Word: hibbert
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Dates: during 1992-1992
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Through his travels he learns to agree with Christopher Hibbert, saying "the peoples of Europe have for at least three hundred years been living up to their stereotypes." He then states that since the sixteenth century travelers have described "the Italians as voluble, unreliable, and hopelessly corrupt; the Germans as gluttonous; the Swiss as irritatingly officious and tidy; the French as, well, insufferably French...