As a german with a visible leg prosthetic i can confirm that people here love to stare at things that are out of ordinary. It is definitely not malicious though in my experience. Though it led to a kid staring at my leg walking straight into a lamp post one time , which was very funny.
Yeah, it‘s like German Shepherds…they live to regulate other dogs! So in order to decide if something needs ‚regulating‘, we need to observe, analyze, and judge before even considering jumping into action. With a lot of Germans feeling unsafe in the city and public transport due to our huge influx of economic migrants and asylum seekers, the staring will get more intense …. Too many people have been killed by Islamist stabbings for anyone not to have situational awareness on full
@@lynnm6413Warum muß überall dieser fremdenfeindliche Müll abgesondert werden? Der überwältigende Großteil der hier lebenden Menschen muslimischen Glaubens ist nicht daran interessiert, jemandem zu schaden. Und das als Legitimation für das anstarren fremder Menschen anzusehen, ist schon arg befremdlich. Wer anders aussieht, der muß scheinbar immer ein schlechter Mensch sein. Was ein hausgemachte Unsinn. Ich hoffe, sie waren nie im Ausland, wo es viele Muslime gibt. Denn da sind sie ja quasi von der latenten Gefahr permanent umzingelt. Merken Sie eigentlich, wie peinlich Ihr Beitrag ist? Ich fürchte, dass das eher nicht der Fall ist. @lynnm6413 Why does this xenophobic garbage have to be segregated everywhere? The overwhelming majority of people of Muslim faith living here are not interested in harming anyone. And to see this as legitimation for staring at strangers is very strange. Anyone who looks different must apparently always be a bad person. What homemade nonsense. I hope they have never been abroad, where there are many Muslims. Because there they are permanently surrounded by the latent danger, so to speak. Do you actually notice how embarrassing your post is? I'm afraid that this is not the case.
Viennese here: We stare, that's our thing, like in Germany, Italy, Hungary, aso. Why? We do it mostly in public places you are enjoying life at, like parks, aso. You do it to show interest, caring and being engaged in the situation and your surrounding, not "misantrophical" ignorance - that's how someone only carig about his own business would be coming across. We'd also not consier it as staring, because that's if you do it intense and in a provocant way, what means agression. Friendly watching each other with a nice sile or gesture inbetween can easily turn into a disrespectful staring by a hole group thou - thats when you know you did something wrong as a tourist and should go ask and appologzize. It's simply a suttle form of comunicating in locations like a city park or cafe, where many PPL have to be in a symbiosis - to keep this nice symbiosis, charm of the place and atmosphere, you look caring and friendly at each other, or a little angry or amused or whatever... simple, respectful communication
It's not a real thing. It is basically an invention by mainly people in North America who tend to avoid eye contact so as not to "invade" other people's space. Coming from Scotland myself, I never felt "stared at" by ordinary Germans in all the 45 years I've lived here.
@@MaeckesPlanB It's all relative man. In Germany a quick, gentle stare about five minutes or so is like nothing... Nothing worth mentioning. Just a quick check-out stare. And then there's those intense stares that could last over prolonged periods, like, over the course of one entire evening and whatnot... those are something else, you know?
@l3p3 in other cultures it is quite rude to meet eyes with someone and not acknowledge them. In Germany this is quite common. As in not smiling, nodding or greeting them, . This comes across as staring to other cultures. I think it only loosely correlates with the length of the eye contact.
I feel the same way... Meeting eyes doesn't feel rude to me but makes me feel uncomfortable. And in my opinion this doesn't happen too often. But on the other hand I don't feel weird just for being looked at, and there may lie the difference. Also it's allways Americans pointing this out and with their "normal" speaking volume and lack of sense for the situation, you will get stared down - and yes we mean it this way.
I marvel at beautiful people all the time and hope deep inside that I'm not making them uncomfortable. People can be so interesting and beautiful! I guess that's my German stare ^^
@@l3p3 if you don't count with the finger 1, 2, 3 ... there are two common ways to show the number 2: Thumb + index finger or index finger + middle finger. But if want to show number 3 it is always thumbs, index and middle finger. So I allow it 😉
A lot of people here describe german milk as pasteurized. But pasteurization does not do the trick.The actual method to create the milk with the high shelf life is called "ultra high heating". Whilst pasteurization leads to a big decrease in germ numbers, ultra high heating is essentially sterilizing the milk.
@@Kokuswolf That´s correct. However, it is worth mentioning, that the "H" is not used the same way in all other countries. In Norway, the "H" in "H-Melk" stands for "homogenized" and that does not translate to being paticularly shelf stable.
What the Amis don't understand: "H-Milch" is ultra-high temperature. It lasts a long time without refrigeration, but only as long as you don't open the package. After that, you have to keep the milk in the fridge just like any other and use it within days. The taste of H-milk takes some getting used to, but it won't kill you. Of course, we also have normal (cooled) milk in the supermarket, like you would find elsewhere. Fresh milk (Vorzugsmilch) is usually only available directly from a farm and it only lasts for one or two days. Coffee cream is used in conjunction with filter coffee. It is also not sweetened, which is what Amis are used to from their canned milk.
It's kind of funny how people feel like they're being watched. Staring at other people is not normal in Germany either. But these people feel so important that they think everyone would find them interesting and have to stare at them.
We don't stare.we look in your general direction,without time limit.😊please,tell all the black brits,americans and so on,nothing to do with skin colour.there are still yt videos with this misconception.
About the door lock thing, what a few people even in the comments miss, in the US you can open most doors from the outside without a key, if they are not locked. Here in Germany, if a door closes, you can open it without key from the inside, but not from the outside. The locking part in the video refers for my understanding to locking yourself in your house. Which is something alien to most germans.
My door doesn’t LOCK….I got asked by my landlady and I said I prefer it this way…I have a dog, and I oftentimes don‘t lock my apartment at all. Anyone who enters without permission is risking their life either way, locked or no!
Yes this too, but I think she was talking about locking up the door of the car while driving to avoid carjacking or something like that, because she mentioned a parking lot at walmart.
@@Hey.Joe. Sounded a little bit like both for me. The only think that is clear is, that it was unscripted and most likely jumped from one to the other.
@@Rafaela_S. Could be, but I would not let the door of my flat unlocked after leaving, even you need the key to open it, because it is too easy for Professionals to override it.
@@Hey.Joe. Yes, but you would not lock it from the inside, while you are inside. In the US for most doors, if they are not locked you can just open them from the outside, with the knob and without a key. So if for some reason you forgot your key and the door has closed, you can just open it, while in Germany, you have locked yourself out. So to prevent other people from just entering you need to lock your door from the inside in the US.
Ive got blue hair, piercings and a bunch of very colourful tattoos. 😅 People stare at me, no matter, where i go. In Ceylon people even touched me, to find out if all the colour on me is genuine😂 Germans do not stare with a bad intention. Basically curiousity, id say. I think, very often people simply dont dare to start a conversation. Maybe the staring is just an invitation to talk. And sumtimes people just stare "holes in the air" as wed call it. If sb stares at you and you give that person a smile, id say 9 of 10 will talk to you nicely
Oh and regarding the milk thing. Yes, there is milk that is extra "durable". It's called H-Milch (for Haltbare Milch or durable milk) it tastes a little different but doesn't need to be kept cool. There is also a cream version of that. So depending on what type of milk you buy you can usually leave it on a shelf even during the summer.
#staring, looking into the face For example, if people have an conversation and not looking into the face while talking to each other is perceived as quite rude (not everyone perceives like that, especially people who are glued to the cellphones almost all the time even at a café with others during chit-chat), it's like talking to a wall which feels like being ignored you or just not caring about what the person is saying.
I tend to look when something is out of the ordinary.. but there are times, on a bus or train for example, where i tend to stare into.. well basically into nothing. Just thinking about stuff. Was asked once why i was looking at someone.. didn´t even notice him untill he talked to me :D
If you can't "stare" you're hiding something. Show open mind and friendlines to others with empathy and intrest in their doing. To introverts the stare is confusing all the time but if you manage to use the stare, there always will be room on the sidewalk.
Right?! Who says that germans are too direct, has never been to the Netherlands. Also the " stare" , which I think is just looking at someone, is also very real there. I Love my durch neighbours, they are the better germans. People say Germany is Clean, obviously never been to the Netherlands. People Talk about german efficiency, they have never Seen the dutch efficiency and so on...
Regarding the locking the door thing. That obviously depends a bit but as a rule of thumb the "quieter" you live the less you lock the doors in Germany. I'm now living in Hamburg so I usually lock my doors. When I lived in smaller towns I regularly didn't lock my doors. In the city I lived last before Hamburg, which had about 200000 people living there, I actually most of the time left the garden door open and went in through there. And it was a well enough known "secret" that UPS and the likes usually put my deliveries right in my living room. My mother and mother in law live in an even quieter place, they never lock their doors and only lock their cars when grocery shopping, and even then forget (most of the time)
German since i can remember, and i dislike sparkling water or water with artificial tastes. Still water all the way, and best if processed by own osmosis filter and then add some minerals.
I don't lock my doors here in Germany, they kinda lock automatically (snap shut) when closing them. And the outside doors don't have a handle. I maybe would lock it with the key if I would live in a dangerous area where a lot of break-ins happen.
The "Hausratversicherung" will like that so they might not have to pay you anything or reduce it if someone breaks in when you are not at home because of your own negligence
Our milk is usually pasteurized by subjecting it to ultra-high temperatures. This gives it a longer shelf life and ensures that it can be stored at room temperature in the grocery store as long as the package is not opened. But of course you can also buy "freshly tapped" milk 🐄 😄in Germany, which of course also has to be stored cool in the grocery store.
[Adding some information on top] And yes after opening it, it goes to the fridge, because even air can introduce germs which are kept from growing fast by keeping things cool. That milk is called "H-Milch" the "H" stands for "Haltbar" = "keepable"
I lock my door due to insurance reasons. They might not pay, if sb breaks in with an unlocked door. Most german housedoors dont have a handle on the outside, you need to use your key to retract the lock and then just push. So technically, you always need a key to enter, but I guess the insurance just wants us to make it as hard as possible for burglars.
When you shut a German front door, it usually locks automatically, even though it's safer to also lock it with your house key, because burglars seem to be able to get in easier through the front door when you didn't proplerly lock it. But apparently, they will choose garden doors and windows over the front door, anyway, so you should make sure to make this difficult for them, too. I live in a village near a city with about 125.000 residents. In the village, you do lock the doors, because there are groups of burglars breaking into houses in a relatively organized manner, especially in autumn and winter, and actually not necessarily in the dark (though they apparently do that, too), but in the daytime, when they think nobody is home. They seem to also scout the area beforehand. These people definitely choose the villages, too, maybe especially villages, because they are pretty quiet areas. If I wouldn't be worried about them, I might actually leave everything open, because I wouldn't really be worried about some random person walking in. I might be a little worried about pets or animals getting into the house. I actually left the garden door unlocked once or twice, to get in easily from the garden, but I think I wasn't gone for too long in these cases (walking the dog or something like that). In the city, you definitely lock everything, houses, cars, and you should be very careful about locking your bike, too.
Us-americans always complain about staring. Maybe it is because they are behaving in a way which is strange or even rude for germans. Always too noisy for example.
I personally love H-Milk (homogeneous,pasteurized), it tastes much better than fresh milk for me. But it's just me. My wife would use H-Milk only for cooking, but not for drinking. The downside of H-Milk is, that almost all vitamins are destroyed due to the heating to kill most bacteria which, therefore makes it so durable and no need for cooling until opened. The upside is of course the much longer expiration date (haltbarkeitsdatum) and the non-cooling (until opened)
We do stare but we don't look at one particular person or thing. We just like to look around and appreciate the moment in our freetime. At least it's what I like to do. If I look at something beautiful, or interesting I don't "see" the ppl in front of it. I look "through" them, ya know!? When I'm walking and I think about all the stuff I have to do, I kind of "stare" foreward, but I don't "recognize" the ppl I'm passing. I'm just looking at the way I'm walking on and my mind is busy with the other stuff that I'm thinking about. I'm not sure but I think a lot of germans don't stare at ppl like others often think. Because if we stare at one particular person we're making eye contact. It's hard to discribe but I hope I could explaine it a bit. And I think that is why most of the tourists think we are staring at them. And of course there are also ppl who like to stare at other ppl but I think it's a small amount. We do have "fresh" milk (Frische Milch) and we do have "H-Milch" which means "haltbare Milch" (long-life milk). It means this milk was "ultra-high temperatured" to free it from all the germs and spores of bacilli. That milk is on a shelf in the stores, the fresh one (which wasn't ultra-high temperatured) is in the fridge. And of course, if you open the "H-Milch" you have to put it in the fridge too! I'm not sure if this is just a german thing, at least it is soemthing new to americans, like the thing with our eggs (but that is an european thing I guess).
Milk on the shelf is pasteurized milk. It lasts several weeks (and 1-2 weeks after opening and keeping in the fridge). Milk in the fridge is fresh milk. The taste isn't wildly different but there's fans of each of them. Personally, I prefer pasteurized milk mostly, because I drink very little milk and I always like to have a back up in the pantry, too. I don't want to waste milk.
It's actually so hard for me to tell nowadays if the starring is a real thing or more an urban myth that foreigners spread on the internet. Bc I also think really starring at people is weird and I also don't like it if people stare at me. On the other side I feel that maybe foreigners would also consider what I do as staring. I guess most of the time people just do it out of curiosity and I also feel its more something you see from older people. Btw. All of that is just based on my experience when I look normal. I definitely experience the staring after parties when i look absolutely shit and I'm wearing different clothes than I do in my every day life. But I think that would also happen anywhere else. Oh and I think it's probably something that's more common in rural areas than in big cities. Atm I live in Berlin and you are used to see so many crazy people, it really becomes normal for you and I don't think anyone cares about them.
I am German and I was told as a child not to stare at people. Also in Germany it is regarded as a bad manner. What I seldomly experience here are dumb old men who stare. Otherwise I don't experience it. I think it's a UA-cam thing. People found out that videos about Germans staring get a lot of clicks (as all videos telling 'Germans are weird'). So many copied this video idea. Now it's out in the world and even Germans believe all Germans are staring all the time.
I don't think that Germans (I am one of them) do actually "stare" at people. We just look at them for maybe half a second or maybe a second longer than people from overseas might be used to. Milk on the shelf is called H-Milch, short for "haltbare Milch", and it's pasteurized. The concept of that was invented by the French chemist Louis Pasteur in the 19th century. But I'm not a "milk expert"; the only way I consume milk is as yogurt, and I will always keep wondering why people would put milk, creamer, or "whitener" in an otherwise wonderful and tasteful beverage like tea or coffee. Please do NOT try to explain explain that to me, many people have tried before.
guess most germans dont lock up their door because the door does it itself automatically :D and no those are not some weird ai doors out of a effd up hollywood movie....
We are not "ofcourse" locking our doors. We are not locking our doors during the day. We actively lock the doors at night. And also front doors do base lock themselves usually, aka they cannot be opened without key. But we do not call that "lock the doors" that's just "closing the door". She actively speaks about taking a key and locking the doors shut and shutting the car doors, which we often do not do while in the car, though some will now auto-lock in a "child safety" auto lock manner. But that's not "you feeling so unsafe that you put the highest security measures in place". You also do not need to get your door key when the door bell rings, you just open it. Unless you do all of these things, then you just can't claim to partake in average behaviour lol
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I would love if all immigrants to Germany had such a good attitude, wholesome perspective and will to learn the language and integrate! Girl is beyond welcome here, and I bet everyone would agree with me!
I’m happy to see, that people from other countries adapt in a nice way and have so many positive things to say. ❤❤ The milk 🥛 issue might be that we have two major differences in milk. One kind that you can keep outside the fridge and the other (fresh milk, non pasteurised) that you should better keep inside the fridge.. Maybe this explains it a little. 🤏 But seriously: it’s great to see and hear what other nationalities find positive on all the “negative things” (right or wrong) is currently heard and spread in or outside of Germany 🇩🇪
Would you care to tell us WHAT is not true ? H Milch ? Counting with thumb first? Our German language ? If you watched one of her latest vlogs where she is back in the USA she talks about missing Germany desperately ! Not that I expect an answer, lol !
It's actually so hard for me to tell nowadays if the starring is a real thing or more an urban myth that foreigners spread on the internet. Bc I also think really starring at people is weird and I also don't like it if people stare at me. On the other side I feel that maybe foreigners would also consider what I do as staring. I guess most of the time people just do it out of curiosity and I also feel its more something you see from older people. Btw. All of that is just based on my experience when I look normal. I definitely experience the staring after parties when i look absolutely shit and I'm wearing different clothes than I do in my every day life. But I think that would also happen anywhere else. Oh and I think it's probably something that's more common in rural areas than in big cities. Atm I live in Berlin and you are used to see so many crazy people, it really becomes normal for you and I don't think anyone cares about them.
The Germans are not staring. We are people of scientists. Good science means good observation. We have to check out people/things. 😂
As a german with a visible leg prosthetic i can confirm that people here love to stare at things that are out of ordinary. It is definitely not malicious though in my experience. Though it led to a kid staring at my leg walking straight into a lamp post one time , which was very funny.
Yeah, it‘s like German Shepherds…they live to regulate other dogs!
So in order to decide if something needs ‚regulating‘, we need to observe, analyze, and judge before even considering jumping into action.
With a lot of Germans feeling unsafe in the city and public transport due to our huge influx of economic migrants and asylum seekers, the staring will get more intense …. Too many people have been killed by Islamist stabbings for anyone not to have situational awareness on full
@@lynnm6413Warum muß überall dieser fremdenfeindliche Müll abgesondert werden? Der überwältigende Großteil der hier lebenden Menschen muslimischen Glaubens ist nicht daran interessiert, jemandem zu schaden. Und das als Legitimation für das anstarren fremder Menschen anzusehen, ist schon arg befremdlich. Wer anders aussieht, der muß scheinbar immer ein schlechter Mensch sein. Was ein hausgemachte Unsinn. Ich hoffe, sie waren nie im Ausland, wo es viele Muslime gibt. Denn da sind sie ja quasi von der latenten Gefahr permanent umzingelt. Merken Sie eigentlich, wie peinlich Ihr Beitrag ist? Ich fürchte, dass das eher nicht der Fall ist.
@lynnm6413 Why does this xenophobic garbage have to be segregated everywhere? The overwhelming majority of people of Muslim faith living here are not interested in harming anyone. And to see this as legitimation for staring at strangers is very strange. Anyone who looks different must apparently always be a bad person. What homemade nonsense. I hope they have never been abroad, where there are many Muslims. Because there they are permanently surrounded by the latent danger, so to speak. Do you actually notice how embarrassing your post is? I'm afraid that this is not the case.
Viennese here: We stare, that's our thing, like in Germany, Italy, Hungary, aso. Why? We do it mostly in public places you are enjoying life at, like parks, aso. You do it to show interest, caring and being engaged in the situation and your surrounding, not "misantrophical" ignorance - that's how someone only carig about his own business would be coming across. We'd also not consier it as staring, because that's if you do it intense and in a provocant way, what means agression. Friendly watching each other with a nice sile or gesture inbetween can easily turn into a disrespectful staring by a hole group thou - thats when you know you did something wrong as a tourist and should go ask and appologzize. It's simply a suttle form of comunicating in locations like a city park or cafe, where many PPL have to be in a symbiosis - to keep this nice symbiosis, charm of the place and atmosphere, you look caring and friendly at each other, or a little angry or amused or whatever... simple, respectful communication
Very well put👍
@@florete2310 thy!
The German Stare is a real thing, i guess. But usually it´s not with a bad intention. It´s like a quick check out of curiousity and careness.
I am German and I would never. I think that's just bullshit. People who stare are just freaks.
It's not a real thing. It is basically an invention by mainly people in North America who tend to avoid eye contact so as not to "invade" other people's space.
Coming from Scotland myself, I never felt "stared at" by ordinary Germans in all the 45 years I've lived here.
Why would you call a "quick check" a "stare"? The words quick and stare are contradictory.
@@MaeckesPlanB It's all relative man. In Germany a quick, gentle stare about five minutes or so is like nothing... Nothing worth mentioning. Just a quick check-out stare. And then there's those intense stares that could last over prolonged periods, like, over the course of one entire evening and whatnot... those are something else, you know?
Honestly, I still do not understand what "staring" people refer to. I never noticed it and I am not even sure if I do it or not.
@l3p3 in other cultures it is quite rude to meet eyes with someone and not acknowledge them. In Germany this is quite common. As in not smiling, nodding or greeting them, .
This comes across as staring to other cultures. I think it only loosely correlates with the length of the eye contact.
Don‘t bother thinking about it….Americans also don‘t consider themselves loud or rude when talking as if they were the main character
I feel the same way... Meeting eyes doesn't feel rude to me but makes me feel uncomfortable. And in my opinion this doesn't happen too often. But on the other hand I don't feel weird just for being looked at, and there may lie the difference.
Also it's allways Americans pointing this out and with their "normal" speaking volume and lack of sense for the situation, you will get stared down - and yes we mean it this way.
I marvel at beautiful people all the time and hope deep inside that I'm not making them uncomfortable. People can be so interesting and beautiful! I guess that's my German stare ^^
"I changed to the german way of counting numbers with the fingers. now to the second point...." shows the 2 in the american counting....
That was funny.
@@l3p3 if you don't count with the finger 1, 2, 3 ... there are two common ways to show the number 2: Thumb + index finger or index finger + middle finger. But if want to show number 3 it is always thumbs, index and middle finger.
So I allow it 😉
Peace!
German here. When I count, I start with the thumb. But when I show a two, I do it the way.
😂
A lot of people here describe german milk as pasteurized. But pasteurization does not do the trick.The actual method to create the milk with the high shelf life is called "ultra high heating". Whilst pasteurization leads to a big decrease in germ numbers, ultra high heating is essentially sterilizing the milk.
It is what we call "H-Milch", isn't it? "Haltbare Milch" or long-life milk, which you don't have to put into the fridge until you open it.
@@Kokuswolf That´s correct. However, it is worth mentioning, that the "H" is not used the same way in all other countries. In Norway, the "H" in "H-Melk" stands for "homogenized" and that does not translate to being paticularly shelf stable.
@@martinhuhn7813 Ah. I didn't know that. Thanks!
What the Amis don't understand: "H-Milch" is ultra-high temperature. It lasts a long time without refrigeration, but only as long as you don't open the package. After that, you have to keep the milk in the fridge just like any other and use it within days. The taste of H-milk takes some getting used to, but it won't kill you. Of course, we also have normal (cooled) milk in the supermarket, like you would find elsewhere. Fresh milk (Vorzugsmilch) is usually only available directly from a farm and it only lasts for one or two days.
Coffee cream is used in conjunction with filter coffee. It is also not sweetened, which is what Amis are used to from their canned milk.
It's kind of funny how people feel like they're being watched. Staring at other people is not normal in Germany either. But these people feel so important that they think everyone would find them interesting and have to stare at them.
Sure but hearing it so often makes me actually wonder. Like what if we just don't realize it? 😂
We don't stare.we look in your general direction,without time limit.😊please,tell all the black brits,americans and so on,nothing to do with skin colour.there are still yt videos with this misconception.
About the door lock thing, what a few people even in the comments miss, in the US you can open most doors from the outside without a key, if they are not locked.
Here in Germany, if a door closes, you can open it without key from the inside, but not from the outside.
The locking part in the video refers for my understanding to locking yourself in your house. Which is something alien to most germans.
My door doesn’t LOCK….I got asked by my landlady and I said I prefer it this way…I have a dog, and I oftentimes don‘t lock my apartment at all.
Anyone who enters without permission is risking their life either way, locked or no!
Yes this too, but I think she was talking about locking up the door of the car while driving to avoid carjacking or something like that,
because she mentioned a parking lot at walmart.
@@Hey.Joe. Sounded a little bit like both for me. The only think that is clear is, that it was unscripted and most likely jumped from one to the other.
@@Rafaela_S. Could be, but I would not let the door of my flat unlocked after leaving, even you need the key to open it, because it is too easy for Professionals to override it.
@@Hey.Joe. Yes, but you would not lock it from the inside, while you are inside.
In the US for most doors, if they are not locked you can just open them from the outside, with the knob and without a key.
So if for some reason you forgot your key and the door has closed, you can just open it, while in Germany, you have locked yourself out.
So to prevent other people from just entering you need to lock your door from the inside in the US.
Ive got blue hair, piercings and a bunch of very colourful tattoos. 😅
People stare at me, no matter, where i go.
In Ceylon people even touched me, to find out if all the colour on me is genuine😂
Germans do not stare with a bad intention.
Basically curiousity, id say.
I think, very often people simply dont dare to start a conversation.
Maybe the staring is just an invitation to talk.
And sumtimes people just stare "holes in the air" as wed call it.
If sb stares at you and you give that person a smile, id say 9 of 10 will talk to you nicely
Oh and regarding the milk thing. Yes, there is milk that is extra "durable". It's called H-Milch (for Haltbare Milch or durable milk) it tastes a little different but doesn't need to be kept cool. There is also a cream version of that. So depending on what type of milk you buy you can usually leave it on a shelf even during the summer.
#staring, looking into the face
For example, if people have an conversation and not looking into the face while talking to each other is perceived as quite rude (not everyone perceives like that, especially people who are glued to the cellphones almost all the time even at a café with others during chit-chat), it's like talking to a wall which feels like being ignored you or just not caring about what the person is saying.
I tend to look when something is out of the ordinary.. but there are times, on a bus or train for example, where i tend to stare into.. well basically into nothing. Just thinking about stuff. Was asked once why i was looking at someone.. didn´t even notice him untill he talked to me :D
If you can't "stare" you're hiding something. Show open mind and friendlines to others with empathy and intrest in their doing.
To introverts the stare is confusing all the time but if you manage to use the stare, there always will be room on the sidewalk.
9:00 I think she refers to pastuerised vs. unpasteurised milk?
IF SHE KNEW WHAT THE NETHERLANDS IS LIKE SHE WOULD TALK DIFFERENTLY
Right?!
Who says that germans are too direct, has never been to the Netherlands. Also the " stare" , which I think is just looking at someone, is also very real there. I Love my durch neighbours, they are the better germans. People say Germany is Clean, obviously never been to the Netherlands. People Talk about german efficiency, they have never Seen the dutch efficiency and so on...
Regarding the locking the door thing. That obviously depends a bit but as a rule of thumb the "quieter" you live the less you lock the doors in Germany. I'm now living in Hamburg so I usually lock my doors. When I lived in smaller towns I regularly didn't lock my doors. In the city I lived last before Hamburg, which had about 200000 people living there, I actually most of the time left the garden door open and went in through there. And it was a well enough known "secret" that UPS and the likes usually put my deliveries right in my living room.
My mother and mother in law live in an even quieter place, they never lock their doors and only lock their cars when grocery shopping, and even then forget (most of the time)
German since i can remember, and i dislike sparkling water or water with artificial tastes. Still water all the way, and best if processed by own osmosis filter and then add some minerals.
I don't lock my doors here in Germany, they kinda lock automatically (snap shut) when closing them. And the outside doors don't have a handle. I maybe would lock it with the key if I would live in a dangerous area where a lot of break-ins happen.
The "Hausratversicherung" will like that so they might not have to pay you anything or reduce it if someone breaks in when you are not at home because of your own negligence
Feli has also a video about the german stare,like always really good.
Our milk is usually pasteurized by subjecting it to ultra-high temperatures. This gives it a longer shelf life and ensures that it can be stored at room temperature in the grocery store as long as the package is not opened. But of course you can also buy "freshly tapped" milk 🐄 😄in Germany, which of course also has to be stored cool in the grocery store.
[Adding some information on top] And yes after opening it, it goes to the fridge, because even air can introduce germs which are kept from growing fast by keeping things cool. That milk is called "H-Milch" the "H" stands for "Haltbar" = "keepable"
@ Milk topic: it's pasteurised. So heated shortly, highly so it wouldn't go bad. Unless you opened it. Then put it in the fridge or drink quickly 😉👍
I lock my door due to insurance reasons. They might not pay, if sb breaks in with an unlocked door. Most german housedoors dont have a handle on the outside, you need to use your key to retract the lock and then just push. So technically, you always need a key to enter, but I guess the insurance just wants us to make it as hard as possible for burglars.
Pasteurised milk is available here in Germany on the shelf. As soon as you open it, of course you are supposed to put in the refrigerator.
When you shut a German front door, it usually locks automatically, even though it's safer to also lock it with your house key, because burglars seem to be able to get in easier through the front door when you didn't proplerly lock it. But apparently, they will choose garden doors and windows over the front door, anyway, so you should make sure to make this difficult for them, too. I live in a village near a city with about 125.000 residents. In the village, you do lock the doors, because there are groups of burglars breaking into houses in a relatively organized manner, especially in autumn and winter, and actually not necessarily in the dark (though they apparently do that, too), but in the daytime, when they think nobody is home. They seem to also scout the area beforehand. These people definitely choose the villages, too, maybe especially villages, because they are pretty quiet areas. If I wouldn't be worried about them, I might actually leave everything open, because I wouldn't really be worried about some random person walking in. I might be a little worried about pets or animals getting into the house. I actually left the garden door unlocked once or twice, to get in easily from the garden, but I think I wasn't gone for too long in these cases (walking the dog or something like that). In the city, you definitely lock everything, houses, cars, and you should be very careful about locking your bike, too.
Us-americans always complain about staring. Maybe it is because they are behaving in a way which is strange or even rude for germans. Always too noisy for example.
We started locking our front door, because one of our dogs is able to use the door handle and got out twice. Otherwise we wouldn’t do it.
I personally love H-Milk (homogeneous,pasteurized), it tastes much better than fresh milk for me.
But it's just me. My wife would use H-Milk only for cooking, but not for drinking. The downside of H-Milk is, that almost all vitamins are destroyed due to the heating to kill most bacteria which, therefore makes it so durable and no need for cooling until opened. The upside is of course the much longer expiration date (haltbarkeitsdatum) and the non-cooling (until opened)
We do stare but we don't look at one particular person or thing. We just like to look around and appreciate the moment in our freetime. At least it's what I like to do. If I look at something beautiful, or interesting I don't "see" the ppl in front of it. I look "through" them, ya know!? When I'm walking and I think about all the stuff I have to do, I kind of "stare" foreward, but I don't "recognize" the ppl I'm passing. I'm just looking at the way I'm walking on and my mind is busy with the other stuff that I'm thinking about. I'm not sure but I think a lot of germans don't stare at ppl like others often think. Because if we stare at one particular person we're making eye contact. It's hard to discribe but I hope I could explaine it a bit. And I think that is why most of the tourists think we are staring at them. And of course there are also ppl who like to stare at other ppl but I think it's a small amount.
We do have "fresh" milk (Frische Milch) and we do have "H-Milch" which means "haltbare Milch" (long-life milk). It means this milk was "ultra-high temperatured" to free it from all the germs and spores of bacilli. That milk is on a shelf in the stores, the fresh one (which wasn't ultra-high temperatured) is in the fridge. And of course, if you open the "H-Milch" you have to put it in the fridge too! I'm not sure if this is just a german thing, at least it is soemthing new to americans, like the thing with our eggs (but that is an european thing I guess).
Milk on the shelf is pasteurized milk. It lasts several weeks (and 1-2 weeks after opening and keeping in the fridge).
Milk in the fridge is fresh milk.
The taste isn't wildly different but there's fans of each of them. Personally, I prefer pasteurized milk mostly, because I drink very little milk and I always like to have a back up in the pantry, too. I don't want to waste milk.
Sorry, milk on the shelf in europe lasts for months. It is UHT milk en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-high-temperature_processing
@uweseemann8571 months consist of weeks. But yes, to be more precise, they last for months.
You know that you are "germanised" when you start dreaming in German instead of English....
It's actually so hard for me to tell nowadays if the starring is a real thing or more an urban myth that foreigners spread on the internet. Bc I also think really starring at people is weird and I also don't like it if people stare at me. On the other side I feel that maybe foreigners would also consider what I do as staring. I guess most of the time people just do it out of curiosity and I also feel its more something you see from older people.
Btw. All of that is just based on my experience when I look normal. I definitely experience the staring after parties when i look absolutely shit and I'm wearing different clothes than I do in my every day life. But I think that would also happen anywhere else.
Oh and I think it's probably something that's more common in rural areas than in big cities. Atm I live in Berlin and you are used to see so many crazy people, it really becomes normal for you and I don't think anyone cares about them.
I am German and I was told as a child not to stare at people. Also in Germany it is regarded as a bad manner.
What I seldomly experience here are dumb old men who stare. Otherwise I don't experience it.
I think it's a UA-cam thing. People found out that videos about Germans staring get a lot of clicks (as all videos telling 'Germans are weird'). So many copied this video idea. Now it's out in the world and even Germans believe all Germans are staring all the time.
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I guess I do the stare, but not even consciously. And I rather stare through than at someone.
I don't think that Germans (I am one of them) do actually "stare" at people. We just look at them for maybe half a second or maybe a second longer than people from overseas might be used to.
Milk on the shelf is called H-Milch, short for "haltbare Milch", and it's pasteurized. The concept of that was invented by the French chemist Louis Pasteur in the 19th century. But I'm not a "milk expert"; the only way I consume milk is as yogurt, and I will always keep wondering why people would put milk, creamer, or "whitener" in an otherwise wonderful and tasteful beverage like tea or coffee. Please do NOT try to explain explain that to me, many people have tried before.
We look but we germans dont laugh. US-People look and have always to laugh, then it is not staring i guess!
i always stare at mert
I don't know what she means with Germans likely hating the fact that she (as an American) wants to stay here. Gal, hon. We watch the news.
Yeah I live in Austria and we Just say thanks and please after every second senteans.😅
that makes a balance with all ill-bred people in the world ...
guess most germans dont lock up their door because the door does it itself automatically :D and no those are not some weird ai doors out of a effd up hollywood movie....
of course we are locking our doors and milk must be in the fridge after opening.
We are not "ofcourse" locking our doors. We are not locking our doors during the day. We actively lock the doors at night. And also front doors do base lock themselves usually, aka they cannot be opened without key. But we do not call that "lock the doors" that's just "closing the door". She actively speaks about taking a key and locking the doors shut and shutting the car doors, which we often do not do while in the car, though some will now auto-lock in a "child safety" auto lock manner. But that's not "you feeling so unsafe that you put the highest security measures in place". You also do not need to get your door key when the door bell rings, you just open it.
Unless you do all of these things, then you just can't claim to partake in average behaviour lol
Man, I dunno... It's a German stareotype, I suppose...
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H-Milk.
I would love if all immigrants to Germany had such a good attitude, wholesome perspective and will to learn the language and integrate!
Girl is beyond welcome here, and I bet everyone would agree with me!
that's pasteurized milk ,tastes like shit !!!!
STARING AT SOMONE IS STUPID ,!!!!!!
I’m happy to see, that people from other countries adapt in a nice way and have so many positive things to say. ❤❤
The milk 🥛 issue might be that we have two major differences in milk. One kind that you can keep outside the fridge and the other (fresh milk, non pasteurised) that you should better keep inside the fridge.. Maybe this explains it a little. 🤏
But seriously: it’s great to see and hear what other nationalities find positive on all the “negative things” (right or wrong) is currently heard and spread in or outside of Germany 🇩🇪
I am German and I cannot relate to this topic at all, because it is simply not true..
Would you care to tell us WHAT is not true ? H Milch ? Counting with thumb first? Our German language ?
If you watched one of her latest vlogs where she is back in the USA she talks about missing Germany desperately ! Not that I expect an answer, lol !
@@irminschembri8263 for sure he wanted to say that living in germany didnt change him because he was born here ;)
@@irminschembri8263 the "Staring".. und wenn du Deutscher bist und mir was mitteilen willst, mach es ruhig aus Deutsch..🤡
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It's actually so hard for me to tell nowadays if the starring is a real thing or more an urban myth that foreigners spread on the internet. Bc I also think really starring at people is weird and I also don't like it if people stare at me. On the other side I feel that maybe foreigners would also consider what I do as staring. I guess most of the time people just do it out of curiosity and I also feel its more something you see from older people.
Btw. All of that is just based on my experience when I look normal. I definitely experience the staring after parties when i look absolutely shit and I'm wearing different clothes than I do in my every day life. But I think that would also happen anywhere else.
Oh and I think it's probably something that's more common in rural areas than in big cities. Atm I live in Berlin and you are used to see so many crazy people, it really becomes normal for you and I don't think anyone cares about them.