I was an Au Pair in the US (I am German) and my host family told me, that I don't need to dress up so much when I drive the kids to school. I was wearing jeans.
I’m American and other Americans ask me, “Why are you always so dressed up?” I usually wear a dress with leggings or panty hose or a blouse with khakis. I don’t see this as “dressing up.”
The weirdest thing for me as a German is the "bread" you sell in the U.S. 🍞 It's often sweetened and it appears to be all toast to me as a German... even the full grain "healthy" bread isn't healthy at all and is still a full grain toast for us in Germany FIX YOUR BREAD I CANNOT STAND IT FOR MORE THAN 3 DAYS
A I'm eating bread every evening :) I just can't stand toast in general. Another reason is that my roommate is a diabetic and it's better for him to eat slow digesting carbs. It's a cheap dinner and ready in 1minute... I mean that's just too convenient 😅
A Also bei mir im Freundeskreis essen viele Brot und naja die sind auch alle U30 und echte Bäcker gibts ja auch fast nicht mehr leider... aber ja ist natürlich kein Fancy Abendessen
@A Ich gehe immer zum Bäcker und esse morgens, manchmal Abends und oft mittags einfach ein belegtes Brot oder Brötchen... Geht schnell, macht satt und schmeckt gut.
The moment I relaised I am a typical German was on my Vacation in the US last Summer. I was standing at a red light in the Middel of the night, like 1 am or so. No cars what so ever and I stood there waiting for the "green" light. Suddenly a guy walked past me going to the other side of the road into that bar I was heading to. Later that evening I had a conversation with him and the first thing he said was: "are you German?" I said "yes, why" and he said " dude you were standing at a red light waiting on a fucking empty street, you must be german. " and that was the moment I laughed my pants off😂
@Everyday Normal Things I rather have something I can feel in my Hand and pay with it than just handing over a plastic card to pay. It gives me a bit more control over how much Money I spend.
RenegadeSamurai Yeah lol the US has a huge problem with kids getting kredit cards and xredit cards to pay the other and so on how would they be able to stay in controle?! I only use my visa if I irder something online
Yea because Germans are actually smart because if their customers don’t pay in cash, they won’t be able to avoid taxes or launder money because the transactions are recipied. It’s common in Germany and the government knows that small businesses do it, as long as it doesn’t go into big figures they won’t mind, it’s like a passive support for small business because it’s not a free economy unlike the us and is a social capital market
@Everyday Normal Things maybe it's far behind but I'd rather pay with cash than with a credit card. If it's only possible to pay with card in a country I'd say that's a bad sign. Because you are completely transparent to the government. All your data is saved somewhere, that's not the case if you pay with cash. You also have a better overview of your money and how much you spend. And I'm thinking about all the children, using a credit card when they want to buy some ice in the swimming pool etc. Or streetartists? How do people give them money? :D
I was speaking with a friend I met my second week here in Berlin, who was from America, at a restaurant with her German partner, and assuming I would share her culture shock, she mentioned how her partner washed the garbage before throwing it away, and I just looked at her partner and said, “well of course, why would you throw away something dirty that will stink up your house as it rots in the garbage?”
I'm American but it sounds to me like MIsha's way of doing things sounds much nicer than what we do. It's nice to look nice to go out and paying cash is a matter of privacy, and the bedding in Germany totally makes more sense than here. I vote for Misha's way. Maybe I should live in Germany. LOL
But spooning! I will say about the only thing I miss about my ex was his big, warm, furnace body in bed on a cold night. Nothing like a nice, furry chest to snuggle up to.
In Germany it‘s even kinda embarassing to pay for something as cheap as a beer with a card? There was even an experiment about it, and the cashier would say „It‘s sad that you can‘t even carry this amount of money with you.“
Really when did the experiment take place? I live in Germany my whole life an I'm so tired of going to the ATM to get money. Just do it like the rest of the world like in the Netherlands. Mainly paying with card. But I guess this will change in the future. They force u to take at least 50 euro from the ATM now . First step to paying with cards everywhere
@@moritz1509 Never heard of a minimum withdrawal of 50 €. But of course, if you have to run to the ATM every other day because you only withdraw like 10 € I would get tired of it too. What's the problem with getting a bigger amount at once every now and then, so you always have a little cash on you in case and don't have to pay by card for every little 3 € item?
Well in scandinavia there are plenty of shops, cafes and bars and restaurants where you _cannot_ pay with cash, so we think completely opposite on this topic in scandinavia. It's amusing (though a bit annoying) when I go to Germany to remember to bring cash everywhere, but I feel many places in the US makes me do that too. Just not in Kellys apparantly.
What actually bothers me about the U.S. (and some other countries) why are you wearing your outdoor shoes in the house? That does not make sense. Why would I want the dirt from outside all over my house? Not from the video, but it just came to my mind. 😅
The reason is as perplexing as the girl generation of our age txting on their phones while taking a number 2. scientists have actually confirmed that more girly faecal matter is found on their phones then on any other surface in the world, even more then taps & doorknobs lol. no shit.
@@Kellydoesherthing If you are married to a German, commiserations lol. That must mean you haven't shaved your armpits in years then? they still pretty primitive in that area are the Germans.
So ein Unsinn! Gold ist das einzig wahre. Steht ja auch auf den Dollarnoten: In Gold we trust. Naja, da ist irgenwie jemanden einen Schreibfehler unterlaufen, aber das sollte eigentlich da stehen.
@@Belfigora1102 Nein, früher (als der Dollar noch an die Goldreserven als Gegenwert gebunden war) stand auf den Dollarnoten tatsächlich "in gold we trust". Das wurde geändert in "in god we trust" weil der Dollar nicht mehr mit Gold gedeckt ist.
Random Name einfach mal machen :) genug Nachfrage wäre aufjedenfall da. Ich erinnere mich an 2 Berliner, die einfach nach Amerika gegangen sind und nen Döner Laden aufgemacht haben und jetzt mittlerweile viele Standorte haben und Millionen scheffeln. Es sind Anfangs sogar Leute aus anderen Staaten angereist nur weil sie Döner so sehr vermisst haben mit richtigem fladenbrot usw
Micha was probably confused about the bartender refusing cash, because that's illegal in Germany. In Germany we have an official currency, nowadays it's the Euro. And by law that means everyone has to accept this currency if they are selling anything commercially. You can refuse to take a 200€ bill if the item you're selling costs way less. And you can refuse a bag of coins that takes you forever to count. But otherwise you have to accept cash.
Personally I hope it stays this way (Sweden just dropped a similar law reasontly); but paying everthing per card is ok and even fine most of the time but cache is spending controll (if you have a limit like 300 € per month and you withdraw it always at the first monday of the week you gonna notice when the limit nears plus it is not so transparent.
yes, he was completely thrown. this prompted me to look up to make sure it's legal here in the US and it is. I'm not sure I would've thought much about it before
@@Kellydoesherthing Actually, it is also legal in Germany, it just happens very rarely. German civil law knows the concept of freedom of contracts, i.e. two parties can basically agree on whatever they want to. They can also agree on how some service has to be payed for. There is some debat on whether monopolists or public insitutions have to accept cash, but some of them don't. Most notably the tax office... One also might have to accept cash as payment for a debt. The partners have to agree in advance however not to use cash. So a restaurant would have to annouce this very clearly before serving you. If you then insist to settle your debt in cash, violating the prior agreement, you would probably have the right to do so. But in theory the restaurant could make you pay for the extra efford (because you violated the implicit contract). But if a restaurant in Germany would actually try this, they would just lose too many customers. There might be other places were one cannot pay with cash though.
@@salia2897 You're actually right, it is not illegal, I found this article about a place that actually refuses cash: www.faz.net/aktuell/finanzen/digital-bezahlen/hamburg-cafe-laesst-kunden-nicht-mehr-mit-bargeld-zahlen-15154378.html
It is the same in Norway: Cash is a forced means of payment. When you sell something you have to accept cash. There have even been complaints about doctors offices, that didn’t accept cash, but had to change. Even if in Norway about 95 % of payments is done by cards.
I even have some teachers who give you bad marks when you show up in class in yoga pants or simular kinds of pants... its the same for wearing hoodys or oversise stuff when we have a presentation, like sowwy my bedroom is not even 20m away from my class room i am Damn tired its winter i am small for my age so i can't find fitting clothing so please let me wear my compfy hoody...
The following statement is in German. If you feel embarrassed about that, feel free to book a German language course at a Goethe-Institut ASAP. Good luck :o) Wer in den USofA hohe Summen Cash mit sich führt läuft Gefahr verhaftet zu werden! Bei Verkehrskontrollen wird mitunter auch nach dem Vorhandensein von Bargeld gefragt. Dabei wurden z.B. hohe Geldbeträge beschlagnahmt (jemand hatte in Vegas gewonnen und war auf dem Nachhauseweg, ein anderer hatte Geld für einen Gebrauchtwagenkauf dabei, etc. pp). Bei hohen Bargeldbeträgen wird per default von illegalen Geschäften (z.B. Drogenhandel) ausgegangen. Da reichen bereits mehrere hundert Dollar. Dazu kommt das die ausführende Behörde (Polizei) sich anteilig aus solchen Beschlagnahmen finanzieren kann. AFAIK liegt die Beweislast zur Entkräftung des Vorwurfs/Beschlagnahme beim Eigentümer des Geldes! CASH is King. Nur nicht in den USA.
Das ist genau das was in unserer Gesellschaft falsch läuft. Du bist nicht was du trägst. Jemand der im Jogging Anzug rumläuft kann durchaus kompetenter sein als jemand der einen teuren Marke Anzug trägt. Blender haben meiner Meinung nach eine starke Charakterschwäche! Außerdem sind Markenklamotten reine Idiotie. außer schon den Schulkindern einen Klassenunterschied beizubringen bewirken sie rein nichts.
falsch, denn ich definiere mich nicht über mein Äußeres. Und wer andere beurteilt, nur weil sie anders angezogen sind, hat die Kontrolle über sein Leben verloren ;)
Die Meinung eines Mannes, der "Frauen" als schön bezeichnet die aussehen als wären sie schon vor 4 Wochen verhungert, ist genausoviel wert, wie ein vergammelter Reissack. Nur Hunde mögen Knochen :D
Leander Dato : This surprised me when visiting Berlin. Also restaurants only accepting cash. A bit strange since German is a modern technological country.
IFirebird : I think this is why it is so interesting. Because they certainly have the technical possibilities like other countries around them, but they choose not to use it. However I also suspect it has something to do with costs. Because in Norway they have a system for debit card, that is cheap to use for the shops and banks.
In reply to the people who assume this relates to technology or culture: It is about privacy. When I pay cash I don't leave a trace. It's none of anyone's business what I spend my money on. That and that's easier to keep track of my spending when I see the money vanishing from my purse. Especially people who have to live on a budget prefer to pay cash.
I have lived in both Germany and the US and I really can't get over how much better windows were in Germany. Whenever I slide my thin, wobbly American window open, a small part of me dies inside. I know, it's not a habit, but it really bothers me. Oh, and I still have this German thing going on where I take my shoes off whenever I enter somebody's home. I get weird looks for it. ;)
Shoes off is not especially a german thing. I never took my shoes off when i entered someones house and none of my visitors does in my house. You would receive weird looks from me as well.
This got common in the last years. When I were a child nobody had to take off the shoes. But in the last 20 years the floors got better and many people changed the flooring from lenolium and stone tiles to wodden or high quality carpet, sometimes with floor heating. And it is no fun to replace a part of the flooring, cause of dirty shoe.
It's a thick stick of pressed material you rub on. Or a gel that comes through a bunch of little holes you rub on. You can probably find pictures on Google if you don't understand.
As an American living in Germany for the past 5 years. I am definitely more on the Germany side of things, especially in terms of cash. The only thing that I got here from the states is the pillows. Love my US pillows.
so weird always the cash thing, in a place you spend more then 20€ , I auto pay be card! cash is only for the really small amounth, fly markets , getting drink from vending machine, or coffee to go or so... who the hell gets cash to pay for grosseries? see it sometimes in Belguim, but i mostly assume those are or old and don't like cards, or have black money to spend..
@@GoodVideos4 I don't get calling them 'continental pillow' those square you mention, I mainly know from Hotels, with I find irritating always to have in hotel, togheter with the hotel pillow often being way to soft.. everyone in my family, even 20 years ago, has rectangular pillow. THAT is the normal pillow for me in Belgium... perhaps a lot of hotel standard come from germany, and that why they have those weird really big square pillow?
@@JeroenJA Continental pillow, as originating from the European continent. Even here in South Africa they are called Continental Pillows. Maybe they are only called that here.
Same in the UK. When I moved from Germany to the UK that was a thing I really had to get used to just 1 blanket for 2 people. We just got a king size blanket so each of us can cuddle up in his own part. Pillows are different to the ones I was used to too... and tbh I haven't found the right one for me yet
Both are wired . They haven’t see the beautiful world yet. She is only limited in the Germany. And making videos inside the house. America, Canada and uk are most handy place in the world.
All her points are acutally true, but i never thought of most of them. Poor Americans don´t even have their own blankets :D And i´d never walk out without beeing dressed nice.
Most of them, rather. I'm German myself and the deodorant part doesn't sound very familiar. You can get that "American" type of deodorant everywhere here. I'm actually using one everyday and you get it in every store I can think of.
Ugh, I'd love the separate blanket. I actually talked to my husband about it last winter. 😄 I'm always struggling to be covered and get colder than him.
@@megzie71382 Both in my former marriage and in female friendships since then, I've always found that when I feel comfortable she's freezing. When a friend and I were driving in Germany (she was driving), she was bundled up in a coat and still freezing while I was sitting there in just a polo shirt and broiling to death. Fortunately, I was able to figure out the car's dual climate controls (try reading a car's user manual in a foreign language when you have no clue about its car vocabulary; even if you're almost fluent in the language, what do you call the parts and systems of a car?).
So, what I take away from this is the following: - You guys don't know how your own currency works - You guys find it more comfortable to rub that stuff into you skin instead of, you know, using a spray and be done with it - You guys don't know how to dress in public - You guys haven't figured out the relaxing truth about Kaffee & Kuchen - You guys literally cannot get anything carbonated that isn't full of sugar - You guys have a remarkable low amount of household disputes Aside from me kidding around, thanks for that video. Quite a nice comparison
@@roy_hks Your definition of 'less developed ones' must be quite interesting. Plus, the last times I visited Spain, France and Poland, I was still able to pay in cash. I doubt that there is any european country where you cannot pay in cash.
DGARedRaven Like I said, the lesser developed countries are still really cash dependent. Spain and Poland are some of the poorest countries in the EU, and France is (mind my language) quite a shithole too outside the parisian metropolitan area. The Netherlands and Scandinavia are quite progressed when it comes to e-payment. A lot of Dutch stores in dense urban area’s don’t accept cash anymore. And if they do there usually are only a few checkouts accepting it.
Recently Google Pay is live and by now has been accepted in every store even the ones rejecting other services before. I have way less change no one wants.
YeeTose Not a European thing. I live in the Netherlands and a lot of stores over here don’t accept cash anymore, or have only 1 register that does. While Germany doesn’t even accept cards in parking garages and PT.
Me neither. I'm struggeling with stealing my husbands banket event though I have one of my own. With only one blanked my Hubby would have NO chance and probably freeze. :'D
Not true. May be true where only middle class white people of Northern European descent live, but in the cities where everybody lives - Hispanics, Portuguese, Italians, Brazilians, etc. you'll find cafés But believe me not so long ago that was also a problem in Germany.
@@sandramaliibuu I wouldn't say, that mccafés are cute and comfy and a really nice place to go out to, at least not in Germany 🙈 Often mccafés are "connected" with McDonald's Restaurants, so it's crowdy, loud and really bright and I would go there with my friends so get a snack or so, but wouldn't go on a date there, or go there to meet a friend and chill and talk 😅 In Germany, college students also like to study in cafés, and I couldn't imagine that with a mccafé. The difference between a café and mccafé is hard to explain, it's just a totally different atmosphere? And sorry for my problably "german" english, english is just my second language 😅
Wow, the Sprudelwasser addiction is very real to me. I grew up drinking it and now, it is the only drink that could possibly refresh me... Now I am studying abroad and at one point, I noticed that I felt terrible. Turned out, my only source of water for the entire week was alcohol in the evening and the water in my food. If I don't have my beloved Sprudel in the House, i just don't drink.
right?? it's highly addicting. i was always drinking it when i lived in turkey for a year and when i came back to the US, i noticed a similar thing as you - that i wasn't drinking really any water because i didn't have carbonated water anymore haha
@Addy please don't drink Vittel. It's the worst kind of water you could buy. Just google "Vittel and Nestle" and read for yourself. Nestle is cutting short the water supply in the town Vittel because they want to sell all of it.
Pure Caffeine I just moved to the US from Germany. Went to an ALDI today and bought 30 bottles of seltzer. The cashier kept asking why I was buying sooooo much! Wish I could go to a Getränkemarkt to buy my Sprudelwasser by the Kiste!😉
@Hauke Holst Nobody is obliged to accept more than fifty coins in a single payment. Council Regulation (EC) No 974/98 of 3 May 1998 on the introduction of the euro, article 11.
@David S Unfortunately not. There is something called "Vertragsfreiheit" (freedom of contract), which means merchants can refuse to allow card payments. Or refuse to allow cash payments, "legal tender" notwithstanding. Only state institutions and monopolists must accept cash. German tax offices don't accept cash though, so a taxpayer who wanted to pay his taxes in cash took them to court. The court ruled against him in April 2018, so he appealed to the Federal Finance Court (Bundesfinanzhof). That's the last I could find, so the appeal probably wasn't decided yet.
@@Kellydoesherthing Sure, but when you're lying back to back the blanket will be lifted up in the space between you two so that's where you don't have proper skin to blanket contact and cool off.
The reason why germans wear good clothing outside could be a thing of social status. Most Germans associate Sweatpants with Harz 4 receivers or antisocial behavior.
Having lived both in the US and Germany I understand both sides but I like the German way better because most of the time it is just smarter. And the thing with the Joggers in Germany just shows your social Standard. People teach their kids to dress nice from a young age and I think this just stuck with us Germans
In Switzerland shops are not allowed to only take cards. If you run a business you need to accept Swiss currency (though large bills, like 200 and 1000 Frank bills, can be declined for security as there is larger risk of them being counterfeit). I'm not the most cash-centered person but I still pay a lot of things with cash.
Cash is the only universal payment in Germany. There is even a law that prohibits selling things and not accept cash ( § 14 Abs. 1 Satz 2 BBankG). Plus there is an social heritage behavior to use cash passed on through the generations grounded in experiences of War and eviction.
Here in sweden cash is also rare. But I have to be honest, if the cash system breaks down or there is no electricity because of whatever reason we are FUCKED. Cash is still KING
I don't want to instigate stereotyping but it's so common for Americans to do this. It's okay not to know, but there's no reason to always outspokenly tell us what we are/aren't. We don't need to do it with you guys because you are super transparent but when you do this reverse generalizing it's just disappointing and reveals a lack of understanding. It's not that hard to find things that are uniquely German or any other nationality, so why not double check instead of assuming?
@@Max-me9ol Why the germans? The american girl thinks it's typical german, because it's not normal in the USA. And for an american it's more probable the "german habits" are weird... not the american habits.
It's because for Americans it's perfectly fine (and socially accepted) to have their speaking voice just sit where ever - to us it's really not. I used to work in opera and it was surprising for American singers who came here that people over in Europe would speak like what would require quite some training in the US.
Cultural, there are loud cultures, listen to an african family, they have loud organs too. My cousins life partner with kids is originally rom africa, then from french then austria, i hear a dinner with them is really loud, without being drunk and that, on a normal basis.
100% agree.. if i ever dare bringing out the trash in sweatpants, i will walk as fast as i can whilest making sure that noone sees it and judges me (, which most Germans will) :D
@@15RabauKe838 I was raised that way;) In dont really care aswell, but its hard to get rid of stuff uve been taught since u were alittle kid. Plus i recon there is a difference between cities and little towns.. Im from a little town, so everyone knows everyone and everyone talks;)
@@15RabauKe838 And btw: Whether people judge others because theyre wearin sweatpants or whether they judge them because theyre not.... Theyre all judging.. which i recon the whole point is not to judge;)
Stick deodorants aren't as popular as sprays in Germany but most drugstores carry at least one brand. Going out in sweatpants has become a little more accepted but only for young people. When middle aged people wear them a lot of people will assume they're "Assis". Personally I feel comfortable wearing lounge wear for a quick trip to the grocery store or bakery only as long as it's less than a 5 min walk from my house. I would never go to a university class in sweatpants or pj's. I'm actually surprised that having separate blankets isn't a thing in the US. Partners who steal the blanket or have different preferences for blanket thickness are a cross-cultural phenomenon and using two blankets is the simple solution to all those problems.
It teaches the weight of money and is far easier to change, especially for really small buyings. It acs a bit as limiter too to buy impulsive, not much thou. I distrust them a bit too because of the credit card number trade, that can be easily abused if you give the number and potentially code to anyone. And i am not german, austrian thou but i thing its a europe thing.
Its important to teach the value and householding of money. Thats why dkt and monopoly are valuable and show how capitalism can rip youoff and ruin too if youare not careful , which was the original meaning behing its creation, despite the company not marketing it as such..
people waiting till paper money is abolished and you get a chip straight between your eyes to pay, first then, im afraid of, will be the time for sheep to wake up sadly
Husband and I are American (him son of a German) but have separate blankets for sleeping. He gets very hot and I get very cold so it works best, and we also end up stealing it from each other if we try to use one anyway. Also, I’m glad we have a German coffee shop down the street from us, with homemade German cheesecake, apple cake, etc. It reminds him of his German grandma’s baking, too.
i think i should've explained this more in the video haha we have a stick of hardened substance that glides onto your skin and feels a bit creamy. there are also gel types.
@@lawa3295 exactly the same. But I first figured out, that I like "Sticks" the most, when I was in the US. It is true, it is hard to find any other type there. For me it was a pleasure... I hardly can breath in german dressing rooms. That was no problem at all in the US cause everyone used the sticks deodorants.
@Kristofer here is a picture of the gel deodorant - assets3.thrillist.com/v1/image/1282051/size/tmg-mobile_image_set;jpeg_quality=20.jpg i personally hate this type but it seems to be popular enough here
I even get a weird feeling doing laundry in sweatpants and I dont even leave the building for that. But i could meet the neighbours...sooooooo its a no.
2 blankets are great. I hate sleeping in a bed with someone with only 1 blanket. They´re gonna pull, ur gonna pull, ur gonna be cold, she/he is gonna be cold. Its awful. And yeah im german.
The dressing up for occasion,... it is not because I would care what others think of me. I do it for the order and discipline... not to get lazy. To me it's like part of the personal hygiene. In theory why do we dress up at all? if the weather permits we could simply all walk around naked or just wear some generic suits and it would be fine for all occasions.
In the UK we have people who dress like slobs too just like Americans but they are a social class to themselves known as "Chavs" who are low income, low intellect people who usually live in social housing.
@@mojojim6458 our basic law grants us the right to our own image, meaning you can not take an image of me without my consent, this is reflected in our drone regulation - if your drone has a camera or microphone, you are not allowed to fly over residential grounds without permission of the inhabitants. I would mind, no matter if dressed or naked, as you'd be violating my rights, so if i'd see "someones" drone over my backyard without my permission might do anything from calling the police to invoking my right of self-defense, depending on the exact circumstances
@@willscorner8423 I still dont like the idea that they COULD know. Thats a big no for me. I'm aware that they dont care about Individual behaviour but they Do care about the behaviour of the masses, so that they know whats usual and which ads to display for example (same Thing with browsing and typing in keywords). A store that knows I bought dog toys will advertise me to buy dog food as well. I dont want that. And yes thats my own selfish POV. But I'm also Not the only one
@@willscorner8423 I think you're arguments are understandable but ignorant of some of the possible viewpoints. The relationship to cash and cashless transactions in Germany in many ways directly relates to the relationship to privacy or probably more accurate data security. Data and data analysis has been used by the third Reich to identify, persecute and finally kill minorities during the holocaust. They often used the data on religious or ethnic affiliations from census to identify their victims. Not only in Germany but also in some of the countries invaded. It was one detail that helped them being so efficient in their persecution. In western germany this led to the development of a post world war 2 german cultur that was and still is very wary of many things that were a foundation or exacerbated the crimes in the third Reich. Like for example patriotism/nationalism or militarism. And also private data collection. At the same time untill the nineties germany was split and the eastern half of the country used extensive and invasive surveillance of individuals and situations that most people and most governments would believe to be utterly unimportant (as you suggest yourself not to take oneself to important because nobody is interested). And even trivial things (for example minor critic of the goverment) spoken in the privacy of a home might have very real effect on your live (access to education and work opportunities for you or family members). So in germany we live with people who have experienced how unbelievable nosy a goverment can be and how cruel its repercussions for minor misbehavior or expressed critical thought can be. And we still have a living generation of grandparents to remind us of how bad this development really can get. Germany is worried about the possibility for abuse of infrastructure and about the possibility that a goverment (or maybe at this point a different "entity") suddenly manages to gain power that is willing to abuse in a way nobody wanted to consider imaginable before. Because we experienced both recently. This has a very strong affect on the german culture surrounding datasafty/privacy that Americans in my experience have a difficult time to understand. And that goes beyond what is in my experience present in most other European cultures (dont know about eastern Europe I'd imagine the UDSSR must have had quite an effect to). Just to give some examples up untill today germany doesn't have an identification code tied to individual citizens like the social security in the states due to privacy concerns (there are numbers for tax and similar stuff. But with a lot of regulations that I don't understand ^^). Whenever there is a census there has been a strong response as to what information can be collected how it may be used and stored. But the recent technology advances is data collection, analysis and use especially by companies with commercial interest but increasingly also by governments or other organizations with political interest, Paired with the reality that we give away or information unconsciously and consciously is chaining this fast thought the last 10 years. So the habit of paying with cash has a lot to do with Germany's history and with the culture of datasafty. Not everybody in germany who prefers cash will be aware of this. But if you talk to a variety of people some will make this arguement very consciously.
My 2cts as a German man who also worked in the US & Canada and has been to many places abroad: #1: Paying in cash: Gives better control over your spending. Don't You see why it is seen as weird that the national currency (the US Dollar in cash) cannot be used in some places in the US? #2: Deo: We have spray / roll-on / wax-like sticks and even powder. I don't get the issue at all. #3: Clothing: If your are an adult who cares about him-/herself You'll dress with a certain style, which can be plain jeans & a T-Shirt, too. Gym-wear is OK for the gym and for inside & around the house during leisure-time. #4: Cafés: Well, You sure know how to work hard and we sure know how to enjoy life in Europe... ;) #5: Carbonated water: See #4 #6: 1 vs. 2 blankets in a bed: Individual blankets are important for a good night's rest if one partner is a "blanket hog". ATB, Gereon
When I was in the US for 3 months, I got so many eyes on me when I put mayonnaise on my french fries :D Doesn't seem so common in the USA - at least in northern CA
haha it is not although there are quite a few restaurants that are starting to offer mayo-based sauces with their fries which are usually freaking amazingly delicious. the whole mayo thing was weird to me when i moved to germany, but i ended up really loving it
@@Kellydoesherthing haha yes, it is the best. It was in a water slide park (which btw isnt so usual in Germany either), they offered bunch of different sauces to take yourself :D I just recognize everyone was starring at me (and normaly I do never get it, when someone is starring at me). And so did my host dad :D He explained to me, that they never do it, but they all liked it :)
I live in Canada and it's the same thing here... a while ago I ordered fries with mayo at a restaurant, and my Canadian boyfriend found it weird... but then he tried it and now he loves it 😂
The thing with the sweatpants is not quite right. It's true, most people from the age of 20 and up don't wear them outside their house. Even I always put on jeans before going out to get groceries. But especially in big cities it's not that uncommon to see some people wearing sweats. The younger the people, the more sweatpants you see :D
I have officially stopped giving a shit about what I wear to get groceries or run quick errands, as long as it doesnt have stains or smells bad. Nobody gives a fuck what you wear and germans need together over this fear.
My husband and I use two twin mattresses on our king size bed, and we also have separate blankets. We started this a few years ago and we both sleep much better. We are American:)
Misha and I were looking at doing this!! We miss the separate mattresses so much and can’t find any sort of split bed here aside from a $10k+ tempur-pedic haha I hadn’t thought about being able to fit the mattresses on a king sized frame...we were looking at trying to connect two twin frames together
@@Kellydoesherthing What? I can't believe it. I searched for my old bill from our bed from 2000: 2499 (DM), 450 frame, 515 headpiece, 260 cover for headpiece, 396 slatted frames, 1240 for 2 mattresses (which were expensive mistakes (too soft), after half year exchange against some harder, but cheaper one, some smaller things (can't read anymore from old bill)). Divide by 2 (DM /€ conversion), multiply by 2 (inflation since 2000), multiply by 1.2 (€/$ conversion) = $ 3000 for a full bed. What's your current mattress size? I understand the King size is 202 cm long and 193cm wide, the (two) twin size fit the wide (each 97cm wide), but 13cm too short, the twin XL fit the length but 2cm each too wide (99cm). There is the split king which fits into a king frame. Why the crevice in US can widen. In Germany the mattresses are holded by the outer frame together. Is there no frame and the matts are just lying on top of the base in the US?
I am from Romania and I live in Germany now.In Romania in the big shops like Carrefour or Auchan you can pay even 10 cents with card.In smaller shops it can happen to be refused or to have a minimum limit like in Germany.But it is weird to carry cash around me all the time.
I had friends who used to buy packs of gum with their cards when I went to high school in the US. Literally a $0.60 transaction, what the hell. Americans just hate cash for some reason.
Greetings from Germany, I can definitely understand your boyfriend. 1. I can understand, that he wants to pay with cash. For me it is easier to have a better idea of how many money I already spent, yes I could use online banking, but for me it is a difference, because I can see and feel what I spent, cause I gave away that money as cash. 2. Didn't knew there are other deodorants. 3. I only get out in a business casual outfit. I only wear sweatpants when I do sports outside. I think we Germans like to look good. If I hadn't had my morning shower I'll go nowhere. At home I can wear whatever I want, outside I want to be taken serious, so I wear "real" clothing. But in Germany there are also people who don't care about their look. I often experienced this with teenager's of a lesser educated families (school education, I don't want to say they are stupid because of that). 4. You don't have cakes in café's?! I'm shocked. 5. Carbonated water is so delicious. "Apfelschorle" is very delicious, but I guess you weren't talking about this when you said there is a lot of flavoured carbonated water in the USA. 6. I don't share my blanket, but my girlfriend often steals mine and also my pillow, while I do work on my studies during nighttime. What a revealing video, I'm a bit shocked. :D
thanks for the comment :) and you might find like the occasional cafe that is similar to what you would find in germany but "cafe culture" really isn't a thing here. it's much more of a coffee shop culture haha
Wearing joggers is becoming more and more a fashion thing as joggers became a lot more stylish. I personally dont wear oversized baggy joggers outside but I will wear stylish slim fit joggers.
bin ich jetzt asozial weil ich Joggies manchmal zum Einkaufen anziehe? sind aber recht stylische Joggies und der look gepflegt / sporty. nur Teenager aus less-educated families ziehen sowas an?? Nope..... meine Mum ist Sozialpädagogin und mein Vater ist Profi-Musiker.....Ich habe mittlere Reife, eine abgeschlossene Ausbildung und bin zivilisiert....ach ja, und ich bin 29..... der hat gesessen, wa?! Gibt auch Joggie-Liebhaber die ganz normal sind! Steck nicht alle, die Jogginghosen in public anziehen, gleich in die asoziale Schublade bitte! Mir ist mein Chef auch schon mit Jogginghose beim Einkaufen begegnet!
Laber doch kein Scheiß. Casual Clothes sind nicht gleich, billig zerfledderte und dreckige Jogging Hosen... Muss wohl eine ganze Mode Epoche an dir vorbei gegangen sein, was? Siehe Trackpants, Jerseypants und dergleichen... Aber Hauptsache mal ALLE als Hartzer abstempeln. Im übrigen diejenigen die zu viel Wert darauf legen sich vor anderen beim Müll raus tragen zu profilieren haben meist selbst ein gewaltiges Problem mit Ihrem Selbstwertgefühl und kompensieren das mit Geltungsgehabe! Liebe Grüße von der "Jogging-Hosen" tragenden Psychologin!
Deodorant in Australia is spray or roller ball as well. We're starting to get stick forms but its not that popular. Spray is just so much more sanitary
we have European cafes in Australia, this is because in the 50's, 60's and 70's we had large groups of Italian and Greek people migrate and start cafes and milk bars. that is where Australia gets its cafe culture from. If most coffee places in the USA are similar to Starbucks than no they do not have much food. starbucks is not really a thing in Australia we like good coffee and we will not put up with inferior coffee. also, like in Europe, we would prefer less coffee that is quality over lots of coffee that is so, so.
I wish we could get some of that cafe culture here! I’m really surprised it’s not really a thing here, especially given how many immigrants we have as well. But maybe someday :) thanks for sharing!
In Germany I have seen Starbucks, but it's not that big, either. Essentially every bakery will offer various coffee specialties, and since fully automated coffee makers are now commonplace, it's usually pretty good, too. It would be rare to see a cafe here where you could not get a selection of espresso, latte macchiato, cappuccino or a big mug of cafe au lait and a few flavorings if you want to slum it. The coffee culture clearly came in with immigration after WW2 and expanding tourism, making the exotic attainable. But it also melded into the existing coffee houses which had long been an extension of the omnipresent baking culture and forged the unbreakable link of coffee and cake in the German mind. Where the French and Italians would also have their coffee with baked goods like croissants or little almond cakes, the Germans went heavy on the cake part as a method of competition where coffee was difficult to outdo each other on. But extravagant layered and decorated cakes, those you can display prominently in windows as well as on the plate. Out of this amalgam of coffee houses, bakeries and spreading specialty coffees there is now a kind of cultural expectation of coffee and cake for an afternoon cafe experience that just cannot be satisfied with a plastic cup and a cookie. So Starbucks has to get into an old, crowded market full of at least adequate coffee offered on every corner with cake they cannot compete against served in porcelain in a more bourgeois than hipster atmosphere. That makes things much harder than in the US where they are often enough really the only enjoyable coffee in town. There are now places in Berlin experimenting with obscure techniques of coffee brewing that proudly call themselves a new wave of coffee already. Their impact will have to be judged when it happens.
I love these videos, even though I'm neither American, German (or even from the northern hemisphere) because they tell me so much about other cultures (and my own). I had no idea that "stick or gel" deodorants even existed!! U learn something every day. Only have ever used roll-ons or sprays. It does seem amazing that the US that has such a huge migrant population (from Europe as well) does not have a cafe culture. Nothing better than a long macchiato, carrot cake with whipped cream or ice-cream and a long afternoon chat in a cafe......
I’m happy that you enjoy my videos! I think it’s amazing how much you learn about your own country be learning about other countries. Its now my favorite thing about traveling (before it was just photography and food haha) and you just named exactly what Misha loves best! And long macchiato and slice of carrot cake :)
& besides, Taco Bills & Starbucks are enough all the police have the donut shops enough fat already, we are an obese generation now but you look in mighty fine shape for a carrot cake & cream eating gal.
IN the USA, we do have some Cafe's that seem to attract some people who write poems and are more artistic than many other people, BUT, I am just going by things I've heard, I have not been to these cafe's myself.
Michael Krämer the context of me using the word “weird” is important here - the habit is weird if it’s not the norm in the culture/country of which you are currently living or visiting. None of his habits are “weird” in Germany...they’re only weird in the US for the reasons I explained through stories in the video.
I had the same problem with the deo and bought ca. 10 pieces of deo spray in Germany. But, PLEASE, be aware that 10 cylinders in your baggage are looking very ... . At the end it took me around 30 minutes longer at the airport security.
I absolutly understand your boyfriend and its needs character not to change the habbits just because he moves to the us. It's not weird to use a second blancket, it's just more comfortable, One have different sleeping positions amd so nobody is getting cold^^ anyway.. the other things you told are also not weird, just different. Drinking water is so healthy. Using different Deo sprays... ok. But that doesn't have to do with habits.. but you should be pround to have such a mannerly bf that he dresses up for the grocery store. Don't change that. It's the worst to see "Best of Wall-Mart Vids" just because the americans have a bad manner to dress up. Wearing dirty pants or just nothing at all. Sorry :) Be proud of him how he is. Lots of love
Whenever we go to Europe, my wife spends the whole trip drooling over the men who actually get dressed and give a damn about their appearance before going out in public
You know you have lived a while in the Netherlands when it takes you a hot second to realise that when she talks about coffee shop she means cafe and not a weed shop :D
I moved to Greece almost 20 years ago. When my relatives from the US first visited, they found it odd that not all stores accept credit cards, on the other hand, Greeks found it odd when an American would buy a coke & bag of chips and put that on their credit card. So credit or debit cards are used but primarily for larger purchases. Though today that is changing quite quick as the EU wants us to become a cashless society, so I'm surprised you don't see more of this in Germany now. Though I hope we never reach the point where a bar or cafe accept cards only!
i'm actually really interested to see if the EU pushes forward with this and if Germany will adapt because it seems, especially based on comments i've been reading, that many Germans are VERY adamant about using cash and not card. some have expressed the opinion that a cashless society is not a free society. meanwhile, many europeans from other countries write comments to say that they use card all the time just like the US. i find the dichotomy in opinion on this fascinating
@@mojojim6458 in german i said the following: das ist ein weiteres Kapitel aus dem Buch "Dinge, die man nicht verstehen muß". This is a metaphor. To put it simple: things you don't have to understand
if i go to some kind of store i will drive 10-20 minutes longer just the go to an atm instead of paying with my card. I'm german btw. You can buy old spice in germany but thats the only Deo-Stick that i know of. I really don't like leaving the house with sweatpants or something similiar. Wasser mit Spudel ist das beste:D i would need 10 blankets to prevent my gf from taking all of them.
There is plenty of evidence suggesting it is better for budget control for people to withdraw cash and pay everything with that. It's much easier to spend too much money and lose control if you use credit or debit. So only using cash is encouraged for that. Of course, stores and banks much prefer cards because it's easier for them, but I don't particularly want to make life easy for a store if that means I might overspend.
So, you're weird-shaming your poor German boyfriend's habits but basically agree on half of them? - Cafés for Kaffee & Kuchen, sparkling water, two blankets (sort of). :-p
hahah i do agree on actually all of them except for the cash thing. i hate carrying and dealing with cash and aside from the grocery store right below our apartment, i wouldn't ever go out in sweatpants either but that's more so because i feel that i may run into someone i work with, etc than caring what strangers think haha
@@Kellydoesherthing But using cash can be beneficial if you have to save. You know how much money you have in your purse so you have to take care not to spend more - and if you use your debit card, you are aware that you are buying someting expensive that you did not plan for (except for when using the card for a planned purchase of expensive products). Put a 50 € bill in your purse, see how long that lasts. Use your debit card and get shocked in the evening how much you spent without being aware of it. Also: electronic payments can be traced, the bank knows when, where and what you bought. This may be of no consequence today, but what if in the future this info might be shared with your boss or health insurance ("she is eating a lot of unhealthy convenience meals, sweets, lots of butter...")? Withdraw money from the ATM and nobody knows when, how and where you spent it or if you gave it away as a present.
The deodorant blows my mind.. I'm from the Netherlands and I didn't know our deodorant was different from the US. Some things are the same in the Netherlands as in Germany but there are also a lot of different things.
I just don‘t like paying with cards because paying cash gives me the illusion of having a better overview of how much money I am spending. Certain things I still pay by card, but small amounts? Not really. Other means of payment ... Edeka has a new App that also allows you to pay with it which I find quite unsafe. On the one hand, as someone pointed out already, it allows them to track what you are buying where and when. What also worries me is what happens if my phone gets stolen. Additionally, I had a look at the demands for information the App wanted to have access to and there were quite a few things on the list that I found inappropriate, like why does a shopping app need access to who I am talking to on my phone? Not my cup of tea really. About the coffee and cake thing: I studied Hotel and Tourism Management and one of our professors told us that „Kaffee und Kuchen“ is something that is pretty unique to German culture and that some Spanish hotels started offering „Kaffee und Kuchen“ because especially elders kept telling their tour operators that they missed their little afternoon treat. I don‘t know if this is fact or fiction but I checked in a few TUI brochures and there really are hotels being specifically advertised as offering „Kaffee und Kuchen“. This is not to say that other cultures are not into coffee and cake just that Germans seem to insist on it a bit more and I guess especially Torte could be hard to find in Southern Europe.
I would say the Netherlands also has quite a few choices for coffee and pie/cake, some cafes that are open during daytime will offer those, also various coffeehouses. Although in the afternoon it might be more common for the Dutch to have tea and apple pie for instance. You'll see a bit less "torte" (creamy cake) in the Netherlands though, this is more of a German/Austrian thing I'd say. Then there's the UK also of course, there it's easier to find tearooms with all sorts of cakes and pastry, but with a bit of luck they serve coffee as well.
@@dorisw5558 are you sure about it? In germany it is like the british and their tea time. It's a social event in the afternoon and happens, with people who do it, on a daily basis.
@@grymkaft oh yeah, that seems to be really similar, thanks =) (and thank god it was actually about coffee and cake, it sounded awfully close to the german word for "fucker", so, with our languages being related, i was quite uncertain wether i would regret googling it ^^)
I really enjoyed this video. My boyfriend is German and I can see so much of this in him. But I must say that pillows are not squared in all of Europe. I come from Italy and we also have rectangular pillows, more similar to the US ones than the German ones. But the thing that I got used while living in Germany are the two blankets. It's so much better not having to fight for it and maybe also decide the thickness.
Never seen an European square pillow. Everywhere in Europe where I went they had the regular rectangular pillows. I don't think it is a matter of Europe vs US. I think it was just your bf's personal taste.
The square pillows are actually called continental pillows anyway. It can be that the rectangular pillows are more common, and catching on more, on the European continent. They are more healthy anyway.
What comes to my mind hearing that nobody cares about what you wear in public are pictures of people of walmart..although I know I´m wrong I just can´t get rid of these impressions burnd deep down in my memories able to cause the worst nightmares imagable...is that just me? ;-)
Hahaha I have some images seared into my mind but unfortunately they weren’t pictures - it was real life haha but everyone is out there doing their thing :)
In Walmart you can see anything! Really! My 6 year old son came home from shopping with daddy there and first thing he told me was: Mom! There was poop on the floor in Walmart!!!!!!!!!!!!! Poop!!!! Mom, how can somebody poop on the middle of the main hallway in walmart???????? He will never forget that -
It's strange as an American I have never seen anyplace that was pay with credit card only.Also till the 80s in the US most deodorant was only spray or roll on .Also up until the 80s most people would not ever walk in public in sweat pants or most casual wear they go out in now.
Saddens me to hear that the option to pay cash isn't offered anymore. Means without a bank account you can't survive in the US anymore. I'm no a conspiracy theory troll but for a country that loves his 2nd Amendment "to face any possible tyranny from a government" you really should let that sink in.
It is ingrained into the people. You can‘t even rent a place without a good credit score. So if you use cash only and never had a cent of debt in your life you are screwed anyway.
In the UK, and France, what you call a blanket we would call a "duvet" (pronounced doovay). To us a blanket is an old style army issue type wool thing like people traditionally had for hundreds of years. Some people also call a duvet a "continental quilt". In the UK they can be filled with feathers or with synthetic material.
Ha you’re totally right. I use the word blanket as an umbrella term but what I showed here were both duvets. I think I will do a video just on bed differences and that will be covered :)
here in Austria, what you called a blanket is called Steppdecke. a duvet is basically a huge bag filled with down - you sleep like in a cloud of cosy warmth and softness. a blanket (Decke) is what you see in the old Cowboy movies when they sleep beside the fire.
In Germany wh also have those deodorant sticks... And it becomes more and more common to walk around in sweat pants/ leggings/ sports wear, escpecially among younger people. To have 2 mattresses does make sense: e.g. when the two ppl have different weight and so need either a harder or softer mattress. Or if one person moves a lot during sleep the other person won't be bothered so much by it because you don't feel it so much with two unconnected mattresses. 2 blankets: if you want to roll yourself in it's way better. But I love the rectangular pillows (we also have those but most of them are sold as "side sleepers pillow").
The thing is as in the US many stores dont accept Cash and just Cards and in Germany there are many, many stores that dont accept cards and just cash that's why many germans use cash
Maybe others don't care if I wear sweatpants, but I care. I would never go out in sweatpants, actually I don't even own sweatpants, just pajama pants. It's just that I feel slouchy when wearing sweatpants and that dampens my mood. So I will always get fully dressed when going out, because I feel fresh and happy that way.
@@Hans-gb4mv Then you're condemned to never leave your house. If you did so, you'd be arrested for indecent expose. (Although I'm not sure there's a law against that in Germany.) You'll have to rely on your family and friends to shop for you. Maybe you can tell one of them to buy you a pair of pajamas.
@YTViewer we do have both. for example, i ran track in high school and all of our races were based on meters and we have 2 liter or 1 liter bottles of drinks for sale in our stores. it's just nowhere near as commonly used as our system.
In germany it is illegal not accepting cash if you sell something. And thats good, because you have better control over the money you're spending if its in cash.
How should a bank be able to create money from nowhere? That's rubbish. If your bank account is empty you either are not able to pay or you're falling in debt. You can not pay more than you own.
@@VerrueckteKatzenLadie Creating money out of nothing is *exactly* what banks do. In German it's called Buchgeld or Giralgeld, one English term is scriptural money.
@@VerrueckteKatzenLadie If you ask a bank for credit the bank creates bank money. It will be deleted if you balance your account. But the interests you payed for the "non existing money" is the banks asset. And as long as the banks credit sum will increase they make additional profit.
In Europe there are a lot of places where they only accept cash. In Hungary there are even places where they don't accept Euro either. Some tourists don't like it, but cashiers have a reason for it. Once there was a case, when a foreign woman tried to buy a ticket on the tram in Budapest, which costs 450 Forints (about 1.30 €), with a 500 euro bill.
Average people don't pay with it. It is used by people, who keep their money at home instead of a bank account. It is also popular among criminals, who use 500 bills for their illegal businesses.
@@Octopussyist Because Hungary is part of the EU, and Euro is accepted im many places, especially Budapest and other bigger cities, where there are many foreign tourists, but nobody is obliged to accept it. The other reason is that some people don't know the difference between Europe, the EU and the Eurozone and they believe, that all of Europe uses Euro.
1 That is a HUGE Topic. consider the money you can buy in Disneyland or the chips you get in a casino. they both serve the same purpose. When you carry "toy money" (or a plastic card) you aren't that focused on what you spend anymore. Also everything you spend with a card is traceable. after all payback and similar cards are invented for just that purpose and every cent paid with a credit card is noted in a database. also keep in mind we germans have experienced the third reich and not even that long ago the ddr. we know how collected data can be abused better than anyone outside of china. 2 the deo thing is really only a habit. not a german habit mind you, people differ a lot on that. 3 thats a reasonable habit. think about like this: if youre wearing a suit, people instantly treat you diffrent. of course they do, you appear diffrent... now switch that to sweatpans while youre not going for sports. also its right, people are to close-minded about it in germany 6 i never realized that, but its true.
I was an Au Pair in the US (I am German) and my host family told me, that I don't need to dress up so much when I drive the kids to school. I was wearing jeans.
hahahahaha!
I get made fun of at work too for dressing up in the US. Everyone wears jeans even in offices.
Oh you were au pair? Can you tell me something about it? Cause I think about to do it too
@@tumoriasan2223
I am aupair too, if you want to ask me anything
I’m American and other Americans ask me, “Why are you always so dressed up?” I usually wear a dress with leggings or panty hose or a blouse with khakis. I don’t see this as “dressing up.”
The weirdest thing for me as a German is the "bread" you sell in the U.S. 🍞
It's often sweetened and it appears to be all toast to me as a German... even the full grain "healthy" bread isn't healthy at all and is still a full grain toast for us in Germany
FIX YOUR BREAD I CANNOT STAND IT FOR MORE THAN 3 DAYS
Herbert Koch I don’t like the bread much either after having German bread
A I'm eating bread every evening :)
I just can't stand toast in general.
Another reason is that my roommate is a diabetic and it's better for him to eat slow digesting carbs.
It's a cheap dinner and ready in 1minute... I mean that's just too convenient 😅
A Also bei mir im Freundeskreis essen viele Brot und naja die sind auch alle U30 und echte Bäcker gibts ja auch fast nicht mehr leider... aber ja ist natürlich kein Fancy Abendessen
@A Ich gehe immer zum Bäcker und esse morgens, manchmal Abends und oft mittags einfach ein belegtes Brot oder Brötchen... Geht schnell, macht satt und schmeckt gut.
American bread is a bad joke
The moment I relaised I am a typical German was on my Vacation in the US last Summer. I was standing at a red light in the Middel of the night, like 1 am or so. No cars what so ever and I stood there waiting for the "green" light. Suddenly a guy walked past me going to the other side of the road into that bar I was heading to. Later that evening I had a conversation with him and the first thing he said was: "are you German?" I said "yes, why" and he said " dude you were standing at a red light waiting on a fucking empty street, you must be german. " and that was the moment I laughed my pants off😂
Yep, still an argument between me and my Austrian wife every time I cross the street on red when there's no cars in sight.
Realised* als deutscher bin ich sehr enttäuschte
Hahaha
@@fabio41098 lol
die story hat angeblich jeder erlebt der mindestens ne stunde in den USA war
well in Germany there are a lot of places than ONLY accept cash, like often bars, bakeries, cantines. :) I get his struggle!
I never got used to the whole cash is king thing in Germany haha
@Everyday Normal Things I rather have something I can feel in my Hand and pay with it than just handing over a plastic card to pay. It gives me a bit more control over how much Money I spend.
RenegadeSamurai Yeah lol the US has a huge problem with kids getting kredit cards and xredit cards to pay the other and so on how would they be able to stay in controle?! I only use my visa if I irder something online
Yea because Germans are actually smart because if their customers don’t pay in cash, they won’t be able to avoid taxes or launder money because the transactions are recipied. It’s common in Germany and the government knows that small businesses do it, as long as it doesn’t go into big figures they won’t mind, it’s like a passive support for small business because it’s not a free economy unlike the us and is a social capital market
@Everyday Normal Things maybe it's far behind but I'd rather pay with cash than with a credit card. If it's only possible to pay with card in a country I'd say that's a bad sign. Because you are completely transparent to the government. All your data is saved somewhere, that's not the case if you pay with cash. You also have a better overview of your money and how much you spend. And I'm thinking about all the children, using a credit card when they want to buy some ice in the swimming pool etc. Or streetartists? How do people give them money? :D
Im german and to me your bf is perfectly normal
we love cash.
@FrexDesign ganz genau
I was speaking with a friend I met my second week here in Berlin, who was from America, at a restaurant with her German partner, and assuming I would share her culture shock, she mentioned how her partner washed the garbage before throwing it away, and I just looked at her partner and said, “well of course, why would you throw away something dirty that will stink up your house as it rots in the garbage?”
@ThunderFlashx what
@FrexDesign I bought my last car for almost 30k in cash :-)
Hahaha, the fashion thing made me realize what's probably the most asked question in Germany: "Kann ich so gehen?"
I admire your stubbornness to make the video a 10+ min video for $
Oder: muss ich dafür die gute Hose anziehen?
@@hellohuang3887 Das ist sehr interessant Denn ich geh in absolute Hundekacke von Kleidung raus
I'm American but it sounds to me like MIsha's way of doing things sounds much nicer than what we do. It's nice to look nice to go out and paying cash is a matter of privacy, and the bedding in Germany totally makes more sense than here. I vote for Misha's way. Maybe I should live in Germany. LOL
Hahaha :) I will be interested to hear your thoughts when I post a video talking about habits he’s broken since being here. That one is in the works!
But spooning! I will say about the only thing I miss about my ex was his big, warm, furnace body in bed on a cold night. Nothing like a nice, furry chest to snuggle up to.
@@joannesmith2484 spooning works just fine with two sheets.
@@peter_meyer But it takes longer.
@@mojojim6458 and it lasts longer...
In Germany it‘s even kinda embarassing to pay for something as cheap as a beer with a card? There was even an experiment about it, and the cashier would say „It‘s sad that you can‘t even carry this amount of money with you.“
Really when did the experiment take place? I live in Germany my whole life an I'm so tired of going to the ATM to get money. Just do it like the rest of the world like in the Netherlands. Mainly paying with card. But I guess this will change in the future. They force u to take at least 50 euro from the ATM now . First step to paying with cards everywhere
Well, tbh. nowadays that my Sparkassen Card has NFC, I barely use actual Money either, so much easier to just hold the Card to the Reader.
@@moritz1509 Well at the ATMs I use (Sparkasse) you can take any amount you want
@@moritz1509 Never heard of a minimum withdrawal of 50 €. But of course, if you have to run to the ATM every other day because you only withdraw like 10 € I would get tired of it too. What's the problem with getting a bigger amount at once every now and then, so you always have a little cash on you in case and don't have to pay by card for every little 3 € item?
Omg yah xD this is just the Same thing with buying like food... Or drinks just pay with Cash....
In Germany some places only accept cash 😂😂
it kills me hahaha
Kelly does her thing that’s completely normal here 😂
Well in scandinavia there are plenty of shops, cafes and bars and restaurants where you _cannot_ pay with cash, so we think completely opposite on this topic in scandinavia. It's amusing (though a bit annoying) when I go to Germany to remember to bring cash everywhere, but I feel many places in the US makes me do that too. Just not in Kellys apparantly.
Even in the USA are places where you can pay just with cash. Some diners for example.
You can mostly pay with cards, but sometimes not in smaller transaction stores. Like ice to go.
What actually bothers me about the U.S. (and some other countries) why are you wearing your outdoor shoes in the house? That does not make sense. Why would I want the dirt from outside all over my house?
Not from the video, but it just came to my mind. 😅
if you're interested, i made an entire video about this topic - ua-cam.com/video/sPnqjK4k02A/v-deo.html
I also wonder how disgusting it is to walk on the public streets where there's dirt everywhere and why you would want that in your home 😂
The reason is as perplexing as the girl generation of our age txting on their phones while taking a number 2. scientists have actually confirmed that more girly faecal matter is found on their phones then on any other surface in the world, even more then taps & doorknobs lol. no shit.
@@Kellydoesherthing
If you are married to a German, commiserations lol.
That must mean you haven't shaved your armpits in years then?
they still pretty primitive in that area are the Germans.
@@Kellydoesherthing
Are you able to take in a breath between sentences
you would drive me crazy with that constant natter.
Nur Bares ist Wahres
So ein Unsinn! Gold ist das einzig wahre. Steht ja auch auf den Dollarnoten: In Gold we trust. Naja, da ist irgenwie jemanden einen Schreibfehler unterlaufen, aber das sollte eigentlich da stehen.
@@karinbeyaert9950 Ein Golddollar ist auch Bares. Das in Gold wie trust kommt daher das der Dollar früher an die Goldreserven gebunden war.
@@testthepest6259 Sie verarscht dich, da steht "In God we trust"
@@Belfigora1102 Nein, früher (als der Dollar noch an die Goldreserven als Gegenwert gebunden war) stand auf den Dollarnoten tatsächlich "in gold we trust". Das wurde geändert in "in god we trust" weil der Dollar nicht mehr mit Gold gedeckt ist.
@@Nininicci Danke für die Info, oder wie Lothar Matthäus sagen würde: "Again what learned!" :-)
No Cafés? No bread?
Maybe I should move to USA and open up a german Café with bread, Coffee and cake 🤔
Ich bin Bäcker. Ich bin sofort dabei haha.
Ich kann hash brownies backen bin auch dabei
Random Name einfach mal machen :) genug Nachfrage wäre aufjedenfall da.
Ich erinnere mich an 2 Berliner, die einfach nach Amerika gegangen sind und nen Döner Laden aufgemacht haben und jetzt mittlerweile viele Standorte haben und Millionen scheffeln. Es sind Anfangs sogar Leute aus anderen Staaten angereist nur weil sie Döner so sehr vermisst haben mit richtigem fladenbrot usw
Ich würde da das eine oder andere Wiener Café vermuten 😄
Ich komm mit !! Brooooot😍😍
Micha was probably confused about the bartender refusing cash, because that's illegal in Germany. In Germany we have an official currency, nowadays it's the Euro. And by law that means everyone has to accept this currency if they are selling anything commercially. You can refuse to take a 200€ bill if the item you're selling costs way less. And you can refuse a bag of coins that takes you forever to count. But otherwise you have to accept cash.
Personally I hope it stays this way (Sweden just dropped a similar law reasontly); but paying everthing per card is ok and even fine most of the time but cache is spending controll (if you have a limit like 300 € per month and you withdraw it always at the first monday of the week you gonna notice when the limit nears plus it is not so
transparent.
yes, he was completely thrown. this prompted me to look up to make sure it's legal here in the US and it is. I'm not sure I would've thought much about it before
@@Kellydoesherthing Actually, it is also legal in Germany, it just happens very rarely. German civil law knows the concept of freedom of contracts, i.e. two parties can basically agree on whatever they want to. They can also agree on how some service has to be payed for. There is some debat on whether monopolists or public insitutions have to accept cash, but some of them don't. Most notably the tax office...
One also might have to accept cash as payment for a debt. The partners have to agree in advance however not to use cash.
So a restaurant would have to annouce this very clearly before serving you. If you then insist to settle your debt in cash, violating the prior agreement, you would probably have the right to do so. But in theory the restaurant could make you pay for the extra efford (because you violated the implicit contract). But if a restaurant in Germany would actually try this, they would just lose too many customers.
There might be other places were one cannot pay with cash though.
@@salia2897 You're actually right, it is not illegal, I found this article about a place that actually refuses cash: www.faz.net/aktuell/finanzen/digital-bezahlen/hamburg-cafe-laesst-kunden-nicht-mehr-mit-bargeld-zahlen-15154378.html
It is the same in Norway: Cash is a forced means of payment. When you sell something you have to accept cash. There have even been complaints about doctors offices, that didn’t accept cash, but had to change.
Even if in Norway about 95 % of payments is done by cards.
"Kaffe und Kuchen" is actually a meal in Germany
That's why we have all these cafés over here
Nein, KaffeE und Kuchen ist eins.
@@LittleRockQueen14 was?
@@LittleRockQueen14 ahhh grammar Nazi unterwegs. Mir ist klar das man Kaffee mit 2 e schreibt, aber ist wohl in der Eile so rausgekommen
@@Chikage_Sensei im Norden Deutschlands spricht man Kaffee auch Kaffe mit nem kurzen e hinten
Rick Dono Da hast Du recht! Spot on!
I was taught that as a man, if you go out in public with yoga pants, you’ve basically given up on life.
Wich Dude wears yoga pants.....
or are a wasted student.
I only do it when doing the thrash...
memyselfandY21 same but I still wait until it’s dark out to make sure 😅
I even have some teachers who give you bad marks when you show up in class in yoga pants or simular kinds of pants... its the same for wearing hoodys or oversise stuff when we have a presentation, like sowwy my bedroom is not even 20m away from my class room i am Damn tired its winter i am small for my age so i can't find fitting clothing so please let me wear my compfy hoody...
I agree with Mischas cash behavior. When I pay with cash, I got a better connection to the value of the money. With card, I kinda lose control! :D
me to and it same in whole europe
@@Tony-sb8mv No it's not
The following statement is in German. If you feel embarrassed about that, feel free to book a German language course at a Goethe-Institut ASAP. Good luck :o)
Wer in den USofA hohe Summen Cash mit sich führt läuft Gefahr verhaftet zu werden! Bei Verkehrskontrollen wird mitunter auch nach dem Vorhandensein von Bargeld gefragt. Dabei wurden z.B. hohe Geldbeträge beschlagnahmt (jemand hatte in Vegas gewonnen und war auf dem Nachhauseweg, ein anderer hatte Geld für einen Gebrauchtwagenkauf dabei, etc. pp). Bei hohen Bargeldbeträgen wird per default von illegalen Geschäften (z.B. Drogenhandel) ausgegangen. Da reichen bereits mehrere hundert Dollar. Dazu kommt das die ausführende Behörde (Polizei) sich anteilig aus solchen Beschlagnahmen finanzieren kann. AFAIK liegt die Beweislast zur Entkräftung des Vorwurfs/Beschlagnahme beim Eigentümer des Geldes!
CASH is King. Nur nicht in den USA.
People who insist on paying with cash are laundering drug money. I never realized that the European economy was so dependent on drugs.
@@LyashenkoSergiy That's exactly why criminals prefer cash: they are trying to hide something.
"Wer eine Jogginghose trägt, hat die Kontrolle über sein Leben verloren." Karl Lagerfeld ;)
Und über dessen Portmonee hat Karlchen auch die Kontrolle verloren. Deshalb sagt er das.
Prust, gröl...beste Spruch, es zu beschreiben..Ich schmeiß mich weg vor lachen :-)))
Das ist genau das was in unserer Gesellschaft falsch läuft. Du bist nicht was du trägst. Jemand der im Jogging Anzug rumläuft kann durchaus kompetenter sein als jemand der einen teuren Marke Anzug trägt. Blender haben meiner Meinung nach eine starke Charakterschwäche! Außerdem sind Markenklamotten reine Idiotie. außer schon den Schulkindern einen Klassenunterschied beizubringen bewirken sie rein nichts.
falsch, denn ich definiere mich nicht über mein Äußeres. Und wer andere beurteilt, nur weil sie anders angezogen sind, hat die Kontrolle über sein Leben verloren ;)
Die Meinung eines Mannes, der "Frauen" als schön bezeichnet die aussehen als wären sie schon vor 4 Wochen verhungert, ist genausoviel wert, wie ein vergammelter Reissack. Nur Hunde mögen Knochen :D
"Nobody cares what you wear". Wrong. *He* does, and that's what counts. He doesn't care whether other people care or not.
Yeah this is.... even though nobody cares what I wear... I always wear nice stuff even for groceries like 200m from me.
xzchc I am an American who has lived abroad. I do not understand grotesque looking men in shorts, t-shirts and baseball caps in restaurants.
In Germany there are so many shops that only take cash so I understand the confusion about the only card
Leander Dato : This surprised me when visiting Berlin. Also restaurants only accepting cash. A bit strange since German is a modern technological country.
@@runarandersen878 It's not that the technology wouldn't be available. It's simply a matter of "culture".
IFirebird : I think this is why it is so interesting. Because they certainly have the technical possibilities like other countries around them, but they choose not to use it.
However I also suspect it has something to do with costs. Because in Norway they have a system for debit card, that is cheap to use for the shops and banks.
@@runarandersen878 Advanced?? bro this shithole is nowhere as advanced as anything. In fact I fear Africa will outrun us in 30 years lol
In reply to the people who assume this relates to technology or culture:
It is about privacy. When I pay cash I don't leave a trace. It's none of anyone's business what I spend my money on.
That and that's easier to keep track of my spending when I see the money vanishing from my purse. Especially people who have to live on a budget prefer to pay cash.
I have lived in both Germany and the US and I really can't get over how much better windows were in Germany. Whenever I slide my thin, wobbly American window open, a small part of me dies inside. I know, it's not a habit, but it really bothers me. Oh, and I still have this German thing going on where I take my shoes off whenever I enter somebody's home. I get weird looks for it. ;)
The windows in Germany really are amazing and I miss them very much! :)
Shoes off is not especially a german thing. I never took my shoes off when i entered someones house and none of my visitors does in my house. You would receive weird looks from me as well.
@@thorz7304 but it is very common in Germany and central Europe
This got common in the last years. When I were a child nobody had to take off the shoes. But in the last 20 years the floors got better and many people changed the flooring from lenolium and stone tiles to wodden or high quality carpet, sometimes with floor heating. And it is no fun to replace a part of the flooring, cause of dirty shoe.
YTViewer
when you arrive at someone's home in Germany, it is customary to ask if you should take off your shoes... At least among younger people (
I've been in Germany too long. I have never ever seen a deodorant that WASN'T spray or roll on. What the heck do they use in the US now?
Roll-on. Scent-free.
I use cash.
Ohio USA.
Sticks!
It's a thick stick of pressed material you rub on. Or a gel that comes through a bunch of little holes you rub on. You can probably find pictures on Google if you don't understand.
Angela I’m pretty sure he also meant the sticks as a common thing in Germany. Nobody uses rollers anymore
@@roy_hks i do
In Germany we have a law that regulate that paying cash must be an option.
Paying in cash gives you a more realistic count of how much you are spending too.
Sorry, but thats not true. There is no such law.
@@tdog3250 Not exactly. The customer has to be informed that they don't accept cash before he wants to buy it, else he has the right to pay in cash
Außer die GEZ, die weigert sich strikt Bares anzunehmen...
Gefreiter Nudelsuppe Germany in a nutshell xD
As an American living in Germany for the past 5 years. I am definitely more on the Germany side of things, especially in terms of cash. The only thing that I got here from the states is the pillows. Love my US pillows.
The rectangular pillows are more healthy than the square, continental pillows anyway.
so weird always the cash thing, in a place you spend more then 20€ , I auto pay be card!
cash is only for the really small amounth, fly markets , getting drink from vending machine, or coffee to go or so...
who the hell gets cash to pay for grosseries? see it sometimes in Belguim, but i mostly assume those are or old and don't like cards,
or have black money to spend..
@@GoodVideos4 I don't get calling them 'continental pillow'
those square you mention, I mainly know from Hotels, with I find irritating always to have in hotel, togheter with the hotel pillow often being way to soft..
everyone in my family, even 20 years ago, has rectangular pillow. THAT is the normal pillow for me in Belgium...
perhaps a lot of hotel standard come from germany, and that why they have those weird really big square pillow?
And, paying by card for small amounts can mean more bank charges.
@@JeroenJA Continental pillow, as originating from the European continent. Even here in South Africa they are called Continental Pillows. Maybe they are only called that here.
What the heck! One blanket for two people? Not possible
Same in the UK. When I moved from Germany to the UK that was a thing I really had to get used to just 1 blanket for 2 people. We just got a king size blanket so each of us can cuddle up in his own part. Pillows are different to the ones I was used to too... and tbh I haven't found the right one for me yet
totally is you snuggle together under it
You can't snuggle non stop. :D And when you don't wanna snuggle for once, you're incredibly thankful you have a second blanket, believe me.
I need to roll in like a burrito
I demand my own blanket XD
@@NicoleS That’s the real trick to it . Full sized bed king sized comforter. Good luck on pillows. I’m into down,myself.
Two blankets is one of the secrets to a happy marriage, lol!
i can easily believe that! haha
Except Kelly's bed has duvets not blankets....
Think so, too 😊!
Both are wired . They haven’t see the beautiful world yet. She is only limited in the Germany. And making videos inside the house. America, Canada and uk are most handy place in the world.
@@malcolmrose3361
Perv.
All her points are acutally true, but i never thought of most of them. Poor Americans don´t even have their own blankets :D And i´d never walk out without beeing dressed nice.
lol! i never even thought to do a dual blanket thing before but it's so obvious to me now
Most of them, rather. I'm German myself and the deodorant part doesn't sound very familiar. You can get that "American" type of deodorant everywhere here. I'm actually using one everyday and you get it in every store I can think of.
Ugh, I'd love the separate blanket.
I actually talked to my husband about it last winter. 😄
I'm always struggling to be covered and get colder than him.
American here and we have our own blankets. Because I don’t want to share. 😜 It’s more common than you’d think.
@@megzie71382 Both in my former marriage and in female friendships since then, I've always found that when I feel comfortable she's freezing. When a friend and I were driving in Germany (she was driving), she was bundled up in a coat and still freezing while I was sitting there in just a polo shirt and broiling to death. Fortunately, I was able to figure out the car's dual climate controls (try reading a car's user manual in a foreign language when you have no clue about its car vocabulary; even if you're almost fluent in the language, what do you call the parts and systems of a car?).
So, what I take away from this is the following:
- You guys don't know how your own currency works
- You guys find it more comfortable to rub that stuff into you skin instead of, you know, using a spray and be done with it
- You guys don't know how to dress in public
- You guys haven't figured out the relaxing truth about Kaffee & Kuchen
- You guys literally cannot get anything carbonated that isn't full of sugar
- You guys have a remarkable low amount of household disputes
Aside from me kidding around, thanks for that video. Quite a nice comparison
DGARedRaven Most Europeans don’t pay with cash anymore. Only the less developed ones and Germany do I think.
@@roy_hks Your definition of 'less developed ones' must be quite interesting. Plus, the last times I visited Spain, France and Poland, I was still able to pay in cash. I doubt that there is any european country where you cannot pay in cash.
DGARedRaven Like I said, the lesser developed countries are still really cash dependent. Spain and Poland are some of the poorest countries in the EU, and France is (mind my language) quite a shithole too outside the parisian metropolitan area.
The Netherlands and Scandinavia are quite progressed when it comes to e-payment.
A lot of Dutch stores in dense urban area’s don’t accept cash anymore. And if they do there usually are only a few checkouts accepting it.
@@roy_hks when i was in croatia 3 months ago i had no problems paying with cash
numnutz Croatia is a complete shithole and one of the poorest countries in Europe. Shouldn’t be part of the EU imo.
A lot of places in Germany are cash only
They also often don't accept any credit card, only EC card... freakin' German only thing.
Thats because the fees for using a Credit Card are to high for a System that is rarely used in Germany... So they Just save that Money.
Recently Google Pay is live and by now has been accepted in every store even the ones rejecting other services before. I have way less change no one wants.
@@Aedony europe thing
YeeTose Not a European thing. I live in the Netherlands and a lot of stores over here don’t accept cash anymore, or have only 1 register that does. While Germany doesn’t even accept cards in parking garages and PT.
I totally understand him I could never sleep with one blanket 😅
Lola Shirokova 😂 who sleeps with one blanket???
Brian Velez watch the video
@@BrianVelez do you have 2?
Lola Shirokova me neither. My girlfriend would make me freeze to death 💀
Me neither. I'm struggeling with stealing my husbands banket event though I have one of my own. With only one blanked my Hubby would have NO chance and probably freeze. :'D
No cafés in the US?? I couldn't live there 😂
Not true. May be true where only middle class white people of Northern European descent live, but in the cities where everybody lives - Hispanics, Portuguese, Italians, Brazilians, etc. you'll find cafés But believe me not so long ago that was also a problem in Germany.
What about mccafe? Doesn‘t it exist in america?
@@sandramaliibuu I wouldn't say, that mccafés are cute and comfy and a really nice place to go out to, at least not in Germany 🙈 Often mccafés are "connected" with McDonald's Restaurants, so it's crowdy, loud and really bright and I would go there with my friends so get a snack or so, but wouldn't go on a date there, or go there to meet a friend and chill and talk 😅 In Germany, college students also like to study in cafés, and I couldn't imagine that with a mccafé. The difference between a café and mccafé is hard to explain, it's just a totally different atmosphere? And sorry for my problably "german" english, english is just my second language 😅
Starbucks?
Only small towns/suburbs don't have cafes. Any city or college town has an abundance of non-starbucks cafes.
Wow, the Sprudelwasser addiction is very real to me.
I grew up drinking it and now, it is the only drink that could possibly refresh me...
Now I am studying abroad and at one point, I noticed that I felt terrible.
Turned out, my only source of water for the entire week was alcohol in the evening and the water in my food.
If I don't have my beloved Sprudel in the House, i just don't drink.
right?? it's highly addicting. i was always drinking it when i lived in turkey for a year and when i came back to the US, i noticed a similar thing as you - that i wasn't drinking really any water because i didn't have carbonated water anymore haha
I have no problem buying seltzer water in Florida--the non flavored version. It's everywhere!
@Addy please don't drink Vittel. It's the worst kind of water you could buy. Just google "Vittel and Nestle" and read for yourself. Nestle is cutting short the water supply in the town Vittel because they want to sell all of it.
Alkohol even dehydrates your body.
Pure Caffeine I just moved to the US from Germany. Went to an ALDI today and bought 30 bottles of seltzer. The cashier kept asking why I was buying sooooo much! Wish I could go to a Getränkemarkt to buy my Sprudelwasser by the Kiste!😉
The way you pronounce Micha is weird for Germans xD
Tenshi So wie sie es sagt hört es sich wie ein Russischer Name an xD
@@SentimentalerHund Ja eben wie Mischa
Er heißt nicht Mischa?😂
@@roselightz_3027 Nein ich denke nicht
haha
it's absolutely no problem to go out in sweatpants in germany as long as it's ok for you that everybody thinks you're a bum :D
I think in germany it is against the law to refuse cash as a payment method.
Exactly!! With good reasons. To lose the cash money is to lose of freedom.
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That makes perfect sense. It’s legal tender and should be accepted. I hadn’t thought about it too much.
@Hauke Holst Nobody is obliged to accept more than fifty coins in a single payment. Council Regulation (EC) No 974/98 of 3 May 1998 on the introduction of the euro, article 11.
@David S Unfortunately not. There is something called "Vertragsfreiheit" (freedom of contract), which means merchants can refuse to allow card payments. Or refuse to allow cash payments, "legal tender" notwithstanding. Only state institutions and monopolists must accept cash. German tax offices don't accept cash though, so a taxpayer who wanted to pay his taxes in cash took them to court. The court ruled against him in April 2018, so he appealed to the Federal Finance Court (Bundesfinanzhof). That's the last I could find, so the appeal probably wasn't decided yet.
Having one blanket is just weird. How are you supposed to wrap yourself in it if one side is essentially "open"? My back would freeze off over night.
Well ideally the blanket is big enough to stretch completely over top of both people so you aren’t exposed in any way
@@Kellydoesherthing what is your cup size ?
@@Kellydoesherthing Sure, but when you're lying back to back the blanket will be lifted up in the space between you two so that's where you don't have proper skin to blanket contact and cool off.
@@tigercat418 i think she likes her cafe or tea in a huge cup so she doesn't have to stand up that much.. what a stupid question..
@@tigercat418 it's bigger in us than Germany...
The reason why germans wear good clothing outside could be a thing of social status. Most Germans associate Sweatpants with Harz 4 receivers or antisocial behavior.
Kiosk Menschen
Das is doch nich weird :'D
Pat Black sehe ich auch so aber wir sind deutsch, für uns ist das normal 😂😂
würde ich auch sagen
Meine Rede
Yeah we germans are famous for taking Germany with us... Since 1914 and 1933 😂
Ja ist nicht weird 😂
Aber wir sind nun Mal deutsch 😂
Having lived both in the US and Germany I understand both sides but I like the German way better because most of the time it is just smarter. And the thing with the Joggers in Germany just shows your social Standard. People teach their kids to dress nice from a young age and I think this just stuck with us Germans
Jogginghose trägst du nur wenn du zum Sport gehst...
Thea h ja oder manchmal daheim
@@lara_8736 stimmt 😊
In Switzerland shops are not allowed to only take cards.
If you run a business you need to accept Swiss currency (though large bills, like 200 and 1000 Frank bills, can be declined for security as there is larger risk of them being counterfeit).
I'm not the most cash-centered person but I still pay a lot of things with cash.
I once took down the trash in my sweatpants... Am still in treatment for PTSD...
Hahahahaha
Cash is the only universal payment in Germany. There is even a law that prohibits selling things and not accept cash ( § 14 Abs. 1 Satz 2 BBankG). Plus there is an social heritage behavior to use cash passed on through the generations grounded in experiences of War and eviction.
Here in sweden cash is also rare. But I have to be honest, if the cash system breaks down or there is no electricity because of whatever reason we are FUCKED. Cash is still KING
Ok then, try to pay with cash at lieferheld delivero or lieferando... No chance!
@@RaffN1 sure! In germany you can select cash on these websites and you give your money to the guy who brings you your food ;)
@@RaffN1 hu? easy! i always pay with cash. just click at the little box that asks you what payment method you would like to use.
Addy Hejsan! Är också svenne
People who leave the house in sweatpants have lost control over their lives. (Karl Lagerfeld)
He could sell sweatpants :-)
And now he's dead. A famous designer with just one quote the people are knowing... about sweatpants xD
I even get dressed to take out the garbage and rarely go down to the basement to do the laundry without getting dressed as well..!!!
Hahaha :)
Haha same here. I'm from Vienna, Austria, and I really cannot imagine going downstairs in sweatpants
I wear sweatpants all the time even to go shopping in city and nobody cares NOBODY
@@karolinegraf3244 that's what you think!
Yeah, me too. Can't even go to the mailbox without wearing "proper" clothes.
most of these could apply to any european
No let germans feel special pls.
I don't want to instigate stereotyping but it's so common for Americans to do this. It's okay not to know, but there's no reason to always outspokenly tell us what we are/aren't. We don't need to do it with you guys because you are super transparent but when you do this reverse generalizing it's just disappointing and reveals a lack of understanding. It's not that hard to find things that are uniquely German or any other nationality, so why not double check instead of assuming?
@@Max-me9ol
Why the germans? The american girl thinks it's typical german, because it's not normal in the USA. And for an american it's more probable the "german habits" are weird... not the american habits.
Alot of these things my Polish mother does lol
@@Max-me9ol it's the same in austria
Why are Americans always screaming? Even if I turn the volume down I have the feeling that you are yelling at me through the screen of my phone.
Andreas Neu, you haven't met any latinos obviously.
Because they love to hear themselves.
It's because for Americans it's perfectly fine (and socially accepted) to have their speaking voice just sit where ever - to us it's really not. I used to work in opera and it was surprising for American singers who came here that people over in Europe would speak like what would require quite some training in the US.
Cultural, there are loud cultures, listen to an african family, they have loud organs too. My cousins life partner with kids is originally rom africa, then from french then austria, i hear a dinner with them is really loud, without being drunk and that, on a normal basis.
😂😂😂
I am Austrian (german speaking country below germany) and it even feels weird just taking out the trash in sweatpants. Totally understand your point
100% agree.. if i ever dare bringing out the trash in sweatpants, i will walk as fast as i can whilest making sure that noone sees it and judges me (, which most Germans will) :D
@@cLisss95 Wait what...... if you can't bring out your trash in sweatpants you have a really huge stick in your ass if you ask me
.:Berliner:. That's true like who cares what you look like while taking out the trash. We're uptight but THAT uptight is a little cray cray 😂
@@15RabauKe838 I was raised that way;)
In dont really care aswell, but its hard to get rid of stuff uve been taught since u were alittle kid. Plus i recon there is a difference between cities and little towns.. Im from a little town, so everyone knows everyone and everyone talks;)
@@15RabauKe838 And btw:
Whether people judge others because theyre wearin sweatpants or whether they judge them because theyre not.... Theyre all judging.. which i recon the whole point is not to judge;)
Stick deodorants aren't as popular as sprays in Germany but most drugstores carry at least one brand. Going out in sweatpants has become a little more accepted but only for young people. When middle aged people wear them a lot of people will assume they're "Assis". Personally I feel comfortable wearing lounge wear for a quick trip to the grocery store or bakery only as long as it's less than a 5 min walk from my house. I would never go to a university class in sweatpants or pj's.
I'm actually surprised that having separate blankets isn't a thing in the US. Partners who steal the blanket or have different preferences for blanket thickness are a cross-cultural phenomenon and using two blankets is the simple solution to all those problems.
I’m going to try to make the two blanket thing a US thing haha it makes so much more sense
Nah, also Young people in sweatpants are considered "Assis". At least in a Gymnasium, because Hauptschüler seem to always wear sweatpants
DaChrisstar sweatpants are never okay. Never. There should be fines for wearing them outside the gym.
what is the meaning of "Assis"?
@@muhanadalsarrani8283 the translation ist "antisocial" but the meaning is more "crummy" or "underclass people"
paying cash is just smart, not a german thing^^
Its still a thing we just do. Idk why but we just do. It feels way better knowing what you just spent physically
@@aaronschmidt8631 there's a german saying: "A boulder fell off my shoulders" which you say when relieved greatly.
The boulder is physical money
It teaches the weight of money and is far easier to change, especially for really small buyings. It acs a bit as limiter too to buy impulsive, not much thou. I distrust them a bit too because of the credit card number trade, that can be easily abused if you give the number and potentially code to anyone. And i am not german, austrian thou but i thing its a europe thing.
Its important to teach the value and householding of money. Thats why dkt and monopoly are valuable and show how capitalism can rip youoff and ruin too if youare not careful , which was the original meaning behing its creation, despite the company not marketing it as such..
people waiting till paper money is abolished and you get a chip straight between your eyes to pay, first then, im afraid of, will be the time for sheep to wake up sadly
Ich könnte meine Bettdecke nie teilen 😂
Sweet Heart was?
Und deine Kissen?
Meine Bettdecke gehört zu mir bis sie gewaschen wird, dann eine andere, dann wieder die die gewaschen wurde
Husband and I are American (him son of a German) but have separate blankets for sleeping. He gets very hot and I get very cold so it works best, and we also end up stealing it from each other if we try to use one anyway.
Also, I’m glad we have a German coffee shop down the street from us, with homemade German cheesecake, apple cake, etc. It reminds him of his German grandma’s baking, too.
Same thing here. I easily get hot so sleeping under the same blanket would be like sleeping in a sauna.
Im german i dont even own a credit card
Same. I guess i like it more to have cash in my pocket and see how much i have left then have a credit card haha. Ich mag es halt mehr haha
They need card in Amsterdam, some point when you travel you will need a credit card. Unless you don't plan on travelling.
@@BrokeAgain Amsterdam is not in Germany
Ich auch nicht.Bin auch noch 13😂
@@emiliah.4263 that's why they need it in Amsterdam not in Germany, its in general context. wenn du weißt, was ich meine
wtf do you use for deodorant? Is there any other type than spray or roll on??
i think i should've explained this more in the video haha we have a stick of hardened substance that glides onto your skin and feels a bit creamy. there are also gel types.
Liradu2 lol right?? Strange that we have different deodorants. I hope this link works goo.gl/images/TniF8P
There are also "Deo-Sticks" in Germany. I'm using them for years because i hate the spray and don't enjoy the wet feelling from the roll ons.
@@lawa3295 exactly the same. But I first figured out, that I like "Sticks" the most, when I was in the US. It is true, it is hard to find any other type there. For me it was a pleasure... I hardly can breath in german dressing rooms. That was no problem at all in the US cause everyone used the sticks deodorants.
@Kristofer here is a picture of the gel deodorant - assets3.thrillist.com/v1/image/1282051/size/tmg-mobile_image_set;jpeg_quality=20.jpg i personally hate this type but it seems to be popular enough here
good thing to use cash, so all the money/private information-greedy companies cant follow your purchase habits, good boy
Lucie J. Don’t worry, his smart phone provides more than enough data/information to make up for the absence of using a card ;)
Cash Money ist freedom
I even get a weird feeling doing laundry in sweatpants and I dont even leave the building for that. But i could meet the neighbours...sooooooo its a no.
Yes, we love our Bargeld
2 blankets are great. I hate sleeping in a bed with someone with only 1 blanket. They´re gonna pull, ur gonna pull, ur gonna be cold, she/he is gonna be cold. Its awful. And yeah im german.
2 blankets really is the way to go
The dressing up for occasion,... it is not because I would care what others think of me. I do it for the order and discipline... not to get lazy. To me it's like part of the personal hygiene.
In theory why do we dress up at all? if the weather permits we could simply all walk around naked or just wear some generic suits and it would be fine for all occasions.
The U.S. clothing thing is actually weird. Being dressed like a slob is fine but naked? OMG NO!
In the UK we have people who dress like slobs too just like Americans but they are a social class to themselves known as "Chavs" who are low income, low intellect people who usually live in social housing.
@OceanBlue yes, some of us are! At least in the summer
@@Simonsvids same in germany, we call them "Asis" (Antisocials)
@YTViewer I don't I can not bare it to go outside like that.
@@mojojim6458 our basic law grants us the right to our own image, meaning you can not take an image of me without my consent, this is reflected in our drone regulation - if your drone has a camera or microphone, you are not allowed to fly over residential grounds without permission of the inhabitants.
I would mind, no matter if dressed or naked, as you'd be violating my rights, so if i'd see "someones" drone over my backyard without my permission might do anything from calling the police to invoking my right of self-defense, depending on the exact circumstances
Believe me, you don't really want a cashless Society.
Think Politics and Banks.
@@willscorner8423 its more about privacy and surveillance. I dont want my Bank or the government to know everything I buy
@@willscorner8423 I still dont like the idea that they COULD know. Thats a big no for me. I'm aware that they dont care about Individual behaviour but they Do care about the behaviour of the masses, so that they know whats usual and which ads to display for example (same Thing with browsing and typing in keywords). A store that knows I bought dog toys will advertise me to buy dog food as well. I dont want that.
And yes thats my own selfish POV. But I'm also Not the only one
@@willscorner8423 If you don't care about your privacy thats ok but you can't expect everyone to do so.
@@willscorner8423
I think you're arguments are understandable but ignorant of some of the possible viewpoints.
The relationship to cash and cashless transactions in Germany in many ways directly relates to the relationship to privacy or probably more accurate data security.
Data and data analysis has been used by the third Reich to identify, persecute and finally kill minorities during the holocaust. They often used the data on religious or ethnic affiliations from census to identify their victims.
Not only in Germany but also in some of the countries invaded.
It was one detail that helped them being so efficient in their persecution.
In western germany this led to the development of a post world war 2 german cultur that was and still is very wary of many things that were a foundation or exacerbated the crimes in the third Reich. Like for example patriotism/nationalism or militarism. And also private data collection.
At the same time untill the nineties germany was split and the eastern half of the country used extensive and invasive surveillance of individuals and situations that most people and most governments would believe to be utterly unimportant (as you suggest yourself not to take oneself to important because nobody is interested).
And even trivial things (for example minor critic of the goverment) spoken in the privacy of a home might have very real effect on your live (access to education and work opportunities for you or family members).
So in germany we live with people who have experienced how unbelievable nosy a goverment can be and how cruel its repercussions for minor misbehavior or expressed critical thought can be.
And we still have a living generation of grandparents to remind us of how bad this development really can get.
Germany is worried about the possibility for abuse of infrastructure and about the possibility that a goverment (or maybe at this point a different "entity") suddenly manages to gain power that is willing to abuse in a way nobody wanted to consider imaginable before. Because we experienced both recently.
This has a very strong affect on the german culture surrounding datasafty/privacy that Americans in my experience have a difficult time to understand. And that goes beyond what is in my experience present in most other European cultures (dont know about eastern Europe I'd imagine the UDSSR must have had quite an effect to).
Just to give some examples up untill today germany doesn't have an identification code tied to individual citizens like the social security in the states due to privacy concerns (there are numbers for tax and similar stuff. But with a lot of regulations that I don't understand ^^).
Whenever there is a census there has been a strong response as to what information can be collected how it may be used and stored.
But the recent technology advances is data collection, analysis and use especially by companies with commercial interest but increasingly also by governments or other organizations with political interest, Paired with the reality that we give away or information unconsciously and consciously is chaining this fast thought the last 10 years.
So the habit of paying with cash has a lot to do with Germany's history and with the culture of datasafty.
Not everybody in germany who prefers cash will be aware of this. But if you talk to a variety of people some will make this arguement very consciously.
Think people control.
My 2cts as a German man who also worked in the US & Canada and has been to many places abroad:
#1: Paying in cash: Gives better control over your spending. Don't You see why it is seen as weird that the national currency (the US Dollar in cash) cannot be used in some places in the US?
#2: Deo: We have spray / roll-on / wax-like sticks and even powder. I don't get the issue at all.
#3: Clothing: If your are an adult who cares about him-/herself You'll dress with a certain style, which can be plain jeans & a T-Shirt, too. Gym-wear is OK for the gym and for inside & around the house during leisure-time.
#4: Cafés: Well, You sure know how to work hard and we sure know how to enjoy life in Europe... ;)
#5: Carbonated water: See #4
#6: 1 vs. 2 blankets in a bed: Individual blankets are important for a good night's rest if one partner is a "blanket hog".
ATB, Gereon
Totally agree!
When I was in the US for 3 months, I got so many eyes on me when I put mayonnaise on my french fries :D
Doesn't seem so common in the USA - at least in northern CA
haha it is not although there are quite a few restaurants that are starting to offer mayo-based sauces with their fries which are usually freaking amazingly delicious. the whole mayo thing was weird to me when i moved to germany, but i ended up really loving it
@@Kellydoesherthing haha yes, it is the best. It was in a water slide park (which btw isnt so usual in Germany either), they offered bunch of different sauces to take yourself :D I just recognize everyone was starring at me (and normaly I do never get it, when someone is starring at me). And so did my host dad :D He explained to me, that they never do it, but they all liked it :)
@@Blaubeere17 Keep doing it. You'll start a new food trend in the US!
I live in Canada and it's the same thing here... a while ago I ordered fries with mayo at a restaurant, and my Canadian boyfriend found it weird... but then he tried it and now he loves it 😂
Ketchup is disgusting
The thing with the sweatpants is not quite right. It's true, most people from the age of 20 and up don't wear them outside their house. Even I always put on jeans before going out to get groceries. But especially in big cities it's not that uncommon to see some people wearing sweats. The younger the people, the more sweatpants you see :D
Here in Berlin almost everybody wears sweatpants
I have officially stopped giving a shit about what I wear to get groceries or run quick errands, as long as it doesnt have stains or smells bad. Nobody gives a fuck what you wear and germans need together over this fear.
@@HartmansYokaiFactory I'm guessing you've never been to Germany?
@@caustic279 I am, in fact, german, my guy
Yeah but you still have nice cool sweatpants for going out and some lame comfy old ones for home, they are different
Using cash is much smarter than supporting the further establishment of surveillance states
And creating debt slaves.
My husband and I use two twin mattresses on our king size bed, and we also have separate blankets. We started this a few years ago and we both sleep much better. We are American:)
Misha and I were looking at doing this!! We miss the separate mattresses so much and can’t find any sort of split bed here aside from a $10k+ tempur-pedic haha I hadn’t thought about being able to fit the mattresses on a king sized frame...we were looking at trying to connect two twin frames together
@@Kellydoesherthing What? I can't believe it. I searched for my old bill from our bed from 2000: 2499 (DM), 450 frame, 515 headpiece, 260 cover for headpiece, 396 slatted frames, 1240 for 2 mattresses (which were expensive mistakes (too soft), after half year exchange against some harder, but cheaper one, some smaller things (can't read anymore from old bill)). Divide by 2 (DM /€ conversion), multiply by 2 (inflation since 2000), multiply by 1.2 (€/$ conversion) = $ 3000 for a full bed.
What's your current mattress size? I understand the King size is 202 cm long and 193cm wide, the (two) twin size fit the wide (each 97cm wide), but 13cm too short, the twin XL fit the length but 2cm each too wide (99cm). There is the split king which fits into a king frame.
Why the crevice in US can widen. In Germany the mattresses are holded by the outer frame together. Is there no frame and the matts are just lying on top of the base in the US?
Kelly does her thing Just make sure you get two TWIN XL mattresses. They need to be XL! Good luck!
in germny we have places where they only accept cash xD like who the f buys a beer with their credit card??? is that really a thing in the US?
I am from Romania and I live in Germany now.In Romania in the big shops like Carrefour or Auchan you can pay even 10 cents with card.In smaller shops it can happen to be refused or to have a minimum limit like in Germany.But it is weird to carry cash around me all the time.
Most people pay for everything (even a beer) with a card in the US. I very rarely come into contact with cash.
I had friends who used to buy packs of gum with their cards when I went to high school in the US. Literally a $0.60 transaction, what the hell. Americans just hate cash for some reason.
Wellcome back to the ,,Why is this in my recomendations" Episode 203
Because you click on these videos
Greetings from Germany, I can definitely understand your boyfriend.
1. I can understand, that he wants to pay with cash. For me it is easier to have a better idea of how many money I already spent, yes I could use online banking, but for me it is a difference, because I can see and feel what I spent, cause I gave away that money as cash.
2. Didn't knew there are other deodorants.
3. I only get out in a business casual outfit. I only wear sweatpants when I do sports outside. I think we Germans like to look good. If I hadn't had my morning shower I'll go nowhere. At home I can wear whatever I want, outside I want to be taken serious, so I wear "real" clothing. But in Germany there are also people who don't care about their look. I often experienced this with teenager's of a lesser educated families (school education, I don't want to say they are stupid because of that).
4. You don't have cakes in café's?! I'm shocked.
5. Carbonated water is so delicious. "Apfelschorle" is very delicious, but I guess you weren't talking about this when you said there is a lot of flavoured carbonated water in the USA.
6. I don't share my blanket, but my girlfriend often steals mine and also my pillow, while I do work on my studies during nighttime.
What a revealing video, I'm a bit shocked. :D
thanks for the comment :) and you might find like the occasional cafe that is similar to what you would find in germany but "cafe culture" really isn't a thing here. it's much more of a coffee shop culture haha
I didnt find Apfelschorle in the US when I was there for travel. I don't think it is common there.
Wearing joggers is becoming more and more a fashion thing as joggers became a lot more stylish. I personally dont wear oversized baggy joggers outside but I will wear stylish slim fit joggers.
bin ich jetzt asozial weil ich Joggies manchmal zum Einkaufen anziehe? sind aber recht stylische Joggies und der look gepflegt / sporty.
nur Teenager aus less-educated families ziehen sowas an?? Nope..... meine Mum ist Sozialpädagogin und mein Vater ist Profi-Musiker.....Ich habe mittlere Reife, eine abgeschlossene Ausbildung und bin zivilisiert....ach ja, und ich bin 29..... der hat gesessen, wa?! Gibt auch Joggie-Liebhaber die ganz normal sind! Steck nicht alle, die Jogginghosen in public anziehen, gleich in die asoziale Schublade bitte! Mir ist mein Chef auch schon mit Jogginghose beim Einkaufen begegnet!
Laber doch kein Scheiß. Casual Clothes sind nicht gleich, billig zerfledderte und dreckige Jogging Hosen... Muss wohl eine ganze Mode Epoche an dir vorbei gegangen sein, was? Siehe Trackpants, Jerseypants und dergleichen... Aber Hauptsache mal ALLE als Hartzer abstempeln. Im übrigen diejenigen die zu viel Wert darauf legen sich vor anderen beim Müll raus tragen zu profilieren haben meist selbst ein gewaltiges Problem mit Ihrem Selbstwertgefühl und kompensieren das mit Geltungsgehabe! Liebe Grüße von der "Jogging-Hosen" tragenden Psychologin!
Deodorant in Australia is spray or roller ball as well. We're starting to get stick forms but its not that popular. Spray is just so much more sanitary
Tayla Harper same in UK
Same in Argentina
Same in the netherlands
Same everywhere less the states i guess lol
The Gaz you inhale everytime is really not sanitary!
"You don't see people going outside in sweatpants in Germany."
Ahahahahaha very funny!
we have European cafes in Australia, this is because in the 50's, 60's and 70's we had large groups of Italian and Greek people migrate and start cafes and milk bars. that is where Australia gets its cafe culture from. If most coffee places in the USA are similar to Starbucks than no they do not have much food. starbucks is not really a thing in Australia we like good coffee and we will not put up with inferior coffee. also, like in Europe, we would prefer less coffee that is quality over lots of coffee that is so, so.
I wish we could get some of that cafe culture here! I’m really surprised it’s not really a thing here, especially given how many immigrants we have as well. But maybe someday :) thanks for sharing!
@kelly Business idea?
In Germany I have seen Starbucks, but it's not that big, either.
Essentially every bakery will offer various coffee specialties, and since fully automated coffee makers are now commonplace, it's usually pretty good, too.
It would be rare to see a cafe here where you could not get a selection of espresso, latte macchiato, cappuccino or a big mug of cafe au lait and a few flavorings if you want to slum it.
The coffee culture clearly came in with immigration after WW2 and expanding tourism, making the exotic attainable. But it also melded into the existing coffee houses which had long been an extension of the omnipresent baking culture and forged the unbreakable link of coffee and cake in the German mind.
Where the French and Italians would also have their coffee with baked goods like croissants or little almond cakes, the Germans went heavy on the cake part as a method of competition where coffee was difficult to outdo each other on. But extravagant layered and decorated cakes, those you can display prominently in windows as well as on the plate.
Out of this amalgam of coffee houses, bakeries and spreading specialty coffees there is now a kind of cultural expectation of coffee and cake for an afternoon cafe experience that just cannot be satisfied with a plastic cup and a cookie.
So Starbucks has to get into an old, crowded market full of at least adequate coffee offered on every corner with cake they cannot compete against served in porcelain in a more bourgeois than hipster atmosphere.
That makes things much harder than in the US where they are often enough really the only enjoyable coffee in town.
There are now places in Berlin experimenting with obscure techniques of coffee brewing that proudly call themselves a new wave of coffee already.
Their impact will have to be judged when it happens.
True that! I eventually found a nice cafe in Portland but I spent the entire trip in the US craving proper coffee 😂
I love these videos, even though I'm neither American, German (or even from the northern hemisphere) because they tell me so much about other cultures (and my own). I had no idea that "stick or gel" deodorants even existed!! U learn something every day. Only have ever used roll-ons or sprays. It does seem amazing that the US that has such a huge migrant population (from Europe as well) does not have a cafe culture. Nothing better than a long macchiato, carrot cake with whipped cream or ice-cream and a long afternoon chat in a cafe......
@YTViewer Me? NZ
I’m happy that you enjoy my videos! I think it’s amazing how much you learn about your own country be learning about other countries. Its now my favorite thing about traveling (before it was just photography and food haha) and you just named exactly what Misha loves best! And long macchiato and slice of carrot cake :)
Or a bread culture.
& besides, Taco Bills & Starbucks are enough
all the police have the donut shops
enough fat already, we are an obese generation now
but you look in mighty fine shape for a carrot cake & cream eating gal.
IN the USA, we do have some Cafe's that seem to attract some people who write poems and are more artistic than many other people, BUT, I am just going by things I've heard, I have not been to these cafe's myself.
I love that you are using the metric system
You missed the whole metric imperial system thing. You always think in your measurement system.
You’re totally right - I completely missed that
"a Coffeeshop a Kilometer or two away" - she still is in the metric system.
We don't use the imperial system. We use the US Customary system ; )
How is using the system that almost the entire planet and literally all scientists use a weird habit?
Michael Krämer the context of me using the word “weird” is important here - the habit is weird if it’s not the norm in the culture/country of which you are currently living or visiting. None of his habits are “weird” in Germany...they’re only weird in the US for the reasons I explained through stories in the video.
I had the same problem with the deo and bought ca. 10 pieces of deo spray in Germany. But, PLEASE, be aware that 10 cylinders in your baggage are looking very ... . At the end it took me around 30 minutes longer at the airport security.
haha good to know!! i will make sure Misha is aware of this :)
we do have actually sticks, you have to search between the roll-ons :)
I absolutly understand your boyfriend and its needs character not to change the habbits just because he moves to the us. It's not weird to use a second blancket, it's just more comfortable, One have different sleeping positions amd so nobody is getting cold^^ anyway.. the other things you told are also not weird, just different. Drinking water is so healthy. Using different Deo sprays... ok. But that doesn't have to do with habits.. but you should be pround to have such a mannerly bf that he dresses up for the grocery store. Don't change that. It's the worst to see "Best of Wall-Mart Vids" just because the americans have a bad manner to dress up. Wearing dirty pants or just nothing at all. Sorry :) Be proud of him how he is. Lots of love
Oder sturrheit
Two blankets is definitely the way to go.
Whenever we go to Europe, my wife spends the whole trip drooling over the men who actually get dressed and give a damn about their appearance before going out in public
Hahaha!
It sounds like you need a new wife there, buddy.
@@ericl8743 Or a new fashion sence :P
You know you have lived a while in the Netherlands when it takes you a hot second to realise that when she talks about coffee shop she means cafe and not a weed shop :D
I moved to Greece almost 20 years ago. When my relatives from the US first visited, they found it odd that not all stores accept credit cards, on the other hand, Greeks found it odd when an American would buy a coke & bag of chips and put that on their credit card. So credit or debit cards are used but primarily for larger purchases. Though today that is changing quite quick as the EU wants us to become a cashless society, so I'm surprised you don't see more of this in Germany now. Though I hope we never reach the point where a bar or cafe accept cards only!
i'm actually really interested to see if the EU pushes forward with this and if Germany will adapt because it seems, especially based on comments i've been reading, that many Germans are VERY adamant about using cash and not card. some have expressed the opinion that a cashless society is not a free society. meanwhile, many europeans from other countries write comments to say that they use card all the time just like the US. i find the dichotomy in opinion on this fascinating
There was a sticker today on a grocery store in Germany that read: Bargeld = Freheit. So I guess there are some strong feelings?
Not accepting cash is illegal. At least in Germany. Cash is the only paying method that is anchored in the law.
i looked it up to see what the deal is in the US and as it turns out, it's perfectly legal to only accept card
@@Kellydoesherthing what? I guess that is another chapter out of the book called "things one doesn't need to understand"
@@ralfhtg1056 I guess that makes sense in German. Could you please restate that in German? I'll take my chances with Google Translate or DeepL.
@@mojojim6458 in german i said the following: das ist ein weiteres Kapitel aus dem Buch "Dinge, die man nicht verstehen muß". This is a metaphor. To put it simple: things you don't have to understand
@@ralfhtg1056 Thanks, Ralf. That wasn't so hard to understand after all.
if i go to some kind of store i will drive 10-20 minutes longer just the go to an atm instead of paying with my card. I'm german btw.
You can buy old spice in germany but thats the only Deo-Stick that i know of.
I really don't like leaving the house with sweatpants or something similiar.
Wasser mit Spudel ist das beste:D
i would need 10 blankets to prevent my gf from taking all of them.
thanks for sharing :)
Wasser mit Sprudel*, wenn ich bitten darf.
There is plenty of evidence suggesting it is better for budget control for people to withdraw cash and pay everything with that. It's much easier to spend too much money and lose control if you use credit or debit. So only using cash is encouraged for that. Of course, stores and banks much prefer cards because it's easier for them, but I don't particularly want to make life easy for a store if that means I might overspend.
So, you're weird-shaming your poor German boyfriend's habits but basically agree on half of them? - Cafés for Kaffee & Kuchen, sparkling water, two blankets (sort of).
:-p
hahah i do agree on actually all of them except for the cash thing. i hate carrying and dealing with cash and aside from the grocery store right below our apartment, i wouldn't ever go out in sweatpants either but that's more so because i feel that i may run into someone i work with, etc than caring what strangers think haha
@@Kellydoesherthing But using cash can be beneficial if you have to save. You know how much money you have in your purse so you have to take care not to spend more - and if you use your debit card, you are aware that you are buying someting expensive that you did not plan for (except for when using the card for a planned purchase of expensive products). Put a 50 € bill in your purse, see how long that lasts. Use your debit card and get shocked in the evening how much you spent without being aware of it. Also: electronic payments can be traced, the bank knows when, where and what you bought. This may be of no consequence today, but what if in the future this info might be shared with your boss or health insurance ("she is eating a lot of unhealthy convenience meals, sweets, lots of butter...")? Withdraw money from the ATM and nobody knows when, how and where you spent it or if you gave it away as a present.
The deodorant blows my mind.. I'm from the Netherlands and I didn't know our deodorant was different from the US. Some things are the same in the Netherlands as in Germany but there are also a lot of different things.
Same! I’m in the UK and didn’t realise this was a thing. We have sprays & roll ons.
I just don‘t like paying with cards because paying cash gives me the illusion of having a better overview of how much money I am spending. Certain things I still pay by card, but small amounts? Not really. Other means of payment ... Edeka has a new App that also allows you to pay with it which I find quite unsafe. On the one hand, as someone pointed out already, it allows them to track what you are buying where and when. What also worries me is what happens if my phone gets stolen. Additionally, I had a look at the demands for information the App wanted to have access to and there were quite a few things on the list that I found inappropriate, like why does a shopping app need access to who I am talking to on my phone? Not my cup of tea really.
About the coffee and cake thing: I studied Hotel and Tourism Management and one of our professors told us that „Kaffee und Kuchen“ is something that is pretty unique to German culture and that some Spanish hotels started offering „Kaffee und Kuchen“ because especially elders kept telling their tour operators that they missed their little afternoon treat. I don‘t know if this is fact or fiction but I checked in a few TUI brochures and there really are hotels being specifically advertised as offering „Kaffee und Kuchen“.
This is not to say that other cultures are not into coffee and cake just that Germans seem to insist on it a bit more and I guess especially Torte could be hard to find in Southern Europe.
Lukie Skywalker the swedes love their coffee break just as much
I would say the Netherlands also has quite a few choices for coffee and pie/cake, some cafes that are open during daytime will offer those, also various coffeehouses. Although in the afternoon it might be more common for the Dutch to have tea and apple pie for instance. You'll see a bit less "torte" (creamy cake) in the Netherlands though, this is more of a German/Austrian thing I'd say. Then there's the UK also of course, there it's easier to find tearooms with all sorts of cakes and pastry, but with a bit of luck they serve coffee as well.
@@dorisw5558 are you sure about it? In germany it is like the british and their tea time. It's a social event in the afternoon and happens, with people who do it, on a daily basis.
@@boahkeinbockmehr Google "Fika"
@@grymkaft oh yeah, that seems to be really similar, thanks =) (and thank god it was actually about coffee and cake, it sounded awfully close to the german word for "fucker", so, with our languages being related, i was quite uncertain wether i would regret googling it ^^)
I really enjoyed this video. My boyfriend is German and I can see so much of this in him. But I must say that pillows are not squared in all of Europe. I come from Italy and we also have rectangular pillows, more similar to the US ones than the German ones. But the thing that I got used while living in Germany are the two blankets. It's so much better not having to fight for it and maybe also decide the thickness.
PiffQ90 has
Never seen an European square pillow. Everywhere in Europe where I went they had the regular rectangular pillows. I don't think it is a matter of Europe vs US. I think it was just your bf's personal taste.
I shouldn’t have said European, I should’ve said German**
The square pillows are actually called continental pillows anyway.
It can be that the rectangular pillows are more common, and catching on more, on the European continent. They are more healthy anyway.
In Deutschland haben wir alle die viereckigen Kissen im Bett.
Ich persönlich brauche auch Federbetten und Kissen um gut und gemütlich zu schlafen
They're very common in Germany
What comes to my mind hearing that nobody cares about what you wear in public are pictures of people of walmart..although I know I´m wrong I just can´t get rid of these impressions burnd deep down in my memories able to cause the worst nightmares imagable...is that just me? ;-)
Hahaha I have some images seared into my mind but unfortunately they weren’t pictures - it was real life haha but everyone is out there doing their thing :)
In Walmart you can see anything! Really! My 6 year old son came home from shopping with daddy there and first thing he told me was: Mom! There was poop on the floor in Walmart!!!!!!!!!!!!! Poop!!!! Mom, how can somebody poop on the middle of the main hallway in walmart???????? He will never forget that -
No, not just you. That's what popped into my head too.
It's strange as an American I have never seen anyplace that was pay with credit card only.Also till the 80s in the US most deodorant was only spray or roll on .Also up until the 80s most people would not ever walk in public in sweat pants or most casual wear they go out in now.
Saddens me to hear that the option to pay cash isn't offered anymore. Means without a bank account you can't survive in the US anymore. I'm no a conspiracy theory troll but for a country that loves his 2nd Amendment "to face any possible tyranny from a government" you really should let that sink in.
It is ingrained into the people. You can‘t even rent a place without a good credit score. So if you use cash only and never had a cent of debt in your life you are screwed anyway.
In the UK, and France, what you call a blanket we would call a "duvet" (pronounced doovay). To us a blanket is an old style army issue type wool thing like people traditionally had for hundreds of years. Some people also call a duvet a "continental quilt". In the UK they can be filled with feathers or with synthetic material.
Ha you’re totally right. I use the word blanket as an umbrella term but what I showed here were both duvets. I think I will do a video just on bed differences and that will be covered :)
here in Austria, what you called a blanket is called Steppdecke. a duvet is basically a huge bag filled with down - you sleep like in a cloud of cosy warmth and softness. a blanket (Decke) is what you see in the old Cowboy movies when they sleep beside the fire.
In Germany wh also have those deodorant sticks...
And it becomes more and more common to walk around in sweat pants/ leggings/ sports wear, escpecially among younger people.
To have 2 mattresses does make sense: e.g. when the two ppl have different weight and so need either a harder or softer mattress. Or if one person moves a lot during sleep the other person won't be bothered so much by it because you don't feel it so much with two unconnected mattresses. 2 blankets: if you want to roll yourself in it's way better.
But I love the rectangular pillows (we also have those but most of them are sold as "side sleepers pillow").
The thing is as in the US many stores dont accept Cash and just Cards and in Germany there are many, many stores that dont accept cards and just cash that's why many germans use cash
Now that you mention it, you're right. We would never buy ice cream at an ice cream shop or Döner with a card
@@SirNikurasu jea If we would pay with Card they couldent Steak taxes
Maybe others don't care if I wear sweatpants, but I care. I would never go out in sweatpants, actually I don't even own sweatpants, just pajama pants. It's just that I feel slouchy when wearing sweatpants and that dampens my mood. So I will always get fully dressed when going out, because I feel fresh and happy that way.
Since you don't own sweatpants, you'll simply have to wear your pajama pants when you run errands.
guess so
Mojo Jim I don't even own pajama pants. Now what?
@@Hans-gb4mv Then you're condemned to never leave your house. If you did so, you'd be arrested for indecent expose. (Although I'm not sure there's a law against that in Germany.) You'll have to rely on your family and friends to shop for you. Maybe you can tell one of them to buy you a pair of pajamas.
"kilometer away"
And liter bottles of carbonated water.... 😀 The metric system gets all of you!
@YTViewer we do have both. for example, i ran track in high school and all of our races were based on meters and we have 2 liter or 1 liter bottles of drinks for sale in our stores. it's just nowhere near as commonly used as our system.
In germany it is illegal not accepting cash if you sell something. And thats good, because you have better control over the money you're spending if its in cash.
Paying with cards enables the bank to create money from nowhere. Also the NSA can retrace what you do.
How should a bank be able to create money from nowhere? That's rubbish. If your bank account is empty you either are not able to pay or you're falling in debt. You can not pay more than you own.
@@VerrueckteKatzenLadie Banks do actually create money from thin air. Look up the term fractional-reserve banking.
@@VerrueckteKatzenLadie Creating money out of nothing is *exactly* what banks do. In German it's called Buchgeld or Giralgeld, one English term is scriptural money.
@@VerrueckteKatzenLadie If you ask a bank for credit the bank creates bank money. It will be deleted if you balance your account. But the interests you payed for the "non existing money" is the banks asset. And as long as the banks credit sum will increase they make additional profit.
Rica F - Yes, banks create money by lending it into existence.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/18/truth-money-iou-bank-of-england-austerity
In Europe there are a lot of places where they only accept cash. In Hungary there are even places where they don't accept Euro either. Some tourists don't like it, but cashiers have a reason for it. Once there was a case, when a foreign woman tried to buy a ticket on the tram in Budapest, which costs 450 Forints (about 1.30 €), with a 500 euro bill.
who the hell carries around a 500 euro bill??
Average people don't pay with it. It is used by people, who keep their money at home instead of a bank account. It is also popular among criminals, who use 500 bills for their illegal businesses.
When EURO is not the legal tender in the country what is so strange about them not accepting foreign money?
@@Octopussyist Because Hungary is part of the EU, and Euro is accepted im many places, especially Budapest and other bigger cities, where there are many foreign tourists, but nobody is obliged to accept it. The other reason is that some people don't know the difference between Europe, the EU and the Eurozone and they believe, that all of Europe uses Euro.
“Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.”
― Karl Lagerfeld
1 That is a HUGE Topic. consider the money you can buy in Disneyland or the chips you get in a casino. they both serve the same purpose. When you carry "toy money" (or a plastic card) you aren't that focused on what you spend anymore. Also everything you spend with a card is traceable. after all payback and similar cards are invented for just that purpose and every cent paid with a credit card is noted in a database. also keep in mind we germans have experienced the third reich and not even that long ago the ddr. we know how collected data can be abused better than anyone outside of china. 2 the deo thing is really only a habit. not a german habit mind you, people differ a lot on that. 3 thats a reasonable habit. think about like this: if youre wearing a suit, people instantly treat you diffrent. of course they do, you appear diffrent... now switch that to sweatpans while youre not going for sports. also its right, people are to close-minded about it in germany 6 i never realized that, but its true.