Thank you to everyone who stuck around since my last video! It's been really sweet to see so many returning faces! 🤗 Obviously, I could only fit super short caricatures of these identities into one video. But you COULD write full books about every single one! So feel free to expand on anything I've said in the comments. Just be sure to remain friendly and grant other people the freedom of having their own opinion. 🫶 //Edit: I love that I've already been called a right-winger, a left-winger, a liberal and a socialist. Anybody wanna call me an Anarcho-Georgist to complete my bingo card? 😂
I live in Alsace and really love Germany. I'm disappointed by how much worse France currently is in many ways (security, cleanliness, industry, culture) compared to France.
Lucas, I loved the video i think i enjoyed it more than jj mcculloughs one. But I wished you would have talked about the Red Army faction in the extremists section because they are a unique part of the german extremists section and their pretty unknown to lots of people outside Germany.
what? no they didn't. because germany got a really sh°°ty pseudo-legalization that is absolutely not going to work. it's basically meant to touch the black market as little as possible to then say "look, legalization doesn't work", even though it's not a legalization at all, it's a somewhat expansive decriminalization with uniquely severe constraints on production, which is only permitted in non-profit licensed clubs that sell at cost to a number of members limited to 1000 in order to require an absolutely enormous mountain of paperwork. and homegrowing is only permitted up to three plants (or three flowering females, not sure), which is the lowest limit I have ever heard of being permitted, other jurisdictions do 5-10. but then one is only permitted to have 50g of product at home, which is certainly less than one should expect to harvest from three plants (more like 100g per plant, or for a nice healthy big one outdoors up to 500g, in ideal much warmer climate like california a few kilos are possible), and for a lot of people that means that they're not allowed to just grow outdoors and store enough from the regular autumn harvest to last a year. indoor growing is a huge waste of electricity and money for equipment. the limits are set at absurdly paranoid low levels - commercial grows consist of dozens to many hundreds of plants at a time, you don't give cover to commercial growers by allowing 8 plants and 300g or something like that. beside the fact that decriminalization over legalization is nothing but a gift to organized crime because the market stays illegal, there is no reason to push those limits anywhere near that low.
I think a group you missed is the Bildungsbürgertum. The (educational) petty elite. Teachers, professors, highly skilled proffesions like doctors, engineers and architects, civil servants or, as I notice as one myself, journalists. Usually university educated and from a family with a similar level in education. They are generally not rich, but with a good and reliable income. Concered with public matters and the 'less fortunate', they are often disconnected from people who struggle on a daily basis or only meet them in professional relationships. They are often active in local politics, church or social organisations, wanting to help in a well meaning, but patronising way. They are well informed about local and global politics. Newspaper readers, with full bookshelfs. Despite this they always are surprised when they learn that people don't concern themselves with politics or why someone would not vote in an election.
This is also where the Gutmensch lives. A person that wants to improve the world through virtues but doesn't really need to care because they themselves are well off. Basically the boomer version of the SJW. Because they are well off they don't have the drive to get deeply involved in politics. They want to be political to the point where they are part of the good guys and not so far that they lose their optimistic world view. Because they have decent wealth they are not interested in the left wing radicalism that their college kids lean towards. Because they don't have too many problems of their own they are mostly concerned about other people and trying to be virtuous to the point where they consider "less fortunate" an offensive expression. Because they have formal education they are immune to facebook rage bait or right wing populism but since they are too happy and educated to consume anything but mainstream media there is basically no chance for them to deviate from the moderate leftist norm. They are the arch enemy of the frustrated, uneducated and rightist Wutbürger.
Could not agree more. He's like a German hbomberguy, in regards to video quality and frequency. And as expected from a German version of hbomberguy, he's calm and collected, instead of being... Well English 😂 P.S. I am a big fan of hbomberguy's work and am in no way attempting to cause disrespect or insult of his character. I was committing something, which Americans seem to struggle with, called banter.
@LucasBenderChannel I love how UA-cam offers a translation for this that really translates nothing but takes everything to the left of the 2 soccer balls and turns it into a yellow heart! Oh, and hund becomes hound!! 😂
Guns are a constitutional right in America, driving fast isnt in Germany. Theres no really good comparison actually. Imagine you like grilling big beefsteaks and your neighbour is summoned by the smell and starts to warn you about healthrisks of eating beef and starts to calculate passive agressively how much vegetebales could have been grown on the land that was used to feed the cow that is on your barbeque...
Lucas. With only two, now three videos, you've cemented yourself as one of my favorite political commentators on UA-cam. I've watched your videos numerous times and I'm sure this new one will be no different. Please make more.
#tribe36 The Vereinsmensch: The people that spend most of their free time working for the Verein (club). Those people are the ubsung heroes that are holding communities together. Especially in rural areas.
An interesting addition to the Bavarian is the fact that the three women shown as examples here are conservative, green-progressives and liberal respectively. While Bavaria is a conservative state, a very obvious one at that, this kind of Bavarian identity is compatible with basically every political ideology. By itself it’s not really a political statement at all. Conservatives tend to lean into their Bavarian identity in a different way though. Especially talking down to other states is more or less exclusively a conservative thing.
That's exactly why I chose them! Thank you for pointing it out! 🤗 The CSU might like to imagine that it has a monopoly on the Bavarian identity, but no - it's embraced all throughout the political landscape!
3:30 As a greek myself, I totally agree. Fun fact: The Greeks are not actually THAT lazy, in fact, they're the people who have the most work hours a week in all of europe... Though that probably just shows we arent payed nearly enough and we need to resort to working a lot😎💪😎🇬🇷💪😎💪
The thing with these working hours is that the statistics is misleading. At least in Germany, it does not distinguish between full time and part time jobs, and thus a lot of part time working single mums make the values ... murky. No idea about the situation in Greece though...
Educated Germans know about this. As far as I understand, it was your elite who screwed Greece over and it was the general population who had to pay post 2008. To watch the news and witness which cuts had to be made to ,ake Greece financially afloat again was depressing.
In Portuguese, "Justiça Social" (Social Justice, literally) has the German rather than American meaning - it's about people having the income to live with dignity, fighting hunger, providing public education and healthcare... A famous quote by left-wing economist Maria da Conceição Tavares: "If you are not concerned with justiça social, with those that have to pay their bills, you are no serious economist - you're a technocrat!"
@@adelinod.5568 I would say that it has a more expansive meaning in the UK and refers more to human rights and minority rights. It would not be uncommon to use social justice and economic justice next to each other, the latter meaning more of what is being described here around wealth and class.
I think this is more about the poverty of intelectual discourse in the US, without an actual economically left party (we have a center-right party and far-right party)it leaves the only space for progressive politics to be mainstreamed in the US is if it is focused on identity. We see the Democratic party leaders activly push back at any attempt to link economic equality with racial equality. Most famously epitomized by neo-liberal Hillary Clintons critique of Socialist Bernie Sanders hostility to the Banking sector by saying "But if we broke up the Banks, would that end Racism!?".
@@MarkWhiley wouldn't that also be the meaning in USA, whenever a liberal or a progressive talks about social justice it's kinda implicit that they refer to both human rights (minority rights being a part of it) and economic inequality, just that for the more intense social justice types that economic inequality is also primarily correlated with identity (blacks are poorer, women get paid less, etc). Idk I'm not American.
5:30 So many of the stereotypes of Gemany today, are Bavarian, mainly because the American occupation zone was mainly in Bavaria. The soldiers brought the ideas they saw back home, and the US is, of course, the dominant influencer of world culture.
@_jpg true. I think ranting on the state of the railway is perhabs the most unifying aspects of German life. I can't think of another topic with more potential for agreement. Maybe the weather, but that could escalate into a climate debate.
We had the Transrapid supporters but they got destroyed by the esoteric enviornmentalists (Transrapid track looks too ugly in the Landscape[ Wind turbines apparently dont])
@@jessevandeinsen4202 Yeah .. but since the common liberal "German" doesn't believe in nationhood anymore, it should just be "Federal Citizen" (Bundesbürger or just Bürger). The common German patriotism wich you might find is just based on silly little stereotypes, and being "thankful to live a wealthy democracy"... so there are even immigrants who will identify themselves as "german", but it's just a shallow facade. ... and the Neonazis and Trumpists who see themselves as German patriots are just really dumb, and don't even know their own history in most cases.
Not entirely as there is nothing to suggest it would make anything safer. The only actual benefit would be minimal reduce in emmission but thats negligable. Theres really no reason to change the way it is rn other than leftists being upset
French guy here, I'm also an EU megafan, which is definitely unusual in my country. You're definitely right about our motives, considering my experience with Volt Europa (who are definitely part of that tribe) a lot of us simply want to be part of a great superpower that shares more in common than it does today, like a large federation.
@@fr4rq236 I would say the majority doesn't really care about us, they may see us as an eccentric odd bunch. Then you have a growing number of euroskeptics influenced by populist parties, who see us as morons who are being used by the system.
@@fr4rq236 The annoying euroskeptics see us as agents of a terrible system, whereas the bulk of the population probably doesn't care much about us, they might just think we're weird.
I teach high school German in Kansas and have students who are constantly asking for opportunities to learn more about Politik. I'm certainly sharing this with all my classes. Danke für das tolle Video!
19:00 On Reichsburgers. I know at least two other movements of similar sort, in the US and Russia. American ones call themselves ‘sovereign citizens,’ and they believe that the US is a corporation, the Articles of Confederacy is the real constitution and is still an active law, cars operate according to maritime law, and, most famously, that the police is obliged to let them free if they ask ‘Am I being detained’? In Russia, those are citizens of USSR. They also believe USSR still exist, that Russia, Kazakhstan, etc. are corporations, but they also have extensive lore on jewish reptilians that govern those corporations, and on interterrestreal origin of all Slavic/White people. I wonder whether other countries have similar conspiracy theories and, if yes, what are they like.
Interesting right? There must be a very specific human urge in these folks to rebel against the given circumstances in that way. Cause it really isn't unique to any nation.
@@LucasBenderChannel Yep, a fascinatingly hyperspecific kind of schizophrenia. At least, I’ve seen no evidence that these theories are somehow inspired by each other. And the bio of the founder of Soviet citizens seems to exclude possibility that he knew English or German
@LucasBenderChannel The internet also lets them cross-polinate massively. Plenty of conspiracy theories already make no sense, but when they get exported to other countries and partially misunderstood they become completely unhinged.
My German teacher is definitely the pro-German narcissist 😭 like I’m a dual French-American citizen and she’ll just take a dig at the French for no reason every now and then and then just stare directly at me
Well at least I assume that it would not be too hard to find a French teacher taking a dig at the Germans for no apparent reason, either. 70ish years of alliance is just not enough to erradicate three centuries of mutual dislike further than preventing each other from the occasional invasion...
I don't know if I would say the cause of the EU-Megafan's love of the EU is simply "insecurity". The point you brought up about being overshadowed by the US or China is a real concern. Having a large union which can negotiate things like trade policy as a bloc is simply the practical approach.
i feel like in my country the EU-megafans are just people that really appreciate eu funds and want to feel "european", also being in EU means not being on the other side (so usually pro russian if we look at europe) hence any sort of anti eu rhetoric is instantly deemed a russian propaganda
And it's also an utopy - that's not just fear driven. But a united Europe without nations is a Europe without wars or borders. I think, the "insecurity" claim fails as well, as this is perhaps the only group that still has a positive utopy at all ;)
Adding to what you said about the lack of politicians with migration background or, as I would argue, a certain invisibility of persons with a migration background in mainstream culture: I think the self-conception of German society is quite different from for example Canada because the latter sees itself as a society or country of immigration while this is not the case in Germany. Despite a lot of people from various countries came to Germany for various reasons (refugees, guest workers, family members etc), this did not change this idea of German society being a rather homogenous thing. This can for example be seen in the establishment of the Gastarbeiterverträge ("guest worker treaties") in the 1960s. The idea was that the workers come to Germany for a limited time to help mitigating the lack of workforce in that time. It was never planned that they would stay but that they leave Germany. Them staying here was an unplanned outcome. There is a famous quote by Max Frisch: "Wir riefen Arbeitskräfte, aber es kamen Menschen" ("We called for workers, but instead people arrived") which summarises this sentiment. To make it short: I think there is a discrepancy between the idea of not being a country of immigration and the reality
To enforce your point wait till you see how much direct and indirect discrimination people from South -South East Asia and Africa faces in daily life. The German govt wants skilled people to come over and contribute but the society simply can't accept them even those who tries to integrate into the society they are still treated as outsiders. I am also planning to leave here no point of paying 40+% of my income in taxes only to get discriminated against.
We have a similar version of the "Haven't we heard enough?" in the UK. I've been seeing a lot of rhetoric about: "oh well the empire wasn't completely bad" or "it's in the past just forget about it" and it's really disgusting.
Well, who do you think ended the slave trade in Europe? Sure, the British empire was a big player in the slave trade, but what other nation/empire would be willing and capable of ending it? If it wasn't for Britain, slavery would go on way longer than it has. Even if you believe that it means nothing, since Britain was in major way responsible for it, and this act only corrected one of it's many wrongdoings. Once again, which other nation/empire can claim that it put serious effort into such endeavor? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_for_the_Suppression_of_the_African_Slave_Trade
@@fuka1000000 I appreciate that Britain did put effort into stopping it. My problem is I hear people using this an excuse for everything before, which it shouldn't be used for at all
@@evilgoose6768 That's fair, I completely agree that most revisionist efforts are based solely on political goals, instead of a fair appraisal of history. It's pretty tragic.
Thank you for making your videos accessible in so many languages!!! It's such a rare find since youtube removed the community captions programme. Again, thank you for the effort!!! It's greatly appreciated!
As a Polish person what shocked me the most is the fact, that you can actually talk normally about politics without hating each other - in my country political polarisation get so far, that it is even common to break relations with some family members because of opposing views. This is probably because we do not agree about principles on wchich our country should be built. But speaking about Germany - in Poland we have many stereotipes of german politics. For example for us all germans are like EU-Megafans. For many people Germany and EU are synonymical - for many right wing people subordination to EU is literally new german occupation. Also AFD is highly unpopular in Poland because their resentiment to "eastern Germany" (Danzig, Breslau, Stettin etc.). Other stereotype about german polititians is "Haven't we heard enough?" man, or similar - many polish people believe, that germans falsifies their history to look less evil or just to relativize their guilt "mabe we commited some crimes, but others also".
That's really interesting! Can I ask: If you yourself had to make a video about the Polish tribes, what are interesting faces you could talk about, that are special to Poland? 💜🇵🇱
@@LucasBenderChannel - Janusz Korwin Mikke worshippers - People Republic nostalgics - Church ladies - Coal miners (clinging desperately to their dwindling work) That's 4; 31 to go xd
I always thought of it as quite sad that people of countries east of Germany think Germany is falsifying its history and overlook Germany´s pretty big efforts to take responsibility for the crimes and learn from the mistakes that lead to the third reich. Its especially sad to see a lot of hatred towards Germans in comment sections of videos about the third reich. How much percent of the polish people you know think like that?
@@berserkeroflove Most of people intrested in history that I know. Those who doesn't care about history also doesn't care about historical narrations. What we don't like the most is tries to share the guilt of Holocaust with rest of Europe, making distinction between nazi and Germany (like Angela Merkel saying about ally "liberation" of Germany, like German people wasn't responsible for war, but was also victims, and Germany was occupied by nazis). The third think is that it seems like in Germany crimes against other nations than Jews are forgotten. For example Polish nation was also planned to be exterminated, over 6 milion Polish citizens were killed and our country was totally devastated. So after all I think that people in Poland just have different perspective than in Germany. While for most of the world "bad Germany" started with Hitler, for us nazis are only continuation of Germany doing bad things. Very often historians start our conflict with medieval times, when Germans expanded into Slavic lands and often invaded Poland. But in fact modern conflict started with partitions of Poland in XVIII c., which was initiated by Prussia. In next century Polish people were second category citizens of Germany. Germans wanted to germanise us, some laws discriminated Polish people, for example it was harder for us to buy land. Finally we've got independence, but even Weimar Republik wasn't a big fan of Polish borders and was making moves in international politics to recover at least some of lands lost to Poland. So for us WWII and nazism are only prelongation of conflict. Some people even extrapolate it - there was first reich, which wanted to subdigate Poland, second reich that controll much of Polish teritory directly and wanted more, third reich that everybody knows what did, and now we have the fourth reich - the EU, which also want to rule Polish people. Last year we had important parliamentary elections, and pro govermental newspaper had big thumbnail "third cadency or fourth reich", wchich suggested, that if oposition win the elections, they will subdigate Poland to the EU.
As an East german, I agree with most the things said about the east, but with one big exception: In the video your friend said that east germans do not appreciate press freedom, however, I would say they couldnt care less. In my family everybody is fully east german (even in the advanced family which is approximately up to 40-50 people) and I cant think of anything that angers them more then the press (may it be newspapers or ÖRR) not giving all information, being biased or straight up patronizing. They get so furious when they feel any of these described. The best examples of this are debates whether certain words are allowed, their opinions on migration and in general their political views. I would love to know from other east germans reading this whether they agree more with me or your friend from the video
They want all the information to make their own opinion out of it and not someone who tells them that everything is okay and good or that they should behave in a certain way. And this is also why freedom of press is so important because they want to see things from other perspectives and backgrounds rather than relying on one source or only state run media
That's fair and a very common desire. 👍 The wish that media overall should be less opinionated. Less value-driven. But would you describe that view as "Eastalgic"? Remember, I wasn't talking about all East Germans, but about the specific set of people who would see the current state of the media and go: "It was better in the GDR"
@@LucasBenderChannelI would consider them to be part of the eastalgic‘s but with this exception. They fit into the narrative described in the video but with this exception on the media. Actually I have not experienced someone not valuing freedom of press here
Oh wow!!! An amazing new Lucas Bender video - eager to learn more about German politics with this. I mostly knew the info on the parties, but here it's all new to me!
Tribe Suggestion Perhaps similar to the Bavarian but universalised: the "Lokalpatriot" (local patriot) Politicians/voters that carry sentimentalism about local culture and care about promoting/embodying what region or state they are from. For example this might appear in form of a state politician keeping dialects, and local traditional vocabulary instead of conforming to "high German" (the standard form of German). For the Germans: The idea came to mind when recalling Björn Höcke and Mario Voigt arguing whether one says "Mettbrötchen" or "Gehacktes-Brötchen" (a bun with minced raw pork) in Thuringia.
Was? Deswegen haben die sich ernsthaft gestritten? 😅 Aber ja du hast absolut recht! Lokalpatriotismus kann man auch in allen anderen Regionen finden. :)
28:44 being Italian the Movimento 5 Stelle popping up killed me on the spot (Italy already has this "fluid" state of political parties and the oldest (major)party today was made in 2007)
i’m romanian - the eastalgic character definitely exists here too! often with the exact same arguments that your friend ana described. your video and JJ’s kind of inspire me to do something similar for romania, but i sadly would probably lack the production quality to be able to see it through
I honestly think production quality should not worry you at all! 🤗 J.J.'s version barely included any animation and I struggled with sound and video quality. We all lack something. So don't worry about any of that! I'd love to see more videos like this and I'd recommend you give it a shot! Just maybe don't go for 35 tribes right away! 😅 haha This was a LOT of work. Instead of 35, maybe try making one about 10 or 12 special characters, that are super unique to Romania! That'd be enough to start with and a really interesting watch! :) If you do decide to work on something like this, you can always hit me up on Instagram for advice! 💛🇷🇴
I’m an American but have lived in Germany for a while. Many of these profiles accurately described many of the people I’ve met and became friends with. Brilliant insight. Danke schon!
as a nerd american political scientist it’s fascinating to me how disloyal germans are to parties. Here political behavior is so tied to one’s identification with one of the two parties it’s almost impossible to conceptualize how anyone who even decide to vote in Germany. Here even people who know a lot about politics still tend to follow the party.
Propably one reason is your voting system. Majority vote systems tend to lead to two party systems because any dissent would only lead to the other party winning everything. Im proportional Systems the need for loyalty is lower because you're going to have a coalition anyway I'd say
German here. Even as a 25 year long party member I don't always only vote for my party candidate. I'm a proud and free citizen in a democratic federal welfare state.
This is partially because German parties overlap so much in their politics, I think. Say I'm a progressive centrist who usually votes for the SPD, but I'm dissatisfied with the candidate they're running. In that case I can just cast my vote for the Greens instead, without wasting my vote or "crossing the aisle" so to speak. If I was American instead, then as a progressive centrist, I probably vote for the Democrats. If I'm dissatisfied with their candidate... well, then I probably have to vote for the Democrats anyway, because it's not like I agree with the Republicans on anything.
I held off on watching this video for a while because I knew I’d enjoy it and wanted to really absorb it. I finally had the time and now I’ve watched it three times. Fantastic video! I’ll watch anything you make honestly
As an American, this is a great way to learn about the metapolitics of a country that I am not a native to. JJ helped me better understand Canada's political tension and you have for Germany.
Normalerweise rege ich mich immer ein bisschen über stark simplifizierte Videos auf, aber ich finde du schaffst es jedes mal gut die Kurve zu kriegen und kritisch anzumerken, dass Dinge wie Erinnerungskultur vll nur ein Image sind und nicht unbedingt gelebt werden. Really appreciate ya :)
Das ist sehr lieb, danke! Ja, man riskiert bei diesen "Edutainment"- Videos immer sehr schnell eine Linie zu übertreten. Was ist zu stark verkürzt? Was verfälscht die Fakten durch einen saloppen Gag? Ich selbst finde vieles in diesem Video im Nachhinein vieeeel zu unausgegoren - also freut mich der Kommentar umso mehr! :)
I've waited so long for this video and it was really worth the wait. As someone who (despite my name) is not actually from Germany, I was able to recognise most of these tribes in the Germans I've met. Especially the Bavarian exceptionalists. They're very easy to spot.
16:20 "compulsory military or social service" - from memory there was no option to do anything but military service in the GDR. A lot of the peace activists in the GDR were demanding the option of a Zivi
Good point! That's true. But there were non-combat positions you could apply for, if you refused to partake in the regular military draft. Usually as "Construction soldier" (Bausoldat).
yea no that's plainly wrong. None of my family members did military service, they all choose the social service route, and that was quite the popular option
Alright, see ya again in the next 2 years! The ORR enthusiast struck me as the most odd btw. I'm from 🇧🇦 btw. Also, #tribe36 should've been diaspora nationalists. They're different from Orban/Erdogan/Putin fans, as they actually have family in the country that they're nationalists for. And some support smaller ultra nationalist organizations in their "home" country. Like the BPNP for Bosnia. Most of their financial support came from the Bosniak diaspora.
It looks like it goes under the category of the backgrounder tribe (or mb the extremist one). With Bosnian BPNP, Turkish Grey Wolves etc. it looks more like they are not the part of the German political landscape but rather than the political landscapes of their respective countries. For example, I am from Azerbaijan and we have several political influencers that reside in Germany. They may have the significance here but I bet almost noone knows or cares about them in Germany itself
there's a lot of pride in the örr coming from a point of it's intended neutrality, as it's set up in a way to protect against government overreach. once again lessons learned from the past.
I would personally see myself as ÖRR Enthusiast, but in a much different way as described in the video. I couldn't care less about Markus Lanz and other political talkshows, but I think our public broadcasters are one of our most valuable accomplishments. I think the ÖRR gets much too much undeserved hate, especially from bad faith populist actors, who just want to get rid of critical voices.
Wow, that was very entertaining. I have always been interested in learning about the politics of different countries. I think it would be cool if people from other countries did something similar to.
Ich habe mit tatsächlich erst vor ein paar Tagen erneut dein Video zu den deutsche Parteien angeguckt und mit gedacht, dass der Zeichenstil doch stark dem von JJ ähnelt :D
I think in addition to the young, American-oriented SJWs, there's also a group of older people fighting for minorities' rights. Like, the stereotype of a lesbian feminist in her 60s who fought at the students' movement and hippie protests during the 80s. They share the general sentiment, but in quite different ways, and old-school SJWs can be very interested in the new gen z movements, or outright dismissive of them as 'not doing it right'.
32:56 the wahl-o-mat is also an expression of German gesture for structure and order. I fully agree that this is indeed a great distraction from real politics because the tool just looks up the answers to a set of questions in the election programs and in reality you can write there whatever you wish without any consequences because we never have a one-partie-government and not complying to your plans can therefore always be excused by compromise within a coalition government.
when I first watched JJ's "35 tribes" video, I really loved it, but since I'm Canadian, I knew a lot of that information so it was a bit of "preaching to the choir". Since then, I really hoped that someone would make a similar video about THEIR country, since I loved the concept so much. so, when your video popped up in my recommendations, I clicked instantly - and it was really fascinating! Even more since I get to compare the two countries/videos and see how similar or different we are. subscribed! now I need to watch your other two videos, as they both interest me as well lol
That thirty-five tribes video is one of my favourite videos by J.J. :D I'd thought to myself at the time that this would be an interesting and creative trend for other cultural/political UA-camrs to follow, so I'm glad to see this video pop up in my feed. I'm glad you gave them their own Banjo-Kazooiesque voice lines like in the original video :3
I discovered your channel literally yesterday. Then I checked your uploads and realized you create a new video like once every 2 years. Then, 24 hours later, you release a new one. How is that even possible?
I am no expert on this topic by any means, but I have a few ideas: Things in general are a lot denser. Cities are closer to each other, and are built up denser within themselves. Kids and older people use public transport to get around (and older people make up a big part of the voter base due to demographics). Also, and more broadly, it's just very hard to change anything in this country. Both the state's bureaucracy and the people's behaviours are very allergic to change. Even extreme amounts of money often can't change that. In the case of the auto industry eradicating public transport this may have worked in our favour, but it may also explain why 80% of German businesses still use fax machines.
Another reason is that Germany has no oil resources and gas prices are very high in comparison to other countries (and are expected to grow even further with a possible introduction of a CO2 tax). It's also generally expensive to own a car because of car tax, limited and expensive parking, yearly mandatory check-ups (which can cost you a small fortune if they find some minor issue with your vehicle that needs to be fixed), insurance etc.
@@mrcool7140 American cities were also much denser prior to the 1950s. I also suspect that the state having any involvement at all was a factor. Most American transit operators prior to the Second World War were entirely private companies who just got bought up, either by oil/car companies or by local governments expecting a replacement system of monorails or whatever.
@@ivanskrypov4030 The US just demolished most of its city centers to make room for parking. And gas prices are now very high in the US. The people who complain about gas prices the most are in fact those who drive the biggest pickup trucks and would consider any other mode of transport effeminate/beta.
As an American, I appreciate your ability to speak on politics and still come off unbiased. I’m hoping to move to Germany soon and want to be well informed on the government, and your videos are great to learn from!
I'm glad I could be of service! Thank you! :) And while I appreciate you saying, that I come off as unbiased, I gotta admit that I'm really not. I'm a pretty opinionated guy, so my biases will seep into my videos from time to time. I hope I can at least highlight and contextualize them.
I have absolutely fallen in love with this channel. I love how your style is similar to J.J. McCullough, but also a bit more Europeanized and different in general. As a Dutch person who has been to Germany countless times, I recognized a lot of these stereotypical Germans in some of your fellow countrymen and -women that I've met over the years. Keep up the great video quality even if the upload schedule is not as frequent as other channels! Egal, das wird Spaß machen!
Great to see you posting a video again. Your take on Russia Understanders disappearing is one I sadly have to disagree with. As somebody living in Saxony, a state in which there'll be elections this year the three strongest parties according to polls in AfD, CDU and BSW are all known for their affinity towards Russia on either a federal or state level. In case you're wondering about CDU being listed there, MP Michael Kretschmer is a prime example of a Russia Understander.
Absolutely love the illustrations, it’s great to put a human face to politics, think it would help a lot of people to find politics more relatable and engaging
I remember watching your German political parties video and really enjoying it and this is an interesting way to look at politics in a nation to break it down into "tribes". It's a refreshing way to look at it. A lot of people trying to make parties monoliths when they are just coalitions. I tried doing this for America as a thought exercise but when I realized, I was getting close to 100 I decided I was doing it wrong.
Really great video. I have to thank you, because as a Polish man, I was raised in family which had very complicated history with Germans. I did not understood german politics for some time. My grandfather was polish soldier, and after capture in 1939, he served in german family basically as a slave, but after fall of communism he reunificated with them for some reason. My other grandfather lost family in concentration camp, and never talked with me about Germans. Your video helped me understand how same historical events that formed modern polish mentality also affected german mindsets. Our countries have very difcault history, so I am glad that nowdays we could understand eachother better not as enemies, but as casual neighbours. It is very important to never forget nor undermine the past, but it is also so inportant to look forward, and create future were our countries could again exist as mutual partners. Also - semisatirical convention of video really gets me. Maybe you Germans have some sense of humour after all XD
Are you freaking kidding me?! Here in the Czech Republic we have the exact same type of cospiracy theorists who use the exact same arguments, only they ofcourse don't believe the german reich still exist but instead that Czechoslovakia still exists. Now I now where they got it from. I wonder whether this is the case with more countries.
@@LucasBenderChannel The US? What do they believe still exists intead of their current country? The British empire? Also I wonder where thus phenomenon originated from.
@@tugaumakouvov7447In America they're apparently called "Sovereign Citizens". They believe that taxes and government control doesn't apply to them, if they don't agree with them. That they're free people and can decide wether they're subjects to the United States or not. And as for where it started... I think there's just a very human urge to escape the current system, no matter what it is. And if you feel that urge, looking for some kind of historic legitimacy seems appropriate.
@@LucasBenderChannelThere's an Australian one that believes the colonies were never given self governance and that Federation never happened. Therefore Australia is not real and we are still owned and are enslaved by British Corporate Elite/Jews/Bolsheviks/*insert scary group here*. The exact 'nuances' are lost to me but they constantly talk about Maritime Law, which is why if you see an Australian carrying an Australian Red Ensign (Red Australian Flag) outside of a seamans club they are probably a conspiracy theorists.
I legit let out a little “aAaHhh~” squeal when I saw you posted. I’m not transcribing the sound of joy the best, but I thought you should know lol. Also, should we expect that “high budget background” to get JJ-ized?
A few days ago i watched your german political parties video and enjoyed it. Then scrolled around your channel, but so disappointed because i believed you were inactive. This video made me happy that you are still making videos. Keep it up with these, Gut gemacht!
i think another group might be the verry vocal ÖRR critic. these really exist on all sides of the political spectrum, from alot of younger people who find the ÖRR outdated and find they don't represent the youth (often also quite vocal funk critics aswell), people who simply don't wan't to pay that much and often want to abolish ÖRR along with other measures for a smaller government, to the far right and conspiricy theorist types who view the ÖRR as government propaganda really good video btw
True. I almost wanted to include that in the ÖRR segment! But there are many different shades of how much people dislike the ÖRR. From moderate reformists to those calling to outright abolish them. And their reasons are multi-facetted as well. Explaining all that would've made the segment too long. 🙉
About “conspiracy theorists” and “Reichsbürgers” to be exact. We have those in Russia too, however they are thinking that USSR still exists on paper due to disbelief in some paperwork from 1991 when the dissolution happened. They have their own communities, have huge beef with police, showing them Soviet passports, arguing about the existence of USSR and blah blah blah. (By the way those communities mentioned before they actually sell certificates which say that you are officially have Soviet citizenship, while in really it’s worth nothing)
It's really amazing that these folks exist in seemingly every corner of earth! They all give different and hyper-specific reasons for why their government is supposedly illegitimate... and yet they must be driven by the same desire, right? They're so similar. It's fascinating.
The video turned out so amazing. Since I saw a little preview of the eastalgic part I've been extremely excited. So, excited that I couldnt wait to get home and watched the first half on my way home in the tram. 🙈 Also, very happy about the pitti platsch. Ironically it was my favourite plushie as a kid 😂😊
The point about the "migration-background vote" is interesting. Even before contemporary (post 1965) immigration waves of Latinos, Asians, etc, there were in America waves of immigrants from all across Europe. Thus, there was in the 19th century "the Italian vote," "the Irish vote," even "the German vote" in America that politicians had to be conscious of. (That still exists today, but not nearly to the same extent.) This "migration-identity politics" (for lack of a better term) has always been a part of America. It's just that the identities have changed somewhat.
This was such an interesting video! I am an American who has been living in Germany for the past year and it was so refreshing to have some of my own ideas validated, especially when you mentioned German patriotism exists...just in a different form than the American version ;)
I knew implicitly that there was variety in German political culture, but Germany has a really strong vibe as "The sensible grown up of Europe" and I think especially now Merkel has gone it's an extra reminder that it's not just one monolith of politics, but there's genuine diversity of views that shouldn't be captured in one or two stereotypes, nor as you point at the end can 35 come close to the fidelity of human views. Very happy to see Germany pushing more money towards Ukraine and reversing the constitution to address a modern europe; and thanks for sharing so many viewpoints we don't always see outside of Deutschland.
I feel like every country has: -the excentric part which is about to declare independence any day now, just you watch -the economicaly depressed "forgoten" part -the urban part, which is (at least in imagination of more rural people) expensive, ignorant, crime ridden and full of foreigners -some movements which are just transplants from America, but locals feel like this one is unique because of some rather arbitrary distinquishing mark
11:00 ironic in France the three big parties want to differenciet themselves with the centrist (even the macronists) because it's seen a party who change nothing and people want many things to change (the things to change change in function of the political orientation)
@@fantuswitt9063 i don't know who you talk about but the radical are mainstream since the collapse of the two main party the PS and the républicains in 2017
Thank you to everyone who stuck around since my last video! It's been really sweet to see so many returning faces! 🤗
Obviously, I could only fit super short caricatures of these identities into one video. But you COULD write full books about every single one! So feel free to expand on anything I've said in the comments. Just be sure to remain friendly and grant other people the freedom of having their own opinion. 🫶
//Edit: I love that I've already been called a right-winger, a left-winger, a liberal and a socialist. Anybody wanna call me an Anarcho-Georgist to complete my bingo card? 😂
Ngl. The russia bear picture would have been perfect if you added a tiny Ushanka with a Russian Flag on top of its head.
I live in Alsace and really love Germany. I'm disappointed by how much worse France currently is in many ways (security, cleanliness, industry, culture) compared to France.
Lucas, I loved the video i think i enjoyed it more than jj mcculloughs one. But I wished you would have talked about the Red Army faction in the extremists section because they are a unique part of the german extremists section and their pretty unknown to lots of people outside Germany.
@@conorbolger9441 If I ever make a video on Helmut Schmidt and the 1970s, I'm definetly going to cover them!
Just want to say that I think a full video about Germany's extremists would be very interesting!
A tribe that died literally this month is the weed activist. They were almost everywhere
R.I.P.
what? no they didn't. because germany got a really sh°°ty pseudo-legalization that is absolutely not going to work. it's basically meant to touch the black market as little as possible to then say "look, legalization doesn't work", even though it's not a legalization at all, it's a somewhat expansive decriminalization with uniquely severe constraints on production, which is only permitted in non-profit licensed clubs that sell at cost to a number of members limited to 1000 in order to require an absolutely enormous mountain of paperwork. and homegrowing is only permitted up to three plants (or three flowering females, not sure), which is the lowest limit I have ever heard of being permitted, other jurisdictions do 5-10. but then one is only permitted to have 50g of product at home, which is certainly less than one should expect to harvest from three plants (more like 100g per plant, or for a nice healthy big one outdoors up to 500g, in ideal much warmer climate like california a few kilos are possible), and for a lot of people that means that they're not allowed to just grow outdoors and store enough from the regular autumn harvest to last a year. indoor growing is a huge waste of electricity and money for equipment. the limits are set at absurdly paranoid low levels - commercial grows consist of dozens to many hundreds of plants at a time, you don't give cover to commercial growers by allowing 8 plants and 300g or something like that. beside the fact that decriminalization over legalization is nothing but a gift to organized crime because the market stays illegal, there is no reason to push those limits anywhere near that low.
Yeah true!
One shall not forget Christian Ströbele's legendary "Gebt das Hanf frei!" speech.
Well the CDU wants to revive them.
I think a group you missed is the Bildungsbürgertum. The (educational) petty elite.
Teachers, professors, highly skilled proffesions like doctors, engineers and architects, civil servants or, as I notice as one myself, journalists. Usually university educated and from a family with a similar level in education. They are generally not rich, but with a good and reliable income.
Concered with public matters and the 'less fortunate', they are often disconnected from people who struggle on a daily basis or only meet them in professional relationships. They are often active in local politics, church or social organisations, wanting to help in a well meaning, but patronising way.
They are well informed about local and global politics. Newspaper readers, with full bookshelfs. Despite this they always are surprised when they learn that people don't concern themselves with politics or why someone would not vote in an election.
Absolutely! A very good addition! 💪
keep the doctors an engineers out. They are teachers and retired teachers! ;-)
I feel described 😅
This is also where the Gutmensch lives. A person that wants to improve the world through virtues but doesn't really need to care because they themselves are well off. Basically the boomer version of the SJW. Because they are well off they don't have the drive to get deeply involved in politics. They want to be political to the point where they are part of the good guys and not so far that they lose their optimistic world view. Because they have decent wealth they are not interested in the left wing radicalism that their college kids lean towards. Because they don't have too many problems of their own they are mostly concerned about other people and trying to be virtuous to the point where they consider "less fortunate" an offensive expression. Because they have formal education they are immune to facebook rage bait or right wing populism but since they are too happy and educated to consume anything but mainstream media there is basically no chance for them to deviate from the moderate leftist norm.
They are the arch enemy of the frustrated, uneducated and rightist Wutbürger.
... Until they realise they're in another one of Germany's tribes, the precariat.
This guy is one of those UA-camrs where he doesn't upload a lot but when he does upload it's an instant classic.
That's very sweet. Thank you :)
Could not agree more. He's like a German hbomberguy, in regards to video quality and frequency. And as expected from a German version of hbomberguy, he's calm and collected, instead of being... Well English 😂
P.S. I am a big fan of hbomberguy's work and am in no way attempting to cause disrespect or insult of his character. I was committing something, which Americans seem to struggle with, called banter.
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A classic, You're easily pleased, are you his mother or some other relative by any chance?🤔
the real faces of the German politics where the friends we made along the way
Bavaria is German Texas
Yee-haw
I 100 percent agree with that analogy.
Fits better than anything I could think up of.
Nah. Bavarians are on a different level of trying too hard.
@@TheDotBot Eh, True.
Texas doesn't need to try nearly as hard to be the "Big Boy" in the Federal republic.
Bavaria is basically Tryharding
2 YEAR UPLOAD SCHEDULE, WE ARE SO BACK
so true
Wir sind so zurück , desweiteren deklarieire ich als deutcher die antworten dieses kommentares als eigentum der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
5:07 Bavarians trying not to mention Bavaria: 💀
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@LucasBenderChannel I love how UA-cam offers a translation for this that really translates nothing but takes everything to the left of the 2 soccer balls and turns it into a yellow heart!
Oh, and hund becomes hound!!
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Haha, love your humor
Ich liebe Bayern!
(Ich bin ein Englischer)
Seems like the Speed Limit debate in Germany has much in common with the gun debate here in the states.
Yeah, the difference just lies in liking things that go boom and liking things that go vroom.
@@Conartist666 we could even say OK vroomer to them 😂
it may or may not be germans clinging on to the last thing they think the austrian man did right...
That is completly accurate.
Guns are a constitutional right in America, driving fast isnt in Germany.
Theres no really good comparison actually.
Imagine you like grilling big beefsteaks and your neighbour is summoned by the smell and starts to warn you about healthrisks of eating beef and starts to calculate passive agressively how much vegetebales could have been grown on the land that was used to feed the cow that is on your barbeque...
Lucas. With only two, now three videos, you've cemented yourself as one of my favorite political commentators on UA-cam. I've watched your videos numerous times and I'm sure this new one will be no different. Please make more.
That's super kind and also ridiculous. I appreciate it!^^
He remembered the password
#tribe36 The Vereinsmensch: The people that spend most of their free time working for the Verein (club). Those people are the ubsung heroes that are holding communities together. Especially in rural areas.
alles für den Dackel, alles fürden Klub :D
An interesting addition to the Bavarian is the fact that the three women shown as examples here are conservative, green-progressives and liberal respectively. While Bavaria is a conservative state, a very obvious one at that, this kind of Bavarian identity is compatible with basically every political ideology. By itself it’s not really a political statement at all.
Conservatives tend to lean into their Bavarian identity in a different way though. Especially talking down to other states is more or less exclusively a conservative thing.
That's exactly why I chose them! Thank you for pointing it out! 🤗 The CSU might like to imagine that it has a monopoly on the Bavarian identity, but no - it's embraced all throughout the political landscape!
Bavaria is the Quebec of Germany.
Which three women are you referring to? I can’t find them in the video.
Which three women are you referring to? I can’t find them in the video.
@@JJSogaard At 6:35. They're all politicians but from different parties.
If my math works out, given the current rate of videos and the increase in length, we can expect a 5:14:58 long video in approximately 2 years
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@@BritishRepublicsn I'm here for münecat or Jenny Nicholson length in-depth political analysis.
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As a greek myself, I totally agree.
Fun fact: The Greeks are not actually THAT lazy, in fact, they're the people who have the most work hours a week in all of europe...
Though that probably just shows we arent payed nearly enough and we need to resort to working a lot😎💪😎🇬🇷💪😎💪
the problem wasnt that nobody in greece worked its that nobody paid taxes
the problem isnt laziness its culturally engrained tax fraud
The thing with these working hours is that the statistics is misleading. At least in Germany, it does not distinguish between full time and part time jobs, and thus a lot of part time working single mums make the values ... murky. No idea about the situation in Greece though...
Educated Germans know about this. As far as I understand, it was your elite who screwed Greece over and it was the general population who had to pay post 2008. To watch the news and witness which cuts had to be made to ,ake Greece financially afloat again was depressing.
In Portuguese, "Justiça Social" (Social Justice, literally) has the German rather than American meaning - it's about people having the income to live with dignity, fighting hunger, providing public education and healthcare...
A famous quote by left-wing economist Maria da Conceição Tavares: "If you are not concerned with justiça social, with those that have to pay their bills, you are no serious economist - you're a technocrat!"
I would say it´s similar in the whole of Europe compared with the US or Brazil.
Even in the US I went to a Catholic school and the teachers there used that definition for the term in the context of relevant classes.
@@adelinod.5568 I would say that it has a more expansive meaning in the UK and refers more to human rights and minority rights. It would not be uncommon to use social justice and economic justice next to each other, the latter meaning more of what is being described here around wealth and class.
I think this is more about the poverty of intelectual discourse in the US, without an actual economically left party (we have a center-right party and far-right party)it leaves the only space for progressive politics to be mainstreamed in the US is if it is focused on identity. We see the Democratic party leaders activly push back at any attempt to link economic equality with racial equality. Most famously epitomized by neo-liberal Hillary Clintons critique of Socialist Bernie Sanders hostility to the Banking sector by saying "But if we broke up the Banks, would that end Racism!?".
@@MarkWhiley wouldn't that also be the meaning in USA, whenever a liberal or a progressive talks about social justice it's kinda implicit that they refer to both human rights (minority rights being a part of it) and economic inequality, just that for the more intense social justice types that economic inequality is also primarily correlated with identity (blacks are poorer, women get paid less, etc). Idk I'm not American.
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So many of the stereotypes of Gemany today, are Bavarian, mainly because the American occupation zone was mainly in Bavaria. The soldiers brought the ideas they saw back home, and the US is, of course, the dominant influencer of world culture.
🔖 *CHAPTERS* 🔖
00:00 Intro
01:02 Left-behind East German
02:25 Anti-German Pessimist
02:55 Pro-German Narcissist
03:44 Climate Doomer
04:59 Bavarian Exceptionalist
07:38 Social Christians
08:46 Russia-Understander
10:58 The Center
12:21 Erdoğanist/Putinist/Orbánist
13:15 Union Man
14:32 Eastalgic
17:41 The Rich
18:37 Conspiracy Theorist
20:09 EU-Megafan
21:45 Social Justice Warrior
23:29 Anger-Citizen
25:26 Rural & Urban Vote
26:58 Young & Old Vote
28:57 Migration-Background
31:55 Uninterested
32:59 Auto über alles
34:35 Pacifist
36:10 Haven’t we heard enough?
38:21 Mittelstand
39:58 Esoterics
41:18 Community Politician
42:02 Extremists
42:46 Grey Mouse
44:48 Ancient Elite
46:22 ÖRR Enthusiast
48:31 Transatlantic
49:55 Data-Protector
50:50 Party-Soldier
52:54 Tribe 36
53:43 Final Thoughts
Where are my "railway enthusiasts/infrastructurists"? 😂
Literally me
"Railway enthusiast" sounds like an oxymoron, given the sad state of our privatised rails 😢
#tribe36
@_jpg true. I think ranting on the state of the railway is perhabs the most unifying aspects of German life. I can't think of another topic with more potential for agreement. Maybe the weather, but that could escalate into a climate debate.
We had the Transrapid supporters but they got destroyed by the esoteric enviornmentalists (Transrapid track looks too ugly in the Landscape[ Wind turbines apparently dont])
I am dutch, but today i learned that indeed we are just swamp germans
Hey, at least you're not Belgium
or maybe Germans are just Highlanders
@Schampu4000 its the small victories in life
@@Bln-f9u more Heide-landers then Highlanders.
@@jessevandeinsen4202 Yeah .. but since the common liberal "German" doesn't believe in nationhood anymore, it should just be "Federal Citizen" (Bundesbürger or just Bürger).
The common German patriotism wich you might find is just based on silly little stereotypes, and being "thankful to live a wealthy democracy"... so there are even immigrants who will identify themselves as "german", but it's just a shallow facade.
... and the Neonazis and Trumpists who see themselves as German patriots are just really dumb, and don't even know their own history in most cases.
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I'm German myself and as soon as I saw JJ's Video I desperately wanted this type of video for German politics. Thanks dude!
Same
The speed limit debate in Germany, is the German version of the banning firearms debate in the USA.
Both are useless because banning something doesn't hinder criminals from doing something it only takes away freedom from the people.
Not entirely as there is nothing to suggest it would make anything safer. The only actual benefit would be minimal reduce in emmission but thats negligable. Theres really no reason to change the way it is rn other than leftists being upset
I knew this subscription would pay off eventually
French guy here, I'm also an EU megafan, which is definitely unusual in my country. You're definitely right about our motives, considering my experience with Volt Europa (who are definitely part of that tribe) a lot of us simply want to be part of a great superpower that shares more in common than it does today, like a large federation.
May I ask how EU megafans are seen in France?
@@fr4rq236 I would say the majority doesn't really care about us, they may see us as an eccentric odd bunch. Then you have a growing number of euroskeptics influenced by populist parties, who see us as morons who are being used by the system.
@@fr4rq236 The annoying euroskeptics see us as agents of a terrible system, whereas the bulk of the population probably doesn't care much about us, they might just think we're weird.
leftists hate them for being collaborators of the capital/imperialists and rightwingers hate them for being rootless cosmopolitans
@@fr4rq236 Isn´t Macron like the "highest ranking" EU megafan in the EU? Why is it then that it is unusual in France?
I am guilty of being an EU Megafan. you hit the nail on the spot with everyone
me too
Me too🫡🇮🇪🇪🇺
Yep me three.
me too. I was born in Germany and grew up in Ireland. So I see myself more as European than any nationality
I find myself between EU enjoyer and Peace enthusiast
I teach high school German in Kansas and have students who are constantly asking for opportunities to learn more about Politik. I'm certainly sharing this with all my classes. Danke für das tolle Video!
Oh that makes me really happy! Thank you! 🥰
Best wishes to your students! 👋
19:00 On Reichsburgers.
I know at least two other movements of similar sort, in the US and Russia.
American ones call themselves ‘sovereign citizens,’ and they believe that the US is a corporation, the Articles of Confederacy is the real constitution and is still an active law, cars operate according to maritime law, and, most famously, that the police is obliged to let them free if they ask ‘Am I being detained’?
In Russia, those are citizens of USSR. They also believe USSR still exist, that Russia, Kazakhstan, etc. are corporations, but they also have extensive lore on jewish reptilians that govern those corporations, and on interterrestreal origin of all Slavic/White people.
I wonder whether other countries have similar conspiracy theories and, if yes, what are they like.
Interesting right? There must be a very specific human urge in these folks to rebel against the given circumstances in that way. Cause it really isn't unique to any nation.
@@LucasBenderChannel Yep, a fascinatingly hyperspecific kind of schizophrenia. At least, I’ve seen no evidence that these theories are somehow inspired by each other. And the bio of the founder of Soviet citizens seems to exclude possibility that he knew English or German
The lore thickens
@LucasBenderChannel The internet also lets them cross-polinate massively. Plenty of conspiracy theories already make no sense, but when they get exported to other countries and partially misunderstood they become completely unhinged.
My German teacher is definitely the pro-German narcissist 😭 like I’m a dual French-American citizen and she’ll just take a dig at the French for no reason every now and then and then just stare directly at me
Oh nooo 🙈 I'm so sorry! 😂
🗿 lmao sedanstag
Meh, I have french ancestry and even I take random jabs at the French, as is tradition ;)
Well at least I assume that it would not be too hard to find a French teacher taking a dig at the Germans for no apparent reason, either. 70ish years of alliance is just not enough to erradicate three centuries of mutual dislike further than preventing each other from the occasional invasion...
That just sounds like a unnecessary complications of the word patriot
I don't know if I would say the cause of the EU-Megafan's love of the EU is simply "insecurity". The point you brought up about being overshadowed by the US or China is a real concern. Having a large union which can negotiate things like trade policy as a bloc is simply the practical approach.
i feel like in my country the EU-megafans are just people that really appreciate eu funds and want to feel "european", also being in EU means not being on the other side (so usually pro russian if we look at europe) hence any sort of anti eu rhetoric is instantly deemed a russian propaganda
And it's also an utopy - that's not just fear driven. But a united Europe without nations is a Europe without wars or borders.
I think, the "insecurity" claim fails as well, as this is perhaps the only group that still has a positive utopy at all ;)
"High Budget Background" haha
Totally not stolen from @NALFVLOGS ;)
Really happy to see you here Julia! 🤗
Adding to what you said about the lack of politicians with migration background or, as I would argue, a certain invisibility of persons with a migration background in mainstream culture: I think the self-conception of German society is quite different from for example Canada because the latter sees itself as a society or country of immigration while this is not the case in Germany. Despite a lot of people from various countries came to Germany for various reasons (refugees, guest workers, family members etc), this did not change this idea of German society being a rather homogenous thing. This can for example be seen in the establishment of the Gastarbeiterverträge ("guest worker treaties") in the 1960s. The idea was that the workers come to Germany for a limited time to help mitigating the lack of workforce in that time. It was never planned that they would stay but that they leave Germany. Them staying here was an unplanned outcome. There is a famous quote by Max Frisch: "Wir riefen Arbeitskräfte, aber es kamen Menschen" ("We called for workers, but instead people arrived") which summarises this sentiment. To make it short: I think there is a discrepancy between the idea of not being a country of immigration and the reality
To enforce your point wait till you see how much direct and indirect discrimination people from South -South East Asia and Africa faces in daily life.
The German govt wants skilled people to come over and contribute but the society simply can't accept them even those who tries to integrate into the society they are still treated as outsiders.
I am also planning to leave here no point of paying 40+% of my income in taxes only to get discriminated against.
I feel like "instead humans arrived" would be a better translation😊
Ost + Nostalgie = Ostalgie
We have a similar version of the "Haven't we heard enough?" in the UK. I've been seeing a lot of rhetoric about: "oh well the empire wasn't completely bad" or "it's in the past just forget about it" and it's really disgusting.
Well, who do you think ended the slave trade in Europe?
Sure, the British empire was a big player in the slave trade, but what other nation/empire would be willing and capable of ending it? If it wasn't for Britain, slavery would go on way longer than it has.
Even if you believe that it means nothing, since Britain was in major way responsible for it, and this act only corrected one of it's many wrongdoings. Once again, which other nation/empire can claim that it put serious effort into such endeavor?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_for_the_Suppression_of_the_African_Slave_Trade
@@fuka1000000 I appreciate that Britain did put effort into stopping it. My problem is I hear people using this an excuse for everything before, which it shouldn't be used for at all
@@evilgoose6768 That's fair, I completely agree that most revisionist efforts are based solely on political goals, instead of a fair appraisal of history. It's pretty tragic.
Welcome back! I love these JJ inspired videos always so informative
Thank you for making your videos accessible in so many languages!!! It's such a rare find since youtube removed the community captions programme. Again, thank you for the effort!!! It's greatly appreciated!
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As a Polish person what shocked me the most is the fact, that you can actually talk normally about politics without hating each other - in my country political polarisation get so far, that it is even common to break relations with some family members because of opposing views. This is probably because we do not agree about principles on wchich our country should be built. But speaking about Germany - in Poland we have many stereotipes of german politics. For example for us all germans are like EU-Megafans. For many people Germany and EU are synonymical - for many right wing people subordination to EU is literally new german occupation. Also AFD is highly unpopular in Poland because their resentiment to "eastern Germany" (Danzig, Breslau, Stettin etc.). Other stereotype about german polititians is "Haven't we heard enough?" man, or similar - many polish people believe, that germans falsifies their history to look less evil or just to relativize their guilt "mabe we commited some crimes, but others also".
That's really interesting!
Can I ask: If you yourself had to make a video about the Polish tribes, what are interesting faces you could talk about, that are special to Poland? 💜🇵🇱
@@LucasBenderChannel - Janusz Korwin Mikke worshippers
- People Republic nostalgics
- Church ladies
- Coal miners (clinging desperately to their dwindling work)
That's 4; 31 to go xd
I always thought of it as quite sad that people of countries east of Germany think Germany is falsifying its history and overlook Germany´s pretty big efforts to take responsibility for the crimes and learn from the mistakes that lead to the third reich. Its especially sad to see a lot of hatred towards Germans in comment sections of videos about the third reich. How much percent of the polish people you know think like that?
@@berserkeroflove Most of people intrested in history that I know. Those who doesn't care about history also doesn't care about historical narrations. What we don't like the most is tries to share the guilt of Holocaust with rest of Europe, making distinction between nazi and Germany (like Angela Merkel saying about ally "liberation" of Germany, like German people wasn't responsible for war, but was also victims, and Germany was occupied by nazis). The third think is that it seems like in Germany crimes against other nations than Jews are forgotten. For example Polish nation was also planned to be exterminated, over 6 milion Polish citizens were killed and our country was totally devastated. So after all I think that people in Poland just have different perspective than in Germany. While for most of the world "bad Germany" started with Hitler, for us nazis are only continuation of Germany doing bad things. Very often historians start our conflict with medieval times, when Germans expanded into Slavic lands and often invaded Poland. But in fact modern conflict started with partitions of Poland in XVIII c., which was initiated by Prussia. In next century Polish people were second category citizens of Germany. Germans wanted to germanise us, some laws discriminated Polish people, for example it was harder for us to buy land. Finally we've got independence, but even Weimar Republik wasn't a big fan of Polish borders and was making moves in international politics to recover at least some of lands lost to Poland. So for us WWII and nazism are only prelongation of conflict. Some people even extrapolate it - there was first reich, which wanted to subdigate Poland, second reich that controll much of Polish teritory directly and wanted more, third reich that everybody knows what did, and now we have the fourth reich - the EU, which also want to rule Polish people. Last year we had important parliamentary elections, and pro govermental newspaper had big thumbnail "third cadency or fourth reich", wchich suggested, that if oposition win the elections, they will subdigate Poland to the EU.
As an East german, I agree with most the things said about the east, but with one big exception: In the video your friend said that east germans do not appreciate press freedom, however, I would say they couldnt care less. In my family everybody is fully east german (even in the advanced family which is approximately up to 40-50 people) and I cant think of anything that angers them more then the press (may it be newspapers or ÖRR) not giving all information, being biased or straight up patronizing. They get so furious when they feel any of these described. The best examples of this are debates whether certain words are allowed, their opinions on migration and in general their political views. I would love to know from other east germans reading this whether they agree more with me or your friend from the video
They want all the information to make their own opinion out of it and not someone who tells them that everything is okay and good or that they should behave in a certain way. And this is also why freedom of press is so important because they want to see things from other perspectives and backgrounds rather than relying on one source or only state run media
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That's fair and a very common desire. 👍 The wish that media overall should be less opinionated. Less value-driven. But would you describe that view as "Eastalgic"? Remember, I wasn't talking about all East Germans, but about the specific set of people who would see the current state of the media and go: "It was better in the GDR"
@@LucasBenderChannelI would consider them to be part of the eastalgic‘s but with this exception. They fit into the narrative described in the video but with this exception on the media. Actually I have not experienced someone not valuing freedom of press here
Oh wow!!! An amazing new Lucas Bender video - eager to learn more about German politics with this. I mostly knew the info on the parties, but here it's all new to me!
I hope J.J. started a trend. Similar to tier or iceberg videos, I’d love to see more “35 tribes” videos!
Absolutely! And non-political ones too! I wanna see 12 kinds of football fans, or 8 types of Chefs or the 20 types of teachers! 😊
@@LucasBenderChannel 12 types of Rizz Party attendees
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Perhaps similar to the Bavarian but universalised: the "Lokalpatriot" (local patriot)
Politicians/voters that carry sentimentalism about local culture and care about promoting/embodying what region or state they are from. For example this might appear in form of a state politician keeping dialects, and local traditional vocabulary instead of conforming to "high German" (the standard form of German).
For the Germans:
The idea came to mind when recalling Björn Höcke and Mario Voigt arguing whether one says "Mettbrötchen" or "Gehacktes-Brötchen" (a bun with minced raw pork) in Thuringia.
Was? Deswegen haben die sich ernsthaft gestritten? 😅
Aber ja du hast absolut recht! Lokalpatriotismus kann man auch in allen anderen Regionen finden. :)
dabei wurde der wahre Held vergessen: Der Hackepeter ....
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28:44 being Italian the Movimento 5 Stelle popping up killed me on the spot (Italy already has this "fluid" state of political parties and the oldest (major)party today was made in 2007)
That “fluid” party system is basically one of my greatest fears when it comes to politics here in Denmark…
@@JJSogaard Why? Fluid means more in tune with the current voting populace.
i’m romanian - the eastalgic character definitely exists here too! often with the exact same arguments that your friend ana described. your video and JJ’s kind of inspire me to do something similar for romania, but i sadly would probably lack the production quality to be able to see it through
I honestly think production quality should not worry you at all! 🤗
J.J.'s version barely included any animation and I struggled with sound and video quality. We all lack something. So don't worry about any of that! I'd love to see more videos like this and I'd recommend you give it a shot!
Just maybe don't go for 35 tribes right away! 😅 haha
This was a LOT of work. Instead of 35, maybe try making one about 10 or 12 special characters, that are super unique to Romania! That'd be enough to start with and a really interesting watch! :)
If you do decide to work on something like this, you can always hit me up on Instagram for advice!
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I’m an American but have lived in Germany for a while. Many of these profiles accurately described many of the people I’ve met and became friends with. Brilliant insight. Danke schon!
as a nerd american political scientist it’s fascinating to me how disloyal germans are to parties. Here political behavior is so tied to one’s identification with one of the two parties it’s almost impossible to conceptualize how anyone who even decide to vote in Germany. Here even people who know a lot about politics still tend to follow the party.
Propably one reason is your voting system. Majority vote systems tend to lead to two party systems because any dissent would only lead to the other party winning everything. Im proportional Systems the need for loyalty is lower because you're going to have a coalition anyway I'd say
German here. Even as a 25 year long party member I don't always only vote for my party candidate.
I'm a proud and free citizen in a democratic federal welfare state.
This is partially because German parties overlap so much in their politics, I think. Say I'm a progressive centrist who usually votes for the SPD, but I'm dissatisfied with the candidate they're running. In that case I can just cast my vote for the Greens instead, without wasting my vote or "crossing the aisle" so to speak. If I was American instead, then as a progressive centrist, I probably vote for the Democrats. If I'm dissatisfied with their candidate... well, then I probably have to vote for the Democrats anyway, because it's not like I agree with the Republicans on anything.
I held off on watching this video for a while because I knew I’d enjoy it and wanted to really absorb it. I finally had the time and now I’ve watched it three times.
Fantastic video! I’ll watch anything you make honestly
That is so sweet 🥲☺️
I hope to get back to you all before christmas!
As an American, this is a great way to learn about the metapolitics of a country that I am not a native to. JJ helped me better understand Canada's political tension and you have for Germany.
New Lucas Bender video was a brilliant thing to see on my homepage this evening!
A pleasant surprise
Normalerweise rege ich mich immer ein bisschen über stark simplifizierte Videos auf, aber ich finde du schaffst es jedes mal gut die Kurve zu kriegen und kritisch anzumerken, dass Dinge wie Erinnerungskultur vll nur ein Image sind und nicht unbedingt gelebt werden.
Really appreciate ya :)
Das ist sehr lieb, danke! Ja, man riskiert bei diesen "Edutainment"- Videos immer sehr schnell eine Linie zu übertreten. Was ist zu stark verkürzt? Was verfälscht die Fakten durch einen saloppen Gag? Ich selbst finde vieles in diesem Video im Nachhinein vieeeel zu unausgegoren - also freut mich der Kommentar umso mehr! :)
I've waited so long for this video and it was really worth the wait. As someone who (despite my name) is not actually from Germany, I was able to recognise most of these tribes in the Germans I've met. Especially the Bavarian exceptionalists. They're very easy to spot.
Definitely worth the wait! Love it
16:20 "compulsory military or social service" - from memory there was no option to do anything but military service in the GDR. A lot of the peace activists in the GDR were demanding the option of a Zivi
Good point! That's true. But there were non-combat positions you could apply for, if you refused to partake in the regular military draft. Usually as "Construction soldier" (Bausoldat).
yea no that's plainly wrong. None of my family members did military service, they all choose the social service route, and that was quite the popular option
Alright, see ya again in the next 2 years!
The ORR enthusiast struck me as the most odd btw.
I'm from 🇧🇦 btw.
Also, #tribe36 should've been diaspora nationalists.
They're different from Orban/Erdogan/Putin fans, as they actually have family in the country that they're nationalists for.
And some support smaller ultra nationalist organizations in their "home" country. Like the BPNP for Bosnia.
Most of their financial support came from the Bosniak diaspora.
It looks like it goes under the category of the backgrounder tribe (or mb the extremist one).
With Bosnian BPNP, Turkish Grey Wolves etc. it looks more like they are not the part of the German political landscape but rather than the political landscapes of their respective countries. For example, I am from Azerbaijan and we have several political influencers that reside in Germany. They may have the significance here but I bet almost noone knows or cares about them in Germany itself
@@rmeherremli Actually, fair point!
Maybe I could make a 35 Balkan Political tribes video.
there's a lot of pride in the örr coming from a point of it's intended neutrality, as it's set up in a way to protect against government overreach.
once again lessons learned from the past.
I would personally see myself as ÖRR Enthusiast, but in a much different way as described in the video. I couldn't care less about Markus Lanz and other political talkshows, but I think our public broadcasters are one of our most valuable accomplishments. I think the ÖRR gets much too much undeserved hate, especially from bad faith populist actors, who just want to get rid of critical voices.
@@jorgkunischewski9363 Populists generally hate anything impartial.
Wow, that was very entertaining. I have always been interested in learning about the politics of different countries. I think it would be cool if people from other countries did something similar to.
I just found your channel yesterday, now did you suddenly upload a new video today?? What a coincidence!
Great timing! But don't worry: I can make you wait for an eternity as well. :*
German myself, and I wanted to do this kind of video ever since JJ's
Ich habe mit tatsächlich erst vor ein paar Tagen erneut dein Video zu den deutsche Parteien angeguckt und mit gedacht, dass der Zeichenstil doch stark dem von JJ ähnelt :D
Toller Überblick über unsere politischen Charaktere
Danke! Freut mich :)
I think in addition to the young, American-oriented SJWs, there's also a group of older people fighting for minorities' rights. Like, the stereotype of a lesbian feminist in her 60s who fought at the students' movement and hippie protests during the 80s. They share the general sentiment, but in quite different ways, and old-school SJWs can be very interested in the new gen z movements, or outright dismissive of them as 'not doing it right'.
32:56 the wahl-o-mat is also an expression of German gesture for structure and order. I fully agree that this is indeed a great distraction from real politics because the tool just looks up the answers to a set of questions in the election programs and in reality you can write there whatever you wish without any consequences because we never have a one-partie-government and not complying to your plans can therefore always be excused by compromise within a coalition government.
when I first watched JJ's "35 tribes" video, I really loved it, but since I'm Canadian, I knew a lot of that information so it was a bit of "preaching to the choir".
Since then, I really hoped that someone would make a similar video about THEIR country, since I loved the concept so much.
so, when your video popped up in my recommendations, I clicked instantly - and it was really fascinating! Even more since I get to compare the two countries/videos and see how similar or different we are. subscribed! now I need to watch your other two videos, as they both interest me as well lol
That makes me really happy! Thank you for checking it out! ☺️
That thirty-five tribes video is one of my favourite videos by J.J. :D I'd thought to myself at the time that this would be an interesting and creative trend for other cultural/political UA-camrs to follow, so I'm glad to see this video pop up in my feed. I'm glad you gave them their own Banjo-Kazooiesque voice lines like in the original video :3
I discovered your channel literally yesterday. Then I checked your uploads and realized you create a new video like once every 2 years. Then, 24 hours later, you release a new one. How is that even possible?
I literally found your channel yesterday and loved your only two videos. Must be divine intervention you upload today :)
Why weren't car manufacturers in Germany able to eradicate public transport to the degree they did in the US and Canada?
I am no expert on this topic by any means, but I have a few ideas:
Things in general are a lot denser. Cities are closer to each other, and are built up denser within themselves.
Kids and older people use public transport to get around (and older people make up a big part of the voter base due to demographics).
Also, and more broadly, it's just very hard to change anything in this country. Both the state's bureaucracy and the people's behaviours are very allergic to change. Even extreme amounts of money often can't change that. In the case of the auto industry eradicating public transport this may have worked in our favour, but it may also explain why 80% of German businesses still use fax machines.
Another reason is that Germany has no oil resources and gas prices are very high in comparison to other countries (and are expected to grow even further with a possible introduction of a CO2 tax). It's also generally expensive to own a car because of car tax, limited and expensive parking, yearly mandatory check-ups (which can cost you a small fortune if they find some minor issue with your vehicle that needs to be fixed), insurance etc.
@@mrcool7140 American cities were also much denser prior to the 1950s. I also suspect that the state having any involvement at all was a factor. Most American transit operators prior to the Second World War were entirely private companies who just got bought up, either by oil/car companies or by local governments expecting a replacement system of monorails or whatever.
@@ivanskrypov4030 The US just demolished most of its city centers to make room for parking. And gas prices are now very high in the US. The people who complain about gas prices the most are in fact those who drive the biggest pickup trucks and would consider any other mode of transport effeminate/beta.
In the beginning: They also sold the trucks and busses. They still do, but they love to lobby for the car, rather the mass transport.
As an American, I appreciate your ability to speak on politics and still come off unbiased. I’m hoping to move to Germany soon and want to be well informed on the government, and your videos are great to learn from!
I'm glad I could be of service! Thank you! :) And while I appreciate you saying, that I come off as unbiased, I gotta admit that I'm really not. I'm a pretty opinionated guy, so my biases will seep into my videos from time to time. I hope I can at least highlight and contextualize them.
I have absolutely fallen in love with this channel. I love how your style is similar to J.J. McCullough, but also a bit more Europeanized and different in general. As a Dutch person who has been to Germany countless times, I recognized a lot of these stereotypical Germans in some of your fellow countrymen and -women that I've met over the years. Keep up the great video quality even if the upload schedule is not as frequent as other channels! Egal, das wird Spaß machen!
There’s an online game called the New campaign trail that lets you play different elections, it has a really good one about the 2021 German elections.
Yay, finally more plants in the background. Really shows that the production value is going up ;)
High budget 💚
It's a good day seeing Lucas posting after so long
Great to see you posting a video again.
Your take on Russia Understanders disappearing is one I sadly have to disagree with. As somebody living in Saxony, a state in which there'll be elections this year the three strongest parties according to polls in AfD, CDU and BSW are all known for their affinity towards Russia on either a federal or state level. In case you're wondering about CDU being listed there, MP Michael Kretschmer is a prime example of a Russia Understander.
I have to agree. I'm living in RLP but im still seeing a lot of them
Absolutely love the illustrations, it’s great to put a human face to politics, think it would help a lot of people to find politics more relatable and engaging
Been waiting for this for more than a year
I remember watching your German political parties video and really enjoying it and this is an interesting way to look at politics in a nation to break it down into "tribes". It's a refreshing way to look at it. A lot of people trying to make parties monoliths when they are just coalitions.
I tried doing this for America as a thought exercise but when I realized, I was getting close to 100 I decided I was doing it wrong.
I mean, I'd watch that 😉🇺🇸
High Budget Background looking so so good.
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Really great video. I have to thank you, because as a Polish man, I was raised in family which had very complicated history with Germans. I did not understood german politics for some time. My grandfather was polish soldier, and after capture in 1939, he served in german family basically as a slave, but after fall of communism he reunificated with them for some reason. My other grandfather lost family in concentration camp, and never talked with me about Germans. Your video helped me understand how same historical events that formed modern polish mentality also affected german mindsets.
Our countries have very difcault history, so I am glad that nowdays we could understand eachother better not as enemies, but as casual neighbours. It is very important to never forget nor undermine the past, but it is also so inportant to look forward, and create future were our countries could again exist as mutual partners.
Also - semisatirical convention of video really gets me. Maybe you Germans have some sense of humour after all XD
I did not expect him to actually upload. Amazing
much love, very wow, great art ✨
Du hast frei gesprochen und viele Bilder benutzt 🖼️
Are you freaking kidding me?! Here in the Czech Republic we have the exact same type of cospiracy theorists who use the exact same arguments, only they ofcourse don't believe the german reich still exist but instead that Czechoslovakia still exists. Now I now where they got it from. I wonder whether this is the case with more countries.
Interesting!! Okay, so far we've had people say this from the Czech Republic, the US and Russia. Must be an international phenomenon. 😂😅📋
@@LucasBenderChannel The US? What do they believe still exists intead of their current country? The British empire?
Also I wonder where thus phenomenon originated from.
@@tugaumakouvov7447In America they're apparently called "Sovereign Citizens". They believe that taxes and government control doesn't apply to them, if they don't agree with them. That they're free people and can decide wether they're subjects to the United States or not.
And as for where it started... I think there's just a very human urge to escape the current system, no matter what it is. And if you feel that urge, looking for some kind of historic legitimacy seems appropriate.
@@LucasBenderChannelThere's an Australian one that believes the colonies were never given self governance and that Federation never happened. Therefore Australia is not real and we are still owned and are enslaved by British Corporate Elite/Jews/Bolsheviks/*insert scary group here*.
The exact 'nuances' are lost to me but they constantly talk about Maritime Law, which is why if you see an Australian carrying an Australian Red Ensign (Red Australian Flag) outside of a seamans club they are probably a conspiracy theorists.
47:30 the BILD/DIRT Impression compared to a regular newspaper (is it ZEIT?) is SOO spot on! I love it
Haha thank you! :D
And yes, iirc I modelled it after the ZEIT 🤔😄
I legit let out a little “aAaHhh~” squeal when I saw you posted. I’m not transcribing the sound of joy the best, but I thought you should know lol.
Also, should we expect that “high budget background” to get JJ-ized?
Definitely not! All the love to J.J. but that maximalist background of his would drive me nuts irl! 😂🫶
A few days ago i watched your german political parties video and enjoyed it. Then scrolled around your channel, but so disappointed because i believed you were inactive. This video made me happy that you are still making videos. Keep it up with these, Gut gemacht!
28:21 The ticker reads "J.J McCullough video wins another award"
This was sooooooo educational! Thank you so much for putting so much effort into this video Lucas!
I'm glad you liked it!^^
i think another group might be the verry vocal ÖRR critic.
these really exist on all sides of the political spectrum, from alot of younger people who find the ÖRR outdated and find they don't represent the youth (often also quite vocal funk critics aswell), people who simply don't wan't to pay that much and often want to abolish ÖRR along with other measures for a smaller government, to the far right and conspiricy theorist types who view the ÖRR as government propaganda
really good video btw
True. I almost wanted to include that in the ÖRR segment! But there are many different shades of how much people dislike the ÖRR. From moderate reformists to those calling to outright abolish them. And their reasons are multi-facetted as well. Explaining all that would've made the segment too long. 🙉
About “conspiracy theorists” and “Reichsbürgers” to be exact. We have those in Russia too, however they are thinking that USSR still exists on paper due to disbelief in some paperwork from 1991 when the dissolution happened. They have their own communities, have huge beef with police, showing them Soviet passports, arguing about the existence of USSR and blah blah blah. (By the way those communities mentioned before they actually sell certificates which say that you are officially have Soviet citizenship, while in really it’s worth nothing)
It's really amazing that these folks exist in seemingly every corner of earth! They all give different and hyper-specific reasons for why their government is supposedly illegitimate... and yet they must be driven by the same desire, right? They're so similar. It's fascinating.
@@LucasBenderChannelusually it's the desire to ride cars without having seatbelts on though.
The biyearly content I need
The video turned out so amazing. Since I saw a little preview of the eastalgic part I've been extremely excited. So, excited that I couldnt wait to get home and watched the first half on my way home in the tram. 🙈
Also, very happy about the pitti platsch. Ironically it was my favourite plushie as a kid 😂😊
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The point about the "migration-background vote" is interesting. Even before contemporary (post 1965) immigration waves of Latinos, Asians, etc, there were in America waves of immigrants from all across Europe. Thus, there was in the 19th century "the Italian vote," "the Irish vote," even "the German vote" in America that politicians had to be conscious of. (That still exists today, but not nearly to the same extent.) This "migration-identity politics" (for lack of a better term) has always been a part of America. It's just that the identities have changed somewhat.
This was such an interesting video! I am an American who has been living in Germany for the past year and it was so refreshing to have some of my own ideas validated, especially when you mentioned German patriotism exists...just in a different form than the American version ;)
I'm glad you enjoyed it! :D
Endlich ein neues Video! :)
Ultra starkes Video - War mega schön alles auf den Punkt gebracht. Keep it goin man!
Dankeschön! ✌️
We are so back!
I knew implicitly that there was variety in German political culture, but Germany has a really strong vibe as "The sensible grown up of Europe" and I think especially now Merkel has gone it's an extra reminder that it's not just one monolith of politics, but there's genuine diversity of views that shouldn't be captured in one or two stereotypes, nor as you point at the end can 35 come close to the fidelity of human views.
Very happy to see Germany pushing more money towards Ukraine and reversing the constitution to address a modern europe; and thanks for sharing so many viewpoints we don't always see outside of Deutschland.
I feel like every country has:
-the excentric part which is about to declare independence any day now, just you watch
-the economicaly depressed "forgoten" part
-the urban part, which is (at least in imagination of more rural people) expensive, ignorant, crime ridden and full of foreigners
-some movements which are just transplants from America, but locals feel like this one is unique because of some rather arbitrary distinquishing mark
Thanks, man! Your explanation skills and style are phenomenal. Subbed!
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11:00 ironic in France the three big parties want to differenciet themselves with the centrist (even the macronists) because it's seen a party who change nothing and people want many things to change (the things to change change in function of the political orientation)
As far as I know french are really into radical politics in general since radical french philosophers are talked about vewry much in frnace right?
@@fantuswitt9063 i don't know who you talk about but the radical are mainstream since the collapse of the two main party the PS and the républicains in 2017
the 3:29 moment is really emblematic of how JJ does things. Good job!
I really appreciate how you used the Hoopoe to represent Israel, I don’t think many people know it’s our national bird!
It's really cute! ☺