The funny thing about Kindergarten is that in some cases we have the same concept, but the words are flipped! The daycare before learning stuff: USA = Preschool, DE = Kindergarten The mini-school before elementary: USA = Kindergarten, DE Vorschule (Preschool)
Forbidding to turn right on red saves the lives of cyclists and pedestrians 😊 In intersections with very few pedestrians/cyclists, there's a green arrow in Germany where you can turn on red, but they're not really much frequent.
For Americans who want to drive themselves in Germany I want to add that there are different green arrows. Permanent ones that are only printed on metal signs, and ones that are illuminated - like a traffic light. With the latter you can just turn, but with the permanent ones you have to stop completely beforehand (like at a stop sign) and make sure that no pedestrian or cyclist wants to cross the road.
In Germany, as in the rest of Europe, there's a concept that the weakest traffic participants, what means children, pedestrians in general, and bicycle riders, are those who need most protection. Therefore, "turn right on Red" even with not a single glimpse to the right, is not appropriate for motorists. You find different solutions: Right turn lanes with separate traffic lights (arrow) giving you the right of way on Green. Green arrow on metal traffic sign, allowing(!) turn on Red after yielding to cross traffic from the left, yielding to bikes on your lane or bike path to your right going on straight, and yielding to pedestrians to your right using the pedestrians crossway. _You _*_may_*_ turn on Red there after having come to a full (which means complete) stop._ And last but not least you often find right turn lanes avoiding the main lights of the intersection. Even here you have to yield to cross traffic from the left as to anyone to your right who might cross your way. Of course Europeans are aware of the lack of traffic education in the US, and their drivers' poor capabilities, but even US Military stationned in Europe found it useful to train their staff a bit to be able to compete in traffic of civilized countries, so ordinary visitors are even supposed to show more effort, instead of trying to live their exceptionalism in civilized traffic, and thereby, inevitably cause desater. 😎
"Autokinos" used to be a thing in Germany mainly in the '70s and '80s. At the least that's the time I remember them from. There are still a few but they're dying out just like video rental stores.
Yes, i know that like 15 years ago or so there was one in my region where i went with my father (as i was a kid) in a Cabriolet. But they are definitely not common.
Funnily due to covid many of them re opened because it was simply not allowed to go to a normal cinema :D Visited two of them myselfs during that time.
There's a permanent shop for christmas decoration in Hamburg, too: "Gerda Hüsch - Christmas and Living". And in the "Levantehaus", a cute little mall beside the main road for shooping "Mönckebergstrasse", is another special one for christmas pyramids and products from the "Erzgebirge".
Christmas shops open all year exist in Germany also. The most famous is Käthe Wohlfahrt in Rothenburg ob der Tauber. Others have also written about stores in other areas in Germany, and there are probably more.
States where it’s allowed to turn right on red have 65% more accidents involving pedestrians and cyclists. I live in The Netherlands, and drive-in theaters won’t work here for a couple of reasons. First is, of course, the rain. We get so much rain that the theaters would be empty 80% of the time. But the most important reason is that there is always a regular cinema close by. Almost every single city has at least one. You’re hardly ever more than 30 minutes from one. If one were to open up, it would be a curiosity. Nothing more. Happy you’re back, btw😉 As a Dutchie, I have followed your channel for a couple of years now (under a different account).
Hi Montana, yes, indeed, a long time ago to see you again. Good to see you didnt loose your smiling. Hope your spanish semster turned out well and you had fun during your short visits to Germany. Crossing my fingers for your future and bleib wie du bist. hugs CU
There are a couple of Universities cities in Germany where the university is the main point for these cities to exist as substantial towns, e.g. Tübingen, Marburg, Freiberg (Sachsen), Göttingen.
Turning right on red ist not allowed in all of the US for example not in NY. Here in Germany we have the 'Grüne Pfeil' (green arrow) witch allows turning right on red (one of the few things from GDR that made it into the united Germany)
Early on, kindergarten was more of a daycare and was optional both for school districts and families. It was in the 1960s and 1970s that there was a realization that there would be a benefit to starting formal education a year early and it became mandatory. In Ohio in the mid-1960s, I did not attend kindergarten and went straight into first grade, while my younger brother did attend kindergarten.
Montana, when there is a green arrow on black ground at a traffic light you are allowed to turn right on red even in Germany. This is something that was common in the former German Democratic Republic (East Germany) and made it into traffic rules of the united Germany. However, even more than 30 year after the wall was turned down, it is still quite rare in the western part of our country.
I am right now in the US on vacation. And man, the culture is so different. I just dont get so many things here. I cannot imagine living here. Thanks for your videos!
@MontanaShowalter for me, it's the waste. America wastes so much of everything: Land, Ressources, Energy, Food. Mega-Portions, Driving instead public transport or cycling or walking, Houses and infrastructure miles apart, no insulation but fossil heating. How could America ever learn that it improves quality of life to cut back on all that? Aside from the benefit for the environment and climate, of course
There's also Christmas stores (or at least one of them) in Germany, I just found out a week ago when I was visiting Görlitz in Saxony, where I stumbled upon a "Weihnachtshaus" by accident. I didn't go inside, but if you use Google you can find plenty of pictures.
@@wolfgangkrubeck1647 They also have stores in Heidelberg and Oberammergau. All of these places are very popular with American (but also Asian) tourists.
In his 1952 satirical short story 'Nicht nur zur Weihnachtszeit', the German writer Heinrich Böll tells about an old lady who hysterically insists on keeping her christmas tree, whereupon her family starts celebrating christmas eve with her every night, for two years.
In Germany you have Käthe Wohlfahrt, a brand for shops, who sell X-Mas decoration the whole year. I have not seen a false tree (only for deco) there, but the whole X-Mas Stuff is there from 1. of Jan to 31 of December. Think the only think we are shocked about, they sell plastic trees (joking, they are more and more common in Germany also :)) Autokino was never a big thing in Germany, they exist, but not THE think compared to US. And we do not have even a car culture as in US, where you give your driving licence to show, that you are able to buy alc. For example, my son in Paris start study now, and he do no even have a driving licence. A frind of him, who has three years more, has not a driving licence also (22 years old), as we use public transport. On the country side it is different, for sure. Happy to see you are back on youtube ;)
Hey Montana, happy to see a new video of you! I am doing a journey from berlin around east-southern europe to bulgaria and back to berlin. Btw. do you have nower days shorter hair? It suits you very good!
The christmas stores being open the whole year you find in some parts of Germany, too. I remember, when I was a child, my family spent the summer-holiday in Bavaria. It was in July, hot like in an oven- and inside this (fairly big) christmas market they sold christmas decoration, tree-stars and played "silent night"! The weirdest experience I ever had... 😂
Even in Germany you can get a licence for tractors (Klasse T) at the age of 16, or even 15 with special permission. This licence only allows you to drive tractors, though, not a car (or truck). I guess anything earlier than that could lead to conflicts with German child labour regulations. (From the age of 13 children can work at a farm for a maximum of three hours per day, provided the work is easy and suitable for children, does not interfere with school, and does not take place between 6pm and 8am.)
Ná, I don´t think, that labour laws are the reason for that. If your parents need you to help ... I mean, I drive tractor since I can reach the pedals. Standing! Sure, at that time not yet on the road, but on the field. And with my old 3 driving license, I can drive tractors up to 7.5 tons and a maximum design speed of max. 32 km/h on the road. Our "big" tractor weighs just 5.5 tons.
@@fipsvonfipsenstein6704 I am totally aware that in the countryside it's handled a bit more freely. I'm just talking about the laws per se. Even a smaller child is allowed to drive any vehicle on private ground (which includes a tractor on a field). If you cross a road to get to a second field probably noone would care, but technically it would be illegal. Same goes for driving that tractor on the field: if your parents have you (or allow you) harvest or plow that field, technically they would neet to make sure you don't do it for more than 3 hrs. In reality, this is very hard to check and enforce, so (if you are not working full days), no one would notice.
Autokino Kornwestheim, also a drive in movie theater, a memory of my youth many moons ago -- when I was about your age. I don't know when it was founded but it was there for "a long time" -- whatever that means -- before I was old enough for it. And, it still exists.
There are also Chrismas shops in Germany, you just have to know where they are, for example. there are such shops in the Erzgebirge where a lot of craftsmanship is offered, for example. incense smokers, candle arches etc ps: Thank you for the German subtitles
There are drive-in movie theaters in Germany, but only very few. I saw there are 5 that are open all year, and 12 or so more that are open in the summer.
There are a few all year christmas shops in Germany. The ones I know are in east Germany's "Erzgebirge" (ore mountains) where christmas traditions play a HUGE role in local culture and traditional arts and crafts. I don't know if there are more of them elsewhere in Germany. In Germany there are special signs that allow you to turn right on red. They were introduced in former east Germany when it was independant, so they are very rare in west Germany and also in the east they are being replaced by traffic lights. You often find a traffic light that has one red light but seperate yellow and green lights with an arrow to the right inside to indicate when you can turn right even when the main light is red.
@@MontanaShowalter only a few by now. There used to be more of them but I guess they aren't considered to be very safe for pedestrians crossing in front of the cars.
Swiss Kindergarten is more like the US Kindergarten. Children have to go to kinderkarten for at least one year before starting first grade. Children are at least four years old, some start with 5 (depends on the childs development)
4:27 that is what we call car dependancy. You HAVE to drive in the US because there are no good alternatives. In Germany villages, towns and cities are more walkable, have better cycling infrastructure and public transportation 6:27 again. Car dependancy. 6:35 turn right on red causes +69% more fatalities in intersections. Saving fuel is not the reason it is allowed. It's the car and fossil fuel lobby. 4:55 You have a lot of trucks, yes. Because in 1962 the US introduced an import tax on European light trucks. Since then the US made their own and lobbied hard to have trucks exemptedd from fuel regulation, safety regulation, design regulation and more. Basically a Ford F150 is considered a "light truck" and is regulated less than smaller safer cars. American trucks are anything but light weight, have horrible fuel efficiency and cause way more fatalities. Those trucks are no longer used for work, they are a luxury status symbol. Which is just pathetic in my opinion
Jup. And car dependency is also the reason, why college campuses in the USA work like independent villages. Everything else is just to far away to reasonable reach it without a vehicle. If car companies can dictate how a city should look like, they optimize for their own profit. This means building stuff as far away as possible. It is very sad to watch and as an European, I don't want to live in such a way.
Saving gas was the original justification for allowing right turns on red in most of the US. A few states already had the rule, but most states adopted it in 1973/74 during the Arab oil embargo. However, the amount of fuel saved is miniscule.
Isn't it totally un-american if a store isn't open 24/7/365 ? I mean thats always one of the first big "shocks" that americans seem to have here that shops are not open on sundays, and not open every hour arund the clock. Let alone the stupid fact that a christmas shop is open in the summer 🙄🙄 Then the whold college thing. At least from all movies and TV shows i have seen american kids there drink waaaay more than german kids, even since german kids can drink legally while american can not. But i guess that shows again how good the concept of "prohibition" worked. Same with your non existing sex education that in the end only leads to the fact that kids have sex way earlier and especially you have way more underaged pregnant kids.
I have visited a few Christmas shops in USA, but I try to avoid it as it ruins my Christmas Spirit come December, but Santa Claus, Indiana is worth a visit, should you ever come that way. In Denmark we used to have some drive-in movies, but I believe there's only one left.
Wir haben zwar Autokinos, aber das ist schon eher etwas Amerikanisches. Das machen hier nicht so viele und daher gibt es auch nicht mega viele Autokinos.
Most large towns in Germany and France have a Christmas shop - certainly in tourist areas. It's a brilliant present to take back to the neighbours who watered your plants for you whilst you were away.
The Pandemic brought back the drive in theater in the U.S. They had been dying out since the 70s. Never been and I am 50, but they don't seem like a good place to watch films.
So there is a christmas store, that serves Kartoffelpuffer, Crepes, Christstollen and Glühwein, may be Lumumba or Grog every day, it is cold inside, and many warm hearted people inside, that like to be there, because they could only be there once a year? Because that is the essence of a German Christmas market. So yes, that doesn't makes sence. After secondary school, when your are underage like 16 or 17 you probably will make an apprenticeship and when you are at a Gymnasium, you are older than 18, when you got to the university. And as there is nearly no on campus housing, you will most likly make a flat share with other students, and as long as the neighbours do not complain, everything is fine. You may want to have a short overview about the German school system: ua-cam.com/video/W1jlWxgxMgo/v-deo.html So yes, the universities, are in a town, and the students look for a room or flat in that town. So the Kindergarten Cop, makes more sence. For turning right at a red light, you need the "Grünpfeil"-sign: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn_on_red#Europe
Hey, nice, you posted a new Video! Kindergarten (in DE) is for children aged 3 to 6. Younger children (if they don't stay with their families all day) go to Kita (= Kindertagesstätte = Daycare). Older children go to Grundschule (= elementary school). Homeschooling is not allowed in DE. Drive-In-Cinemas were a thing in DE back in the 60ies or 70ies - it was often not so easy to find an undisturbed place to be at least semi-alone with the one you love.... and there the Drive-In-Cinema came in as an option. Meanwhile most Drive-In-Cinemas in DE have been converted to normal parking lots or grocery stores or office building are now there. Turning right when the traffic light is red but no car is coming was a normal rule in the GDR, after 1990 the rule was somehow adopted all over Germany, BUT BE CAREFUL, turning right at red is only allowed, when there is a special sign (a green arrow to the right) to indicate it. If there is no green arrow, turning right at red is prohibited. I have seen an all-year-round shop for X-Mas-stuff in Rothenburg ob der Tauber. Since this town is very touristy the shop may be there for all the American tourists...
You're wrong about the Kindergarten/Kita situation. Kids under 3 usually go to the Krippe. Kids between 3 and 6 go to Kindergarten. Most Kindergärten or Kitas however have groups for kids under 3 and kids from 3 to 6. The groups for the older kids are also called Elementarbereich. And Kita is actually just like a Kindergarten with longer opening hours. A Kindergarten will usually close at like noon or very early in the afternoon and a Kita, or Kindertagesstätte, is usually open till 4pm or 5pm or even later. So usually theres groups for kids under 3 and kids between 3 and 6 and if it closes early it's a Kindergarten and if it closes later it's a Kita. But there are also Kindergärten and Kitas where kids from about 1 to 6 are in the same group together. I have worked in many different Kitas so I know what I'm talking about.
The Rothenburg shop is Käthe Wohlfahrt. They actually started in the Stuttgart area in the 1960s, but moved to Rothenburg in the 1970s, probably because of the tourist thing. They have since expanded and opened branches in other cities.
The funny thing about Kindergarten is that in some cases we have the same concept, but the words are flipped!
The daycare before learning stuff: USA = Preschool, DE = Kindergarten
The mini-school before elementary: USA = Kindergarten, DE Vorschule (Preschool)
Forbidding to turn right on red saves the lives of cyclists and pedestrians 😊
In intersections with very few pedestrians/cyclists, there's a green arrow in Germany where you can turn on red, but they're not really much frequent.
For Americans who want to drive themselves in Germany I want to add that there are different green arrows. Permanent ones that are only printed on metal signs, and ones that are illuminated - like a traffic light. With the latter you can just turn, but with the permanent ones you have to stop completely beforehand (like at a stop sign) and make sure that no pedestrian or cyclist wants to cross the road.
In Germany, as in the rest of Europe, there's a concept that the weakest traffic participants, what means children, pedestrians in general, and bicycle riders, are those who need most protection.
Therefore, "turn right on Red" even with not a single glimpse to the right, is not appropriate for motorists.
You find different solutions:
Right turn lanes with separate traffic lights (arrow) giving you the right of way on Green.
Green arrow on metal traffic sign, allowing(!) turn on Red after yielding to cross traffic from the left, yielding to bikes on your lane or bike path to your right going on straight, and yielding to pedestrians to your right using the pedestrians crossway. _You _*_may_*_ turn on Red there after having come to a full (which means complete) stop._
And last but not least you often find right turn lanes avoiding the main lights of the intersection. Even here you have to yield to cross traffic from the left as to anyone to your right who might cross your way.
Of course Europeans are aware of the lack of traffic education in the US, and their drivers' poor capabilities, but even US Military stationned in Europe found it useful to train their staff a bit to be able to compete in traffic of civilized countries, so ordinary visitors are even supposed to show more effort, instead of trying to live their exceptionalism in civilized traffic, and thereby, inevitably cause desater.
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You are able to drive farm equipment in Germany at the age of 16. In rural areas you will see that very often.😊
@@rewelkeJa, aber nur für Zugmaschinen in der Land und Forstwirtschaft bis 40km/h.
"Autokinos" used to be a thing in Germany mainly in the '70s and '80s. At the least that's the time I remember them from. There are still a few but they're dying out just like video rental stores.
Yes, i know that like 15 years ago or so there was one in my region where i went with my father (as i was a kid) in a Cabriolet. But they are definitely not common.
Funnily due to covid many of them re opened because it was simply not allowed to go to a normal cinema :D
Visited two of them myselfs during that time.
There's a permanent shop for christmas decoration in Hamburg, too: "Gerda Hüsch - Christmas and Living". And in the "Levantehaus", a cute little mall beside the main road for shooping "Mönckebergstrasse", is another special one for christmas pyramids and products from the "Erzgebirge".
Auch in Rothenburg ob der Tauber gibt es ein Weihnachtsgeschäft (Käthe Wohlfahrt), dass ganzjährig geöffnet hat.
So naturally pretty besides being well-spoken and insightful. Please keep this channel going!
Christmas shops open all year exist in Germany also. The most famous is Käthe Wohlfahrt in Rothenburg ob der Tauber. Others have also written about stores in other areas in Germany, and there are probably more.
Käthe Wohlfahrt is also open all year round…
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States where it’s allowed to turn right on red have 65% more accidents involving pedestrians and cyclists.
I live in The Netherlands, and drive-in theaters won’t work here for a couple of reasons. First is, of course, the rain. We get so much rain that the theaters would be empty 80% of the time. But the most important reason is that there is always a regular cinema close by. Almost every single city has at least one. You’re hardly ever more than 30 minutes from one. If one were to open up, it would be a curiosity. Nothing more.
Happy you’re back, btw😉 As a Dutchie, I have followed your channel for a couple of years now (under a different account).
Drive in movies had definitely had a resurgence during covid.
Hi Montana, yes, indeed, a long time ago to see you again. Good to see you didnt loose your smiling. Hope your spanish semster turned out well and you had fun during your short visits to Germany. Crossing my fingers for your future and bleib wie du bist. hugs CU
There are a couple of Universities cities in Germany where the university is the main point for these cities to exist as substantial towns, e.g. Tübingen, Marburg, Freiberg (Sachsen), Göttingen.
Marburg 🦾
Yeah, but the towns existed there before and there are also "normal" people living there, not only students and scholars.
@@pettyleinI never claimed otherwise…so what is your point?
Turning right on red ist not allowed in all of the US for example not in NY.
Here in Germany we have the 'Grüne Pfeil' (green arrow) witch allows turning right on red (one of the few things from GDR that made it into the united Germany)
I have never seen a Drive-In movie theater in Germany and regular movie theaters are becoming rarer and rarer here which saddens me 😭
In the Stuttgart area there's the Autokino Kornwestheim.
Finally! A new video!
Early on, kindergarten was more of a daycare and was optional both for school districts and families. It was in the 1960s and 1970s that there was a realization that there would be a benefit to starting formal education a year early and it became mandatory. In Ohio in the mid-1960s, I did not attend kindergarten and went straight into first grade, while my younger brother did attend kindergarten.
Drive-in theatres had their heydey in the 1950's through the 1960's, most of them have been closed for years now.
Montana, when there is a green arrow on black ground at a traffic light you are allowed to turn right on red even in Germany. This is something that was common in the former German Democratic Republic (East Germany) and made it into traffic rules of the united Germany. However, even more than 30 year after the wall was turned down, it is still quite rare in the western part of our country.
Who wants a 14 years old driving 200 km/h on the German motorway?
I am right now in the US on vacation. And man, the culture is so different. I just dont get so many things here. I cannot imagine living here. Thanks for your videos!
haha! what do you think has been the biggest different?
@MontanaShowalter for me, it's the waste. America wastes so much of everything: Land, Ressources, Energy, Food. Mega-Portions, Driving instead public transport or cycling or walking, Houses and infrastructure miles apart, no insulation but fossil heating. How could America ever learn that it improves quality of life to cut back on all that? Aside from the benefit for the environment and climate, of course
There's also Christmas stores (or at least one of them) in Germany, I just found out a week ago when I was visiting Görlitz in Saxony, where I stumbled upon a "Weihnachtshaus" by accident. I didn't go inside, but if you use Google you can find plenty of pictures.
Käthe Wohlfahrt has a year-round "Christmas Village" in Rothenburg ob der Tauber. Basically a store where you can buy Christmas stuff all year round.
There is also a Käthe Wohlfahrt Store in Berlin, but not as big as in Rothenburg.
@@wolfgangkrubeck1647 They also have stores in Heidelberg and Oberammergau. All of these places are very popular with American (but also Asian) tourists.
Hi Montana great video and I loved your vlogs and you are amazing Supporter and I'm proud of you
In his 1952 satirical short story 'Nicht nur zur Weihnachtszeit', the German writer Heinrich Böll tells about an old lady who hysterically insists on keeping her christmas tree, whereupon her family starts celebrating christmas eve with her every night, for two years.
Sie ist zurück 😍
In Germany you have Käthe Wohlfahrt, a brand for shops, who sell X-Mas decoration the whole year. I have not seen a false tree (only for deco) there, but the whole X-Mas Stuff is there from 1. of Jan to 31 of December. Think the only think we are shocked about, they sell plastic trees (joking, they are more and more common in Germany also :))
Autokino was never a big thing in Germany, they exist, but not THE think compared to US. And we do not have even a car culture as in US, where you give your driving licence to show, that you are able to buy alc. For example, my son in Paris start study now, and he do no even have a driving licence. A frind of him, who has three years more, has not a driving licence also (22 years old), as we use public transport. On the country side it is different, for sure. Happy to see you are back on youtube ;)
Hey Montana, happy to see a new video of you! I am doing a journey from berlin around east-southern europe to bulgaria and back to berlin.
Btw. do you have nower days shorter hair? It suits you very good!
The christmas stores being open the whole year you find in some parts of Germany, too. I remember, when I was a child, my family spent the summer-holiday in Bavaria. It was in July, hot like in an oven- and inside this (fairly big) christmas market they sold christmas decoration, tree-stars and played "silent night"! The weirdest experience I ever had... 😂
Even in Germany you can get a licence for tractors (Klasse T) at the age of 16, or even 15 with special permission. This licence only allows you to drive tractors, though, not a car (or truck).
I guess anything earlier than that could lead to conflicts with German child labour regulations. (From the age of 13 children can work at a farm for a maximum of three hours per day, provided the work is easy and suitable for children, does not interfere with school, and does not take place between 6pm and 8am.)
Ná, I don´t think, that labour laws are the reason for that. If your parents need you to help ... I mean, I drive tractor since I can reach the pedals. Standing! Sure, at that time not yet on the road, but on the field.
And with my old 3 driving license, I can drive tractors up to 7.5 tons and a maximum design speed of max. 32 km/h on the road. Our "big" tractor weighs just 5.5 tons.
I didn’t know that thank you for sharing!!
@@fipsvonfipsenstein6704 I am totally aware that in the countryside it's handled a bit more freely. I'm just talking about the laws per se. Even a smaller child is allowed to drive any vehicle on private ground (which includes a tractor on a field). If you cross a road to get to a second field probably noone would care, but technically it would be illegal. Same goes for driving that tractor on the field: if your parents have you (or allow you) harvest or plow that field, technically they would neet to make sure you don't do it for more than 3 hrs. In reality, this is very hard to check and enforce, so (if you are not working full days), no one would notice.
Welcome back again ! ^__^ So, "KindergarDen" seems to be what "Vorschule" is in Germany ?! And the "KindergarTen" really IS some Sort of Day Care.
Autokino Kornwestheim, also a drive in movie theater, a memory of my youth many moons ago -- when I was about your age. I don't know when it was founded but it was there for "a long time" -- whatever that means -- before I was old enough for it. And, it still exists.
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There are also Chrismas shops in Germany, you just have to know where they are, for example. there are such shops in the Erzgebirge where a lot of craftsmanship is offered, for example. incense smokers, candle arches etc
ps: Thank you for the German subtitles
There are drive-in movie theaters in Germany, but only very few. I saw there are 5 that are open all year, and 12 or so more that are open in the summer.
Ours in the US have more showtimes in the summer, but a lot are open year round :)
There are a few all year christmas shops in Germany. The ones I know are in east Germany's "Erzgebirge" (ore mountains) where christmas traditions play a HUGE role in local culture and traditional arts and crafts. I don't know if there are more of them elsewhere in Germany.
In Germany there are special signs that allow you to turn right on red. They were introduced in former east Germany when it was independant, so they are very rare in west Germany and also in the east they are being replaced by traffic lights. You often find a traffic light that has one red light but seperate yellow and green lights with an arrow to the right inside to indicate when you can turn right even when the main light is red.
Are there a lot of those signs or only a very few left?
@@MontanaShowalter only a few by now. There used to be more of them but I guess they aren't considered to be very safe for pedestrians crossing in front of the cars.
You have exzellent teeth the line-up pattern is great 😊
Swiss Kindergarten is more like the US Kindergarten. Children have to go to kinderkarten for at least one year before starting first grade. Children are at least four years old, some start with 5 (depends on the childs development)
Are Kindergartens there part of the elementary schools?
4:27 that is what we call car dependancy.
You HAVE to drive in the US because there are no good alternatives.
In Germany villages, towns and cities are more walkable, have better cycling infrastructure and public transportation
6:27 again. Car dependancy.
6:35 turn right on red causes +69% more fatalities in intersections.
Saving fuel is not the reason it is allowed. It's the car and fossil fuel lobby.
4:55 You have a lot of trucks, yes.
Because in 1962 the US introduced an import tax on European light trucks.
Since then the US made their own and lobbied hard to have trucks exemptedd from fuel regulation, safety regulation, design regulation and more.
Basically a Ford F150 is considered a "light truck" and is regulated less than smaller safer cars.
American trucks are anything but light weight, have horrible fuel efficiency and cause way more fatalities.
Those trucks are no longer used for work, they are a luxury status symbol. Which is just pathetic in my opinion
Jup. And car dependency is also the reason, why college campuses in the USA work like independent villages. Everything else is just to far away to reasonable reach it without a vehicle. If car companies can dictate how a city should look like, they optimize for their own profit. This means building stuff as far away as possible. It is very sad to watch and as an European, I don't want to live in such a way.
The F150 is basically a Yugo Koral 45 or a Zastava 101 of America ...
Saving gas was the original justification for allowing right turns on red in most of the US. A few states already had the rule, but most states adopted it in 1973/74 during the Arab oil embargo. However, the amount of fuel saved is miniscule.
We went into a Christmas store in Orlando Florida. They did not have one thing Christmas. It was all Nautical beach items.😂😂
classic florida being different 😂
then it is no kerstmis anymore. wen the shop is always open.
Hey Montana,
hast du schon einmal.von "Käthe Wohlfahrt" gehört? Das dürfte deinem ersten Punkt sehr nahekommen.
Viele Grüße
Hellooo back :))
Isn't it totally un-american if a store isn't open 24/7/365 ? I mean thats always one of the first big "shocks" that americans seem to have here that shops are not open on sundays, and not open every hour arund the clock. Let alone the stupid fact that a christmas shop is open in the summer 🙄🙄
Then the whold college thing. At least from all movies and TV shows i have seen american kids there drink waaaay more than german kids, even since german kids can drink legally while american can not. But i guess that shows again how good the concept of "prohibition" worked. Same with your non existing sex education that in the end only leads to the fact that kids have sex way earlier and especially you have way more underaged pregnant kids.
I have visited a few Christmas shops in USA, but I try to avoid it as it ruins my Christmas Spirit come December, but Santa Claus, Indiana is worth a visit, should you ever come that way. In Denmark we used to have some drive-in movies, but I believe there's only one left.
I’ve never been to indiana but I’m adding it to the bucket list!
@@MontanaShowalter Everything in Santa Claus is about Christmas, even the street names,
Wir haben zwar Autokinos, aber das ist schon eher etwas Amerikanisches. Das machen hier nicht so viele und daher gibt es auch nicht mega viele Autokinos.
why are you posting christmas stuff in summer? are you an aussie?
Can you please tell me how you enrolled in a Spanish university?
Most large towns in Germany and France have a Christmas shop - certainly in tourist areas. It's a brilliant present to take back to the neighbours who watered your plants for you whilst you were away.
Are you going to have a discord?
The Pandemic brought back the drive in theater in the U.S. They had been dying out since the 70s. Never been and I am 50, but they don't seem like a good place to watch films.
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Was bist du denn für ein Creep?
@@philippprime6844 was hast du für ein Hässlichen Name auf yt
So there is a christmas store, that serves Kartoffelpuffer, Crepes, Christstollen and Glühwein, may be Lumumba or Grog every day, it is cold inside, and many warm hearted people inside, that like to be there, because they could only be there once a year?
Because that is the essence of a German Christmas market.
So yes, that doesn't makes sence.
After secondary school, when your are underage like 16 or 17 you probably will make an apprenticeship and when you are at a Gymnasium, you are older than 18, when you got to the university.
And as there is nearly no on campus housing, you will most likly make a flat share with other students, and as long as the neighbours do not complain, everything is fine.
You may want to have a short overview about the German school system: ua-cam.com/video/W1jlWxgxMgo/v-deo.html
So yes, the universities, are in a town, and the students look for a room or flat in that town.
So the Kindergarten Cop, makes more sence.
For turning right at a red light, you need the "Grünpfeil"-sign: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn_on_red#Europe
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Kindergarten (in DE) is for children aged 3 to 6. Younger children (if they don't stay with their families all day) go to Kita (= Kindertagesstätte = Daycare). Older children go to Grundschule (= elementary school). Homeschooling is not allowed in DE.
Drive-In-Cinemas were a thing in DE back in the 60ies or 70ies - it was often not so easy to find an undisturbed place to be at least semi-alone with the one you love.... and there the Drive-In-Cinema came in as an option. Meanwhile most Drive-In-Cinemas in DE have been converted to normal parking lots or grocery stores or office building are now there.
Turning right when the traffic light is red but no car is coming was a normal rule in the GDR, after 1990 the rule was somehow adopted all over Germany, BUT BE CAREFUL, turning right at red is only allowed, when there is a special sign (a green arrow to the right) to indicate it. If there is no green arrow, turning right at red is prohibited.
I have seen an all-year-round shop for X-Mas-stuff in Rothenburg ob der Tauber. Since this town is very touristy the shop may be there for all the American tourists...
You're wrong about the Kindergarten/Kita situation. Kids under 3 usually go to the Krippe. Kids between 3 and 6 go to Kindergarten. Most Kindergärten or Kitas however have groups for kids under 3 and kids from 3 to 6. The groups for the older kids are also called Elementarbereich. And Kita is actually just like a Kindergarten with longer opening hours. A Kindergarten will usually close at like noon or very early in the afternoon and a Kita, or Kindertagesstätte, is usually open till 4pm or 5pm or even later. So usually theres groups for kids under 3 and kids between 3 and 6 and if it closes early it's a Kindergarten and if it closes later it's a Kita. But there are also Kindergärten and Kitas where kids from about 1 to 6 are in the same group together. I have worked in many different Kitas so I know what I'm talking about.
The Rothenburg shop is Käthe Wohlfahrt. They actually started in the Stuttgart area in the 1960s, but moved to Rothenburg in the 1970s, probably because of the tourist thing. They have since expanded and opened branches in other cities.
I've never seen a year round Christmas store in the Dallas, Texas area. The last drive in movie in the Dallas, Texas area closed over 25 years ago.