been judged harshly simply based on the fact that she was born and raised in Germany. According to her accusers, she is automatically an evil, sadistic, brainwashed Nazi murderer, and her only sin at the tender age of eighteen - younger than I - is her birth. My stomach literally turned when I heard that, for that type of narrow-mindedness has no place in a worldly, metropolitan, ever shrinking society and civilization like ours. She asked me how I felt about that, and I told her just that.