You might be on to something there..... Our houses really do look the same here....It's because we use a limited amount of home buileders here and it is like a puzzle that gets put together very easily/quickly.
You are smart, observant and accompany your acute observations with a very moderate tone. I wish politicians in both countries would listen to you. You deserve respect! Happy Holidays for you and Mike, families and friends.
Your opinion is your opinion, no reason to criticize you for it! But when it comes to beer, there will certainly be many with completely different opinions. :D
10yrs ago during summer time, i got to know 3 Syrian refugees at the bathing lake. We got into talks and they told me they have been stuck at this refugee camp for months now, waiting for their visa and work permit. These 3 guys were highly educated with Master degrees, one of them even graduated in Cologne, still had friends and contact to Cologne,- they all even had enough money to rent an apartment (!!!). But because they had to leave Syria due to war, they had to share a Sporthalle with 200 other refugees from all over the world..I was left stunned.
Omg about the migration point you mentioned; I haven't heard that opinion from other people with similar experience. I have heard it from Latam people only. It is so nice to hear from you ❤️
Merry Christmas time and a happy New Year to you, Hayley, to Mike and to your family ! Thank you for all the interesting and funny videos which you've made for us.
It is different. Some have 1 story, some have 2 stories, some have stucco, some have wood on the outside, some are a ranch style, etc. Now for paint some pinkish color, some are white, some are beige, some are blue, some are a coral color, some are a light purple, some are green, some are yellow, etc. Germany doesn't play with color like the US does (especially Florida. Florida goes nuts).
@@jessicaely2521 and american houses are all a pile of junk when a tornado comes by We have brick houses, concrete houses, wooden houses, timbered houses ... there is no punching through a wall in german houses unless you want to break your hand and yes we could paint them all the different colours we want ... we prefer historical colours and colours that match the neighbors
I don’t understand why Germany doesn’t want immigrants to work. That’s the main reason immigrants come to the US. You get a work permit while your asylum application is pending. Or you immigrate illegally and work for cash. I agree you want immigrants to assimilate and working is a major way to accomplish that goal. The jobs are mostly low wage and backbreaking jobs Americans don’t want anyway.
Just in case anyone of you wonders what's on the paper taped to the bed on the right side. I zoomed in and sharpened the image to make it readable and it reads: _"Mike, please stick your butt out from under the blanket before you fart!"_ 🎅
It is from when I was in 3rd grade I think and I wrote I needed to be more sensitive to other people's feelings... I was very emotionally intelligent/aware in my younger days..... It is still an issue for me though!
Despite disapproving of some of their policies I think the current German government is doing quite well given that they have to cope with some formidable crises and given that it is a coalition government of three really different parties. They've probably exacerbated the polarized political mood but some of it has been inherited from the past and some of it is due the challenges of the current situation being exploited by media and political opponents (and possibly external influences). I hope that enough people refuse to think that there's an easy way out of the current difficulties. It's certainly tempting to look for a new prophet or magician - just as certain as there can't be one.
With the beer, I'm totally with you. And almost every time someone says drink this, don't drink that, it's more a religious choice then everything else. You can try it like i did a couple of months ago. Saying you would make a blind test with them, say you have 6 different types of beer, but only buy two, sometimes it even work with only one type (then you should serve them with different temperatures). Serve it in neutral cups (blind taste) and see what happens next. They start an epic monologue why sort a is so much better then sort b and so on. And you have something to smile about. To the things we could do better. Yes, the current politics are a catastrophe, at least my mother says this every time we meet. But the fact that the political "middle" become thinner and thinner, that problem way older that a couple of years. Maybe it was not at the media so often, but that is because there were other things at this time like covid, syrian war and "refugee crisis". I won't say that I'm not concerned about it, you're right with your analysis, extreme political parties like AfD raised because the "normal" parties just made a bad job. But the only thing normal people like me can do is to explain to everybody who is willing to listen, how bad they are at the end. But many people won't listen, and parties like the AfD have some politician's in their rows who can talk very well. If you don't dig deeper or do a little research, it might sound not that bad, especially for many germans who are not interested in politics at all. The immigration process on the other hand is something I've no experience with, like you and the process in the US. But i keep it in mind, you never know when fate gives you an opportunity to change something or to talk to someone who's able to do so. Thats it for now, thank you for your feedback, bye
Absolutely agree with all your options (except the beer one, but only because I can't drink beer so I don't feel qualified to judge its taste in any way xD )
Once a year I spend a month in Oberbayern. And I am looking forward to it, and go to the Getränkemarkt, and feel like I am in beer wonderland. All these different variations, all the subtle differences, even from the same brewery, wow. I never buy a case of 20 of the same, but usually 4 of each. Tegernseer Spezial is so different from Tegernseer 1806 Max Joseph, and completely different from Andechser Weizen naturtrüb. But it even depends on the temperature, when it's really hot like last summer, then I prefer a clear Reutberger Kloster Weisse. I guess tasting and enjoying the subtle differences is what defines a 'connoisseur'. Prost ! 😋😎
The beer topic is indeed a problem and I totally agree. I often hear it as "Das Fernsehbierproblem" like all beers in the TV taste the same because there was a time when everyone looked to the others, so everyone met in the middle. I wish restaurants would offer more beer styles than only Pilsener and Weizen (or Helles and Weizen for bavaria) instead of 3 Pilsener. There are so many styles, Schwarzbier, Märzen, Sauerbier, Rotbier, verschiedene Bockbier, braune Biersorten...
I so feel you and as a German I can see most the points you make. Even the beer one! The one with the houses though, yeah. Drop me into any old town with towncenters made from halftimbered houses, yeah they also look mostly the same. But on a general level you have to move more than just 2 or 3 towns over to notice slight differences and that accumulates the farther you move in each direction. Except for the Ruhrgebiet which basically got flattened in WW II and only very few select historic buildings have been carefully reconstructed. The rest just followed the need to become sevicable again as quickly as possible. And yeah, the political parties have all clustered so tighly around left or right that they all just offer a centristic blah view that they all feel the same. And extrmist parties like the AfD seem to offer people a perty with a definitive standpoint. None of the established parties are positioning themselves just the right amount left and right of the center that they would look at least like being actual different opinions anymore.
Beer: A very difficult topic. _"Drinking beer is a matter of habit."_ There were tests with brewery directors who couldn't identify their beer in a blind test. 1. General remark: I agree, when you compare a Lager with another Lager, a Weißbier with another Weißbier. They will taste very similar within the range of the same type of brew. 2. When you don't have _your_ beer, meaning you change the brand very often, tasting differences is more difficult. 3. If you want to taste the difference you must drink a lot of beer. You must condition your taste buds. Let's say, you drink 50 to 100 bottles of beer "A" (and no other brand in-between) and then drink a bottle of beer "B" maybe directly after beer "A". Make sure that when beer "A" is from Munich, beer "B" must be from somewhere far away, Rosenheim, Ingolstadt, Passau, Ulm...or even farther away in any direction. 4. Reason: How much difference can you get when you have more or less the same ingredients in almost the same composition ratio? So what are the differences? The first is water, the second is hops (especially the amount of hops -- and this is a spice giving some bitterness -- there is very little in there), the third is the processing of the barley malt. There is some beer that I will avoid, there is some beer that I prefer over others. But most often I drink the local beer from where I currently am and I enjoy it. And yes, at home I have the same three or four different types of beer on a regular basis. And also yes, I can taste differences. But then, I have some 50 years of practice...
Hayley, thanks you are right with most except the beer part :) when it comes to housing I thinkthat the quality of buildings in the US is poor in comparism to Germany. The reason of German places look quite similar comes from the regulations and the need to save money...
Also, I read that Germany has a lot of regulations on how to build homes more efficiently and to optimize space. So while we just build square homes- Germany uses more shapes and dimension to create space!
Just like most countries Germany has different tasting beers from the various regions. The beers noted here are Bavarian beers that are markedly different from Northern Beers like the Dortmunder range, Action, Union and Kronen that have a stronger taste.
They still taste the same to me..... Like I said there are different "types" of beers but when going into the difference between the variety beers under each category there is no big difference to me.
@@HayleyAlexis Oh Dear! I get your comments but like most things, be it beer or wine or fashion or cars or food or ....... so many other things in each group there will be those that are connoisseurs, who could separate the finest differences between each example that to the incognisanti are all the same. .
There are always problems between theory and practice. Example back in my day... lol... I worked at the MCD and I started working there and there were different rules and regulations in place then after working there for a while. They wanted us to put on plastic gloves for hygiëne while placing the meat patties on the grills, and heat and hot dripping fats and plastic gloves don't work together well. Causing burns caused by melting plastics on the hands, worse than just a fat drip which if accustomed with, (begining working my finger tips couldn't deal with heat the way they could after doing it for a while, I could accidentally touch the grills while placing the patties and not burn after a while, before I probably already had a burn before actually making contact) and removed quick enough did less damage. Theory vs Practice. Also the grills are so hot, that even if the meat had bacteria on them they would be dead after the meat was grilled. So why use the plastic gloves to begin with? Hygiëne? There had always been hygiëne rules in place, even before the plastic gloves. This was so that customers that had a view on the kitchens felt like it was more hygenic. End of discussion, make belief to increase PR and how consumers viewed an "unhealthy" product to begin with. Manipulations - life is filled with them. And the workers had to suffer untill they stopped complying, and we received the patty placers, long think plastic parts that you used to get the patty from the metal spatula that took them from the grill and help you slide and place it on the burger. Hygiene rules that worked. This also happened by hand as I began working there. Which you guessed it needed hands that had been in the kitchen long enough to stand the heat.
1:21 well, the same could be said of the US.... once you get out of the downtown core of a city, it's all endless repeating suburbia.... i guess the only advantage of that is when you move to a different state within the US, you just have to look up where the nearest Home Depot or Walmart or Taco Bell is, and you're set for the first few weeks.... (i'm vegetarian, so McDonald's USA has nothing for me, even the fries contain beef fat) PS: the glasses look good on you!
The Mcdonalds in the USA are shit unfortunately. You know what I miss from the Mcdonalds in Germany though? The vegan ts I think was the name- they revamped it and put a new vegan burger out but I prefer the older version- it tasted AMAZING and I actually preferred it over the meat burgers (aside from the seasonal big rösti).
Great insights! You have a very balanced viewpoint. I agree with your point about many Germans wanting to group you into the extremes if you hold a strong viewpoint. That was annoying to me when I lived there. Many Germans consider themselves 'liberal' and 'progressive' but are actually pretty closed-minded when someone believes in something that they do not. Which is actually similar to many Americans! 😅
I am pro-opinion and have very mixed liberal/conservative views. I think the issue is where and when does human decency and empathy/sympathy need to be implemented? A lot of people want to have strong viewpoints and get mad when they are not fully accepted by others or have a reaction that is unsatisfactory to their expectations. I also think it is all about delivery.... Example: There is a difference between saying you want a reformed immigration system because you don't like the current immigration process vs saying you don't want any immigrants or want to throw all immigrants out or that you find all immigrants to be shitty (not necessarily towards you but it is the easiest example to use).
"actually pretty closed-minded" - yep applies to more Germans I ever though possible. Corona exposed this. Though it probably is like in : The majority are actually liberal and progressive, but the narrow minded are those which are the loudest by at least one order of magnitude. Two decades ago I would have recommended: Travel. Today I can recommend: There are so many good youtube channels of foreigners living in our country and Germans living in other countries which show what we have in common, and what is bad and good on both sides from an outsider/insider perspective.
Point 2 is imho more about if you are a beer lover or not. I as well cannot detect much differences between the whole beer stuff, but my boyfriend would be just the other way round!😂
Bier. Auch als Nicht-Biertrinker weiss ich: Bier besteht in Bayern seit dem 23. April 1516 aus Hopfen, (Gersten- /Weizen-)Malz, Hefe und Wasser = bayrisches Reinheitsgebot. 1906 wurde die Regel für ganz Deutschland übernommen. In allen Bundesländern ausser in Bayern darf Zucker zugesetzt werden
I also think that lot of small cities look the same in the housing area. And I also drink nearly all sorts and brands of beer... So there is no conflict at all.And Klimakleber are just nuts because they do no improve things but make life harder for all the other people.
Hahahaha - me as a German totally agree with the "beer-thing". Beer ist beer - sometimes one more bitter/sweet than another one, but always typical beer-taste. I live near Cologne and never understand the hype of all the different Kölsch. They all taste more or less the same to me 😛🤣
Regarding the last point. I don’t see any difference between the US and Germany except that the USA makes everything way more difficult for Immigrants since they don’t let anyone in the first place.
It all depends on who is in office. My husband was trying to get his greencard through marriage for the US when Trump was president. It took 4 years for him to get his greencard. Another friend got his greencard through marriage under Biden administration. It took 10 months. They were both getting their greencard from Switzerland.
In the US as an immigrant you can work pretty quickly where in Germany you can't. The US has made it easy for illegals to work in the US and they even pay taxes. This doesn't happen easily in Germany. Illegals takes jobs that no one wants to work for low pay. Some illegals will go for being paid $5 an hour. Companies pay illegals $7.50 an hour to put on a new roof. An American wouldn't work in 100+ (38+) degree weather for $7.50. My company came to the point either you hire illegals and keep the payment $7.50 or you pay at least $15 an hour. They chose to pay $15 an hour.
I mean the USA has a lot of people immigrating to the country even with it being so difficult (illegally and legally). I do see a big difference in getting people to work and allowing people to work. Once you get asylum status in the USA you can usually work- in Germany that is not the case or it is a grey area. Also if you are in the USA illegally you can still "legally" pay taxes on your earned income which is unheard of in Germany. I also think it is important to note that Germany has the shit end of the stick of being located in Europe and being the economic powerhouse of the continent. Most people coming to Germany (for asylum/refugee status) are fleeing war, economic instability, political stress etc. which they can do very easily due to everything being connected via land (or smaller bodies of water)- Germany does not have a fence (like you pointed out about the USA) and is landlocked unlike the USA. When I was in the US embassy in Germany there were a bunch of Syrian and Ukrainian people applying for asylum status in the USA but getting denied due to being in Germany and no longer being in "danger" which leads back to the earlier point I mentioned about Germany having the shit end of the stick - it is the last station in the "western" world where a lot of the immigrants in Germany can go due to the asylum "loopholes". Do I think it is ok? No but it is the truth.... and unless Germany says NO immigrants- it has to fix the system to better integrate people.
I'm not energized enough to argue about anything, so I just leave a totally unmotivated comment for the algo :D (I hope you understand my kaputten sense of humor by now and take it as such :D)
I totally agree with you regarding the immigration topic. Immigrants should be allowed to work. I like the US somehow where people which are totally illegal in the country can easily work and even pay taxes. That's impossible in Germany.
Yeah it is an interesting concept we have...One thing you can do in the USA is WORK.... and PAY TAXES. Once you are in the country they will let you 😂😂
2:34 I'm guessing the first picture is a suburb of a city somewhere in a more Southern German state, maybe Munich? The second one looks more Northern, maybe Hamburg or Bremen. The third picture is from a place like Düsseldorf or Bochum.
Maybe you need bigger contrast than Germans/Europeans, as an American (bigger = better), to notice the differences they are talking about. As you talk about the beers (but I understand) the difference is what you talk about, der abtrunk und Nachgeschmak. About the villages and certain building styles... like the Holzfachwerk homes, we have them throughout Europe. To me these always feel very "German" because I see them more in Germany, but they are a certain style of building/constructing. We also have them in the Netherlands. In the Netherlands there are also differences in hausing style but also in part to do with wars and rebuildings, and era of homes. My guess is it is similar in Germany. And it is all connected to the history of the places. The 1950, '60, and 70's homes. Why these also look so similar in building/constructing styles. And the layout of the living spaces are similar.
To be honest all cities looking the same - at least their pedestrian zones is quite true, sadly. With the rise of online shopping they continue becoming more and more similar even more (with more shop space empty and being offered to rent).
Cities: Of course they look similar within a country :D. Beers: Yes, agree. We have documentations on TV with blind tastings where beer fans fail to distinguish. Exceptions are only local trübes Starkbier or similar. Klimakleber: Yep, they are useless since they block everything and don't even move for emergency vehicles. There are better ways to protest like our farmers do with their Traktors. They cause a bit trouble, but they don't block and move their vehicle if it blocks something since they don't want to hurt the people. As another channel explained: Depending on the city and region of USA police officers might tear them off the streets with no regard of their hands due to "their freedom to do this, their own fault for the consequences", whereas other regions would drive around and ignore them. Current government: Mixed whether it is the govern party, or the party which is not NOT the government. The biggest party currently not in government shifted their tone in such extreme ways I never expected, so I blame it on them. Immigration is not best: SO TRUE! We need them, and all those Handwerkers want them, all those hospitals want them, the list of companies and places that long for them (to do work which seems like Germans don't want to do any more?). Even if they get a job and are productive they are always in danger to be sent back. So for "unpopular opinion": Most of it is spot one, and only two of them (cities and government) are "look closer" but not "disagree" or "completely wrong" things :D. Good statistics!
Uh! Now that she is talking about politics, what is our Bundeskanzler up to these days? Haven't heard of him in a while (I try to forget his Christmas speech or whatever that was). And you are right, the Immigration and integration policy is more than questionable. Anything that benefits society rather than the economy gets pushed back.
How?!? Kölsch and Alt? That’s sacrilege! Just joking, everyone is entitled to their tastebuds, even though I don’t always like the same tastes. But some people might disagree with you just because of principle.
Agree in terms of keeping immigrants from working. the current government has done so much wrong, but in this case, they are on the right way to change exactly that.
Hayley these systems have been thought-out and created this way with reasonings behind them, for better and worse. *We don't like silver platters unless you have a silver spoon to match it with* which you have been born with. They don't get given out with every birth. Since we also don't want to share the crumbs we had already been fighting over. In the Netherlands there was already a housing shortage, and the influx of regugees from the wars did not make that problem smaller but bigger. These people some have issues with, the happiness seekers (expads) often fly under the radar. They entered the country in a different way. Public controle and desings, one is more the outsider comming in than the other, but it should be the different way around. Economically we are exactly doing what makes the most profit for the nation as we are doing right now. It also has to do with conservation of the dominant cultural aspects. Germany is still Germany even if the demographic now is different ethnical than in the middle agese or pre-hisotry with the Neanderthalers and Homo Sapience and them inter-breeding. Things change, but some concepts remain, others don't. Why? Cultural identities? What makes a German German? Why am I Dutch and not German? My location once was "German", is speak, read and understand German (writing is a different cup off tea). I hope I make sense in what I am trying to express/convey. Citizenships in the context as we know them today all have to do with the USA, we had migrations long before the US existed. But what made an US citizen an US citizen? And this way of thinking by the leading western world spilled over to the Old world from the New world, and the New world order of things. What makes a German a German? People with "German" ancestory in the USA might not be "German" in the context of the modern worlds. Where I live was holy Roman Empire aka German, it is now Dutch, it has been "Belgian", it has been under French, Spanish, and even Roman rule/oppressions. So people that went to settle in the US while it was Holy Roman Empire are "Germans" if their ancestors form the same location migrated to the US a couple of hundred years later (depending) they would have been "Dutch" ancestry/roots in the USA. Burgerschap was different in the middle ages vs the post modern times. So Bavaria and the death of the Fairytale King and the creation of a republic vs a monarchy. Bavarian Illuminati. History and knowing your roots before you can have strong braches. Was it good to end monarchy? Yes, did they have to kill the King? Maybe not, but a faerie (gay) king was already a problem in these days. Now his castle is appreciated in a different way then back in the days as he started the constructions by the people that live in the surrounding village and his kingdom. Neuschwanstein is the iconic castle we drool over since it was part of the Disney Castle logo design.
Why should upward social mobility be more grated towards a person that wasn't born and raised in the system they entered to benefit from? That is what is part of this "envy" "hatred". The social inequalities that had already been existing, and the social structures and classes. "Een dubbeltje wordt geen kwartje" without loopholes, a filled seat is taken, there are only X amount of seats at the (round) table. Things are more global now - the global elites and the global common people.
No one said anything about geared towards one groug but not the other. These things can coexist- you do know that right? That there can be upward mobility for Germans and non-Germans living in the country.
@@HayleyAlexis As long as you also realize these coexist. I was just expressing the sentiments I've heard from the people that vote (extreme) right in my environment and often disagree with. Even if the complaints are not just pulled out of thin air. There are issues and problems. Why is politics in Europe going to the right? We recently had elections in the Netherlands; PVV won. The Dutch Trump that had been around before 9/11 happened, Fitna & Mohammed cartoon are his flavor. Housing crisis is part of the reasons why the public is getting more right in reaction towards immigrants and refugees. I own a house, this is not part of my concern anymore. I don't have children that are in need of a house and living with their parents till late in their 20's. Stuff like that. Why can't there just be more houses built? Climate and climate goals. Just to be clear I voted GL/PVDA... but I live in the Provice that is known for the voting for PVV, and the connection to poverty! The Financial Diet had a good video on this subject; How the wealthy gaslight America. Uploaded to YT 2 days ago This is not limited to the US.
Oh, the approach _we_ take to handling immigrants, in the US, is a perpetual source of _embarrassment_ for me. Over and over again, (for more than _30 years,_ now), it keeps popping up in the news this "border crisis" at our southern border. We don't have one of _those._ What we keep _experiencing_ at out southern border is, perpetually, a _symptom_ of a much more _systemic_ problem. Where we have the _actual_ crisis is in our _education_ system. Consider the relationship between Germany and France, for a moment. These are a couple countries that _border_ each other and have since well before everyone currently living in either country was _born._ Accordingly, it has developed naturally that there is a healthy stock of people in _France_ who also understand _German,_ and there is a healthy stock of people in _Germany_ who also understand _French._ This is normal, natural and healthy. This is the natural _inclination_ between these two countries because they _deal_ with each other so regularly. Unavoidably, that's how it _is_ with two countries that border each other. Now there never has been a time in US history when we have not shared a land border with a country where the main language is _Spanish,_ so there never has been a time in the history of US public schools when it did not make sense to teach fluency in _this_ language. What has stopped us? What _continues_ to stop us?
You might not agree with the way they protest, I hope you agree on the matter why they protest. Also I think most people don't acknowledge the gravity of the issue, it is too big and too complex for them, in many ways it is for me. Many balls up in the air. There are many ways of protesting - these did get attention as others more "friendly" protests can and will get ignored, that is why the extremism needs to get ramped up to match with the already existing extremism madness. The deniers, the industries that continue this. I mean the climate problem could have been tackled in 1979 - 1989. This was the decade we could have done most of the preventions but money and profits and conveniences outweight. US got UK and Japan to pull out in that agreement, US pulled out from the Paris agreement for a couple of years and up went the methane and other gases exchaust that fulled the climate problem even more. The war are a poblem and then the natural disasters and influences we have less control over that are part of the problem. Humans are mostly the problem in this. We also claim to be these superior animals that hold control and influence over life - but now we are not this because that would require actions. And we don't like to do these, it's less convenient for ourselves. And so on.
All beer tasting the same ... Hayley, after returning to Germany be prepared to be urged to drink weird amounts of beer just to convice you that they don't taste the same. ... will be an interesting experience 😅😅😅
A pollutive and toxic lifestyle [6:19] sure, what's wrong with that? Very peaceful when it causes water wars and climate refugees. It's a bigger picture, and all the sudden the Bigger= better flies out off the window in the American live for the moment lifestyle. Short term versus long term thinking.
Dann hast du auch keine Ahnung. Allein schon durch über die Verwendung des Malzes gibt es stark unterschiedliche Süßegrade. Probier mal ein Jever und ein Porter. Wenn du da keinen Unterschied schmeckst, dann kannst du auch eine Orange geschmacklich nicht von einem Waschlappen unterscheiden.
@@rairei selbst wenn man es nicht mag, sollte man den Unterschied zwischen einem Jever und einem Malzbier schmecken können. Der Unterschied bei der Süße ist vergleichbar wie der zwischen Mineralwasser und Fanta. Oder schmeckst du da auch keinen Unterschied?
Is the current german gouvernment the best? No, it isn't. Would the former gouvernment had done it better? Probably not. Thats the reason why we wanted to have a change. The immigration system is a good example. The problems are known for many years and the former gouvernment had enough time to change it, but they wasted the time and did nothing. And now they blame the current gouvernment for issues the didn't solve when they were in charge. It is always easier to blame others instead of helping to find solutions to make it better. The immigration laws are from a time when we had too many people out of work. So it was indended to keep the immigrants from working in germany. The current gouvernment already changed some laws and is willing to do more. But it is not possible to change everything at once. Many germans share your opinion about the Klimakleber so I wouldn't put it in the topic of unpopular opinions about germany.
I can understand all the points, but a wheat beer is something quite different from a pilsner. Then there's our government, which is a really complex issue. I would definitely like to defend it somewhat, especially because everything here is being blamed on the Green Party. For the first time we have a government made up of three parties, the SPD (labor party), "The Greens" and the FDP (a liberal party for the wealthy). The election was in September 2021, so still fully in the Corona period. There is still the Left Party, but they have made themselves unelectable due to their closeness to Russia. The AFD are the populists, the main thing is to oppose and promise simple slogans for complicated problems. The last party is the conservative CDU/CSU (CSU in Bavaria), which has almost always formed the government, usually together with the FDP. Angela Merkel governed together with the SPD, 16 long years, grand coalition, terrible. This came to a close with the 2021 federal election and the Germans wanted one way or the other, so after long negotiations this government of 3 parties was created. Normally a normal government formation takes 5-6 months, but there was pressure because of corona and then there was also the Ukraine war in February 2022 and the energy crisis. We have had significant price rises, inflation and it scares people so much that they listen to pied pipers. The CDU/CSU + SPD had the debt brake included in our constitution back then (2011?). It can only be written in or changed (constitution) with a 2/3 majority. Investments that are urgently needed are missing, and that would be important for a green AND social policy. What is also missing is a strong Federal Chancellor. We also only had the choice between plague and cholera, Olaf Scholz or Armin Laschet, as well as Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump. Well, enough politics for today and you can disagree. It was a great video and a little criticism never hurt anyone, thanks for your criticism.
I actually agree with the majority of your comment... I am pretty relaxed regarding politics and other people's opinions/views. At the end of the day we all live on this floating rock together and need to make it the best it can possibly be and the best way to do that is through COMMUNICATION. Even if it is only via RUclips- it still sparks an intersting exchange between two individuals.
If you don't taste a difference between the beers, it may be a mixture of low experience and because of the low temperature beers are served. You said it yourself: you notice differences when the beer gets warmer. That applies to most drinks. Some beers really taste similar, but there are big differences between others. You said the German law (there is no special Bavarian law by the way) just allows four ingredients. That's true: water, hops, malt and yeast. But your conclusion that they can't taste that different with all of them having the same four ingredients is a misbelief. You wouldn't say something like that about wine, would you? The type and taste of a beer differ a lot mostly due to different kinds of yeast and malt and a huge variety of hops. Pilsner beer usually tastes bitter. Some more (like _Jever)_ and others less. And of course it makes a big difference wether you use wheat or barley for your malt, or top yeast (Kölsch, Wheat beer) or bottom yeast (Pilsner, Helles/Lager). The biggest impact on taste has the used hops. Ever tried IPA?
None of what you say is all too strange - I know that for every point you mentioned, there are Germans who are similarly minded. Perhaps the exact combination is ... particularly Hayley-y. But it certainly is not even an "only-an-American"-effect. And yes, there are several points where I quite disagree with you (beer taste for example), but on all those, I have good friends who are of a similar opinion as you. Your take on current German politics is not necessarily unpopular with me. We could argue about details - but overall I have not even the slightest problem with what you say.
Why can't they work, and what do they need to do before they are aloud to work? Integration, speak the language, understand the dominant culture, traditions, norms and ethics. It does make sense in that view, it doesn't always work in practice. People that migrate often are part of a certain social class, similar to people that can afford to flee a war torn country. But most people that flee have left their wealth and belongings behind, not all is liquid and can be taken with them, it costs money to go/flee. So it all has to do with the money you can bring into the dominant culture you want to become a part of. If you can't pay to integrate, you will have to find ways to make money, which in turn is part of the economy at large. Even schwartz geld, and criminal money is money that in ways (if laundered) is part of the economy and GDP in general. It's a tightrope of managing the public, having control and order in the nations. There is an increase in terror threats also again, these things won't help with the public perceptions on immigrants. Resources are "limited" and profit is the main motivator in western economical based societies.
That is actually not true...I came to Germany not knowing any of the language and with $0 (or very minimal) money in my bank account.... I was able to make a life in Germany due to the simple fact that German people (and the German government in some way) took a chance on me and helped me..... It is possible to foster people that want to live in the country if the country is welcoming and a little flexible.
@@HayleyAlexis Could this reaction still be part towards a different reaction posted? Because I don't fully see the connection with this specific post and the reaction: "That is actually not true" This post was not personal towards you specific. But while on this track: Why is your entery into Germany that different in comparison with other types of immigrants and refugees (the people in the housing you talked about in the video)? It had nothing to do with the fact you had an American citizenship it is "easier" vs other nationalities/citizenships? You where of working age and spending age, these economical factors matter, don't you think? True it is possible to foster people that want to live and participate into the country they live in. What is considered little can be debated, what is the minimum? Are they not already doing these things?
I think the minimum is getting people processed more quickly and allowing them a fast track into the working field. Yes, being a US citizen had a huge impact on how easily I could move around Germany. There are thousands of working and spending age non-us & non-european immigrants in the country not able to work, not able to open bank accounts, not able to move to a different city/home... and many other things
@@HayleyAlexis It should be a bare minimum especially in the digital age. But also the counter requests, like speaking the language and understanding and participating in the culture. Integration and assimilations aspects. These take time and effort on both sides. A housing shortage and crisis will lead to more racism and me first mentality. That is quite typical human psychological behavior. Simple example; Amsterdam, the city center and the use of English vs Dutch language. In Deutsland sprecht man Deutsch. There are logical reasons why this happened, but with expat living the city has changed, incl. students and tourists. And the Dutch mentality to switch to the more dominant communication language. So is Amsterdam still the Captial city of the Netherlands if there is less and less "Dutch" language and culture? The Dutch language also seems to be easier qualified than culture. What is the Dutch culture? There is a diverisity within the native dutch culture to begin with. We have migant workers. They don't speak the language well, in part understandable. But some people end up here for year after year, after year and they still are not able to fully understand or speak Dutch. I trained migrant workers to do what I did, so my section of the factory could move to Eastern Europe, leaving me without a job, and having trained the new cheaper labor. Dobre, not? I understand a little Polish without ever having been to Poland. I don't blame the workers I blame the boss and economic systems. Workers working for the legal minimum wages as the owner get the legal profits. Rules to opening bankaccounts & no account = not the spending demographic. Even for me it wasn't always easy to open a bank account. No job, no income makes it harder to find a bank, switch banks, etc. Germany is not just pure socialist it is also capitalistic. We became the European Union in part to economically compete with the Union of the States of North America the captialistic nation on the globe. Capitalism did not start in the USA.
c'mon .. " i can`t taste any difference in different beers"! .. listing different breweries out of munich... Compare a munich beer to, let´s say a Jever ... Then we`ll talk again ... ;)
The reason I listed those is because I know them in and out but I have had other beers in other areas of Germany I just don't know their names like in Munich/Bavaria. They still taste the same to me :p
It’s funny you consider some of them unpopular as I would probably agree with most of them and so would most people I know! I think besides the activists themselves, the vast majority is heavily annoyed with the Klimakleber’s illegal actions. It’s simply not okay. And polls show less and less support for them. Same goes for our current government, I think it’s the least popular one we had since the start of the BRD. I also don’t know anyone who’s happy with the current immigration system, it clearly created more problems than opportunities for both the immigrants and our country. A complete fail! And yeah, while there’s a distinct german look to our cities, I don’t see much of a difference. Unless you have historic villages or old towns, then you can at least point to the general region of the country. But houses built after the 1920s look the same for the most part. That seems to be the case for all countries I’ve been to though. The US being an exception simply because of its size. And yes! Beer from different brands does taste very similar. I believe picking a brand is much like picking a football club and people just support that specific one for the rest of their lives out of loyalty. So I guess, I am in full agreement with you! 😄
6:57 While I agree the Germans are better in average than Americans.... No one is perfect, we are all failing because the modern industrialized lifestyle is part of the problem. Over consumptions etc. I do and did not agree with the traffic blockades, it is not helping the climate and not conductive for societal emergencies.
Hi Hayley, hmmmm, that's difficult. The immigrants: no other country in Europe has such a tolerant immigration system. Look to England, look to France, look to Italy and and and. You also have to remember that the population in Germany has increased by 6 million people in the last 6 years. We are now at 84 million and Germany is half the size of Texas. This leads to tensions because there are not enough space resources available. But what about the USA? The USA is huge and has a much tougher migration system. And: the USA has a long fence with Mexico. So it's a question of space and therefore quality of life. Let's think about it: Germany will have another economic downturn in the next few years. Then tolerance will be over and this will lead to an increase in right-wing parties again. So it's not that easy. Especially since most migrants are not brains, which we need, but hands. Hands that we have to put to work but cannot. Furthermore, a lot of migrants already work in Germany. Regards Stephan
England, France, and Italy are not really pinnacles of success regarding immigration and their economic stability.... Just saying (which might be a little mean but they aren't the best examples to prove a point). Germany does need hands (also brains dazu). If we use the healthcare industry as an example it is an interesting case-study. Germany outsources a lot of their nurses from neighboring countries (Romania, Poland, Ukraine etc). There are a few programs that allow a smooth transition from those countries into Germany to work in hospitals/doctor's offices or allow for people from those countries to come and do an Ausbildung to a particular healthcare field/work in Germany. It does work. It is about effort and motivation which no one has towards asylum seekers due to the idea that they are "not needed" "unwelcomed" and "less than"... Everyone can be taught a valuable skill... It is the proverb: Give a Man a Fish, and You Feed Him for a Day. Teach a Man To Fish, and You Feed Him for a Lifetime. The USA is tougher than Germany but we also let people work- illegal immigrants can work (and do work) in the USA and still pay taxes- not all of them but some. Regarding the space point- I somewhat agree... It is a little tighter in the country.
@@HayleyAlexis Hi Hayley, many thanks for your response. Of course, hands and brains are needed in the healthcare industry. I think you're right. It's just strange that I actually see and experience a lot of migrants working. I don't think and it's not true that they aren't allowed to work. But what everyone has to do: take a language course up to level A. Language is always the key. The key to success, to friendship, to work and to meaningful migration. I also don't think it's about people from Poland and Romania etc. because they are all allowed to work in Germany because these countries are in the EU. It's about the difficult people, the less adaptable people, those who rely on their mentality, their faith, their religion and don't want to integrate. The people here feel that and it grumbles and rumbles in the hearts of those who will vote for the AFD next year. And it's true! There are a lot of people from countries that are so difficult to integrate that problems arise that can hardly be solved on a mass scale.
5:40 i understand that not everyone vibes with the klimakleber, its super controversial even within the climate movement weather this is a good way of provoking change cause on one side there are people saying actually this is why politicians started discussing this again when during the pandemic fridays for future wasnt really protesting anymore and politicians were talking about it less when our global climategoals were urgent to act on. on the other side ofc stand the people saying that letzte generation has made a lot of people feel very personally attacked cause their main way of protesting affects the people on the street a lot and they feel personally attacked by that. which lg actually claims isnt what theyre trying to do, and it should be mentioned that theyre working by the principle of "create trouble or it will be double" - i however dont really agree with that either but i think the climatemovement got desperate and can you blame them you know! our climate politics are moving swiftly towards a 2.5 or even 3 or 4 degrees warmer globe by 2050 like. and capitalism IS failing us in a lot of ways, one of the biggest way it collectively fails us right now, is really how it blocks a transformation of our economy and especially our local economies towards cycle economies, sustainable ones. and that means we all gotta kind of transform too - actually we could have it g o o d itd just look quite different - but of course we're not on our way there by politicians not talking about how big of a deal that is for all of us, and us butting heads when it comes to even just changes like should we ban flights inside the country (in germany that means a lot less longer route than in the u.s. lol, obviously the u.s. would need to have regulations about how far you need to go by bus/train/car and needs a lot of flights to stay available), and a lot of politicians fucking us up basically, and feeling like they cant implement too many changes and big companies being able to do shit like it on a global climate conference to talk about not cancelling oil pls cause theyre sooooooo rich.
Inconvenience is part of the problem, it is an inconveniece to us all or it should be. The luxury lifestyle of the developed worlds is part of the problem. Before the industrial revolution we had our impact on nature and trying to live in balance with it. After the enlightenment and industrial revolution it completely went off balance. Plastic is a problem and more plastic is being consumed (also literal humans have micro plastics in them, and then we are not talking about PFAS, and all the other sh!t. Paradoxes like these are part of the problem. But we (some) humans think we can trick ourselfves out of this. The science that brought us this mess will get us out of that mess. Plastic soup, now evolution has created life in these so if we take them away what happens to these living organisms? We continually create a problem upon a problem while trying to manufacture ourselves a way out of it, making things worse and worse and worse. But it is very convenient. Why we continue to do so.
I guess you confuse or at least dont clearly differentiate immigrants and refugees - and they are not the same thing. refugee = temporary / immigrant = goal to become permanent citizens And as this determines and / or limits their abilities in germany as a foreigner - you cant mesure both by the same rules / expectations. Without this ones opionions can sound rather uneducated than unpopular tbh.
German mass beers are all roughtly the same. Because it's all basically slightly different lagers. Germany doesn't have much variety. It's good quality lagers but there are so many more beer styles other than light lager in the world.
Dear Hayley, As much as I respect your Opinion on Immigration but I think you got it a bit mixed up. Migrants that come to germany are mostly Asylum seekers and unlike the USA where most peoole that enter are legal through Visa Programs. The Problem with German Immigration is that it is not being controlled so therefore you need to put the People in closed off areas until their Identities get checked and the Asylum gets granted which is a very long ans stressful process for everybody and especially the communes since they are severely understaffed. If you were a migrant let's say from Africa who wants to work in Germany then you get all the tools you need on the Government site to apply for visa but sadly most economic Migrants choose to abuse our Asylum System in order to get entry into Germany since it's faster and you defacto will not get sent back to your country even if you are denied asylum and you will still get benefits from the Social System which is unfair to 1. Real Asylum Seekers and 2. To the Germans that have been paying taxes into the System their whole life. I think this is some of the reason why People are fed up and tend to go to AfD for Answers (another Factor is ofc the innere Sicherheit and cultural clashes with fundamental Islamic values that are a biproduct of the current Migration System)
The thing you are forgetting is all the illegals that work in the US. This is extremely difficult to do in Germany. You can pay a person $5 an hour with no benefits in the US. In Germany you can't do this to an employee. Undocumented immigrants are abused in the US, BUT they keep the US running.
I agree with almost everything you have said! But I think that being disappointed with what the current governing parties do, doesn’t justify voting for extremist parties (Especially the ones on the far right side of the political spectrum, given the German history.) The people who do that are bad persons.
Okay, I get your point of view, I do Hayley 13:13 But it is not like they have nothing they could do. It is harder for them to do them. [Also if you were talking this way, I would have been pointing out the other sides, which you are pointing towards.] They don't have the money to do the integrations, they can't work so they won't have the money to do what is expected. They will do jobs that pay schwartz geld, or do criminal jobs. It costs money (and time) to live and leave the door and be part of our consumer based society. You need to consume. The price tag attached can differ a lot. Learning the language for instance does not need to cost money, to learn it well does cost money. It needs doing and practice to begin with. Start small, just as long as you begin somewhere. Hallo, Gutten tag. Danke, und bitte. To learn about the culture doesn't need to cost loads of money, just time & exposure. The more money you have the more access you get, but that is the same for the common German person. Poor German kids are also less privileged. But also not all museums cost money. Understanding what it is about might be the difficult part. Go out into the society and learn from observations. There are plenty of community based groups, go there if need be. Go to the churches, not for the religion you can go to your synagoge or mosque for that, but to meet the people and culture. And the pastor could maybe help you with learning German? It is part of his job description to be a teacher for his flock. Christians are going less to the churches, it gives them something to fill up their time maybe. And do good towards the community in general. Tell you about the art, and customs/traditions if need be, the history. Then with that little that you now can do, you can begin to expand things. [This is not the only alternative route in life] Fear is part of our basic emotions and besides desire/joy/happiness one of the most powerful emotions to motivate us and our behaviors. Why commercials / propaganda's feed into these feelings mostly desire (sex sells) but with medications (USA) the fear is the bigger selling point. Fear is also often used to manipulate and control the pubilc and masses especially in politics and power. *COMMUNICATION* leads to *UNDERSTANDING* which leads to *COOPERATIONS* /connections Communication is not just talking it is also if not mostly listening to others to understand them, and where they are coming from. Thus being able to communicate well is a huge factor, in having people understanding you, which then can lead to you co-operating together to achieve the common goals. Connection/community, trust & safety.
"hinder" & "freedom" these work both ways. I get that the way they do it is too extreme, and not that helpful. But how does your constant flying from the US to EU and back hinder the life of other people because this does impact the climate. Butterfly effect. I can claim you should not hinder me and I have the freedom to do what I want, including harming nature and people. I say I have the freedom to protect and hinder. Protests are a hinder otherwise it would be a parade & float. These "hinder" traffic flow as well. But my guess its only "hinder" when it bothers yourself. Definition of hinder. We hinder youth from driving cars and using drugs. They don't yet have the freedom to experiment these things, with good reason. They as many teens do could go; stop hinder me from living my life and experiencing a mature lifestyle.
If your logic is that because I fly on a plane….. you have the right to destroy other people’s property and hurt people- that is a mental illness 🙃 and you should really see a therapist to discuss some deep rooted issues. The funny thing is you bring up me flying yet you are typing on a computer/keyboard that has parts from all over the world that were flown in to be able to be built for you. You are using the internet which is not eco friendly either. You can always point your finger at someone else regarding being eco friendly but in reality you trying to shame me for flying from the USA to EU- is just a deflection. If you really cared about being ecofrieldny you wouldn’t use the computer or internet, you would build your own home (because a lot of parts for homes are flown/shipped from overseas which is really bad for the environment), you wouldn’t eat meat, you would build your own bike (because the parts for bikes are being delivered from other areas of the world as well)…. And the list goes on. 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃
Haley, most likely I want to unsubscribe you right now because you're against climate saving ppl... But I don't get my hands off from the street to do that😊
😂😂😂 oh this comment was good... You can still stick around... If you wouldn't glue your hand to the ground I would probably be on board with your protesting :p
I want to say GIIIRRRLLLL back 🤣 because that is my personality- thank you for speaking my language! but I was called a conservative American Nazi by a German because I said Klimakleber should get harsher sentencing... Granted it was on Instagram and people tend to be a little more "free" with their insults but the comment calling me that had a few likes from other Germans so I am assuming they agreed with that person's point 😂
@@HayleyAlexisGuaranteed to belong to the same minority group of climate terrorists. The people who have never worked all their lives, grow up in rich homes and are bored. Financed by moguls in the oil business and other counterproductive professions and politics from abroad, most of whom do not even know about.
@@HayleyAlexis Yes Hayley, it is a controversially opinion, mostly because only the right-wing to far right-wing People ask for harsher sentences and they only do that for the clout (something that in PolSci is called Populismus and the world didn't have that great an experience with the last Populist that rose to power in Germany)… But asking for hard sentencing is the knee-jerk reaction of conservative reactionaries worldwide to any problem they have with other peoples opinions. And especially to problems that have solutions that would inconvenience their lifestyle in any way. No matter how much that lifestyle is the very cause of that problem. But it is your opinion and you are entitled to have it Another difference between the (European)Left to the conservative reactionaries the world over, as conservatives allow any opinion too, but only as long as its the same as theirs
@Luziferne What do you think is a fair punishment for the people that glue their hands to the street or break into airports to glue their hands to the tarmac?
And don't get me wrong, I don't see the common sense in the Aktionismus that the "Klimakleber" of the last Generation use, as it will not unite the Working Class to demand the changes that are necessary. But then why would they, they mostly come from the same bourgeoise mid-to-right Standpoints as Die Grünen… They are not left-wing but instead believe in the bourgeois state to make changes for the problems caused by Capitalism he very much did enabled in the first place anyway
with beer it's the same like with the different kinds of Italian pasta. You may think they taste all the same, but NO! There are subtle differences that only ein Eingeborener with experienced taste buds can feel.
You made me smile talking about how houses / towns in Germany look all similar... just thought the same about them in Florida. 😊
You might be on to something there..... Our houses really do look the same here....It's because we use a limited amount of home buileders here and it is like a puzzle that gets put together very easily/quickly.
You are so right in all what you said! Don’t be scared to share your opinion. ❤
You are smart, observant and accompany your acute observations with a very moderate tone. I wish politicians in both countries would listen to you. You deserve respect! Happy Holidays for you and Mike, families and friends.
Your opinion is your opinion, no reason to criticize you for it! But when it comes to beer, there will certainly be many with completely different opinions. :D
True and my opinion is that it is all like p;ss.
10yrs ago during summer time, i got to know 3 Syrian refugees at the bathing lake. We got into talks and they told me they have been stuck at this refugee camp for months now, waiting for their visa and work permit. These 3 guys were highly educated with Master degrees, one of them even graduated in Cologne, still had friends and contact to Cologne,- they all even had enough money to rent an apartment (!!!). But because they had to leave Syria due to war, they had to share a Sporthalle with 200 other refugees from all over the world..I was left stunned.
The part about the situation with the immigrants is so true! You hit the nail on the head! Its the same In Switzerland, unfortunately:(
Omg about the migration point you mentioned; I haven't heard that opinion from other people with similar experience. I have heard it from Latam people only. It is so nice to hear from you ❤️
Merry Christmas time and a happy New Year to you, Hayley, to Mike and to your family !
Thank you for all the interesting and funny videos which you've made for us.
towns and cities look all the same? I am honesty flabbergasted to hear this from an American of all things.
It is different. Some have 1 story, some have 2 stories, some have stucco, some have wood on the outside, some are a ranch style, etc. Now for paint some pinkish color, some are white, some are beige, some are blue, some are a coral color, some are a light purple, some are green, some are yellow, etc. Germany doesn't play with color like the US does (especially Florida. Florida goes nuts).
@@jessicaely2521 and american houses are all a pile of junk when a tornado comes by
We have brick houses, concrete houses, wooden houses, timbered houses ... there is no punching through a wall in german houses unless you want to break your hand
and yes we could paint them all the different colours we want ... we prefer historical colours and colours that match the neighbors
I don’t understand why Germany doesn’t want immigrants to work. That’s the main reason immigrants come to the US. You get a work permit while your asylum application is pending. Or you immigrate illegally and work for cash. I agree you want immigrants to assimilate and working is a major way to accomplish that goal. The jobs are mostly low wage and backbreaking jobs Americans don’t want anyway.
Just in case anyone of you wonders what's on the paper taped to the bed on the right side. I zoomed in and sharpened the image to make it readable and it reads: _"Mike, please stick your butt out from under the blanket before you fart!"_ 🎅
I'll simply choose to believe you 😂
Thanks now my mind can find peace again!
It is from when I was in 3rd grade I think and I wrote I needed to be more sensitive to other people's feelings... I was very emotionally intelligent/aware in my younger days..... It is still an issue for me though!
All Bavarian Beer most people in Germany never heard of. Famous Beers are Krombacher, Warsteiner Becks Jever
Despite disapproving of some of their policies I think the current German government is doing quite well given that they have to cope with some formidable crises and given that it is a coalition government of three really different parties. They've probably exacerbated the polarized political mood but some of it has been inherited from the past and some of it is due the challenges of the current situation being exploited by media and political opponents (and possibly external influences). I hope that enough people refuse to think that there's an easy way out of the current difficulties. It's certainly tempting to look for a new prophet or magician - just as certain as there can't be one.
I don’t agree with everything you said, but I respect your opinions.
With the beer, I'm totally with you. And almost every time someone says drink this, don't drink that, it's more a religious choice then everything else. You can try it like i did a couple of months ago. Saying you would make a blind test with them, say you have 6 different types of beer, but only buy two, sometimes it even work with only one type (then you should serve them with different temperatures). Serve it in neutral cups (blind taste) and see what happens next. They start an epic monologue why sort a is so much better then sort b and so on. And you have something to smile about.
To the things we could do better. Yes, the current politics are a catastrophe, at least my mother says this every time we meet. But the fact that the political "middle" become thinner and thinner, that problem way older that a couple of years. Maybe it was not at the media so often, but that is because there were other things at this time like covid, syrian war and "refugee crisis". I won't say that I'm not concerned about it, you're right with your analysis, extreme political parties like AfD raised because the "normal" parties just made a bad job. But the only thing normal people like me can do is to explain to everybody who is willing to listen, how bad they are at the end. But many people won't listen, and parties like the AfD have some politician's in their rows who can talk very well. If you don't dig deeper or do a little research, it might sound not that bad, especially for many germans who are not interested in politics at all.
The immigration process on the other hand is something I've no experience with, like you and the process in the US. But i keep it in mind, you never know when fate gives you an opportunity to change something or to talk to someone who's able to do so.
Thats it for now, thank you for your feedback, bye
I agree with most of your opinions but even if I didn’t I’d be fine with the way you are presenting your opinions.
Happy Belated Merry Christmas 🎅 🎄 💓! I hope you and yours had a good one.
Absolutely agree with all your options (except the beer one, but only because I can't drink beer so I don't feel qualified to judge its taste in any way xD )
Once a year I spend a month in Oberbayern. And I am looking forward to it, and go to the Getränkemarkt, and feel like I am in beer wonderland. All these different variations, all the subtle differences, even from the same brewery, wow. I never buy a case of 20 of the same, but usually 4 of each. Tegernseer Spezial is so different from Tegernseer 1806 Max Joseph, and completely different from Andechser Weizen naturtrüb. But it even depends on the temperature, when it's really hot like last summer, then I prefer a clear Reutberger Kloster Weisse. I guess tasting and enjoying the subtle differences is what defines a 'connoisseur'. Prost ! 😋😎
The beer topic is indeed a problem and I totally agree. I often hear it as "Das Fernsehbierproblem" like all beers in the TV taste the same because there was a time when everyone looked to the others, so everyone met in the middle. I wish restaurants would offer more beer styles than only Pilsener and Weizen (or Helles and Weizen for bavaria) instead of 3 Pilsener. There are so many styles, Schwarzbier, Märzen, Sauerbier, Rotbier, verschiedene Bockbier, braune Biersorten...
I so feel you and as a German I can see most the points you make. Even the beer one! The one with the houses though, yeah. Drop me into any old town with towncenters made from halftimbered houses, yeah they also look mostly the same. But on a general level you have to move more than just 2 or 3 towns over to notice slight differences and that accumulates the farther you move in each direction. Except for the Ruhrgebiet which basically got flattened in WW II and only very few select historic buildings have been carefully reconstructed. The rest just followed the need to become sevicable again as quickly as possible. And yeah, the political parties have all clustered so tighly around left or right that they all just offer a centristic blah view that they all feel the same. And extrmist parties like the AfD seem to offer people a perty with a definitive standpoint. None of the established parties are positioning themselves just the right amount left and right of the center that they would look at least like being actual different opinions anymore.
Beer: A very difficult topic. _"Drinking beer is a matter of habit."_ There were tests with brewery directors who couldn't identify their beer in a blind test.
1. General remark: I agree, when you compare a Lager with another Lager, a Weißbier with another Weißbier. They will taste very similar within the range of the same type of brew.
2. When you don't have _your_ beer, meaning you change the brand very often, tasting differences is more difficult.
3. If you want to taste the difference you must drink a lot of beer. You must condition your taste buds. Let's say, you drink 50 to 100 bottles of beer "A" (and no other brand in-between) and then drink a bottle of beer "B" maybe directly after beer "A". Make sure that when beer "A" is from Munich, beer "B" must be from somewhere far away, Rosenheim, Ingolstadt, Passau, Ulm...or even farther away in any direction.
4. Reason: How much difference can you get when you have more or less the same ingredients in almost the same composition ratio? So what are the differences? The first is water, the second is hops (especially the amount of hops -- and this is a spice giving some bitterness -- there is very little in there), the third is the processing of the barley malt.
There is some beer that I will avoid, there is some beer that I prefer over others. But most often I drink the local beer from where I currently am and I enjoy it. And yes, at home I have the same three or four different types of beer on a regular basis. And also yes, I can taste differences. But then, I have some 50 years of practice...
Hayley, thanks you are right with most except the beer part :) when it comes to housing I thinkthat the quality of buildings in the US is poor in comparism to Germany. The reason of German places look quite similar comes from the regulations and the need to save money...
Also, I read that Germany has a lot of regulations on how to build homes more efficiently and to optimize space. So while we just build square homes- Germany uses more shapes and dimension to create space!
Just like most countries Germany has different tasting beers from the various regions. The beers noted here are Bavarian beers that are markedly different from Northern Beers like the Dortmunder range, Action, Union and Kronen that have a stronger taste.
They still taste the same to me..... Like I said there are different "types" of beers but when going into the difference between the variety beers under each category there is no big difference to me.
Outside of Cologne, everyone agrees: Kölsch is sh.t.😂
@@HayleyAlexis Oh Dear! I get your comments but like most things, be it beer or wine or fashion or cars or food or ....... so many other things in each group there will be those that are connoisseurs, who could separate the finest differences between each example that to the incognisanti are all the same. .
Very true.... Mike doesn't understand how I can differentiate between particular purse brands :p he says they all look the same
There are always problems between theory and practice. Example back in my day... lol... I worked at the MCD and I started working there and there were different rules and regulations in place then after working there for a while. They wanted us to put on plastic gloves for hygiëne while placing the meat patties on the grills, and heat and hot dripping fats and plastic gloves don't work together well. Causing burns caused by melting plastics on the hands, worse than just a fat drip which if accustomed with, (begining working my finger tips couldn't deal with heat the way they could after doing it for a while, I could accidentally touch the grills while placing the patties and not burn after a while, before I probably already had a burn before actually making contact) and removed quick enough did less damage.
Theory vs Practice.
Also the grills are so hot, that even if the meat had bacteria on them they would be dead after the meat was grilled.
So why use the plastic gloves to begin with? Hygiëne?
There had always been hygiëne rules in place, even before the plastic gloves. This was so that customers that had a view on the kitchens felt like it was more hygenic. End of discussion, make belief to increase PR and how consumers viewed an "unhealthy" product to begin with. Manipulations - life is filled with them. And the workers had to suffer untill they stopped complying, and we received the patty placers, long think plastic parts that you used to get the patty from the metal spatula that took them from the grill and help you slide and place it on the burger. Hygiene rules that worked. This also happened by hand as I began working there. Which you guessed it needed hands that had been in the kitchen long enough to stand the heat.
1:21 well, the same could be said of the US.... once you get out of the downtown core of a city, it's all endless repeating suburbia.... i guess the only advantage of that is when you move to a different state within the US, you just have to look up where the nearest Home Depot or Walmart or Taco Bell is, and you're set for the first few weeks.... (i'm vegetarian, so McDonald's USA has nothing for me, even the fries contain beef fat)
PS: the glasses look good on you!
The Mcdonalds in the USA are shit unfortunately. You know what I miss from the Mcdonalds in Germany though? The vegan ts I think was the name- they revamped it and put a new vegan burger out but I prefer the older version- it tasted AMAZING and I actually preferred it over the meat burgers (aside from the seasonal big rösti).
Great insights! You have a very balanced viewpoint. I agree with your point about many Germans wanting to group you into the extremes if you hold a strong viewpoint. That was annoying to me when I lived there. Many Germans consider themselves 'liberal' and 'progressive' but are actually pretty closed-minded when someone believes in something that they do not. Which is actually similar to many Americans! 😅
I am pro-opinion and have very mixed liberal/conservative views. I think the issue is where and when does human decency and empathy/sympathy need to be implemented? A lot of people want to have strong viewpoints and get mad when they are not fully accepted by others or have a reaction that is unsatisfactory to their expectations. I also think it is all about delivery.... Example: There is a difference between saying you want a reformed immigration system because you don't like the current immigration process vs saying you don't want any immigrants or want to throw all immigrants out or that you find all immigrants to be shitty (not necessarily towards you but it is the easiest example to use).
You mean being tolerant to intolerant people??? Well,well...
"actually pretty closed-minded" - yep applies to more Germans I ever though possible. Corona exposed this. Though it probably is like in : The majority are actually liberal and progressive, but the narrow minded are those which are the loudest by at least one order of magnitude. Two decades ago I would have recommended: Travel. Today I can recommend: There are so many good youtube channels of foreigners living in our country and Germans living in other countries which show what we have in common, and what is bad and good on both sides from an outsider/insider perspective.
Point 2 is imho more about if you are a beer lover or not. I as well cannot detect much differences between the whole beer stuff, but my boyfriend would be just the other way round!😂
Not "mean" Haley... Honest...that is what I want from you about Germany
💯💯 agree with the immigration situation 👏🏽👏🏽
Bier. Auch als Nicht-Biertrinker weiss ich: Bier besteht in Bayern seit dem 23. April 1516 aus Hopfen, (Gersten- /Weizen-)Malz, Hefe und Wasser = bayrisches Reinheitsgebot.
1906 wurde die Regel für ganz Deutschland übernommen.
In allen Bundesländern ausser in Bayern darf Zucker zugesetzt werden
Gut gedacht 👍
I also think that lot of small cities look the same in the housing area. And I also drink nearly all sorts and brands of beer... So there is no conflict at all.And Klimakleber are just nuts because they do no improve things but make life harder for all the other people.
Girlllllll i agreee with you on the extreme povs
It really is crazy how many people I see becoming more extreme in their thinking!
Hahahaha - me as a German totally agree with the "beer-thing". Beer ist beer - sometimes one more bitter/sweet than another one, but always typical beer-taste. I live near Cologne and never understand the hype of all the different Kölsch. They all taste more or less the same to me 😛🤣
Regarding the last point. I don’t see any difference between the US and Germany except that the USA makes everything way more difficult for Immigrants since they don’t let anyone in the first place.
It all depends on who is in office. My husband was trying to get his greencard through marriage for the US when Trump was president. It took 4 years for him to get his greencard. Another friend got his greencard through marriage under Biden administration. It took 10 months. They were both getting their greencard from Switzerland.
In the US as an immigrant you can work pretty quickly where in Germany you can't. The US has made it easy for illegals to work in the US and they even pay taxes. This doesn't happen easily in Germany.
Illegals takes jobs that no one wants to work for low pay. Some illegals will go for being paid $5 an hour. Companies pay illegals $7.50 an hour to put on a new roof. An American wouldn't work in 100+ (38+) degree weather for $7.50. My company came to the point either you hire illegals and keep the payment $7.50 or you pay at least $15 an hour. They chose to pay $15 an hour.
I mean the USA has a lot of people immigrating to the country even with it being so difficult (illegally and legally).
I do see a big difference in getting people to work and allowing people to work. Once you get asylum status in the USA you can usually work- in Germany that is not the case or it is a grey area. Also if you are in the USA illegally you can still "legally" pay taxes on your earned income which is unheard of in Germany.
I also think it is important to note that Germany has the shit end of the stick of being located in Europe and being the economic powerhouse of the continent. Most people coming to Germany (for asylum/refugee status) are fleeing war, economic instability, political stress etc. which they can do very easily due to everything being connected via land (or smaller bodies of water)- Germany does not have a fence (like you pointed out about the USA) and is landlocked unlike the USA. When I was in the US embassy in Germany there were a bunch of Syrian and Ukrainian people applying for asylum status in the USA but getting denied due to being in Germany and no longer being in "danger" which leads back to the earlier point I mentioned about Germany having the shit end of the stick - it is the last station in the "western" world where a lot of the immigrants in Germany can go due to the asylum "loopholes". Do I think it is ok? No but it is the truth.... and unless Germany says NO immigrants- it has to fix the system to better integrate people.
I'm not energized enough to argue about anything, so I just leave a totally unmotivated comment for the algo :D (I hope you understand my kaputten sense of humor by now and take it as such :D)
I totally agree with you regarding the immigration topic. Immigrants should be allowed to work.
I like the US somehow where people which are totally illegal in the country can easily work and even pay taxes. That's impossible in Germany.
Yeah it is an interesting concept we have...One thing you can do in the USA is WORK.... and PAY TAXES. Once you are in the country they will let you 😂😂
More unpopular opinions! How else do we grow?
2:34 I'm guessing the first picture is a suburb of a city somewhere in a more Southern German state, maybe Munich? The second one looks more Northern, maybe Hamburg or Bremen. The third picture is from a place like Düsseldorf or Bochum.
....Umm very good guesses but I don't remember which cities I chose... oops!!
Still waiting for some unpopular opinions...
Maybe you need bigger contrast than Germans/Europeans, as an American (bigger = better), to notice the differences they are talking about. As you talk about the beers (but I understand) the difference is what you talk about, der abtrunk und Nachgeschmak. About the villages and certain building styles... like the Holzfachwerk homes, we have them throughout Europe. To me these always feel very "German" because I see them more in Germany, but they are a certain style of building/constructing. We also have them in the Netherlands. In the Netherlands there are also differences in hausing style but also in part to do with wars and rebuildings, and era of homes. My guess is it is similar in Germany. And it is all connected to the history of the places.
The 1950, '60, and 70's homes. Why these also look so similar in building/constructing styles. And the layout of the living spaces are similar.
me i fully agree in all points ...greeting from nothern Germany
Thanks for watching! and I hope you have a wonderful Wednesday!!!
To be honest all cities looking the same - at least their pedestrian zones is quite true, sadly. With the rise of online shopping they continue becoming more and more similar even more (with more shop space empty and being offered to rent).
Cities: Of course they look similar within a country :D.
Beers: Yes, agree. We have documentations on TV with blind tastings where beer fans fail to distinguish. Exceptions are only local trübes Starkbier or similar.
Klimakleber: Yep, they are useless since they block everything and don't even move for emergency vehicles. There are better ways to protest like our farmers do with their Traktors. They cause a bit trouble, but they don't block and move their vehicle if it blocks something since they don't want to hurt the people. As another channel explained: Depending on the city and region of USA police officers might tear them off the streets with no regard of their hands due to "their freedom to do this, their own fault for the consequences", whereas other regions would drive around and ignore them.
Current government: Mixed whether it is the govern party, or the party which is not NOT the government. The biggest party currently not in government shifted their tone in such extreme ways I never expected, so I blame it on them.
Immigration is not best: SO TRUE! We need them, and all those Handwerkers want them, all those hospitals want them, the list of companies and places that long for them (to do work which seems like Germans don't want to do any more?). Even if they get a job and are productive they are always in danger to be sent back.
So for "unpopular opinion": Most of it is spot one, and only two of them (cities and government) are "look closer" but not "disagree" or "completely wrong" things :D. Good statistics!
I like seeing you in a VAUDE dress (apart from all the content you create) 👍
One of my favorite articles of clothing...so comfy!!!
Uh! Now that she is talking about politics, what is our Bundeskanzler up to these days? Haven't heard of him in a while (I try to forget his Christmas speech or whatever that was). And you are right, the Immigration and integration policy is more than questionable. Anything that benefits society rather than the economy gets pushed back.
So to the houses: the roofs are usually up!😂
Hayley, hast du rauchen angefangen (als Stress Eliminator beim Umzug)?
I do not smoke
I don‘t like the most bavarian beers, but I really like „Kölsch“ (Beer from Cologne) and „Alt“ (Beer from Düsseldorf).
Oh my... I am not the biggest fan of Kölsch
How do you dilute water? Kölsch 🤷♂️
How?!? Kölsch and Alt? That’s sacrilege!
Just joking, everyone is entitled to their tastebuds, even though I don’t always like the same tastes. But some people might disagree with you just because of principle.
If you fill in Kölsch or Alt at the top, you‘ll get Löwenbräu at the bottom…
Agree in terms of keeping immigrants from working. the current government has done so much wrong, but in this case, they are on the right way to change exactly that.
Set aside your pitiful tastebuds regarding beer, non of this is especially unpopular here.
All of that is mainstream.
😂😂😂 pitiful is such a stab in the heart!
Hayley these systems have been thought-out and created this way with reasonings behind them, for better and worse. *We don't like silver platters unless you have a silver spoon to match it with* which you have been born with. They don't get given out with every birth. Since we also don't want to share the crumbs we had already been fighting over.
In the Netherlands there was already a housing shortage, and the influx of regugees from the wars did not make that problem smaller but bigger.
These people some have issues with, the happiness seekers (expads) often fly under the radar.
They entered the country in a different way. Public controle and desings, one is more the outsider comming in than the other, but it should be the different way around.
Economically we are exactly doing what makes the most profit for the nation as we are doing right now.
It also has to do with conservation of the dominant cultural aspects. Germany is still Germany even if the demographic now is different ethnical than in the middle agese or pre-hisotry with the Neanderthalers and Homo Sapience and them inter-breeding. Things change, but some concepts remain, others don't. Why? Cultural identities? What makes a German German? Why am I Dutch and not German? My location once was "German", is speak, read and understand German (writing is a different cup off tea).
I hope I make sense in what I am trying to express/convey.
Citizenships in the context as we know them today all have to do with the USA, we had migrations long before the US existed. But what made an US citizen an US citizen? And this way of thinking by the leading western world spilled over to the Old world from the New world, and the New world order of things. What makes a German a German?
People with "German" ancestory in the USA might not be "German" in the context of the modern worlds. Where I live was holy Roman Empire aka German, it is now Dutch, it has been "Belgian", it has been under French, Spanish, and even Roman rule/oppressions.
So people that went to settle in the US while it was Holy Roman Empire are "Germans" if their ancestors form the same location migrated to the US a couple of hundred years later (depending) they would have been "Dutch" ancestry/roots in the USA.
Burgerschap was different in the middle ages vs the post modern times.
So Bavaria and the death of the Fairytale King and the creation of a republic vs a monarchy. Bavarian Illuminati. History and knowing your roots before you can have strong braches. Was it good to end monarchy? Yes, did they have to kill the King? Maybe not, but a faerie (gay) king was already a problem in these days. Now his castle is appreciated in a different way then back in the days as he started the constructions by the people that live in the surrounding village and his kingdom. Neuschwanstein is the iconic castle we drool over since it was part of the Disney Castle logo design.
06:40 spoken like a true frequent-flyer, like a true american
Why should upward social mobility be more grated towards a person that wasn't born and raised in the system they entered to benefit from?
That is what is part of this "envy" "hatred". The social inequalities that had already been existing, and the social structures and classes.
"Een dubbeltje wordt geen kwartje" without loopholes, a filled seat is taken, there are only X amount of seats at the (round) table.
Things are more global now - the global elites and the global common people.
No one said anything about geared towards one groug but not the other. These things can coexist- you do know that right? That there can be upward mobility for Germans and non-Germans living in the country.
@@HayleyAlexis As long as you also realize these coexist.
I was just expressing the sentiments I've heard from the people that vote (extreme) right in my environment and often disagree with. Even if the complaints are not just pulled out of thin air. There are issues and problems.
Why is politics in Europe going to the right?
We recently had elections in the Netherlands; PVV won. The Dutch Trump that had been around before 9/11 happened, Fitna & Mohammed cartoon are his flavor. Housing crisis is part of the reasons why the public is getting more right in reaction towards immigrants and refugees.
I own a house, this is not part of my concern anymore. I don't have children that are in need of a house and living with their parents till late in their 20's. Stuff like that.
Why can't there just be more houses built? Climate and climate goals.
Just to be clear I voted GL/PVDA... but I live in the Provice that is known for the voting for PVV, and the connection to poverty!
The Financial Diet had a good video on this subject; How the wealthy gaslight America. Uploaded to YT 2 days ago
This is not limited to the US.
Oh, the approach _we_ take to handling immigrants, in the US, is a perpetual source of _embarrassment_ for me. Over and over again, (for more than _30 years,_ now), it keeps popping up in the news this "border crisis" at our southern border. We don't have one of _those._ What we keep _experiencing_ at out southern border is, perpetually, a _symptom_ of a much more _systemic_ problem.
Where we have the _actual_ crisis is in our _education_ system. Consider the relationship between Germany and France, for a moment. These are a couple countries that _border_ each other and have since well before everyone currently living in either country was _born._ Accordingly, it has developed naturally that there is a healthy stock of people in _France_ who also understand _German,_ and there is a healthy stock of people in _Germany_ who also understand _French._ This is normal, natural and healthy. This is the natural _inclination_ between these two countries because they _deal_ with each other so regularly. Unavoidably, that's how it _is_ with two countries that border each other.
Now there never has been a time in US history when we have not shared a land border with a country where the main language is _Spanish,_ so there never has been a time in the history of US public schools when it did not make sense to teach fluency in _this_ language. What has stopped us? What _continues_ to stop us?
You might not agree with the way they protest, I hope you agree on the matter why they protest. Also I think most people don't acknowledge the gravity of the issue, it is too big and too complex for them, in many ways it is for me. Many balls up in the air. There are many ways of protesting - these did get attention as others more "friendly" protests can and will get ignored, that is why the extremism needs to get ramped up to match with the already existing extremism madness. The deniers, the industries that continue this. I mean the climate problem could have been tackled in 1979 - 1989. This was the decade we could have done most of the preventions but money and profits and conveniences outweight. US got UK and Japan to pull out in that agreement, US pulled out from the Paris agreement for a couple of years and up went the methane and other gases exchaust that fulled the climate problem even more. The war are a poblem and then the natural disasters and influences we have less control over that are part of the problem. Humans are mostly the problem in this. We also claim to be these superior animals that hold control and influence over life - but now we are not this because that would require actions. And we don't like to do these, it's less convenient for ourselves. And so on.
your points are all valid with me!
All beer tasting the same ...
Hayley, after returning to Germany be prepared to be urged to drink weird amounts of beer just to convice you that they don't taste the same. ... will be an interesting experience 😅😅😅
A pollutive and toxic lifestyle [6:19] sure, what's wrong with that? Very peaceful when it causes water wars and climate refugees. It's a bigger picture, and all the sudden the Bigger= better flies out off the window in the American live for the moment lifestyle. Short term versus long term thinking.
Ich bin auch kein Biertrinker und für mich schmeckt das auch alles gleich. Danke fürs Video
Dann hast du auch keine Ahnung. Allein schon durch über die Verwendung des Malzes gibt es stark unterschiedliche Süßegrade. Probier mal ein Jever und ein Porter. Wenn du da keinen Unterschied schmeckst, dann kannst du auch eine Orange geschmacklich nicht von einem Waschlappen unterscheiden.
geht mir genauso 🙂, dass ich Bier nicht mag. Darum erkenne ich auch keinerlei Unterschiede...
Ja, ich habe keine Ahnung. Weil ich kein Biertrinker bin und Bier eklig finde
@@reinerbergkamen7852Bier muss man ja auch nicht mögen. Nur sollte man sich dann auch eines Urteils in Bezug auf die Unterschiede enthalten.
@@rairei selbst wenn man es nicht mag, sollte man den Unterschied zwischen einem Jever und einem Malzbier schmecken können. Der Unterschied bei der Süße ist vergleichbar wie der zwischen Mineralwasser und Fanta. Oder schmeckst du da auch keinen Unterschied?
Is the current german gouvernment the best? No, it isn't. Would the former gouvernment had done it better? Probably not. Thats the reason why we wanted to have a change. The immigration system is a good example. The problems are known for many years and the former gouvernment had enough time to change it, but they wasted the time and did nothing. And now they blame the current gouvernment for issues the didn't solve when they were in charge. It is always easier to blame others instead of helping to find solutions to make it better.
The immigration laws are from a time when we had too many people out of work. So it was indended to keep the immigrants from working in germany. The current gouvernment already changed some laws and is willing to do more. But it is not possible to change everything at once.
Many germans share your opinion about the Klimakleber so I wouldn't put it in the topic of unpopular opinions about germany.
I can understand all the points, but a wheat beer is something quite different from a pilsner.
Then there's our government, which is a really complex issue. I would definitely like to defend it somewhat, especially because everything here is being blamed on the Green Party.
For the first time we have a government made up of three parties, the SPD (labor party), "The Greens" and the FDP (a liberal party for the wealthy). The election was in September 2021, so still fully in the Corona period. There is still the Left Party, but they have made themselves unelectable due to their closeness to Russia. The AFD are the populists, the main thing is to oppose and promise simple slogans for complicated problems. The last party is the conservative CDU/CSU (CSU in Bavaria), which has almost always formed the government, usually together with the FDP.
Angela Merkel governed together with the SPD, 16 long years, grand coalition, terrible. This came to a close with the 2021 federal election and the Germans wanted one way or the other, so after long negotiations this government of 3 parties was created. Normally a normal government formation takes 5-6 months, but there was pressure because of corona and then there was also the Ukraine war in February 2022 and the energy crisis. We have had significant price rises, inflation and it scares people so much that they listen to pied pipers.
The CDU/CSU + SPD had the debt brake included in our constitution back then (2011?). It can only be written in or changed (constitution) with a 2/3 majority. Investments that are urgently needed are missing, and that would be important for a green AND social policy.
What is also missing is a strong Federal Chancellor. We also only had the choice between plague and cholera, Olaf Scholz or Armin Laschet, as well as Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump.
Well, enough politics for today and you can disagree. It was a great video and a little criticism never hurt anyone, thanks for your criticism.
I actually agree with the majority of your comment... I am pretty relaxed regarding politics and other people's opinions/views. At the end of the day we all live on this floating rock together and need to make it the best it can possibly be and the best way to do that is through COMMUNICATION. Even if it is only via RUclips- it still sparks an intersting exchange between two individuals.
@@HayleyAlexis I totally agree :)
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If you don't taste a difference between the beers, it may be a mixture of low experience and because of the low temperature beers are served. You said it yourself: you notice differences when the beer gets warmer. That applies to most drinks. Some beers really taste similar, but there are big differences between others.
You said the German law (there is no special Bavarian law by the way) just allows four ingredients. That's true: water, hops, malt and yeast. But your conclusion that they can't taste that different with all of them having the same four ingredients is a misbelief. You wouldn't say something like that about wine, would you?
The type and taste of a beer differ a lot mostly due to different kinds of yeast and malt and a huge variety of hops. Pilsner beer usually tastes bitter. Some more (like _Jever)_ and others less. And of course it makes a big difference wether you use wheat or barley for your malt, or top yeast (Kölsch, Wheat beer) or bottom yeast (Pilsner, Helles/Lager).
The biggest impact on taste has the used hops. Ever tried IPA?
None of what you say is all too strange - I know that for every point you mentioned, there are Germans who are similarly minded. Perhaps the exact combination is ... particularly Hayley-y. But it certainly is not even an "only-an-American"-effect.
And yes, there are several points where I quite disagree with you (beer taste for example), but on all those, I have good friends who are of a similar opinion as you.
Your take on current German politics is not necessarily unpopular with me. We could argue about details - but overall I have not even the slightest problem with what you say.
Why can't they work, and what do they need to do before they are aloud to work?
Integration, speak the language, understand the dominant culture, traditions, norms and ethics.
It does make sense in that view, it doesn't always work in practice.
People that migrate often are part of a certain social class, similar to people that can afford to flee a war torn country.
But most people that flee have left their wealth and belongings behind, not all is liquid and can be taken with them, it costs money to go/flee.
So it all has to do with the money you can bring into the dominant culture you want to become a part of.
If you can't pay to integrate, you will have to find ways to make money, which in turn is part of the economy at large. Even schwartz geld, and criminal money is money that in ways (if laundered) is part of the economy and GDP in general.
It's a tightrope of managing the public, having control and order in the nations.
There is an increase in terror threats also again, these things won't help with the public perceptions on immigrants.
Resources are "limited" and profit is the main motivator in western economical based societies.
That is actually not true...I came to Germany not knowing any of the language and with $0 (or very minimal) money in my bank account.... I was able to make a life in Germany due to the simple fact that German people (and the German government in some way) took a chance on me and helped me..... It is possible to foster people that want to live in the country if the country is welcoming and a little flexible.
@@HayleyAlexis Could this reaction still be part towards a different reaction posted?
Because I don't fully see the connection with this specific post and the reaction: "That is actually not true"
This post was not personal towards you specific. But while on this track:
Why is your entery into Germany that different in comparison with other types of immigrants and refugees (the people in the housing you talked about in the video)?
It had nothing to do with the fact you had an American citizenship it is "easier" vs other nationalities/citizenships?
You where of working age and spending age, these economical factors matter, don't you think?
True it is possible to foster people that want to live and participate into the country they live in. What is considered little can be debated, what is the minimum? Are they not already doing these things?
I think the minimum is getting people processed more quickly and allowing them a fast track into the working field.
Yes, being a US citizen had a huge impact on how easily I could move around Germany. There are thousands of working and spending age non-us & non-european immigrants in the country not able to work, not able to open bank accounts, not able to move to a different city/home... and many other things
@@HayleyAlexis It should be a bare minimum especially in the digital age.
But also the counter requests, like speaking the language and understanding and participating in the culture. Integration and assimilations aspects. These take time and effort on both sides.
A housing shortage and crisis will lead to more racism and me first mentality. That is quite typical human psychological behavior.
Simple example; Amsterdam, the city center and the use of English vs Dutch language. In Deutsland sprecht man Deutsch. There are logical reasons why this happened, but with expat living the city has changed, incl. students and tourists. And the Dutch mentality to switch to the more dominant communication language.
So is Amsterdam still the Captial city of the Netherlands if there is less and less "Dutch" language and culture?
The Dutch language also seems to be easier qualified than culture. What is the Dutch culture? There is a diverisity within the native dutch culture to begin with.
We have migant workers. They don't speak the language well, in part understandable.
But some people end up here for year after year, after year and they still are not able to fully understand or speak Dutch.
I trained migrant workers to do what I did, so my section of the factory could move to Eastern Europe, leaving me without a job, and having trained the new cheaper labor.
Dobre, not? I understand a little Polish without ever having been to Poland.
I don't blame the workers I blame the boss and economic systems.
Workers working for the legal minimum wages as the owner get the legal profits.
Rules to opening bankaccounts & no account = not the spending demographic.
Even for me it wasn't always easy to open a bank account. No job, no income makes it harder to find a bank, switch banks, etc.
Germany is not just pure socialist it is also capitalistic. We became the European Union in part to economically compete with the Union of the States of North America the captialistic nation on the globe. Capitalism did not start in the USA.
c'mon .. " i can`t taste any difference in different beers"! .. listing different breweries out of munich...
Compare a munich beer to, let´s say a Jever ... Then we`ll talk again ... ;)
The reason I listed those is because I know them in and out but I have had other beers in other areas of Germany I just don't know their names like in Munich/Bavaria. They still taste the same to me :p
@@HayleyAlexis you are obviously and definitely NOT a beer person ;)
German here. After having watched th ewhole Video I`m still waiting for the unpopular part.
It’s funny you consider some of them unpopular as I would probably agree with most of them and so would most people I know!
I think besides the activists themselves, the vast majority is heavily annoyed with the Klimakleber’s illegal actions. It’s simply not okay. And polls show less and less support for them. Same goes for our current government, I think it’s the least popular one we had since the start of the BRD. I also don’t know anyone who’s happy with the current immigration system, it clearly created more problems than opportunities for both the immigrants and our country. A complete fail!
And yeah, while there’s a distinct german look to our cities, I don’t see much of a difference. Unless you have historic villages or old towns, then you can at least point to the general region of the country. But houses built after the 1920s look the same for the most part. That seems to be the case for all countries I’ve been to though. The US being an exception simply because of its size.
And yes! Beer from different brands does taste very similar. I believe picking a brand is much like picking a football club and people just support that specific one for the rest of their lives out of loyalty.
So I guess, I am in full agreement with you! 😄
6:57 While I agree the Germans are better in average than Americans.... No one is perfect, we are all failing because the modern industrialized lifestyle is part of the problem. Over consumptions etc. I do and did not agree with the traffic blockades, it is not helping the climate and not conductive for societal emergencies.
Hi Hayley, hmmmm, that's difficult. The immigrants: no other country in Europe has such a tolerant immigration system. Look to England, look to France, look to Italy and and and. You also have to remember that the population in Germany has increased by 6 million people in the last 6 years. We are now at 84 million and Germany is half the size of Texas. This leads to tensions because there are not enough space resources available. But what about the USA? The USA is huge and has a much tougher migration system. And: the USA has a long fence with Mexico. So it's a question of space and therefore quality of life. Let's think about it: Germany will have another economic downturn in the next few years. Then tolerance will be over and this will lead to an increase in right-wing parties again. So it's not that easy. Especially since most migrants are not brains, which we need, but hands. Hands that we have to put to work but cannot. Furthermore, a lot of migrants already work in Germany. Regards Stephan
England, France, and Italy are not really pinnacles of success regarding immigration and their economic stability.... Just saying (which might be a little mean but they aren't the best examples to prove a point).
Germany does need hands (also brains dazu). If we use the healthcare industry as an example it is an interesting case-study. Germany outsources a lot of their nurses from neighboring countries (Romania, Poland, Ukraine etc). There are a few programs that allow a smooth transition from those countries into Germany to work in hospitals/doctor's offices or allow for people from those countries to come and do an Ausbildung to a particular healthcare field/work in Germany. It does work. It is about effort and motivation which no one has towards asylum seekers due to the idea that they are "not needed" "unwelcomed" and "less than"... Everyone can be taught a valuable skill... It is the proverb: Give a Man a Fish, and You Feed Him for a Day. Teach a Man To Fish, and You Feed Him for a Lifetime.
The USA is tougher than Germany but we also let people work- illegal immigrants can work (and do work) in the USA and still pay taxes- not all of them but some.
Regarding the space point- I somewhat agree... It is a little tighter in the country.
@@HayleyAlexis Hi Hayley,
many thanks for your response. Of course, hands and brains are needed in the healthcare industry. I think you're right. It's just strange that I actually see and experience a lot of migrants working. I don't think and it's not true that they aren't allowed to work. But what everyone has to do: take a language course up to level A. Language is always the key. The key to success, to friendship, to work and to meaningful migration. I also don't think it's about people from Poland and Romania etc. because they are all allowed to work in Germany because these countries are in the EU. It's about the difficult people, the less adaptable people, those who rely on their mentality, their faith, their religion and don't want to integrate. The people here feel that and it grumbles and rumbles in the hearts of those who will vote for the AFD next year. And it's true! There are a lot of people from countries that are so difficult to integrate that problems arise that can hardly be solved on a mass scale.
5:40 i understand that not everyone vibes with the klimakleber, its super controversial even within the climate movement weather this is a good way of provoking change cause on one side there are people saying actually this is why politicians started discussing this again when during the pandemic fridays for future wasnt really protesting anymore and politicians were talking about it less when our global climategoals were urgent to act on. on the other side ofc stand the people saying that letzte generation has made a lot of people feel very personally attacked cause their main way of protesting affects the people on the street a lot and they feel personally attacked by that. which lg actually claims isnt what theyre trying to do, and it should be mentioned that theyre working by the principle of "create trouble or it will be double" - i however dont really agree with that either but i think the climatemovement got desperate and can you blame them you know! our climate politics are moving swiftly towards a 2.5 or even 3 or 4 degrees warmer globe by 2050 like. and capitalism IS failing us in a lot of ways, one of the biggest way it collectively fails us right now, is really how it blocks a transformation of our economy and especially our local economies towards cycle economies, sustainable ones. and that means we all gotta kind of transform too - actually we could have it g o o d itd just look quite different - but of course we're not on our way there by politicians not talking about how big of a deal that is for all of us, and us butting heads when it comes to even just changes like should we ban flights inside the country (in germany that means a lot less longer route than in the u.s. lol, obviously the u.s. would need to have regulations about how far you need to go by bus/train/car and needs a lot of flights to stay available), and a lot of politicians fucking us up basically, and feeling like they cant implement too many changes and big companies being able to do shit like it on a global climate conference to talk about not cancelling oil pls cause theyre sooooooo rich.
Inconvenience is part of the problem, it is an inconveniece to us all or it should be. The luxury lifestyle of the developed worlds is part of the problem. Before the industrial revolution we had our impact on nature and trying to live in balance with it. After the enlightenment and industrial revolution it completely went off balance. Plastic is a problem and more plastic is being consumed (also literal humans have micro plastics in them, and then we are not talking about PFAS, and all the other sh!t. Paradoxes like these are part of the problem. But we (some) humans think we can trick ourselfves out of this. The science that brought us this mess will get us out of that mess.
Plastic soup, now evolution has created life in these so if we take them away what happens to these living organisms?
We continually create a problem upon a problem while trying to manufacture ourselves a way out of it, making things worse and worse and worse. But it is very convenient. Why we continue to do so.
I guess you confuse or at least dont clearly differentiate immigrants and refugees - and they are not the same thing.
refugee = temporary / immigrant = goal to become permanent citizens
And as this determines and / or limits their abilities in germany as a foreigner - you cant mesure both by the same rules / expectations.
Without this ones opionions can sound rather uneducated than unpopular tbh.
German mass beers are all roughtly the same. Because it's all basically slightly different lagers. Germany doesn't have much variety. It's good quality lagers but there are so many more beer styles other than light lager in the world.
Dear Hayley,
As much as I respect your Opinion on Immigration but I think you got it a bit mixed up. Migrants that come to germany are mostly Asylum seekers and unlike the USA where most peoole that enter are legal through Visa Programs. The Problem with German Immigration is that it is not being controlled so therefore you need to put the People in closed off areas until their Identities get checked and the Asylum gets granted which is a very long ans stressful process for everybody and especially the communes since they are severely understaffed. If you were a migrant let's say from Africa who wants to work in Germany then you get all the tools you need on the Government site to apply for visa but sadly most economic Migrants choose to abuse our Asylum System in order to get entry into Germany since it's faster and you defacto will not get sent back to your country even if you are denied asylum and you will still get benefits from the Social System which is unfair to 1. Real Asylum Seekers and 2. To the Germans that have been paying taxes into the System their whole life.
I think this is some of the reason why People are fed up and tend to go to AfD for Answers (another Factor is ofc the innere Sicherheit and cultural clashes with fundamental Islamic values that are a biproduct of the current Migration System)
The thing you are forgetting is all the illegals that work in the US. This is extremely difficult to do in Germany. You can pay a person $5 an hour with no benefits in the US. In Germany you can't do this to an employee. Undocumented immigrants are abused in the US, BUT they keep the US running.
I agree with almost everything you have said!
But I think that being disappointed with what the current governing parties do, doesn’t justify voting for extremist parties (Especially the ones on the far right side of the political spectrum, given the German history.) The people who do that are bad persons.
Okay, I get your point of view, I do Hayley 13:13 But it is not like they have nothing they could do. It is harder for them to do them.
[Also if you were talking this way, I would have been pointing out the other sides, which you are pointing towards.] They don't have the money to do the integrations, they can't work so they won't have the money to do what is expected. They will do jobs that pay schwartz geld, or do criminal jobs. It costs money (and time) to live and leave the door and be part of our consumer based society. You need to consume. The price tag attached can differ a lot.
Learning the language for instance does not need to cost money, to learn it well does cost money.
It needs doing and practice to begin with. Start small, just as long as you begin somewhere. Hallo, Gutten tag. Danke, und bitte.
To learn about the culture doesn't need to cost loads of money, just time & exposure. The more money you have the more access you get, but that is the same for the common German person. Poor German kids are also less privileged. But also not all museums cost money. Understanding what it is about might be the difficult part.
Go out into the society and learn from observations.
There are plenty of community based groups, go there if need be.
Go to the churches, not for the religion you can go to your synagoge or mosque for that, but to meet the people and culture. And the pastor could maybe help you with learning German? It is part of his job description to be a teacher for his flock. Christians are going less to the churches, it gives them something to fill up their time maybe. And do good towards the community in general.
Tell you about the art, and customs/traditions if need be, the history.
Then with that little that you now can do, you can begin to expand things. [This is not the only alternative route in life]
Fear is part of our basic emotions and besides desire/joy/happiness one of the most powerful emotions to motivate us and our behaviors. Why commercials / propaganda's feed into these feelings mostly desire (sex sells) but with medications (USA) the fear is the bigger selling point. Fear is also often used to manipulate and control the pubilc and masses especially in politics and power.
*COMMUNICATION* leads to *UNDERSTANDING* which leads to *COOPERATIONS* /connections
Communication is not just talking it is also if not mostly listening to others to understand them, and where they are coming from.
Thus being able to communicate well is a huge factor, in having people understanding you, which then can lead to you co-operating together to achieve the common goals. Connection/community, trust & safety.
I don´t think you are right wih that, none of it 😥
That is fine... That is what opinions are for
"hinder" & "freedom" these work both ways. I get that the way they do it is too extreme, and not that helpful. But how does your constant flying from the US to EU and back hinder the life of other people because this does impact the climate. Butterfly effect. I can claim you should not hinder me and I have the freedom to do what I want, including harming nature and people. I say I have the freedom to protect and hinder. Protests are a hinder otherwise it would be a parade & float. These "hinder" traffic flow as well. But my guess its only "hinder" when it bothers yourself. Definition of hinder.
We hinder youth from driving cars and using drugs. They don't yet have the freedom to experiment these things, with good reason. They as many teens do could go; stop hinder me from living my life and experiencing a mature lifestyle.
If your logic is that because I fly on a plane….. you have the right to destroy other people’s property and hurt people- that is a mental illness 🙃 and you should really see a therapist to discuss some deep rooted issues.
The funny thing is you bring up me flying yet you are typing on a computer/keyboard that has parts from all over the world that were flown in to be able to be built for you. You are using the internet which is not eco friendly either. You can always point your finger at someone else regarding being eco friendly but in reality you trying to shame me for flying from the USA to EU- is just a deflection. If you really cared about being ecofrieldny you wouldn’t use the computer or internet, you would build your own home (because a lot of parts for homes are flown/shipped from overseas which is really bad for the environment), you wouldn’t eat meat, you would build your own bike (because the parts for bikes are being delivered from other areas of the world as well)…. And the list goes on. 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃
Haley, most likely I want to unsubscribe you right now because you're against climate saving ppl... But I don't get my hands off from the street to do that😊
😂😂😂 oh this comment was good... You can still stick around... If you wouldn't glue your hand to the ground I would probably be on board with your protesting :p
Gurl your opinion about the Klimakleber is def NOT controversial🤣
I want to say GIIIRRRLLLL back 🤣 because that is my personality- thank you for speaking my language! but I was called a conservative American Nazi by a German because I said Klimakleber should get harsher sentencing... Granted it was on Instagram and people tend to be a little more "free" with their insults but the comment calling me that had a few likes from other Germans so I am assuming they agreed with that person's point 😂
@@HayleyAlexisGuaranteed to belong to the same minority group of climate terrorists. The people who have never worked all their lives, grow up in rich homes and are bored. Financed by moguls in the oil business and other counterproductive professions and politics from abroad, most of whom do not even know about.
@@HayleyAlexis
Yes Hayley, it is a controversially opinion, mostly because only the right-wing to far right-wing People ask for harsher sentences and they only do that for the clout
(something that in PolSci is called Populismus and the world didn't have that great an experience with the last Populist that rose to power in Germany)…
But asking for hard sentencing is the knee-jerk reaction of conservative reactionaries worldwide to any problem they have with other peoples opinions.
And especially to problems that have solutions that would inconvenience their lifestyle in any way.
No matter how much that lifestyle is the very cause of that problem.
But it is your opinion and you are entitled to have it
Another difference between the (European)Left to the conservative reactionaries the world over, as conservatives allow any opinion too, but only as long as its the same as theirs
@Luziferne What do you think is a fair punishment for the people that glue their hands to the street or break into airports to glue their hands to the tarmac?
And don't get me wrong, I don't see the common sense in the Aktionismus that the "Klimakleber" of the last Generation use, as it will not unite the Working Class to demand the changes that are necessary.
But then why would they, they mostly come from the same bourgeoise mid-to-right Standpoints as Die Grünen…
They are not left-wing but instead believe in the bourgeois state to make changes for the problems caused by Capitalism he very much did enabled in the first place anyway
I love your Videos....How come your teeth are so white?
I don't drink black/dark drinks, don't smoke, and brush my teeth after every meal .
Haley may I ask you camera setup gear description including the camera itself ?
I think it is listed down below in the description box...I use my Sony a6400 but I dont remmber the lens at the moment :/
@@HayleyAlexis thanks
Yes, your Vaude jacket is also very similar to my Jako flipflops. I don't see any difference at all.
with beer it's the same like with the different kinds of Italian pasta. You may think they taste all the same, but NO!
There are subtle differences that only ein Eingeborener with experienced taste buds can feel.