Why do you think there are (tremendously) more alcohol related car accident deaths in the USA compared to Germany? Do you think the alcohol culture is different? Is driving not as important in the USA as it is in Germany? Is one country more responsible than the other?
Public transport. If you get drunk in the US, most of times you have very limited options to get home. If you get drunk in Germany, most of the times, you can find some kind of public transport.
yes, yes and yes. i have now 2 adult children and of course both were very courious about alcohol at a certain point of age. i have alays the mindset that if something is absolutely forbidden for kids they will do it in secret without any control about what they are doing. so each of my child got the possibility to have a party with friends and controlled alcohol consume at a very early age (between 13 and 14). both party were absolut brilliant (from what my eyes could see ^^ i do not go in details but it was funny). so my kids (for the friends we got the permission from their parents also) learned both sides of alcohol. at first a very good time ending up with many tears because hormons got out of control ^^^and so on. and of course the next day was a very good experience for them too. from this point alcohol was never a topic again andf both (also their friends) doing very well. and i am sure i am not the only one that is doing this or similiar things to educate kids about real life. its cultural complete different. to question 2 see the second yes. nothing more to say. for question three see my answer to question one. also nothing more to say. keep up the good work. greetings
I think 1. public transportation is way better here so there's no need to drive 2. the sense of community is stronger here and people care more about everyone's well-being. That's why people don't drink and drive so often or even take the car keys of a drunk person to keep them and the people around them safe.
Possibly as often discussed amongst my circle: we Germans are allowed to drink before we're allowed to drive and drivers education is also hammering in that driving under influence of anything is NOT a good idea. Older generations still come up with the "just one beer", but we're nagging our elders to not even drink that anymore.
I think it is also the limit. You can have up to 0.5‰ here. So you can ahve a beer or wine. Withe 0.0‰ you are screwed after the first one. mybe people think, I am under Influence by law anyway. So I can have also one or two more. And the better public transport, walkable cities and better preparation for the driving license.
I remember as a teenager hanging out at our local pub in the podunk Hessian Hinterland there was this American girl completely freaking out about there being no 'designated driver' in our group. It took a while to explain the concept, which was outrageously hilarious to us. It took even longer to explain to *her* that _not a single person_ got to the pub via _any_ motorvehicle.
@@sandralison7584 Public transportation, at night, in a rural area -- sure! In a different parallel universe people simply don't drink so much that they can't ride a bicycle any more...
@@Rdlprmpf12 in the city or in a village, yes, you can walk home or take a bus or train. Or sleep at a friend’s house. In a rural area you can book a taxi, assign a designated driver, or yes, ride a bike. (Although technically, you’re not allowed to ride a bike after a few drinks either).
@@Peacefrogg I live in germany in a small village. We had a "Party bus" that drove Disco to Disco through every small village from 21-6 o' lock. It was so good. Today the Service is no more.
I *really* appreciate Article 1 of the German Law: Human dignity is inviolable. It helps *a lot* when it comes to many kinds of bs. Also, on the topic of empathy, I've been pondering about the two party system of the US quite a lot. If you grow up in a society the splits basically everything into two teams, everything that's not like you must be "the enemy" (or at least an opponent). In Germany there are currently 6 (+1) political parties in the parliament, and there have been many for a long time. I think the concept leaves the society more open to discussion in general, because you will mostly find a few topics you agree with in parties you don't 100% align with (if the state of aligning 100% with any of them ever existed). In the US you must pick between two, and if you want one thing very much, you attach yourself to that team. Now you must agree with everything in that team (otherwise feel or be treated like a traitor?) and disagree with everything that comes from the other team, even though you may not actually. Because there's more to the world than red and blue. I see that innate mindset as a potential reason to hold back feelings and also to be less open to discussion in general. And you don't even need to "be political", it's just how all your surroundings function, with this constant "us and them". Just a thought.
In Denmark also we have many political parties, and none are big enough to rule alone. It means the politicians have to negociate, cooperate and compromise every day. I believe it makes them better people 😉 If your party pisses you of, you just vote a step to the side, you don't have to change to a complete different ideologi. It keeps the politicians on their toes, that we are easily "unfaithful"
I was kind of expecting and very much hoping for your last point! This is just what I experienced in the US. As a German I was quite shocked how relatively common extremely right winged positions and symbols were....
- Meat: perhaps it's a "quality instead of quantity" thing in Germany? - Alcohol: the whole different drinking culture - and perhaps the smaller distances. If I drink more at a bar than I planned, perhaps I can go home on foot or take a taxi, because it's not dozens of miles away. And even if people drive drunk - the shorter the distance, the lower the probability of accidents.
I find a problem with many assessments of "how often do you eat meat?" is that this does not at all quantify the amount of meat eaten. Still, this is often a preferred method of asking about meat consumption. Like, I do eat meat often. But not much. If I eat a slice of sausage on bread, that's meat. If I eat a portion of a dish containing meat that's meat too. If I eat an entire roast of beef with no sides, that's meat as well.
Yeah I was having a hard time finding something that encompassed everything because to me those are very different things. Granted it’s still eating meat but like you said if I eat a huge steak or eat a small slice of ham on a roll…. It is quite different
As an example for a German I can tell you. In a normal week. I eat in between 500g and 1000g of meat. If i include everything. I would think that I eat a little less meat than the average German, but as fas as I know there are no exact numbers. I don't know how this compares to the US, but in my imagination the average American eats at least 2 KG of meat every week. 😂
I gues the most reliable data would be the sales numbers. It is well known how much meat is produced and some market chains might even publish the amount of writeoff for certain products. Take that and you have at least the sales numbers.
Judging by expat RUclipsrs I have to say: America has sent its best people like you, the McFalls, OnwardMJ, the Black Forest Family, Our Story to tell, Passport -two- three, Nalf, Tray Daze and so on. Keep them coming, America!
Yes! I’ve always said I like the friendliness of Americans but when I was home recently for a vacation, I was buying flour and the cashier told me an entire story about how she doesn’t like touching flour and that she made cookies for her boyfriend and the recipe was for like 6 dozen cookies and on and on and on……OMG. Too much 🤦🏼♀️
Great video ❤️ As for your last point, I think it’s important to point out that neo nazis are very alive and kicking in Germany, always have been to various extents. As literally all liberal democracies, Germany faced some devastating influx of right wingers the past few years, from a right wing populist party sitting in our fucking parliament to multiple white supremacy motivated mass shootings. However, I absolutely get what you mean, not like that point was not valid, but to all my fellow Germans here: We have no reason to be smug, we still have to stand up to fascism, be active participants in our democracy and 👏 support 👏 our 👏 minorities. Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.
Through my CompuServe membership in the 90s I got in contact with a support person who had a German sounding nsmez in turn he introduced me to his father who was married to a german wife whom he met after WW II here in Germany. He was involved in the german Airlift back then. He came to visit Germany shortly after for some Airlift memorial meeting in Berlin and then Frankfurt, where we met in person. He asked me to take him around to places he remembered being, which I happily did. He was taking it all in like a sponge, and many times he was shaking his head and a look of admiration, to which he said "look at that - and that's ALL been achieved by people who were trading cigarettes for money!". He had a very vivid image of the devastation that he had seen in 1945 and after.
Regarding alcohol related accidents, I also want to mention our public transport system! Especially in bigger cities you can use them to go anywhere. In addition to that there are taxis. Even if public transport stopped at some point at night, you can take a taxi that one way back. Also, smaller or mid sized cities are quite bike friendly and you can easily make these distances on a bike. Only in rural areas alcohol related accidents are high, were people literally go from small villages to another village or the next big city to party.
For the alcohol thing, i also noticed that people who start to drink at young age, like me and quite some friends for who it was normal already with 15 to make "Buddel Parties", where it was normal that everybody just brought a bottle of hard stuff to the party, were with 18+ already more or less finished with that exessive drinking and so when they made their drivers license with 18 they mostly didn't drove under alcohol. On the other side some friends who had their first contact with alcohol when they were already older seemed to totally freak out then, while i already had that all behind me. Sounds maybe strange 😄but thats how i experienced it. But i'm 58 meanwhile, not sure how it is today.
It was similar for me, we started early and either gave up drinking more than a beer or two (and have a designated driver, who only drank non-alcoholic drinks the whole night) - that was the majority - or fell down the rabbit hole and became alcoholics (one in a hundred or more) when we turned 18 and started driving or finished school at 19. Im a little over 40 by the way.
I think it has more to do with a culture of responsibility than the drinking age itself. Drinking and driving is considered a huge mistake by most people in north-west europe. Just like drinking or smoking while pregnant. And you will get called out by friends and barkeepers and have your keys taken away.
It all depends on the group of people you hang out with, if youre a drinker in general, and your experiences. My brother was in a fraternity party and they drank excessively. This was a regret my brother had for some reason. The #1 rule in his fraternity was ABSOLUTELY NO ONE drove or walked alone drunk. They either had a designated driver(if driving) or a designated walker (I know this sounds funny, but drunk people are hit by cars, walk into the wrong apartment and get shot, or just curl up in a nice field and die from exposure if it was to cold or hot). If you didn't have a designated person you slept wherever you were partying. If you didn't abide by this rule you were kicked out of the fraternity. No ifs ands or buts. No second chances. One of my brothers fraternity brothers had to come and pick up a friend and I from a bar. My parents were gone in Europe, my brother was working, and my friends dad was a jackass and never allow her to a bar with me because I was to drunk to drive and needed him to get out of bed and drive us home. The fraternity brother tried to make a point with me, but failed. He tried to make the point of if he wasn't able to pick me up what would I do. Let's just say I came up with a good answer. This never drink and drive came from our highschool. A week before every dance we had the school had the fire department bring a horriblely mangled car to the field by the students parking lot. Everytime we drove in and out of school we saw the car. When I was 16 to 18 the fire department did a reenactment of a highschooler drinking and driving. Of course the "highschooler" always died. It was full on acting. There was realistic looking head injuries among other things. We then saw the pain that was brought upon the highschoolers family and friends. By the end of the reenactment all of us real students were crying (this included the guys). Just writing this and thinking about the reenactment makes me cry. Teens drinking and driving has dropped around 55% since 1991 (this is a 2012 statistic. It's probably more like 60 plus percent nowadays). If you form a pact with your parents (the parent will NEVER EVER get angry if their child calls their parents to pick them up because they are to drunk to drive). My parents had the pact with my brother and I if we were to drunk to drive they would come pick us up without being mad. This pact was valid from ages 13 to 35. I called my parents on more than 1 occasion drunk. Me being to drunk to drive generally happened under 21. Just because the law says 21 to drink doesn't mean kids or adults abide by the law. A friend of mine would have a keg party at the end of the school year when we were in highschool (you are between the ages of 14 to 18). My friends parents would call every single person attending the party parents to make sure it was ok for their child to drink, buy the keg, and take away everyone's car keys and put them in a safe until the next day (the kid attending the party could have their parents pick them up).
@@jessicaely2521 wow, that reenactment’s just too much. Ok, make sure you get the message across, but do it without traumatising children! The pact with parents is very sane. Keg parties are a bad idea at any age, and i would keep my kid from going as long as i could. Getting drunk kills the brain, especially if you’re still in school. But i am aware that we are not our children’s owners, but their guides, and honesty means more to me then enforcing rules. Still 14 is too young to get drunk.
@@Peacefrogg you don't have to get drunk to drink. This is the issue with people. Having 2-3 drinks isn't going to get you drunk if you pace yourself, but if you're under 21 and have 0.01% of alcohol on your breath will get you and whoever gave you the alcohol into trouble. It's better to have a few drinks at a trusted friend's house.
About the relation between "warm and cold" in the relation to people, it also is different in regions. In my region Westphalia there is the saying that you need to have consumed a barrel of salt before getting close to people. I feel that Americans are friendly and open at the outside, Germans are more reluctant and distant. But as soon as you get more acquainted to a person the relationship becomes closer and warmer. In Germany an invitation means invitation, while I felt that invitations in the US were often just a friendly phrase. Anyway, I have a lot of friends in the US and in Germany.
Showing Nazi Symbols in the US openly always get me stunned. To praise an Ideology their grandfathers fought against (and to our luck, destroyed it) and a lot of them gave their lives for our freedom, always wants to make me scream. This Ideology is so against the Idea of freedom and democracy as it ever could possibly be. And I always thought about that shining example of democracy which is calling themself the greatest Nation of all. Well, looking over the ocean at the moment, it's all in shambles as it seems.......
A lot of them really believes the US isn't a democracy, because they can't bear the thought of that word resembling the Democrats... To their minds, the US is only a republic... Their education failing to point out that they're actually both...
Yeah but they didn't fight against it. Not a single US soldier was in Europe to defeat an ideology. They were there because Hitler declared war on them and they were fighting Germany, the nation, not the Nazis. Furthermore the US hardly had a problem with the ideology of Nazism, seeing as they copied or self developed it before during and after the war and implemented it transparently. And no, not a single US soldier gave his life for your freedom from Nazism. So bringing up dead soldiers is a ridiculous and moot point when complaining about Nazism in the US
I agree with you on that 100%! I feel sick and scared when I see the Nazi symbols used openly in the US. And that they justify the use of these symbols by calling it their "freedom" to do so is just mindblowing in the worst possible way.
Thats the point. Their grandfather's didn't fight the Nazi's. The grandfather's believed in Hitlers ideology. I had people I knew that were skinheads (Nazi's) and their grandfather's didn't fight in the war. They wished the US eliminated anyone who didn't have blonde hair, blue eyes, and Christians.
We got freedom in the US… unlike Germany… to our detriment? Yes. But it’s freedom nonetheless. To do as you please, even deny the Holocaust. Try doing it in Germany and see how fast you get ticketed or even jailed. #Americalandofthefreetoourdetriment
I grew up in rural Germany, with grandparents who slaughtered two pigs every year, kept chickens and rabbits and also got a half cattle twice a year, as well as venison of a boar or a deer. They ate a lot more meat than I do. But never the amounts that are assumed for us Germans. From my memory I can construct a typical daily or weekly menu in my grandparents house. A typical sunday breakfast was wheat bread, BUTTER, jam and a boiled egg. For lunch there was beef or chicken bouillon with dumplings or egg custard, roast - one slice for women and children, one and a half for men, potatoes or dumplings, vegetables, e.g. red cabbage, cauliflower, and compote for dessert. In the evening a snack with home-made sausage or cheese. Breakfast stayed the same all week: a slice of rye bread (one and a half for the men) with MARGARINE (butter only sundays) and jam, plus hot milk with a sip of coffee in it. Dinner also stayed the same the whole week: a slice of rye bread, with quark or sour milk and a very tiny piece of home-made sausage, plus radishes or other raw vegetables from the garden. For lunch on Mondays they had the leftovers from Sunday, most time the roast was cut up into small pieces and the sauce was diluted a bit, they ate it with Spaetzle. Tuesdays there was always egg omlett with bacon or potato pancakes or a Schalet, originally a jewish dish. They had pastry on Wednesdays, Pancakes or dumplings filled with fruits or vegetables. Thursday cooked chicken or meat stew with potatoes or mashed potatoes. Fish on Fridays with the leftover potatoes - fried - of the week. Saturday they ha lentil or bean or vegatble Eintopf (stew), in which sausages (beef or pork) floated, a large for the adult men and a small one for the children and women. This plan repeated itself from week to week. Most of the meat and sausages were used at family celebrations, at birthdays, or at Christmas and Easter. They weren't stingy, but during the week they were very economical with sausage and meat. My parents still stick to the plan to a large extent, but today they eat industrial cold cuts and no longer home-made sausages. Of course, as a tourist in Germany you eat a lot of meat, but the Germans at home don't. I even live vegan most of the time, although I'm not vegan.
I grew up on a german farm and it was very similar as you described the food. I remembered that my mother was very angry when the best sausage (the red sausage) ate only the aunts and uncles with my cousins who visited on sundays my grandparents. And they stayed on every sunday evening! We had to eat the other not so good one (like bloodsausage etc) the whole week. And yes, the best pieces of a pig were cooked only on celebrations days. We cooked Schalet, too.😀 And often they cooked potatoes, vegetables and baked a slice of old sausages, when they tasted not so good anymore. And they avoid to buy things in the grocery store, which were not necessary.
I'm a 61year old English man and had a very similar upbringing. Very frugal with meat, potatoes, dumpling to fill up. In some homes men were served first. Oh and lots of offal.
good video! It may be counter intuitive but I am learning so much about the US from your videos. I actually had no idea about the US or my knowledge was very limited. But hearing you comparing the two countries I am realising it is so different than I thought. I was aware it changed for the worse in last maybe 10 years or so, and I am aware of the political division and all of that, but little details like eating from paper plates is something I had no idea about. So many things like that are eye opening and hopefully if I ever visit the US, I will be a little less shocked.
Americans drink to get drunk ... period. Germans drink mostly because of liking the taste, experiencing the hundreds of different tastes we have here. It is about enjoying a drink, a cocktail, and maybe a shot, but drinking in the USA is mostly about blasting yourself to the netherworld. And there is such a perfect network of public transportation in germany that a lot of ppl who had a beer to many use that to get home. I for instance live in Frankfurt and never even take a car when I got out. I've got the subway 5min from where I live and it is like 6 stops from downtown where everything happens....
Well you can thank the British and American Air Forces for your great transportation system because they bombed it flat 80 years ago and less I forgot the Russian army did a lot of that stuff to p.s. you're welcome
I enjoy these. Please keep them coming. I lived in England for a year and have traveled to many other countries and continents, bringing my children and my husband with me. We need to talk more about these countries history instead of focusing on the devastation, like japan, we know from ww2 and internment camps, but the great strides they have taken since then in rebuilding their country is big. And the more you know, the less scary other societies become. I’m grateful for the age of the internet to show us a slice of life from other places. Thank you for sharing about Germany. Its on my list as I’ve only been to see Berlin and the wall. Which is a wonderful monument to the German people who showcased their art to make something beautiful out of something terrible. Keep them coming please. - hugs. Jen
I think I may have a good book recommendation for you - actually 2: 1. Hannah Arendt - Eichmann in Jerusalem: Ein Bericht von der Banalität des Bösen ...about the trial of Joseph Eichmann who was "just a little cogwheel" in the whole system of the 3rd Reich. Basically saying: he was not some big evil but a simple minded person with practically no backbone. Which doesn't mean they can't do any harm. Quite the opposite. A narrative we often use: Evil has to be big to better explain why we haven't gotten rid of it, yet, to glorify our attempts and pat ourselves on the back. Basically the mother of all conspiracy theories. You should be able to find an 11h audio book on youtube: Hannah Arendt - Eichmann in Jerusalem Audiobook 2. Alexander und Margarete Mitscherlich - Die Unfähigkeit zu trauern ...about people in the 3rd Reich and shortly after, education and upbringing, why people enjoy being strict. It goes into a similar direction. only from a perspective of a psychotherapist instead of a political theorist that Hannah Arendt was.
Yes, yes, yes! I live in Iran and I'm American (not Persian). Iran has absolutely huge problems. No one can deny that. Although I'd say the same in about the US. In school, what did we learn about Iran? Cyrus, Darius, wars with Greece and Rome, Zoroaster, Islamic Revolution, Embassy Crisis, Iranian Arms scandal Reagan was almost impeached for... done. What was I never taught? How the UK and US exploited Iranian Oil, and kept installing governments that would let them do so. How Iran had a secular, democratically elected government under Mossadegh whom the CIA and MI6 toppled in a coup... because he didn't want the West to keep exploiting Iranian Oil. How Khomeini was allowed to stay in France, and the BBC printed everything he said. How the Carter administration discouraged the army from plotting a coup against Khomeini. How communists, pro-democracy activists, mujahideen, and Islamists fought the Shah. How Khomeini essentially tricked the people with lies, and avoided another revolution because Saddam attacked Iran and united the people. How the West, especially the US backed Saddam. How we exported dual use technologies to Saddam and the Germans built infrastructure for the chemical weapons used on Iranian troops. We didn't care because they were Iranian. They were later used by Saddam on Iraqi Kurt's and we started to pay attention. Oh, and then our military shot down an Iranina passenger airplane. I could keep going. But what we learned in school was so much like the old Westerns... white hat and black hat... that most of us graduate with such a limited understanding of *why* these things happened and what it means now.
I'm here 'cause to like to understand the different views. My wife was american. I'm also into cooking and music. And once had a question about a song, sung in a foreign language.(Faroese) And recieved a friendly answer. from a guy naming himself "Texas Republic". And shudderd. 'Cause I know what this stands for. Any idea, anyone? Beeing german and into cookig, I use to say: "making sausage is the fine art of spicing." So: please (in the US as well as in Germany): give your local butcher a try! We will certainly miss these specialists, once they're all gone. Pls support your local specialists! And they need us customers more than ever, these days.
I know it from my family, for example, when we drove to a party by car, my dad never drank, not a drop of alcohol. Later, when my brother also had a driver's license, they talked to each other about who drove the car and who can drink some alcohol. Both of them hardly drink any alcohol now. It is important to offer people alternatives, which means a good connection with public transport. Sad enough, but unfortunately you don't have to leave the US to find Nazis and other far-right and racist groups. There is a lot of documentation on right-wing extremist and nationalist groups in the USA, also with connections to Russia, for example. For a long time, it was very difficult in Germany to come to terms with the Nazi era. Courageous people had to fight against a lot of resistance from politics, business, administration and the judiciary in order to start a rethinking and a reappraisal.
I still remember a comment i read on RUclips maybe 1 year ago where somebody said about the american parties : The democrats are maybe right to Mussolini and the republicans are right to Hitler.
Ich kann den Podcast Denkangebot, Folge mit Annika Brockschmidt zum Thema Rechte und fundamentale Christen in den USA sehr empfehlen. (Schreibe auf Deutsch, weil der Podcast auf Deutsch ist.)
They shouldn't ban books like "Diary of Anne Frank", books about critical race theory and all the other books. E.g. if german children can read Anne Frank, Americans should be able too, to read this book. Pretty frightening what's happenig right now in Gringolandia.
The thing is they go overboard on reading some stories. I read the Diary of Anne Frank 15 times. I used to have 1/4 of the book memorized. Kids shouldn't be reading the books at home alone. I remember we read a book called Night. It was a true story based on a Jewish father and son in Auschwitz and Buchenwald Concentration Camp. We read the book as a class. Our English teacher talked about what went on and answered any questions. She basically helped us through the difficult material. We even met Elie Wiesel (the writer of Night and Day). Fast forward to 10 years later and the kids were expected to read Night by themselves. My cousin had the read the book by himself and I was shocked. My cousin is 10 years younger than me.
I've been having a tough time lately but your voice and the way you calmly expresed yourself was so nice. thank you! Also content is also interesting as im a brit in germany. I've never really experienced outright racism but often felt the foreigner treatment and its tiring to soul but on the most part, germans can be kind and loyal
I sometimes think that one factor for the angriness of Americans is that employees are generally treated worse than in Germany, that the much more for-profit healthcare screws people over, and on top at the same time be expected to smile all the time, at least in customer interactions. And then this can lead to bottled up anger that then erupts from time to time.
we do "not see" them but they are here. I live in a very culturally diverse part of Hannover and stuff shows up from time to time. Nearby was some graffiti that simply said "Hate Nazis" and someone came and painted over the "hate" with "Love". It was fixed relatively quickly lol
I agree 100%... I think anywhere has to have Nazis (or a form of what we would consider Nazi- racist, xenophobic, hateful, prejudiced, nationalists, etc) but this was mostly for the stereotype that a few Americans (it isn't as few as some might think) have regarding Nazis being present in Germany. You can not escape racism, nationalism, superiority complexes, social injustices, inequalities etc etc BUT in Germany you can surely bet you won't be met face to face with a Nazi waving a flag & denying the Holocaust (which has become more popular in the USA recently).
@@HayleyAlexis yeah for sure! I also have a pretty strong feeling that a lot of Americans believe that germans are still nazis. With the way that they look down at socialism while obviously knowing nothing about it. I had one person say it to me years ago so I am sure many share the idea.
@@HayleyAlexis Not just as a stereotype a friend of mine did an exchange year during the Trump presidency (dont remember which year exactly) and her high school history teacher straight up told them the Hitler Family (and implied Hitler himself) where alive and rolling in huge celebrity and leadership roles over here, ... . Apperently we're also hiding a 2nd Germany somewhere because a few weeks later they had Merkel and her great achievments + economic success in class as then chancellor of Germany ...... . It was Idaho and her guest mum was the local president of the quite large Trump fanclub but still that teacher had to have gone to a collage somewhen in the last 50 years. *she was Austrian which also lead to confusion for every person in that high school. Theyd only ever heard of Australia (which again implies great history lessons) , the questions about kangooros got trying quickly so she rebranded herself as the German.
13:30 It does make a lot of sense And sometimes we need to ramble along to evem get to such conclusions I totally agree on your thoughts and it's important to try and keep a balance between reflection and moving on
The difference is IMHO that we start drinking at 16 and driving at 18, thats one reason you might not get to see to many people driving around wasted + people puking at the streets we normally get used to our limits before we get 18.Plus the drink drive limit is 0.5 promille so half a german beer and thats it (5 Vol% not that American piss water with 2 Vol%.)
The part about the "How are you" question was genuinely funny. I could see that so well in front of me. Yeah Germans and Americans really lack the social interface on that question.
I spent about a year living in the States in the early noughties (2000s). At that time (and from what I heard, still ongoing) many of the landline calls were companies cold-calling (trying to sell you stuff). One woman I talked to had the perfect solution. The calls always began, "How are you today Ma'am (or Sir)" and before they could start their next line, she'd answer, "Well thank you for asking, let me tell you.." and follow it up with a 10 - 15 minute spiel on her aches and pains, traumas and joys. After a few of these, she stopped receiving ANY of these annoying phone calls...
Re the alcohol issue - I think the issue is far larger than the US. I think it is an Anglo Saxon, Pietist/Presbyterian attitude to alcohol. I'm Irish and for centuries, the English, especially English Protestants have stereotyped the Irish as Alcoholics, yet the reality is that the Highest percentage of Total Abstainers in the Western World is in Ireland. Just behind us are the UK. Many UK traits made their way across the Atlantic and are prevalent in US Society. Consider this - Almost ninety years after the repeal of the Prohibition, there are still many DRY Counties in the US - there are NONE in Germany. In many areas of Germany, Pubs (Beer Keller) are common and numerous; even in non-Dry Counties in the US, outside the Central, main cities, Pubs/Bars can be quite rare. In general, in Germany, I found that drinking alcohol is NEVER considered "shameful", while in large areas of the US it is. So, I suspect that this leads not to lees drinking but to greater efforts to both Hide the Drinking and to Binge Drinking whenever the opportunity arises. Also, while Germany has a well developed and serviced Public Transport system, much of the US does not. There the automobile is king. How are young (and not so young) US residents to get to and from the places they might be drinking?
OK - First thing here - Germany has Sausages - Ireland has Sausages. The "Links" served as part of US Breakfasts - I don't care what you call them, but they are NOT Sausages - cardboard and sawdust, maybe but NOT sausages. Secondly, Hayley really needs to experience an Irish Breakfast - Sausages, Back Rashers, Black and White pudding and Fried Eggs - so much protein and Fat, your arteries give up before you even take your first bite!
I would eat everything in an Irish breakfast EXCEPT for that horrible black pudding stuff... I am sorry (it probably taste good) BUT I can NOT get over the way it looks
Hayley - I would LOVE to see you do a serious video about the upcoming energy crisis threat that is descending upon Europe, Germany in particular. My partner is German (he's over there right now) and we both will be coming there in December. So I have been paying a LOT of attention to this right now. - It's a very important issue that is going to effect millions and it would be nice to see someone who is there, talk about what is being said about it there, what people are thinking about it there, what people are doing to prepare, do they think it will be as bad as media is making it out to be, etc. - Just an idea. Thanks!
The idea that Germans eat meat/sausage on a daily basis maybe originate from the fact that in many families it has been a tradition to eat only cold cuts in the evening, the "Brotzeit" or "Vesper" as it is called in Southern Germany. Sausages like in "hot dogs" were mostly limited to festivals or bbq, but are still considered a snack, which is why you see them literally everywhere, but not as a full meal. Meat on the other hand was long time considered something precious, be it in rural areas where you did farming yourself or in general after the War. There has been the tradition of the so-called "Sonntagsbraten", a piece of meat only served on Sunday or special occasions.
The sad part about 30% of car accidents being alcohol related is they are the 2nd most common cause of death for children in the US. Puts things in perspective.
German kids could drink beer or wine at the age of 14 in a restaurant or pub in case their parents are present. At the age of 16 you can order wine or beer without parents (Jugendschutzgesetz). At 18 you know how much it affects your skills to ride a bike after several beers. In the US you may have 5 years of driving experience before you're allowed to drink a beer. I don't think this is the main cause for this big difference. I think it's the completely different culture how alcohol is consumed most parts of Europa. It's rare to see someone drunken in public in Germany. It's even more rare in the south like France, Spain or Italy to see drunken locals. You see a lot of drunken Brits there. - You may check the figures for the UK - I think, we drink far more often alcohol but not so much. Therefor there is not a big need to do something special at a party and drink alcohol. I can drink another day and drive home safe.
Maybe Germany should have invested more into PR in the last 50 years. I mean look at Japan, they've arguably done far less "Vergangenheitsbewältigung" and yet people wouldn't warn a Florida girl about possible death squads in Tokio.
...Ok... this comment... it made me laugh out loud... Oh my. Germany really does need to invest in some good international PR... or maybe that is Germany's plan to stop people from coming over... Just let them think what they want and call it a day.
driver license in USA ~25$ + ??? driver license in GER ~ 2000€ + mpu 450€ (mpu= medical-psychological examination) it's too expensive to drink and drive
1. I love meat and sausages, but in recent years my attitude towards food changed. Due to health and the environment I reduced it to about 3 times a week. 2. When I was young almost none of the people my age drank and drove. There was an incident where a friend went home from a party, came of the road, hit another car, killed himself, the mother and two kids. Only the father survived. He was not drunk, he drove to fast in winter. That alone was horrible enough. 3. Yeah, I'm a coconut, too ... 4. In 46 years (geez luise) I had one incident with "Nazis". They could have been just hooligans posing, I don't know. They chased us for a couple of blocks. Luckily nothing more happened.
Hayley, guck mal: Die komplette Familie meines Vaters musste 1942 aus Ostpreussen (1.540 ha Fläche!) nach Westdeutschland fliehen. Die Familie meiner Mutter (Opa war Lehrer) wurde aus dem Ruhrgebiet zum Starnberger See „deportiert“. Du siehst: Jede Familie hat ihre eigene Geschichte. Heute leben wir alle deutschlandquer und in Namibia👍
1. as a vegetarian I always question why people combine meat with other meat it doesn't make sense to me, it is about the same as combining pasta with rice (in my perception) and I know there are people out there too and I am just like ???????????????? 2. never witnessed anything like this but everytime I and my friends drank we were either going home with the public transport or were just drinking at home 3. honestly I forgot what this point was about I just saw a comment saying they were a coconut so yeah true 4. yep it is pretty much not legal here to display Nazi symbols, not that it is never gonna happen but that car wouldn't survive a day on german streets
Pigs only really sweat through the end of their nose, they have very few sweat glands on their bodies. Hence their liking for cool shady places, and a mud wallow if it's very hot weather. "Sweating like a pig" is a reference to the iron and steel industry. Molten "Pig Iron" when cooled suffiently reaches its "dew point" and becomes covered in condensation. Hence the old saying ....
I don't know if you noticed it but the text in the beginning of the video says: "what I expected to get in Germany but got in Germany" instead of "but got in the USA". - just mentioning it because it surprised me. :)
Granted the extreme right here in Germany is often more subtile than in the US but those flags you showed in those pictures really shocked me. I wasn't aware that they are THAT blunt. I also didn't know that there is a lot more Alcohol related accident deaths in the US. But that explains the weird looks you get from some people in the US (and the UK as well) when you eat dinner and not drink any kind of alcohol.
I know as am English schoolboy mentality. I learnt one thing about that moment in history . I have always wanted to know how the ' otjernside taught their history' ,
With the drunk driving accidents it probably doesn't help that in America most of the time you can't walk or take public transportation after you drink.
To the last point: what would probably also be good to learn about is Operation Paperclip, ie the time the US mass hired nazi scientists and relocated them to the US.
Visited Germany and Austria a lot, we eat as many sausages in the U.K., some the same, our own are a bit different. Also Europeans in her real are more used to alcohol at an earlier age so are more used to it.
Well actually ther is not "the German" in terms of mentality. I originated in Hamburg and am now living 20 km east of munic (for more then half of my live by now). It was a huge culture shock moving south. And whenever i get back to the north i get that "reverse culture shock". Also my ex-GF originated in the "Ruhrpott" so I got much of the western mentality. Long story short: Whenever you move 100-200 km the average people are totally different in Germany. And in my opinion bavaria is not exactly the best place if you like open minded and friendly people. There are also HUGE (so huge i have to write it in capital letters) differences in Humor. For Example: Self-sarcasm is one of the key elements of northern german humor. In Bavaria the main key element is cracking jokes about other people. )You allready noticed it: Your awkward experience with the beer-cola order "joke" (I am sure he found it amusing) my first thought: Yeah, typical bavarian. But as always: It just gives you a general direction. People are still individuals.
I went to school in the 70's/80's and I doubt this has changed much since then in the American educational system. The only thing we were really taught in school about other countries was maybe some slight demographic info and the rest was very stereotypical information about countries. I can remember having "world culture week" and instead of use focusing on modern things, we were made to dress in very stereotypical dress for each country and bring a dish of food that is made per country. We really learned nothing of modern society there. - I would venture to guess that even today, the mass majority of American's couldn't tell you much about other countries. And it's because as American's we are brought up to focus on US, and not the world at large.
That's not even so incredibly different from other large countries. Unfortunately, with the US there that bit where they also indoctrinate you to believe that the US is the best (most democratic, free, non-racist) country in the world...
I, mean, the question "are there Nazis in Germany" is fulfilled, when there's one Nazi in all of Germany (or 2, since we're talking in the plural). And I can find you that many Nazis in Germany, but I ca probably do that with every country on earth. So, the question is wrong, it gets you no where. Also, about the alcohol issue. When you go drinking in Germany, you will most likely take public transportation. Higher numbers of alcohol related car accidents in the USA might also suggest, that this is not as much of an option in the USA.
You can find nazis in Germany or any place in the world but the pure ignorant display of “nazi memorabilia” in Germany is not acceptable (illegal) and is taken very seriously. In the USA people don’t treat it with the same seriousness.
germany is the country of wonderful salads and potatoes (lol) its always mindboggling to me when i drive to other countries how crazy enormous their meat and cheese consumption is
12:43 Oh, yeah. That's embarrassing. I mean, first, the pervasive display of Old Glory is puzzling. People treat that as if it demonstrates patriotism, showing people which country they're in. _"I know what my_ flag _looks like! I'm_ proud _of that!"_ But second, what's going on in the upper right corner, there? The car flying that southern flag is also displaying "Coexist" bumper stickers. What's _that_ about?
Are you serious? No Nazis in Germany because the NSDAP does not exist anymore? There are of course a lot of Nazis, fascists, extreme right whatever you can call them in Germany. Only because the old organisation does not exist does not mean that people with that ideology does not exist anymore.
Not so sure. I worked in Germany in the 1980's and a work colleague, about 25-30 years old, was a committed nazi and was very anti-immigrant. He and his friends even celebrated Hitlers birthday. However, an older colleague told me that this man was regarded as an unusual extremist and to be reassured that no one else at the office thought like him.
Hey! I'd love some clarification on dog ownership in Germany. I have a 100-lb service dog that would be coming with me and need some help understanding what I find on the internet is real and what is garbage. Do I need a license or permit? What about moving into a flat? What about taking him out to potty several times a day without being rude to anyone?
Yes, you need a permit and the permission of your landlord. I would strongly advise you to look up the rules of the city you are moving to(some have specific rules about certain dog breeds). About the dog poo, you have to pick it up religiously. I hope I don’t have to say it but just to be safe, don’t go on playgrounds to walk your dog. I hope I could help you :)
Unfortunatly there is still no unified regulation for Europe and even in Germany it might differ from state to state. It shouldn't be difficult for licensed service dogs but might be more difficult for so called "emotional support animals". To be safe just mail your questions about your dog and destination to the German Embassy. They should be able to help you.
@@ZeckeGegenRechts I order 1000 poop bags at a time and never, ever leave any on the ground! I'm a responsible and polite dog owner. :) Rhodesian Ridgebacks aren't listed as "dangerous" or "banned" on any German list I could ever find. Good point though. He is a service dog, and if I plan to use him as one in Germany then we'll need additional papers as a working dog. I don't know where I would be moving yet, and I hope I can get the help of my future employer or an organization to help me find a place where he would be welcome. He doesn't bark or make noise even though he's 45 kg. He really is a landlord's dream.
@@peteralthoff6920 I totally didn't think about the embassy/consulate! Thank you for that!! He is a true, working for-real service dog and not for emotional support.
Your dog must be chipped and have EU-compatible vaccination documentation with a recent (not older than 1 year) vaccination against rabies. That is the bare minimum. Your dog has to be registered with the city administration as all dogs are under taxation. The dog tax is a local tax and can be from 40 Euro for the first dog (the second or more dogs are often double or triple the amount) to over 1000 Euro per year for breeds that are considered dangerous (Kampfhunde - "fighting dogs"). Which breeds are in the category differs from state to state. In my state of Rhineland-Palatinate only bulldogs, Staffordshire terriers and Amstaffs (or mixed dogs with these breeds) are considered dangerous. My Rottweiler wasn't, but there are states that consider Rottweilers dangerous. Rhodesian ridgebacks may fall into the category but idk for sure. When your dog is a recognized service dog (for the blind or people with disabilities) or a working dog (a dog that only exists to e.g. guard a perimeter) it can be exempt from dog tax. You should consider a dog liability insurance (100-200 Euros per year) as dogs are not included in private liability insurance (pli is the one insurance you should have in Germany and it's not too expensive with 150-300 Euros a year). When your dog is considered a dangerous breed (in Lower Saxony ALL dogs) the city administration may want a Sachkundenachweis (proof that you're knowledgable). They also may impose a policy to keep the dog on a leash and/or wear a muzzle at all times in public (which everywhere but your apartment) Renting: permission is up to the discretion of your landlord. If you don't disclose your dog, it may lead to a sudden termination of contract. Tenants are very protected in Germany (I know because I'm a landlord). You have to either insult or physically attack your landlord or not pay rent for several months that the landlord has the right to terminate the contract, but not disclosing a dog is high up on the list of termination causes that the courts grant. And yes, always clean up after your dog or you might get scolded by passers-by.
Yes, Americans are nice --how are you & sorry here & sorry there... And then on Twitter you see a brawl with 20 people at some MacD because someone had to wait too long for their burger or somebody else got the last portion of Chicken McNuggets... And on the Black Friday...
Germans have more public transportation. Thats the reason you have less drunk driving accident's. Because they can use the public transportation instead of driving
🧐 "Onion" is kind of an _odd_ choice for a metaphor. Your acquaintance with cooking has, no doubt, at some point, had you dice an onion, and brought you into first-hand acquaintance with the way the gases that come from an onion as you dice it can make you _cry._ Yes, they have layers, but they also bring tears to your eyes. And it's not because onions are necessarily sad. It's because the gases they emit irritate the eyes. So what's the metaphorical significance you're trying to emphasize when you compare Germans to onions? This metaphor is like an onion.
Are there more alcohol induced accidents in the USA because more people drive there than use public transportation or a taxi, etc.? It seems from your experience that Germans are rather interested in psychology.
Germany: first beer at 12, first drive at 18 (after hard and expensive driving education), no guns at all. - USA: first drive at 16 (automatic car and no education at all), first gun at 18, first beer at 21. Find the mistake.
Seems to me you used your channel at first to deal with those awkward questions. Today however, is seems to deal with the opposite, almost as if the objective to keep the American part alive. But hey, that is just the Dutch guy giving an opinion. Nothing personalised to a particular person.
@@arnodobler1096 Good question. Before waking up, I'd have said Germany well FRG, but when I listen to those things and on other channel one could think the US;-), but I think both might be the right answer.
@@Matthias_Br For the civilian population, these were certainly hard years, even after the war. My parents were born in the years 23 and 30. To compare that with 33-45 is nonsense: millions of dead soldiers, dead people who thought differently, believed differently, were different? Also the years during and after WW1 were incredibly hard: people froze to death and starved to death. Hyperinflation due to immense reparations and world economic crisis. Billions of Reichsmarks for bread and butter. After the currency reform in 1948, almost everything was available again. In GB everything was still rationed and only available through ration cards, until the 50s. So I do not know what you mean? "The darkest era started after '45" 🤔
Greetings Hayley, great RUclips channel ! Can you talk about the extremely high taxes in Germany a bit ? 45-50% to be exact. I was planning on moving back to Germany when I retire; however, my standard of living here in the US is very acceptable especially my health care: I am retired military and my annual healthcare cost is $680.00 that's it with very low co-pays. My expected retirement pay should be around 80K US dollars, that puts me in a 22% tax bracket thanks to the Trump tax cuts ! I cannot fathom paying 45-50% tax as a pensioner in Germany. No one really likes paying high taxes and especially now in Europe with the Ukraine debacle and the energy stranglehold Putin has on Europe. I have a German friend who lives with his family in the Schwartzwald and times are really tuff. What are your thoughts and anyone else feel free to chime in as I really want to relocate in a couple years as America self implodes.
I can not tell you how much it would be for someone retiring/pensioner. That is not something I have looked into if I am being completely honest but I am pretty sure you would not have to pay 45% taxes as a retired individual (I could be very wrong)... You can't just come to Germany at the end of your life and expect to live off of the system (granted you are making/earning a decent amount of money but you have never contributed to the system) which will most likely be a big hurdle for you trying to retire here. I try to be as honest as I possibly can be but I personally think if you make 80,000 in the USA as a pensioner and only get taxed 22%... it would be smarter to move into a smaller town, purchase a home, and be happy/content. You seem to be happy in the USA so why not stay?
Thanks for the speedy response and everything I have read unfortunately tells me that I would have to pay much higher taxes. I loved my time in Germany from 1983-1991 living in the Rhineland Pfalz area. If you happen to come across any Expats or German pensioners maybe you can inquire ? Pass auf dich auf Tschuss 🥸
Tony C., I believe you would not be double-taxed for your income in Germany, as you pay/paid taxes on it in the US. You would be expected to get health insurance (Private, not public), and possibly Care insurance (that pays for care homes in case you need it later). An income like yours would probably allow a comfortable life in Germany, even with insurances.
When it comes to sausages, you also have to consider that many Germans also eat sausages for breakfast. Because in addition to the usual fried or boiled sausages, there are sausages much more regularly in the form of cold cuts. These include various flavored meat sausages, salami, blood and liver sausages, mettwurst, etc. So yes, many, not all, Germans eat sausage in various forms almost every day.
What? I do not know any German that eats Sausages for breakfast. I just now Germans who eat cold pizza in the morning after they drank a lot 😂 oh and Cold Cuts are not any kind of Sausage 🤔 I think Sausage is just the Bratwurst vom Grill 🙃
@@maxw2974 er meint wahrscheinlich Aufschnitt , Mortadella, Salami und die gute Leberwurst. Bei uns war immer, erste Scheibe Wurst oder Käse und 2 dann mit Marmelade oder Honig. N..Tella war zu teuer für uns.
if and that is a big IF the American educational system was a bit more thorough,people would learn that Germany is not all Hitler and Nazi.In Germany where i grew up and was educated.in the 1950's-1980's,we had it ramed down our throats that we were inferior people and everything in America was so much better.To Hollywood Nazis,Charles Manson,the Temple of Jim Jones etc are sexy,so they will always be pushed into the public,there bwill always be new Hollywood films about the 3rd Reich,usually with some super star actor exclaiming at the end 'we saved the world's ass'...
And we are still fighting the fight against nazionalism and I think the fight will never end , becourse in my opinion this fight begins with the fight against rasicim and ends in Nazi if we loose
Hi Hayley, I'm glad you started this today because watching a lot of YT videos by political opinion channels and news channels I have always wondered about the massive amount of Karens ( and Kevins)in the US. What is it with these people that makes them feel so entitled and aggressive ? If a whole nation has a collective name for a certain kind of person there must be something strange going on. And if you don't want to answer my question I demand speaking to the manager !!!🤯 As to Nazis you are lucky not to live in Saxonia or somewhere around there. I'm sure you would have met a few there by now.
I've lived in Saxony for a year and not met one "nazi". Most people were okay. Some assholes as everywhere, but very few I met. And their dialect is very sexy.
Why do you think there are (tremendously) more alcohol related car accident deaths in the USA compared to Germany? Do you think the alcohol culture is different? Is driving not as important in the USA as it is in Germany? Is one country more responsible than the other?
Public transport. If you get drunk in the US, most of times you have very limited options to get home. If you get drunk in Germany, most of the times, you can find some kind of public transport.
yes, yes and yes. i have now 2 adult children and of course both were very courious about alcohol at a certain point of age. i have alays the mindset that if something is absolutely forbidden for kids they will do it in secret without any control about what they are doing. so each of my child got the possibility to have a party with friends and controlled alcohol consume at a very early age (between 13 and 14). both party were absolut brilliant (from what my eyes could see ^^ i do not go in details but it was funny). so my kids (for the friends we got the permission from their parents also) learned both sides of alcohol. at first a very good time ending up with many tears because hormons got out of control ^^^and so on. and of course the next day was a very good experience for them too. from this point alcohol was never a topic again andf both (also their friends) doing very well. and i am sure i am not the only one that is doing this or similiar things to educate kids about real life. its cultural complete different. to question 2 see the second yes. nothing more to say.
for question three see my answer to question one. also nothing more to say.
keep up the good work.
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I think 1. public transportation is way better here so there's no need to drive 2. the sense of community is stronger here and people care more about everyone's well-being. That's why people don't drink and drive so often or even take the car keys of a drunk person to keep them and the people around them safe.
Possibly as often discussed amongst my circle: we Germans are allowed to drink before we're allowed to drive and drivers education is also hammering in that driving under influence of anything is NOT a good idea. Older generations still come up with the "just one beer", but we're nagging our elders to not even drink that anymore.
I think it is also the limit.
You can have up to 0.5‰ here. So you can ahve a beer or wine.
Withe 0.0‰ you are screwed after the first one.
mybe people think, I am under Influence by law anyway. So I can have also one or two more.
And the better public transport, walkable cities and better preparation for the driving license.
I remember as a teenager hanging out at our local pub in the podunk Hessian Hinterland there was this American girl completely freaking out about there being no 'designated driver' in our group.
It took a while to explain the concept, which was outrageously hilarious to us. It took even longer to explain to *her* that _not a single person_ got to the pub via _any_ motorvehicle.
Public transportation is the key
@@sandralison7584 Well, we had very public feet.
@@sandralison7584 Public transportation, at night, in a rural area -- sure!
In a different parallel universe people simply don't drink so much that they can't ride a bicycle any more...
@@Rdlprmpf12 in the city or in a village, yes, you can walk home or take a bus or train. Or sleep at a friend’s house. In a rural area you can book a taxi, assign a designated driver, or yes, ride a bike. (Although technically, you’re not allowed to ride a bike after a few drinks either).
@@Peacefrogg I live in germany in a small village. We had a "Party bus" that drove Disco to Disco through every small village from 21-6 o' lock. It was so good. Today the Service is no more.
I *really* appreciate Article 1 of the German Law: Human dignity is inviolable. It helps *a lot* when it comes to many kinds of bs.
Also, on the topic of empathy, I've been pondering about the two party system of the US quite a lot. If you grow up in a society the splits basically everything into two teams, everything that's not like you must be "the enemy" (or at least an opponent). In Germany there are currently 6 (+1) political parties in the parliament, and there have been many for a long time. I think the concept leaves the society more open to discussion in general, because you will mostly find a few topics you agree with in parties you don't 100% align with (if the state of aligning 100% with any of them ever existed). In the US you must pick between two, and if you want one thing very much, you attach yourself to that team. Now you must agree with everything in that team (otherwise feel or be treated like a traitor?) and disagree with everything that comes from the other team, even though you may not actually. Because there's more to the world than red and blue. I see that innate mindset as a potential reason to hold back feelings and also to be less open to discussion in general. And you don't even need to "be political", it's just how all your surroundings function, with this constant "us and them". Just a thought.
Good point!
I totally agree,..
Will use that line of reasoning in future. 😎
In Denmark also we have many political parties, and none are big enough to rule alone. It means the politicians have to negociate, cooperate and compromise every day. I believe it makes them better people 😉
If your party pisses you of, you just vote a step to the side, you don't have to change to a complete different ideologi. It keeps the politicians on their toes, that we are easily "unfaithful"
I was kind of expecting and very much hoping for your last point! This is just what I experienced in the US. As a German I was quite shocked how relatively common extremely right winged positions and symbols were....
It honestly depends on where you are in the USA but they are quite common to see... it is very strange to me
- Meat: perhaps it's a "quality instead of quantity" thing in Germany?
- Alcohol: the whole different drinking culture - and perhaps the smaller distances. If I drink more at a bar than I planned, perhaps I can go home on foot or take a taxi, because it's not dozens of miles away. And even if people drive drunk - the shorter the distance, the lower the probability of accidents.
I find a problem with many assessments of "how often do you eat meat?" is that this does not at all quantify the amount of meat eaten.
Still, this is often a preferred method of asking about meat consumption.
Like, I do eat meat often. But not much. If I eat a slice of sausage on bread, that's meat. If I eat a portion of a dish containing meat that's meat too. If I eat an entire roast of beef with no sides, that's meat as well.
Yeah I was having a hard time finding something that encompassed everything because to me those are very different things. Granted it’s still eating meat but like you said if I eat a huge steak or eat a small slice of ham on a roll…. It is quite different
As an example for a German I can tell you. In a normal week. I eat in between 500g and 1000g of meat. If i include everything. I would think that I eat a little less meat than the average German, but as fas as I know there are no exact numbers. I don't know how this compares to the US, but in my imagination the average American eats at least 2 KG of meat every week. 😂
I gues the most reliable data would be the sales numbers. It is well known how much meat is produced and some market chains might even publish the amount of writeoff for certain products. Take that and you have at least the sales numbers.
Judging by expat RUclipsrs I have to say: America has sent its best people like you, the McFalls, OnwardMJ, the Black Forest Family, Our Story to tell, Passport -two- three, Nalf, Tray Daze and so on. Keep them coming, America!
I'm doing my best to come over, too. I just hope I'm considered one of the good ones as well!
@@GlenHunt Only way we'll know is to start a youtube channel. Best of luck!
@@K__a__M__I Out of curiosity, is that the Japanese "kami? your name is referring to?
@@GlenHunt It's best to learn German now because our grammar is a bit more complicated and please come visit me in Dortmund
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Yes! I’ve always said I like the friendliness of Americans but when I was home recently for a vacation, I was buying flour and the cashier told me an entire story about how she doesn’t like touching flour and that she made cookies for her boyfriend and the recipe was for like 6 dozen cookies and on and on and on……OMG. Too much 🤦🏼♀️
Great video ❤️
As for your last point, I think it’s important to point out that neo nazis are very alive and kicking in Germany, always have been to various extents. As literally all liberal democracies, Germany faced some devastating influx of right wingers the past few years, from a right wing populist party sitting in our fucking parliament to multiple white supremacy motivated mass shootings. However, I absolutely get what you mean, not like that point was not valid, but to all my fellow Germans here: We have no reason to be smug, we still have to stand up to fascism, be active participants in our democracy and 👏 support 👏 our 👏 minorities.
Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.
Yes, and it's the biggest threat for our society!
Through my CompuServe membership in the 90s I got in contact with a support person who had a German sounding nsmez in turn he introduced me to his father who was married to a german wife whom he met after WW II here in Germany. He was involved in the german Airlift back then.
He came to visit Germany shortly after for some Airlift memorial meeting in Berlin and then Frankfurt, where we met in person. He asked me to take him around to places he remembered being, which I happily did.
He was taking it all in like a sponge, and many times he was shaking his head and a look of admiration, to which he said "look at that - and that's ALL been achieved by people who were trading cigarettes for money!". He had a very vivid image of the devastation that he had seen in 1945 and after.
Regarding alcohol related accidents, I also want to mention our public transport system! Especially in bigger cities you can use them to go anywhere. In addition to that there are taxis. Even if public transport stopped at some point at night, you can take a taxi that one way back. Also, smaller or mid sized cities are quite bike friendly and you can easily make these distances on a bike. Only in rural areas alcohol related accidents are high, were people literally go from small villages to another village or the next big city to party.
For the alcohol thing, i also noticed that people who start to drink at young age, like me and quite some friends for who it was normal already with 15 to make "Buddel Parties", where it was normal that everybody just brought a bottle of hard stuff to the party, were with 18+ already more or less finished with that exessive drinking and so when they made their drivers license with 18 they mostly didn't drove under alcohol. On the other side some friends who had their first contact with alcohol when they were already older seemed to totally freak out then, while i already had that all behind me.
Sounds maybe strange 😄but thats how i experienced it. But i'm 58 meanwhile, not sure how it is today.
It was similar for me, we started early and either gave up drinking more than a beer or two (and have a designated driver, who only drank non-alcoholic drinks the whole night) - that was the majority - or fell down the rabbit hole and became alcoholics (one in a hundred or more) when we turned 18 and started driving or finished school at 19.
Im a little over 40 by the way.
I think it has more to do with a culture of responsibility than the drinking age itself.
Drinking and driving is considered a huge mistake by most people in north-west europe. Just like drinking or smoking while pregnant. And you will get called out by friends and barkeepers and have your keys taken away.
It all depends on the group of people you hang out with, if youre a drinker in general, and your experiences. My brother was in a fraternity party and they drank excessively. This was a regret my brother had for some reason. The #1 rule in his fraternity was ABSOLUTELY NO ONE drove or walked alone drunk. They either had a designated driver(if driving) or a designated walker (I know this sounds funny, but drunk people are hit by cars, walk into the wrong apartment and get shot, or just curl up in a nice field and die from exposure if it was to cold or hot). If you didn't have a designated person you slept wherever you were partying. If you didn't abide by this rule you were kicked out of the fraternity. No ifs ands or buts. No second chances. One of my brothers fraternity brothers had to come and pick up a friend and I from a bar. My parents were gone in Europe, my brother was working, and my friends dad was a jackass and never allow her to a bar with me because I was to drunk to drive and needed him to get out of bed and drive us home. The fraternity brother tried to make a point with me, but failed. He tried to make the point of if he wasn't able to pick me up what would I do. Let's just say I came up with a good answer.
This never drink and drive came from our highschool. A week before every dance we had the school had the fire department bring a horriblely mangled car to the field by the students parking lot. Everytime we drove in and out of school we saw the car. When I was 16 to 18 the fire department did a reenactment of a highschooler drinking and driving. Of course the "highschooler" always died. It was full on acting. There was realistic looking head injuries among other things. We then saw the pain that was brought upon the highschoolers family and friends. By the end of the reenactment all of us real students were crying (this included the guys). Just writing this and thinking about the reenactment makes me cry.
Teens drinking and driving has dropped around 55% since 1991 (this is a 2012 statistic. It's probably more like 60 plus percent nowadays). If you form a pact with your parents (the parent will NEVER EVER get angry if their child calls their parents to pick them up because they are to drunk to drive). My parents had the pact with my brother and I if we were to drunk to drive they would come pick us up without being mad. This pact was valid from ages 13 to 35. I called my parents on more than 1 occasion drunk. Me being to drunk to drive generally happened under 21. Just because the law says 21 to drink doesn't mean kids or adults abide by the law. A friend of mine would have a keg party at the end of the school year when we were in highschool (you are between the ages of 14 to 18). My friends parents would call every single person attending the party parents to make sure it was ok for their child to drink, buy the keg, and take away everyone's car keys and put them in a safe until the next day (the kid attending the party could have their parents pick them up).
@@jessicaely2521 wow, that reenactment’s just too much. Ok, make sure you get the message across, but do it without traumatising children!
The pact with parents is very sane. Keg parties are a bad idea at any age, and i would keep my kid from going as long as i could. Getting drunk kills the brain, especially if you’re still in school. But i am aware that we are not our children’s owners, but their guides, and honesty means more to me then enforcing rules. Still 14 is too young to get drunk.
@@Peacefrogg you don't have to get drunk to drink. This is the issue with people. Having 2-3 drinks isn't going to get you drunk if you pace yourself, but if you're under 21 and have 0.01% of alcohol on your breath will get you and whoever gave you the alcohol into trouble. It's better to have a few drinks at a trusted friend's house.
About the relation between "warm and cold" in the relation to people, it also is different in regions. In my region Westphalia there is the saying that you need to have consumed a barrel of salt before getting close to people. I feel that Americans are friendly and open at the outside, Germans are more reluctant and distant. But as soon as you get more acquainted to a person the relationship becomes closer and warmer. In Germany an invitation means invitation, while I felt that invitations in the US were often just a friendly phrase. Anyway, I have a lot of friends in the US and in Germany.
Showing Nazi Symbols in the US openly always get me stunned. To praise an Ideology their grandfathers fought against (and to our luck, destroyed it) and a lot of them gave their lives for our freedom, always wants to make me scream. This Ideology is so against the Idea of freedom and democracy as it ever could possibly be. And I always thought about that shining example of democracy which is calling themself the greatest Nation of all. Well, looking over the ocean at the moment, it's all in shambles as it seems.......
A lot of them really believes the US isn't a democracy, because they can't bear the thought of that word resembling the Democrats...
To their minds, the US is only a republic...
Their education failing to point out that they're actually both...
Yeah but they didn't fight against it. Not a single US soldier was in Europe to defeat an ideology. They were there because Hitler declared war on them and they were fighting Germany, the nation, not the Nazis. Furthermore the US hardly had a problem with the ideology of Nazism, seeing as they copied or self developed it before during and after the war and implemented it transparently. And no, not a single US soldier gave his life for your freedom from Nazism. So bringing up dead soldiers is a ridiculous and moot point when complaining about Nazism in the US
I agree with you on that 100%! I feel sick and scared when I see the Nazi symbols used openly in the US. And that they justify the use of these symbols by calling it their "freedom" to do so is just mindblowing in the worst possible way.
Thats the point. Their grandfather's didn't fight the Nazi's. The grandfather's believed in Hitlers ideology. I had people I knew that were skinheads (Nazi's) and their grandfather's didn't fight in the war. They wished the US eliminated anyone who didn't have blonde hair, blue eyes, and Christians.
We got freedom in the US… unlike Germany… to our detriment? Yes. But it’s freedom nonetheless. To do as you please, even deny the Holocaust. Try doing it in Germany and see how fast you get ticketed or even jailed. #Americalandofthefreetoourdetriment
I grew up in rural Germany, with grandparents who slaughtered two pigs every year, kept chickens and rabbits and also got a half cattle twice a year, as well as venison of a boar or a deer.
They ate a lot more meat than I do. But never the amounts that are assumed for us Germans.
From my memory I can construct a typical daily or weekly menu in my grandparents house.
A typical sunday breakfast was wheat bread, BUTTER, jam and a boiled egg.
For lunch there was beef or chicken bouillon with dumplings or egg custard, roast - one slice for women and children, one and a half for men, potatoes or dumplings, vegetables, e.g. red cabbage, cauliflower, and compote for dessert.
In the evening a snack with home-made sausage or cheese.
Breakfast stayed the same all week: a slice of rye bread (one and a half for the men) with MARGARINE (butter only sundays) and jam, plus hot milk with a sip of coffee in it.
Dinner also stayed the same the whole week: a slice of rye bread, with quark or sour milk and a very tiny piece of home-made sausage, plus radishes or other raw vegetables from the garden.
For lunch on Mondays they had the leftovers from Sunday, most time the roast was cut up into small pieces and the sauce was diluted a bit, they ate it with Spaetzle.
Tuesdays there was always egg omlett with bacon or potato pancakes or a Schalet, originally a jewish dish.
They had pastry on Wednesdays, Pancakes or dumplings filled with fruits or vegetables.
Thursday cooked chicken or meat stew with potatoes or mashed potatoes.
Fish on Fridays with the leftover potatoes - fried - of the week.
Saturday they ha lentil or bean or vegatble Eintopf (stew), in which sausages (beef or pork) floated, a large for the adult men and a small one for the children and women.
This plan repeated itself from week to week.
Most of the meat and sausages were used at family celebrations, at birthdays, or at Christmas and Easter. They weren't stingy, but during the week they were very economical with sausage and meat.
My parents still stick to the plan to a large extent, but today they eat industrial cold cuts and no longer home-made sausages.
Of course, as a tourist in Germany you eat a lot of meat, but the Germans at home don't. I even live vegan most of the time, although I'm not vegan.
I grew up on a german farm and it was very similar as you described the food. I remembered that my mother was very angry when the best sausage (the red sausage) ate only the aunts and uncles with my cousins who visited on sundays my grandparents. And they stayed on every sunday evening! We had to eat the other not so good one (like bloodsausage etc) the whole week. And yes, the best pieces of a pig were cooked only on celebrations days. We cooked Schalet, too.😀 And often they cooked potatoes, vegetables and baked a slice of old sausages, when they tasted not so good anymore. And they avoid to buy things in the grocery store, which were not necessary.
I'm a 61year old English man and had a very similar upbringing. Very frugal with meat, potatoes, dumpling to fill up. In some homes men were served first. Oh and lots of offal.
good video! It may be counter intuitive but I am learning so much about the US from your videos. I actually had no idea about the US or my knowledge was very limited. But hearing you comparing the two countries I am realising it is so different than I thought. I was aware it changed for the worse in last maybe 10 years or so, and I am aware of the political division and all of that, but little details like eating from paper plates is something I had no idea about. So many things like that are eye opening and hopefully if I ever visit the US, I will be a little less shocked.
Americans drink to get drunk ... period. Germans drink mostly because of liking the taste, experiencing the hundreds of different tastes we have here. It is about enjoying a drink, a cocktail, and maybe a shot, but drinking in the USA is mostly about blasting yourself to the netherworld.
And there is such a perfect network of public transportation in germany that a lot of ppl who had a beer to many use that to get home. I for instance live in Frankfurt and never even take a car when I got out. I've got the subway 5min from where I live and it is like 6 stops from downtown where everything happens....
Besides the fact that what we drink for the taste is already a guaranteed hospital visit for an American.
Well you can thank the British and American Air Forces for your great transportation system because they bombed it flat 80 years ago and less I forgot the Russian army did a lot of that stuff to p.s. you're welcome
I enjoy these. Please keep them coming. I lived in England for a year and have traveled to many other countries and continents, bringing my children and my husband with me. We need to talk more about these countries history instead of focusing on the devastation, like japan, we know from ww2 and internment camps, but the great strides they have taken since then in rebuilding their country is big. And the more you know, the less scary other societies become. I’m grateful for the age of the internet to show us a slice of life from other places. Thank you for sharing about Germany. Its on my list as I’ve only been to see Berlin and the wall. Which is a wonderful monument to the German people who showcased their art to make something beautiful out of something terrible. Keep them coming please. - hugs. Jen
I think I may have a good book recommendation for you - actually 2:
1. Hannah Arendt - Eichmann in Jerusalem: Ein Bericht von der Banalität des Bösen
...about the trial of Joseph Eichmann who was "just a little cogwheel" in the whole system of the 3rd Reich. Basically saying: he was not some big evil but a simple minded person with practically no backbone. Which doesn't mean they can't do any harm. Quite the opposite. A narrative we often use: Evil has to be big to better explain why we haven't gotten rid of it, yet, to glorify our attempts and pat ourselves on the back. Basically the mother of all conspiracy theories.
You should be able to find an 11h audio book on youtube: Hannah Arendt - Eichmann in Jerusalem Audiobook
2. Alexander und Margarete Mitscherlich - Die Unfähigkeit zu trauern
...about people in the 3rd Reich and shortly after, education and upbringing, why people enjoy being strict. It goes into a similar direction. only from a perspective of a psychotherapist instead of a political theorist that Hannah Arendt was.
Yes, yes, yes! I live in Iran and I'm American (not Persian). Iran has absolutely huge problems. No one can deny that. Although I'd say the same in about the US. In school, what did we learn about Iran? Cyrus, Darius, wars with Greece and Rome, Zoroaster, Islamic Revolution, Embassy Crisis, Iranian Arms scandal Reagan was almost impeached for... done. What was I never taught? How the UK and US exploited Iranian Oil, and kept installing governments that would let them do so. How Iran had a secular, democratically elected government under Mossadegh whom the CIA and MI6 toppled in a coup... because he didn't want the West to keep exploiting Iranian Oil. How Khomeini was allowed to stay in France, and the BBC printed everything he said. How the Carter administration discouraged the army from plotting a coup against Khomeini. How communists, pro-democracy activists, mujahideen, and Islamists fought the Shah. How Khomeini essentially tricked the people with lies, and avoided another revolution because Saddam attacked Iran and united the people. How the West, especially the US backed Saddam. How we exported dual use technologies to Saddam and the Germans built infrastructure for the chemical weapons used on Iranian troops. We didn't care because they were Iranian. They were later used by Saddam on Iraqi Kurt's and we started to pay attention. Oh, and then our military shot down an Iranina passenger airplane. I could keep going. But what we learned in school was so much like the old Westerns... white hat and black hat... that most of us graduate with such a limited understanding of *why* these things happened and what it means now.
Wow, didn't expect this, you are a great ambassador for germany, but I somehow know where you're coming from. I lived 1999 to 2007 in OK
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I'm here 'cause to like to understand the different views. My wife was american. I'm also into cooking and music.
And once had a question about a song, sung in a foreign language.(Faroese) And recieved a friendly answer. from a guy
naming himself "Texas Republic". And shudderd. 'Cause I know what this stands for.
Any idea, anyone?
Beeing german and into cookig, I use to say: "making sausage is the fine art of spicing." So: please (in the US as well as in Germany): give your local butcher a try! We will certainly miss these specialists, once they're all gone.
Pls support your local specialists! And they need us customers more than ever, these days.
I know it from my family, for example, when we drove to a party by car, my dad never drank, not a drop of alcohol. Later, when my brother also had a driver's license, they talked to each other about who drove the car and who can drink some alcohol. Both of them hardly drink any alcohol now. It is important to offer people alternatives, which means a good connection with public transport.
Sad enough, but unfortunately you don't have to leave the US to find Nazis and other far-right and racist groups.
There is a lot of documentation on right-wing extremist and nationalist groups in the USA, also with connections to Russia, for example.
For a long time, it was very difficult in Germany to come to terms with the Nazi era.
Courageous people had to fight against a lot of resistance from politics, business, administration and the judiciary in order to start a rethinking and a reappraisal.
I still remember a comment i read on RUclips maybe 1 year ago where somebody said about the american parties :
The democrats are maybe right to Mussolini and the republicans are right to Hitler.
Ich kann den Podcast Denkangebot, Folge mit Annika Brockschmidt zum Thema Rechte und fundamentale Christen in den USA sehr empfehlen. (Schreibe auf Deutsch, weil der Podcast auf Deutsch ist.)
They shouldn't ban books like "Diary of Anne Frank", books about critical race theory and all the other books. E.g. if german children can read Anne Frank, Americans should be able too, to read this book. Pretty frightening what's happenig right now in Gringolandia.
The thing is they go overboard on reading some stories. I read the Diary of Anne Frank 15 times. I used to have 1/4 of the book memorized.
Kids shouldn't be reading the books at home alone. I remember we read a book called Night. It was a true story based on a Jewish father and son in Auschwitz and Buchenwald Concentration Camp. We read the book as a class. Our English teacher talked about what went on and answered any questions. She basically helped us through the difficult material. We even met Elie Wiesel (the writer of Night and Day). Fast forward to 10 years later and the kids were expected to read Night by themselves. My cousin had the read the book by himself and I was shocked. My cousin is 10 years younger than me.
I've been having a tough time lately but your voice and the way you calmly expresed yourself was so nice. thank you! Also content is also interesting as im a brit in germany. I've never really experienced outright racism but often felt the foreigner treatment and its tiring to soul but on the most part, germans can be kind and loyal
Onions lmao I can’t hahaha. Love the video. Learned a lot. Thanks (also for the kind words) 🙏
I sometimes think that one factor for the angriness of Americans is that employees are generally treated worse than in Germany, that the much more for-profit healthcare screws people over, and on top at the same time be expected to smile all the time, at least in customer interactions. And then this can lead to bottled up anger that then erupts from time to time.
we do "not see" them but they are here. I live in a very culturally diverse part of Hannover and stuff shows up from time to time. Nearby was some graffiti that simply said "Hate Nazis" and someone came and painted over the "hate" with "Love". It was fixed relatively quickly lol
I agree 100%... I think anywhere has to have Nazis (or a form of what we would consider Nazi- racist, xenophobic, hateful, prejudiced, nationalists, etc)
but this was mostly for the stereotype that a few Americans (it isn't as few as some might think) have regarding Nazis being present in Germany.
You can not escape racism, nationalism, superiority complexes, social injustices, inequalities etc etc BUT in Germany you can surely bet you won't be met face to face with a Nazi waving a flag & denying the Holocaust (which has become more popular in the USA recently).
@@HayleyAlexis yeah for sure! I also have a pretty strong feeling that a lot of Americans believe that germans are still nazis. With the way that they look down at socialism while obviously knowing nothing about it. I had one person say it to me years ago so I am sure many share the idea.
@@HayleyAlexis Not just as a stereotype a friend of mine did an exchange year during the Trump presidency (dont remember which year exactly) and her high school history teacher straight up told them the Hitler Family (and implied Hitler himself) where alive and rolling in huge celebrity and leadership roles over here, ... . Apperently we're also hiding a 2nd Germany somewhere because a few weeks later they had Merkel and her great achievments + economic success in class as then chancellor of Germany ...... .
It was Idaho and her guest mum was the local president of the quite large Trump fanclub but still that teacher had to have gone to a collage somewhen in the last 50 years.
*she was Austrian which also lead to confusion for every person in that high school. Theyd only ever heard of Australia (which again implies great history lessons) , the questions about kangooros got trying quickly so she rebranded herself as the German.
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It does make a lot of sense
And sometimes we need to ramble along to evem get to such conclusions
I totally agree on your thoughts and it's important to try and keep a balance between reflection and moving on
The difference is IMHO that we start drinking at 16 and driving at 18, thats one reason you might not get to see to many people driving around wasted + people puking at the streets we normally get used to our limits before we get 18.Plus the drink drive limit is 0.5 promille so half a german beer and thats it (5 Vol% not that American piss water with 2 Vol%.)
The part about the "How are you" question was genuinely funny. I could see that so well in front of me. Yeah Germans and Americans really lack the social interface on that question.
I spent about a year living in the States in the early noughties (2000s). At that time (and from what I heard, still ongoing) many of the landline calls were companies cold-calling (trying to sell you stuff). One woman I talked to had the perfect solution. The calls always began, "How are you today Ma'am (or Sir)" and before they could start their next line, she'd answer, "Well thank you for asking, let me tell you.." and follow it up with a 10 - 15 minute spiel on her aches and pains, traumas and joys. After a few of these, she stopped receiving ANY of these annoying phone calls...
Re the alcohol issue - I think the issue is far larger than the US. I think it is an Anglo Saxon, Pietist/Presbyterian attitude to alcohol.
I'm Irish and for centuries, the English, especially English Protestants have stereotyped the Irish as Alcoholics, yet the reality is that the Highest percentage of Total Abstainers in the Western World is in Ireland. Just behind us are the UK.
Many UK traits made their way across the Atlantic and are prevalent in US Society. Consider this - Almost ninety years after the repeal of the Prohibition, there are still many DRY Counties in the US - there are NONE in Germany. In many areas of Germany, Pubs (Beer Keller) are common and numerous; even in non-Dry Counties in the US, outside the Central, main cities, Pubs/Bars can be quite rare.
In general, in Germany, I found that drinking alcohol is NEVER considered "shameful", while in large areas of the US it is. So, I suspect that this leads not to lees drinking but to greater efforts to both Hide the Drinking and to Binge Drinking whenever the opportunity arises.
Also, while Germany has a well developed and serviced Public Transport system, much of the US does not. There the automobile is king. How are young (and not so young) US residents to get to and from the places they might be drinking?
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Who also speaks it along with her?☺️
Always a pleasure to watch your videos! :)
Meat/beer lover translates in the US into quantity and in Germany into quality.
OK - First thing here - Germany has Sausages - Ireland has Sausages.
The "Links" served as part of US Breakfasts - I don't care what you call them, but they are NOT Sausages - cardboard and sawdust, maybe but NOT sausages.
Secondly, Hayley really needs to experience an Irish Breakfast - Sausages, Back Rashers, Black and White pudding and Fried Eggs - so much protein and Fat, your arteries give up before you even take your first bite!
I would eat everything in an Irish breakfast EXCEPT for that horrible black pudding stuff... I am sorry (it probably taste good) BUT I can NOT get over the way it looks
Hayley - I would LOVE to see you do a serious video about the upcoming energy crisis threat that is descending upon Europe, Germany in particular. My partner is German (he's over there right now) and we both will be coming there in December. So I have been paying a LOT of attention to this right now. - It's a very important issue that is going to effect millions and it would be nice to see someone who is there, talk about what is being said about it there, what people are thinking about it there, what people are doing to prepare, do they think it will be as bad as media is making it out to be, etc. - Just an idea. Thanks!
The idea that Germans eat meat/sausage on a daily basis maybe originate from the fact that in many families it has been a tradition to eat only cold cuts in the evening, the "Brotzeit" or "Vesper" as it is called in Southern Germany. Sausages like in "hot dogs" were mostly limited to festivals or bbq, but are still considered a snack, which is why you see them literally everywhere, but not as a full meal. Meat on the other hand was long time considered something precious, be it in rural areas where you did farming yourself or in general after the War. There has been the tradition of the so-called "Sonntagsbraten", a piece of meat only served on Sunday or special occasions.
The sad part about 30% of car accidents being alcohol related is they are the 2nd most common cause of death for children in the US. Puts things in perspective.
German kids could drink beer or wine at the age of 14 in a restaurant or pub in case their parents are present. At the age of 16 you can order wine or beer without parents (Jugendschutzgesetz). At 18 you know how much it affects your skills to ride a bike after several beers. In the US you may have 5 years of driving experience before you're allowed to drink a beer. I don't think this is the main cause for this big difference. I think it's the completely different culture how alcohol is consumed most parts of Europa. It's rare to see someone drunken in public in Germany. It's even more rare in the south like France, Spain or Italy to see drunken locals. You see a lot of drunken Brits there. - You may check the figures for the UK - I think, we drink far more often alcohol but not so much. Therefor there is not a big need to do something special at a party and drink alcohol. I can drink another day and drive home safe.
Maybe Germany should have invested more into PR in the last 50 years. I mean look at Japan, they've arguably done far less "Vergangenheitsbewältigung" and yet people wouldn't warn a Florida girl about possible death squads in Tokio.
...Ok... this comment... it made me laugh out loud... Oh my.
Germany really does need to invest in some good international PR... or maybe that is Germany's plan to stop people from coming over... Just let them think what they want and call it a day.
driver license in USA ~25$ + ???
driver license in GER ~ 2000€ + mpu 450€ (mpu= medical-psychological examination)
it's too expensive to drink and drive
1. I love meat and sausages, but in recent years my attitude towards food changed. Due to health and the environment I reduced it to about 3 times a week.
2. When I was young almost none of the people my age drank and drove. There was an incident where a friend went home from a party, came of the road, hit another car, killed himself, the mother and two kids. Only the father survived. He was not drunk, he drove to fast in winter. That alone was horrible enough.
3. Yeah, I'm a coconut, too ...
4. In 46 years (geez luise) I had one incident with "Nazis". They could have been just hooligans posing, I don't know. They chased us for a couple of blocks. Luckily nothing more happened.
Hayley, guck mal:
Die komplette Familie meines Vaters musste 1942 aus Ostpreussen (1.540 ha Fläche!) nach Westdeutschland fliehen.
Die Familie meiner Mutter (Opa war Lehrer) wurde aus dem Ruhrgebiet zum Starnberger See „deportiert“.
Du siehst: Jede Familie hat ihre eigene Geschichte.
Heute leben wir alle deutschlandquer und in Namibia👍
1. as a vegetarian I always question why people combine meat with other meat it doesn't make sense to me, it is about the same as combining pasta with rice (in my perception) and I know there are people out there too and I am just like ????????????????
2. never witnessed anything like this but everytime I and my friends drank we were either going home with the public transport or were just drinking at home
3. honestly I forgot what this point was about I just saw a comment saying they were a coconut so yeah true
4. yep it is pretty much not legal here to display Nazi symbols, not that it is never gonna happen but that car wouldn't survive a day on german streets
Random fact: pigs are barely able to sweat, and it’s never intense sweating.
Wonderful video, again! 🥰
Pigs only really sweat through the end of their nose, they have very few sweat glands on their bodies.
Hence their liking for cool shady places, and a mud wallow if it's very hot weather.
"Sweating like a pig" is a reference to the iron and steel industry. Molten "Pig Iron" when cooled suffiently reaches its "dew point" and becomes covered in condensation.
Hence the old saying ....
I don't know if you noticed it but the text in the beginning of the video says: "what I expected to get in Germany but got in Germany" instead of "but got in the USA". - just mentioning it because it surprised me. :)
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When in Innsbruck I do like Cheese-Krainer with horseradish and mustard, on the lake Zurich it would be veal bratwurst, only after a few beers 😇
Granted the extreme right here in Germany is often more subtile than in the US but those flags you showed in those pictures really shocked me. I wasn't aware that they are THAT blunt. I also didn't know that there is a lot more Alcohol related accident deaths in the US. But that explains the weird looks you get from some people in the US (and the UK as well) when you eat dinner and not drink any kind of alcohol.
Love your channel! You have great topics! 😄
Thank you so much Alicia! I try my best to think of interesting things!!
@@HayleyAlexis Your'e welcome!
I know as am English schoolboy mentality. I learnt one thing about that moment in history . I have always wanted to know how the ' otjernside taught their history' ,
With the drunk driving accidents it probably doesn't help that in America most of the time you can't walk or take public transportation after you drink.
To the last point: what would probably also be good to learn about is Operation Paperclip, ie the time the US mass hired nazi scientists and relocated them to the US.
Visited Germany and Austria a lot, we eat as many sausages in the U.K., some the same, our own are a bit different. Also Europeans in her real are more used to alcohol at an earlier age so are more used to it.
Well actually ther is not "the German" in terms of mentality.
I originated in Hamburg and am now living 20 km east of munic (for more then half of my live by now). It was a huge culture shock moving south. And whenever i get back to the north i get that "reverse culture shock".
Also my ex-GF originated in the "Ruhrpott" so I got much of the western mentality. Long story short: Whenever you move 100-200 km the average people are totally different in Germany. And in my opinion bavaria is not exactly the best place if you like open minded and friendly people.
There are also HUGE (so huge i have to write it in capital letters) differences in Humor.
For Example: Self-sarcasm is one of the key elements of northern german humor. In Bavaria the main key element is cracking jokes about other people. )You allready noticed it: Your awkward experience with the beer-cola order "joke" (I am sure he found it amusing) my first thought: Yeah, typical bavarian. But as always: It just gives you a general direction. People are still individuals.
all valid points - well said 🙂
I went to school in the 70's/80's and I doubt this has changed much since then in the American educational system. The only thing we were really taught in school about other countries was maybe some slight demographic info and the rest was very stereotypical information about countries. I can remember having "world culture week" and instead of use focusing on modern things, we were made to dress in very stereotypical dress for each country and bring a dish of food that is made per country. We really learned nothing of modern society there. - I would venture to guess that even today, the mass majority of American's couldn't tell you much about other countries. And it's because as American's we are brought up to focus on US, and not the world at large.
That's not even so incredibly different from other large countries. Unfortunately, with the US there that bit where they also indoctrinate you to believe that the US is the best (most democratic, free, non-racist) country in the world...
„Girls in Germany can eat some sausages…“ as a man with a German wife and multiple German girlfriends before marriage…. I approve that message 😉
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Hi Hayley! Hope you’re doing well in the heat.
There is a official Na.i Party in Arlington Virginia i think
Thank you Hayley
i had so much discussions with Right Wing Guys, not only on your channel
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I, mean, the question "are there Nazis in Germany" is fulfilled, when there's one Nazi in all of Germany (or 2, since we're talking in the plural). And I can find you that many Nazis in Germany, but I ca probably do that with every country on earth. So, the question is wrong, it gets you no where.
Also, about the alcohol issue. When you go drinking in Germany, you will most likely take public transportation. Higher numbers of alcohol related car accidents in the USA might also suggest, that this is not as much of an option in the USA.
You can find nazis in Germany or any place in the world but the pure ignorant display of “nazi memorabilia” in Germany is not acceptable (illegal) and is taken very seriously. In the USA people don’t treat it with the same seriousness.
germany is the country of wonderful salads
and potatoes (lol)
its always mindboggling to me when i drive to other countries how crazy enormous their meat and cheese consumption is
12:43 Oh, yeah. That's embarrassing. I mean, first, the pervasive display of Old Glory is puzzling. People treat that as if it demonstrates patriotism, showing people which country they're in. _"I know what my_ flag _looks like! I'm_ proud _of that!"_
But second, what's going on in the upper right corner, there? The car flying that southern flag is also displaying "Coexist" bumper stickers. What's _that_ about?
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it also is realy difficult to meet nazis in germany since the NSDAP is forbidden since 1945, so the average living NAZI is about 100 years old
well, yes ... if you define "Nazi" as "Former Party member of the NSDAP"
... but that's surely not the usual meaning when this word is used
Are you serious? No Nazis in Germany because the NSDAP does not exist anymore? There are of course a lot of Nazis, fascists, extreme right whatever you can call them in Germany.
Only because the old organisation does not exist does not mean that people with that ideology does not exist anymore.
Not so sure. I worked in Germany in the 1980's and a work colleague, about 25-30 years old, was a committed nazi and was very anti-immigrant. He and his friends even celebrated Hitlers birthday. However, an older colleague told me that this man was regarded as an unusual extremist and to be reassured that no one else at the office thought like him.
Hey! I'd love some clarification on dog ownership in Germany. I have a 100-lb service dog that would be coming with me and need some help understanding what I find on the internet is real and what is garbage. Do I need a license or permit? What about moving into a flat? What about taking him out to potty several times a day without being rude to anyone?
Yes, you need a permit and the permission of your landlord. I would strongly advise you to look up the rules of the city you are moving to(some have specific rules about certain dog breeds). About the dog poo, you have to pick it up religiously. I hope I don’t have to say it but just to be safe, don’t go on playgrounds to walk your dog. I hope I could help you :)
Unfortunatly there is still no unified regulation for Europe and even in Germany it might differ from state to state. It shouldn't be difficult for licensed service dogs but might be more difficult for so called "emotional support animals". To be safe just mail your questions about your dog and destination to the German Embassy. They should be able to help you.
@@ZeckeGegenRechts I order 1000 poop bags at a time and never, ever leave any on the ground! I'm a responsible and polite dog owner. :) Rhodesian Ridgebacks aren't listed as "dangerous" or "banned" on any German list I could ever find. Good point though. He is a service dog, and if I plan to use him as one in Germany then we'll need additional papers as a working dog. I don't know where I would be moving yet, and I hope I can get the help of my future employer or an organization to help me find a place where he would be welcome. He doesn't bark or make noise even though he's 45 kg. He really is a landlord's dream.
@@peteralthoff6920 I totally didn't think about the embassy/consulate! Thank you for that!! He is a true, working for-real service dog and not for emotional support.
Your dog must be chipped and have EU-compatible vaccination documentation with a recent (not older than 1 year) vaccination against rabies. That is the bare minimum.
Your dog has to be registered with the city administration as all dogs are under taxation. The dog tax is a local tax and can be from 40 Euro for the first dog (the second or more dogs are often double or triple the amount) to over 1000 Euro per year for breeds that are considered dangerous (Kampfhunde - "fighting dogs").
Which breeds are in the category differs from state to state. In my state of Rhineland-Palatinate only bulldogs, Staffordshire terriers and Amstaffs (or mixed dogs with these breeds) are considered dangerous. My Rottweiler wasn't, but there are states that consider Rottweilers dangerous. Rhodesian ridgebacks may fall into the category but idk for sure.
When your dog is a recognized service dog (for the blind or people with disabilities) or a working dog (a dog that only exists to e.g. guard a perimeter) it can be exempt from dog tax.
You should consider a dog liability insurance (100-200 Euros per year) as dogs are not included in private liability insurance (pli is the one insurance you should have in Germany and it's not too expensive with 150-300 Euros a year).
When your dog is considered a dangerous breed (in Lower Saxony ALL dogs) the city administration may want a Sachkundenachweis (proof that you're knowledgable). They also may impose a policy to keep the dog on a leash and/or wear a muzzle at all times in public (which everywhere but your apartment)
Renting: permission is up to the discretion of your landlord. If you don't disclose your dog, it may lead to a sudden termination of contract. Tenants are very protected in Germany (I know because I'm a landlord). You have to either insult or physically attack your landlord or not pay rent for several months that the landlord has the right to terminate the contract, but not disclosing a dog is high up on the list of termination causes that the courts grant.
And yes, always clean up after your dog or you might get scolded by passers-by.
Just like oger, we are like onions.
Many smelly layers that make you shed tears. 🤣
I looked through the comments for this reference, and I am glad I found it! 🤣 Cheers!
Ah yes German emotion analytics
Had to laugh a bit about that part
Great video
The secret to getting really drunk is... Döner. Thants why the döner shops are open 24/7.
It saves lives
Germany´s darkest era is actually right ahead.
for whom?🤔
@@arnodobler1096 For tax payers. The freeloaders will be fine a while, until are the taxpayers have left the building.
Yes, Americans are nice --how are you & sorry here & sorry there...
And then on Twitter you see a brawl with 20 people at some MacD because someone had to wait too long for their burger or somebody else got the last portion of Chicken McNuggets...
And on the Black Friday...
Germans have more public transportation. Thats the reason you have less drunk driving accident's. Because they can use the public transportation instead of driving
We are better drunk drivers, too.
I'm glad you're in Germany. The US simply doesn't deserve you!
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Oi! Did you just call us smelly vegetable?! This time not even a fermented one! 😂🤣
Well… during summer….. when people start wearing organic deodorant without aluminium it can get quite smelly 🤣🤣🤣 🧅
@@HayleyAlexis Hard to argue against that. 😂😂
@@kitkat5153 it’s ok… I’m stinking with the Germans as well 😆😆
"Ogres are like onions"
"They stink?"
@@HayleyAlexis well, I'm allergic to the Aluminium compounds in Deodorants. Not much choice then
Wow die wirst wirklich deutsch.
Ich finde es wirklich gut wie du das vermittelts
🧐 "Onion" is kind of an _odd_ choice for a metaphor. Your acquaintance with cooking has, no doubt, at some point, had you dice an onion, and brought you into first-hand acquaintance with the way the gases that come from an onion as you dice it can make you _cry._ Yes, they have layers, but they also bring tears to your eyes. And it's not because onions are necessarily sad. It's because the gases they emit irritate the eyes.
So what's the metaphorical significance you're trying to emphasize when you compare Germans to onions?
This metaphor is like an onion.
Are there more alcohol induced accidents in the USA because more people drive there than use public transportation or a taxi, etc.?
It seems from your experience that Germans are rather interested in psychology.
Germany: first beer at 12, first drive at 18 (after hard and expensive driving education), no guns at all. - USA: first drive at 16 (automatic car and no education at all), first gun at 18, first beer at 21. Find the mistake.
00:01 what i expected to get in germany ... but got in germany 🤣🤣😂😂🤣🤣😂😂🤣🤣😁😁
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We may actually.eat quite a lot of meat ( as an EU nation ) but we do properly probably eat near actual meat I presume
Germans are like onions huh? I LOVE ONIONS! ❤️
Oh I just can't believe that , you took all layer from Michael now he is naked 🤣
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Seems to me you used your channel at first to deal with those awkward questions. Today however, is seems to deal with the opposite, almost as if the objective to keep the American part alive. But hey, that is just the Dutch guy giving an opinion. Nothing personalised to a particular person.
The darkest era started after '45, unfortunately you don't know a thing what really happened.
for whom?🤔
@@arnodobler1096 Good question. Before waking up, I'd have said Germany well FRG, but when I listen to those things and on other channel one could think the US;-), but I think both might be the right answer.
@@Matthias_Br For the civilian population, these were certainly hard years, even after the war. My parents were born in the years 23 and 30. To compare that with 33-45 is nonsense: millions of dead soldiers, dead people who thought differently, believed differently, were different? Also the years during and after WW1 were incredibly hard: people froze to death and starved to death. Hyperinflation due to immense reparations and world economic crisis. Billions of Reichsmarks for bread and butter. After the currency reform in 1948, almost everything was available again. In GB everything was still rationed and only available through ration cards, until the 50s. So I do not know what you mean? "The darkest era started after '45" 🤔
Greetings Hayley, great RUclips channel ! Can you talk about the extremely high taxes in Germany a bit ? 45-50% to be exact. I was planning on moving back to Germany when I retire; however, my standard of living here in the US is very acceptable especially my health care: I am retired military and my annual healthcare cost is $680.00 that's it with very low co-pays. My expected retirement pay should be around 80K US dollars, that puts me in a 22% tax bracket thanks to the Trump tax cuts ! I cannot fathom paying 45-50% tax as a pensioner in Germany. No one really likes paying high taxes and especially now in Europe with the Ukraine debacle and the energy stranglehold Putin has on Europe. I have a German friend who lives with his family in the Schwartzwald and times are really tuff. What are your thoughts and anyone else feel free to chime in as I really want to relocate in a couple years as America self implodes.
I can not tell you how much it would be for someone retiring/pensioner. That is not something I have looked into if I am being completely honest but I am pretty sure you would not have to pay 45% taxes as a retired individual (I could be very wrong)...
You can't just come to Germany at the end of your life and expect to live off of the system (granted you are making/earning a decent amount of money but you have never contributed to the system) which will most likely be a big hurdle for you trying to retire here. I try to be as honest as I possibly can be but I personally think if you make 80,000 in the USA as a pensioner and only get taxed 22%... it would be smarter to move into a smaller town, purchase a home, and be happy/content. You seem to be happy in the USA so why not stay?
Thanks for the speedy response and everything I have read unfortunately tells me that I would have to pay much higher taxes. I loved my time in Germany from 1983-1991 living in the Rhineland Pfalz area. If you happen to come across any Expats or German pensioners maybe you can inquire ? Pass auf dich auf
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Tony C., I believe you would not be double-taxed for your income in Germany, as you pay/paid taxes on it in the US. You would be expected to get health insurance (Private, not public), and possibly Care insurance (that pays for care homes in case you need it later). An income like yours would probably allow a comfortable life in Germany, even with insurances.
When it comes to sausages, you also have to consider that many Germans also eat sausages for breakfast. Because in addition to the usual fried or boiled sausages, there are sausages much more regularly in the form of cold cuts. These include various flavored meat sausages, salami, blood and liver sausages, mettwurst, etc. So yes, many, not all, Germans eat sausage in various forms almost every day.
What? I do not know any German that eats Sausages for breakfast. I just now Germans who eat cold pizza in the morning after they drank a lot 😂 oh and Cold Cuts are not any kind of Sausage 🤔 I think Sausage is just the Bratwurst vom Grill 🙃
@@maxw2974 er meint wahrscheinlich Aufschnitt , Mortadella, Salami und die gute Leberwurst. Bei uns war immer, erste Scheibe Wurst oder Käse und 2 dann mit Marmelade oder Honig. N..Tella war zu teuer für uns.
es geht nichts uber eine gute wurst ob in deutchland oder die niederlande wo ich her komme und auserdem ich bin metzker 😅😅😅
The American „nice“ is just fake 🤣
if and that is a big IF the American educational system was a bit more thorough,people would learn that Germany is not all Hitler and Nazi.In Germany where i grew up and was educated.in the 1950's-1980's,we had it ramed down our throats that we were inferior people and everything in America was so much better.To Hollywood Nazis,Charles Manson,the Temple of Jim Jones etc are sexy,so they will always be pushed into the public,there bwill always be new Hollywood films about the 3rd Reich,usually with some super star actor exclaiming at the end 'we saved the world's ass'...
literally eating Currywurst, as I'm watching this lol
And we are still fighting the fight against nazionalism and I think the fight will never end , becourse in my opinion this fight begins with the fight against rasicim and ends in Nazi if we loose
Hey Hayley - my bow for you that you bring the "Nazi- topic" so on the wall!
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About the last point. Did you ever watch the video DEUTSCHLAND from German Band Rammstein ?
Also groentjes uit Nederlands 🇳🇱 Haylee.. °autocorrect and add comment finger "
Hi Hayley, I'm glad you started this today because watching a lot of YT videos by political opinion channels and news channels I have always wondered about the massive amount of Karens ( and Kevins)in the US. What is it with these people that makes them feel so entitled and aggressive ? If a whole nation has a collective name for a certain kind of person there must be something strange going on.
And if you don't want to answer my question I demand speaking to the manager !!!🤯
As to Nazis you are lucky not to live in Saxonia or somewhere around there. I'm sure you would have met a few there by now.
I've lived in Saxony for a year and not met one "nazi". Most people were okay. Some assholes as everywhere, but very few I met. And their dialect is very sexy.
We are cold?💀 Due to the fact that we deal with our past with humor for the most part, we are actually much funnier than you think.
Is that you General Grievous? How did you make it to my RUclips comment section???
@@HayleyAlexis I switched from lightsabers to interesting You Tube channels, at least temporarily, and that's when I discovered you.