Spanish are ‘indolent’; Greek ‘filthy’; Italians ‘dishonest’; ‘Orientals’ ‘stupid’
Donkey work: Edwardian tourists riding on donkeys and camela with their native guides at the Sphinx at Giza, Egypt in 1910 The most riotously un-PC travel guides ever! The informed, detailed, authoritative and unguardedly rude Baedekers . The guides were founded in 1832 by German publisher Karl Baedeker . They contain unforgiving comments on ‘natives’ a traveller might encounter . Spanish are ‘indolent’; Greek ‘filthy’; Italians ‘dishonest’; ‘Orientals’ ‘stupid’ . Britain described as ‘a place of parsons, puppy dogs and peculiar people’ By Laura Freeman for the Daily Mail An Englishman on holiday in Spain a century ago found a … Continue reading Spanish are ‘indolent’; Greek ‘filthy’; Italians ‘dishonest’; ‘Orientals’ ‘stupid’