[ SECRET POST #2251 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2251 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

is this unique to Prussia or does it happen to all the countries?

[tamabonotchi]

Lots of people got overexcited about their heritages when into Hetalia, but this is a stand-out case because Prussia was a kingdom people don't learn until high school world history or ever. Lots of people learned about it from Hetalia without learning anything else except "he's so cool".

It really shows through if they say something about "being Prussian" seeing as the people of Prussia were German, not Prussian. While it may have been called the kingdom of Prussia, they were ethnically German.
The ethnic Prussians were of Baltic descent and were conquered by Germans, and they used the name Prussia while all the Old Prussians died out/assimilated.
So, anyone who claims their family is "omg Prussian" don't actually know what they're talking about and probably only wanted to have a connection with Prussia the character.

[(Anonymous)]

There is a large group in the German population (one that, for example, is very present in Poland's eyes) that does see itself as having a Prussian heritage (in the Generation before mine, I think it's dying out, thank god).

Thinking you have a Prussian heritage is way less obnoxious (if you're willing to engage with it and understand, same as people with a US-American heritage) than thinking you have a "German" heritage, as if that were a thing.