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@@ffxcity1 thank you for checking out my game! it's a 64-bit build and that is unfortunately not supported by you system! I could try to provide you a 32-bit build in the future though!
Well, no. 2 isn't a common thing in Germany. Leaving a dinner table with a whole group during the main course... This might be happen in Berlin but definitely not all over Germany. Never ever experienced this kind of behaviour.
Same here, it baffling to me that she encountered this so often. If someone wants to smoke they usually do it while waiting for the food, not during the meal.
Especially not in the middle of dinner. Noone interrupts dinner for a smoke and then returns to continue eating. This has to be a misconception. Going for a smoke after eating is a pretty common thing though. And if you're in a group of smokers, they might all leave at once, which seem to me as the least surprising thing.
I'm german..... and i've never been eating at a restaurant, just to see the whole table disappear for a smoke... especcially in the middle of a dinner ;-)
@sequoia 3312 I havent seen that a full table is leaving, yet I have experienced for example, my Mom, Dad and Aunt going for a smoke leaving me there. Its the same thing. We have a lot of smokers in our family so it happens quite often. It disgusts me - but it happens.
1. Rent for an apartment can be much higher than 10€ per m² and that is only the so called "cold rent" which means that electricity, water, heating, phone, cable TV and maintenance cost (trash removal, cleaning, gardening) will be on top. It's quite normal, that people in Germany spend 35-50% of there netto income (after tax ) for the rent. Not that cheap and of course except the kitchen, you rent empty rooms without any furniture. 2. That an entire company leaves the table at a restaurant for a smoke break during dinner is very rare. I have never experienced that and I'm a 56 year old local. 3. Paying with your credit card at the gas pump only works for US citizens who have a US credit card and a home ZIP code. As a tourist, even with 2 valid platinum cards (Master + Visa) but without a resident zip code, I had to enter the shop, guess how much $$ my fill would be, get my card charged for that amount, than I could start pumping gas. If I underestimated the needed amount for a complete fill, I have to do that again, if I estimated to much, I had to get back to the store, to get the overpaid $$ transferred back to my credit card. Nowhere could I pump first and pay later at the shop, because they obviously think that every customer is a possible gas thief who makes a run without paying. Nice if you live there, but a stone age system if you are a tourist. 4. To find prostitution in the US is not that hard, since they just cover it up as massage parlors or escort services (happy endings guaranteed). Even open street prostitution can easy be found in big city's like L.A. or San Francisco. I have never found more prudish and hypocrite people as in the US, sorry to say that. Sex as as normal part of live in the US, ha ha, but the whole nation goes berserk if a nipple is shown on TV for a split second? LOL A country, where a mixed sauna is automatically considered as a brothel or a swinger club? Where a commercial for a bra is not shown on TV, but is the biggest producer of porn movies world wide? Where you can be arrested if you change your wet swim trunks under a wrapped around towel on a public beach? Regarding sex, the US is rely screwed up form a European point of view.
100% agree especially about the “sex” view and nudity. I sold video games to a mother and asked her point blank why she would let her 10 year old son play a game where he would be witnessing someone’s head being blown off and forced to torture someone over a game that had a warning of mild nudity... She couldn’t answer me.
I always have the feeling Americans think Europe is a country... edit: This comment was not ment to hurt someones feelings or to call into question the intelligence of USA citizens I'm totally aware that the knowledge of some few people does not, in any way, represent the knowledge of an entire nation And I want to apologize in case someone felt uncomfortable due to reading this comment
American in Germany: Has to pay the gas IN the gas station= 😳SHOCK!!! Hears the word FUCK on the radio= 😳SHOCK!!! Sees a poster on the street that contains the word FUCK= 😳SHOCK!!! Sees a brothel= 😳SHOCK!!! Sees people smoking= 😳SHOCK!!! Realizes that iphone is overprized trash= 😳😳😳SH-SH-SHOOOCK!!! German in America: Sees more gunstores than Mcdonalds= 🤠Ok. Drinks a beer on the street and get's arrested= 🙁WHAT THE F U C K!!! Sees the speed limit on the highway= 😒 Yeah, that one will be fun......................................😒 Sees gun controls in schools= 😳Actually shocked! Goes to California= 😳Nah just kidding!!!😂😂😂
On first note could say I agree, but glad to hear something different or less-commercial of a talking point.. you know, beer, autobahn, that kind of stuff.. There are like 100 channels talking about beer and autobahn, so I'd rather hear something different lol :P :D
It's just a fun light-hearted video about cultural differences, obviously she's not actually "shocked" in the real sense of this word. Some of y'all are so negative, come on guys
3vr1m im not saying that Darmstadt is more expensive than Munich but it is on the top ten list of most expensive cities if you talk about rent. You’re right, Munich is pretty damn expensive with 17,56 € per squaremeter. But still Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Mainz and yes, even Darmstadt are up there. However I personally believe that looking at rent in cities is problematic. Comparing smaller districts would be more insightful. For example Ditzingen near Stuttgart has a significantly higher rent cost than Stuttgart. I didn’t want to say that Munich isn’t expensive or that Darmstadt is more expensive but rather that Munich can be expected to be expensive, is a big city. But Darmstadt is one of the smaller cities in Germany but still has incredibly high rent costs. Sorry for the confusion
thisisgoddi I agree Darmstadt is one of the more expensive cities (according to the internet, the average rent is 11,77€/square meter), but I guess it also always depends on where you want to live in the city (which area). Hamburg as an example, the average rent is (according to the same page) 13,26€, but it can increase drastically when you’re renting a flat in the Altstadt, which can be up to 21,35€/square meter.
I tell you why germans have to pay their gas into the store - you earn very poor money by selling gas. But selling drinks and items is how the gasoline stations make their profit
I was going to write the exact same thing. Gas stations don't make a lot from gas. They NEED you to come inside and maybe buy something else. That's also why the card pay option - on gas stations that have one - are only active while the gas station "shop" is closed.
Ah and btw someone should tell Kelly that complaining about not being able to name your child like crazy in germany in one video doesn't fit to being shocked about "fuck" isn't censored and smoking is popular in the other.
This is exactly what my German husband explained to me when I was freaking out about standing in line to pay for gas. But...seriously - it's 8 BUCKS A GALLON!
I never saw people interrupt the dinner for a smoke in germany. I don't like iPhone, because I hate being restricted. And why should I pay for iPhone, when there are lots of better phones with a lower price.
And just thinking of, no wifi, no internet. And then your bud want to send you a picture or something... so that leaves Bluetooth.. if you're having an iphone and the other an android it wouldn't work. (This case happened 4 years ago, dont know if it's the same today) And then you need for every thin an extra...(if you have an iphone) extra port for aux, extra port for charging, extra Bluetooth radio with the function to connect with iphones... So at least you're not just paying 1.000€ for the iphone, you're paying extra for everything . That leaves you maybe by 2000€
I witnessed a bunch of smoke breakes in Germany. It's not at all common, but happens if pretty much everyone is a smoker and there is no warm food on the table anymore.
Yeah, same. I can charge basically everywhere since all chargers are the same, except for Iphones. I can watch every video I am sent, Iphone users never can see mine and more. I had a windows phone before, and I loved it. All the apps were deletable (unlike android or apple) so now with my android I have a million unused apps taking up memory space. Then again, I can just insert a new SD-card (unlike Iphones)and triple the memory space (or much more, depending on the SD-card.) It's just more convient and user friendly.
Heilig's blechle. Die gute war bloß überrascht. Sie hat nirgendwo behauptet, die Dinge nicht zu verstehen. Volker Pispers ist der Mario Barth der Satire. USA, kennste, kennste?
Yeah ... I never had a culture shock in an other culture, because before I visit a country with an other culture I inform myself about this culture ... xD
@@ThePrism21 Yeah, other Cities in the area aren't much different.. Ludwigsburg, Fellbach (where I live), Waiblingen, Reutlingen, Nürtingen, Sindelfingen, Böblingen Esslingen. If it's close to Stuttgart (using the term "close" very loosely here) it's most likely expensive.
I thought the most shocking thing would be seing 16 year old people drinking Beer because in some states in America you are allowed to drink alcohole at the age of 21
My thoghts about thse: 1. The talk about 10€ per square meter is problematic. The rule of thumb in Germany is that the rent should not exceed 30 percent of the income after tax, pension payments and health care. Nowadays, it often exceeds 40 percent, and in some cities like Munich, it is higher than most people earn. If I interpolate what you said, then the rent for that Washington appartment exceed 2150 USD, which is more than the average income in Germany. 2. I have never seen such a smoke break as you described. This is completely uncommon in restaurants, and in bars only some of the poeple leave the table. 3. Android is preferred because of better value, iPhones are too expensive. Nowadays, Samsung is going down the same route nad becoming increasingly less popular. A lot of people here like to spend about 300-400 EUR for a smart phone, not more. Also, a lot of people dislike the vendor lock-in and silly limitations like not being able to directly access files on the phone when it is connected to a PC. 4. You are right about German gas stations. They are taking over the role of convenience stores over here and make almost no profit from the gas itself. 5. Swearing is a part of everybody's life, so it's unnatural to remove it from the media. Also, sometimes people just don't care or they don't even understand. Have a look at this classic commercial form the Netherlands: ua-cam.com/video/7nQ9lmriWOc/v-deo.html 6. That singing along depends. But sure, American music is played all the time. And british music. And english language music from Sweden. And, and, and... 7. Making prostitution legal is important to ensure social security for sex workers. Also, why waive the opportunity to collect takes for these businesses?
You´re completely right ! My only "shock" was to see, what Kelly shocked in Germany ... especially her feeling of the numbers of smoking in Germany. I never smoked, in my family nobody smokes and the only person I remember smoking is the cowboy from the Marlboro commercial... Apple and Android are both american products - so why the "culture shock"...???
Additional to 1.: There are cheap prices, for example for food, because we have one of the biggest low income sectors in Europe, when it comes to employment (ua-cam.com/video/Uxs0asqdSAk/v-deo.html). Now this also explains why the rents are high and getting higher from the (average) German's point of view, because they spend like 30 to 70 % of their income for these rents!
I totally agree with everything listed above. Maybe as a little addition: to #2 just like a lot people who already commented on this, I never experienced this kind of smoking break. Usually everyone finishes their food before leaving for a cigarette, sometimes taking a drink with them, but never standing up in the middle of dinner, leaving the food on the table. To #4: There is a security aspect to this, too. Having people come into the station gives both sides control over the act of payment. Aside from that, yes, almost everyone going in will buy something. Even if it is only a snack, something to drink or some chewing gum. To #5: English swear-words aren't removed from media as it is a foreign language and radio stations as well as television try to honor the original content without meddling with it. You will hear German swear words being censored. Making thema radio edit, too. There is a common rule in media in Germany to only play the uncensored versions on TV or radio after 10pm, as the audience should be old enough to understand or deal with them. The situation should be just like in the US. If I remember correctly, they censor the english swear words, but none of the foreign languages. I even came across a pub in LA which seemed to make it a fun game to put as many German curse words on the menu as possible. To #6: the world of German music just seems a little limited, so everyone try to seek music to their liking in the variety of world music. USA being the biggest musical provider will have the most possibilities for everyone. Even German musicians try to sing in english to maybe be invited on a tour in North America.
I've seen those smoke breaks. However not so common while there is still leftovers from the meal. Usually after eating and while staying for drinks. Completely Empty tables have been a common sight for me when I was younger. Since less and less people are smoking, it becomes more common to see 1 or 2 people staying at the table. Also for the brothels. They aren't as accepted as it might seem. Whenever a new one opens in a small town, there is a lot of countermovement. People are afraid of the people running those places. And while yes, legalising them is needed to ensure social security for the sex workers, it also makes it even harder to take down people who are forcing others into this kind of work, I think. Very complex if you ask me and I am not really decided for myself if I think brothels being legal in Germany is a good thing or not.
4. I am shocked she did not notice that she is lured into a shop. Never bought a chewing gum there? 5. Germans are a bit special in this even compared to the rest of Europe, though. Not the word she bleeped out, that is hardly noteworthy if you are not overly prudish. But Germans do have a quirky fascination with errr, the waste products of biological bodies. And not just Knorkator, or Rammstein. 6. Meh, we sing along in all languages we speak, and those we do not speak, as well. My fave is listening to people singing along in Finnish. You know, all that cool Finnish metal. But if they need to feel shpeshul when we know their music, be our guests. We are just not so insecure that we bother noticing such things. Maybe she should compare it with folks knowing Rammstein texts by heart, and German is not exactly a language spoken around the globe. Which reminds me of a crime of my parents: I do not think I will ever forget the text of "voulez vous couchez avec moi, ce soir". In some areas you can still hear that song to this day, including the elderly folks singing along. I guess "voulez vous *bleep* avec moi" just doesn't cut it, so I figure no one would ever be tempted to sing along with such "pop culture" over there.
#3 While you see the iPhone as a luxury good and associate positive things with it and their owner, I see it as an overpriced and technically behind product. Therefor my initial assumption is that the owner is not that smart until proven otherwise.
Well, for one, there's no bloatware on IPhones. I really hated those useless apps that would only eat up my storage. I also like my display to be clean and minimalistic. Like, why would I want an icon that shows that I switched off automatic downloads when I'm not connected via W-Lan? Then again, I can't take anyone serious who gets the newest iPhone OR Samsung etc just because it's new.
@@nadinerick1182 Hmm, wasn't it on the iPhone where you couldn't remove icons from the home screen? There are obviously arguments for the iPhone but picking this?
@@outlucked I juat noticed how the icon bar of a coworker was so much more crowded than mine. Like, an icon because you switched something OFF seemed ridiculous. Generally, I just like its simplicity and design. but I don't really care about any brand as such.
iOS and Android is just personal preference. Has nothing to do with being smart. I don't think it is smart to buy a phone every two years and pay 1000bucks for it. Explain to me what you mean with technically behind. I think in general germans just don't see a smartphone as a luxury item and they always want their best for their money, which is imo a really subjective topic. Because your best isn't necessarily my best.
I live in Germany, I smoked for 15 years and know a lot of people who still smoke and I have NEVER seen anyone take a smoke break DURING a meal. I don't know where might have seen that, but it's not something inherently german..
KaBeeM In European part of Russia IT IS VERY common to leave the meal to smoke a cigarette outside the... restaurant? so maybe she saw Russians doing that in Germany and thought they were Germans.
Ist es nicht sogar in Ost-Berlin billiger als im Westen wegen der DDR? So kommt es mir immer vor und ja, Berlin kann man für Mietpreise vergleichen schlecht nehmen
@@moxxer22 I buy android because Apple is American, and no better than it's Asian counterpart. I also find that Apple products are "rigged" to not last as long, but are faaaar more expensive. For me Apple=rip off.
Things being expensive creates the expection/illusion of them being of higher quality. If Apple weren't that expensive, it would have no chance against Samsung and the likes, because they rely on that illusion.
@@moxxer22 These are Hardware manufacturers. Android is made by Google in the US like apple does IOS. And their Hardware manufacturer is Foxcon. A Chinese company with Samsung screens...
@@KRAFTWERK2K6 Yes in german in would sound dumb but this is with many songs the english original sounds better. Ypu´re part would then be: Country Road take me home to the place i belong. But not all german music is bad but the bad thing the from japan by modern music most loved is actually less and less made. I talk about the german versions or the german interprtations of anime openings. Just look at Inuyasha the german version sounds great with good music and text and the meaning of the text just fit´s with the story. The japanese version well i don´t really get it sounds for me more like some kind of Schlager. By the way i´m a german too and i´m not sure if Schlager es such have an english word.
I think you got that wrong with the luxury stuff. In germany and europe its just more common to care about the quality and the Features than the Name Apple or something else. Just compare the Interior of european cars with American cars than you see the big quality difference and why we dont have many American cars 🤷♂️
Ford makes really good cars (nowdays), Yes they Don't have the Most expensive interiours, but are usually cheaper than comparatively equiped VW's or Skoda's. And VW just builds crap, i seriously can't get into my head how someone can build something so horribly Bad to repair.
@@sinthoras1306 Thats true, but every car sucks to repair today. I really like Ford for their pricing and the new Focus is really good but i always have to say if you take a look, as you mentioned, on VW (and i really don't like VW) the overall quality is just higher (not in every car of them for sure) and the infotainment is really good. My company Car is a Ford Mondeo and its nice that i can use Android Auto/Car but if i want to connect my company phone at the same time there's no chance to do it while in a VW i can connect 3 Phones or more while using Android Auto/Car. just little things like that :D
Erstens gibt es zumindest in NRW viele Tankstellen, bei denen man nur noch mit Karte an der Zapfsäule tanken kann und zweitens war ich 2003 in den USA schockiert, meine Kreditkarte in der Gas Station abgeben zu müssen, bevor ich tanken durfte und konnte mir die Karte anschließend wieder holen. Das fand ich echt schräg.
The amount of German commenters, who either do not understand Kelly or who constantly need to be reminded by Kelly, she is only sharing her personal experiences and of course not all Germans are the same, is too damn high! Now. Thank you for sharing your experiences with us, Kelly. I really enjoy your content :) Keep up the great work!
I never came across one in Germany haha but as soon as I would cross the border to the Netherlands, for example, there was an immediate difference in gas stations where I could pay at the pump
I live in Munich and there are several automatic gas stations. The one I usually got to is the one at the V-Markt (Balanstr.) where you can choose if you like to pay at the cashier or at the gas pump. If you pay at the gas pump, you even get a discount voucher of 2ct per liter. And they often sell the cheapest fuel around without this discount.
*12 years i can confirm from different rural areas that first somewhat encouraged attempts actually happen around that age becoming excessive for some teens around 14 yo i'm now 23 and for my feeling had to sometimes fight against alcohol offerings since beeing around 15 which i strongly disagree with... i hate the way alcohol is almost worshipped where even our Drugminister posts pictures of her schnaps but says e.g. that cannabis is forbidden because its illegal. i guess its encouraged because it keeps us 'busy and happy' so the government can keep on doing nothing for the individuals and pushing corporations sorry that topic gets me going ._.
@@yoonsuckz3107 you got brainwashed by the media. its a great idea to solve things like fake news and meme stealing. just the media and people who watched it are worried about it while everyone else doesnt give a fk. very strange right?
@@mineduggery3309 Android is objectively more potent than Apple. you can get phones with similar capabilities for half the price, or you can pay the same and get a significantly better phone.
One thing i dont like in Apple (i have mini mac) is that they want my credit card info , to me to be able to load FREE upgrades to their apps , that they provided with this computer. OP and browser are free and easy to update but rest , what are they thinking ? Oh hey , i have this its FREE , but first i need your credit card info before i give it to you ... sounds like a scam . Also iPhone aint nothing but trouble , running extremely hot , short battery life and winter , iPhone does not seem to like it at all ... then again its still best selling Nokia model.
@@pete_lind I've been using Apple products for a long time now, both computers and iPhones, and I never had to enter any credit card info to download any updates, or for anything else for that matter. I don't even have a credit card. O.o
Berlin is by far not the most expensive place to live. Munich and Hamburg are much more expensive. That's because Berlin is not that important economically. That is something special about Germany
i promise you, regardless of the city, my point remains the same - rent in germany is cheaper than what i expected. i expected the types of prices you see in switzerland. does that clarify it better?
@@Kellydoesherthing living in Hamburg Altona, or Munich Grünewald or Stuttgart Killesberg is horrendous. If you compare square meter prices to Dc its actually a bit cheaper but not cheap by any means.
Petrol stations in Germany make their most money from the snacks and drinks and what ever you can buy in the shop. So when you refill your tank you will see all these snacks or drinks and take one with you.
I'm an American and always pay for gas inside. A lot of Americans do. Personally I usually have to get something anyways, also scammers use the pumps to steal credit card information so I don't use them.
I remember an interview of a popular rock band after a world tour (don't remember which band it was, sry). They were asked if there were differences between fans in the different countries, certain habits that were more or less typical for those regions. They mentioned all kind of things, but one thing I still remember is what they said about German fans. They told the reporter that the German fans knew every single song by heart not just the refrain like most fans but everything and that they would sing along for the whole duration of the concert.
I'm from Germany, and it's totally normal that German people know nearly all of the song lyrics, which is playd on the radio (not with all songs but most of them) Greetings from Germany ❤ PS: Sry for my English, I'm only 13 and l learn it at school
@@bernhardhanke3724 i would much rather say, that if they are a fan of an artist, or if they like a specific song, they know most lyrics of it, usually :)
Yeah I agree, I also can admit that I am like this too. I have been to 3 concerts in my life (all in 1 year) and I permanently sang along Also if I am just listening to music I know the lyrics of nearly every song.
I heard that several times. As far as I can recall, it were Runrig, R.E.M., Radiohead, Muse and Metallica. I think Thome Yorke was particularly irritated by this. I seem to remember hearing James Hetfield say, he had a sore throat the other night, but nobody in the audience noticed it, because they were all singing along anyway. Michael Stipe said in an interview that the German audience usually knew the words to “It's The End of The World” better than he did.
@@rammsterdamm020 really? I always thought frugal meant taking the cheaper stuff even when the quality is much lower. Taking something that's cheaper AND better just seams like the smart thing to do 🤷♀️
Brothels are legal, because that was the best way to stop exploitation. Sex-workers, as we call them, get access to special medical monitoring, get social care and in return pay taxes. They can sue costumers and get statutory help in case of exploitation. So - no pimps, all the money goes directly to the worker. That all may seem disreputable, but you simply has to face the facts, that you can't thwart prostitution. And i think this typical german, to have a legal practical framework even for things, everyone else would rather like to vilify and in consequence scrap from the political agenda .
Eh, it's not like it's really working to protect prostitutes. There's a reason Germany is called the brothel of Europe. Exploitation is still very real. Including human trafficking for sex work. Just banning it won't work, as the US shows, but the way we regulate prostitution isn't working out so well either. We need a better system still.
All that aside, why should prostitution even be illegal? A crime is any act that damages another person or the general public. With prostitution, nobody is harmed. Moral outrage is not a good reason to outlaw something. It's the same logic why gay sex should not be illegal.
There is no perfect solution, especially when the subject of matter is already a moral offside to start with. Legalizing prostitution was a delicate matter here in germany, and we did a very rational approach. In the end the pros beat moral objections. That germany became the brothel of europe is follow-up, that also has it pros and cons. With a legal status and a protective framework sex-work became lucrative for foreign nationals. On the first glance this may look like a failure, but basically this has drained women exploitation beyond our borders. I have just read in the Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_Germany) that you even may get visas for sex-working. Summarized, we did a very sensible approach to a scorned subject, and it had an impact how other countries see us. But i see it as walking an high road out of pure reasoning. And that's why i like it as part of the german culture.
There may not be a pimp, but usually prostitutes have to rent their room for - the one site I checked out - a pretty hefty daily or weekly sum. But I guess it's better that way than having to work a street corner.
@@flashnfantasy As far as I know, female and male prostitution has always been legal in post-war West Germany. There were alterations over the years concerning its status, tax and welfare implications, but not its legality as such. The only kind of prostitution being illegal was male to male, and that was legalised at the same time gay sex became legal in 1969.
I always thought it was more about shortening the duration of the tracks though I also got to know: black eyed peas - let's get it started was originally named Let's get retarded
I think this is a good example for why having radio versions of songs might not be so terrible. Mostly the non-radio versions of songs are just loaded up on profanity. Is this artistic? I guess it might be. But then using "retarded" in song lyrics, and having it play all the time, I think maybe we're better off not hearing that.
I respect your opinion, but I think in the world right now, the selective censorship of profanity is one of the most justifiable forms of limiting free speech. There are many things that it is not socially acceptable to say that are much more true and more valuable to humanity than "f***".
@@Albatrosspro1 so "there are worse instances of censorship" is an argument to perpetuate it in this instance? Don't get me wrong it's fine if you disapprove of profanity but wouldn't it be the better approach if the people taking issue with it would stop listening rather than stopping people from distributing.
As a german I have never experienced any of those smoking breaks during meals anywhere and I've even worked as a waiter before ... I'm pretty sure the places I eat at wouldn't just let everyone from the table get up and leave either without paying. That sounds super random to me and germans would be the first to frown upon such rude behaviour, if it were a common thing to happen. Also I don't smoke and I rarely know anyone who does.
Regarding the whole iPhone issue: in Germany you have quite a lot of people who are rather critical of large companies like Google (or ABC as they are now called, I think?), facebook or Apple, because of their tendency to create all-encompassing, more or less closed and proprietary systems (speaking of both hardware and/or services). This business model is frowned upon as it is seen as some kind of "digital totality", which in itself carries the seed of a potential "digital totalitarianism", as in big companies watching, evaluating and in the end controlling every one of our digital footsteps. But you are also right in your vid, as often people state that they think that iPhones are "form over function" stuff that only works well because of the closed, proprietary nature of the Apple/iOS world, while being way overpriced when looked at as a simple piece of technology. People who prefer using Apple products are often refered to as "Apple disciples", meaning that they are drivenby some digital lifestyle cult instead of rational consideration.
the wall-in provides a sane level of app quality and security. whereas Google has completely lost control of that. as a consequence Google has to do a restart of Android.
My reason for having Android was the walled garden of Apple. Developers have to pay a lot to be able to develop for it, Mac only! There are several grass-roots apps indispensable for me, which are just not available for iOS.
@@AdrianoCROST I was a loyal to Apple for 8 years and it honestly wasn't that fast now that I'm looking back, I switched to Android recently from an iPhone 10 to a Samsung S9, Android is alot faster imo, I also experienced a better quality on videos and camera, and I have a headphone jack finally lol. Now it may just be that Samsung is overall better and faster than apple(In my experience from switching), but i can't speak for other android companies, but Android does update their hardware alot more frequently compared to Apple which is probably why I experience much higher performance from my Samsung phone. Apple used to be good, but it just kinda has fallen in terms of quality over the years. If apple does catch up, I would be happy to switch back again. Edit: I don't get your statement about android just being an OS, iPhone is also an OS. OS means operating system, the iOS just means the operating system is apple.
both Android and iOS have their points. I actually have both, being a Unix nerd, I was happy to finally see Linux based portables after so many false starts. the difference and in the case of Android, the problem, is the exosystem. The walled garden, if you like.Where Apple kept the garden neat and tidy, but would not cater to absolutely every tree or fruit taste, Google over the years simply lost control. the one Android garden does not exist, every manufacturer has its own, that still is connected to the main garden, but grows additional strange fruit (manufacturer specific apps and services). if you look closely, you‘ll find that Samsung locks you in just as Apple does. and every manufacturer has its own maintenance and release policy. I have 5 android tabs and only one of them can be updated to a sufficiently recent version of Android... meaning most of my devices are not sufficiently maintained to be safe to use with personal or otherwise sensitive data. Apple otoh normally gives you relevant udates rather quickly, but if you’re device is over 5 years old, you will. not receive the latest OS, often because the hardware has moved on. so, if walled garden, it has to be one that is kept. And yes, Android is a walled garden, too. The main difference is that Google doesn‘t exert the necessary control to make manufacturers keep their OS releases in line and secure, and allows Chinese Gardens where you really can‘t be sure if the Duck with Flied Lies is fresh and that the Lychees aren’t bugged.
To me, as a german, "fuck" does not feel as strong as our german analogue. Perhaps it is because one can never really understand how this word is received by a native speaker. To me, it is basically a "light" version, perhaps even a real german word with its own meaning by now. We use our own "native" word a lot more sparingly (as demonstrated by the fact that i dont even write it here ;-) ). It feels like that we somehow managed to find a way to still say this word, without saying it.
"Fuck" ist in Deutschland eher weniger benutzt, da unsere Art von Schimpfwörtern eher auf Kot fokussiert ist. In Amerika ist es eher sexuell gerichtet z.B. "dickhead"
ja das liegt an unserem anderen Fokus von Tabus. Bei uns ist Sex normal, aber Scheiße ist schmutzig, also haben viele Schimpfwörter mit scheisse oder Ärschen zu tun.
You're right, "fuck" serves as a kind of everyday swear word in German, at least to me. Whenever I (or another person) mess/-es something up (badly) I'm like "oooh fuck." When I'm kinda surprised but angry I say "feck!" like when I tried something in a video game and it didn't work. When a friend tells me a sad story I often go like "fuuuuck..." If a machine doesn't work as I want it to I am like "FVCKING SCHEISS *add a Gerät in there (PC! Handy!) MACH WAS DU SOLLST!" and sometimes even add a "for feck's sake" to it. Edit: ich weiß auch nicht, warum ich den Kommentar auf englisch schrieb.. wahrscheinlich, um meinen Standpunkt auch auf englisch vertreten zu können :D
Yes, new cars are sold cheaper in the US, even German cars are sold cheaper in the US. Same with brand clothing. I bet she just sees them cheaper here because used cars lose their value very fast in Germany, and we have many no name clothes which are very cheap.
@@maythesciencebewithyou the reason german cars are sold cheaper, is because the quality isn´t the same. german cars made for the us market mostly have poor quality
@@gardenjoy5223 Well but then it's a very shitty tshirt. Even the 5 to 7 euro tshirts in c&a or h&m stores have to be replaced in one to two years. You get high quality shirts from about 10 euros.
@@tschesny Since the fashion is different next year, my daughter doesn't care it doesn't last too long. Two years is tops for any T-Shirt, no matter what the quality.
I have been living in Germany since 1996. I pay 65% income tax, 19% sales tax, GEZ Television and Radio tax which is mandatory, etc... how the hell can you say everything here is cheap?
If you honestly pay 65% income tax you should contact a tax consultant. If you ever come to visit a U.S. super market you will understand why she feels that products in GER are cheaper. In addition she made the point in the beginning of the vid that an unbiased comparision isn't possible for her.
Hello John, I am a German resident and familiar with our tax and social security system. That ist why I know that you will never pay 65% taxes since the max tax rate is 42% only to be paid for the income exceeding apprx. 55k€ per year. She may count her payments to our social security system ( uneployment insurance, Rent insurance) which must not be included into the average tax rate because it's not a tax.. I also think although the overall contribution is high it's not nothing WE are receiving from IT acitvely or passively. But I agree with you in the way that sometimes I'd like starting to cry looking on my pay slip...
@@DropkickNation Es ist nunmal so, dass Samsung weniger kostet, und genau soviel leistet wie ein Iphone. Wenn du ein Iphone kaufst, bezahlst du eigentlich nicht für Leistung, sondern für den Namen.
I use Android because it integrates better with all my other devices. I'm running Linux and Windows computers and I don't want to use iTunes or any other software by Apple just to connect my devices. I'll always opt for the open platform if I get to chose and don't lose any vital feature by doing so. To me Apple seems to have great stuff - but I don't want to exclusively marry into that brand just for the sake of compatibility. Linux and Microsoft don't care where you install their OS - but for OSX you'll have to buy Apple? Keep it then. Plus I prefer stuff that I can tinker with myself - root it, change it, develop my own stuff for it on any device I chose to use and with any IDE I prefer - not being bound to some Apple SDK and their license restrictions. Of course the price is part of this too - I don't see the point in paying three or more times the money for a device that does less for me. Final reason: I don't really like their design that much and they only have "this one product line" - there is so much more diversity with Android devices, so I can find something that really suits me. To get cocky: yeah, Android scores higher in Germany - because we compare before we buy and we don't care about how much money someone else _thinks_ we have :p
Well, I'm a german who moved to the US and paying right at the gas pump for your gas was sort of a reverse culture shock for me XD Ok, more like it was part of the culture shock. I think the main reason for the US having to make it as efficient and quick as possible is that cars have a more prominent role in the US. Of course in germany most people own a car and there is quite a lot of traffic, but there are also a lot of people still using public transportation, which is not really an option in most places in the US, especially outside the cities, mostly because of how far everything is spread out. So I think Germany has less need for being being able to do everything from your car, because cars overall have a different value. I for example had a drivers license ever since I was able to get one, but I never had a car in Germany, because I was able to get everywhere by train, bus or on foot. I considered a car a waste of space and money, because I was able to do without one just fine and I lived in a small town as well as a city in germany. Since I moved to the US I can't really do without a car anymore, I wouldn't be able to get anywhere really. Just my 2 cents on the matter...
I completely agree with your reasoning. I’m just thinking of the insanity that would ensue at US gas stations if everyone had to go inside and pay. The lines would be insanely long haha
Hi. I'm a 58years old german and I've never ever seen people interupting their meal for smoking a cigarette, neither in gemany, nor in france, great britain, netherlands.......
The main reason for android over iPhone are the many more options. How can this even be a question?! It's not the price, it's that you can extent your storage if you want, save things on the phone and not only in the cloud, use all kinds of headphones etc.
And if you compare that, you'd realize that we in Germany are better off than the US. Wisdom teeth removal costs nothing Bc of insurance. Google how much the removal is in the US 😂 😂
Yes, and also additional to the taxes: There are cheap prices, for example for food, because we have one of the biggest low income sectors in Europe, when it comes to employment (ua-cam.com/video/Uxs0asqdSAk/v-deo.html). Now this also explains why the rents are high and getting higher from the (average) German's point of view, because they spend like 30 to 70 % of their income for these rents! Speaking for food prices there is not also overproduction ( a surplus in agricultural products, like in many "highly developed" countries with highly industrial agriculture ), but also cartell-like / monopolistic strutures in the companies owning the ruling supermarket and discounter chains, so they just can make up these prices and have the power to force these low prices on the local farmers, as well as affecting the income of the agricultural workers through it. Those are mainly from Romania and fewer and fewer from Poland ( who don't get "Mindestlohn" - minimum wage, but it's speial arrangement in the law that the farmers are allowed to pay under minimum wage and only must rise it slowy ever year to reach that wage somewhen next decade ). This power also affects the prices of imported food as well, mainly from Spain / Italy when it comes to vegetables, where the working conditions of migrants from mainly Africa are much worse and almost slave-like. To some degree the supermarket companies can use the cheap (vegetable) imports of these countries to increase pressure on local (conventional) farmers. Cheap imports, -> because the environment is destroyed (water crisis in Almería, Spain, external costs that are not included in the food prices for the consumer in Germany), and, -> because the workers are cheap(er) there. And in many cases THE MAFIA enforces these working situations there ( threatening workers and organising illegal immigration). Is it the same in the USA with Mexico and the Mexicans? However, WELCOME TO EUROPE. ZEIT: " Erntehelfer: Sie wollen hier nicht mehr arbeiten" www.zeit.de/arbeit/2018-07/erntehelfer-saisonkraefte-mangel-landwirtschaft-agrarbereich ARD: "Europas dreckige Ernte": ua-cam.com/video/j7LclQRn3lg/v-deo.html The Guardian: "Salad slaves: Who really provides our vegetables." ua-cam.com/video/oZl1eBU4Qx0/v-deo.html " Moderne Sklaverei - in den Gewächshäusern der spanischen Provinz Almería/ Spanien" ua-cam.com/video/bB-ekTZUpPU/v-deo.html
@@Asehhar what are you talking about? "Costs nothing" ? What do you think you're paying monthly if not for your health insurance? And your employer is paying the other half? Think an average monthly payment to a German health insurance is around 500€? Correct me if I'm totally wrong there, but that doesn't sound like nothing to me. Considering you have only 4 wisdom teeth, I'd say the removal is paid for tenfold in the time that you don't use the insurance. It's a very common mistake that other people make, thinking our social system is for free. Nothing in germany is for free, not even death as it costs your life (common german saying).
@@danielagalic2959 wtf are YOU talking about? First it cost you 400€ and only after you're 26 AND not a student. Second almost everything is covered in these 400€ from wisdom teeth removal to chemo therapy. Our life quality is way better than the US Bc we use our taxes to help each other out (social market, Bafög, harz IV, children money and much more). And if you end up poor, homeless or unemployed you won't live on the streets, the government takes care of you
@@Asehhar exactly what I'm saying. You pay taxes for all of that in case you didn't know it. It's called social insurance. Americans can choose to pay those too. Nobody is saying that they can't have a great health insurance for 400€ a month. And I'm pretty sure for that price it would cover hospital and all their ails too. You completely miss the point here. They don't pay those things, hence they don't get them. It's not for free. And let me tell you that the german child care isn't free either. Your kindergarten and after school care all costs additional money. It's an annual amount that's low enough for the kindergarten alright, but I had to pay 250€ a month for my son and his after school care in germany because I worked fulltime and German elementary schools finish at 12pm. And it's 26 in case you keep on studying. If you start work at 18 then you pay from then on.
I'm 36 and my parents were friends witth many gastronomers, so I spent A LOT of time in restaurtants.. I HAVE NEVER SEEN ANYONE EVER INTERRUPT THEIR MEAL TO SMOKE! Never ever! That said, you are right on the acceptance and number of smokers.
oh, I just noticed, OF COURSE nobody has ever interrupted theior meals to smoke back then, as Germans have been allowed to smoke inside bars and restaurants, until 2002, or 2000 - not sure on the date. Oh yeah, and "smoker areas" in restaurants? Yo would have wished for that, as smoking in bars, restaurants, clubs and discos was just normal - NOBODY WENT OUTSIDE, we all amoked insides. ;) It's incredible how much power tobacco still has over TGermans - it's as if they wouldn't reckognze the dangers of smoking or alcoholism. It's all so normal. But guess what a ruckuss can be caused by a single cannabis PATIENT.
Der Cannabist - Info, Aufklärung, Safer Use it is in fact still seen as cool to smoke. Everyone I know who doesn’t go to a Gymnasium started to smoke because the others said they’d be cool if they did. If you don’t smoke you’re an outsider. But again, I only saw that happening at Hauptschule and Realschule
@@shineformejimin5025 At least while they are in Grundschule, smoking is an absolute non-issue for them. I don't know, whether it still is that big an issue. I've seen more teens with vapes than cigarettes, nowadays, then again, I don't go out kmuch.
She must have travelled around Germany. And it doesn't surprised me because Germans hardly follow trends, they create theirs or be very late in the game. They're the strangest Westerners.
@@Nele-vg7js No, she does not. She's simply sharing her own experiences. Of course she's generalizing a bit - just like Germans do, when they say Americans love their weapons. A lot do - but most definitely not all of them.
smoking isnt really socially accepted in germany either except by other smokers and point 3 is completely false firstly whatsapp is avalible on all phones secondly the reason everyone uses it is that it replaced the text message because using whatsapp is faster easier and free
Well not really free… YOU pay with all your personal data and literally let Facebook read and store EVERYTHING you send and receive (and that price is toooo high). Also… technically the message service is not free either. You pay for the data service instead of the price for every single message like with SMS or MMS. And people just use whatsapp because they are too lazy to switch to better and more secure solutions but they all got used to what's app too much…
@@maythesciencebewithyou I didn't say that. However i think that goes without saying that Apple cannot be trusted either with such a service. With alternatives i meant things like telegram & antox.
@@KRAFTWERK2K6 WhatsApp only stores your messages if you turn on backup and you can choose to backup to either GDrive or your phone or both. I'm not a fan of Facebook and I'm concerned they might put ads into WhatsApp but they don't keep your WhatsApp data unless you ask them to.
I don´t get it why such a lot of people are still using whatsapp as a messenger service app. There are technically way better and (really) free apps around for that purpose and I would never let a guy like Mark Zuckerberg give any chance of access to my private belongings anyway...
Naja für uns ja, aber wir leben ja auch in dieser Kultur. Sie nimmt das natürlich anders war ^^ Auch wenn ich dir bei einigen Punkten recht geben muss, zb das mit dem Tanken hat mich auch überrascht das sie das so bemerkenswert fand oder das mit den Handys. Aber wie gesagt sie als Amerikanerin nimmt das natürlich anders war :D
@@peterjungmann6057 im Schitzelkönig machen wir das tatsächlich auch, die Portionen sind so riesig, da braucht man eine Pause.. aber wir gehen in zwei Gruppen, es ist also immer jemand am Tisch
@@jank.906 Natürlich pauschalisiert sie in dem Video - ganz bewusst. Und sie geht davon aus, dass ihre Zuschauer wissen, dass sie pauschalisiert - weil es einfach leichter ist, so darüber zu reden, als alle zwei Sekunden zu erwähnen, dass das ja nur ihre ganz persönlichen Erfahrungen sind und es natürlich nicht auf jeden einzelnen Deutschen zutrifft. Denn so, wie ich Kelly einschätze, hält sie ihre Zuschauer eben nicht für dumm - das wird ihr hier offenbar zum Verhängnis.
#7 We Germans are like "I don't care what you do if you don't hurt or disturb somebody, if you want to go to a brothel then go, if you want to work in a brothel do it I don't care" this is my opinion on this topic.
I'd go a step further and say that the legalisation of prostitution has nothing but benefits. First is that this gives the prostitutes legal protection, improving their work conditions drastically. Second it helps to weed out human trafficking. Third it makes prostitution a regular occupation which means incometax for the state. And last but not least, regulations on prostitution also protect the prostitutes customers.
It's simply lying to say legalization has benefits only it actually made Germany the brothel of Europe and its no coincidence that most prostitutes are foreign women and a lot of prostitutes have addiction and psychological health issues. Pimps exploit vulnerable women from abroad who don't have the ressources to get help. Human trafficking and forced prostitution is a big problem in Germany. While pimping is still technically illegal the legalization of prostitution makes is way easier for pimps to exploit women. As long as the woman who is usually too afraid to speak up doesn't admit she has a pimp it is not possible to stop sex trafficking and of course the johns don't care at all. There are plenty of studies where johns admit the prostitutes they are visiting might be forced but they still decide to go on exploiting them. I'm positive that Germany will adapt the Nordic model (buying sex is outlawed while offering it is not) somewhere in the future to help protect victims of sex trafficking.
@@AnimalEmancipation "germany is the brothel of europe" Is that supposed to be an argument? Most prostitutes being foreign women, so what? About the Health and additcion issues, i don't know the statistics for this but that might be correct. But is that problem related to the act of prostitution? As in "Prostitutes have a higher chance of getting health or addiction problems"? As for the women being too afraid to speak up, yes that is a problem. It's the same problem with domestic or child abuse and it's a problem you have regardless of wether prostitution is legal or illegal. If it's legal the prostitute speaking up at the very least doesn't risk legal consequences for being a prostitute. And the model of "buying sex is illegal but offering is not" is a bullshit concept. Imagine it being legal to offer any other servic but it's illegal to buy said service.
@Monokuma- I like that attitude, and it was the original concept of "American freedom" but we've long lost the strength to simply let others live as they wish to. Stay strong!
@@KingQwertzlbrmpf Many of these prostituts are victims of human trafficking and they de facto income is way below the minimal. The ones who benefits from this sotuation are pimps and middleage Frenchmans who are floding west Germany. Not to mention that from over 200000 prostitutes in Germany not even a hundred is actually registered
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I have never in my life seen smoke breaks either… the "no smoking in restaurants" is a pretty new development (I heartily approve though). Well, from a 50+ year view anyway.
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Censorship isn't lax here… it officially doesn't exist (that doesn't mean that stuff you may *call* censorship doesn't happen). Article 5 of our Constitution: "There shall be no censorship." (official wording)
Jürgen Erhard I don’t say this as an insult or in confrontation, but as an American that just sounds weird that your constitution is taken so literal that vulgar words can’t be censored. Because just because we bleep it, we still know from context what’s being said.
@@MateoJFR It isn't. The censorship rule in the constitution doesn't mean individual words, or songs can't be omitted for being obscene, that happens occasionally (see my other post). The article in the constitution means that the government must not tell the media what to publish or not to publish. You can argue if they always adhere to this vow, I personally think they don't.
@@MateoJFR Everyone knows exactly that "beep" actually means "fuck". So why beep it in the first place? Kelly even knew the exact amount of fucks in that song (22). So you know a song with 22 fucks but are shocked when you actually hear 'em? That doesn't make any sense at all.
@@MateoJFR then why do you beep it in the first place? If everyone knows anyway what it stands for... also what's so bad about slur words? Everybody uses them and educating children isn't accomplished by hiding stuff from children and creating an artificial safety bubble, but by explaining to them what they mean, what the consequences of using them are and in what situations it might be acceptable to use them. We rather deal with a subject and create rules for it, than pretending like it doesn't exist and letting it grow wild in the shadows. It's a stereotype here about anglophone people, that every second word they utter is a slur (an actual one in case of brits, a weird rhyme on a slur in case of us-americans). I think it's the same as with drinking alcohol, if you start slowly and learn the limit and restrictions at a relatively young age, then it turns out less problematic than if you just deny its existence until suddenly at 21 you are thrown into the cold water without having learned how to swim first. E.g. as a child i would always repeat swears i picked up to my mother and ask her what they mean and she would just calmly explain them to me and tell me their gravity, so at age 5 i already had a vague idea of what a "whore" is and that it's one of the worst ones to call a woman. Hence i didn't need to try it out to get feedback via a reaction and knew that it was too hurtful to actually call someone that.
@@xaverlustig3581 You also cannot forget the BPjM. If a medium is considered to be "Jugendgefährdend" by them, it will not be banned but put on a list, you are still allowed to own it and even sell it, but any kind of advertise is forbidden. There are people who consider this to be a form of censorship.
Just to tell you, Germans who have never lived abroad think their country is super modern. I am German, lived for 5 years in Poland, half a year in Norway and both countries are more modern than Germany. I'm not surprised about anything anymore since my return.
There are some gas stations were you can pay at the pump. But they are rare. And in Germany the people at the gas station make the most money with the shop, not with the fuel, so they want you to come in and buy some other stuff too. The money from the gas goes to the big company behind the station like Shell or Aral, or what ever and in form of taxes to the government.
Actually, I think not paying at the pump has nothing to do with customers' needs but rather with the shop operators. Gas stations usually don't make much money by selling gas (their prices are dictated by the oil companies), but rather with the shop attached to the gas station. So they require drivers to come inside in the hope of them buying something in the store.
#3: The popularity of the iPhone in the USA is probably also because it's seen as a more American phone than Android which is often associated with Samsung. Also, Apple invests huge amounts of money into advertising and marketing which is way more prominent in the USA. Also, Germans seem to be more interested in open software platforms and against the closed system of Apple's iOS and its iTunes store. I can't really see an iPhone as more of a luxury item than a similarly capable Android phone, even though the iPhones are typically much more expensive. Probably that was true seven or more years ago, but not in recent years.
Agreed. Of course, low price can be an advantage, but I usually do an extensive research before buying a new phone as I want to get 1. the biggest bang for the buck and 2. the best feature set with regard to my requirements and usage profile. Never in my research the iPhone offered any USP I really wanted. (+ No adapters needed. :D)
Why the heck should iPhones be so popular in Germany as they are in the US? I don’t see any reasonable reason for that. Apple is obviously an American brand, Americans buy American phones and cars, like Germans buy German washing machines and cars, French buy French cars, Italians buy Italian cars.. why should this be that surprising?
@@GlenDevan1970 well, android is made by Google. So, it's American. If we are talking about hardware, iPhones are pretty Asian, too. They are build by Foxconn, which is as non-American as a company can be.
Ooh I loved visiting both of those countries! My mother’s family immigrated from Croatia (and also Serbia) and we had the opportunity to road trip there for two weeks and actually find THE village that her grandfather was from. It has a total of 12 residents now haha it was a very memorable trip, but I wouldn’t call Croatia or Poland “Wild”...I would say my trip to Cambodia was pretty wild. It was part of a solo trip I took to Vietnam and China...that whole trip was pretty crazy, especially by myself. But well...actually I would have to say that my trip to Iraq and Kuwait was more wild...more Iraq than Kuwait of course. And living in Turkey...that was QUITE the experience.
ThePfistara bin fast vom stuhl gefallen als ich das gesehen habe 😂 95 oktan ist hier standard und wird von car guys als pisse bezeichnet. wie rasten die ammis denn auf ihren 93 oktan müll aus??
@@questionyourself718 die haben an der zapfsäule den mittelwert von motoroktanzahl und researchoktanzahl stehen. wir haben nur die researchoktanzahl stehen, welche immer höher ist
@@Unknown_Genius Because in the US apparently people use iMessage a lot more cause there are so many more iPhones. But honestly judging because of what phones other people have is stupid. Apparently Americans do that. WhatsApp is just more convenient cause you don't have to think about anything as long as you have the phone number.
well there was a time where an android was really good for the offered price xD it tends to change these days, thats why in the future i propably will not buy another android phone ^^
@@aliceinwonderland42020 Android and LionOS are both Linux, are basically the same. When my friend has a problem with her Apple or her smartphone I can do the administration. and btw: my Samsung dropped and no damage
Ist sie sich sicher, dass sie in Deutschland war? 🤔 so ziemlich alles was sie aufgezählt hat ist m.E. nach nichts typisches aber auch nicht groß schockierend? 😅 na ja... 🤷🏻♀️
Das meiste stimmt schon. Bis auf Punkt 2 und das mit der Raucherpause der gesamten Gruppe beim Essen kenn ich es genau so auch. Die Mieten in Punkt 1 sind zumindest in München noch deutlich höher. Und dass es für dich nicht schockierend ist, liegt halt daran, dass du es nicht anders kennst. "Typisch Deutsch" ist davon evtl. jetzt nichts, aber eben doch anders als in Amerika. Wenn man das alles also nicht gewohnt ist und so zum ersten Mal mitkriegt, kann das schon in gewisser Weise schockierend sein, weil man stets anders drüber dachte^^ Einer meiner US-amerikanischen Kommilitonen z.B. war ebenfalls richtig überrascht über den Überhang an Android-Handys und dass man anstelle von SMS eher auf Whatsapp zurückgreift.
@@hankchinaski4651 This Video is about Germany and Cultural Shocks - So I ask again: Why is Hitler (Who wasn't German, he was from Austria, by the way) important here? And Enemies? Who are the Enemies right now? I'm slightly confused.
Matthias da hast du Recht 😄 bei uns in BW an der Schweizer Grenze sind die Mieten auch viel zu hoch, leider. Aber eigentlich dachte ich, hat in Deutschland auch fast jeder nur noch ein iPhone und kein Android mehr 🤷🏻♀️
Number 3 is true, actually. All of my friends prefer Android, because Apple simply is going insane with their pricing. In Germany, nearly everyone goes for the value per Euro "rating". Not simply because "it's cool"
Ferodra, That said, it is rather obscure why all the youth actually buy jeans with big holes in it for a higher price than jeans that are whole. All because "it's cool". Same herd mentality.
@@SLfilmBerlin Sorry I fully disagree. When i went to Tokio - I nearly only saw japanese with Iphone. Shops full of "IphoneCovers, etc..." android was a tiny corner.... (I had a win10 phone ^^).
@@Serahiel yes, apple is strong in japan as well. "fully disagree" does not really apply here but my point was: the US is apple's no1 market. have you seen people with apple watches outside of america? only very few.
1. lol Europe equals luxary? You know Europe has like 30 different countries, right? 2. Never seen a smoke break like that, not whole groups at least. 3. The prize is not that important, most people get their phone "for free" included in a contract, they just pay it then monthly. But its right though that we mostly dont care about luxary items. 4. Yup we're not too futuristic when it comes to EC or credit cards etc (credit cards e.g. are harder to get here!), but on the other side moving your body a few steps more can be healthy, you dont wanna end up like the people in Wall-E xD 5. There isnt really a rule to that. I've heard censored versions as well as original versions. The only difference in our language might be that "fuck" has different meanings in english while "fuck" in german only has the sexual meaning, any time we use it otherwise its just kinda imported from english - what we call anglicism. 6. Mmh you sure Irish Pub was the actual name? Cuz Irish Pub usually refers to the type of pub, meaning it has this british feeling to it. Cant really imagine Irish Pub was the real name. 7. Well if I had to choose to legalize either prostitution or private weapon ownership (if I literally had to choose!) I would be 100% against the guns. It's funny how America was ultimately built as the new Europe centuries ago but today its mindset is way more stuck in the past. This whole weapon, military pathos, patriot, god bless America and what not thing keeps me shaking my head sometimes. US are the least modern of all modern countries in the world when it comes to ideoligies, cultural thinking and global sympathizing. Interesting though how we react when we see new things that are normal to others xD
there is an Irish Pub in like every "bigger" city .... with events like karaoke night every thursday in which the music "stile" isn´t set ... in the one me and my friends go to at least
Bester Kommentar- kann man genau so stehen lassen. Übrigens: Berlin hat sehr niedrige Mieten und noch niedrigere Lebenshaltungskosten, fragt mal Münchner oder Hamburger.
You ever listened to Helene Fischer?! If you want to get ears replaced because you got them rotting on your head do it! And that's the reason we prefer English songs
You drink at age 16 in Germany and in Bavaria, where the Oktoberfest takes place, beer is taxed as basic nutrition, not as alcohol. Being introduced so early to it, makes people a bit more civilized, except for the Ballermann.
Also in a small Restaurant when Parents are there you can drink Beer with 14 years. That came from the Time when Beer (back then with about 1-3% alc) was better than that dirty water for your health.
In some as aspects thats maybe true. Look how we handle the Corona Crisis so far. Definitly better than the US. But surely there are other things where the US is "superior" or has an advantage.
Apple besides its fancy feel is usually overprized garbage that every first year engineer cant help but shed tears about. They are made to brake asap after the waranty rans out and or get made obsolete on purpose by software updates just to sell new units. Americans just care way less if they get scammed big time. Brittains are the same in this luxury bs regard.
Apple did position itself as a high end brand long before smart phones cane about. That said, the real reason why Germans prefer Android OS to iOS is that iOS was designed to be more user-friendly in English. Android is a bit less user-friendly overall, but it is more user-friendly in foreign languages than iOS is due to its customization. You can find data on this online. Most countries that prefer iOS are English-speaking.
ISSO1407 all of what you’ve said is your personal opinion, of course, and none is supported by ANY data, so... Ever consider not being an internet troll? Try it sometime.
I guess it's about iMessage. That's why one person mentioned the "green message" (being a SMS I guess..?). Apple users can simply send messages to other Apple users via iMessage, while Android users can't. That's why Whatsapp is so much more popular here in Germany because it's cross-platform, meaning that Apple as well as Android users can send messages.
@@annamiller2057 You can do group messaging, but I think the default setup is to reply to MMS group messages with individual SMS messages unless you make adjustments in the messages app. But it is possible.
I don’t even know about this IMessage and we are an apple family. I started using WA when it was still 50cent per year or so and IMessage didn’t even exist. Also WA is WAY better than that IMessage stuff. We are an “apple family” which means that we bought the 3G, 5, 6, 7, and iPhone 10. Also as a German I sadly have to say everything in this video is complete trash!!!
Kulturschock? Wohl eher alte Vorurteile über "die Deutschen" oder "die wenauchimmer" durch neue ersetzt PS Eine Wohnung wie bei dir zu sehen kostet auch in Deutschland wesentlich mehr.... Click bait
Don't know about Germany, but in Austria I have never witnessed a smoke break like you described it. :O Also, I'm very proud of our German neighbours to apparently have realized too that iphones are just overpriced junk with restrictive operating systems. *cough*
In Germany it's a fashion statement NOT to own an Iphone. Most Iphone Users are considered to be just uninformed and lazy show-offs who don't look after their stuff. I swear I don't know anyone who has an Iphone that's not broken. Either the front or the back are ALWAYS cracked. And then there's just the general image of Apple.. Let me put it as mildly as I can: It's not very good. There are multiple reasons for this but I think one of the biggest was the tax evasion scandal not that long ago.
@@frage-zeichen Mit meinen Klassenkameraden als ich noch zur Schule gegangen bin zb? Ich weiß nicht gerade die beste Crowd aber hey ich konnte sie mir nicht aussuchen. Aber ich seh zb anhand deines Profilbilds und deines Namens was fürn Typ du bist, insofern wundert mich der Kommentar nicht
The gas station thing is the same in a lot of countries; It's the business model; the people who run the gas stations dont make much or any money from fuel sales and just use them to get potential customers into what is essentially a convenience store. I think the fuel companies pay the capital costs or lease the floor space or something. If you go to a supermarket which sells fuel this doesn't apply, so you can pay at the pump.
@@valeriavagapova I'm from her home country........and I wouldn't consider other countries using different phones a culture shock....now if they all had like personal teleporters or toilets that came to you when you needed em, THAT would be a technological culture shock
@@valeriavagapova but how is it shocking? Different people prefer different brands for pretty much any item. And it's pretty naive to think that everyone would simply want or be able to pay for the most expensive version.
Having a brothel in town isn't shocking for me at all. But to be able to buy war-capable automatic weapons in a shopping mall is shocking for me. Hypocrisy will probably remain the greatest virtue of Americans forever.
ahh, yeah, exactly. Now I have finally understood the difference. To go to a brothel to do what is human nature, you consider degenerate. On the other hand, killing other people in a school massacre or a concert massacre is an honorable self-defense. How fortunate I am that there are people like you who always lead me on the right path and open my eyes.
@@hatemal-baalbaky3417 Yes, engaging with a prostitute and supporting prostitution with all its abuse, slave trade, criminal organizations and the spread of STDs is degenerate. Defending yourself and your family against armed and unarmed criminals is honorable self-defense. Now you got it right.
@@redsimonyt But seriously, dont you think it is interesting that no other country than US has got problems with school shootings? And to be correct if the prostitution is legalized then the abuse and slave trade disappear. I would bet my kidney that being sex worker in official brothel is way way afer (for everybody) than secretly walking the streets. Again, have you ever thought why there are so many serial killers in US if there are only few in other states and why they focus on prostitutes?
Are you thinking of Rammstein? 😂 If so I 100% agree. There are some pretty good rappers as well! (Kennst du Käptn Peng oder Blumentopf?) But German Pop is truly unacceptable.
@@kotoriitsuka6465 Achwas. Die guten deutschen Musiker finden nur eben nicht in der öffentlichkeit statt. Das war in den 70ern noch was anderes… Vor allem während der "Krautrock" Ära. Von DER Qualität ist heute in der deutschen Musik nichts mehr übrig geblieben.
@@oliv2750 not particularly. I myself do not like Rammstein that much. I thought of band like Kreator, Sodom, Subway to Sally and many many more. The german Metal Scene is one of the biggest alongside Skandinavia and South America.
Gas in Germany is actually pretty overpriced. About any other country in the same region (Austria, Netherlands, Belgium, etc) all of them have significantly lower gas prices than Germany has. The reson why paying inside the store is required in germany is because not every person owns credit cards or EC cards to pay without actual cash. *In germany having an EC card is common, but not obligatory, so depending on your bank and/or your account limitations you will not have a card to pay electronically!* Hence there is a "law" for gas station owners to have at least one cashier for each station to take in cash. Also I believe Berlin is the city where presumably the most people are still smoking. It is falling widly out of fashion in most of German cities I know (NRW)
Prices are lower due to different taxes. Actually german gas stations have the lowest revenue in selling gas across europe. Petit Bistro, the cafeteria of Aral gas stations (belongs to BP) are ranked at number 10 among german system caterers. They aggressively offer you take away food if you pay your gas.
@@henningth.3704 Revenue yes, but prices the consumer needs to pay are still pretty high. E.g. Austria has 20% taxes opposed to Germany 19%, despite that gas still is cheaper in Austria (up to 20ct/l depending on which fuel). That is for the same gas stations in both countries!
@Intuition They surely prefer cash or the national Giro Card, but nearly every supermarket and many other stores and restaurants in Germany accept Visa, Mastercard, Maestro and V-Pay.
@Intuition It's not a question about knowing the better way, but about economy. Credit card ownership has been virtually zero in Germany. You pay cash. If you don't pay cash, you pay by debit card. To accept credit cards, you need contracts with all those credit card providers. And they actually charge you for those contracts, so you only want them if you have enough payments with those cards. Which you don't, unless you are in a tourist region. Like 15 years ago or so, many places would only let you pay with a debit card above a certain amount, like 10 or 15 bucks. Things have changed in the last couple of years though. You can now pay almost everywhere with debit cards and even quite some supermarket chains like Edeka will let you pay with Visa and Mastercard. You also can pay almost everywhere if your credit or debit card supports Maestro (look for the symbol).
Thanks so much to everyone who has downloaded and played Misha’s game Run For Cover! Did you guys like it?? I’m a little embarrassed to admit that i can’t even get beyond the supply truck haha
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Its ok for a prototype i would say, but the art style wasnt that attractive to me. Very promising demo though.
Sorry but I could not get it to run, even in admin mode. I am running 32-bit Windows 10
@@ffxcity1 thank you for checking out my game! it's a 64-bit build and that is unfortunately not supported by you system! I could try to provide you a 32-bit build in the future though!
Alan Bacon why would you use 32bit win10? 🤔
@@stndrd3608 non Intel CPU on a netbook?
Well, no. 2 isn't a common thing in Germany. Leaving a dinner table with a whole group during the main course... This might be happen in Berlin but definitely not all over Germany. Never ever experienced this kind of behaviour.
Same here, it baffling to me that she encountered this so often. If someone wants to smoke they usually do it while waiting for the food, not during the meal.
Especially not in the middle of dinner. Noone interrupts dinner for a smoke and then returns to continue eating. This has to be a misconception. Going for a smoke after eating is a pretty common thing though. And if you're in a group of smokers, they might all leave at once, which seem to me as the least surprising thing.
I have never seen someone leaving for a smoke during the dinner either. Afterwards yes or maybe before, when the dinner takes a lot of time to come.
Greeting from Berlin! We also don't so such silly things here. Never saw something like this.
I'm german..... and i've never been eating at a restaurant, just to see the whole table disappear for a smoke... especcially in the middle of a dinner ;-)
I am german, but I have never seen a group of people go out smoking before finshing their meals....
Its normal. I see it a lot and have experienced it a lot.
@sequoia 3312 I havent seen that a full table is leaving, yet I have experienced for example, my Mom, Dad and Aunt going for a smoke leaving me there. Its the same thing. We have a lot of smokers in our family so it happens quite often. It disgusts me - but it happens.
Me too, I think maybe that's because of where you live in Germany
I am german too and never saw that... but I will be looking out for it ... (how strange!)
I am German as well and I do that all the time xD
Living in Germany my entire life... Never ever seen one of these "Smoke breaks"
39 years in Germany, never witnessed this - and I have tons of friends who smoke.
I agree it's not a comment thing
da wird das Essen doch kalt o_O
It is a common thing in Germany? I've seen it already couple of times, but mostly older people like 40-60 they do this.
Same here. Sometimes after having food and then only a few people of the group.
1. Rent for an apartment can be much higher than 10€ per m² and that is only the so called "cold rent" which means that electricity, water, heating, phone, cable TV and maintenance cost (trash removal, cleaning, gardening) will be on top. It's quite normal, that people in Germany spend 35-50% of there netto income (after tax ) for the rent. Not that cheap and of course except the kitchen, you rent empty rooms without any furniture.
2. That an entire company leaves the table at a restaurant for a smoke break during dinner is very rare. I have never experienced that and I'm a 56 year old local.
3. Paying with your credit card at the gas pump only works for US citizens who have a US credit card and a home ZIP code. As a tourist, even with 2 valid platinum cards (Master + Visa) but without a resident zip code, I had to enter the shop, guess how much $$ my fill would be, get my card charged for that amount, than I could start pumping gas. If I underestimated the needed amount for a complete fill, I have to do that again, if I estimated to much, I had to get back to the store, to get the overpaid $$ transferred back to my credit card. Nowhere could I pump first and pay later at the shop, because they obviously think that every customer is a possible gas thief who makes a run without paying. Nice if you live there, but a stone age system if you are a tourist.
4. To find prostitution in the US is not that hard, since they just cover it up as massage parlors or escort services (happy endings guaranteed). Even open street prostitution can easy be found in big city's like L.A. or San Francisco.
I have never found more prudish and hypocrite people as in the US, sorry to say that.
Sex as as normal part of live in the US, ha ha, but the whole nation goes berserk if a nipple is shown on TV for a split second? LOL
A country, where a mixed sauna is automatically considered as a brothel or a swinger club? Where a commercial for a bra is not shown on TV, but is the biggest producer of porn movies world wide?
Where you can be arrested if you change your wet swim trunks under a wrapped around towel on a public beach? Regarding sex, the US is rely screwed up form a European point of view.
This deserves much more likes
2. We do this all the time between courses^^
100% agree especially about the “sex” view and nudity. I sold video games to a mother and asked her point blank why she would let her 10 year old son play a game where he would be witnessing someone’s head being blown off and forced to torture someone over a game that had a warning of mild nudity...
She couldn’t answer me.
I always have the feeling Americans think Europe is a country...
edit:
This comment was not ment to hurt someones feelings or to call into question the intelligence of USA citizens
I'm totally aware that the knowledge of some few people does not, in any way, represent the knowledge of an entire nation
And I want to apologize in case someone felt uncomfortable due to reading this comment
Theyre not the smartest nation
To some degree "Europe", when it comes to the "Union", has features of a country.
Because lf the binnengrenzen
They say they are going to "Europe" but what do they mean? What country is Europe? XD
@@maxdavies9958 Same as saying "going to the US", really. Where in the US? The USA is a very large place.
I am shocked how easily you are getting shocked.
American in Germany:
Has to pay the gas IN the gas station= 😳SHOCK!!!
Hears the word FUCK on the radio= 😳SHOCK!!!
Sees a poster on the street that contains the word FUCK= 😳SHOCK!!!
Sees a brothel= 😳SHOCK!!!
Sees people smoking= 😳SHOCK!!!
Realizes that iphone is overprized trash= 😳😳😳SH-SH-SHOOOCK!!!
German in America:
Sees more gunstores than Mcdonalds= 🤠Ok.
Drinks a beer on the street and get's arrested= 🙁WHAT THE F U C K!!!
Sees the speed limit on the highway= 😒 Yeah, that one will be fun......................................😒
Sees gun controls in schools= 😳Actually shocked!
Goes to California= 😳Nah just kidding!!!😂😂😂
@@rall172 HA that last one. Savage ;D
On first note could say I agree, but glad to hear something different or less-commercial of a talking point.. you know, beer, autobahn, that kind of stuff.. There are like 100 channels talking about beer and autobahn, so I'd rather hear something different lol :P :D
she complains always the germans would smoke a lot... send her to austria! she wont come back! i am sure, she talks that much during she's got sex!
It's just a fun light-hearted video about cultural differences, obviously she's not actually "shocked" in the real sense of this word. Some of y'all are so negative, come on guys
Berlin hasnt the highest rents, Hamburg and Munich are way more expensive
3vr1m try cities in the Stuttgart area and Darmstadt
@@thisisgoddi4517 youre srsly comparing darmstadt with munich ?
3vr1m im not saying that Darmstadt is more expensive than Munich but it is on the top ten list of most expensive cities if you talk about rent. You’re right, Munich is pretty damn expensive with 17,56 € per squaremeter. But still Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Mainz and yes, even Darmstadt are up there.
However I personally believe that looking at rent in cities is problematic. Comparing smaller districts would be more insightful. For example Ditzingen near Stuttgart has a significantly higher rent cost than Stuttgart.
I didn’t want to say that Munich isn’t expensive or that Darmstadt is more expensive but rather that Munich can be expected to be expensive, is a big city. But Darmstadt is one of the smaller cities in Germany but still has incredibly high rent costs.
Sorry for the confusion
@@thisisgoddi4517 alright then.
thisisgoddi I agree Darmstadt is one of the more expensive cities (according to the internet, the average rent is 11,77€/square meter), but I guess it also always depends on where you want to live in the city (which area). Hamburg as an example, the average rent is (according to the same page) 13,26€, but it can increase drastically when you’re renting a flat in the Altstadt, which can be up to 21,35€/square meter.
I think you were in a different Germany than in wich i live
mandela effect, bro mandela effect ;3
Dasselbe dachte ich mir auch, was ein bullshit 😂
Where do you guess she lives?
I tell you why germans have to pay their gas into the store - you earn very poor money by selling gas. But selling drinks and items is how the gasoline stations make their profit
I was going to write the exact same thing. Gas stations don't make a lot from gas. They NEED you to come inside and maybe buy something else. That's also why the card pay option - on gas stations that have one - are only active while the gas station "shop" is closed.
Ah and btw someone should tell Kelly that complaining about not being able to name your child like crazy in germany in one video doesn't fit to being shocked about "fuck" isn't censored and smoking is popular in the other.
That's what she said.
This is exactly what my German husband explained to me when I was freaking out about standing in line to pay for gas. But...seriously - it's 8 BUCKS A GALLON!
@@LythaWausW the problem with the price is that the gouverment i taking 80% of the 8 bucks and its only pennys profit for the gasstation
#3 is wrong too. Reason for WhatsApp is that text messages were expensive for a long time, so people switched to WhatsApp.
text message from iPhone to IPhone is free. They call it IMessage. It's not a specific kind of app, it is integrated into text messaging.
Telegram!
@@krux02 yeah but not all the time. Also if i wanted to Communicate with someone without an iPhone i still needed whatsapp
@@obivan22431 thats why she talked about whatsapp, its seem in USA everone has iPhone so they can use iMessage
@@obivan22431 Why do you have to use Whatsapp to text someone without an iPhone? (I have never owned an iPhone)
I never saw people interrupt the dinner for a smoke in germany.
I don't like iPhone, because I hate being restricted. And why should I pay for iPhone, when there are lots of better phones with a lower price.
Same
And just thinking of, no wifi, no internet. And then your bud want to send you a picture or something... so that leaves Bluetooth.. if you're having an iphone and the other an android it wouldn't work. (This case happened 4 years ago, dont know if it's the same today)
And then you need for every thin an extra...(if you have an iphone) extra port for aux, extra port for charging, extra Bluetooth radio with the function to connect with iphones...
So at least you're not just paying 1.000€ for the iphone, you're paying extra for everything . That leaves you maybe by 2000€
I witnessed a bunch of smoke breakes in Germany. It's not at all common, but happens if pretty much everyone is a smoker and there is no warm food on the table anymore.
Yeah, same. I can charge basically everywhere since all chargers are the same, except for Iphones. I can watch every video I am sent, Iphone users never can see mine and more.
I had a windows phone before, and I loved it. All the apps were deletable (unlike android or apple) so now with my android I have a million unused apps taking up memory space. Then again, I can just insert a new SD-card (unlike Iphones)and triple the memory space (or much more, depending on the SD-card.) It's just more convient and user friendly.
My friends do it all the time.
"Die Gemütsverfassung des Durchschnittsamerikaners ist mit "naiv" sehr wohlwollend umschrieben" - Volker Pispers
Fakt
Heilig's blechle. Die gute war bloß überrascht. Sie hat nirgendwo behauptet, die Dinge nicht zu verstehen. Volker Pispers ist der Mario Barth der Satire. USA, kennste, kennste?
@@hansheinrich125 Und wer machts besser?
@@sausagepeople5168 auch wenn Pispers der einzige (und damit auch beste) wäre, ändert das nichts an seiner Qualität
Joa Amis sind seltsam.
It's a culture shock to me that thees things are culture shocks.
Yeah ... I never had a culture shock in an other culture, because before I visit a country with an other culture I inform myself about this culture ... xD
@@DasTamii me too.. I don't really get it when people say oh i am so shocked haha 😂
Same
word! But Americans have culture shocks very likely (soon). :) It's part of their episteme.
@@DasTamii that is because u never lived in another country for a year or so
Berlin is actually on the cheaper side when it comes to rent. Look at rent prices in Munich or Stuttgart....
Stuttgarter here, can confirm.
@@l33tnobody1337 Tübingen here ;) Pretty much as bad as Stuttgart lol
@@ThePrism21 Yeah, other Cities in the area aren't much different.. Ludwigsburg, Fellbach (where I live), Waiblingen, Reutlingen, Nürtingen, Sindelfingen, Böblingen Esslingen. If it's close to Stuttgart (using the term "close" very loosely here) it's most likely expensive.
What city beside Berlin, is cheap?
@@l33tnobody1337 same for Heilbronn
I thought the most shocking thing would be seing 16 year old people drinking Beer because in some states in America you are allowed to drink alcohole at the age of 21
I have another video planned for this because yes, that was really shocking haha
The strange part is that they are allowed to drive and fight in wars before they are allowed to drink alcohol...
@@nadinerick1182 this isn't strange in my opinion because if they respect the law they will drive 5 years without any contact to alcohole
Puerto Rico its 18 years when it's legal. :)
Nadine Rick it's because America has more cars and highways than trains and railway lines.
I pay for gas inside. I have an android. I smoke. I am American.
which android?
@@sausagepeople5168
LGL52VL. Not great but works for me. Great price.
Understand a bit english and say, so what??? She said in usa smoking people cigarettes too and use android phone too.
@@poltergeist8014 ???
@@upsidedowndog1256 With this 2 things was nothing special what you said.
My thoghts about thse:
1. The talk about 10€ per square meter is problematic. The rule of thumb in Germany is that the rent should not exceed 30 percent of the income after tax, pension payments and health care. Nowadays, it often exceeds 40 percent, and in some cities like Munich, it is higher than most people earn. If I interpolate what you said, then the rent for that Washington appartment exceed 2150 USD, which is more than the average income in Germany.
2. I have never seen such a smoke break as you described. This is completely uncommon in restaurants, and in bars only some of the poeple leave the table.
3. Android is preferred because of better value, iPhones are too expensive. Nowadays, Samsung is going down the same route nad becoming increasingly less popular. A lot of people here like to spend about 300-400 EUR for a smart phone, not more. Also, a lot of people dislike the vendor lock-in and silly limitations like not being able to directly access files on the phone when it is connected to a PC.
4. You are right about German gas stations. They are taking over the role of convenience stores over here and make almost no profit from the gas itself.
5. Swearing is a part of everybody's life, so it's unnatural to remove it from the media. Also, sometimes people just don't care or they don't even understand. Have a look at this classic commercial form the Netherlands: ua-cam.com/video/7nQ9lmriWOc/v-deo.html
6. That singing along depends. But sure, American music is played all the time. And british music. And english language music from Sweden. And, and, and...
7. Making prostitution legal is important to ensure social security for sex workers. Also, why waive the opportunity to collect takes for these businesses?
You´re completely right ! My only "shock" was to see, what Kelly shocked in Germany ... especially her feeling of the numbers of smoking in Germany. I never smoked, in my family nobody smokes and the only person I remember smoking is the cowboy from the Marlboro commercial...
Apple and Android are both american products - so why the "culture shock"...???
Additional to 1.: There are cheap prices, for example for food, because we have one of the biggest low income sectors in Europe, when it comes to employment (ua-cam.com/video/Uxs0asqdSAk/v-deo.html). Now this also explains why the rents are high and getting higher from the (average) German's point of view, because they spend like 30 to 70 % of their income for these rents!
I totally agree with everything listed above. Maybe as a little addition: to #2 just like a lot people who already commented on this, I never experienced this kind of smoking break. Usually everyone finishes their food before leaving for a cigarette, sometimes taking a drink with them, but never standing up in the middle of dinner, leaving the food on the table.
To #4: There is a security aspect to this, too. Having people come into the station gives both sides control over the act of payment. Aside from that, yes, almost everyone going in will buy something. Even if it is only a snack, something to drink or some chewing gum.
To #5: English swear-words aren't removed from media as it is a foreign language and radio stations as well as television try to honor the original content without meddling with it. You will hear German swear words being censored. Making thema radio edit, too. There is a common rule in media in Germany to only play the uncensored versions on TV or radio after 10pm, as the audience should be old enough to understand or deal with them.
The situation should be just like in the US. If I remember correctly, they censor the english swear words, but none of the foreign languages. I even came across a pub in LA which seemed to make it a fun game to put as many German curse words on the menu as possible.
To #6: the world of German music just seems a little limited, so everyone try to seek music to their liking in the variety of world music. USA being the biggest musical provider will have the most possibilities for everyone. Even German musicians try to sing in english to maybe be invited on a tour in North America.
I've seen those smoke breaks. However not so common while there is still leftovers from the meal. Usually after eating and while staying for drinks. Completely Empty tables have been a common sight for me when I was younger. Since less and less people are smoking, it becomes more common to see 1 or 2 people staying at the table.
Also for the brothels. They aren't as accepted as it might seem. Whenever a new one opens in a small town, there is a lot of countermovement. People are afraid of the people running those places. And while yes, legalising them is needed to ensure social security for the sex workers, it also makes it even harder to take down people who are forcing others into this kind of work, I think. Very complex if you ask me and I am not really decided for myself if I think brothels being legal in Germany is a good thing or not.
4. I am shocked she did not notice that she is lured into a shop. Never bought a chewing gum there?
5. Germans are a bit special in this even compared to the rest of Europe, though. Not the word she bleeped out, that is hardly noteworthy if you are not overly prudish. But Germans do have a quirky fascination with errr, the waste products of biological bodies. And not just Knorkator, or Rammstein.
6. Meh, we sing along in all languages we speak, and those we do not speak, as well. My fave is listening to people singing along in Finnish. You know, all that cool Finnish metal. But if they need to feel shpeshul when we know their music, be our guests. We are just not so insecure that we bother noticing such things. Maybe she should compare it with folks knowing Rammstein texts by heart, and German is not exactly a language spoken around the globe.
Which reminds me of a crime of my parents: I do not think I will ever forget the text of "voulez vous couchez avec moi, ce soir". In some areas you can still hear that song to this day, including the elderly folks singing along. I guess "voulez vous *bleep* avec moi" just doesn't cut it, so I figure no one would ever be tempted to sing along with such "pop culture" over there.
#3 While you see the iPhone as a luxury good and associate positive things with it and their owner, I see it as an overpriced and technically behind product. Therefor my initial assumption is that the owner is not that smart until proven otherwise.
Well, for one, there's no bloatware on IPhones. I really hated those useless apps that would only eat up my storage. I also like my display to be clean and minimalistic. Like, why would I want an icon that shows that I switched off automatic downloads when I'm not connected via W-Lan? Then again, I can't take anyone serious who gets the newest iPhone OR Samsung etc just because it's new.
@@nadinerick1182 Hmm, wasn't it on the iPhone where you couldn't remove icons from the home screen? There are obviously arguments for the iPhone but picking this?
@@outlucked I juat noticed how the icon bar of a coworker was so much more crowded than mine. Like, an icon because you switched something OFF seemed ridiculous.
Generally, I just like its simplicity and design. but I don't really care about any brand as such.
iOS and Android is just personal preference. Has nothing to do with being smart. I don't think it is smart to buy a phone every two years and pay 1000bucks for it. Explain to me what you mean with technically behind. I think in general germans just don't see a smartphone as a luxury item and they always want their best for their money, which is imo a really subjective topic. Because your best isn't necessarily my best.
@@jooplin my best is good enough. when it comes to phones that is!
I live in Germany, I smoked for 15 years and know a lot of people who still smoke and I have NEVER seen anyone take a smoke break DURING a meal. I don't know where might have seen that, but it's not something inherently german..
KaBeeM
In European part of Russia IT IS VERY common to leave the meal to smoke a cigarette outside the... restaurant? so maybe she saw Russians doing that in Germany and thought they were Germans.
maybe they were finished but didn't eat all.
In live in germany too and I'm not at all surprised by that
Yep, russians do that!))))
In Hürth am kino gibt es welche
You can't compare Berlin with other capitols. Because of the german history it's much cheaper than elsewhere. Compare Munich instead.
MDomi true you are probably from Munich so you should know that she could not afford a fucking 1 room apartment in nymphenburg
Ist es nicht sogar in Ost-Berlin billiger als im Westen wegen der DDR? So kommt es mir immer vor und ja, Berlin kann man für Mietpreise vergleichen schlecht nehmen
If you want to see the German Lifestyle, don't live in Berlin 🤷♂️😅
Haha. Berlin in den 80/90ern war Oldschool Industrieumbruchstimmungheute Nur noch ein Moloch für Hippe Neureiche Süddeutsche
ffs if you want real german culture move to Chile or Argentina
Oliver Brands the moment people talk about Germany but live in Berlin. Stupid and ignorant
Ja - Berlin ist schlicht ein Drecksloch für den Abschaum dieses "Landes" in mehrfacher Hinsicht.
Exactly
What's luxurious about Apple? It's cheaply made and expensive.
@@moxxer22 I buy android because Apple is American, and no better than it's Asian counterpart.
I also find that Apple products are "rigged" to not last as long, but are faaaar more expensive.
For me Apple=rip off.
Things being expensive creates the expection/illusion of them being of higher quality. If Apple weren't that expensive, it would have no chance against Samsung and the likes, because they rely on that illusion.
@@moxxer22
So google is Asian in the mind of Muricans? LUL!!!
Spity huawei samsung lenovo...
@@moxxer22
These are Hardware manufacturers. Android is made by Google in the US like apple does IOS. And their Hardware manufacturer is Foxcon. A Chinese company with Samsung screens...
I bet every german can sing 'country roads' with perfect lyrics.
huener helt learned it in primary school or junior high and I dont know why, probably because my teacher could play the guitar and was bored
I never heard it... I live in Germany my hole live
LANDSTRASSEEEEEE BRING MICH NACH HAUUUUUS ZU DEM ORRRRRT WO ICH HINGEHÖÖÖÖÖRR Well i dunno… that song would not really work in German.
@@KRAFTWERK2K6 Yes in german in would sound dumb but this is with many songs the english original sounds better. Ypu´re part would then be: Country Road take me home to the place i belong.
But not all german music is bad but the bad thing the from japan by modern music most loved is actually less and less made.
I talk about the german versions or the german interprtations of anime openings. Just look at Inuyasha the german version sounds great with good music and text and the meaning of the text just fit´s with the story. The japanese version well i don´t really get it sounds for me more like some kind of Schlager. By the way i´m a german too and i´m not sure if Schlager es such have an english word.
@@KRAFTWERK2K6 I wonder if it sounds as stupid to english natives in english. xD
being a german i can tell you that not all the people who left are smokers, because even the non-smokers will leave to continue conversation
I think you got that wrong with the luxury stuff. In germany and europe its just more common to care about the quality and the Features than the Name Apple or something else. Just compare the Interior of european cars with American cars than you see the big quality difference and why we dont have many American cars 🤷♂️
indeed, when I first saw a Tesla, I checked the clearance of doors/etc. and was shocked about that crap, even some aged Lada does a lot better.
Ford makes really good cars (nowdays), Yes they Don't have the Most expensive interiours, but are usually cheaper than comparatively equiped VW's or Skoda's.
And VW just builds crap, i seriously can't get into my head how someone can build something so horribly Bad to repair.
@@sinthoras1306 Thats true, but every car sucks to repair today. I really like Ford for their pricing and the new Focus is really good but i always have to say if you take a look, as you mentioned, on VW (and i really don't like VW) the overall quality is just higher (not in every car of them for sure) and the infotainment is really good. My company Car is a Ford Mondeo and its nice that i can use Android Auto/Car but if i want to connect my company phone at the same time there's no chance to do it while in a VW i can connect 3 Phones or more while using Android Auto/Car. just little things like that :D
Your hatred of Americans is creepy. Stop the hate
OMG, being "shocked" by paying your gas inside the gas station....
...being "shocked" by the popularity of Android....
...this is "shocking" to me😂
even tho android phones are mostly superior. (if you pick the right one (poco f1 by xiaomi))
Erstens gibt es zumindest in NRW viele Tankstellen, bei denen man nur noch mit Karte an der Zapfsäule tanken kann und zweitens war ich 2003 in den USA schockiert, meine Kreditkarte in der Gas Station abgeben zu müssen, bevor ich tanken durfte und konnte mir die Karte anschließend wieder holen. Das fand ich echt schräg.
I'm shocked by the "English" some people produce in the comments 😂
Typical stereotype of a simple minded us girl.
Wow. Ok, this is so embarrassing as an American. Please let me speak for the rest of us who didn't grow up Amish.
In the us, you are more afraid of breasts than arms. That's why you have radio versions of songs.
>That's why you have radio versions of songs.
And school shootings. -.-
The amount of German commenters, who either do not understand Kelly or who constantly need to be reminded by Kelly, she is only sharing her personal experiences and of course not all Germans are the same, is too damn high!
Now. Thank you for sharing your experiences with us, Kelly. I really enjoy your content :) Keep up the great work!
There are automated gas stations in Germany. But most people do not like them and they are more on remote places...
I never came across one in Germany haha but as soon as I would cross the border to the Netherlands, for example, there was an immediate difference in gas stations where I could pay at the pump
@@Kellydoesherthing come to the gas station of hemme, Schleswig-Holstein, Dithmarschen. There is one which is fully automatic.
You lived in Mainz!!! I know that train station.
I live in Munich and there are several automatic gas stations. The one I usually got to is the one at the V-Markt (Balanstr.) where you can choose if you like to pay at the cashier or at the gas pump. If you pay at the gas pump, you even get a discount voucher of 2ct per liter. And they often sell the cheapest fuel around without this discount.
*12 years
i can confirm from different rural areas that first somewhat encouraged attempts actually happen around that age becoming excessive for some teens around 14 yo
i'm now 23 and for my feeling had to sometimes fight against alcohol offerings since beeing around 15 which i strongly disagree with...
i hate the way alcohol is almost worshipped where even our Drugminister posts pictures of her schnaps but says e.g. that cannabis is forbidden because its illegal.
i guess its encouraged because it keeps us 'busy and happy' so the government can keep on doing nothing for the individuals and pushing corporations
sorry that topic gets me going ._.
An American woman is shocked about the freedomof art...
Oh the land of Freedom
Freedom of art.... _sees Artikel 13_
Welp, that's it with the freedom 🤠🤠🤠
@@yoonsuckz3107 you got brainwashed by the media. its a great idea to solve things like fake news and meme stealing. just the media and people who watched it are worried about it while everyone else doesnt give a fk. very strange right?
@@hfweuiofnweuio500 Dafuq are you talking about
Propaganda Minister wat
@@hfweuiofnweuio500 brainwashed by the media? if you haven't noticed yet, the mainstream media is promoting article 13
video title is _"Culture Shocks"_
-> talks about different smartphones
Thats american "culture" for you.
Ay lmao
😂😂
Only american/brainwashed idiot thinks that iDevices are good
That´s really ridiculous for both Apple AND Android (Google) are american products !!!
Android doesn't suck
yes, she totally says that thats american culture, and nothing more. good point.
you think it's not modern to pay face to face.....mh sad how unpersonal the people get.
We buy Android because we pay for the technology in our hand and not the logo on the device
So true
That profile pic fits perfectly to this statement 😀👌🏻
Epic Panzer_1 Well, then you pay for crappy technology.😜👍🏻
THANK YOU!
@@mineduggery3309 Android is objectively more potent than Apple. you can get phones with similar capabilities for half the price, or you can pay the same and get a significantly better phone.
#3 Besides pricing, Apple is doing many things in a weirdly proprietary and incompatible way, and it's less open.
One thing i dont like in Apple (i have mini mac) is that they want my credit card info , to me to be able to load FREE upgrades to their apps , that they provided with this computer.
OP and browser are free and easy to update but rest , what are they thinking ?
Oh hey , i have this its FREE , but first i need your credit card info before i give it to you ... sounds like a scam .
Also iPhone aint nothing but trouble , running extremely hot , short battery life and winter , iPhone does not seem to like it at all ... then again its still best selling Nokia model.
Yes, Germans are very suspicious of Apple and their handling of data. Also, we hate proprietary set-ups that force you into buying more stuff.
@@pete_lind I've been using Apple products for a long time now, both computers and iPhones, and I never had to enter any credit card info to download any updates, or for anything else for that matter. I don't even have a credit card. O.o
@Hans you mean because on google you can't just watch through someones camera without them knowing through a bug?
Also iPhones are like 100-200 bucks cheaper in the US
Berlin is by far not the most expensive place to live. Munich and Hamburg are much more expensive. That's because Berlin is not that important economically. That is something special about Germany
Berlin is (one of? ) the only capitals that costs more money than it generates
Alles eine Frage des Bezirks
@@Ruuod twitter.com/simongerman600/status/924753212317536256?s=19
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i promise you, regardless of the city, my point remains the same - rent in germany is cheaper than what i expected. i expected the types of prices you see in switzerland. does that clarify it better?
@@Kellydoesherthing living in Hamburg Altona, or Munich Grünewald or Stuttgart Killesberg is horrendous. If you compare square meter prices to Dc its actually a bit cheaper but not cheap by any means.
Petrol stations in Germany make their most money from the snacks and drinks and what ever you can buy in the shop. So when you refill your tank you will see all these snacks or drinks and take one with you.
I'm an American and always pay for gas inside. A lot of Americans do. Personally I usually have to get something anyways, also scammers use the pumps to steal credit card information so I don't use them.
Derek Gray Nah nah nah...... *SHOCK*
c H E A P - I have lived my whole life in Germany and I am still broke as hell
Same
Edit: why do i watch this
Germans are the poorest people in Europe as measured by median net worth.
That´s what I was thinking!
@@Steve-yd9ki I find that very hard to believe....
@@saammmy7 so check it for yourself ^^
I remember an interview of a popular rock band after a world tour (don't remember which band it was, sry). They were asked if there were differences between fans in the different countries, certain habits that were more or less typical for those regions. They mentioned all kind of things, but one thing I still remember is what they said about German fans. They told the reporter that the German fans knew every single song by heart not just the refrain like most fans but everything and that they would sing along for the whole duration of the concert.
I totally believe that. Thanks for taking the time to share this with me...that’s really interesting and a great question from the interviewer to ask
I'm from Germany, and it's totally normal that German people know nearly all of the song lyrics, which is playd on the radio (not with all songs but most of them)
Greetings from Germany ❤
PS: Sry for my English, I'm only 13 and l learn it at school
@@bernhardhanke3724 i would much rather say, that if they are a fan of an artist, or if they like a specific song, they know most lyrics of it, usually :)
Yeah I agree, I also can admit that I am like this too.
I have been to 3 concerts in my life (all in 1 year) and I permanently sang along
Also if I am just listening to music I know the lyrics of nearly every song.
I heard that several times. As far as I can recall, it were Runrig, R.E.M., Radiohead, Muse and Metallica. I think Thome Yorke was particularly irritated by this. I seem to remember hearing James Hetfield say, he had a sore throat the other night, but nobody in the audience noticed it, because they were all singing along anyway. Michael Stipe said in an interview that the German audience usually knew the words to “It's The End of The World” better than he did.
I've never seen anyone taking a smoke break in restaurants.
I did but certainly not the whole table at the same time
I've seen it a lot and still do. But I'm surrounded by smokers who need at least 3 cigarettes a day to survive.
@@megalodon4586 I see it also but most of the time not the whole table at the same time
maybe we don't go to the same restaurants :)
You know nothing! John Snow
@@KalleVonEi ?????
well i personaly prefere an android phone because you simply get more functionality for a smaller price
Americans call that "frugal". Amazeballs !
oh der Cludo dich hätte ich hier nicht erwartet
@@sascha5724 warum das denn?
@@rammsterdamm020 really? I always thought frugal meant taking the cheaper stuff even when the quality is much lower. Taking something that's cheaper AND better just seams like the smart thing to do 🤷♀️
Now I finally understand the difference between free speech and free *beep* .
Land of the beep :D
why did she beep? :O dont understand
Poor Americans, lacking basic freedom of speech.
They can't even shout "America, fuck yeah!" on the radio without having to beep.
@@michielvoetberg4634 but on youtube you dont have to beep do you?
@@StokesburyUSA //Please, educate yourself: www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/human-freedom-index-2018-newsrelease.pdf.
Brothels are legal, because that was the best way to stop exploitation. Sex-workers, as we call them, get access to special medical monitoring, get social care and in return pay taxes. They can sue costumers and get statutory help in case of exploitation. So - no pimps, all the money goes directly to the worker.
That all may seem disreputable, but you simply has to face the facts, that you can't thwart prostitution. And i think this typical german, to have a legal practical framework even for things, everyone else would rather like to vilify and in consequence scrap from the political agenda .
Eh, it's not like it's really working to protect prostitutes. There's a reason Germany is called the brothel of Europe.
Exploitation is still very real. Including human trafficking for sex work. Just banning it won't work, as the US shows, but the way we regulate prostitution isn't working out so well either. We need a better system still.
All that aside, why should prostitution even be illegal? A crime is any act that damages another person or the general public. With prostitution, nobody is harmed. Moral outrage is not a good reason to outlaw something. It's the same logic why gay sex should not be illegal.
There is no perfect solution, especially when the subject of matter is already a moral offside to start with.
Legalizing prostitution was a delicate matter here in germany, and we did a very rational approach. In the end the pros beat moral objections.
That germany became the brothel of europe is follow-up, that also has it pros and cons. With a legal status and a protective framework sex-work became lucrative for foreign nationals. On the first glance this may look like a failure, but basically this has drained women exploitation beyond our borders.
I have just read in the Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_Germany) that you even may get visas for sex-working.
Summarized, we did a very sensible approach to a scorned subject, and it had an impact how other countries see us. But i see it as walking an high road out of pure reasoning. And that's why i like it as part of the german culture.
There may not be a pimp, but usually prostitutes have to rent their room for - the one site I checked out - a pretty hefty daily or weekly sum. But I guess it's better that way than having to work a street corner.
@@flashnfantasy As far as I know, female and male prostitution has always been legal in post-war West Germany. There were alterations over the years concerning its status, tax and welfare implications, but not its legality as such. The only kind of prostitution being illegal was male to male, and that was legalised at the same time gay sex became legal in 1969.
Now as a German I finally understand what "Radio Edit" means.
I always thought it was more about shortening the duration of the tracks
though I also got to know:
black eyed peas - let's get it started
was originally named
Let's get retarded
I think this is a good example for why having radio versions of songs might not be so terrible. Mostly the non-radio versions of songs are just loaded up on profanity. Is this artistic? I guess it might be. But then using "retarded" in song lyrics, and having it play all the time, I think maybe we're better off not hearing that.
@@Albatrosspro1 it's the artists call. Censoring it is unjustifiable intervention.
I respect your opinion, but I think in the world right now, the selective censorship of profanity is one of the most justifiable forms of limiting free speech. There are many things that it is not socially acceptable to say that are much more true and more valuable to humanity than "f***".
@@Albatrosspro1 so "there are worse instances of censorship" is an argument to perpetuate it in this instance? Don't get me wrong it's fine if you disapprove of profanity but wouldn't it be the better approach if the people taking issue with it would stop listening rather than stopping people from distributing.
hahaha, "red lights" (more like violet lights I guess) in windows in my country means someone's growing their plants 😂
or it is a dark room, with the small lights on
As a german I have never experienced any of those smoking breaks during meals anywhere and I've even worked as a waiter before ... I'm pretty sure the places I eat at wouldn't just let everyone from the table get up and leave either without paying. That sounds super random to me and germans would be the first to frown upon such rude behaviour, if it were a common thing to happen.
Also I don't smoke and I rarely know anyone who does.
Regarding the whole iPhone issue: in Germany you have quite a lot of people who are rather critical of large companies like Google (or ABC as they are now called, I think?), facebook or Apple, because of their tendency to create all-encompassing, more or less closed and proprietary systems (speaking of both hardware and/or services). This business model is frowned upon as it is seen as some kind of "digital totality", which in itself carries the seed of a potential "digital totalitarianism", as in big companies watching, evaluating and in the end controlling every one of our digital footsteps.
But you are also right in your vid, as often people state that they think that iPhones are "form over function" stuff that only works well because of the closed, proprietary nature of the Apple/iOS world, while being way overpriced when looked at as a simple piece of technology. People who prefer using Apple products are often refered to as "Apple disciples", meaning that they are drivenby some digital lifestyle cult instead of rational consideration.
Do you want "Calculator" allow to make and manage phone calls?
The only intellectual comment in this section
The parent company of Google is called Alphabet, but close enough :-D
People are critical of them but they still use them.
I totally second this.
you dont know why people in Germany listen to american music? you havent heard German Pop, do you?
Lololol
Marchening actually it‘s just as bad as american pop. :P
@@Koresos. Nothing is worse than German "Schlager". You have to be super drunk to be able to endure it.
Marchening Die Aertzte? Whenn you are old enough...;)
@@adorinadorin thats not Pop
What's this? The most point aren't True... By the way: I'm german
Iphones are just old-tech compared to android ... and the walled garden mentality of apple is kind of not appreciated (just my opinion)
the wall-in provides a sane level of app quality and security. whereas Google has completely lost control of that. as a consequence Google has to do a restart of Android.
First Android is not a phone brand so stop acting like it is. Android is just an OS and iOS was always better. Faster, more polished and secure.
My reason for having Android was the walled garden of Apple. Developers have to pay a lot to be able to develop for it, Mac only! There are several grass-roots apps indispensable for me, which are just not available for iOS.
@@AdrianoCROST I was a loyal to Apple for 8 years and it honestly wasn't that fast now that I'm looking back, I switched to Android recently from an iPhone 10 to a Samsung S9, Android is alot faster imo, I also experienced a better quality on videos and camera, and I have a headphone jack finally lol.
Now it may just be that Samsung is overall better and faster than apple(In my experience from switching), but i can't speak for other android companies, but Android does update their hardware alot more frequently compared to Apple which is probably why I experience much higher performance from my Samsung phone. Apple used to be good, but it just kinda has fallen in terms of quality over the years. If apple does catch up, I would be happy to switch back again.
Edit: I don't get your statement about android just being an OS, iPhone is also an OS. OS means operating system, the iOS just means the operating system is apple.
both Android and iOS have their points. I actually have both, being a Unix nerd, I was happy to finally see Linux based portables after so many false starts. the difference and in the case of Android, the problem, is the exosystem. The walled garden, if you like.Where Apple kept the garden neat and tidy, but would not cater to absolutely every tree or fruit taste, Google over the years simply lost control. the one Android garden does not exist, every manufacturer has its own, that still is connected to the main garden, but grows additional strange fruit (manufacturer specific apps and services). if you look closely, you‘ll find that Samsung locks you in just as Apple does. and every manufacturer has its own maintenance and release policy. I have 5 android tabs and only one of them can be updated to a sufficiently recent version of Android... meaning most of my devices are not sufficiently maintained to be safe to use with personal or otherwise sensitive data. Apple otoh normally gives you relevant udates rather quickly, but if you’re device is over 5 years old, you will. not receive the latest OS, often because the hardware has moved on.
so, if walled garden, it has to be one that is kept. And yes, Android is a walled garden, too. The main difference is that Google doesn‘t exert the necessary control to make manufacturers keep their OS releases in line and secure, and allows Chinese Gardens where you really can‘t be sure if the Duck with Flied Lies is fresh and that the Lychees aren’t bugged.
To me, as a german, "fuck" does not feel as strong as our german analogue. Perhaps it is because one can never really understand how this word is received by a native speaker. To me, it is basically a "light" version, perhaps even a real german word with its own meaning by now. We use our own "native" word a lot more sparingly (as demonstrated by the fact that i dont even write it here ;-) ). It feels like that we somehow managed to find a way to still say this word, without saying it.
"Fuck" ist in Deutschland eher weniger benutzt, da unsere Art von Schimpfwörtern eher auf Kot fokussiert ist.
In Amerika ist es eher sexuell gerichtet z.B. "dickhead"
Der Punkt ist aber, dass wenn im deutschen Fernsehen oder in deutschen Songs Schimpfwörter vorkommen, diese nie Gepiebt werden
@@lovingLANA20 Einmal hab ich einen song im radio gehört und da wurde z.B "bullshit" gepiept
ja das liegt an unserem anderen Fokus von Tabus. Bei uns ist Sex normal, aber Scheiße ist schmutzig, also haben viele Schimpfwörter mit scheisse oder Ärschen zu tun.
You're right, "fuck" serves as a kind of everyday swear word in German, at least to me. Whenever I (or another person) mess/-es something up (badly) I'm like "oooh fuck."
When I'm kinda surprised but angry I say "feck!" like when I tried something in a video game and it didn't work.
When a friend tells me a sad story I often go like "fuuuuck..."
If a machine doesn't work as I want it to I am like "FVCKING SCHEISS *add a Gerät in there (PC! Handy!) MACH WAS DU SOLLST!" and sometimes even add a "for feck's sake" to it.
Edit: ich weiß auch nicht, warum ich den Kommentar auf englisch schrieb.. wahrscheinlich, um meinen Standpunkt auch auf englisch vertreten zu können :D
Stuff like cars and clothing is definitely way cheaper in the US.
Yes, new cars are sold cheaper in the US, even German cars are sold cheaper in the US. Same with brand clothing. I bet she just sees them cheaper here because used cars lose their value very fast in Germany, and we have many no name clothes which are very cheap.
@@maythesciencebewithyou the reason german cars are sold cheaper, is because the quality isn´t the same. german cars made for the us market mostly have poor quality
My daughter pays sometimes as little as 2,50 Euros for a new T-Shirt from a normal shop in Germany. Hardly believe it gets cheaper in the US.
@@gardenjoy5223 Well but then it's a very shitty tshirt. Even the 5 to 7 euro tshirts in c&a or h&m stores have to be replaced in one to two years. You get high quality shirts from about 10 euros.
@@tschesny Since the fashion is different next year, my daughter doesn't care it doesn't last too long. Two years is tops for any T-Shirt, no matter what the quality.
I have been living in Germany since 1996. I pay 65% income tax, 19% sales tax, GEZ Television and Radio tax which is mandatory, etc... how the hell can you say everything here is cheap?
If you honestly pay 65% income tax you should contact a tax consultant. If you ever come to visit a U.S. super market you will understand why she feels that products in GER are cheaper. In addition she made the point in the beginning of the vid that an unbiased comparision isn't possible for her.
Hello John,
I am a German resident and familiar with our tax and social security system. That ist why I know that you will never pay 65% taxes since the max tax rate is 42% only to be paid for the income exceeding apprx. 55k€ per year. She may count her payments to our social security system ( uneployment insurance, Rent insurance) which must not be included into the average tax rate because it's not a tax..
I also think although the overall contribution is high it's not nothing WE are receiving from IT acitvely or passively.
But I agree with you in the way that sometimes I'd like starting to cry looking on my pay slip...
@@peterjungmann6057 Moin John,
das ist durch meine Brille eine sehr pauschale Sicht aber sicher gibt es Luft nach oben.
Us Germans prefer Android because we are a practical people.
iPhones are simply not cost effective.
Was laberst du?
@@DropkickNation Stimmt doch so. Man will sich von Apple doch net verarschen lassen.
@@Cantripping Äh nein.
@@DropkickNation Wie meinen?
@@DropkickNation Es ist nunmal so, dass Samsung weniger kostet, und genau soviel leistet wie ein Iphone. Wenn du ein Iphone kaufst, bezahlst du eigentlich nicht für Leistung, sondern für den Namen.
I use Android because it integrates better with all my other devices. I'm running Linux and Windows computers and I don't want to use iTunes or any other software by Apple just to connect my devices. I'll always opt for the open platform if I get to chose and don't lose any vital feature by doing so. To me Apple seems to have great stuff - but I don't want to exclusively marry into that brand just for the sake of compatibility. Linux and Microsoft don't care where you install their OS - but for OSX you'll have to buy Apple? Keep it then. Plus I prefer stuff that I can tinker with myself - root it, change it, develop my own stuff for it on any device I chose to use and with any IDE I prefer - not being bound to some Apple SDK and their license restrictions. Of course the price is part of this too - I don't see the point in paying three or more times the money for a device that does less for me. Final reason: I don't really like their design that much and they only have "this one product line" - there is so much more diversity with Android devices, so I can find something that really suits me.
To get cocky: yeah, Android scores higher in Germany - because we compare before we buy and we don't care about how much money someone else _thinks_ we have :p
Well, I'm a german who moved to the US and paying right at the gas pump for your gas was sort of a reverse culture shock for me XD
Ok, more like it was part of the culture shock. I think the main reason for the US having to make it as efficient and quick as possible is that cars have a more prominent role in the US. Of course in germany most people own a car and there is quite a lot of traffic, but there are also a lot of people still using public transportation, which is not really an option in most places in the US, especially outside the cities, mostly because of how far everything is spread out. So I think Germany has less need for being being able to do everything from your car, because cars overall have a different value.
I for example had a drivers license ever since I was able to get one, but I never had a car in Germany, because I was able to get everywhere by train, bus or on foot. I considered a car a waste of space and money, because I was able to do without one just fine and I lived in a small town as well as a city in germany. Since I moved to the US I can't really do without a car anymore, I wouldn't be able to get anywhere really.
Just my 2 cents on the matter...
I completely agree with your reasoning. I’m just thinking of the insanity that would ensue at US gas stations if everyone had to go inside and pay. The lines would be insanely long haha
Ja und die Umwelt sagt danke... Ich hoffe die Verwendung von Brennstoffmotoren ist in den nächsten 20 Jahren verboten.
Hi. I'm a 58years old german and I've never ever seen people interupting their meal for smoking a cigarette, neither in gemany, nor in france, great britain, netherlands.......
The main reason for android over iPhone are the many more options. How can this even be a question?! It's not the price, it's that you can extent your storage if you want, save things on the phone and not only in the cloud, use all kinds of headphones etc.
About the first. Topic. Yes living cost are cheaper in Germany, but compare it to our taxes.
And if you compare that, you'd realize that we in Germany are better off than the US. Wisdom teeth removal costs nothing Bc of insurance. Google how much the removal is in the US 😂 😂
Yes, and also additional to the taxes: There are cheap prices, for example for food, because we have one of the biggest low income sectors in Europe, when it comes to employment (ua-cam.com/video/Uxs0asqdSAk/v-deo.html). Now this also explains why the rents are high and getting higher from the (average) German's point of view, because they spend like 30 to 70 % of their income for these rents! Speaking for food prices there is not also overproduction ( a surplus in agricultural products, like in many "highly developed" countries with highly industrial agriculture ), but also cartell-like / monopolistic strutures in the companies owning the ruling supermarket and discounter chains, so they just can make up these prices and have the power to force these low prices on the local farmers, as well as affecting the income of the agricultural workers through it. Those are mainly from Romania and fewer and fewer from Poland ( who don't get "Mindestlohn" - minimum wage, but it's speial arrangement in the law that the farmers are allowed to pay under minimum wage and only must rise it slowy ever year to reach that wage somewhen next decade ). This power also affects the prices of imported food as well, mainly from Spain / Italy when it comes to vegetables, where the working conditions of migrants from mainly Africa are much worse and almost slave-like. To some degree the supermarket companies can use the cheap (vegetable) imports of these countries to increase pressure on local (conventional) farmers. Cheap imports, -> because the environment is destroyed (water crisis in Almería, Spain, external costs that are not included in the food prices for the consumer in Germany), and, -> because the workers are cheap(er) there. And in many cases THE MAFIA enforces these working situations there ( threatening workers and organising illegal immigration). Is it the same in the USA with Mexico and the Mexicans? However, WELCOME TO EUROPE. ZEIT: " Erntehelfer: Sie wollen hier nicht mehr arbeiten" www.zeit.de/arbeit/2018-07/erntehelfer-saisonkraefte-mangel-landwirtschaft-agrarbereich ARD: "Europas dreckige Ernte": ua-cam.com/video/j7LclQRn3lg/v-deo.html The Guardian: "Salad slaves: Who really provides our vegetables." ua-cam.com/video/oZl1eBU4Qx0/v-deo.html " Moderne Sklaverei - in den Gewächshäusern der spanischen Provinz Almería/ Spanien" ua-cam.com/video/bB-ekTZUpPU/v-deo.html
@@Asehhar what are you talking about? "Costs nothing" ? What do you think you're paying monthly if not for your health insurance? And your employer is paying the other half? Think an average monthly payment to a German health insurance is around 500€? Correct me if I'm totally wrong there, but that doesn't sound like nothing to me. Considering you have only 4 wisdom teeth, I'd say the removal is paid for tenfold in the time that you don't use the insurance. It's a very common mistake that other people make, thinking our social system is for free. Nothing in germany is for free, not even death as it costs your life (common german saying).
@@danielagalic2959 wtf are YOU talking about? First it cost you 400€ and only after you're 26 AND not a student. Second almost everything is covered in these 400€ from wisdom teeth removal to chemo therapy. Our life quality is way better than the US Bc we use our taxes to help each other out (social market, Bafög, harz IV, children money and much more). And if you end up poor, homeless or unemployed you won't live on the streets, the government takes care of you
@@Asehhar exactly what I'm saying. You pay taxes for all of that in case you didn't know it. It's called social insurance. Americans can choose to pay those too. Nobody is saying that they can't have a great health insurance for 400€ a month. And I'm pretty sure for that price it would cover hospital and all their ails too. You completely miss the point here. They don't pay those things, hence they don't get them. It's not for free. And let me tell you that the german child care isn't free either. Your kindergarten and after school care all costs additional money. It's an annual amount that's low enough for the kindergarten alright, but I had to pay 250€ a month for my son and his after school care in germany because I worked fulltime and German elementary schools finish at 12pm. And it's 26 in case you keep on studying. If you start work at 18 then you pay from then on.
I'm 36 and my parents were friends witth many gastronomers, so I spent A LOT of time in restaurtants..
I HAVE NEVER SEEN ANYONE EVER INTERRUPT THEIR MEAL TO SMOKE! Never ever!
That said, you are right on the acceptance and number of smokers.
oh, I just noticed, OF COURSE nobody has ever interrupted theior meals to smoke back then, as Germans have been allowed to smoke inside bars and restaurants, until 2002, or 2000 - not sure on the date.
Oh yeah, and "smoker areas" in restaurants? Yo would have wished for that, as smoking in bars, restaurants, clubs and discos was just normal - NOBODY WENT OUTSIDE, we all amoked insides. ;)
It's incredible how much power tobacco still has over TGermans - it's as if they wouldn't reckognze the dangers of smoking or alcoholism. It's all so normal. But guess what a ruckuss can be caused by a single cannabis PATIENT.
But the number of smokers is decreasing
@@nya305 really IS and teens do not start smoking because it were, somehow, coll. That said, still way too many dumb folks here, too many still smoke.
Der Cannabist - Info, Aufklärung, Safer Use it is in fact still seen as cool to smoke. Everyone I know who doesn’t go to a Gymnasium started to smoke because the others said they’d be cool if they did. If you don’t smoke you’re an outsider. But again, I only saw that happening at Hauptschule and Realschule
@@shineformejimin5025 At least while they are in Grundschule, smoking is an absolute non-issue for them.
I don't know, whether it still is that big an issue. I've seen more teens with vapes than cigarettes, nowadays, then again, I don't go out kmuch.
You went to 1 place in Germany and think you know it all... so Hillarious :)
don’t bash her, she’s sharing her individual experience. if not every place in Germany has ALL the things she described, so what?
Bethany she talk about this things as they are typical but they’re not, that’s it
She must have travelled around Germany. And it doesn't surprised me because Germans hardly follow trends, they create theirs or be very late in the game. They're the strangest Westerners.
She... she lived there?
@@Nele-vg7js No, she does not. She's simply sharing her own experiences. Of course she's generalizing a bit - just like Germans do, when they say Americans love their weapons. A lot do - but most definitely not all of them.
smoking isnt really socially accepted in germany either
except by other smokers
and point 3 is completely false
firstly whatsapp is avalible on all phones
secondly the reason everyone uses it is that it replaced the text message because using whatsapp is faster easier and free
Well not really free… YOU pay with all your personal data and literally let Facebook read and store EVERYTHING you send and receive (and that price is toooo high). Also… technically the message service is not free either. You pay for the data service instead of the price for every single message like with SMS or MMS. And people just use whatsapp because they are too lazy to switch to better and more secure solutions but they all got used to what's app too much…
@@KRAFTWERK2K6 You think Apple doesn't store your Data? You think those other services don't?
@@maythesciencebewithyou I didn't say that. However i think that goes without saying that Apple cannot be trusted either with such a service. With alternatives i meant things like telegram & antox.
@@KRAFTWERK2K6 WhatsApp only stores your messages if you turn on backup and you can choose to backup to either GDrive or your phone or both. I'm not a fan of Facebook and I'm concerned they might put ads into WhatsApp but they don't keep your WhatsApp data unless you ask them to.
I don´t get it why such a lot of people are still using whatsapp as a messenger service app. There are technically way better and (really) free apps around for that purpose and I would never let a guy like Mark Zuckerberg give any chance of access to my private belongings anyway...
Krass, Ammis sind echt prüde
nee, die tun nur so als ob
Where exactly are the "shocks"??!
Maybe you should visit india to experience some real culture shocks 😄
yeah like asking for a hamburger made with 100% all beef...
@@buckwheatthe3rd I had that right in New Delhi. Was shocked how good it was!
@@buckwheatthe3rd 🤣🤣🤣
..I really wonder she wasn't shocked in muslim Turkey..
Alter was zählt sie da für Punkte auf?! Ist ja lächerlich 😂😂😂
Naja für uns ja, aber wir leben ja auch in dieser Kultur. Sie nimmt das natürlich anders war ^^ Auch wenn ich dir bei einigen Punkten recht geben muss, zb das mit dem Tanken hat mich auch überrascht das sie das so bemerkenswert fand oder das mit den Handys. Aber wie gesagt sie als Amerikanerin nimmt das natürlich anders war :D
@@feelsbadman1677 klar, aber manches ist auch ganz schön pauschalisiert finde ich. Z.b das mit dem Rauchen
@@peterjungmann6057 im Schitzelkönig machen wir das tatsächlich auch, die Portionen sind so riesig, da braucht man eine Pause.. aber wir gehen in zwei Gruppen, es ist also immer jemand am Tisch
Jan K ich bin auch glücklicher deutsche zu sein als Ami ^^ sollen die Leute doch reden, die einen Trump als Präsidenten gewählt haben haha
@@jank.906 Natürlich pauschalisiert sie in dem Video - ganz bewusst. Und sie geht davon aus, dass ihre Zuschauer wissen, dass sie pauschalisiert - weil es einfach leichter ist, so darüber zu reden, als alle zwei Sekunden zu erwähnen, dass das ja nur ihre ganz persönlichen Erfahrungen sind und es natürlich nicht auf jeden einzelnen Deutschen zutrifft. Denn so, wie ich Kelly einschätze, hält sie ihre Zuschauer eben nicht für dumm - das wird ihr hier offenbar zum Verhängnis.
#7 We Germans are like "I don't care what you do if you don't hurt or disturb somebody, if you want to go to a brothel then go, if you want to work in a brothel do it I don't care" this is my opinion on this topic.
I'd go a step further and say that the legalisation of prostitution has nothing but benefits. First is that this gives the prostitutes legal protection, improving their work conditions drastically. Second it helps to weed out human trafficking. Third it makes prostitution a regular occupation which means incometax for the state. And last but not least, regulations on prostitution also protect the prostitutes customers.
It's simply lying to say legalization has benefits only it actually made Germany the brothel of Europe and its no coincidence that most prostitutes are foreign women and a lot of prostitutes have addiction and psychological health issues. Pimps exploit vulnerable women from abroad who don't have the ressources to get help. Human trafficking and forced prostitution is a big problem in Germany. While pimping is still technically illegal the legalization of prostitution makes is way easier for pimps to exploit women. As long as the woman who is usually too afraid to speak up doesn't admit she has a pimp it is not possible to stop sex trafficking and of course the johns don't care at all. There are plenty of studies where johns admit the prostitutes they are visiting might be forced but they still decide to go on exploiting them.
I'm positive that Germany will adapt the Nordic model (buying sex is outlawed while offering it is not) somewhere in the future to help protect victims of sex trafficking.
@@AnimalEmancipation "germany is the brothel of europe" Is that supposed to be an argument?
Most prostitutes being foreign women, so what?
About the Health and additcion issues, i don't know the statistics for this but that might be correct. But is that problem related to the act of prostitution? As in "Prostitutes have a higher chance of getting health or addiction problems"?
As for the women being too afraid to speak up, yes that is a problem. It's the same problem with domestic or child abuse and it's a problem you have regardless of wether prostitution is legal or illegal. If it's legal the prostitute speaking up at the very least doesn't risk legal consequences for being a prostitute.
And the model of "buying sex is illegal but offering is not" is a bullshit concept. Imagine it being legal to offer any other servic but it's illegal to buy said service.
@Monokuma- I like that attitude, and it was the original concept of "American freedom" but we've long lost the strength to simply let others live as they wish to. Stay strong!
@@KingQwertzlbrmpf Many of these prostituts are victims of human trafficking and they de facto income is way below the minimal. The ones who benefits from this sotuation are pimps and middleage Frenchmans who are floding west Germany. Not to mention that from over 200000 prostitutes in Germany not even a hundred is actually registered
I have never in my life seen smoke breaks either… the "no smoking in restaurants" is a pretty new development (I heartily approve though). Well, from a 50+ year view anyway.
Censorship isn't lax here… it officially doesn't exist (that doesn't mean that stuff you may *call* censorship doesn't happen). Article 5 of our Constitution: "There shall be no censorship." (official wording)
Jürgen Erhard I don’t say this as an insult or in confrontation, but as an American that just sounds weird that your constitution is taken so literal that vulgar words can’t be censored. Because just because we bleep it, we still know from context what’s being said.
@@MateoJFR It isn't. The censorship rule in the constitution doesn't mean individual words, or songs can't be omitted for being obscene, that happens occasionally (see my other post). The article in the constitution means that the government must not tell the media what to publish or not to publish. You can argue if they always adhere to this vow, I personally think they don't.
@@MateoJFR Everyone knows exactly that "beep" actually means "fuck". So why beep it in the first place? Kelly even knew the exact amount of fucks in that song (22). So you know a song with 22 fucks but are shocked when you actually hear 'em? That doesn't make any sense at all.
@@MateoJFR then why do you beep it in the first place? If everyone knows anyway what it stands for... also what's so bad about slur words? Everybody uses them and educating children isn't accomplished by hiding stuff from children and creating an artificial safety bubble, but by explaining to them what they mean, what the consequences of using them are and in what situations it might be acceptable to use them. We rather deal with a subject and create rules for it, than pretending like it doesn't exist and letting it grow wild in the shadows. It's a stereotype here about anglophone people, that every second word they utter is a slur (an actual one in case of brits, a weird rhyme on a slur in case of us-americans). I think it's the same as with drinking alcohol, if you start slowly and learn the limit and restrictions at a relatively young age, then it turns out less problematic than if you just deny its existence until suddenly at 21 you are thrown into the cold water without having learned how to swim first. E.g. as a child i would always repeat swears i picked up to my mother and ask her what they mean and she would just calmly explain them to me and tell me their gravity, so at age 5 i already had a vague idea of what a "whore" is and that it's one of the worst ones to call a woman. Hence i didn't need to try it out to get feedback via a reaction and knew that it was too hurtful to actually call someone that.
@@xaverlustig3581 You also cannot forget the BPjM. If a medium is considered to be "Jugendgefährdend" by them, it will not be banned but put on a list, you are still allowed to own it and even sell it, but any kind of advertise is forbidden. There are people who consider this to be a form of censorship.
Just to tell you, Germans who have never lived abroad think their country is super modern. I am German, lived for 5 years in Poland, half a year in Norway and both countries are more modern than Germany. I'm not surprised about anything anymore since my return.
There are some gas stations were you can pay at the pump. But they are rare. And in Germany the people at the gas station make the most money with the shop, not with the fuel, so they want you to come in and buy some other stuff too. The money from the gas goes to the big company behind the station like Shell or Aral, or what ever and in form of taxes to the government.
Actually, I think not paying at the pump has nothing to do with customers' needs but rather with the shop operators. Gas stations usually don't make much money by selling gas (their prices are dictated by the oil companies), but rather with the shop attached to the gas station. So they require drivers to come inside in the hope of them buying something in the store.
Yes, that's why.
There are also a few self-serving gas-stations. Where you can pay directly at the pump.
#3: The popularity of the iPhone in the USA is probably also because it's seen as a more American phone than Android which is often associated with Samsung. Also, Apple invests huge amounts of money into advertising and marketing which is way more prominent in the USA. Also, Germans seem to be more interested in open software platforms and against the closed system of Apple's iOS and its iTunes store.
I can't really see an iPhone as more of a luxury item than a similarly capable Android phone, even though the iPhones are typically much more expensive. Probably that was true seven or more years ago, but not in recent years.
Agreed.
Of course, low price can be an advantage, but I usually do an extensive research before buying a new phone as I want to get 1. the biggest bang for the buck and 2. the best feature set with regard to my requirements and usage profile. Never in my research the iPhone offered any USP I really wanted. (+ No adapters needed. :D)
Why the heck should iPhones be so popular in Germany as they are in the US? I don’t see any reasonable reason for that. Apple is obviously an American brand, Americans buy American phones and cars, like Germans buy German washing machines and cars, French buy French cars, Italians buy Italian cars.. why should this be that surprising?
@@GlenDevan1970 well, android is made by Google. So, it's American.
If we are talking about hardware, iPhones are pretty Asian, too. They are build by Foxconn, which is as non-American as a company can be.
This naive young woman shouldn't go anywhere really wild like say .. er ... Poland? Croatia? or she'd get a heart attack.
Ooh I loved visiting both of those countries! My mother’s family immigrated from Croatia (and also Serbia) and we had the opportunity to road trip there for two weeks and actually find THE village that her grandfather was from. It has a total of 12 residents now haha it was a very memorable trip, but I wouldn’t call Croatia or Poland “Wild”...I would say my trip to Cambodia was pretty wild. It was part of a solo trip I took to Vietnam and China...that whole trip was pretty crazy, especially by myself. But well...actually I would have to say that my trip to Iraq and Kuwait was more wild...more Iraq than Kuwait of course. And living in Turkey...that was QUITE the experience.
Well, on a worldwide basis Android has about 80-85% marketshare, iOS (Apple) thus has about 15-20%
But americans don't give a shit about the rest of the world... LOL
@@Nelson1511 Unless oil.
@@Nelson1511 oh yes because America is getting great again now.
@@psy4ctive159 LOL
Wow. So erstrebenswert, sich beim Tanken auch noch Werbung angucken zu müssen. Wie modern. 🙄😂
@Tee Krieger sonst alles in Ordnung bei dir? 😂
Und der 93 Oktan "Ultra" Sprit erst
ThePfistara bin fast vom stuhl gefallen als ich das gesehen habe 😂 95 oktan ist hier standard und wird von car guys als pisse bezeichnet. wie rasten die ammis denn auf ihren 93 oktan müll aus??
@@questionyourself718 die haben an der zapfsäule den mittelwert von motoroktanzahl und researchoktanzahl stehen. wir haben nur die researchoktanzahl stehen, welche immer höher ist
@@jovanu4 hast du dafür nen link?
iPhone vs Android: I buy value, not symbols: that is how Germans think.
Don't tell me that a 2500 dollar Samsung Galaxy s10+ is frugal with 12GB/1TB.
Right? Why should I pay nearly 1000$ for a phone which breaks immediatly when you drop it, when I can have one with even a better processor for 500$?
@@Unknown_Genius Because in the US apparently people use iMessage a lot more cause there are so many more iPhones. But honestly judging because of what phones other people have is stupid. Apparently Americans do that. WhatsApp is just more convenient cause you don't have to think about anything as long as you have the phone number.
well there was a time where an android was really good for the offered price xD it tends to change these days, thats why in the future i propably will not buy another android phone ^^
Hellmouth Isnogod but android is ugly hahahah
@@aliceinwonderland42020 Android and LionOS are both Linux, are basically the same.
When my friend has a problem with her Apple or her smartphone I can do the administration.
and btw: my Samsung dropped and no damage
I am German and I Go to school and Most of the pupils have iPhones so...
Ist sie sich sicher, dass sie in Deutschland war? 🤔 so ziemlich alles was sie aufgezählt hat ist m.E. nach nichts typisches aber auch nicht groß schockierend? 😅 na ja... 🤷🏻♀️
Das meiste stimmt schon. Bis auf Punkt 2 und das mit der Raucherpause der gesamten Gruppe beim Essen kenn ich es genau so auch. Die Mieten in Punkt 1 sind zumindest in München noch deutlich höher.
Und dass es für dich nicht schockierend ist, liegt halt daran, dass du es nicht anders kennst. "Typisch Deutsch" ist davon evtl. jetzt nichts, aber eben doch anders als in Amerika. Wenn man das alles also nicht gewohnt ist und so zum ersten Mal mitkriegt, kann das schon in gewisser Weise schockierend sein, weil man stets anders drüber dachte^^
Einer meiner US-amerikanischen Kommilitonen z.B. war ebenfalls richtig überrascht über den Überhang an Android-Handys und dass man anstelle von SMS eher auf Whatsapp zurückgreift.
@@hankchinaski4651 And why is that important?
@@hankchinaski4651
This Video is about Germany and Cultural Shocks - So I ask again: Why is Hitler (Who wasn't German, he was from Austria, by the way) important here?
And Enemies? Who are the Enemies right now? I'm slightly confused.
Matthias da hast du Recht 😄 bei uns in BW an der Schweizer Grenze sind die Mieten auch viel zu hoch, leider.
Aber eigentlich dachte ich, hat in Deutschland auch fast jeder nur noch ein iPhone und kein Android mehr 🤷🏻♀️
@@hankchinaski4651 Greg Hallett...
Number 3 is true, actually.
All of my friends prefer Android, because Apple simply is going insane with their pricing.
In Germany, nearly everyone goes for the value per Euro "rating".
Not simply because "it's cool"
apple is only really ubiquitous in the US, other countries have A LOT more variety when it comes to phones - good!
Ferodra, That said, it is rather obscure why all the youth actually buy jeans with big holes in it for a higher price than jeans that are whole. All because "it's cool". Same herd mentality.
@@SLfilmBerlin Sorry I fully disagree. When i went to Tokio - I nearly only saw japanese with Iphone. Shops full of "IphoneCovers, etc..." android was a tiny corner.... (I had a win10 phone ^^).
@@Serahiel yes, apple is strong in japan as well. "fully disagree" does not really apply here but my point was: the US is apple's no1 market. have you seen people with apple watches outside of america? only very few.
I have an Android (in US) but almost everyone I know has an iPhone. Why? They're practically free. I just don't like them.
1. lol Europe equals luxary? You know Europe has like 30 different countries, right?
2. Never seen a smoke break like that, not whole groups at least.
3. The prize is not that important, most people get their phone "for free" included in a contract, they just pay it then monthly. But its right though that we mostly dont care about luxary items.
4. Yup we're not too futuristic when it comes to EC or credit cards etc (credit cards e.g. are harder to get here!), but on the other side moving your body a few steps more can be healthy, you dont wanna end up like the people in Wall-E xD
5. There isnt really a rule to that. I've heard censored versions as well as original versions. The only difference in our language might be that "fuck" has different meanings in english while "fuck" in german only has the sexual meaning, any time we use it otherwise its just kinda imported from english - what we call anglicism.
6. Mmh you sure Irish Pub was the actual name? Cuz Irish Pub usually refers to the type of pub, meaning it has this british feeling to it. Cant really imagine Irish Pub was the real name.
7. Well if I had to choose to legalize either prostitution or private weapon ownership (if I literally had to choose!) I would be 100% against the guns. It's funny how America was ultimately built as the new Europe centuries ago but today its mindset is way more stuck in the past. This whole weapon, military pathos, patriot, god bless America and what not thing keeps me shaking my head sometimes. US are the least modern of all modern countries in the world when it comes to ideoligies, cultural thinking and global sympathizing.
Interesting though how we react when we see new things that are normal to others xD
there is an Irish Pub in like every "bigger" city .... with events like karaoke night every thursday in which the music "stile" isn´t set ... in the one me and my friends go to at least
Bester Kommentar- kann man genau so stehen lassen.
Übrigens: Berlin hat sehr niedrige Mieten und noch niedrigere Lebenshaltungskosten, fragt mal Münchner oder Hamburger.
@@cadbane1066 dafür steigen die mieten nirgends so stark wie in berlin. zahle für 60 qm 840 euro. Vir 5 Jahren wären es locker 200 weniger
Es gibt hier nen Laden namens Irish Pub
Of course she knows that Europe is multiple countries. Don't be condescending.
Alot of people in germany are interested in technology, you can do way more stuff with Android
Don'T limit yourself to seven. We want to hear them all.
Haha thanks :) more will come for sure!
Nr 8: the speed you can travel on the autobahn, with your Porsche or BMW or... That's why they are made for.
Would be funny she go to the lake in summer, but a FKK lake ^^
Let's hope that the ones coming are actually accurate :)
You ever listened to Helene Fischer?! If you want to get ears replaced because you got them rotting on your head do it! And that's the reason we prefer English songs
I'm just shook she didn't mention we can drink when whe're 18 not 21😂
actually you can already drink beer and wine at 16, get rekt USA
@@zonattacktv362 tru forgot about that😂😅
You drink at age 16 in Germany and in Bavaria, where the Oktoberfest takes place, beer is taxed as basic nutrition, not as alcohol. Being introduced so early to it, makes people a bit more civilized, except for the Ballermann.
Also in a small Restaurant when Parents are there you can drink Beer with 14 years. That came from the Time when Beer (back then with about 1-3% alc) was better than that dirty water for your health.
Wow, Germany sounds honestly amazing these days, more advanced than the U.S
In some as aspects thats maybe true. Look how we handle the Corona Crisis so far. Definitly better than the US. But surely there are other things where the US is "superior" or has an advantage.
@@aseriesoftriangleswecalltr6065Only the military is suppirior. Nothing else really.
@@Freddy_theDaddy True, that would be clearly one example. German military has become more or less ineffective.
Love your videos. Apple = Luxury brand, LOL. Apple products are WAAAAAYYYYYYY overpriced.
Apple besides its fancy feel is usually overprized garbage that every first year engineer cant help but shed tears about. They are made to brake asap after the waranty rans out and or get made obsolete on purpose by software updates just to sell new units. Americans just care way less if they get scammed big time. Brittains are the same in this luxury bs regard.
Isn't luxury another word for overprized?
Yes, but not for overprized garbage that brakes if you look at it funny and is also purposefully flawed in other ways.
Apple did position itself as a high end brand long before smart phones cane about. That said, the real reason why Germans prefer Android OS to iOS is that iOS was designed to be more user-friendly in English. Android is a bit less user-friendly overall, but it is more user-friendly in foreign languages than iOS is due to its customization. You can find data on this online. Most countries that prefer iOS are English-speaking.
ISSO1407 all of what you’ve said is your personal opinion, of course, and none is supported by ANY data, so... Ever consider not being an internet troll? Try it sometime.
What does whatsapp have to do with having an Android? xD
I guess it's about iMessage. That's why one person mentioned the "green message" (being a SMS I guess..?).
Apple users can simply send messages to other Apple users via iMessage, while Android users can't. That's why Whatsapp is so much more popular here in Germany because it's cross-platform, meaning that Apple as well as Android users can send messages.
Part of it is that Androids can't do group messages (but Iphones can). However, Androids users can have group chats when they use whatsapp
@@annamiller2057 You can do group messaging, but I think the default setup is to reply to MMS group messages with individual SMS messages unless you make adjustments in the messages app. But it is possible.
I don’t even know about this IMessage and we are an apple family. I started using WA when it was still 50cent per year or so and IMessage didn’t even exist. Also WA is WAY better than that IMessage stuff. We are an “apple family” which means that we bought the 3G, 5, 6, 7, and iPhone 10.
Also as a German I sadly have to say everything in this video is complete trash!!!
Sees a thing 2 times in a very narrow area.
"OMG you guys this is everywhere in Germany all the time... "
Baron Wurst... Schöner UA-cam Name!
Kulturschock? Wohl eher alte Vorurteile über "die Deutschen" oder "die wenauchimmer" durch neue ersetzt
PS
Eine Wohnung wie bei dir zu sehen kostet auch in Deutschland wesentlich mehr....
Click bait
Don't know about Germany, but in Austria I have never witnessed a smoke break like you described it. :O Also, I'm very proud of our German neighbours to apparently have realized too that iphones are just overpriced junk with restrictive operating systems. *cough*
And the rent lmao... The rent in Austria... Ahahha... *cries in German*
In Germany it's a fashion statement NOT to own an Iphone.
Most Iphone Users are considered to be just uninformed and lazy show-offs who don't look after their stuff.
I swear I don't know anyone who has an Iphone that's not broken. Either the front or the back are ALWAYS cracked.
And then there's just the general image of Apple..
Let me put it as mildly as I can: It's not very good.
There are multiple reasons for this but I think one of the biggest was the tax evasion scandal not that long ago.
I know a lot of people with i phones, uncracked. But a lot of cracked Samsungs... And i work in the business.
An deinem Kommentar sieht man wunderbar, in welchen Kreisen du verkehrst, hahaha.
@@frage-zeichen Mit meinen Klassenkameraden als ich noch zur Schule gegangen bin zb? Ich weiß nicht gerade die beste Crowd aber hey ich konnte sie mir nicht aussuchen.
Aber ich seh zb anhand deines Profilbilds und deines Namens was fürn Typ du bist, insofern wundert mich der Kommentar nicht
I'm german. I don't pay with a card, I use money! :D
Viel besser. Bares Geld ist einfach nur geil.
Nur bahres ist wahres.
@@KRAFTWERK2K6 wie war
KRAFTWERK2K6 hab mit dem spruch gerechnet
The gas station thing is the same in a lot of countries; It's the business model; the people who run the gas stations dont make much or any money from fuel sales and just use them to get potential customers into what is essentially a convenience store. I think the fuel companies pay the capital costs or lease the floor space or something. If you go to a supermarket which sells fuel this doesn't apply, so you can pay at the pump.
Very well put!!
I'm sorry, but Android phones are technically a lot better than iPhones for a fraction of the price.
thats true - look at Huawei and Xiaomi
@@robertangelov9805 or samsung
also i dont see a reason to pay like nearly 0,7 k for a phone. Like pls Andriod is just as good if u compare prieces
if you ignore the shitty customer service then Honor phones are really fucking good for their price
How is everyone owning an android a culture shock, I dont understand this
@Admiral Veyron shit.....I'm dumb
hmm... could it be because in her home country it's different?:)
@@valeriavagapova I'm from her home country........and I wouldn't consider other countries using different phones a culture shock....now if they all had like personal teleporters or toilets that came to you when you needed em, THAT would be a technological culture shock
@@valeriavagapova but how is it shocking? Different people prefer different brands for pretty much any item. And it's pretty naive to think that everyone would simply want or be able to pay for the most expensive version.
Having a brothel in town isn't shocking for me at all. But to be able to buy war-capable automatic weapons in a shopping mall is shocking for me.
Hypocrisy will probably remain the greatest virtue of Americans forever.
Sure, degeneracy is better than being able to defend yourself. Keep believing our German hypocritical propaganda.
You can’t just buy automatic weapons.
ahh, yeah, exactly. Now I have finally understood the difference. To go to a brothel to do what is human nature, you consider degenerate. On the other hand, killing other people in a school massacre or a concert massacre is an honorable self-defense. How fortunate I am that there are people like you who always lead me on the right path and open my eyes.
@@hatemal-baalbaky3417 Yes, engaging with a prostitute and supporting prostitution with all its abuse, slave trade, criminal organizations and the spread of STDs is degenerate. Defending yourself and your family against armed and unarmed criminals is honorable self-defense. Now you got it right.
@@redsimonyt But seriously, dont you think it is interesting that no other country than US has got problems with school shootings? And to be correct if the prostitution is legalized then the abuse and slave trade disappear. I would bet my kidney that being sex worker in official brothel is way way afer (for everybody) than secretly walking the streets. Again, have you ever thought why there are so many serial killers in US if there are only few in other states and why they focus on prostitutes?
I‘m German and have never seen an entire group of people interrupt any meal to go smoke. That‘s just weird.
We germans mostly listen to american Music, cuz our own (Heavy Metal asside) is inacceptabelly bad 80% of the time.
just like our German movie productions :/ Well… aside from the shortfilm productions but nobody really ever hears about them or sees them…
Are you thinking of Rammstein? 😂 If so I 100% agree.
There are some pretty good rappers as well! (Kennst du Käptn Peng oder Blumentopf?)
But German Pop is truly unacceptable.
Deutsche sind meistens zu unmusikalisch!
@@kotoriitsuka6465 Achwas. Die guten deutschen Musiker finden nur eben nicht in der öffentlichkeit statt. Das war in den 70ern noch was anderes… Vor allem während der "Krautrock" Ära. Von DER Qualität ist heute in der deutschen Musik nichts mehr übrig geblieben.
@@oliv2750 not particularly. I myself do not like Rammstein that much. I thought of band like Kreator, Sodom, Subway to Sally and many many more. The german Metal Scene is one of the biggest alongside Skandinavia and South America.
Gas in Germany is actually pretty overpriced. About any other country in the same region (Austria, Netherlands, Belgium, etc) all of them have significantly lower gas prices than Germany has.
The reson why paying inside the store is required in germany is because not every person owns credit cards or EC cards to pay without actual cash.
*In germany having an EC card is common, but not obligatory, so depending on your bank and/or your account limitations you will not have a card to pay electronically!*
Hence there is a "law" for gas station owners to have at least one cashier for each station to take in cash.
Also I believe Berlin is the city where presumably the most people are still smoking.
It is falling widly out of fashion in most of German cities I know (NRW)
Prices are lower due to different taxes. Actually german gas stations have the lowest revenue in selling gas across europe. Petit Bistro, the cafeteria of Aral gas stations (belongs to BP) are ranked at number 10 among german system caterers. They aggressively offer you take away food if you pay your gas.
@@henningth.3704 Revenue yes, but prices the consumer needs to pay are still pretty high.
E.g. Austria has 20% taxes opposed to Germany 19%, despite that gas still is cheaper in Austria (up to 20ct/l depending on which fuel).
That is for the same gas stations in both countries!
@Intuition yes, germans are conservative and Businesses offen avoid the extra costs... Be prepared and always have cash with you🤔
@Intuition They surely prefer cash or the national Giro Card, but nearly every supermarket and many other stores and restaurants in Germany accept Visa, Mastercard, Maestro and V-Pay.
@Intuition It's not a question about knowing the better way, but about economy. Credit card ownership has been virtually zero in Germany. You pay cash. If you don't pay cash, you pay by debit card. To accept credit cards, you need contracts with all those credit card providers. And they actually charge you for those contracts, so you only want them if you have enough payments with those cards. Which you don't, unless you are in a tourist region. Like 15 years ago or so, many places would only let you pay with a debit card above a certain amount, like 10 or 15 bucks. Things have changed in the last couple of years though. You can now pay almost everywhere with debit cards and even quite some supermarket chains like Edeka will let you pay with Visa and Mastercard. You also can pay almost everywhere if your credit or debit card supports Maestro (look for the symbol).
to be honest:
living is not so cheap
a smoking break for a hole group is not typical