In the politically correct days of the late 1990s the show was criticised, but in its day the show was popular with people of many backgrounds because of its light-hearted take on multiculturalism and because it gave some otherwise unrepresented minorities a television presence. Much of the humour also stemmed from the trouble the students had with the English language, their often outrageous speech patterns and the students' hilarious mispronunciations of English. The series was known for its humorous take on national stereotypes: the German woman was dour and humourless the French woman was sexy and flirtatious the Swedish woman was liberated and straightforwardly sex-mad the Chinese woman a rampant Maoist while the Sikh and Pakistani men were often on the brink of war, and the Spaniard, the Greek and the Italian were macho.
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