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5 Random Things Germans Do, Americans Don't Understand! 🇩🇪
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- Опубликовано: 2 авг 2024
- After moving to Germany and living in Germany for nearly 3 years, we have begun to adopt doing some things that Germans do that we either had never seen done before, or had just never done ourselves before when living in America! What were these culture shocks in Germany?? Find out in today's video! 😊
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Here are the links to the original videos these sections were pulled from in order in which they showed in this video! Enjoy 😊
“Germany Does These Things OPPOSITE From America” - ruclips.net/video/Sy3cu7y0Ums/видео.html
“5 Things in Germany That Feel Like Scams To Americans” - ruclips.net/video/_NhifDQmJ9Q/видео.html
“How The INTERNET in GERMANY is Totally Different Than in America” - ruclips.net/video/C4tpfWBjuD0/видео.html
“5 German Habits Americans Are Now Adopting” - ruclips.net/video/_6U38rhwq-w/видео.html
“Things Germans Do In The Gym, Americans Would NEVER Do!” - ruclips.net/video/ZE4rvMH7ahI/видео.html
the television fee is actually based on our constitution. Theres the right for uninfluenced and free information. Therefore the state has to pay channels like ard, zdf, arte, phoenix etc. I think you need to mention that because, i feel like its mostly forgotten that its not just a random idea. Its based on constitution
FREE Informationen uninfluenced 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
And that's no secret... If you move to a foreign country you may want to look up what's the law or what are the social "rules" over there.
If I visit a foreign country, say the US, I inform myself before that trip e.g. how gas stations work there and do not complain about the differences to my home country.
As there is plenty of information about all this stuff online, I would categorize this video as "stupid Americans". Inform yourselves beforehand and you're good to go. 🤷♂
@@Rejo7ce It doesnt matter if you believe in the information provided.
If you dont like the truth maybe you should go to the the us and watch fox news, which provides far more comfortable lies.
Nevertheless the reason the fee is paid by everyone privately exactly is, that the government cant influence the publicly funded media by cutting its funding, if the information provided doesnt appeal to them.
They only have to be held accounteble by the law.
This system might feel like a scam to americans, but it only does, till you truely understand the alternative. Bought corporarte media who can tell the bigest bullshit ever and manipulate the masses towards supporting goals, which massively contradict their own intrests.
10:10 We always do it. We learn that already in school. When we have our school subject called "sport" or "sportunterricht" within a "sporthalle". In order to protect the ground we use shoes just for those hours. Unless the "sportunterricht" is outside. Like playing soccer outside.
Dog.
About the shoes: i take off my street shoes and have indoor ones, but would never request from guests to do so when visiting. And of course I am a cat person 🙂
I would never leave my shoes on at someone else's place, unless I just come from jogging or from a hike or something like that. And while i wouldn't force people to take them off at my place, i would certainly ask them to do so, and if they refused without a reason, I wouldn't insist but I would probably not have them over again tbh. Or classify them as "garden friends" haha.
the slipper point: only old people do this and some females but it is absolutley not normal
I live in Switzerland and most people I know wear inside house shoes. I will ask guests to take off their shoes. When I watch American TV I get annoyed at people wearing their shoes inside...
... and I bring my gym shoes to the gym every time
Congratulations for you all three now ! Have a wonderful family life .. ❤️
newer trashcans have a ring around them where you can place the bottle in so that they are not standing on the ground or somebody has to reach into the can
Funny you mention that because just last week there was a local news story that our largest city in our area just installed those for the first time last week!
@@PassportTwo kaiserslautern i know ;)
thats where i saw them ;)
In other places there are also official stickers on the trash cans saying "Pfand gehört daneben" with a pictogram depicting bottles next to a trash can.
Let’s give Passport Two that baby bump in their subscriber count!! Hope this are going well with your new family!
Haha, love it!
In the US we don't have a monthly fee for public television but we do have those telethons to raise money and support by corporations.
Congratulations on the birth of your new baby 👶 ❤ 💕
There is a great browser extension called "I don't care about cookies", which will get rid of the cookie messages. It is essential.
I'm definitely a cat person! ;)
The payment for the public broadcast system (Beitragsservice) is not giving any discounts for people with disabilities like being blind or deaf. Before 2013 blind or deaf people for example paid only 50% - my grandma is deaf and we were informed by a deaf association that she has to pay the full price. The deaf association already hired several lawyers and tried to safe the money for the deaf people but the judges didn't help the people. The only reason to don't pay is a really low income below the poverty line.
Even if you are not in Germany for way more then 50% of the year you have to pay the full price because your house or rental flat etc. is still in Germany ...
Cookie Tip: the extension “I don’t care about cookies” will auto-close most of those popups. In addition with “Cookie AutoDelete”, that deletes them für each session, you get privacy and a way less annoyance.
So funny that you find the cookie pop-ups annoying. You get the choice to decline all those trackers. How cool is that?
I guess it would be cooler if the law just forbid tracking 😅
Congratulations for being parents now! :-) May your little one live long and prosper and may happyness be always guest in your home.
Hope you don't mind the nit-picking here. Happy is spelled happiness. There is the Y rule. If a word ends in a vowel (a,e,I,o, or u) you keep the y and add whatever ending. For example play. The letter before the y is an a so you add -Ed to the end (played). Happy p isn't a vowel so you drop the y. I always liked it when native German speakers corrected my writing when I was learning German.
@@jessicaely2521 Thx a lot. As a matter of fact - I actually know that rule but it just slipped by me this time. It's a sneaky rule, I suppose.
:-)
Dog! But I‘d also love a cat or 10.
The banners drive me crazy.
The independent TV is goldwert. Funded by everyone, not advertisers… or personal bias.
😂 I love outtakes
Cat Person 100%
I always change into the Gym Shoes at the Gym
I still support public television after 46 years in this country and do not consider it a "scam". It can be annoying and not bring the programming you want, but relatively unbiased information is a treasure and worth paying for.
Agreed, I pay just for "Die Sendung mit der Maus" . Loved it as a kid.
The "scam" is not the television itself. It's the way it is financed. And mixing up those two is the problem with the discussion.
After the wars, where TV was used as a big propaganda tool, the new Germany wanted to have an 'independent' media landscape, so decided to not have it funded by taxes.
But instead of having private networks (until the 80s, and which have other issues like profit motives, just see the US.) they conjured up this system of GEZ, which is now the "Beitragsservice", where everyone has to pay - originally only if you owned a TV or radio set, at home or in your car, then, some years ago every household.
But the tariffs and contents are still decide by committees - so the financial independence is a pretense.
Even right after the ARD was founded, it wasn't 'independent' enough for some, so they put together the ZDF as an 'alternative'.
The public networks are still like a monolith, outdated and inflexible, but secured its own survival with this scheme.
At least they put some older programs on ther mediathek which should have been available for long as they were already paid for by the German public.
Sadly, a lot of people use the license as a prtense to get rid of the media at all, because they don't tell them what they want to hear.
And they mess up sometimes, too, which again then is used as an argument against the whole system.
That's why the protests against the license are not taken serious anymore, even if they have them also in Switzerland, and hade some in GB which were just canceled shortly ago.
You don't get it. Everybody has to pay, wether you use it or not. So it is a scam, only the government says it isn't.
@@frankobaumann2933 No, I still don't think it is. What you seem to be missing is that the government does not believe you that you don't use public radio or television. And just for the sake of honesty: Do you really and truly never use it?
Exactly, K.Schmidt
🐈🐈⬛ cat person and yes, always always have special shoes for the gym.
... and the TV fee is not a scam to me, because it supports informational TV, documentarys and even colaborates abroad like with "arte" from french. Even on RUclips or their websites you have acces to the programm from Opera to wildlife, a brought variety
Both, we used to have Rottweilers (as you can see by my avatar picture) and cats. Currently there's only one cat around. I love both pets and will definitely get another dog, eventually.
there are those cookie popups now on websites in the US. it started recently.
The older I get, the more unnecessary the "Cat vs Dog" debate becomes to me.
During the holidays, I grew up with my grandparent's dog, visiting them all regularly.
But my mother used to have a friend from work, who we would also visit and she had 2 cats and a bunny.
Maybe I’m wrong but I think when it‘s sommer and very dry outside most/a lot of ppl don‘t bring other shoes to the gym. At least that was my observation at McFit.
As a disabled senior, cats are easier for me to take care of. But I’ve also had dogs in the past. Bunnies too.
That every household has to pay GEZ is not quite 100% accurate. Friends of ours lived here in Germany for a while and during that time they had a visit from a detector van and were asked to show that they had paid their tv license. He just said "I don't need to, I have a diplomatic passport" and closed the door. Never heard a thing.
I like both Cats and Dogs. I grew up with Dogs, some years later when i was a Teenager my uncle rescued a cat and adopted to our family. All my life i was surrounded by one or another. Today i would say it like once Heinz Rühman said: " You can live without dogs, but it´s not worth it!"
My family had two dogs. Both died, shortly before the dog got 5 years old.
I had no cat yet, but there are friends, I visited, who had cats, which I befriended (as far as the cat allowed).
Cats!! Dogs are sycophants!
The TV-radio license pays for much more than just the programs themselves. The larger TV-radio companies, for instance, maintain symphony orchestras, most of them of very high quality, and it keeps ticket prices at a (relatively) affordable level. You are also supporting maintenance of internet infrastructure. They also maintain the traffic information service that is broadcast for travelers. This is probably less important today as most people probably use their phones for navigation rather than the navigation systems in their cars, but the service is there.
I have been wearing house shoes for so long at home that the idea of wearing shoes in the house is more than a little odd for me. Slippers or house shoes are also a lot more comfortable! People in southern Germany and Austria in particular often have a number of pairs of slippers in various sizes for their guests.
Most people I know love both cats and dogs.I'm more of the dog side, but certainly hug both.
Thank heavens for public television/radio in Germany! I am glad to pay. US tv is pure torture!!!
Yes, always clean Shows for the Gym, it's a must 😊 I have a cat, but I usually give dogs a Chance too. 😸
Oh, the GEZ, probably the most loved institution in Germany!
Regarding the cookie banners keep in mind that nobody forces the companies to do that and especially not in the way they are doing it. It's just their greed that they try to ignore the will of the people with every means possible.
And I am a cat ear girl person, but not a cat or dog person ;)
Haha, so loved! 😅
I'm a webdesigner and webhoster myself and can ensure you, that often these cookies are not "greed" but simply to provide services like embeddes videos, user accounts, spam protection without forcing you to "proof" you are a human and not a bot every time you visit the same page and so on. Ofc many sites also us them for advertising, but it's not true that every cookie is bad or driven by greed.
@@fawkesmorque Of course. But I still hate that my data get's sold to 200 companies by the other cookies and auctions and so on.
@@steemlenn8797 Honestly I do not know any plugin that pays the webdesigner money in order to get clients cookie data. Usually you install a plugin in order to provide a service and for that cookies are placed on the clients harddisk.
As I said before, there are advertising methods that track your interests, clicks, the time spent on a website and so on in order to "improve" what ads are being shown, but the website owner does not get paid for the cookie data, but for the amount of clicks on the ads.
Is this a privacy issue? Sometimes yes, most times it's stored in an anonymous way and can't be linked to you as a person.
Should the user have the right do decide if he allows it? Yes.
Should you panic because auf cookies? Certainly not. There are many false assumptions about cookies by people without any real technical knowledge.
@@fawkesmorque I never talked about plugins...
And anonymity is BS. Not least because your data is thrown around so much.
It has been shown again and again that even with fully "anonymous" data you can build a complete profile. And then it just takes one of those dizens or hundreds of companies to have your name. Like when you pay for something.
There is a reason why you get hundreds of pages if you ask e.g. facebook or google or Amazon about your data. It's the same reason why there is a "connect to offline sources" chapter in the cookie questions.
Mayo? Oh. Mail 😂
I think the fee is a bit too high, but it's not a scam because the public broadcasting and TV formats can be produced with the money, otherwise they wouldn't exist.
I think people should be able to decide for themselves whether they use and pay for it or not, and then don't have to pay.
Or that part of the tax revenue is used for this and there is no extra bill for it.
I wonder how other countries do with public radio stations and TV productions, how they finance them, i.e. how it works there.
In the U.S., just don't listen to NPR in October: It's one continuous stream of their begging for money because they are dependent on donations. Just send them whatever donation you can and tune in again on November 1st.
It's an extra fee and not paid by taxes so the government has less influence about the content.
Congratulation!
A "best of" only to say "I'm a father"?
I like both. Cats and Dogs are sweet and both have there negative and positive sides. (Im sorry for my bad english, because I'm German and speak english not very well.)
Well, most of the mail I get now is unsolicited advertising. You should be careful with mail from official authorities, it is not enough to write objections by email, for example, as they only have limited legal validity in the event of a legal dispute, or the other side can doubt the authenticity.
Apparently I'm doing catch up on older episodes - but accident. It was a RUclips sugestion that I followed. To answer this random question of the week: I'm definitely a dog person. Doesn't mean I dislike cats or that I like all dogs (or they me).
Maybe, the people did not pay for the flowers or they Do it like me. We have that with eggs. Sometimes, i have only 5€ for example but i have to pay only 2,50€. So i pay the 5€ and take the next eggs wirhout paying again
Congratulations for you and your new family member!💐
You always and already make a responsible impression to me, but I think one time it should be said: Please don't feel under pressure to show us, your subscripers, your child. I am super curious and excited and happy...but I am a stranger.
Enough of that. Catperson, but I'm against doghate. They are lovely, too. And I always bring extra shoes for training to keep streetdirt away and because those little stones in the shoes would damage the gym floor.
I love animals and believe that they should be free outside the home. So I don’t have any pets - too much responsibility & expense. While I had both growing up off & on - we had a cat for much longer.
Congrats to your baby! I am a dog person, but I don't have one.
Hund oder Katze?
Wellensittich?
Hamster?
Was für eine Frage...natürlich ALLE 😉
I am more of a dog person. I have both but had the dog first. I got used to the fact that you can tell a dog what to do and they will listen most of the time. A cat does not care and does not listen to anyone/anything. It can be quite annoying.
That’s one of the main reasons I’m a dog person as well…😂 Cats are too unpredictable for me! „Is it wanting cuddles, or plotting my demise?“ Always my thoughts around a cat 😂
I never had cats but it seems like one minute they‘re fine when you rub their belly, next minute they want to cut off your head 🤷♂️ and when they ignore you or look at you like they‘re plotting a murder of course some ppl get annoyed and have mixed feelings about cats. Still, the most pets in Germany are cats, not dogs.
@Heather Sullivan, you like to give orders but dislike being told off by a cat ? Oh, dear me! You should know by now who's the boss. @passport 2, if your wife is pregnant, then you are doing the sensible thing not having a cat. Because it can give a disease I forgot the name. Congratulations btw !
Cat person but I like doggos too :3
Endlich auch mal erster.
Glückwunsch! 🎉😃
ganz knapp ;)
Private tv channels were allowed in the 80’s, under the condition, that public tv’s financing will be secure. Even if you don’t watch one bit of public tv, it needs to be available for everyone. That’s why everyone is forced to pay. It doesn’t get deducted by tax, because politics isn’t supposed to influence the program (it does).
The sheer amount of tv and radio stations, I find questionable. Also, what the money is spent on (who cares about Fußball? 😉). But I do like, that this system exists. When there is a crisis, loads of news sources place the real info behind paywalls. But I do know, I can rely on Tagesschau (the main news, 15 minutes at 8 pm) and Tagesthemen afterwards, if something bigger popped up. Pretty neutral reporting, and correspondents all over the globe. For that, I gladly pay.
Who would wear outside shoes inside a gym? I have never seen a person not atleast chance the shoes in the changing room, even when they already arrived in their sports outfit. Once I did not have my gym shoes with me. I just took them off and trained in socks. Otherwise the whole gym would bei dirty and wet in no time on any rainy day.
Dog person. I am from Germany and I love to watch you two!! Keep up the interesting topics!
Thanks so much! Glad you enjoy ☺️
Dog person.
Also, I live in the U.S (hopefully moving to Germany soon), I have gym shoes that are ONLY for the gym. But I do this, because I have specific shoes to lift weights and specific shoes to do kickboxing or spin; and I don't like using my other sneakers for anything else.
People who trow away bottles with deposit are plain stupid.
I always take deposit bottles and cans that stand around in the city and at the end of the year I had over 300€ that people threw away.
Congrats for your new family member!
Nice video as ever!
And for me definitely dog person !
Dog with a little cat mixed in.
Bit more of a cat person 😬
I always have the gym shoes in my gym bag and only put them on when arroving at the gym. Since I go to a small local gym we even have a storage for our gym shoes. So I could leave them at the gym and wouldn‘t have to always bring them. But I don‘t use that.
I´m a Cat Person but i like Dogs too :)
Dog or Cat? Hard to pick one. I'd say ... bird.
CAT! 🐱
I think it is fine to have something like the public broadcast in Germany - and that it costs. I just think that the organisation for it is too big even if they already cut some programmes or put regions together - and I would finance it with taxes and not with a organisation like the GEZ.
I prefer cats - even if I like dogs, too. And birds.
I agree that there are too many stations / programms, but I wouldn't pay for it via taxes cause that'll give the government even more influence. I would vote for a fee with several steps (0€ for poor people, 5€ for low income households, 10€ for middle class, ...). Instead of telling them your exact income I would like to see the Finanzamt to simply give them the according "income class" of that household.
I think that way it would be a bit more fair and data privacy would still be intact.
I am a catdog/dogcat person!!
Radio and television fees are realy important actualy. It garantees that their are alwasy some TV stations that are not payed by the state or cooperations and can bring unbiased news. Thats also why far right partys like the AFD want to get rod of them. Even if paying the fees suck, democracy is worth it.
GEZ lässt grüßen
🐱 cat Person😼
Ive never been forced visiting friends, enter the apartment without shoes. Never heard about it. Must be a local problem. And iam 61.
Never in Berlin or NRW
I am definitively a dog person.
Dog person. And hamster 🐹. I‘m allergic to cats. 🙁
Cat hair allergy, so I'm not a cat person. I'm also scared of dogs..... So I would say I'm neither.
I am a cow, pig and chicken person, because they taste much better. 😉
About the Thing2, I was a child in the 80‘s and we were sailing across the Baltic Sea and in Denmark many farmers offered there products as you described the self cutting flower fields. And no one would ever take goods without paying. I am German, and somehow I like „stereotypes“ but in the funny way, because some of them are just true. Example free refills that system doesn’t work in Germany, Germans will stay the whole day at a fast food restaurant with free refill. Example two, „all you can eat“ works all over the world BUT not in Germany. Germans misunderstood that somehow as a challenge and they ate all( until restaurant owner go bankrupt). Read my text with a smile- with a touch of sarcasm - and not to serious.
Dogs and Cats, complementary animals.
About those slippers.... this might seem to be a German habit but it's not performed everywhere! When you enter my home you may keep your shoes on as I perceive this habit prissy.😉
For me this is equal to having 'garden gnomes' 😂
cat 😊
Cat!
I have some cats, while my neighbors all have dogs. Three of my cats are black (a mother and two of her daughters); I guess, in earlier times I could have been accused of witchcraft. What I like about cats is that they do what they want, and you can never educate them. You can make a dog obey to commands; try that with a cat, it's futile.
For the cookie popup problem, search for the "I dont care about cookies" extension/addon for your browser ;-)
Definitely both. But that‘s probably just because I‘m an animal person. Except for those nasty mosquitoes. 😉
Bird person. :-p
The putting on slippers when you enter your home is a thing but it’s unusual to be honest.
If I have guests in Germany as a German I would not ask them to put on slippers because they are my guests and I will clean after them.
(don’t tell but South Koreans living in Germany might ask you to put ‘em on)
It's money well spent, believe me! This way, we have a basic radio and television service that doesn't have to be maximally partisan and confrontational in order to get more viewers and sell more ads. German public television strives to offer a service without political stridencies. It may not succeed to be always unbiased, but it definitely has succeeded (and continues succeeding) in avoiding any openly partisan coverage. This is only possible, because its funding is secured by this extra-tax.
It has been amply shown that unhinged extremist positions and fake-news have a mucher higher entertainment value than well-balanced quality journalism. Because of this, a purely market-oriented media environment (like that of the USA) always runs the risk of overrepresenting the lunatic fringe while avoiding boring common-sense dialectics and more moderate positions. Instigating political unrest simply pays.
If you compare the growing identitarian divide between "conservatives" and "liberals" in the US with the rather more multi-faceted and less confrontational German political spectrum, you may appreciate the wisdom of our "tv-tax".
". It may not succeed to be always unbiased ..." LOL, it pretty much never is.
"This way, we have a basic radio and television service that doesn't have to be maximally partisan and confrontational in order to get more viewers and sell more ads."
LOL, "basic" it is the most expensive public pay tv service in the world, pretty much nobody asked for and it is partisan because funded by the state, directly or indirectly. Let alone that mainly politicians of the biggest parties have a seat in the board of directors.
"It has been amply shown that unhinged extremist positions and fake-news have a mucher higher entertainment value than well-balanced quality journalism ..." That is why it is so common in the German public television. Yet, they like to smear alternative media outlets with such claptrap. 😂If somebody tells you what you think instead of doing proper journalism, this guy must have an agenda.
Rise off, joker. 😉
@@worldhello1234 So RTL is not basic and djungelcamp is high quality? And the Internethardware, that s funded too by ur GEZ, should better not in publik Hands? Do u realy think that s a good idea, when Moguls like Murdoc in the US control it`? If not don t complain about 20 € u are willing to pay additional 8 € if u use other Channels like RTL/Sat1 Pro7 and a lot more if u want to watch Sky. And watch YT for free.
@ Hans-Ingo Radatz du glaubst doch nicht selber das was du geschrieben hast? die öffentlich rechtlichen wenden mir zu sehr von der politik gesteuert . qualitätsjournalismus war einmal , mal ein banales beispiel, seit über 9 wochen streikt das pflegepersonal in den unikliniken in nrw, wann wird mal darüber berichtet, aber kein personal am düsseldorfer flughafen und die nachrichten sind voll davon. kritischer journalismus wie vor 15j findet man kaum noch ausser im netz. weil viele journalisten angst haben wenn sie das falsche berichten, gleich keine aufträge mehr bekommen bzw ihre artikel nicht mehr angenommen werden. cancel culture incoming .ich schaue kein tv mehr und nutze streaming dienste , die besten reportagen zeigt eh bbc .
@@worldhello1234 Did you just write "Rise off, joker"? Doesn't sound very respectful to me. Well, you're style, it would seem.
@@McMicday und wer steuert die Nachrichten im Netz? Hast mal geguckt wie viele Fake News es gibt? Welchen Einfluss zB Russland auf Wahlen genommen hat? Wie groß der Einfluss von der US Presse (Murdoc) auf den Brexit war? Da ist mir "die Politik" lieber die Wähle ich ja auch alle 4 Jahre selber. Und sie hat laut Rundfunkvertrag lediglich eine geringe Kontrollfunktion und keinen inhaltlichen Einfluss auf die Sender sondern muss sich an Regularien halten. Aber deine Meinung liest man häufiger im Netz. Warum nur frage ich mich.
The thought behind GEZ is to provide money for independent journalism, otherwise there would be only newspapers and tvshows who are biased through political agendas compareable to fox news in the USA for example. Also it is for financing tv shows that otherwise wouldn't be produced (diversity of content) or couldn't be produced (lack of money). So the general thought of the GEZ is great but I don't understand why it has to be that much (and even more now as you mentioned before). One problem is probably the cost for the pension of former employees that are getting higher the older the population gets but other than that there shouldn't be a problem with a reduced fee to finance the important things. 🤷♀️
Regarding the gym thing: because germans are used to use different shoes for gym from early age on (even in the gym of the kindergarden the kids have to wear special shoes) it is a really normal thing to do. Also if you visit a fitness studio with your streetshoes they often will make you pay a fine in case they catch you.
Regarding your question: Neither. I didn't grow up with pets so I didn't get attached to one specific kind.
I'm a dog person
I'm a dog person.
If public broadcasting would be funded directly by the government nobody would discuss it all the time. Nobody says: Oh, I'm not female - why do I pay for a shelter for abused women? I don't use it. That's of course crazy. We are paying for so many things we don't use. I pay for mountain rescue even though I don't live anywhere near a mountain and always spend my vacation at the beach and so on. The difference with public broadcasting payments is that people need to pay this separately so they are highly aware of the costs. The reason is that after the Nazi era, the founding fathers of the German constitution wanted radio and TV that cannot be threatened by the government to revoke funding if they don't report favorably. That's what happens to the BBC currently. They didn't celebrate Brexit as much as Boris Johnson wanted. Now he's removing funding as a punishment. In Germany this cannot happen as easily. Now, why do we need this? Because it has a stabilizing effect on a democracy to get calm, independent reporting. And it's striking that the more politically extreme people are, the more they complain about this system. Last thing: Why doesn't public broadcast only show cultural and political things instead of seemingly worthless but expensive entertainment? Answer: Because those programs wouldn't be viable and couldn't compete with private stations. People watch a show and then keep the TV on for the news on the same channel etc. If you want powerful influential public broadcasting that can actually work as a stabilizing factor on pubic discussions and effectively combat extremism then you need to have a full-fledged program. Many people don't understand this or want to undermine this in order to shift public opinion to more extreme views. We see in the US how this can be dangerous to the existence of the country itself. To call this a "scam" couldn't be further from the truth even if you said it a bit tongue-in-cheek.
First of all, congratulations on the new bsby 👶.
Es fo the TV licence fee, it's definitely not a scam.
I know that some hate it and Americans don't get it but a scam?
Your taxes pay for many things you don't like or use. An elected government in Germany (and in many other places around the world) decided that funding publick broadcasting is important and many of the citizens agree with this decision. They can, of course, finance it directly from the general budget but this opens the door for political influence on the content. The TV licence mechanism that separates it from the budget by law insures a steady uninfluenced funding that keep the public broadcasting independent.
This budget also replaces the need for commercials so rhey don't have to consider loss of incom when reporting on big companies.
In the UK and in the past in my country (Israel) the payment is conneted to usage (in Israel it was payed by anyone who owns a TV and in the UK you ned to pay if you watch live TV or content from the BBC in any form) but this complicates things as people try to cheet and the collectors try to use problematic methods to proove that you need to pay.
As for the question: I like cats but I prefer dogs.
cat person...
Americans love convenience.germans love everyting complicated.that's why traditional beer bottles are more popular than easy-to-open bottles.most of your content belongs to:germans hate convinience!no critique,just a fact of life.you both are great!