christmas in germany basically starts on dec. 1st. children get an advent calendar where they can open one door each day and behind it is a piece of chocolate(or maybe toys depending on calendars) leading all the way to dec. 24th. on each sunday in december (advent) we light one candle so on the first 1 and on the fourth all four of them. and it ends on dec. 26th. presents are normally given on christmas eve since it is supposed to be jesus' birthday and the three kings/magi/wise men (whatever you want to call them) brought gifts to jesus on that evening. now depending on the region you live in, either baby jesus (mostly catholic)or santa clause(mostly protestant) brings the gifts to children.
What has been said here is only partially true. In fact, the so-called pre-Christmas period begins with the first Sunday of Advent. A Sunday that is exactly 4 weeks before Christmas. It is therefore possible that the 1st Sunday of Advent is already at the end of November. The end of the Christmas period (after which the trees are also cleared away) is "Epiphany" on January 6th. This day is also a public holiday in very Catholic Bavaria, which is paid for by the employer...
Just saw the still picture in the beginning and knew exactly, who the creator of the video was. Exactly as you pointed out, it's to be taken with a bag (500g) of salt. Uffbasse!
I think you are misunderstanding the Advent season in Germany, it has nothing to do with consumption, it has to do with tradition. It's not like in America or Asia when they start celebrating Christmas in September.
@@UntilWeGo Advent time mostly is winding down, take a gear back. advent sundays are a bit more special, since most shops and offices are closed (you still can to get fuel, backerys have thier sunday roll and restaurants/food order etcpp, but no grocery shopping or visits to the "DMV" on sundays. We germans have the tradition to celebrate the advent time with advent kalenders (little Chocolates/treats/small Gifts for the kids, 1st-24th 1/day) and the Adventskranz (Advent wreath) on sunday where you light a candle on the four sundays prior christmas eve (one on 1st advent and end up with all four of them lit at the 4th advent) BTW IKEA loves this time of the year in germany since they make the gross of annual income through germans buying tealights in BULK to feed the candlelit cosiness at home :D
@@Sahnor stores and offices are always closed on Sundays, throughout the year. On the contrary, stores are usually open on the last Sunday before X-mas.
Most Christians in Canada have Advent too, at least Anglican, Roman Catholics, Presbyterian (the none Scottish) and Lutherans. The church year starts with Advent. Nowadays 4 sundays before the 24th of december. If 24th of december is a sunday, you count 24th as one of these 4 sundays. In medieval times Advent started at 12th of November, the day after St. Martin. That's the reason why carnival in Germany starts at 11th of November. Advent, like Passion Season, is a period of fasting. Before Lent in the spring, people celebrate carnival with all Tamtam, before starving themselves for 7 weeks. The same in autumn, between Michaelmas at the end of September and November 11th, people celebrated a lot (there are a lot of fairs in Germany, Michaelmas, Thanksgiving, St. Gal, St. Martin, St. Nicholas, St. Francis, St. Elisabeth) and then they fasted for 7 weeks until Christmas Eve. Lebkuchen/ginger bread and Spekulatius (Biscoff) are typical lenting foods for the children and the sick, Christmas cookies are not. Christmas cookies you couldn't have before Christmas Eve, because it's egg in it. Exception on Sundays, because the Advent Sundays also commemorate Easter. At all sundays you can break your fast to a modest extent, eat something with eggs or meat or drink stronger alcohols and also follow your "carnal desires". Of course, no one knows that anymore and no one sticks to it, but that still characterizes German habits at these days. For example, for Germans and Austrians, Biscoff/Spekulaas is a pastry that they associate exclusively with Advent and Christmas. Only in the last 20 years Biscoff found its way into our supermarkets all year round, but they don't sell it as speculoos, even though it is exactly the same thing. The reason: Between 1618 and 1648 during the Thirty Years' War, fine flour and spices were so scarce that German cities forbade eating speculoos and gingerbread and spiced pastry outside of Lent. That's also the reasin why you can buy Magenbrot (stomach bread), Printen and Lebkuchen (gingerbread) and Baumkuchen (tree cake) at German fairs, e.g. the famous Ginger Bread hearts at Octoberfest, because the fairs took place shortly before lenting time. The people bought it there and ate it during lent.
depends on what you mean exactly by corpratized, going to a christmas market about 4 to 12 times during dezember is obligatory, but its not to shop its to drink mulled wine and sausages or kaiserschmarrn, stuff like that. its still consuming, but the consuming is 99.9% around wine and food. not sure why they are called "markets" its really a mini food festivall with a bunch of tiny stands with decoration and food. sometimes there are some shops with like local wood art and shit, but not all of them ahve those.
just for information, the brussle sprout thing has nothign todo with bein ga picky eater or not, all kids hate them because kids have more tastbuds and can taste the bitterness much more, the older you get the less tastebuds you have, the less you taste the bitternes the mopre you start loving them :)
Don't underestimate the weights of political talks, it also divides families here too.. don't do it at all. I have a very close friend, we are friends for more than 30 years, but we have a very different views on politics, i lean to the left and he is very conservative (he doesn't lean to the right), so we stay close, but we don't talk about politics. Especially now, whet the far right wing in the east is on the rising.
When making reactions to other people's videos, you should also familiarize yourself with their backgrounds. Unfortunately you didn't here. But I did. That's a video from the channel Lifey - a Mormon channel.The interviewed guy was on Mormon mission in Eastern Germany - the most atheist part of Germany. So for sure he has NO insight in the real Germany and in the real young peoples life in Germany. He tells stories about a very, very tiny Mormon bubble in Germany. These people always travel in pairs, when on mission, monitor and control each other, and are not allowed to take part in anything that contradicts Mormon rules. That includes not only parties, alcohol, smoking w**d and having s*x, but also things like drinking coffee or tea, unmodest clothing and behavior. How much fun do you think 19 year olds with starched shirts, ties, polished shoes and neatly combed hair can have in Germany? And how much normal contact with normal young people can be possible with such "Spaßbremsen" (=Brakes of Joy and Fun, people who are making other people who have fun feeling bad about it ).
christmas in germany basically starts on dec. 1st. children get an advent calendar where they can open one door each day and behind it is a piece of chocolate(or maybe toys depending on calendars) leading all the way to dec. 24th. on each sunday in december (advent) we light one candle so on the first 1 and on the fourth all four of them. and it ends on dec. 26th. presents are normally given on christmas eve since it is supposed to be jesus' birthday and the three kings/magi/wise men (whatever you want to call them) brought gifts to jesus on that evening. now depending on the region you live in, either baby jesus (mostly catholic)or santa clause(mostly protestant) brings the gifts to children.
What has been said here is only partially true. In fact, the so-called pre-Christmas period begins with the first Sunday of Advent. A Sunday that is exactly 4 weeks before Christmas. It is therefore possible that the 1st Sunday of Advent is already at the end of November. The end of the Christmas period (after which the trees are also cleared away) is "Epiphany" on January 6th. This day is also a public holiday in very Catholic Bavaria, which is paid for by the employer...
The American in this Video are missionaries, trying to lure people into their cult ... so take their opinions with a large grain of Salt.
Just saw the still picture in the beginning and knew exactly, who the creator of the video was. Exactly as you pointed out, it's to be taken with a bag (500g) of salt. Uffbasse!
I think you are misunderstanding the Advent season in Germany, it has nothing to do with consumption, it has to do with tradition. It's not like in America or Asia when they start celebrating Christmas in September.
Oh no, I wasn’t inferring it was. I was taking about a lot of NA Christmas culture around consumerism.
@@UntilWeGo Advent time mostly is winding down, take a gear back.
advent sundays are a bit more special, since most shops and offices are closed (you still can to get fuel, backerys have thier sunday roll and restaurants/food order etcpp, but no grocery shopping or visits to the "DMV" on sundays. We germans have the tradition to celebrate the advent time with advent kalenders (little Chocolates/treats/small Gifts for the kids, 1st-24th 1/day) and the Adventskranz (Advent wreath) on sunday where you light a candle on the four sundays prior christmas eve (one on 1st advent and end up with all four of them lit at the 4th advent)
BTW IKEA loves this time of the year in germany since they make the gross of annual income through germans buying tealights in BULK to feed the candlelit cosiness at home :D
@@Sahnor stores and offices are always closed on Sundays, throughout the year. On the contrary, stores are usually open on the last Sunday before X-mas.
Most Christians in Canada have Advent too, at least Anglican, Roman Catholics, Presbyterian (the none Scottish) and Lutherans. The church year starts with Advent. Nowadays 4 sundays before the 24th of december. If 24th of december is a sunday, you count 24th as one of these 4 sundays.
In medieval times Advent started at 12th of November, the day after St. Martin. That's the reason why carnival in Germany starts at 11th of November. Advent, like Passion Season, is a period of fasting. Before Lent in the spring, people celebrate carnival with all Tamtam, before starving themselves for 7 weeks.
The same in autumn, between Michaelmas at the end of September and November 11th, people celebrated a lot (there are a lot of fairs in Germany, Michaelmas, Thanksgiving, St. Gal, St. Martin, St. Nicholas, St. Francis, St. Elisabeth) and then they fasted for 7 weeks until Christmas Eve. Lebkuchen/ginger bread and Spekulatius (Biscoff) are typical lenting foods for the children and the sick, Christmas cookies are not. Christmas cookies you couldn't have before Christmas Eve, because it's egg in it. Exception on Sundays, because the Advent Sundays also commemorate Easter. At all sundays you can break your fast to a modest extent, eat something with eggs or meat or drink stronger alcohols and also follow your "carnal desires".
Of course, no one knows that anymore and no one sticks to it, but that still characterizes German habits at these days.
For example, for Germans and Austrians, Biscoff/Spekulaas is a pastry that they associate exclusively with Advent and Christmas. Only in the last 20 years Biscoff found its way into our supermarkets all year round, but they don't sell it as speculoos, even though it is exactly the same thing.
The reason: Between 1618 and 1648 during the Thirty Years' War, fine flour and spices were so scarce that German cities forbade eating speculoos and gingerbread and spiced pastry outside of Lent. That's also the reasin why you can buy Magenbrot (stomach bread), Printen and Lebkuchen (gingerbread) and Baumkuchen (tree cake) at German fairs, e.g. the famous Ginger Bread hearts at Octoberfest, because the fairs took place shortly before lenting time. The people bought it there and ate it during lent.
depends on what you mean exactly by corpratized, going to a christmas market about 4 to 12 times during dezember is obligatory, but its not to shop its to drink mulled wine and sausages or kaiserschmarrn, stuff like that. its still consuming, but the consuming is 99.9% around wine and food. not sure why they are called "markets" its really a mini food festivall with a bunch of tiny stands with decoration and food. sometimes there are some shops with like local wood art and shit, but not all of them ahve those.
5:52 Socialist. It was under socialist rule. There has never been an actual communist state in the past two/three millennia.
just for information, the brussle sprout thing has nothign todo with bein ga picky eater or not, all kids hate them because kids have more tastbuds and can taste the bitterness much more, the older you get the less tastebuds you have, the less you taste the bitternes the mopre you start loving them :)
Don't underestimate the weights of political talks, it also divides families here too.. don't do it at all. I have a very close friend, we are friends for more than 30 years, but we have a very different views on politics, i lean to the left and he is very conservative (he doesn't lean to the right), so we stay close, but we don't talk about politics. Especially now, whet the far right wing in the east is on the rising.
Geschäftsidee verkaufen sie deutsche Kippfenster,nach der ersten Million denken sie an mich.
When making reactions to other people's videos, you should also familiarize yourself with their backgrounds. Unfortunately you didn't here. But I did.
That's a video from the channel Lifey - a Mormon channel.The interviewed guy was on Mormon mission in Eastern Germany - the most atheist part of Germany. So for sure he has NO insight in the real Germany and in the real young peoples life in Germany. He tells stories about a very, very tiny Mormon bubble in Germany. These people always travel in pairs, when on mission, monitor and control each other, and are not allowed to take part in anything that contradicts Mormon rules. That includes not only parties, alcohol, smoking w**d and having s*x, but also things like drinking coffee or tea, unmodest clothing and behavior. How much fun do you think 19 year olds with starched shirts, ties, polished shoes and neatly combed hair can have in Germany? And how much normal contact with normal young people can be possible with such "Spaßbremsen" (=Brakes of Joy and Fun, people who are making other people who have fun feeling bad about it ).
Love your content dude. gonna skip on this one, since i don't really like the original creator.