First time I was in London I was yelled at by a cyclist the moment I walked out of the train station because I was in the way - wrong side and I felt immediately like I was back home in Berlin. 😅
There is a comparison between germans and americans. Americans are like peaches and germans are like coconuts. The peach is soft on the outside = fake american friendliness, but the inner part of the peach is rock solid and almost not to crack, that means it's very hard to make friends with americans. On the other hand the germans have a hard shell to crack, our directness that seems sometimes a bit rude, but once you cracked the outer shell you found a friend for life in that particular german. You're a good man Dwayne, maybe you will find "your" german friend or perhaps friends
I used to work online in an international company with people from the UK and other countries, and to be honest they were all lovely and wonderful colleagues, but often it was exhausting because when I was asked for their opinion, there was so much beating around the bush that I would need an extra translator. And when I asked them directly and pushed them, along the lines of: "Yes, what now, honest answer, yes or no?", they often said "I don't know, I'll pass!", and I in turn had to be very careful in their presence that I didn't step on their toes when critisizing. But it's just a cultural thing 😊Best wishes to the UK by the way, I'm really shaken by the current events, stand up against racism, stay strong!
@@eichzoernchen For playing with fire, and in a literal way. In other words, play stupid games, win stupid prizes. They had some growing up to do still.
I have the same experience and Germany became my home, I have also chosen German nationality over the UK. Thanks to all the Germans who made Germany a welcoming home for me. Not the stereotype. It is only in the UK I have been told to go back to my country, as some one Born in Nigeria and grow up in Woolwich.
From my point of view German hates small talk.We are very directly (for other nations it can be rude). I think it is not easy to find a really friend in Germany. But if you get one, you will have it for ever..
Small talk in Germany is pretty much like everywhere else in Europe. More compared to Finland, less compared to the UK. Just start talking about the weather, politicians and other mostly trivial stuff, and people will not shut up 😂
Thanks for reacting to my video Dwayne 🙏🏾. New channel about my life in Germany. There will probably will be a lot for you to react to. Haha. PS. Always lived in quite rough areas (don’t know why) Stockwell, Brixton, Croydon and the Redhill in Surrey.
If someone invited me to fufu, I would be happy too. Fufu is so tasty, never really had the opportunity to interact with black people, just never happend. I had given a recipe to my mother out of interest and because she likes to cook new things. It was so delicious and somehow it tastes even better when you eat it with your hands. Normally I don't like touching slimy or wet things but with fufu it's somehow different for me. Also Fufu with Indian butter chicken is simply divine. My mother also makes such things traditionally, buys the root and does everything. I'm lazy, I just buy fufu flour.
One of my best friends is a syrian. I cook german stuff for him, he cooks syrian stuff for me. I feel like these days, tensions between ethnicities are rising which is a shame honestly.
Bevore the millenium years started it gave a fairy hamburg-england (i know it cos i traveled onece on that way.) Im so sad that it not gives anymore. For all my other travels now to there & schottland, i use the travilbus ^^
That is a bad quotation from Tolkien that got adapted into German, because we LOVE ❤ him… Ist nicht Deutsch, mein Guter, sondern kommt aus Tolkien‘s Feder….aber stimmt trotzdem!
I have to say, I usually try to be friendly and polite to everyone, too. But, if there is a difference here between people you work with, and friends. If I like you, I like you, but also, just because we work together won't make me like you. Maybe that's the difference. It's easier to tell friends from acquaintances.
Hey Dwayne 🙂 I enjoy your Videos! I like to see (even feel) that you are very open and interested in other countries and the differences and oddities there are. You seem to be a very nice and polite person and I would love to become friends with you! Greetings from Hannover Germany Felix
While studying at university I was taking dancing lessons together with my girl friend at a dance school. One of the other couples were an African-American and his German wife. He came as a member of the US army to Germany. In conversations with him I heard for the first time someone say that life was easier for him in Germany than in the US. In the same town I was walking down a street towards the town centre picking up bits of a conversation of some young girls behind me. When I had realized that they were speaking in a quite strong local German dialect I became curious and looked back. I saw three cute young women with very dark skin. I'll never forget that sight and my astonishment.
@@lynnm6413 Germany has been a melting pot for a long time now. For example, there are so many descendants from Polish immigrants living in the Ruhr area that one of the most beloved German TV police detectives used the last name "Schimanski", and almost nobody talked about it - and German-Poland relations have certainly had difficult times and worse. Or look at the many names for Germany in the surrounding languages - they all go back to tribes in the area that dominated in different regions and times. Germany was one of the last European nation states, I think only Italy came later until the post-Soviet rearrangements - the US is actually older, by almost a century.
There are a lot of blacks that now have grown up here. Noticed that two years ago on holiday on Mallorca. The german teen groups now often have a black guy/girl member. You cant go by skin tone anymore to make any assumptions, they might answer in a broad german dialect to you making you look like a fool if you do😀
I find it interesting that he came at that directness topic from the race angle. White Brits say similar things about Germany, but as a black guy, this whole topic gets kind of a different colour. I found that perspective really interesting - especially as w white German guy.
Americans find everything "awesome" (even if they don't like it). Germans use hundered of different words go describe EXACTLY HOW THEY FIND IT (and they will tell you straight and detailed - even if they don't like a things or a person). Even negatives parts ARE part of a conversation. You say: Oh, I like german food. And german answers: I don't. French and Italian food is much better than ours.
Thing is I would say that most germans like german food or if not maybe only know the clichees. I mean all the Eintöpfe (stews?), Aufläufe (gratins?), Soups, Braten (roasts), baked goods and so on offer so many poasibilies that there should be sth. for everyone. Even tho I love basicly all cuisines of the world since all of them have sth great ro offer. Even the cuisine from the UK 😘😁
Renting contracts in germany usually are not long term, they are simply unlimited. Its almost impossible to get rid of tenants once they've moved in and pay on time unless you can claim a need to use the property yourself. Most germans are intensely curious, down to be nosy. Expect to be mustered openly by scrutinizing stares everywhere 😉
The #4 i'd think its what we call Augenhöhe. We would meet on a honest equal basis. For example, as a workers council member i would never treat anybody different just because of his or her background. Regarding comparing cities, i think there are lots of nice places in Britain. Its just that the circumstances since the UK left the EU have degraded, and it might take some time to recover, even with a Labour government.
Rental agreements in Germany usually last for an unlimited period unless explicitly stated otherwise. As soon as you've rented a flat for a year, even if your landlord gives you notice you still have an automatic three-month grace period before you actually have to move out. (Well, you CAN get an immediate eviction, but they're strictly regulated by law; a landlord can't just kick you out because he wants to.) On the other hand, you can't just pack up and leave, either -- you have to give the landlord 3 months' notice as well, to give them time to find new tenants or continue paying rent for whatever time's left of those 3 months.
And the landlord can't just say "get out (after three months), I don't want to rent to you anymore". There are some specific reasons he can use - for example, wanting to get an apartment for a family member - but it's really hard to get rid of a renter, even when they have irregularities paying the rent. I'm not a lawyer, but there are some heavy renter protection laws on the books.
@@KaiHenningsen As soon as a tenant is two months in arrear paying rent, that's reason enough to tell them to get out ASAP. However, if they pay just one month's rent (even if late), the termination becomes invalid. Been there, done that, had to see a lawyer to have an official eviction passed. And yes, I got stuck with the lawyer's fees, too. Getting rid of that tenant cost me over €2500, including the two months' unpaid rent ... and it was an enormous hassle that actually was resolved fairly *quickly* within 6 months. (The guy was a known repeat offender, I learned in the process.) Unfortunately, you can't look inside a prospective tenant's head when signing the contract.☹️
I‘ve had a very similar experience welcoming a Ukrainian woman in the neighborhood. I was very interested in her recipient, her traditions and songs….. Yet even though she is living in Germany and should be even more interested in adapting and learning, she will not even try cooked food that I gift her, let alone accept my offer of daily help learning German. It can be disappointing, being welcoming to other cultures, yet at the same time being rejected in turn.
Possibly we need to lower our expectations. Those refugees have been thrown in that situation without any preparation. And even now after more than two years they don't know if and how they can return back to their old lives - probably not. I've seen people struggling to accommodate and adapt who were coming with a plan of just earning some money here before they'd return. It must be even more difficult for a person who never intended to go to Germany before.
@@MichaelBurggraf-gm8vl my neighbor is only 4 years older than myself, and is receiving both her pension as a 47 year old ?! and her full benefits that Germany is paying. At 1,4K she has much more money than she ought to without working, and she is cleaning on the side as well. The more you know, the less one is willing to give credit.
@@MichaelBurggraf-gm8vl Also, she has a brother who emigrated to Denmark 22 years ago. Why didn‘t she move into his 3 story house?! I am seeing much more inconsistencies, the more I get to know people. We are too welcoming by half in Germany
Child care is not free in every state(Bundesland) of Germany, it goes from 0 to 500€ per month. It is still cheaper, don't expect to pay nothing in every state.
Also, some areas may not have enough places to accommodate everyone, because, of course, that costs money *and* you need to find personnel (not as bad as in the UK but still not good). On the other hand, some places have an excess - for example, Hamburg.
Since he just mentioned safety and "no gun shots" .. this is interesting. I mean i know england is not the US .. but still really interesting : Switzerland: So Many Guns, No Mass Shootings | The Daily Show Throwback ruclips.net/video/EkuMLId8SqE/видео.html
First time I was in London I was yelled at by a cyclist the moment I walked out of the train station because I was in the way - wrong side and I felt immediately like I was back home in Berlin. 😅
There is a comparison between germans and americans. Americans are like peaches and germans are like coconuts. The peach is soft on the outside = fake american friendliness, but the inner part of the peach is rock solid and almost not to crack, that means it's very hard to make friends with americans.
On the other hand the germans have a hard shell to crack, our directness that seems sometimes a bit rude, but once you cracked the outer shell you found a friend for life in that particular german.
You're a good man Dwayne, maybe you will find "your" german friend or perhaps friends
I used to work online in an international company with people from the UK and other countries, and to be honest they were all lovely and wonderful colleagues, but often it was exhausting because when I was asked for their opinion, there was so much beating around the bush that I would need an extra translator. And when I asked them directly and pushed them, along the lines of: "Yes, what now, honest answer, yes or no?", they often said "I don't know, I'll pass!", and I in turn had to be very careful in their presence that I didn't step on their toes when critisizing. But it's just a cultural thing 😊Best wishes to the UK by the way, I'm really shaken by the current events, stand up against racism, stay strong!
I've lived in HH for nearly 15 years and I miss it soo much. Cannot watch any footage without nearly crying.😢 Hamburg, meine Perle!!!! ❤
Look, the Beatles went to Hamburg and it changed their lives. 'Nuff said. 🤣
... and got deported😂
@@eichzoernchen For playing with fire, and in a literal way. In other words, play stupid games, win stupid prizes. They had some growing up to do still.
I have the same experience and Germany became my home, I have also chosen German nationality over the UK. Thanks to all the Germans who made Germany a welcoming home for me. Not the stereotype. It is only in the UK I have been told to go back to my country, as some one Born in Nigeria and grow up in Woolwich.
Maybe this is why so much germans ,like me,watch your Videos. Cause we are truly interested in.😊
Me, as a man living near Hamburg, want to be your friend ❤
From my point of view German hates small talk.We are very directly (for other nations it can be rude). I think it is not easy to find a really friend in Germany. But if you get one, you will have it for ever..
Small talk in Germany is pretty much like everywhere else in Europe. More compared to Finland, less compared to the UK. Just start talking about the weather, politicians and other mostly trivial stuff, and people will not shut up 😂
Thanks for reacting to my video Dwayne 🙏🏾. New channel about my life in Germany. There will probably will be a lot for you to react to. Haha.
PS. Always lived in quite rough areas (don’t know why) Stockwell, Brixton, Croydon and the Redhill in Surrey.
Hamburg ist the most british city in Germany 🤷🏻♀️
In Germany you can also only raise rent by a certain amount in a certain time frame. (Max is 20% in 3 years raise to the city’s median rent)
If someone invited me to fufu, I would be happy too.
Fufu is so tasty, never really had the opportunity to interact with black people, just never happend.
I had given a recipe to my mother out of interest and because she likes to cook new things. It was so delicious and somehow it tastes even better when you eat it with your hands. Normally I don't like touching slimy or wet things but with fufu it's somehow different for me.
Also Fufu with Indian butter chicken is simply divine.
My mother also makes such things traditionally, buys the root and does everything.
I'm lazy, I just buy fufu flour.
One of my best friends is a syrian.
I cook german stuff for him, he cooks syrian stuff for me.
I feel like these days, tensions between ethnicities are rising which is a shame honestly.
London and Hamburg are siblings, very very different to Berlin.
I think so, too….Hamburg has multiple sides to it, and one can still find livable spaces where the soul can rest
Bevore the millenium years started it gave a fairy hamburg-england
(i know it cos i traveled onece on that way.) Im so sad that it not gives anymore.
For all my other travels now to there & schottland, i use the travilbus ^^
Hi, I am from Germany and we have an old saw: not all things that sparkled are gold.
Saying, not saw....
Aber gut, unsere Außenministerirendes hätte das auch so gesagt....
Nix für ungut.
👍
That is a bad quotation from Tolkien that got adapted into German, because we LOVE ❤ him…
Ist nicht Deutsch, mein Guter, sondern kommt aus Tolkien‘s Feder….aber stimmt trotzdem!
I have to say, I usually try to be friendly and polite to everyone, too. But, if there is a difference here between people you work with, and friends. If I like you, I like you, but also, just because we work together won't make me like you. Maybe that's the difference. It's easier to tell friends from acquaintances.
Hey Dwayne 🙂
I enjoy your Videos! I like to see (even feel) that you are very open and interested in other countries and the differences and oddities there are. You seem to be a very nice and polite person and I would love to become friends with you! Greetings from Hannover Germany Felix
I hope the english get their politeness back on the streets soon
I totally would like to be your german friend!
While studying at university I was taking dancing lessons together with my girl friend at a dance school. One of the other couples were an African-American and his German wife. He came as a member of the US army to Germany. In conversations with him I heard for the first time someone say that life was easier for him in Germany than in the US.
In the same town I was walking down a street towards the town centre picking up bits of a conversation of some young girls behind me. When I had realized that they were speaking in a quite strong local German dialect I became curious and looked back. I saw three cute young women with very dark skin. I'll never forget that sight and my astonishment.
German is a nationality, not an ethnicity. I get very frustrated with people in the US failing to realize it isn‘t 1939 anymore
No offense to you personally, of course….I love to get insights into people‘s culture shock moments
@@lynnm6413 Germany has been a melting pot for a long time now. For example, there are so many descendants from Polish immigrants living in the Ruhr area that one of the most beloved German TV police detectives used the last name "Schimanski", and almost nobody talked about it - and German-Poland relations have certainly had difficult times and worse. Or look at the many names for Germany in the surrounding languages - they all go back to tribes in the area that dominated in different regions and times. Germany was one of the last European nation states, I think only Italy came later until the post-Soviet rearrangements - the US is actually older, by almost a century.
@@KaiHenningsen bist du sicher, dass du mir das erzählen wolltest?
There are a lot of blacks that now have grown up here. Noticed that two years ago on holiday on Mallorca. The german teen groups now often have a black guy/girl member. You cant go by skin tone anymore to make any assumptions, they might answer in a broad german dialect to you making you look like a fool if you do😀
I find it interesting that he came at that directness topic from the race angle. White Brits say similar things about Germany, but as a black guy, this whole topic gets kind of a different colour. I found that perspective really interesting - especially as w white German guy.
What he's saying is that we have different kind of friendships...been in uk for 16 years but never had friends that I'd meet other than the pub.
Really? How sad! Who do you talk to?
@lynnm6413 other expats as friends mostly. Or the missus, lol.
Edit: I guess I should have clarified I'm talking about native English
We can be friends ❤
Americans find everything "awesome" (even if they don't like it).
Germans use hundered of different words go describe EXACTLY HOW THEY FIND IT (and they will tell you straight and detailed - even if they don't like a things or a person).
Even negatives parts ARE part of a conversation.
You say: Oh, I like german food.
And german answers: I don't. French and Italian food is much better than ours.
Thing is I would say that most germans like german food or if not maybe only know the clichees. I mean all the Eintöpfe (stews?), Aufläufe (gratins?), Soups, Braten (roasts), baked goods and so on offer so many poasibilies that there should be sth. for everyone.
Even tho I love basicly all cuisines of the world since all of them have sth great ro offer. Even the cuisine from the UK 😘😁
49 seconds in and i already have to correct you here :
London -> Berlin : 1095km
London -> Hamburg : 924km
I assumed he meant the lifestyle in Berlin is closer to that of London.
@@lazrseagull54 Of course he does.
Taking the "closer to" that literal is a real Drax move.
Maybe someone just wants to be funny 🤷♂️
Yes, “closer” means in lifestyle, not distance.
95% of germans would prefer Hamburg over Berlin.
@@Willit1985träum weiter
@@barbarossa7231 du gehörst wohl zu den 5% oder fühlst dich gekrängt weil du selbst aus Berlin kommst
Aw, I'm sure you have German friends, too. Just go and see them (let them know, first).
Renting contracts in germany usually are not long term, they are simply unlimited. Its almost impossible to get rid of tenants once they've moved in and pay on time unless you can claim a need to use the property yourself.
Most germans are intensely curious, down to be nosy. Expect to be mustered openly by scrutinizing stares everywhere 😉
I would like to be your friend badly, but unfortunately I could be your mother!😭
Perhaps we could be his aunties! :)
The #4 i'd think its what we call Augenhöhe. We would meet on a honest equal basis. For example, as a workers council member i would never treat anybody different just because of his or her background.
Regarding comparing cities, i think there are lots of nice places in Britain. Its just that the circumstances since the UK left the EU have degraded, and it might take some time to recover, even with a Labour government.
Rental agreements in Germany usually last for an unlimited period unless explicitly stated otherwise. As soon as you've rented a flat for a year, even if your landlord gives you notice you still have an automatic three-month grace period before you actually have to move out. (Well, you CAN get an immediate eviction, but they're strictly regulated by law; a landlord can't just kick you out because he wants to.) On the other hand, you can't just pack up and leave, either -- you have to give the landlord 3 months' notice as well, to give them time to find new tenants or continue paying rent for whatever time's left of those 3 months.
And the landlord can't just say "get out (after three months), I don't want to rent to you anymore". There are some specific reasons he can use - for example, wanting to get an apartment for a family member - but it's really hard to get rid of a renter, even when they have irregularities paying the rent. I'm not a lawyer, but there are some heavy renter protection laws on the books.
@@KaiHenningsen As soon as a tenant is two months in arrear paying rent, that's reason enough to tell them to get out ASAP. However, if they pay just one month's rent (even if late), the termination becomes invalid. Been there, done that, had to see a lawyer to have an official eviction passed. And yes, I got stuck with the lawyer's fees, too. Getting rid of that tenant cost me over €2500, including the two months' unpaid rent ... and it was an enormous hassle that actually was resolved fairly *quickly* within 6 months. (The guy was a known repeat offender, I learned in the process.)
Unfortunately, you can't look inside a prospective tenant's head when signing the contract.☹️
❤
2:38 Hamburg is one of the most expensive cities in Germany. London must be wildly expensive.
I want ro eat Fufu with you ♥
How long will you look forward to go to Germany before you finally get there? 😉 Don't talk - ACT! 😉
good move to Hamburg!
I‘ve had a very similar experience welcoming a Ukrainian woman in the neighborhood. I was very interested in her recipient, her traditions and songs…..
Yet even though she is living in Germany and should be even more interested in adapting and learning, she will not even try cooked food that I gift her, let alone accept my offer of daily help learning German.
It can be disappointing, being welcoming to other cultures, yet at the same time being rejected in turn.
Possibly we need to lower our expectations. Those refugees have been thrown in that situation without any preparation. And even now after more than two years they don't know if and how they can return back to their old lives - probably not.
I've seen people struggling to accommodate and adapt who were coming with a plan of just earning some money here before they'd return. It must be even more difficult for a person who never intended to go to Germany before.
@@MichaelBurggraf-gm8vl my neighbor is only 4 years older than myself, and is receiving both her pension as a 47 year old ?! and her full benefits that Germany is paying.
At 1,4K she has much more money than she ought to without working, and she is cleaning on the side as well.
The more you know, the less one is willing to give credit.
@@MichaelBurggraf-gm8vl Also, she has a brother who emigrated to Denmark 22 years ago. Why didn‘t she move into his 3 story house?!
I am seeing much more inconsistencies, the more I get to know people.
We are too welcoming by half in Germany
@@lynnm6413 ok, that changes things a bit ...
Child care is not free in every state(Bundesland) of Germany, it goes from 0 to 500€ per month. It is still cheaper, don't expect to pay nothing in every state.
Also, some areas may not have enough places to accommodate everyone, because, of course, that costs money *and* you need to find personnel (not as bad as in the UK but still not good). On the other hand, some places have an excess - for example, Hamburg.
"Race Relations"...
You already know... 👀
Hey, @Dwayne's Lens I like your videos and I would be happy if you could do a reaction to Fettes Brot
Hey man, I saw your videos the first time. Please check Xavier Naidoo and Miss Platnum songs
Nothing is free... we pay ridiculous taxes
Hamburg isn't safe
There is amazing indian british music by some indian bagpipe girl on youtube. Dont remember the name, but the music is crazy good and fresh.
Dude, what i really DONT like about your viedeos...is: That u NEVER answer your Reactions......why???
Do you mean comments? If so it's because I get around 100 comments a day. So it's pretty difficult. But I do read them 😊
Since he just mentioned safety and "no gun shots" .. this is interesting. I mean i know england is not the US .. but still really interesting :
Switzerland: So Many Guns, No Mass Shootings | The Daily Show Throwback
ruclips.net/video/EkuMLId8SqE/видео.html