Suggestion to cut down the teaching about WW2 part: EXTENSIVELY 1 year on how Hitler got to where he was and 1 year about the war itself on the school I went to.
@@zokora3656 it's just a joke among us...we also jokingly stereotyping other nationalities...it's fun lol...we often say that when you have worked in tourism, you tend to be a bit racist towards everyone... Well, the joke is mostly directed towards older generations as they weren't very exposed towards diverse cultures.
@@fitito500 here are some; The Dutch are the stingy but fun people The Americans, either you get a really nice one or a really weird one. French: snobs who refuse to speak English Italian: brace your eardrums Australians: the drunks Indians: expect to be asked for 5 star service for a street vendor price. Chinese: the rude tourist Canadians: we love them Russians: trouble is here Danish/Nowegian: party people Switzerland: rich but don't tip
This "staring" one is actually really interesting. Different cultures have different durations of staring normalised. I think there were some with up to 12 second-stares and it is completely normal. The other person does not want something from you.
When I visited Berlin last summer for a month, I would pass someone on the street, and me being from the US, I would look at them and smile, because that is what we do in the US. But the German person would stare back at me completely devoid of expression or emotion. It's like they were trying to bore a hole through me with their stare.
Being from the US now living in Berlin, I have developed what is apparently an undesirable (to the locals) habit of greeting shop workers when I walk by them. Just a quick "Hello" but it's like I walked up to them and screamed "Youyoumamamumumalgahay" in their face. Apparently it's just not done here.
It´s strange for most of us. we are not used to beeing smiled upon or greeted by people we dont know. if you are a friend its different. I used to live in portugal for a few years and when i got there i was confused as hell about the people beeing so open and strangers greeting you etc. got over it fairly quickly but yeah
10:44 I'm not German, but I still appreciate how you're honest about how modern-day Germans feel about WW2. I really don't like it when people associate an ethnicity or nationality with war. There were wars in practically almost every country on the planet. It's a fact of humanity, not just a nationality.
@@WilliamParkerer Ehh... I wouldn't go that far. Santayana says that "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Speaking as an American, we're watching our country backslide on all fronts because people are so adamant about forgetting past harms - while actively still doing more harm. If anything, I've been learning German & considering emigration there in my lifetime precisely because there are, from what I can see, so many institutional safeguards in place for democracy there.
Well, disassociation doesn't mean forgetting the history but separating oneself from the ancestor's identity. Otherwise, you would either feel guilty because your forefathers did such atrocity, or feel proud because your forefathers did such a great feat. We "modern people" should unite as one against the past generations. What I mean is, what our ancestors did a few hundred years ago is no different than what our ancestors did millions of years ago. It's just animalistic behavior, and we shouldn't resonate with them.
8:26 As a German who is interested in railways, let me explain briefly: So, the German railway used to be very good, and comparing it internationally, it's still pretty decent, but punctuality and reliability have dropped over the last decades. This is mostly because passenger numbers (not entirely sure about cargo) have risen drastically since then and the network is at (or rather above) capacity on many routes. Furthermore, since freight, regional and long distance trains share the same tracks, there are a lot of conflicts between trains going different speeds, and a single delayed train can affect dozens of trains in a domino effect. The reason the network (and in many cases the fleet) hasn't caught up with the demand comes down to how the railway is handled fundamentally. After privatising (it is still 100% state-owned), the government wanted to turn the DB into a publicly traded corporation, but to do this successfully, it had to be profitable and all kinds of cost saving measures were taken. After that failed, savings have been less drastic, but there still isn't a general willingness to invest. Up to 2019, Germany invested less than half as much money per person into the railway as other European countries with a good railway, and with now recently drastically increased investments we're still just up to right about the European average, which simply isn't enough to overhaul the network in the way that is needed, especially in a short amount of time. The government still wants the railway to be profitable or at least cost neutral, while for example the road network doesn't need to be. Add to that that every new railway project immediately hits a wave of political opposition, and you can see why the situation isn't really improving.
Don't forget that they "shut down" whole railway tracks on the countryside because it wasn't "financially worth it" anymore. There are also a lot of routes where one track is available to get the trains from both directions to their final destinations. Trains often times have to wait for the other train at the railway stations so they can get moving. So if one train is delayed the other one(s) will be as well. DB also cut down their stuff I think about 10 years ago? Which caused canceled trains and delays too. I don't know how far they managed to "fix" it though.
@@DragonriderEpona Those are some of the results of lacking investments and the demand to make money. Many routes simply aren't profitable, but need to be run to at least have some railway connectivity in the area. For the set goal of not losing money overall, closing down as many of those routes as is deemed acceptable is the best option, and the railway tries to strike a balance between losing as little money as possible and providing a decent service. This balance certainly isn't perfect in all places, but really, it can't be. I'm not sure about staff numbers, it was massively cut down some time after the privatization, but there also hasn't been a huge supply of applicants over the last years. I think this has started improving, but I honestly don't know. Of course, staff cost money, too, so you really mustn't have too many.
Yes the national railway network in Germany is very neglected but all the local tramways, Stadtbahns, U Bahns and S Bahns are great! The UK has 7 tram networks and 4 subway networks and they dont provide good coverage. In Birmingham (2 million people in the ballungsgebiet), they have 1 tram line so the majority of public transport is provided by bus. When the Belgrade metro is finished by the end of this decade, Birmingham will be Europe's biggest city without an underground.
Well, when I went to school, my teachers didn't tell me to feel guilty. It was more something we would discuss from time to time, like "Do you think we should feel a certain guilt?" I personally think guilt is just not the correct term, it should be more responsibility to do everything to prevent something similar in the future. Although, when I really read certain things about the time back and it really gets me, I kinda feel guilty, but more in a "why are humans like this" kind of way.
yep. When learning to drive, we don't learn to feel guilty about killing someone accidentally, we learn the various ways to avoid getting into risky stuations in the first place. This should be done in politics, too. To learn to not run someone over by having an inflated ego.
My teachers also didn't directly make me feel guilty. Just talking and explaining how and why things were at the time made me feel sick during class. I didn't understand why for the Abitur we had to redo all of those horrible topics again because of how horrible the things they did were. But now that I actually studied history and distant myself from this topic for several years until this year, I'm actually glad that we learned so thoroughly about the NS-regime. It makes you understand the current politically system more and why tolerance, diversity and democracy are worth protecting. It also shows how fragile democracies are. Especially during the last two years when conspiracy theories and anti-vaxxers did comparisons to that time that were simply false statements and show how little they understand history and politics....
When I was stationed in Germany, the trains were always on time and I thought that was remarkable. I absolutely loved my stay in Germany and I can't wait to go back.
..how long ago was that? public transport over here is - compared to our neighbors - pretty shit, especially if you actually have to depend on it. hence the many cars and drivers around here
What school did you go to? Our teacher told us what horrible things happened in that time period and we even visted a KZ in Poland. But nevery anybody said that any of that was the fault of the people living today. We also learned how the third reich raised and why people supported them. I think we get really good educated about the NS-years
Yes, this is the way. Its more about learning how and why this shit happened (and obviously why its really bad) and not about guilt tripping people. Obviously the whole topic is treated with a huge amount of respect which can sometimes interpreted as making people guilty?
Same here. We learned pretty detailed how it could happen and what we have done to prevent it in future but the "Generationenschuld" was told as dumb because were weren't alive back then. And if you compare Germany to many other countries for example the us, in Germany are living less "Nazis" as in other countries but here it is a bigger deal if someone is one
Theyre not saying you are quilty at all. Its just more of a lesson than anything. Its hard to move away from your past, especially if its a horrific one. Germany just wants to make sure that everybody understands what happened and why as to prevent it from happening again. And dont worry, nobody els in the world blames Todays Germany for the war.
Well as a slavic person I can smile As a person living in Germany for 15 years I stare. No imagine me smiling and staring simultaneously. I guess pple think sometimes I'm a bit crazy
we arabs write the date like this: thursday 29 february 2024 for me i find 29/2/2024 almost not a real way of writing the date, it's like giving information on what today is in a very simplified way 😅
@@shiin_8 I was also bought up with the Arab system but then did my higher studies in Europe so I think DD/MM/YY is the best and most logical way to go as it goes from smallest unit (a day), to a bigger one (a month) to the biggest (year)
Yo Malmö in Sweden is the 3rd largest city with the 3rd highest number of immigration, so the chance to see a swede is already compromised, but you will find "Viking" looking swedes in the north, like Uppsala and up.. also if you go to villages and rural areas, they are huge like a Viking, often with a kind soul
@@OleJanssenPerhaps we don't trust the mirrors we have hung up ourselves. We think we're friendly, and when we look in, an angry man threatens back with bared teeth. Oh ... that's a German smile? Huch, wo ist mein deutscher Text hin?
Awesome as usual. I love this stuff. Also very cool how more channels mostly German have a breakdown of the activity in the comment section and a scene selector or chapters below that. this is definitely an improvement and a helpful tool for learning.
09:20 As someone working with them I can tell you that our senior doctors are very experienced and meticulously up-to-date. The dissatisfaction in the German health care system is more likely to be due to long waiting times, a lack of beds, high levels of sickness among staff (and the resulting stress in everyday work, which is passed on to patients) and the multimorbidity of the increasingly aging clientele.
Are Germans Vikings? Yes and no. The State of Schleswig-Holstein for example belonged to Denmark and the biggest Vikingcity was located there (Hedeby or Haithabu as you would call it in german). That is the reason why so much guys from Schlewsig Holstein have danish surenames and also speak danish. Why No? Because the percentage of Germans with viking heritage is about 2% of the population wich is pretty irrelevant.
@@testofplaces It was a danish thing, there are so many famous danish vikings like Harald Bluetooth, Ragnar Lothbrok( as always in history not 100% confirmed), Ivar the Boneless or Cnut the Great. There are dane axes and the english Kings didnt say the vikings (it is a pretty new term that noone used at this time) are coming they said the danes are coming. It is the fault of tv-shows like "the Vikings" that Danes dont get the attention they deserve.
Well since the Scandinavians are a Proto-Germanic ethnic group and the Germans are Germanics along with the Dutch etc it's clear that they're related, meaning that Germanics today also have Nordic ''Viking'' roots. Vikings did raid Germanic lands in the past so that is also an explanation.
And why should we younger Germans have more responsibility compared to a American or French (just two examples)? WW2 is not my fault, neither of now living young Americans or French. We all have a responsibility to prevent fascism from spreading. Unfortunately, the current fascist Russia just proves how high the danger can be again.
@@SkandalRadar Because we Germans have more resources and insight into how this situation came to be. We, and only we, also have the means to design our politics and constitution in a way that no single party or person can undermine our democratic structures. Unfortunately the latter is pretty much tested all over Europe and also here in Germany at the moment. I agree that it’s not solely our responsibility, but noone ever said that to begin with, so I don’t understand people who rather point to others than to put this energy into preserving our democracy.
Side note about warm beer: There actually are some seasonal warm beers, e.g. "Glühbier" (mulled beer) for Christmas. It's a regional Christmas treat that we (mostly in eastern Germany) probably got from an old Polish recipe.
@@trappedsan3932 Es ist ähnlich. Quasi wie Glühwein, aber ohne diesen weintypischen kratzigen Abgang. Ich kenne es vom Biergarten im Großen Garten in Dresden.
@@Oberbaumbruecke Yes Glühbier! Because beer doesn't tingle the throat like wine does, you can actually taste the fruits more intensely than in Glühwein.
Oh, you're so right about German TV. My son just showed me a video...America, you get so much, Japan has anime,. Korea has Squid Game and Germany has depressed bread.
@@mayblossom2336 My kids sure don't. They find it depressing and boring. It may be outdated or it may be try have an American mentality but they don't like their cartoons to have an existential crisis.
@@TheRagingPlatypus But it having an existential crisis makes it realistic and relatable. Jokes aside: I really liked Bernd as a kid and still do like him.
the "staring" part. as an Indian we get that a lot. didn't know you would answer same thing as why we Indian stare. it might be a uncomfortable experience for foreigners, but we are too curious about others. like for example you are white and your hair is red you will get a lot of stares, from child to old people, from male to female everyone will stare at you which might makes you uncomfortable. cause we will be curious why this guy has red hair.
It's rude to stare, anyone that stares too long at me I have the most evil eye I give them and they look away quickly, if they try and keep staring they better be ready for a confrontation.
@@iggyblitz8739 lol, you should seek professional help for your anger issues mate! But then I guess 15 year olds act that way! Just know that the world is beautiful and has many different cultures...so while staring might be rude where you are from, others might find it endearing. Maybe they like you, don't be so aggressive! 🙂
@@iggyblitz8739 confront Germans, in their own country, at home 😉 And learn that when in Rome, do as Romans. Some Americans and French don't follow this rule, that's why Americans and French are seen as arrogant and despising
I was born and raised in America but my family originally came to the America's from Germany. I have been watching your videos and I find it interesting how some things actually stayed in my family. In America it's normal to wear shoes inside especially if your visiting. You said in Germany their are no shoes in the house and my family as always had that rule of no shoes. The no ice in beer, the cool it in the fridge but better to drink hot than have ice cubes we have too. All these little details I guess stayed in my family a little. It is very interesting.
@@steffenrosmus9177 just giving a list of a few things he stated they do in Germany we do in my family. We have a lot of it but my great grandfather was from Germany so perhaps that plays a part in it.
@@olafgogmo5426 Ice in beer is strange. My family doesn't even like ice in soda or anything else. Just buy soda grocery and put it in fridge or drink warm.
I never questioned the knocking on wood, my teacher in 11th class just said, that this is how it's done, because it's less annoying than clapping and we all did it and it never changed xD
@4:40 That's how my parents raised me in the United States they even said don't give your social security number in a job application. Before interviewing maybe last 4 digits, but no company needs your full social security until your hired and they are trying to do tax with holding. Must of been because my Oma was Dutch. When in high school they had a "vocational program" that just showed you going through the process of applying for a job and helped you get setup with a part time after school job. One of the instructors in that program thought it was weird I didn't want to apply for target, because they only had an online application and demanded you give your full social over the internet. I ended up applying at one of those corner standalone CVS stores stocking the cereals, the 1/2 gallon milks no one ever bought and would always be spoiled, and some of the vitamins.
In Germany, most of them can speak English so well because we usually have English lessons at school for at least 10 years. (I had English lessons from the 2nd grade to the 12th grade)
Rather than only based on learning span or duration, it's also a matter of intensity, that is, the amount of hours per week, plus quality of instruction.
Not everywhere. I had a car travel all over babies a few years ago, and excluding the hotel personnel in Munich we didn't find anyone speaking English there. Even the young workers in restaurants that were suppose to study it in school weren't able to understand or speak anything at all.
simple trick: if you feel stared at by a german, just stare back. it makes at least enough people stop, cuz they realize they were staring too much. (plus, you win the staring contest lmao)
@@SlaveknightGale germans are fairly nonaggressive and very reserved. we're not even used to being *just* greeted by strangers. and non offense, but if you or any stranger would approach me to start a fight after I just looked at them, I'd just give that person a concerned/weirded out look and try to leave …
The shutters actually have a pretty amazing history starting in ww2, Where in Britain they took heavy smelly thick blankets and put them over the windows to hide lights that bombers could use to orient themselves at night, in Germany they engineer a solution: Roll laden, which perfectly blocked the light while looking very neat and probably cheaper then the oiled blankets. The original ones by the way were made out of wood and weighted a ton but could be lifted by hand so they weren't very strong against break ins. Later versions included a pin to hold them down from the inside making them superior to todays versions in the home security aspect. Now just imagine connecting them to a motor and your alarm so that when you want to wake up your room fills with light: perfection!
Funny, as far as people being unfriendly, especially in Berlin, I think that I have been lucky enough to come across people who were, maybe not overtly nice, but kind, in Berlin, the only person who was a little … weird was a security guard at Potsdamer Platz who very bluntly told me that he didn’t speak any English … but security guards are rude everywhere, even here in Portugal, so … nice job, another great video 🙌
As a German I was once in Seattle on vacation, and I was walking around and looking around and suddenly some guy starts following me and kept shouting at me at the top of his lungs about how disrespectful I was for looking at him.
There are unfortunately many schizophrenic people living on the streets homeless in many American states. Mental hospitals were closed all over the country years ago so there is really no place to send them because it would "violate their human rights.". I guess politicians think they are better off exposed to the weather, living in cardboard boxes and subjected to theft, rape and murder.
@@serahloeffelroberts9901 It was the great RONALD REAGAN who brought that about. He started it in California. He didn't think it up himself, it was a plan by conservatives to cut budgets. But the result is plenty of mentally ill people trying to live with paranoid schizophrenia and other debilitating disorders without help, family or support. Also drug addiction. Though the Sackler Family Drug Kingpins were found guilty and fined $6 billion for their sins (sorry, not sorry).
The shouting is rude, but he was right. We don't hold eye contact with a male stranger more than a second or 2 or can be considered rude. Lower class people really get annoyed by it more than middle class or higher.
On the Doctors things I totally disagree: An "old" doctor can be an asset due to the accumulated knowledge, wisdom and perhaps empathy with patients. Regarding old methods of diagnosing and auscultate, many a times age old methods are the best and it doesn't matter how much technology is available certain things never get old.
As a German doctor I very strongly disagree with the notion that we are worse than other nationalities' doctors. On the contrary, I think we still have some of the best specialists in all medical fields, a very comprehensive medical education with a minimum of 11 years from starting med school to working autonomously and several top rated hospitals, especially university hospitals. I'd really like to know how this question even came up and whom we are compared with?
@@MedEwok Italian are better doctors and Latin doctors in general but they have a horrible Health system while in Germany like in all other fields you have a great health system But it's not a legend British and Mediterranean doctors are the best, until now Germans are excellent surgeons especially in orthopedics but they are not the best in medical specialties, well, Scandinavian are the same as Germans !
@@simenkva sadly, this being the land where homeopathy was invented, it still has its fans even among doctors. Some pragmatic doctors use it for the placebo effect, a few actually believe in it
I never have been teached "guilt" in school for WWII nor do I know someone who experienced that. I also dont know anyone who feel guilty about it... Its just some realy horrible event that could happen everywhere at any time again and therefore all of us should keep care that populism, Fake news and racism doesnt get a foothold (like they do now in the US and other countries).
maybe you just didn´t understand the guilty-part, or they don´t teach the younger generation(east-germany??) that germany is guilty(as a country not the persons, but all persons are the country). In my schooltime(late 90´s) it was made clear, and we had to watch Schindlers Liste. But the main-point is that you never allow dictatorship.
@@rainerwahnsinn9585 @Rainer Wahnsinn I'm 35, I dont consider myself to be "Younger" :-( I visited schools in east and west Germany. And yes, we watched "Schindlers Liste" - but I cant see how true circumstances are teaching guilt
Maybe because your ancesors chose Hitler and company in a DEMOCRATIC VOTE (not as Stalin and communists took the regime by force) and then as a regular soldiers sowed terror and destruction everywhere in Europe without mercy and set up death camps? Any European nation did it in the past and even was a bit close to it. The same about Great War - you used combat gas the first time. Maybe the generations after 2WW knew that they need to show you that you should look out with your war plans.
@@wojciechz2031 You think the 3. Reich was a democracy and that regular soldiers set up concentration camps? Oh boy, I though that it would be the easiest thing in the world to criticize the 3. Reich but somehow you managed to f it up 😅 Whatever, I dont get your point? History is teached because it is important to learn from it. In Germany the topic WWII is certainly the most important one. But the reason isnt because of guilt, but so that such things cant repeat itself. The history surrounding WWII is a perfect example how extremism, nationalism, populism and propaganda works and why such horrors can repeat itself anytime everywhere. Watching at the current world, I guess more nations should have teached that. Check out Poland, Hungary, the US, GB, Russia, China... They are all starting to go down the same route. Its sad.
also another thing: the entry for becoming a doctor is ONLY your grades and it's very competitive. they are not tested on social skills at all. it's usually your zero social skill ambitious student who will become a doctor.
Yeah we had a huge discussion here in germany to test doctors for social skills. But it is often the sams for nurses. I am working myself in the hospital. But in the case of the nurses is just brutal overwork.
As a latina living in Germany I have to argue that beer with ice cubes is much better than lukewarm beer. Just drink it fast! Second problem will be then finding ice cubes xD
I grew up in a German dominant area of Texas, many of these things are relevant to me. Weird. My grandparents were the first people born in America. So I guess it takes a few generations to water down the traits. 🤪 I knew Prost before Cheers!
May I just say something nice about German doctors. I live in UK fir the last 17 years and the best doctors I met here came from Germany and had a German education. Just my personal observation from abroad :) And, by the way, I ve noticed that German people do not value themselves high when comparing to others. Although they are great at many things. Not sure if that is psychological moment or comes from education
It comes from ed for sure. Cause at the start everyone is thrown together randomly into classes for the next 5 years or so. Resulting in most people getting quite humble considering theyr own cappabilitys because there is Always someone who did better than you and that certanty was thrown straight in ones face everyday.
@@derwolf3006It's also (quite rightly) still due to World War II - the Nazis considering themselves the Über-race and thinking themselves better than anyone else (I guess truly due to minority complexes, fear and (economical) desparation) and causing such atrocious crimes and horrors in the wake of that idiotic belief showed us the horrific down-side of considering yourself better and more worthy than others - also, there is (also not unjustly) still guilt attached to Germans, how could they feel better than anybody else, they are wary of that feeling and such superbia. Furthermore, they are great believers in: Let your deeds speak, not your words
Actually many Germans prefer the dubbed versions of movies and german dubbing is fantastic. Sometimes I do watch a movie I've seen many times in english to get a new experience tho
I can’t believe how good the German dubbing is in a few video games. I played through a game called Metro in German and they even did a Russisch accent lol I replayed it in English and was surprised how both sounded very good. Wish I understood some Russian or I’d play it in the games original language.
I think to watch content in the original language is always best. At the same time, German dubbing is pretty good compared to many other languages. But once you make the switch to the original language, you can never go back.
@Xantair Sorry, but the latter is more an issue of the specific sound editing that has happened over the past years. But dubbing is indeed so bad that if you're fluent in English, you often immediately realize what the original English word was and can come up with a host of different alternatives that would have been better. My favorite example is when they started to translate "phaser array" from Star Trek as "Phaser Phalanx" - a nice alliteration, but it's BS. It simply says "Hey, an array is a kind of structure or formation, this is about combat, so we'll simply take a name of a famous battle formation".
It's so clever how you managed to also address the age-old question "Do Germans lack humor?" by showcasing it throughout the entire video. Props for the cinematic ingenuity!
I don’t know how the stereotype of Germans being humorless got started, but it’s not true. I’ve known several Germans well, and most of them had a pretty good sense of humor. Then again, German humor does tend toward Schadenfreude.
First: border. This is my bed side and this is yours. Really helps. 2nd: mattresses are something individual. Some want them harder, some want them softer. So couples don't need to compromise, my girlfriend sleeps on her super hard mattress, I on my comfy one. 3rd. Movement. I weight 90kg, she weights 44kg. When I move on a single mattress, she feels an earth quake. And I move a lot in bed.
As a German living in the US and as a cancer surviver (at that time I was living in Germany) I have to say that the average doctor in Germany is way better than an average doctor or a even cancer clinic in the US. Yes, the US does more research and I was treated according to the newest research results from the US, because my doctor happened to just had returned from a cancer congress in the US, but here I learned that the newest research results are not available to everybody. Yes the US has some of the best hospitals and doctors, but there is not even one in every single state. To laugh out loud my stool sample was even sent across country by mail, because they could not do it in Virginia. I could not believe it. The chemo of a friend also came out of state. I seriously and strongly believe that I would not have survived my cancer if I already would have lived in the US. I had stage 3, grade 3 and here where I live they simply do not know what they are doing. Even at Virginia Oncology. And I also stopped watching American movies. New German movies and series I find way better. Also Skandinavian or movies from other countries. I also dislike all the cussing in US films. American film industry is overrated in my opinion. Yes...there are good American movies and those one definitely has to watch in the original language, but nowadays everybody can keep up with Hollywood. This is my opinion and experience. Too bad one hardly can find any foreign productions on regular American TV.
as a former german resident that now lives in spain i can tell you that german doctors are terrible and the healthcare system sucks as in germany. only care about money and exploits the workers
that's total bullshit.... the avg doctor in major US cities is far better than the average euro doctor.... as a tri-state area resident i have several friends that would not be alive if they did not live near sloan kettering, or lived in europe... it's very easy to travel throughout the US and get treated in several areas even when you are 'out of network'... fine, if you were in iowa you'd have to essentially pay out of pocket, but the majority of our population lives in the vicinity of a major cancer center yes, US healthcare sucks for issues like chronic pain, mild medical conditions, but when it comes to extremely deadly and rare shit, we are the creme de la creme in our major cities the film industry is awful though for the exact reasons you said... scandinavian films are pretentious though
@@jkljlkhkljWell... You are certainly entitled to your own opinion. But I also at one time talked to a psychiatrist of the oncology and I told her how cancer treatment is in Germany. She said the US is far from being like this and she told me that I have no idea how many die in the US because they have no access to treatment or cannot afford the treatment, how many loose their job over cancer and end upnon the street. Like I said. The US has good doctors and do a lot of research but unfortunately....the system fails and some of the doctors I met knew less than some of the NP I was fortunate enough to have. No...the average doctor in the US is way below the aversge German. My very own experience. This is part of the reason why we are back in Germany. But I value your opinion. From what you know you see it this way.
@@justme9801 I didn't say the average doctor in the US. I said the average doctor in a major city, or working for a major hospital. One of the signs that a doctor in the US is going to be subpar is that they didn't do medical school at a major college or went to medical school abroad. Yes, the average in the US is bad, but the best doctors and cancer centers here have world-class treatment and experimental options that are less available in other developed countries. Like I said, I know several people who would not be alive today if they did not specifically live near New York City. Where do you think all this great research is done? lol
@@justme9801 what you have described is more a problem with how healthcare is run in the US rather than the doctors themselves.... Which btw i completely agree with
Also shutter's help keeping the house cool in summer (by not letting the sun in) and in winter they help keeping it warm (a lot of heat get's out trough your window's) and of course you can prevent people from looking inside (i only open them in summer after the sun is down and outside temp is cooler than inside... but people say i'm wired so idk...) We drink warm beer... if there is no other beer, but sometime's even water is better than warm beer. If you want that a German hate's you give him a bottle of beer that was a few hour's in the sun... but you might regret it if he execute's you later then... I don't now square/rectangular pillows but i recommend you some body pillow's 150x50cm in size... i don't now much about pillow's but that japanes have the best pillows i ever tryed so far, also you get them with different filling (Sand/rice/cotton and so on), no advertising but if you search a pillow try it out ;D WW2 yeah we got teached a lot of guilt and that being proud to be a german or being proud of germany is wrong. And if i compare Germany to other states i visited so far every one else has a lot more flag's of they're country hanging around... i would even say you see more turkish flag's in germany than german one's xD Nothing against Turkish people but i think it's everywhere else more accepted to being proud of your country than in germany. If you say something like that you should be ready for people looking at you for what you said (my expirience)
As a person visiting Germany very often (being polish myself), i see the staring thing as more of an old people thing. But said so, I am most of the time in Berlin which is I think the least "german" city in Germany ;)
There was a story about German POWs in the US during WW2 who taught Americans how to drink beer. The prisoners generally had a good relationship with the guards who ran the camps. In one instance the guards wanted to show the Germans some gratitude for working so hard in the camp by treating them with bottles of beer in a large tub full of ice. The POWs promptly removed the chilled beer and placed them on the porch in the sun. It was unknown to the Americans that Germans liked their beer warm. Also, Never ever state at people in the USA. At best it is highly rude at worst in some neighborhoods it can get you killed. You heard that right. There is a gang culture here and staring at someone affiliated with a gang is flat out dangerous. Even if that person isn't a gang member you can almost expect violence. If you ever are confronted by someone who you are staring at, just say. "sorry, I thought you were someone else".
Not warm but temperated. Especially older folks hold the view that ice cold beer is bad for your stomach. In older times in beer gardens or restaurants it was common to put a 'beer-warmer' (a metal-tube filled with warm water) into your glass when the beer came fresh from the ice cellar to bring it up to drinking-temperature. I like my beer 10-12°C (fridge temp). Some like it a bit colder but you simply can drink more and faster when the beer isn't icy (drinking beer in small sips is universally frowned upon in Germany) and also the tastes of the hops and malts are more cognisable so you can tell better if the beer is good or piss-water. There are some receipes for warm beer with honey and spices as a remedy for a cold or other ilnesses though, but that's nothing you would like to drink every day.
@@audiolatroushearetic1822 maybe but thats long time ago. I am German by myself and I really dont know anybody of the older generation who drinks warm beer. There is only one thing to drink warm beer: when you are ill.
Good video! Tipping: We round it up, If it‘s 27 Euro, we give them 30. Unless you are from Schwabenland. If the bill is 27,75 Euro, my husband rounds it up to 28. Smiling/friendly: When I visited Berlin, I was floored by how nice the people were compared to where we live in BW. People working at stores smiled! I loved it! Staring: Ah, yes. The German stare…
Germans get something very important right: not drinking with co-workers. There are people you work with, people you drink with, and never shall the twain meet. It ensures that co-workers don't hate each other for off work reasons, and helps maintain a healthy separation between work life and private life.
Not my experience - I worked for a market research company in Cologne some years ago, sometimes on Fridays they'd have beers after work (maybe once every month or two?) and there was one big party where everyone got a little cray during summer. And recently I worked at an international corporation dealing with Germans in Germany, and when we met, we shared wine or beer at dinner and it was OK to get a bit tipsy.
@@kleinshui9082 I work in Poland now, and I used to work in Czech Republic - it isn't uncommon, especially since covid started, for companies to provide beer after work on Thursdays to get people to come to the office more. But yes, no one wants to deal with coworkers after work unless you're in Portugal or Spain or Italy or France....
I'm Dutch and I'm pretty interested in Germany & in learning the language :) I love your videos because they're very educational and I think you're humor is brilliant ~ maybe because we're neighbours, eh? 😉
@@RadicalLiving oof, I don't know 😅 Maybe about how it can get confusing when the language is similar, but different. When I started learning a bit of German, I kept getting words like _how (hoe/wie), who (wie/wer) and where (waar/wo)_ mixed up 🤣 I'm curious about the video!
Oh, I just remembered a thing that Germans are known for here (although I don't know how accurate this is) that they make holes in our beaches x'D But we go to Germany to get things cheaply 🙈
Something funny about the pillow. The tag on his pillow is COMO and the place that I live, Columbia Missouri, has a nickname of CoMo. I am loving your content btw, been thinking about moving to Germany for a while now and so being able to learn things that I wouldn't think to ask is cool.
Warmes Bier (und Schnaps) sind gut für Erkältung, Durchfall, Schnupfen, Magenverstimmung,…. Meine Großmutter hat es als Haushaltsmittel genutzt. Bisschen wie die Italiener mit Olivenöl
Ja, was Du darüber gesagt hast, ist wahr. Ich sehe ein Unterschied zwischen den älteren und jüngeren Deutschen. Mit 21 hatte ich mit einer Gastfamilie in Nordrhein-Westfalen geblieben und die Menschen schienen freundlicher als weißen Amerikaner sein. Auch wurde ich in der großen Städten von den Menschen ein bisschen unfreundlich gestarrt, weil ich ein Schwarzer bin.
If you ever visit Austria or Switzerland, you will be amazed about their even totaler cleanliness The Netherlands is great in many things just don't visit a public toilet or even worse, train toilet...
I'm an American with a Grandpa from Germany, I feel like this explains a bit about my personality. I feel like I would enjoy it there much more than here.
My personal theory on why German trains have a reputation for being late is that Germans are very upfront and do not hesitate to complain. After all, even I personally caught myself complaining about a train bein three minutes (THREE WHOLE MINUTES!!!) late. Compare that to other countries like the U.S. and you start noticing that everything less than ten minutes is basically on schedule there.
Yeah. But if for example a train is scheduled every 5 minutes, 3 minutes late is quite much. And it is mostly not that bad, if you wouldn't need to catch another train or bus to change. And if that bus/train is scheduled every 20/30/60 minutes... Public transportation raises prices every year and gets more and more unreliable. but yeah. Complaining and rolling our eyes is part of our culture.
For the DB being late, I think it is probably because Germany has one of the biffest Railway Networks and is way smaller than other countries with a railway network of a simmilar size.
To be honest with you, that’s not a problem we have in the Netherlands while we have Europe‘s densest train network. Been living in Cologne for a few months and found it rather shocking. The 9 euro ticket is great but also didn’t help at all. I hope the government will start to invest in DB more. I read somewhere that Germany lost about 10% of its total network between 1994 and now, which hasn’t affected the main cities as much ofc but also isn’t great.
The quote about German doctors is, pardon me my french, BS. I´m not german and I can claim to have had ways of comparison with other European countries. Most of them, namely the romanic countries, would be happy to have such a medical care system like we get in Germany, both technical and manpower wise.
Clapping was for musicians, actors, artists and acrobats. For an University Professor this would have been insulting. Universities and their students put a lot of effort into being different with special clothing, customs and even language. Universities had such a degree of autonomy that they had their own jurisdiction, legislative and even their own armed forces to various degrees. If they could do things differently, they would.
Nobody stared at my while i ve been in Germany. Aa far as i know. Some were very friendly and asked if i am okay when we were going up the Dome in Ulm.
Viking thing: my theory is that all the warrior Vikings went to the South and - stayed there, and back home they got southern slaves and the people who were not so adventures. all over Europe you find people looking like Vikings, but they also were kinda everywhere
This is a pretty good video and I agree with most things. Though I do have a couple of counterpoints or different views: 1. I can’t really speak about beer because I don’t like to drink alcohol xD I know… shocker, a German that doesn’t like alcohol. But I guess it gets worse cause 2. I also dislike sparkling water. No idea why most Germans like it more 3. Germans can actually be super friendly. At least here in the south, we often are in a good mood and full of good spirit 4. I actually think doctors are pretty good here? We have a great medical system actually. But that may just be my region, maybe I got lucky xD I also don’t have any doctors that are above 60 actually, maybe not even over 50 But like I said, otherwise this is pretty well done and I like the way you answered it Edit: I get however, why you, as a German in Berlin, would answer that people are not that friendly. When I was in tenth grade, we did a long excursion to Berlin for four days and everyone was surprised just HOW unfriendly people in Berlin were lmao. That’s definitely a thing about that city
I do agree with all of your points :D Only that the doctors at my home town are known to be pretty bad. But I think that's just my home town and one of the "perks" of living on the countryside.
Have you ever been to / lived in Vienna? Vienna is definitely the most "progressive" city in Austria, so if yes, could you maybe compare Vienna and Berlin? It would be really interesting to me, since I know Vienna quite well, but have never been to Berlin.
Vienna is a hundreds if not times prettier as well as cleaner, Berlin has a lot more weird sub culture and both cities are hated by the rest of their respective countries.
To understand how a pillow can be too soft you need to try a cotton stuffed pillow, I have been to Germany before and I noticed that the pillows are very soft that when you put your head it dives deep inside
7:38 it’s probably because German “elementary school” teaches multiplication in 1st grade. They don’t think kids are stupid. We Americans learn multiplication in 3rd and 4th grade
It's been to Germany several times for extended periods, I loved it more each time. I absolutely loved Berlin and the people there are great. A couple of things I learned is that don't ever be late it's disrespectful, Germans are very orderly and polite and also don't work around the house on Sundays, just put the hammer and drill down, no honey do's, go for a drive, walk or a beer instead. Germans are well educated and their healthcare system is top rate.
It is a common tradition in Germany for students to knock on their desks or tables after class as a sign of respect and appreciation for their teacher. This practice is known as "Tischklopfen" or "Table Knocking". The origin of this tradition is not entirely clear, but it is believed to date back to the 19th century, when students would knock on their desks as a way of thanking their teachers for their lessons. Some also believe that the tradition has roots in religious practices, where knocking is a way of expressing gratitude or asking for blessings. Today, the tradition is still widely practiced in German schools as a way for students to show respect and appreciation for their teachers. It is often done at the end of a lesson or at the end of the school day, and is usually accompanied by saying "Danke" (Thank you) or "Auf Wiedersehen" (Goodbye).
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Suggestion to cut down the teaching about WW2 part: EXTENSIVELY
1 year on how Hitler got to where he was and 1 year about the war itself on the school I went to.
I think the pillow question was asked by a Spanish person,since Spanish pillows are extreme rectangulars: 90x30 or even 120x30cm.
I am going to move to Germany in a few years, where do you recommend I live? And funny German joke (Schnell schnell kortoffelkopf)
Do you get blackadder on TV? And do you understand Afrikaans in any form?
And I admire Germany a lot more than my scheise of a country (South Africa)
We, in the tourism industry, have this stereotype about Germans: The best compliment you can get from a German tourist is no complaints.
well yeah that usually means you did a good job lol. Or we actually leave a small compliment in that case you win.
@@zokora3656 it's just a joke among us...we also jokingly stereotyping other nationalities...it's fun lol...we often say that when you have worked in tourism, you tend to be a bit racist towards everyone...
Well, the joke is mostly directed towards older generations as they weren't very exposed towards diverse cultures.
@@UltimaTheSeraph dw i aint mad lmao. i make fun of everything myself aswell. also its kinda true
@@UltimaTheSeraph and stereotype from other nationalities? 😏
@@fitito500 here are some;
The Dutch are the stingy but fun people
The Americans, either you get a really nice one or a really weird one.
French: snobs who refuse to speak English
Italian: brace your eardrums
Australians: the drunks
Indians: expect to be asked for 5 star service for a street vendor price.
Chinese: the rude tourist
Canadians: we love them
Russians: trouble is here
Danish/Nowegian: party people
Switzerland: rich but don't tip
Every non-German I know: "The trains in Germany are so efficient!"
Every single German I know: "DEUTSCHE BAHN!!!!!!!!!!"
No one can say this shitboxes are any efficient. These trains are awful generally and totally obsolete
@@alekseyromanov9593 until you compare them to trains in the US
@@fxlei1856 Or in Russia 😅
@@alekseyromanov9593 You've probably never used one. They're clean and ICEs are modern technology🙄
@@lumina9995 I live here and use them every day.
This "staring" one is actually really interesting. Different cultures have different durations of staring normalised. I think there were some with up to 12 second-stares and it is completely normal. The other person does not want something from you.
truth, in India that limit is "infinite" though, people always stared at me forever, and even when i kept staring back they just kept looking 😂
@@RadicalLiving u have been in India.? When? Did you make any vlog that I missed
In the UK with some people that we call chavs you cannot look at them for even a split second but they stare hard at you for ages.
@@tanyapammy459 was there for 3 months in 2013, way before i started YT^^
In Japan, for instance, eye-contact is considered rude or even threatening. No more than a glance at a time.
When I visited Berlin last summer for a month, I would pass someone on the street, and me being from the US, I would look at them and smile, because that is what we do in the US. But the German person would stare back at me completely devoid of expression or emotion. It's like they were trying to bore a hole through me with their stare.
Being from the US now living in Berlin, I have developed what is apparently an undesirable (to the locals) habit of greeting shop workers when I walk by them. Just a quick "Hello" but it's like I walked up to them and screamed "Youyoumamamumumalgahay" in their face. Apparently it's just not done here.
Some of us do smile back tho.... but I know what you mean. T-T Plz don't stop, we want Germany to become more social. QAQ
It´s strange for most of us. we are not used to beeing smiled upon or greeted by people we dont know. if you are a friend its different. I used to live in portugal for a few years and when i got there i was confused as hell about the people beeing so open and strangers greeting you etc. got over it fairly quickly but yeah
It’s different when you go hiking in Germany. Then people greet each other.
@@100xfun5 I guess many people would agree on not being bothered by someone we don't know and have no interest in getting to know this person
10:44 I'm not German, but I still appreciate how you're honest about how modern-day Germans feel about WW2. I really don't like it when people associate an ethnicity or nationality with war. There were wars in practically almost every country on the planet. It's a fact of humanity, not just a nationality.
I agree. Newer generations should disassociate with the old, there will be no guilt nor proud.
@@WilliamParkerer Ehh... I wouldn't go that far. Santayana says that "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
Speaking as an American, we're watching our country backslide on all fronts because people are so adamant about forgetting past harms - while actively still doing more harm. If anything, I've been learning German & considering emigration there in my lifetime precisely because there are, from what I can see, so many institutional safeguards in place for democracy there.
Well, disassociation doesn't mean forgetting the history but separating oneself from the ancestor's identity. Otherwise, you would either feel guilty because your forefathers did such atrocity, or feel proud because your forefathers did such a great feat. We "modern people" should unite as one against the past generations. What I mean is, what our ancestors did a few hundred years ago is no different than what our ancestors did millions of years ago. It's just animalistic behavior, and we shouldn't resonate with them.
I associate humanity with war.
@@JohnFallot yeah I’m terrified to have white children in the USA
8:26 As a German who is interested in railways, let me explain briefly:
So, the German railway used to be very good, and comparing it internationally, it's still pretty decent, but punctuality and reliability have dropped over the last decades. This is mostly because passenger numbers (not entirely sure about cargo) have risen drastically since then and the network is at (or rather above) capacity on many routes. Furthermore, since freight, regional and long distance trains share the same tracks, there are a lot of conflicts between trains going different speeds, and a single delayed train can affect dozens of trains in a domino effect.
The reason the network (and in many cases the fleet) hasn't caught up with the demand comes down to how the railway is handled fundamentally. After privatising (it is still 100% state-owned), the government wanted to turn the DB into a publicly traded corporation, but to do this successfully, it had to be profitable and all kinds of cost saving measures were taken. After that failed, savings have been less drastic, but there still isn't a general willingness to invest. Up to 2019, Germany invested less than half as much money per person into the railway as other European countries with a good railway, and with now recently drastically increased investments we're still just up to right about the European average, which simply isn't enough to overhaul the network in the way that is needed, especially in a short amount of time. The government still wants the railway to be profitable or at least cost neutral, while for example the road network doesn't need to be.
Add to that that every new railway project immediately hits a wave of political opposition, and you can see why the situation isn't really improving.
Don't forget that they "shut down" whole railway tracks on the countryside because it wasn't "financially worth it" anymore. There are also a lot of routes where one track is available to get the trains from both directions to their final destinations. Trains often times have to wait for the other train at the railway stations so they can get moving. So if one train is delayed the other one(s) will be as well.
DB also cut down their stuff I think about 10 years ago? Which caused canceled trains and delays too. I don't know how far they managed to "fix" it though.
@@DragonriderEpona Those are some of the results of lacking investments and the demand to make money. Many routes simply aren't profitable, but need to be run to at least have some railway connectivity in the area. For the set goal of not losing money overall, closing down as many of those routes as is deemed acceptable is the best option, and the railway tries to strike a balance between losing as little money as possible and providing a decent service. This balance certainly isn't perfect in all places, but really, it can't be.
I'm not sure about staff numbers, it was massively cut down some time after the privatization, but there also hasn't been a huge supply of applicants over the last years. I think this has started improving, but I honestly don't know. Of course, staff cost money, too, so you really mustn't have too many.
They also waste money, e.g. Stuttgart 21.
Yes the national railway network in Germany is very neglected but all the local tramways, Stadtbahns, U Bahns and S Bahns are great! The UK has 7 tram networks and 4 subway networks and they dont provide good coverage. In Birmingham (2 million people in the ballungsgebiet), they have 1 tram line so the majority of public transport is provided by bus. When the Belgrade metro is finished by the end of this decade, Birmingham will be Europe's biggest city without an underground.
Thank you for explaining 👍
Well, when I went to school, my teachers didn't tell me to feel guilty. It was more something we would discuss from time to time, like "Do you think we should feel a certain guilt?" I personally think guilt is just not the correct term, it should be more responsibility to do everything to prevent something similar in the future. Although, when I really read certain things about the time back and it really gets me, I kinda feel guilty, but more in a "why are humans like this" kind of way.
yep. When learning to drive, we don't learn to feel guilty about killing someone accidentally, we learn the various ways to avoid getting into risky stuations in the first place. This should be done in politics, too.
To learn to not run someone over by having an inflated ego.
The better question is „could I be like this“
Si esto es un hombre . By Levi
It's a book on the subject. I ' do not know the title in English. Sorry
My teachers also didn't directly make me feel guilty. Just talking and explaining how and why things were at the time made me feel sick during class. I didn't understand why for the Abitur we had to redo all of those horrible topics again because of how horrible the things they did were. But now that I actually studied history and distant myself from this topic for several years until this year, I'm actually glad that we learned so thoroughly about the NS-regime. It makes you understand the current politically system more and why tolerance, diversity and democracy are worth protecting. It also shows how fragile democracies are.
Especially during the last two years when conspiracy theories and anti-vaxxers did comparisons to that time that were simply false statements and show how little they understand history and politics....
@@raquelrivas2431 in English is:If this is a man, and in US is: Survival in Auschwitz. Beautiful and interesting book 👍
When I was stationed in Germany, the trains were always on time and I thought that was remarkable. I absolutely loved my stay in Germany and I can't wait to go back.
They stopped being on time
We had a lot of delays-but it was a crazy summer with a heat wave....so who knows why?
..how long ago was that? public transport over here is - compared to our neighbors - pretty shit, especially if you actually have to depend on it. hence the many cars and drivers around here
@@lit_for_20 It was in 2011, I'm sorry to hear if it's not as great as I remember it being now!
What school did you go to?
Our teacher told us what horrible things happened in that time period and we even visted a KZ in Poland. But nevery anybody said that any of that was the fault of the people living today.
We also learned how the third reich raised and why people supported them. I think we get really good educated about the NS-years
Yes, this is the way.
Its more about learning how and why this shit happened (and obviously why its really bad) and not about guilt tripping people. Obviously the whole topic is treated with a huge amount of respect which can sometimes interpreted as making people guilty?
Same here. We learned pretty detailed how it could happen and what we have done to prevent it in future but the "Generationenschuld" was told as dumb because were weren't alive back then.
And if you compare Germany to many other countries for example the us, in Germany are living less "Nazis" as in other countries but here it is a bigger deal if someone is one
+1
Theyre not saying you are quilty at all. Its just more of a lesson than anything. Its hard to move away from your past, especially if its a horrific one. Germany just wants to make sure that everybody understands what happened and why as to prevent it from happening again. And dont worry, nobody els in the world blames Todays Germany for the war.
@@xbox_junkie1718 sadly i know people who still blame us
Well as a slavic person I can smile
As a person living in Germany for 15 years I stare.
No imagine me smiling and staring simultaneously. I guess pple think sometimes I'm a bit crazy
You're not supposed to mix / combine that....
😁😁😁
@ironsugar8690 немного южнее Питера 😅
@ironsugar8690 за 15 лет за границей стала улыбаться, а у нас в городе действительно мало кто улыбается
That IS funny. I had in mind a maniac.
- How do Germans write date?
The question should be: "How does most of the world write date and why Americans don't do this that way?"
we arabs write the date like this:
thursday 29 february 2024
for me i find 29/2/2024 almost not a real way of writing the date, it's like giving information on what today is in a very simplified way 😅
*Japan enters the chat*
@@cyberhaggis good old YYYY/MM/DD
The best way for data entry.
Unless you go with 年月日
@@shiin_8 I was also bought up with the Arab system but then did my higher studies in Europe so I think DD/MM/YY is the best and most logical way to go as it goes from smallest unit (a day), to a bigger one (a month) to the biggest (year)
Yo Malmö in Sweden is the 3rd largest city with the 3rd highest number of immigration, so the chance to see a swede is already compromised, but you will find "Viking" looking swedes in the north, like Uppsala and up.. also if you go to villages and rural areas, they are huge like a Viking, often with a kind soul
I love seeing those videos as a german,its very satisfying what people wonder about here.
Das gilt auch für mich. Ehrlich gesagt vermute ich, dass wohl die halbe Zuschauerschaft auf solchen Kanälen in Deutschland lebt.
Are you surprised at what people wonder about the Germans?
@@undeadwerewolves9463 At least some questions like the viking and the intelligence one quite amused me.
I wonder too... though come across a few Germans in Uganda
@@OleJanssenPerhaps we don't trust the mirrors we have hung up ourselves. We think we're friendly, and when we look in, an angry man threatens back with bared teeth. Oh ... that's a German smile?
Huch, wo ist mein deutscher Text hin?
Awesome as usual. I love this stuff. Also very cool how more channels mostly German have a breakdown of the activity in the comment section and a scene selector or chapters below that. this is definitely an improvement and a helpful tool for learning.
So glad you write the dates logically. Love from Australia.
09:20 As someone working with them I can tell you that our senior doctors are very experienced and meticulously up-to-date. The dissatisfaction in the German health care system is more likely to be due to long waiting times, a lack of beds, high levels of sickness among staff (and the resulting stress in everyday work, which is passed on to patients) and the multimorbidity of the increasingly aging clientele.
Are Germans Vikings? Yes and no. The State of Schleswig-Holstein for example belonged to Denmark and the biggest Vikingcity was located there (Hedeby or Haithabu as you would call it in german). That is the reason why so much guys from Schlewsig Holstein have danish surenames and also speak danish. Why No? Because the percentage of Germans with viking heritage is about 2% of the population wich is pretty irrelevant.
FINALLY Someone recognises that Vikings was not just a Norwegian thing but mostly a Danish one.
So no
@@testofplaces It was a danish thing, there are so many famous danish vikings like Harald Bluetooth, Ragnar Lothbrok( as always in history not 100% confirmed), Ivar the Boneless or Cnut the Great. There are dane axes and the english Kings didnt say the vikings (it is a pretty new term that noone used at this time) are coming they said the danes are coming. It is the fault of tv-shows like "the Vikings" that Danes dont get the attention they deserve.
Technically the Vikings weren't an ethnic group, it was what the Scandinavians called pirates.
Well since the Scandinavians are a Proto-Germanic ethnic group and the Germans are Germanics along with the Dutch etc it's clear that they're related, meaning that Germanics today also have Nordic ''Viking'' roots. Vikings did raid Germanic lands in the past so that is also an explanation.
I never was taught guilt. It's not about feeling guilty. Its about taking responsibility for the future.
And why should we younger Germans have more responsibility compared to a American or French (just two examples)? WW2 is not my fault, neither of now living young Americans or French. We all have a responsibility to prevent fascism from spreading. Unfortunately, the current fascist Russia just proves how high the danger can be again.
@@SkandalRadar well, I try my best, no matter if others don't. I can only do what I can do.
We would Germans have ‘responsibility’ for the future? Cringe
@@SkandalRadar
Because we Germans have more resources and insight into how this situation came to be. We, and only we, also have the means to design our politics and constitution in a way that no single party or person can undermine our democratic structures.
Unfortunately the latter is pretty much tested all over Europe and also here in Germany at the moment.
I agree that it’s not solely our responsibility, but noone ever said that to begin with, so I don’t understand people who rather point to others than to put this energy into preserving our democracy.
@@SkandalRadarSo weit weg müssen wir gar nicht schauen; betrachte mal Ostdeutschland.
Side note about warm beer: There actually are some seasonal warm beers, e.g. "Glühbier" (mulled beer) for Christmas.
It's a regional Christmas treat that we (mostly in eastern Germany) probably got from an old Polish recipe.
Also ich kenne nur zwar Glühwein aber Glühbier hab ich net gehört und ich bin Ost-Deutscher ist das so ähnlich oder komplett anders?
@@trappedsan3932 Es ist ähnlich. Quasi wie Glühwein, aber ohne diesen weintypischen kratzigen Abgang.
Ich kenne es vom Biergarten im Großen Garten in Dresden.
No warm beer and no "Glühbeer"!!! 😉😂😂
@@Oberbaumbruecke Yes Glühbier!
Because beer doesn't tingle the throat like wine does, you can actually taste the fruits more intensely than in Glühwein.
Never heard of it.
Oh, you're so right about German TV. My son just showed me a video...America, you get so much, Japan has anime,. Korea has Squid Game and Germany has depressed bread.
Bernd das Brot! (Bernd the bread) I absolutely loved his depressed ass as a german Kid haha :) He is awesome
@@mayblossom2336 My kids sure don't. They find it depressing and boring. It may be outdated or it may be try have an American mentality but they don't like their cartoons to have an existential crisis.
@@mayblossom2336 Ich also loved it. Still do!
@@TheRagingPlatypus But it having an existential crisis makes it realistic and relatable.
Jokes aside: I really liked Bernd as a kid and still do like him.
@@Esablaka Sure, he's right up there with worldwide cultural influence with Bugs Bunny... but you can like it all you want.
the "staring" part. as an Indian we get that a lot. didn't know you would answer same thing as why we Indian stare. it might be a uncomfortable experience for foreigners, but we are too curious about others. like for example you are white and your hair is red you will get a lot of stares, from child to old people, from male to female everyone will stare at you which might makes you uncomfortable. cause we will be curious why this guy has red hair.
It's rude to stare, anyone that stares too long at me I have the most evil eye I give them and they look away quickly, if they try and keep staring they better be ready for a confrontation.
@@iggyblitz8739 lol, you should seek professional help for your anger issues mate! But then I guess 15 year olds act that way! Just know that the world is beautiful and has many different cultures...so while staring might be rude where you are from, others might find it endearing. Maybe they like you, don't be so aggressive! 🙂
I have to go to India 😂
@@iggyblitz8739 confront Germans, in their own country, at home 😉
And learn that when in Rome, do as Romans. Some Americans and French don't follow this rule, that's why Americans and French are seen as arrogant and despising
I was born and raised in America but my family originally came to the America's from Germany. I have been watching your videos and I find it interesting how some things actually stayed in my family. In America it's normal to wear shoes inside especially if your visiting. You said in Germany their are no shoes in the house and my family as always had that rule of no shoes. The no ice in beer, the cool it in the fridge but better to drink hot than have ice cubes we have too. All these little details I guess stayed in my family a little. It is very interesting.
Ice in Beer?????!
@@olafgogmo5426 They only drink Budweiser in the States, therefore, ice cubes in "beer" are okay. :P
Bullshit no shoes in the house is an rule not common anymore in app 90 % of Germany.
@@steffenrosmus9177 just giving a list of a few things he stated they do in Germany we do in my family. We have a lot of it but my great grandfather was from Germany so perhaps that plays a part in it.
@@olafgogmo5426 Ice in beer is strange. My family doesn't even like ice in soda or anything else. Just buy soda grocery and put it in fridge or drink warm.
I thought the German obsession with privacy partly originated from the terrible experience of the Gestapo and the Stasi?
He alluded to that.
Case in point... was Radical Living's real name ever disclosed here? Maybe it was and I missed the memo. 😄
@@soundscape26 Impressum/imprint on his website.
@@daniell7524 Thanks 👍
@@daniell7524 as he is mandated by german law to include the imprint xD
I never questioned the knocking on wood, my teacher in 11th class just said, that this is how it's done, because it's less annoying than clapping and we all did it and it never changed xD
This is very accurate. Noone tips more than 10%. In Swabia it is 0.1% usually.
In Swabia it's minus 10% because they try negotiate a discount for the soup not being hot enough 😄
yay, a fellow swabian
i´m so happy to be a Badener
@@arnodobler1096 Badenser
@@michaelscheuner oder Gelbfiaßler
is mir aber egal 🤣
@4:40 That's how my parents raised me in the United States they even said don't give your social security number in a job application. Before interviewing maybe last 4 digits, but no company needs your full social security until your hired and they are trying to do tax with holding. Must of been because my Oma was Dutch. When in high school they had a "vocational program" that just showed you going through the process of applying for a job and helped you get setup with a part time after school job. One of the instructors in that program thought it was weird I didn't want to apply for target, because they only had an online application and demanded you give your full social over the internet. I ended up applying at one of those corner standalone CVS stores stocking the cereals, the 1/2 gallon milks no one ever bought and would always be spoiled, and some of the vitamins.
Germans will get furious at the sound of children playing...they hate that. But they do love a good leaf blower at 7 am.
In Germany, most of them can speak English so well because we usually have English lessons at school for at least 10 years. (I had English lessons from the 2nd grade to the 12th grade)
at least 10 years?
Realschule: 10 - 1 = 9 years
Hauptschule: 9 - 1 = 8 years
Rather than only based on learning span or duration, it's also a matter of intensity, that is, the amount of hours per week, plus quality of instruction.
I’m just curious, if a non-native asked them to speak German with them, would they speak it back?
Not everywhere. I had a car travel all over babies a few years ago, and excluding the hotel personnel in Munich we didn't find anyone speaking English there. Even the young workers in restaurants that were suppose to study it in school weren't able to understand or speak anything at all.
Maybe yes mostly in Berlin, or small city like Oberhausen where it holds a big international film festival every year since long time ago.
simple trick: if you feel stared at by a german, just stare back. it makes at least enough people stop, cuz they realize they were staring too much.
(plus, you win the staring contest lmao)
Or you start a fight
No there will be no fight. This trick works
@@SlaveknightGale germans are fairly nonaggressive and very reserved. we're not even used to being *just* greeted by strangers.
and non offense, but if you or any stranger would approach me to start a fight after I just looked at them, I'd just give that person a concerned/weirded out look and try to leave …
@@smolmoru I know I am German, but there is always the one idiot or drink you can run into. Not mentioning the migrants lul
I did this during my first visit and I noticed they stopped staring 😂
The shutters actually have a pretty amazing history starting in ww2, Where in Britain they took heavy smelly thick blankets and put them over the windows to hide lights that bombers could use to orient themselves at night, in Germany they engineer a solution: Roll laden, which perfectly blocked the light while looking very neat and probably cheaper then the oiled blankets.
The original ones by the way were made out of wood and weighted a ton but could be lifted by hand so they weren't very strong against break ins. Later versions included a pin to hold them down from the inside making them superior to todays versions in the home security aspect.
Now just imagine connecting them to a motor and your alarm so that when you want to wake up your room fills with light: perfection!
@@ThomasVWorm XD sometimes tech needs proper handling from humans. That's all I can say to that.
how many germans where sent to the gulag because they forgot to pull them down
Funny, as far as people being unfriendly, especially in Berlin, I think that I have been lucky enough to come across people who were, maybe not overtly nice, but kind, in Berlin, the only person who was a little … weird was a security guard at Potsdamer Platz who very bluntly told me that he didn’t speak any English … but security guards are rude everywhere, even here in Portugal, so … nice job, another great video 🙌
Hello Nuno
Maybe he just spoke berlin mouth
Its a harsh dislect sou ds a bit like a pi cher is barking at u lol
U know how to warm ur way to people's hearts !!! Dude you are awesome 😂❤
Thank you so much 😀
As a German I was once in Seattle on vacation, and I was walking around and looking around and suddenly some guy starts following me and kept shouting at me at the top of his lungs about how disrespectful I was for looking at him.
😂😂😂😂
We have an ‘animalistic’ segment of our population here in the USA, you get the idea.
There are unfortunately many schizophrenic people living on the streets homeless in many American states. Mental hospitals were closed all over the country years ago so there is really no place to send them because it would "violate their human rights.". I guess politicians think they are better off exposed to the weather, living in cardboard boxes and subjected to theft, rape and murder.
@@serahloeffelroberts9901 It was the great RONALD REAGAN who brought that about. He started it in California. He didn't think it up himself, it was a plan by conservatives to cut budgets. But the result is plenty of mentally ill people trying to live with paranoid schizophrenia and other debilitating disorders without help, family or support. Also drug addiction. Though the Sackler Family Drug Kingpins were found guilty and fined $6 billion for their sins (sorry, not sorry).
The shouting is rude, but he was right. We don't hold eye contact with a male stranger more than a second or 2 or can be considered rude. Lower class people really get annoyed by it more than middle class or higher.
On the Doctors things I totally disagree: An "old" doctor can be an asset due to the accumulated knowledge, wisdom and perhaps empathy with patients. Regarding old methods of diagnosing and auscultate, many a times age old methods are the best and it doesn't matter how much technology is available certain things never get old.
Germany is also ranked 8th globally in healthcare (LPI 2020 ranking), so the doctors can't be all that bad.
As a German doctor I very strongly disagree with the notion that we are worse than other nationalities' doctors. On the contrary, I think we still have some of the best specialists in all medical fields, a very comprehensive medical education with a minimum of 11 years from starting med school to working autonomously and several top rated hospitals, especially university hospitals.
I'd really like to know how this question even came up and whom we are compared with?
@@MedEwok
Italian are better doctors and Latin doctors in general but they have a horrible Health system while in Germany like in all other fields you have a great health system
But it's not a legend British and Mediterranean doctors are the best, until now
Germans are excellent surgeons especially in orthopedics but they are not the best in medical specialties, well, Scandinavian are the same as Germans !
Living in Germany I was amazed and horrified that my doctor and pharmacist would recommend homeopathy to me uninvited
@@simenkva sadly, this being the land where homeopathy was invented, it still has its fans even among doctors. Some pragmatic doctors use it for the placebo effect, a few actually believe in it
I never have been teached "guilt" in school for WWII nor do I know someone who experienced that.
I also dont know anyone who feel guilty about it...
Its just some realy horrible event that could happen everywhere at any time again and therefore all of us should keep care that populism, Fake news and racism doesnt get a foothold (like they do now in the US and other countries).
maybe you just didn´t understand the guilty-part, or they don´t teach the younger generation(east-germany??) that germany is guilty(as a country not the persons, but all persons are the country). In my schooltime(late 90´s) it was made clear, and we had to watch Schindlers Liste. But the main-point is that you never allow dictatorship.
@@rainerwahnsinn9585 @Rainer Wahnsinn I'm 35, I dont consider myself to be "Younger" :-(
I visited schools in east and west Germany.
And yes, we watched "Schindlers Liste" - but I cant see how true circumstances are teaching guilt
they certainly did sprinkle guilt into our classes. And books. And movies. And conversations...
Maybe because your ancesors chose Hitler and company in a DEMOCRATIC VOTE (not as Stalin and communists took the regime by force) and then as a regular soldiers sowed terror and destruction everywhere in Europe without mercy and set up death camps? Any European nation did it in the past and even was a bit close to it. The same about Great War - you used combat gas the first time. Maybe the generations after 2WW knew that they need to show you that you should look out with your war plans.
@@wojciechz2031 You think the 3. Reich was a democracy and that regular soldiers set up concentration camps?
Oh boy, I though that it would be the easiest thing in the world to criticize the 3. Reich but somehow you managed to f it up 😅
Whatever, I dont get your point? History is teached because it is important to learn from it.
In Germany the topic WWII is certainly the most important one.
But the reason isnt because of guilt, but so that such things cant repeat itself.
The history surrounding WWII is a perfect example how extremism, nationalism, populism and propaganda works and why such horrors can repeat itself anytime everywhere.
Watching at the current world, I guess more nations should have teached that.
Check out Poland, Hungary, the US, GB, Russia, China... They are all starting to go down the same route.
Its sad.
I always get in a good mood when I am watching your videos! Thank you!
I'm so glad! 😄 Thanks for being here!
German doctors aren't "bad" but very very unfriendly. That said I love living here in Rheinland-Pfalz.
also another thing: the entry for becoming a doctor is ONLY your grades and it's very competitive. they are not tested on social skills at all. it's usually your zero social skill ambitious student who will become a doctor.
Yeah we had a huge discussion here in germany to test doctors for social skills. But it is often the sams for nurses. I am working myself in the hospital. But in the case of the nurses is just brutal overwork.
Thanks!
Thank YOU Dirty Adventure! Great having you here! 😊
Jeeez , i am czech and i can relate our nation to pretty much everything said in video...oh god
As a latina living in Germany I have to argue that beer with ice cubes is much better than lukewarm beer. Just drink it fast! Second problem will be then finding ice cubes xD
I grew up in a German dominant area of Texas, many of these things are relevant to me. Weird. My grandparents were the first people born in America. So I guess it takes a few generations to water down the traits. 🤪
I knew Prost before Cheers!
Just returned from 14 days in Germany. Rode the trains and visited 5 cites. Had a wonderful time!
May I just say something nice about German doctors. I live in UK fir the last 17 years and the best doctors I met here came from Germany and had a German education. Just my personal observation from abroad :)
And, by the way, I ve noticed that German people do not value themselves high when comparing to others. Although they are great at many things. Not sure if that is psychological moment or comes from education
It comes from ed for sure. Cause at the start everyone is thrown together randomly into classes for the next 5 years or so. Resulting in most people getting quite humble considering theyr own cappabilitys because there is Always someone who did better than you and that certanty was thrown straight in ones face everyday.
@@derwolf3006It's also (quite rightly) still due to World War II - the Nazis considering themselves the Über-race and thinking themselves better than anyone else (I guess truly due to minority complexes, fear and (economical) desparation) and causing such atrocious crimes and horrors in the wake of that idiotic belief showed us the horrific down-side of considering yourself better and more worthy than others - also, there is (also not unjustly) still guilt attached to Germans, how could they feel better than anybody else, they are wary of that feeling and such superbia. Furthermore, they are great believers in: Let your deeds speak, not your words
Thank you, I agree that they are not in general as horrific as they are portrayed here
@@ember1794 Why would I feel guilty about WW2? Im in my 20s and that happend over 70 years ago. Otherwise completly on your side.
Actually many Germans prefer the dubbed versions of movies and german dubbing is fantastic. Sometimes I do watch a movie I've seen many times in english to get a new experience tho
German dubbing is far from fantastic in my humble opinion.
I can’t believe how good the German dubbing is in a few video games.
I played through a game called Metro in German and they even did a Russisch accent lol
I replayed it in English and was surprised how both sounded very good.
Wish I understood some Russian or I’d play it in the games original language.
I think to watch content in the original language is always best. At the same time, German dubbing is pretty good compared to many other languages. But once you make the switch to the original language, you can never go back.
@Xantair
Sorry, but the latter is more an issue of the specific sound editing that has happened over the past years. But dubbing is indeed so bad that if you're fluent in English, you often immediately realize what the original English word was and can come up with a host of different alternatives that would have been better.
My favorite example is when they started to translate "phaser array" from Star Trek as "Phaser Phalanx" - a nice alliteration, but it's BS. It simply says "Hey, an array is a kind of structure or formation, this is about combat, so we'll simply take a name of a famous battle formation".
@@djlondon7956 it is still exzellent although you can tell that some companies skimp on hiring and production.
It's so clever how you managed to also address the age-old question "Do Germans lack humor?" by showcasing it throughout the entire video. Props for the cinematic ingenuity!
I don’t know how the stereotype of Germans being humorless got started, but it’s not true. I’ve known several Germans well, and most of them had a pretty good sense of humor. Then again, German humor does tend toward Schadenfreude.
Excellent answers. Now we just need to know about the 2 single mattresses
it's to have a clear and visible border of your part of the bed Alex 😂
@@RadicalLiving this conversation could go so wrong. This is a conversation not for the internet.
@@LaureninGermany 😃😄
First: border. This is my bed side and this is yours. Really helps.
2nd: mattresses are something individual. Some want them harder, some want them softer. So couples don't need to compromise, my girlfriend sleeps on her super hard mattress, I on my comfy one.
3rd. Movement. I weight 90kg, she weights 44kg. When I move on a single mattress, she feels an earth quake. And I move a lot in bed.
@@Cloney1337 44 kilo??? you sure thats not your dog you are talking about? :D
Liebe dieses Format!
As a German living in the US and as a cancer surviver (at that time I was living in Germany) I have to say that the average doctor in Germany is way better than an average doctor or a even cancer clinic in the US. Yes, the US does more research and I was treated according to the newest research results from the US, because my doctor happened to just had returned from a cancer congress in the US, but here I learned that the newest research results are not available to everybody. Yes the US has some of the best hospitals and doctors, but there is not even one in every single state. To laugh out loud my stool sample was even sent across country by mail, because they could not do it in Virginia. I could not believe it. The chemo of a friend also came out of state. I seriously and strongly believe that I would not have survived my cancer if I already would have lived in the US. I had stage 3, grade 3 and here where I live they simply do not know what they are doing. Even at Virginia Oncology. And I also stopped watching American movies. New German movies and series I find way better. Also Skandinavian or movies from other countries. I also dislike all the cussing in US films. American film industry is overrated in my opinion. Yes...there are good American movies and those one definitely has to watch in the original language, but nowadays everybody can keep up with Hollywood. This is my opinion and experience. Too bad one hardly can find any foreign productions on regular American TV.
as a former german resident that now lives in spain i can tell you that german doctors are terrible and the healthcare system sucks as in germany. only care about money and exploits the workers
that's total bullshit.... the avg doctor in major US cities is far better than the average euro doctor.... as a tri-state area resident i have several friends that would not be alive if they did not live near sloan kettering, or lived in europe... it's very easy to travel throughout the US and get treated in several areas even when you are 'out of network'... fine, if you were in iowa you'd have to essentially pay out of pocket, but the majority of our population lives in the vicinity of a major cancer center
yes, US healthcare sucks for issues like chronic pain, mild medical conditions, but when it comes to extremely deadly and rare shit, we are the creme de la creme in our major cities
the film industry is awful though for the exact reasons you said... scandinavian films are pretentious though
@@jkljlkhkljWell...
You are certainly entitled to your own opinion. But I also at one time talked to a psychiatrist of the oncology and I told her how cancer treatment is in Germany. She said the US is far from being like this and she told me that I have no idea how many die in the US because they have no access to treatment or cannot afford the treatment, how many loose their job over cancer and end upnon the street. Like I said. The US has good doctors and do a lot of research but unfortunately....the system fails and some of the doctors I met knew less than some of the NP I was fortunate enough to have. No...the average doctor in the US is way below the aversge German. My very own experience. This is part of the reason why we are back in Germany. But I value your opinion. From what you know you see it this way.
@@justme9801 I didn't say the average doctor in the US. I said the average doctor in a major city, or working for a major hospital. One of the signs that a doctor in the US is going to be subpar is that they didn't do medical school at a major college or went to medical school abroad.
Yes, the average in the US is bad, but the best doctors and cancer centers here have world-class treatment and experimental options that are less available in other developed countries. Like I said, I know several people who would not be alive today if they did not specifically live near New York City. Where do you think all this great research is done? lol
@@justme9801 what you have described is more a problem with how healthcare is run in the US rather than the doctors themselves....
Which btw i completely agree with
every german seeing this: ´´i can smile :( ´´
I AM SMILING 😕
Tried it once.
It hurts.
So I just stopped.
Love your videos. From Louisiana.
upload more often man you are hilarious 😁
Also shutter's help keeping the house cool in summer (by not letting the sun in) and in winter they help keeping it warm (a lot of heat get's out trough your window's) and of course you can prevent people from looking inside (i only open them in summer after the sun is down and outside temp is cooler than inside... but people say i'm wired so idk...)
We drink warm beer... if there is no other beer, but sometime's even water is better than warm beer. If you want that a German hate's you give him a bottle of beer that was a few hour's in the sun... but you might regret it if he execute's you later then...
I don't now square/rectangular pillows but i recommend you some body pillow's 150x50cm in size... i don't now much about pillow's but that japanes have the best pillows i ever tryed so far, also you get them with different filling (Sand/rice/cotton and so on), no advertising but if you search a pillow try it out ;D
WW2 yeah we got teached a lot of guilt and that being proud to be a german or being proud of germany is wrong. And if i compare Germany to other states i visited so far every one else has a lot more flag's of they're country hanging around... i would even say you see more turkish flag's in germany than german one's xD
Nothing against Turkish people but i think it's everywhere else more accepted to being proud of your country than in germany. If you say something like that you should be ready for people looking at you for what you said (my expirience)
As a person visiting Germany very often (being polish myself), i see the staring thing as more of an old people thing. But said so, I am most of the time in Berlin which is I think the least "german" city in Germany ;)
I feel like I have found quite a few german movies and TV shows I like!! It's what got me interested in learning some of the language
The only German movie I ever liked was "Das Boot", OV. 🤔
Viel Spaß beim Lernen!
In Italy most of the houses has shutters too
And in Spain. I think we have them in most of western Europe and maybe eastern Europe.
Hi Radical living, your answer are very honest .
"We'll do it better next time." I love his sense of humor.
No one should feel guilty about anything they didn't do themselves.
There was a story about German POWs in the US during WW2 who taught Americans how to drink beer. The prisoners generally had a good relationship with the guards who ran the camps. In one instance the guards wanted to show the Germans some gratitude for working so hard in the camp by treating them with bottles of beer in a large tub full of ice. The POWs promptly removed the chilled beer and placed them on the porch in the sun. It was unknown to the Americans that Germans liked their beer warm.
Also, Never ever state at people in the USA. At best it is highly rude at worst in some neighborhoods it can get you killed. You heard that right. There is a gang culture here and staring at someone affiliated with a gang is flat out dangerous. Even if that person isn't a gang member you can almost expect violence. If you ever are confronted by someone who you are staring at, just say. "sorry, I thought you were someone else".
I dont know one German who likes warm beer
OMG, the US are *very* dangerous 😱
Not warm but temperated. Especially older folks hold the view that ice cold beer is bad for your stomach. In older times in beer gardens or restaurants it was common to put a 'beer-warmer' (a metal-tube filled with warm water) into your glass when the beer came fresh from the ice cellar to bring it up to drinking-temperature. I like my beer 10-12°C (fridge temp). Some like it a bit colder but you simply can drink more and faster when the beer isn't icy (drinking beer in small sips is universally frowned upon in Germany) and also the tastes of the hops and malts are more cognisable so you can tell better if the beer is good or piss-water. There are some receipes for warm beer with honey and spices as a remedy for a cold or other ilnesses though, but that's nothing you would like to drink every day.
@@audiolatroushearetic1822 maybe but thats long time ago. I am German by myself and I really dont know anybody of the older generation who drinks warm beer. There is only one thing to drink warm beer: when you are ill.
shutters are also pretty good at insulating your house to keep it cool in the summer.
10:57, pure classic, i thought it would be like, never repeat but do it better next time 😂
I like your pfp
I am also a great fan of tenma , how will i say he is just life!
@@itsalldarkandquiet Yesssirrrr 💯💯💯💯
Good video!
Tipping: We round it up, If it‘s 27 Euro, we give them 30. Unless you are from Schwabenland. If the bill is 27,75 Euro, my husband rounds it up to 28.
Smiling/friendly: When I visited Berlin, I was floored by how nice the people were compared to where we live in BW. People working at stores smiled! I loved it!
Staring: Ah, yes. The German stare…
what a geizkragen ;-)
The german stare is our second most powerful weapon, only bested by german side-eyes
The 2 reasons for the shelf toilet :D Finally someone who understands it! I thought I'm alone with this...
Germans get something very important right: not drinking with co-workers. There are people you work with, people you drink with, and never shall the twain meet. It ensures that co-workers don't hate each other for off work reasons, and helps maintain a healthy separation between work life and private life.
Not my experience - I worked for a market research company in Cologne some years ago, sometimes on Fridays they'd have beers after work (maybe once every month or two?) and there was one big party where everyone got a little cray during summer. And recently I worked at an international corporation dealing with Germans in Germany, and when we met, we shared wine or beer at dinner and it was OK to get a bit tipsy.
Were is it common to drink with your coworkers? Why would you want that? I have great coworkers, but still...
@@kleinshui9082 The United States and Japan come to mind.
@@kleinshui9082 I work in Poland now, and I used to work in Czech Republic - it isn't uncommon, especially since covid started, for companies to provide beer after work on Thursdays to get people to come to the office more. But yes, no one wants to deal with coworkers after work unless you're in Portugal or Spain or Italy or France....
Das Feierabend in der Kneipe? Ich hab noch nie jemanden sagen hören, dass er mit Kollegen nicht trinken gehen würde
I'm Dutch and I'm pretty interested in Germany & in learning the language :)
I love your videos because they're very educational and I think you're humor is brilliant ~ maybe because we're neighbours, eh? 😉
Thank you! 😃 I'm making "When Dutch people visit Germany" right now, anything you want to see in there? 😄
@@RadicalLiving oof, I don't know 😅 Maybe about how it can get confusing when the language is similar, but different. When I started learning a bit of German, I kept getting words like _how (hoe/wie), who (wie/wer) and where (waar/wo)_ mixed up 🤣
I'm curious about the video!
Oh, I just remembered a thing that Germans are known for here (although I don't know how accurate this is) that they make holes in our beaches x'D
But we go to Germany to get things cheaply
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@@MerryMoss 😅 ok thanks!
Something funny about the pillow. The tag on his pillow is COMO and the place that I live, Columbia Missouri, has a nickname of CoMo.
I am loving your content btw, been thinking about moving to Germany for a while now and so being able to learn things that I wouldn't think to ask is cool.
I love the shutters. They also keep it quiet.
Warmes Bier (und Schnaps) sind gut für Erkältung, Durchfall, Schnupfen, Magenverstimmung,…. Meine Großmutter hat es als Haushaltsmittel genutzt. Bisschen wie die Italiener mit Olivenöl
Germans in Berlin are quite friendly! How friendly does one need to be anyway? I prefer genuine to "friendly" 😅
Not sure we've been to the same Berlin 😅
thanks so much for your honest commentary
Always!
Most important question: when will you finally upload your 100K subscriber special?
I have officially booked my train to Munich for the 22.07 😅
@@RadicalLiving I'm excited xD
Ja, was Du darüber gesagt hast, ist wahr. Ich sehe ein Unterschied zwischen den älteren und jüngeren Deutschen. Mit 21 hatte ich mit einer Gastfamilie in Nordrhein-Westfalen geblieben und die Menschen schienen freundlicher als weißen Amerikaner sein. Auch wurde ich in der großen Städten von den Menschen ein bisschen unfreundlich gestarrt, weil ich ein Schwarzer bin.
The painting that is on your back is it a real one or is it a print? Looks awesome
It's hand painted 😸
Love this! Found you from NALF’s videos.
Welcome! ☺️
synonymous with Germany, for me, total cleanliness and order AND I LOVE IT ☺️🤝🏻
If you ever visit Austria or Switzerland, you will be amazed about their even totaler cleanliness
The Netherlands is great in many things
just don't visit a public toilet or even worse, train toilet...
I'm an American with a Grandpa from Germany, I feel like this explains a bit about my personality. I feel like I would enjoy it there much more than here.
Sparkling water tastes more refreshing and cooler due to the CO2. In the US, people put ice cubes in instead.
We Americans put ice in with everything...I even like it in a cup of milk 😘
Actual unexpected LOL when you were doing the checking out the poo bit. Nice job.
My personal theory on why German trains have a reputation for being late is that Germans are very upfront and do not hesitate to complain. After all, even I personally caught myself complaining about a train bein three minutes (THREE WHOLE MINUTES!!!) late.
Compare that to other countries like the U.S. and you start noticing that everything less than ten minutes is basically on schedule there.
Yeah. But if for example a train is scheduled every 5 minutes, 3 minutes late is quite much. And it is mostly not that bad, if you wouldn't need to catch another train or bus to change. And if that bus/train is scheduled every 20/30/60 minutes... Public transportation raises prices every year and gets more and more unreliable. but yeah. Complaining and rolling our eyes is part of our culture.
It‘s not just reputation
Insightful. Thanks for these answers.
For the DB being late, I think it is probably because Germany has one of the biffest Railway Networks and is way smaller than other countries with a railway network of a simmilar size.
To be honest with you, that’s not a problem we have in the Netherlands while we have Europe‘s densest train network. Been living in Cologne for a few months and found it rather shocking. The 9 euro ticket is great but also didn’t help at all. I hope the government will start to invest in DB more. I read somewhere that Germany lost about 10% of its total network between 1994 and now, which hasn’t affected the main cities as much ofc but also isn’t great.
The video already explained it: booming business + old infrastructure.
The quote about German doctors is, pardon me my french, BS. I´m not german and I can claim to have had ways of comparison with other European countries. Most of them, namely the romanic countries, would be happy to have such a medical care system like we get in Germany, both technical and manpower wise.
splash protection had me rolling 😆😆
100% correct.
Greetings from Indonesia.
Brilliant, as usual!!!)
Clapping was for musicians, actors, artists and acrobats. For an University Professor this would have been insulting. Universities and their students put a lot of effort into being different with special clothing, customs and even language. Universities had such a degree of autonomy that they had their own jurisdiction, legislative and even their own armed forces to various degrees. If they could do things differently, they would.
As a half-German this made me laugh.. always lived in the UK but been to Germany a lot.. I never understood the square pillows either! 😹😹😹
YOU FOLD THEM IN HALF JA
@@spaceowl5957 To be fair: not every German does that.
Not just that they're square but they're usually half empty so you need 2.
I wonder if they are like what we call the big square ones in the US “Euro Pillows” or are they a smaller square
@@ladynori The normal square pillow is 80cm x 80cm or 44.5" in diagonal. But smaller ones in 40cm x 40cm (22.4") do exist as well.
Nobody stared at my while i ve been in Germany. Aa far as i know. Some were very friendly and asked if i am okay when we were going up the Dome in Ulm.
When I emigrated to Germany I was annoyed by the staring. Now many years later I think I do the same.
Viking thing: my theory is that all the warrior Vikings went to the South and - stayed there, and back home they got southern slaves and the people who were not so adventures. all over Europe you find people looking like Vikings, but they also were kinda everywhere
we do descend from vikings tho. Atleast partially. As they moved to germany back then from different regions (finland, denmark and russia)
Well. I have my doubts.
This is a pretty good video and I agree with most things. Though I do have a couple of counterpoints or different views: 1. I can’t really speak about beer because I don’t like to drink alcohol xD I know… shocker, a German that doesn’t like alcohol. But I guess it gets worse cause 2. I also dislike sparkling water. No idea why most Germans like it more 3. Germans can actually be super friendly. At least here in the south, we often are in a good mood and full of good spirit 4. I actually think doctors are pretty good here? We have a great medical system actually. But that may just be my region, maybe I got lucky xD I also don’t have any doctors that are above 60 actually, maybe not even over 50
But like I said, otherwise this is pretty well done and I like the way you answered it
Edit: I get however, why you, as a German in Berlin, would answer that people are not that friendly. When I was in tenth grade, we did a long excursion to Berlin for four days and everyone was surprised just HOW unfriendly people in Berlin were lmao. That’s definitely a thing about that city
Thanks! And thanks for sharing! Where I grew up in in Baden-Württemberg people also weren't friendly, and Frankfurt is even worse than Berlin 😅
I do agree with all of your points :D Only that the doctors at my home town are known to be pretty bad. But I think that's just my home town and one of the "perks" of living on the countryside.
"No only psychopath drink warm beer" his face expression get me every time 😂
Have you ever been to / lived in Vienna? Vienna is definitely the most "progressive" city in Austria, so if yes, could you maybe compare Vienna and Berlin? It would be really interesting to me, since I know Vienna quite well, but have never been to Berlin.
Vienna is a hundreds if not times prettier as well as cleaner, Berlin has a lot more weird sub culture and both cities are hated by the rest of their respective countries.
To understand how a pillow can be too soft you need to try a cotton stuffed pillow, I have been to Germany before and I noticed that the pillows are very soft that when you put your head it dives deep inside
Opinion on Czech beer? We drink most beer per capita than any other country in the world. 🇨🇿🍻🇩🇪
Czech beer is damn good, cheers from a german
7:38 it’s probably because German “elementary school” teaches multiplication in 1st grade. They don’t think kids are stupid. We Americans learn multiplication in 3rd and 4th grade
10:58 laughed out loud for real XD greetings from Poland
That starting look at the end really got laughed out loud😂
It's been to Germany several times for extended periods, I loved it more each time. I absolutely loved Berlin and the people there are great. A couple of things I learned is that don't ever be late it's disrespectful, Germans are very orderly and polite and also don't work around the house on Sundays, just put the hammer and drill down, no honey do's, go for a drive, walk or a beer instead. Germans are well educated and their healthcare system is top rate.
It is a common tradition in Germany for students to knock on their desks or tables after class as a sign of respect and appreciation for their teacher. This practice is known as "Tischklopfen" or "Table Knocking".
The origin of this tradition is not entirely clear, but it is believed to date back to the 19th century, when students would knock on their desks as a way of thanking their teachers for their lessons. Some also believe that the tradition has roots in religious practices, where knocking is a way of expressing gratitude or asking for blessings.
Today, the tradition is still widely practiced in German schools as a way for students to show respect and appreciation for their teachers. It is often done at the end of a lesson or at the end of the school day, and is usually accompanied by saying "Danke" (Thank you) or "Auf Wiedersehen" (Goodbye).