Yesterday the Easy German Youtube channel posted an interview that was absolutely fascinating. It compared High German ("German German") with the dialect of Swiss German spoken by people living in Basel.
When asked what stereotype existed among the Baslers about their French-speaking neighbors, the answer was: "They always insist on speaking French." I cannot tell tell you how often I experienced this attitude! Living in Basel, you live on both the French and German borders. On our frequent jaunts into France, Becky and I would rarely be able to speak English with the natives. Nor did they want us to speak German. It was French or nothing -- despite the fact that my spoken French was a disaster. The French, you see, are justifiable proud of their mother tongue, just as we Americans are of our dialect of English. Just goes to show that God messed things up really good at Babel, though I'm not complaining because I would have been without a job for the past 5 decades if students didn't have to learn Greek as a foreign language!