People like me and you who have lived overseas, have a perspective others who have not can’t have. This is very enriching and helpful for societies who like to become better and improve. 😉.
Dear Jay, Thank you for your contribution. I think it was overdue in your channel: The US also has its strengths, not just weaknesses - just like Germany and any other country. Thank you for the intercultural insights you convey. Greetings from Nuremberg, Franconia.
Interesting! Yes, I can agree 100%. What I found with Americans is that they are (were?) pretty naïve on many levels: easily believing the unbelievable...I say 'were' as I've not visited the States in a long time. However, the contrast between Europe & the USA is huge! In Europe there is a bit more formality whereas in the USA it's all out there. Neither is bad! Just different. I love watching your videos, Jay - please keep them up.
I'm German and the whining from Germans gets on my nerves, sometimes Americans live worse than Europeans, but the whining doesn't go around as much and they are still optimistic even under negative circumstances. ps: I totally agree with the saying they make an elephant out of a mosquito
My dad is German and my mom is American. My dad complains my mom is not realistic and my mom complains my dad is too realistic and I take after my mom. LOL
Please share more about your California life here on this channel 😊 more landscaping, restaurants, trips, maybe Universal Studios and Disneyland, definitely beach life etc ❤
Ernsthaft? Als ob es über diese Tourist Hot Spots nicht schon genug Videos gibt. Vielleicht solltest du besser mal hinter die Kulissen schauen. Da tun sich nämlich Abgründe auf.
I miss the racial diversity of my home (Seattle). Saturday our city had its 150th birthday in Germany and there was a parade. 25,000 white people showed up.
Unfortunetly many people that reside in the US have no cenception or tollerance for pointing out the bad and ugly of the US, When you point out the bad they are immidiatly offended. Declarations of American exceptionalism rest on the belief that the United States is a uniquely virtuous nation, one that loves peace, nurtures liberty, respects human rights, and embraces the rule of law. Americans like to think their country behaves much better than other states do, and certainly better than other great powers. If only it were true. The United States may not have been as brutal as the worst states in world history, but a dispassionate look at the historical record belies most claims about America’s moral superiority.The United States talks a good game on human rights and international law, but it has refused to sign most human rights treaties, is not a party to the International Criminal Court, and has been all too willing to cozy up to dictators - remember our friend Hosni Mubarak? - with abysmal human rights records. If that were not enough, the abuses at Abu Ghraib and the George W. Bush administration’s reliance on waterboarding, extraordinary rendition, and preventive detention should shake America’s belief that it consistently acts in a morally superior fashion. Obama’s decision to retain many of these policies suggests they were not a temporary aberration. America’s past success is due as much to good luck as to any uniquely American virtues. The new nation was lucky that the continent was lavishly endowed with natural resources and traversed by navigable rivers. It was lucky to have been founded far from the other great powers and even luckier that the native population was less advanced and highly susceptible to European diseases. Americans were fortunate that the European great powers were at war for much of the republic’s early history, which greatly facilitated its expansion across the continent, and its global primacy was ensured after the other great powers fought two devastating world wars. This account of America’s rise does not deny that the United States did many things right, but it also acknowledges that America’s present position owes as much to good fortune as to any special genius or "manifest destiny."A crucial component of American exceptionalism is the belief that the United States has a divinely ordained mission to lead the rest of the world. Ronald Reagan told audiences that there was "some divine plan" that had placed America here, and once quoted Pope Pius XII saying, "Into the hands of America God has placed the destinies of an afflicted mankind." Bush offered a similar view in 2004, saying, "We have a calling from beyond the stars to stand for freedom." The same idea was expressed, albeit less nobly, in Otto von Bismarck’s alleged quip that "God has a special providence for fools, drunks, and the United States." All in all the US is not the prettiest boy in the room not the smartest and not as free as most would have you belive.
The Germans are much like the Dutch, very direct and don't live in lala land, they are more realistic in my opinion, i prefer to know where you stand, instead of the fake hello how are you?
Americans are more optimistisch than Dutch or Germans but it always comes up to curiosity perceverance knowledge , being rational and being disciplined. Qualities that Dutch and Germans in general are good at. Depends in what sector you work. But in general yes.
People like me and you who have lived overseas, have a perspective others who have not can’t have. This is very enriching and helpful for societies who like to become better and improve. 😉.
American optimism is definitely very American thing lol. This is one thing I truly admire about Americans.
Some people are too touchy just because you don't like something doesnt mean you don't like the country
Dear Jay,
Thank you for your contribution. I think it was overdue in your channel: The US also has its strengths, not just weaknesses - just like Germany and any other country. Thank you for the intercultural insights you convey.
Greetings from Nuremberg, Franconia.
that sounds nice. i would love that too here in germany. from now i will tell everybody who is talking to me that he got a nice hair cut.
Interesting! Yes, I can agree 100%. What I found with Americans is that they are (were?) pretty naïve on many levels: easily believing the unbelievable...I say 'were' as I've not visited the States in a long time. However, the contrast between Europe & the USA is huge! In Europe there is a bit more formality whereas in the USA it's all out there. Neither is bad! Just different.
I love watching your videos, Jay - please keep them up.
I'm German and the whining from Germans gets on my nerves, sometimes Americans live worse than Europeans, but the whining doesn't go around as much and they are still optimistic even under negative circumstances.
ps: I totally agree with the saying they make an elephant out of a mosquito
Really great comments (from a fellow overseas American).
My dad is German and my mom is American. My dad complains my mom is not realistic and my mom complains my dad is too realistic and I take after my mom. LOL
Please share more about your California life here on this channel 😊 more landscaping, restaurants, trips, maybe Universal Studios and Disneyland, definitely beach life etc ❤
Its over rated..
Ernsthaft? Als ob es über diese Tourist Hot Spots nicht schon genug Videos gibt. Vielleicht solltest du besser mal hinter die Kulissen schauen. Da tun sich nämlich Abgründe auf.
Are you oke ? Getting worried.
I wish sometimes I where more optimistic.
Russia should listen to this. 😂🤭👍 Specially their generals. Ha, ha. 🤣Loved it.
I miss the racial diversity of my home (Seattle). Saturday our city had its 150th birthday in Germany and there was a parade. 25,000 white people showed up.
Unfortunetly many people that reside in the US have no cenception or tollerance for pointing out the bad and ugly of the US, When you point out the bad they are immidiatly offended. Declarations of American exceptionalism rest on the belief that the United States is a uniquely virtuous nation, one that loves peace, nurtures liberty, respects human rights, and embraces the rule of law. Americans like to think their country behaves much better than other states do, and certainly better than other great powers. If only it were true. The United States may not have been as brutal as the worst states in world history, but a dispassionate look at the historical record belies most claims about America’s moral superiority.The United States talks a good game on human rights and international law, but it has refused to sign most human rights treaties, is not a party to the International Criminal Court, and has been all too willing to cozy up to dictators - remember our friend Hosni Mubarak? - with abysmal human rights records. If that were not enough, the abuses at Abu Ghraib and the George W. Bush administration’s reliance on waterboarding, extraordinary rendition, and preventive detention should shake America’s belief that it consistently acts in a morally superior fashion. Obama’s decision to retain many of these policies suggests they were not a temporary aberration. America’s past success is due as much to good luck as to any uniquely American virtues. The new nation was lucky that the continent was lavishly endowed with natural resources and traversed by navigable rivers. It was lucky to have been founded far from the other great powers and even luckier that the native population was less advanced and highly susceptible to European diseases. Americans were fortunate that the European great powers were at war for much of the republic’s early history, which greatly facilitated its expansion across the continent, and its global primacy was ensured after the other great powers fought two devastating world wars. This account of America’s rise does not deny that the United States did many things right, but it also acknowledges that America’s present position owes as much to good fortune as to any special genius or "manifest destiny."A crucial component of American exceptionalism is the belief that the United States has a divinely ordained mission to lead the rest of the world. Ronald Reagan told audiences that there was "some divine plan" that had placed America here, and once quoted Pope Pius XII saying, "Into the hands of America God has placed the destinies of an afflicted mankind." Bush offered a similar view in 2004, saying, "We have a calling from beyond the stars to stand for freedom." The same idea was expressed, albeit less nobly, in Otto von Bismarck’s alleged quip that "God has a special providence for fools, drunks, and the United States." All in all the US is not the prettiest boy in the room not the smartest and not as free as most would have you belive.
The Germans are much like the Dutch, very direct and don't live in lala land, they are more realistic in my opinion, i prefer to know where you stand, instead of the fake hello how are you?
Americans are more optimistisch than Dutch or Germans but it always comes up to curiosity perceverance knowledge , being rational and being disciplined. Qualities that Dutch and Germans in general are good at. Depends in what sector you work. But in general yes.
Lalaland is exactly what it is...they actually think they can win a nuclear conflict. Bonkers!