Why do Germans stare? 👀 | Easy German 369
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2020
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Hosts of this episode: Carina Schmid (www.carisafari.de) and Janusz Hamerski
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Translation: Ben Eve
As a German who stares a lot even by German standarts , I can tell you that is like watching Tv. You don’t necessarily judge someone, you simply watch and eventually zone out.
This is so true. Germans just stare. Can't make small talk and they just awkwardly stare until you say something such as "do you like football?", to which they will reply "ja", and then just stare at you again 😂
To me It's like a game, I just stare back at people, the first person to look away loses the game. It's very hard to win against germans haha
In the States, we just yell to people staring, "Hey! Take a picture. It lasts longer!"
This seems to me to be a big misunderstanding. I think there is a difference between staring and making eye contact, even if you don't communicate beyond that. In other countries people consciously look past each other, in Germany it is normal to look other people in the face, even if you do not speak to each other. When the feeling arises that you are beginning to "stare", you look away.
Germany: I'm just here to observe.
I'm a college student from China. Staring is considered rude here and as a woman, I don't feel safe when I'm stared by men. But soon I'll be in Germany to continue my study. So it's really good to know this part of German culture! Thanks for the information!
As a black south african living in germany for 6 years, this was a culture shock for me, especially having lived half the time in smaller towns. I had to get used to it FAST. Im not someone who smiles a lot, but germany taught me how to smile, for various reasons.
In New York staring at someone is sometimes a deathwish. True NewYorkers will never look at you for more than a second and I love that because you can do anything wear anything and it seems like no one is judging you (even if they are). Also some people get really angry at staring and they may try to fight you if you keep staring. Its considered extremely rude here.
It's more "people watching" than staring really. Not personal at all. Totally out of curiosity and interest in "figuring out" fellow humans. It has to be one of the most favourite German hobbies.
I'm a quiet, tolerant person but one day I just lost it while being stared at. My husband and I had been seated in a restaurant near another couple. As soon as we sat down this couple stopped their conversation and
In the Netherlands, when someone stares at you, you say to them: "Heb ik wat van je aan ofzo?" meaning something like "Am I wearing your clothes, or what?"
Wenn ich angestarrt wird, starre ich auch zurück! und dann beginnt die Schlacht des Starrens! xD
I wish I had seen this when I first came to Germany, as it was one of the things that bothered me the most. At first I thought I must somehow stand out, maybe people can tell I'm from somewhere else or I'm just very weird or smth like that. Then I thought it must be my anxiety or my sensitivity making me experience this so intensely and I still think it partially explains it, but then I noticed the difference when travelling to other countries. The thing is, it's not just something that happens once in a while, like let's say one person stares at you because they think you're weird and then another because they like you and so on, singular cases and it s not a stare with intention if that makes sense. It's more like a general dumb staring (I do not mean this in an offensive way), an unconscious habit. There is generally no change in expression, no sign of actually noticing you, neither smiling nor frowning, that s why I think it s probably unconscious, maybe it's a way of scanning the environment, making sure there is no danger. I don't know. I do feel this whenever I leave the house more or less and did not notice much difference between parts of the country. It s probably a cultural thing and so be it, maybe it has some deeper explanation, it just feels really good to have this validated when I thought for so long it was only in my head.
As a German, I want you all to know, that at least for me, when I stare at somebody it's either accidental or because of something positive - you have a cute dog, I like your fashion style, you're very pretty, etc etc. I don't think I've stared at people for something "negative", at least not that I remember.
I am from Chile, but I have been in 19 countries so far, and I can definitely say that this is something very specific from germans. They do not look away if you stare back at them, and their expressions are not friendly when looking, maybe, sometimes, it is just curiosity and they do not mean it bad, but their face expression is so serious and intense, sometimes negative even, that is very easy to feel very uncomfortable. I think we just put decoration around it, but the truth is that they don't give 1 sh*t about the feelings of that person. LOL.
In Russia, staring is a communicative gesture which may mean domination, flirt or curiosity depending on who's watching and when.
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Ich bin gebürtige Belgierin, habe aber 12 Jahre in Deutschland gelebt. Mir ist das Starren nie aufgefallen, aber ich interpretiere Starren auch nicht als etwas Unanständiges. Wir gucken hier ständig den Leuten hinterher, manchmal urteilend, manchmal verwundert, manchmal mit Bewunderung. Ganz normal....wir sind halt Menschen, und lächeln ist immer die beste Reaktion😄
I'm from China and have been living in Germany for about one year. I've noticed the people here stare at me more often than in China, which I can completely understand. It's not because they like staring, but it's just a human nature that people stare at someone or something relatively rare or unusual. Mir ist das kein Problem, obwohl ich das manchmal nicht so angenehm finde.