30 AMAZING Things about Germany
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- Опубликовано: 14 апр 2018
- They're both Western countries, they're both global powers, and millions of Americans have German heritage. So, are Germany and US of America really that different? Join me as I take a walk through the city of Mainz to talk about it!
Hi! I'm Kelly and I am an American who lived in Germany for 18 wonderful months. While I lived abroad before in Turkey and had done quite a bit of traveling beforehand, those 18 months in Germany definitely broadened my perspective of Germany, Europe, and even the US in so many different ways! I wanted to share my perceptions with you guys through RUclips so that maybe you can gain context to things you've heard about, or learn new information or a different perspective, or maybe this is everything you've heard before and further confirms your world view. No matter what the reason, I hope that you enjoy my videos! Don't forget to subscribe to my channel and turn on notifications so that you always know when I'm posting new content :)
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In some parts of Germany you even do some sort of a bicycle drivers license in elementary school. it's not because you actually need it, but more for the children to know how to behave on the streets.
THat's pretty damn right. And I failed that shit because when I was stopping at a stop sign, some other kid bumped into me from behind (because he didn't know how to use a back pedal brake) and I rolled over the stopping line, then. Of course the examinant did only see me standing over the line, but not the little "accident" which caused that and I wasn't believed when explained. Harsh memory of my childhood :'(
Yep... In elementary I had to take a test how to behave in traffic and we were supposed to ride our bikes in a little built up Parcour.
It was fun and I was proud to have passed it. I think it was in second grade. 🙂
I believe it's important for a child's safety so I totally like this. ☺️
@@MagicChris86 I feel sorry for you.
When I did that bicycle test I couldn't ride a bicycle so I had to do the scooter version
Had that as well. It was indeed fun and I got a pocket sized 'license' paper to prove I did the test. Can't remember if it was actually worth anything having this, but it surely thought me proper traffic awareness. I am schoked these days, how badly people handle their bicycles in public traffic; soooo many cyclist accidents are caused, because they completely IG ore traffic rules and common sense. 😒
I failed since another kid crash into me from the side and my bike went over the stop line. :,(
The "Mc" is not anything against schottish people, it's leaned on "McDonald's" because it's associated with cheep food etc.
I think the only racist thing about that is that we have no idea it could be considered racist.
I totally agree. It would be typical of German humor to borrow the Mc from McDonalds as a new, interesting way of saying cheap. Best to clear this up in a future video so that people don't start hating Germans for being anti-Scottish. :)
In France we do have that cliché about Scottish people being extremely stingy (avaricious?) but in a sort of "popular wisdom" way (I dunno about the US or Germany but Scrooge McDuck being Scottish feels absolutely right to me); I'm not aware of that cliché being used to denote cheap stuff here, tho.
ON the other hand, using McSomething in the McDo sense is used for cheap stuff as well indeed; tho rarely for shops as it would only sounds negatively cheap.
That´s right Kelly!!! I agree!!! It´s about MC DONALD´s and means: fast,easy,cheap, and like other franchise; In more than just 1 town... - Aber trotzdem interessant, wie Menschen derselben Religion und Hautfarbe, aus USA Dinge SOOO Anders und zum Teil falsch verstehen können!!! Vor allem gibt es kaum Schotten hier!! Lustigerweise Habe ich nur ein schottisches Mädcghen kennengelernt die hier in der Stadt lebte und WIRKLICH Mac Donald hieß!!!!!!!! Wie viele Telefonstreiche und Sprüche sie sich anhören mußte, könnt ihr euch denken. - Wir haben oftmals so manche "Bestellung" am Telefon dort abgegeben. Aber die Mutter hat´s immer sportlich genommen und zB gesagt das sie nur ein Butterbrot habe. Worauf wir natürlich 10 minuten später anriefen und das MC Butterbrot verlangten
Indeed. Not every damn thing is about racism.
It is funny how much I learn about the US while watching your videos😂
Healthy... exercise... food regulation...
Oh boy. Looks like I'm not a normal German then.
Ich auch nicht!😂
In comparison to America you're I bet :D
its interesting to see my country through your eyes. :-)
thank you for watching :)
As an American I think it is vital for us to be aware of how right and how wrong we are. Too many are ignorant to the rest of the world. These type of videos are awesome.
@@mathiastoecutter5910 Honestly goes for most countrys. Germany definetly. We should all just learn from each other :D
@@ShadeScarecrow Yes, how to get rid of an Iron Curtain between US and Mexico. Trump is crazier than the stazi's. No offense, that's the past, but Trump is the present. Did you mean that, by learning things?
@@voornaam3191 You're a loser blaming your problems on Trump. Grow up.
I Think MCFit isnt "MC" because of scotish stereotypes but just as a ironic/satire way of mocking "MCDonalds" as a Fitness Studio, basicly selling the opposite.
Look at this article regarding my point about the Scottish stereotype in Germany www.thelocal.de/20161027/new-exhibition-tests-swabian-stereotypes
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geiz
It definitely comes from McDonald's
then Scrooge McDuck should also be banned racist. But at least in germany his name was changed into Dagobert Duck with no scottish references left XD. I think some stereotypes are just hilarious and no to be taken so seriously. Otherwise i would be mad that in american Tv- shows germans still get shown as the stiff noisy nazi- stereotypes. In some talkshows i even saw hollywoodstars lying about certain things in germany just to get a lough or two.
Eh I think jokes about the Scottish being cheap are fairly common all across Europe.
I dont know exactly the meaning of cheap, when you use it. For germans scottish people dont like to spend money easily, they turn the cent three times before thinking of spending it. There is an area in germany where the people are similar. The name is Schwaben. When people from there spend their money too fast they are deported to Scotland. You see, it is just fun. Mcxxx is a place where you dont throw your money away, where you get good value for small money actually.
In Germany you don't have to have your ID on you all the time. You have to have one. But you can leave it at home. Police may follow you to your home to clear your identification and most people I know always have it on them. If you're driving, you have to have your licence on you though.
In the Netherlands on the other hand, you legally don't need to have your id with you at all time, however, you have to be able to show it "on first request" so in practice you have to have it with you at all time.
Kai Bader nicht unbedingt, dann kostet das nur n verwarngeld,.wenn du keinen führerschien dabeimhasst (schlieslich kann die polizei das anfragen
@@DokuFREENET ein Verwarngeld impliziert ja, dass das Gesetz ein Mitführen des Führerscheins vorsieht, nicht? Wie hoch wäre das, weißt du das?
Kai Bader Ja 10€, das ist keine straftat, nur ne ordnungswiedrigkeit.
@@DokuFREENET OK danke. :)
Only the USA writes the dates with month first! The whole rest of the World writes Day/Month/Year... Thanks.
Actually many cultures use even nation styles for writing it. Not only the sequence can be different, but also the separating letters.
Hungary?
You should change to what the US does. I think your forgot that our shit is better than yours.
@@JohannesDichtmann
If it's written in reverse, it's mainly used in Emails, Web based searches, web related sites and so on. I never see this type of date written or printed on paper.
But it's fine with me.
Yea, and we use the Imperial System for measurement - it's annoying.
Funny thing about the cell phone rates... We, in Austria, can't believe how expensive Germany's providers are, and how bad the mobile infrastructure is.
Must be recorded on a Sunday because of the chilled traffic
Thought the same... Also : No people at the market place....
I've been to Mainz on rainy Sunday and there was plenty of civilization and traffic. It must be a holiday.
In Germany we get ripped off for cellphone contracts as well. Even romania has better internet and mobile internet then germany and there it just cost the half of what you pay in germany.
Tiger Ass Romania has the most amazing internet...and great prices. I am currently in Croatia and just paid $45 for 2 months unlimited calls-text-data. Amazing.
But they only make a sixth of the average German salary.
@@robetheridge6999 Just a thought:
It is also ususally easier to build something new than have to replace what was already there before...
:)
In India, it's cheapest though. With the advent of a new telecom brand 'Jio', prices fall down to 4-7 euros for 3 months. (Unlimited calls + 1.5 Gigabyte of data every day.)
I'm from Slovenia. I pay 16€ montly, i get unlimited calls, unlimited sms and 50GB of data in Slovenia and unlimited calls, unlimited sms and 8GB of data in EU.
I don‘t say Handy i say
Mobiles Telekommunikationsendgerät
Same
Isn't that too long?😂
I try to avoid "handy" as well. I just go with - mobile phone - though.
@@animefreakxd695 yeah but it gets the point across, i guess.
True hero
You really walked from train station to the rhein and back early in the morning while everybody was sleeping...that's dedication😊 .I love Mainz too
hahah yes, i was not very happy when my alarm clock went off that morning! what's worse is that i actually had already filmed this video TWICE before! one time, my camera malfunctioned the entire time without me realizing it so all the footage was lost and the second time was during that ridiculous cold snap we had at the end of february and my camera kept shutting off because it was so cold! i eventually gave up and retreated to the closest Bäckerei for warmth! haha
@@Kellydoesherthing lol i had that happen to me i was trying to record my little brother and my dog smack into the window since he didn't like having the Hausschuhe's on that my sister putted on him since his feet were cold. 😂
But he ended up breaking a 96 € window that we bought. 🙁😠
Cant believe she was in Mainz (my home town):O
1. FSV :)
In Germany we use the 24h-Clock. Midnight is 0.00:00 an the last second of the day is 23.59:59.
true! i never think about this difference because in my career field, we use the 24 hour clock as well
Just curious. In the US if it is 15 minutes after midnight we call it 12:15 am and pronounce it twelve fifteen am. So if it is 00:15 to you, how would you say/pronounce it?
Hi Olivia Hardin,
"Null Uhr Fünfzehn" ("zero o'clock fifteen") or "eine Viertelstunde nach Mitternacht" ("a quarter of an hour past midnight") or "Viertel nach Zwölf nachts" ("a quarter past twelve in the night")
Even if we use 24 hour system, 0 o'clock could still be called 12 o'clock. Some people even say "24 Uhr (Fünfzehn)" but that's not popular.
In some areas 0:15 o'clock is "Viertel Eins (nachts/morgens)".
Greetings, Y19B
@@oliviahardin1790 Thats a good one. we could also use twelve fifteen, or "Null Uhr Fünfzehn", without the am. We switch between the 12h clock and 24h clock too. So if it was, say 13:15 (1.15pm), we could say 13:15 or 1:15. We dont use something like am/pm cause everyone knows whether its morning or evening xD
@@oliviahardin1790 a quarter (or just 15) past midnight (or Zero depending on the context you can also say 12)
In Germany scottish people are considered to be stingy, not cheap. They are considered to keep their money together and only pay the least possible price.
I thought this is the same stereotype in english speaking countries, like Scrooge McDuck and similar depictions...
And actually: the germans dont write the dates different, the americans do. Almost the whole world writes day, month, year. The US is one os the few exceptions
I, and I think any german, would have never ever made a connection between mc in store names and the mc as a scottish name in my life. And especially not in a racist way. 😅
but now that she said it you would always think of it from now on =)
11.30 Well, I dont connect english with amerika ... Its a world language. Everybody can read it
That's not exactly true. But we can read it in Germany.
World Language...
There are 6 official world languages: English, French, Russian, Chinese, Arabic, Spanish.
I tought myself how to read English at first it was very hard and confusing but then it was easy as reading German.
But shes right. More and more things are writtin in english or have english names because it sounds "better". just watch the news, its a shame...
In my opinion american english sounds really terrible in comparison to the original english the Oxford english also jamaican english sounds way better than this bubblegum american english....did you know that the European immigrants which later became americans made an election about which language they will use in america .....and the selection was very close ....they almost voted german as their motherspeech..i guess thats because there were more irish and english people than germans ....but still i cant understand how they destroyed the biutiful Oxford english into a terrible sounding language through the years....my opinion
You forgot the Rundfunkbeitrag :) I remember getting my first bill from ARD ZDF and asking my landlord: "What is this? It looks like they want money...."
You’re right!
GEZ no one likes it. ^^
@H - Milch Thank you for the differentiated correction. If there were no public broadcasting we would have "super RTL conditions" everywhere.
@@matzeberlin555 And there so many channels, because of WWII. In WWII has hitler all radion channles "rundfunk" to make only his propaganda. To do prevent that, there not only one or two, it are many independed channels radio and tv.
@@matzeberlin555 Which is kinda what Kelly might be used to from the US news. I watched the US show newsroom, and it suggested that news were originally a thing because the government said: "If you want to use the public airwaves, you have to provide some news in your program as well". What they didn't think of was also mandating it to be commercial-free. And if you can show commercial during news, then sensationalistic reporting can get you better viewership, and more money for your commercials during news. I don't know how much of this is true (it's a TV show, after all), but the mechanism itself seems to make sense. Cold hard facts are boring, so spice it up with exciting car chases, overdramatized reports about crime, entertaining stuff about stars...
The Kanzler is not the President ...its the Kanzler
Exactly. The president here is called "Bundespräsident". Mrs Merkel is not the head of the country.
But the head of the government....
@@aliasanonym77 The top head of the Federal Republic of Germany is Mr. Steinmeier, not Mrs. Merkel. She is only the head of the government, but not the president of the state. The head of the government we call "Bundeskanzler", the president we call "Bundespräsident".
She doesn't say the Kanzler is the president
@@denondeske1623 Look at 15:03
It's so strange to see someone who likes our public transportation because every German hates it😂
Our luxury problems i think after a while in the us we would probably be happy with it
Dont generalise pls, I love it and it helps many People who dont own a car.
When you see how much public transportation is neglected in the US and oriented instead toward car culture/big oil, you'd understand why any visiting North American would appreciate Germany's well-kept-and respected-public transportation system. Fact is, culturally, the US has a long way to go to catch up to places like Germany. They might have the technology, but they don't have the social awareness yet.
Not really. It depends where you live - the transport system on Hannover is excellent, in Cologne is a goddamn mess.
Because we germans are so perfectionists that every minute delay is a personal hell ...
The Mc prefix is not about Scottisch, it refers to McDonald's restaurants. The naming suggests that they are organized in a streamlined way like the McDonald's franchises.
Not quite. For some stores that might be the case. But sometimes the MC prefix is really used in a context where it means that there is cheap merchandise. There is the prejudice of the stingy scotsman. To be honest, we don't think about this being racist very much. But you've got a point there.
My guess is that it probably refers scrooge mcduck ;)
It is definitely based on the cheap and efficient reputation of McDonalds. That Scottish stereotype isn't even well-known.
In Germany, Scrooge McDuck is known as Dagobert Duck. Only specialists know the original name.
Well I don't know about you, but in my memory around the 80s and 90s, there was word of that a lot.
For example, the German discounter "Mäc-Geiz" (McStinginess), where they even wrote the prefix phonetically, has a lot of brands with scottish sounding names and a scotsman as a kind of testimonial:
kreado.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Logo_mc_geiz.jpg
Also, if you google it, you will find a lot about that topic. Of course it is a stereotype, but it is actually very well-known.
Fact about the houses at the "Gutenberg-Platz": they were burned to the grounds during WW2 taking their beautiful and antique fronts with them. So when Mainz was rebuild they just covered the "normal" fronts with the look they were used to look like before the WW2
Correction at 6:48. Germans aged 16 and over must only have a valid identity card and present it upon request, e.g. at a police check. But there is no obligation to always have it with you, even if many people in Germany do not know this. However, there are exceptions, e.g. in border areas or if you practice a profession in which you have to carry a weapon (policeman or similar profession that requires carrying a weapon), the identity card must be taken along. As a weapon carrier you have to show a valid weapon licence in addition to your identity card.
Sure, you're only obligated to 'possess' that identification and show it upon request, but you're not obligated to carry it with you at all times (with some exceptions). This means, that the policeman might give you the opportunity to go home and present it later or he might even accompany you to your home, where you have to show it then.
But let's face the reality... as you might've guessed, it doesn't work nice and easy like that all the time.
If there's a probability of any kind of danger or there's been a criminal offense, or basically any kind of cause, no matter how ridiculous it is, then the police has the right to conduct an identity verification (Identitätsfeststellung). You don't even necessarily have to be the danger or done something. It's enough to be in the area.
If, for example, you come from a friend's party, it's 2am in the morning and you walk home and there's been a break-in somewhere in the area and police stops you, you're in a little bit trouble if you have no ID with you. If you do, you can simply show it to them and then proceed strolling home.
If you don't have it on you and they're a little zealous, they might accompany you home or even take you with them to the station to identify you there. The latter would also happen if you refuse to show it. Then they take you in custody, bring you to the station and you get to experience the full "ED" (Erkennungsdienstliche Behandlung) - frisked, fingerprints, mug shots, interrogation, getting yelled at etc.
Even if you haven't been seen doing something and you're completely innocent.
You don't mess with the police when it comes to ID verification. They absolutely love to go the whole nine yards when it comes to people who cannot or refuse to ID themselves. It makes their day, especially when they're bored and got nothing else to do. (Of course this is different, depending on the person... whether you're young or old, male or female etc.)
So, even if there's no obligation to carry it with you at all times, it might be better to do so, just to be able to comply immediately and get things out of the way.
Fun fact: Ausweispflicht was introduced by the Nazis initially for Jews and able-bodied men in '38 and extended to everyone over age 15 one year later, shortly after the war broke out.
Do you leave it at home? I always carry mine on me, in case I get asked for it when buying alcohol, which hasn't happend for the last couple of years. Or if I need it for something else.
@@TomCox84
@Pseudynom Of course, you two are right. But I knew all the stuff already and that's why I always carry my ID card with me to get the hustle and bustle out of the way. I just wanted to clean up with the error that it is obligatory to take it with you but only a duty is to be able to identify :)
In Bavaria you have to carry your ID always with you, there is the Ausweispflicht ;)
Saure Gurke
Bavaria isn’t Germany.
With the ID: you have to own an ID card when you are 16 but you don’t have to take it with you. But if you don’t take it with you the policeman can take you to their police station to identify you
Nope. Only in certain so called dangerous zones the police may check your ID. I, neither my Asian boyfriend, was ever checked although we live in downtown Berlin. And unlike the US or many Asian states you will not spend one night in prison for minor misbehaviour such as drinking alcohol in a park, smoking dope etc.
Jens Damm Slim Shady is totally right. Just because you hadn’t to identify you it still is true. Ner to the border it’s a different story
I am 42 years old. Not once a police asked me to show my id Card.
@@aliasanonym77 iam 36 and i was checked by the police once after they stopped my car on random. i just came from work at 10pm and forgot my wallet inclusive passport/id card and the drivers license. the police stopped me because of 1 front light must have died while starting the car. i told them my name and the name of the official car holder which was my father. they checked on it like 10 minutes, asked for a promise to repair my light as soon as possible and wished a good journey home. i did not had to pay anything, even they could have charged me 10 euros for the light and annother 10 for the id card/drivers license issue.
oh error, i got checked at comming from Czech Republicsearching for drugs but also could go on after 5 minutes.
Interesting view on the German "Mc" industry - have never thought about this before. Edit: Otoh, Germans don´t connote Mc with Scotland, they rather think of McDonald´s, an American way of life that is: fast, cheap, easy and effective.
Well, the "Mc" connotation (esp. McD.) is mostly with "cheap"; the rest are secondary ;)
Just for clearification MC is Irish and MAC is Scottish. And as an old Donald Duck fan from childhood on I connected Scottland allways with MAC.
Thanks, you see how confused we Germans are.
This article discusses this stereotype in its intro www.thelocal.de/20161027/new-exhibition-tests-swabian-stereotypes
“Scots will be happy to know their reputation as a land of penny-pinching misers spreads well beyond the British Isles.
In Germany the Gaelic suffix 'Mac' is shorthand for cheapness. Discounter Mäc-Geiz (Mac-Stingy), gym McFit and stationary chain McPaper all use it as code for rock bottom prices.”
And from my travels, I perceive Mc and Mac to be prevalent in both countries. I thought Mc was Irish and Max was Scottish as well so it surprised me to see both there via business names, etc.
We use these clichees in a playful way. Are you familiar with that concept of talking about another nation in a clicheeloaded but affectionate way? The scottish have whisky and kilts and bagpipes and loch ness and they are penny-pinching? People who say so do not mean it too serious. And if the Scottish are maybe really too penny-pinching: Well, that is not too bad. We still like them. (But thrift is basically considered something good in Germany, it is one of the Prussian virtues.)There is no need for the racism card here.
Spaghettieis is life :D
Hahaha...just wanted to say here that even though many kids like Spaghetti Eis it is not necessarily geared towards kids, especially not the carbonara version which contains alcohol. Interesting video Kelly!
Loved that when I lived in Speyer as a teenager! Never heard of it with alcohol.
@@lauriedettelback2927 there are actually five or more types sometimes :) some with alcohol, some without ;)
Spaghettieis ist eine Erfindung aus Mannheim!
@Carlo Cocciolo Take a blob of whipped cream, top it with vanilla ice cream pressed through a sieve, top with strawberry sauce. Perfectly ordinary when it comes to taste, the only unusual thing about it is the presentation. The more important question is whether there's actual vanilla in the ice cream and actual strawberries in the sauce... which is generally the case, given that pretty much all ice cafes in Germany seem to be owned by Italians. The inventor of spaghetti ice, btw, is Dario Fontanella from Conegliano (Treviso).
I really enjoyed seeing my country through your eyes. As a German living in the US right now I saw a lot of things that I would point out as you did. Not being able to walk or ride a bike to my grocery store is so hard! Whereas driving a car here is always relaxing. It feels like my car is driving on its own. Broad streets, low speed and huge parking lots, driver‘s heaven! Grocery stores are open 24/7 and everybody is friendly! Missing all the Wein Fests though! A lot of good things on bith sides of,the Atlantic, we can only learn from each other. One thing you Americans definitely have to learn is „deutsche Pünktlichkeit“! I spent hours and hours waiting for people here.
I agree - there are a lot of good things in both countries :)
"Realy disturbing Images, like rotting organs or a baby "
... a baby smoking she meant
She skipt the terrible part. She was talking about the images of sick babies, caused by smoking women during pregnancy. Those images are also to find on cigarette boxes.. She didn't say babies are disturbing, but they use very disturbing images as a wake up call on those boxes.
Wiete Adam i think that should be funny
About the gay mariage Thing:
It was "leagal " before. But you havent had the Same Tax Cuts than straight couples. But you where refered to as a living partnership and mostly handled like married. Only this changed with the legelisation of gay marriage. So now you have Tax Cuts and so on.
And PS: Weed isnt leagal in any state of Germany
CBD weed is legal in any state of Germany. And medically prescribed THC weed is legal in any state.
@@FactionalSky Posession and consumption of weed for personal use is tolerated up to a certain amount of grams, depending on the state.
@@mojoblues66 no, it is not tolerated. This is misbelief.
@@FactionalSky yes it is. Except from Bavaria most states have a defined amount that indicates small posession which will result in potential charges being dropped. I would call that tolerated..
@@constantinjas847 it is not written law, so it is not.
If you love public transportation then don't move to a smaller village. Because we only have 2 bus stations and those buses only drive every other hour and on weekends they only drive like twice a day. So yeah...haha
ouch! still more than the US has but certainly not as convenient as I thought. thanks for sharing :)
American expats in Germany tend to live in cities, which apparently makes many of them think public transportation is fabulous here. It is - in the cities. But in the countryside, most people will still need a car.
Imre Hundertwasser or a bike! Hehe
Same in Ireland. You can't live in the country in Ireland without a car. Public transport is good in Dublin and mediocre in other cities and towns.
In my village there are no busses at all during weekends :D
Wait, mc has to do with scotish people?
I'm german, and I never drew any conection to scotland. I always was pretty sure that it came from mc donalds. So is mc donalds racist too?
really i remember we always made jokes about stingy Scottish. maybe its a regional thing.
@@ADMNtek possible. I'm from "Rheinlandpfalz" and I never heard anything like that here.
Yeah, it's because McDonalds is popular and they refering to that brand.
"McDonalds" is not racist because its the Name of the guy who originally established the brand...
What does mc have to do with Scottland? I still don't get it.
You really really really said: "Mainz has Fasching, and i think also Cologne could have something also." U made up so much enemies xD
Lol! I now know what an egregious thing this was for me to say haha
Raupenzaehler aaaaahhh Fasching ich hab die ganze Zeit überlegt was das sein soll😂
"U" - That's spelt "You".
Anvilshock ... U only Uuuuuuuuuuu
Anvilshock
Ich hab echt keine Lust das auf englisch zu schreiben, aber wenn man sich schon die Mühe macht in englisch zu schreiben, dann will man nicht unbedingt so angefahren werden .
Falls du kein Deutsch kannst...
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In Germany there is also the "Wegbier" which is basically taking a beer with you on your way and walking through the city with it. And: It's totally normal to order a spaghetti ice here as an adult.
You're talking about regional cultural differences.
Bavaria is beer country, so there are beer festivals of which Octoberfest is the biggest.
The Rhein and Mosel valleys are wine country, so lots of wine festivals in that region.
Fasching is Mardi Gras, and Cologne and Mainz go craziest with that.
That's definitely true me and my friends went to the Fasching festival fom Bavaria it was fun and then we went back to the Oktober festival in Bavaria again.
'Fasnet' in the Southwest (Oberschwaben) is also hugely celebrated
Public transportation: Luxemburg will be the first country on the planet where all public transport will be free!
One thing I don't understand:
Why the heck would you want to go back to DC after this?
I've always had 'a thing' for Germany but have never been to Europe. Watching your videos is like having a friend give you a guided tour. So far, I think I'd really like it there. Thank you!
I’m glad you enjoyed it! And if you get the chance to go to Germany, take it! It’s a really beautiful country
I live in Germany, but I would prefer to live in Spain.
I have no money to move abroad, so I must stay in Germany.
Moved to the U.S. and i wanna go back to Germany Now but my mutter say's Nein everytime and say that we don't have enough money. But then, i say we do it's from social security in the bank accounts we can go but sadly we can't use it since SHE PURPOSELY LOST OUR DAMN PASSPORTS AND SHE BLAMES IT ON ME AND MAKES STUPID ASS LIES, LIKE "YOU LOST IT IN GERMANY" WHEN WE HAVEN'T BEEN TO GERMANY SINCE I WAS 5 AND SHE NEVER WENT TO GERMANY SINCE I WAS LIVING WITH MY FATHER WHEN HE WAS STATIONED. AND WE WENT BACK TO AMERICA WHEN HE RETIRED. AND MARRIED THE STEP MUTTER I HAVE NOW NOW.
i use both stereotypes, for scots & jews.
but considering myself to be frugal, i look at it as a virtue and compliment.
something to emulate. also ikea founder (billionaire) was famous for coming from a very very modest and frugal part in sweden and buying 2nd hand clothes until his last breath and wearing a 5-15$watch.
@@SELBLINK_in_your_area For many Spanish its the other way around. Can't you swap places with a desperate poor Spaniard? Bet you want to be back within a week?
Just kidding, if you want to go there, find a good way. Can't you study there? Good luck!
Thanks for watching my video! I'm learning so much from you guys in the comments!! oh! and if you guys are wondering what i'm talking about with the Mc-thing, check out this website - www.thelocal.de/20161027/new-exhibition-tests-swabian-stereotypes or this one www.kurfuersten-galerie.de/mieter.asp?id=23&branche=6 and just do some google searches :)
In Germany we think that Scotsmen are very grasping. Just the Schwaben are worse.
I believe the Mc is not because Scotts are considered cheap, rather than relating to McDonalds as fast and cheap / no thrills.
mortusanteportas86 - ... or using a franchise model like McDonalds. If these names should remind to Scotland they would be accompanied by typical Scottish attributes, like the Scottish flag or typical Scottish patterns. That they are not more similar to McDonalds logo/branding is just not to violate the copyright rights of McDonalds.
Oh, a sunday stroll thru old town... it's always nice to see my 2k year old hometown again.
As you live some kind of nearby you should visit the bienenmarkt and wiesenmarkt, some of the biggest ones in Südhessen.
I live in a very small village near Bochum and there are not many buses, there is no train station and you need a car to get to work, buy groceries etc. If you live and work in a big city it's possible to get everyehere with public transport, but if you live in a village or a slightly smaller town you need a car.
Not true? Like every single tiny village has at least one bus station?? Lol
As a born Mainzerin, I had so much fun seeing you walk through the city. I really enjoyed watching this a lot, well done!
if someone puts a Mc in a German company name, it means "get it fast, get it cheap" an mosty self service
not cheap !! for a faier price !!
Yes, cheap. Like cheap fast food of a certain US brand....
and low quality
Robinius Arcazius --Yes, but this wasn't the question.
actually this is exactly what it is about. the association between the prefix "mc" and the intention to pay little money is due to the german stereotype of a stingy scotchman
I am young enough to be able to say that I have absolutely nothing to do with the Nazi-past of my home country, but these stumbling stones whenever I see them are a grim reminder of what my people where able to do. It is a punch to the gut if I am honest. But it is a good thing that they are there, so we keep in mind what has happened. If you don't like them, I would say you are afraid to look at Germanys crimes. Take a good hard look at it, and remember: "Never again"
And while you are looking back, look past the thrid reich, there is a lot more to uncover. A lot of good things actually.
"what *my* people" - You may want to reword that.
@@Anvilshock it's abolutely correct. Part of the people were actively involved and most of the rest turned a blind eye to it, which made them non the less guilty.
So we should be aware that atrocities of this kind will never ever occur again
@@zyriacus8360 70 fucking years ago. Give it a fucking rest.
Anvilshock never give it a rest because if you forget history, you relive it. Knowing the horrendous part of Germany’s histoy doesn’t make me dislike Germany, at all. I lived there when my dad was in the Army and I consider it my second home.
@@robetheridge6999 Oh, piss off, will you? Did I fucking say to forget and disregard it? You know, there's a difference between knowing, acknowledging, and learning on one side and eternally grovelling and apologising for something that was created three, four generations ago by the mindset, society, economy, and politics back then! "My people" - HA! This little shit isn't even old enough to have pubes to justify carrying a comb, yet is trying to lecture the rest of the world about "HIS people". The nerve! If he considers himself to still be living in a Germany hundred years ago when the same Weimar Republic began that ended up giving rise to NS Germany to be able to rightfully say "my people", then he's definitely missed a few calendars and other cues as to what year we're currently living in. The people of Germany today are a tad late to have either committed or failed to prevent the war and the atrocities of the regime, and they also have plenty of modern problems to address. So, yes. Give it a fucking rest.
you have guns we have cigaretes :)
It's funny how people think there are guns everywhere in the US. I live in Chicago and I haven't seen a gun in years (since I went hunting in Texas). Media over there likes to present the US like it's the wild west. Like the journalist Claas Relotius. Meanwhile when I was in Belgium I saw military guards with massive machine guns at all the train stations.
@@kaberus7565 left media...
hunt hunt 500,000 people die a year from smoking in US about 33,000 from guns and 13,000 are suicides from guns.
@@cdub531 People who smoke accept the risk, people who get shot not.
xFactions7 glad you said that so let’s ban all alcohol because people that die from drinking and driving didn’t choose that. What’s your next imbecile statement?
Usually not my type of content, but I genuinely enjoyed this video!
And the cellphone plans aren't even cheap here. I still feel being robbed. Compare them to plans in austria for example.
In Germany you do have to have an identification but it's an common misconception among Germans that you have to carry it around. You do not have to carry it around with you, you just have to own one.
A passport or driver's license can often be used in place of an ID card. I personally carry my ID everywhere since we were told to do that back in the day. Not sure if that rule still applies. What's also important is the expiration date on the passport or ID card, b/c when expired, it's invalid.
I think the reason why most Germans have their ID on them all the time is because if you're in an accident or witness to a crime or whatever, the police might want to know who you are. You don't have to show them your ID as far as I know, but you got to convince them you are who you say you are. The easiest way to do that is showing them your ID ... but I could be wrong - I'm no expert ^^
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you have to have some sort of identification paper on you at all times. personal id, drivers license, or somthing else containing a picture of you ( passbild) and your adress, and some kind of official signature/ stamp on it, this can be everything ; student ID, or even a membership card of some club can do the trick. and i know what im talking about, friends of mine had to go home with the police and show them their ID, happend to me too, i even once ended up in cell for a few hours ( same thing happend to another friend of mine years ago, but he had to rest the whole night in a cell due to cricumstances)
Schischlack Untrue you can look it up in the Personalausweisgesetz (try getting that one in Hangman). There are some circumstances in which you need to carry you id around but for 99% of germans those do not apply. If you are asked by the police to identify yourself you have to do that. But this could also mean that the police will escord you to your home(or place where your id is) and then you can show it to them.
I love how you gave us a little Mainz tour♥️ I was born there and lived there for almost 10 years. Now I live in Turkey and I'm glad to see Mainz again. Thank you♥️
Very informative. Thank you.
The question is: Why would you have a pickup truck when you live in the city?
Why do people have SUV in cities? Not nessecary.
@@mandyneuhaus2544 Theoretically right. Practically I love the space, the security, the sitting postion, the possibility to attach a trailer and the 4WD. Ok, I am not living in a major city and me and my family love outdoor activities and travelling a lot, but sometimes there is more than getting from A to B. Our second car is a small one, btw. But not everybody can afford two or more cars.
Good way to haul large items like furniture or appliances from one place to another.
@@michaelzimmer7229 we oen a VW bus qnd it is really environmental friendly and it still had enough space for stuff like that. Last year we could easily sleep in it with 3 people. I know SUV look kind of nice, have bigger space but they need so much petrol. They are made for rural areas but if you use them very often for camping and for getting huge stuff from A to B it has a okay use. But just having them because they are cool isn't their original purpose.
This is by far your best vlog yet. I enjoyed every minute of it.Thank you.
yeah, it is really well edited too!
aww thank you!! i'm glad you like it :)
I love learning more about other countries and your videos help so much. Thank you.
i'm happy to hear that!
I love this girl, this is now my fav RUclips subscription 💕💕
the US is one of the only places to do MM/DD/YYYY, most other places (like Australia) do it from smallest to largest, which makes sense.
Or largest to smallest (the way ISO recommends it), which makes more sense than both of them ;)
I think small-large makes more sense, but if its large to small I can still easily read it
The ISo really only makes sense when you have something like and archive, since it makes it easier to find specific information in a large number of dates.
But it wouldn´t really make sense in everyday life, since you know what year you are in( in general) and most people can even manage to remember the current month. So what concerns a normal person the most, is the current day.
YYYY MM DD makes sense when you work with computers. You can sort files alphabetically when you have files with the same name and a date added like "work 2018 10 01" and "work 2018 09 30". That doesn't work with the other notations. But normally I would think that it is natural to write the current date "small to large" DD MM YYYY". The american way is a bit to mixed up for my taste (and because I am used to it ;-) )
@@horste9237 YYYY MM DD make also sense, if you a time traveler :D
You mentioned that you didn't know what it is called when people dress up, sell alcohol and celebrate before a wedding. It's called "Polterabend" or "Junggesellenabschied". It's basically like a bachelor/bachelorette party. The money they are collecting by selling alcohol is supposed to pay for the bachelor/bachelorette party and usually isn't collected for the wedding/marriage. Usually the bride or groom to be will get different tasks that they'll have to complete, one of them is usually to dress up in hideous clothes, another task is to sell alcohol.
it sounds like a lot of fun!!
Hold on, Junggesellenabschied and Polterabend are two VERY different things. Junggesellenabschied is the equivalent to a bachelor/bachelorette party.
A Polterabend however is a party that both groom and bride hold together. Usually, weddings aren't THAT huge, so many friends and acquaintances visit the Polterabend instead, where traditionally old dishes made out of ceramic and porcelain are being smashed for good luck (and the sound is "poltern" ;) kinda like "banging"). Bride and groom will then take care of the mess together to prepare them for married life. No official invitations are sent out - bride and groom tell their friends and family and they can tell anybody who knows the couple. Usually, there are snacks and drinks and people who aren't attending the wedding might bring over little presents - and lots of ceramics! Some even smash old toilet bowls...
Here in Salzburg (where I'm from), both the Jungesellenabschied and the Polterabend are the exact same thing. We don't have the second event here that you are describing, I've actually never heard of anybody celebrating a party like that around here. Poltern here is like a bachelor/bachelorette party where only the bride to be celebrates with her girls or the groom to be celebrates with his guys. Here poltern is meant for "es nochmal krachen lassen" and celebrating the Junggesellenabschied. Like I said what you mentioned might be the case in different parts of Germany, but both things are the exact same thing here in Salzburg.
Austrianontravels Maybe that is the case in Austria. In Germany, I have never heard anyone refer to a bachelor's party as Polterabend, at least not in the Rhein-Main area and that's where Kelly currently lives, too.
So interesting to note: Austria and Germany might speak the same language (mostly ;D), but we can still be quite different!
yup, the austrian for "face" could land you in jail in germany (and me getting banned from youtube just mentioning it)
Kelly this video was a delightful walk & talk.
to be honest somehow i love to see those kind of videos because i am german myself and getting your point of view about us amuses me a lot, keep on that
You don't have to take your ID everywhere. It's a common believe that's simply wrong. You only have to have one. Either an ID or Passport. There are a few exceptions, but most of the times you don't have to take it with you.
Also in some situations it can save you a lot of trouble as the police is allowed to take you with them in case they need to clear your identity and you aren't able to show your ID.
Yes, even many Germans do not know this. I quite regularily do not carry any kind of id.
Well, if not carrying your ID means the police might (have to) take you with them when they do a (routine) check, I'd consider that as "You have to carry your ID".
And really, why not? I always carry it with me in my purse and I don't think I know anyone who doesn't at least have their dirver's license with them wherever they go (You can use that instead of your ID and that one you actually _have_ to have on you when you drive a car).
Don´t believe that. You need to have some means of official identification papers with you by law !! Remember, in my youth my mother turned allways mad at me when I forgot to take my school identification card to have with me. (Schülerausweis ) From adulthood on it is the Identity Card ( Personalausweis)- even if you show a credit card in a shop the salespersons have the right to ask you for official means of identification
Roger Lynch That's not right. There is no law that requires that you have to have your ID with you all the time. You Just have to have one by the age of 16.
And a "Schülerausweis" isn't an official document at all.
"In Deutschland besteht gemäß § 1 PAuswGeine Ausweispflicht, allerdings resultiert daraus keine allgemeine Mitführpflicht für Identitätsnachweise. Ein Sonderfall, bei dem ein Personalausweis oder Reisepassmitzuführen ist, ist zum Beispiel das Führen einer Waffe (§ 38 WaffG). Zudem sieht das Gesetz zur Bekämpfung der Schwarzarbeiteine Mitführpflicht eines Ausweises für Arbeitnehmer bestimmter Branchen vor, beispielsweise im Bau- oder im Gaststättengewerbe, um sich gegenüber Zollbeamten ausweisen zu können (§ 2aSchwarzArbG)."
Quelle: de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitführpflicht
I personally don't have a problem with English sprinkled here and there, but I have to admit that it annoys me for the older generation that doesn't speak English. I start hearing it on TV more and more, too, people using English phrases in German sentences that people can't understand unless they speak English and that is where I personally draw the line. Like in some cooking show, they might be saying "Das hat noch einen Crunch" - just say "Das hat etwas Knuspriges"! It's not like we don't have a word for it and the people watching the content might actually understand what he's talking about...
that's an interesting perspective that i haven't seen anyone share yet, and i completely see your point. i think that would be very frustrating for me too. thank you
u mean the german media @pyrotecchnic5254
I remember the advertisement “come in and find out” for Douglas, a perfume/ beauty store. It’s a German company and they wanted to look more international... unfortunately most people didn’t understand the meaning of that ad and thought they should go inside to go outside...😂
For me, speaking almost fluently english of course I got the point, but I didn’t understand why Douglas wanted to have an English slogan 😏
Just imagine every fifth word spoken in the US would be German. It would not be good. It is okay to have some words of foreign languages, but the original language should keep recognized.
Here is a little comedy sketch about English word usage in Germany, with famous Mr. Hallervorden:
m.ruclips.net/video/PCi5QVguIr8/видео.html
(decide by yourself if the sketch's language is English or German, I just couldn't say)
Really annoying is "denglish" in German Fashion Shows. Like Heidi Klums Topmodel.
They speak like this to show that they fly every week to NY or Paris, they believe
they are special when they talk with many english words.
again very interesting!
You have to look at Hamburg !!
Greetings from Hamburg Germany ;)
stumbling blocks dont show the date when they died it shows when they where murdered! Important difference
yes, very
paul baron, not a myth, fuckface.
Technically, no. They died when they got murdered, didnt they?
thats however not common. I do not know any other city having this.
SigmaOfMyParts most bigger cities have them, and quite a lot of smaller ones as well
A big part of the reason you get robbed with phone and internet in the US, is a lack of some basic competition regulations, plus areas awarding monopolies in areas without tacking onto this monopoly min. services and max. prices, this allows the few companies to provide minimum service at maximum prices since noone has a real choice. (dial-up is not a choice)
Spent some of my best years in MZ, thx for the walkaround.
I am from Germany, cool channel! Weiter so (keep it up);D
Thanks!!
When you mentioned at the end about going to find coffee I was ready to go with you. It felt like I was on tour. So personable. Great vlog Thank you!😛
what time where you Walking through Mainz? It must have been like 6 am or something like that, cause there is nobody around, really confusing!
haha i filmed this early on Easter Sunday morning :)
FLexxxtreme haha, I'm German and I'm in Canada right now, and I was really surprised that literally every store is open on Sundays...which isn't the worst thing tbh 😂
I visited Costa Rica this year (only 3 weeks but still) and I was really confused that everything opened on sundays. The thing is since we're always told that "der ruhige Sonntag" is a thing from the church you'd expect a catholic country like Costa Rica to also consoder it a quiet day. (I really hope you understand what I mean)
Hello FLexxxtreme,
The Sunday is a quiet day because of religious reasons. It is one of the "Zehn Gebote" ("Ten Commandments") of the bible: God made the world within 6 days, but the 7th day he looked at his work and did not do anything else. So God told the human being to also "rest" that day. The only "work" allowed is to praise the Lord.
I am Catholic and this is the Catholic way. Other parts of Germany have more Protestantic (?) people. There it is different. I live near the border of two different Länder, and you really notice it crossing that border (if you pay attention to church/religion)
Greetings from Germany,
Young19Boy
@@booksaremyrebellion7809 "Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy". I would think that is a commandment to not do work on the Sabbath day (whatever day you believe that is).
Thanks for the lovely walk (and the lovely company) :-)
02:25 "This is the train station in minds" XD Yes, this train station looks really like i have in my mind. XD
12:45 See, that's one thing I don't understand Americans for: Why exactly do you need so disproportionately large cars? 🤔 It's a mystery to me why American cars have seats for two persons where also four persons could sit. What's the necessity of cars with 95% unused space? 🤔
i'm really not sure. I mean, I've always owned a 4 door sedan, but recently got a Ford Escape which is a bit bigger...though certainly not nearly as big as what a lot of Americans drive. I'm always wondering why so many people own trucks in the US, especially given how much gas they waste. I understand that if you want to haul some stuff, but honestly, it would probably be worth it to get a smaller car or SUV and rent a truck when you need it. If you need to constantly haul stuff, then that's a different story, of course.
:P If I would get a truck just because I sometimes have to haul big stuff my family would call me bananas. We just rent a trailer for big stuff if nessecary. Ikea rents them out for very little if you're an "Ikea family member" so we usually drive past an Ikea. :P
SaxMovies08 it’s called “keeping up with the joneses” Americans are in competition with each other for the biggest and best. It’s exhausting.
95% unused brain....
In Germany we often say if you have a big car you have to „compensate something“ so you have a small penis
That Mc thing probably comes from McDonalds which is still the most prevalent fast food here. So I don't think it looks down on the Scottish, but rather has just come to mean quick, easy/convinient and affordable/cheap.
Actually I beleive it comes from the idea that Scottish people are somewhere between thrifty and stingy. This stereotype comes from the fact that Scots in the Highlands used to be very poor and at least for the last 40 years it has also been drummed into us by Walt Disneys comic books - think Dagobert Duck (Scrooge McDuck). So people associate Mc with thrifty, not expensive, making your money go further.
There is even a Scottish joke we have (roughly translated):
Q: What's the Scottish recipe for tomato soup?
A: Take hot water and a red soup plate.......
I agree 100% with you, limejuice. It's a reference to McDonalds, which is considered cheap food.
Michael Neuffer is totally right: it's a very common stereotype that Scottish is associated with thrifty, not expensive, making your money go further. One chain of shops for household goods is even called Mäc Geiz: lit. Mc Parsimony / Stinginess.
That stereotype isn't well known in germany though.
drwarcloud36 plus: many Germans wouldn't associate "Mc" with being Scottish.
If you want to see many old buildings and churches you should definitely visit Görlitz! It's near Dresden and known as the city of towers because we have many churches and towers. And it has a really pretty Altstadt!
Die Stadt der tausend Türme. very nice spot. agree
Hi Kelly,
that`s a very interesting and nice video. I´ve learned a lot!
Thanks for that!
Dettmar
Happy you liked it!
quality content. a like from germany. also thanks for being objective - nice to see the point of view from an american.
Thank you! :)
1. In Germany not only the automobile lobby, but also the cigar lobby have a big influence in politics. The government just doesn't like to ban things. They make 'anti-campaigns', but do not ban.
2. In the US the cellphone flat rate prices are even higher then here. Even in Germany I think like: When do we get limitless mobile internet already.
3. In Germany you only have to have an ID, but you don't have to take it with you. But when the police stops you and you don't have any ID on you, they can either go with you to your home, hotel, or wherever you have it, so you can show them, or they take you to the police station to check you.
4. There are no health codes for animals in restaurants or other places (of cause their banned from the kitchen). The owner of the shop is allowed to ban dogs from their shops. You often see signs with the sentence "Wir müssen draußen bleiben!" (We have to stay outside (We = Dogs) with pictures of dogs on entrance doors.
5. You did a perfect mediation of the bicycle sign. But I had to discover, that nearly no one of the cyclist in my town give a f*** and just do what they want.
6. The SUV got very popular in Germany throughout the last decade. New streets and parking lots are even build wider, because there are so many accidents where a SUV driver just couldn't handle his car properly in our narrow streets.
7. In the 50s and 60s Germany invited guest workers (mostly out of Turkey and Italy) to work here and help to build up the german economy after WWII. That's why we have so many Italian restaurants and ice-cream shops / cafés.
thanks for sharing all of this!! and yes, i never knew i was doing anything wrong because i saw so many other cyclists in pedestrian only zones, etc...and then my boyfriend pointed out the signs to me and told me that there will be people getting ticketed for this sometimes and i promptly started paying more attention! I knew about the Turkish immigrants, but wasn't aware that there were so many Italians too. Makes total sense.
Jo_Kim Good to know
Is it ok to share your wifi in the US? In germany you could get into trouble if someone downloads copyright proteced music/movies. So people use freifunk here. A freifunk router protects the individual for lawsuits. But you need a separate router to provide wifi for friends and neighbours.
Great video! What took you to Germany? We are applying to jobs in Munich and are very close to living there and are very excited!
The ribbons on the cars after a wedding is actually the torn up bridal veil and every guest's car get one strip tied to their car. But yes, they are for good luck and also yes, they are meant to stay on until they disintegrate.
Greetings from a German living in England x
I just stumbled across your videos and ended up watching all of them at once because as a German I was actually so amazed by how much background knowledge you have about general things here in Germany that I didn't even know the reason behind. Good job! Oh and Germans love to mix in English phrases in our language. It even has it's own name, it's called Danglish, for a mix of German and English. And the same goes for written out English phrases. I think it has to do with the fact that our country in general is getting more and more americanized, due to consumption of american tv shows and movies. Germans like those hollywood productions and generally perceive Americans and American culture as being cool and modern. So Germans try to imitate it. That's also why American traditions such as Valentines Day and Halloween and American brands like Starbucks or Apple have been getting more and more popular over the years.
Thanks!! I’m glad you like it :) while I didn’t really learn much german, I invested a lot of energy into trying to understand german culture. I still have a lot to learn of course but your comment is very encouraging :) thanks for watching!
Wenn ich da einmal klugscheisserisch eingreifen dürfte, BerlinCityGirl84, es heißt "Denglisch" nicht "Danglish". Ansonsten hast Du völlig recht.
Are you currently living in Berlin? Your English is really good.
When I moved to Germany what seems like ages ago, well, it was actually ages ago, Germans would often ask me why I did that, when, after all, America is much nicer. I would usually recommend that they watch less television. Anyway, no, there is not a great deal of difference. Both countries having running water and electricity. Roads, cars and gas stations. Grocery stores. But as you mention, there are some fine differences! In the USA, ketchup is free, in Germany it's healthcare and universities that are free.
As for the monthly electricity bill , I think that the German system is to save the cost of reading the meter every month. I actually prefer the US system, because if there is something wrong in your house that is causing you to use a lot of electricity, you know it right away. In Germany, you might only find out that something is wrong at the end of the year when you get hit with a make-up payment of hundreds of Euros. Happened to me with a defective electric heater that apparently was just sending power back to the electric company.
Love your videos. Brings back memories of when I first came to Germany.
hahah i love the statement "in the USA, ketchup is free, in Germany it's healthcare and universities that are free". and i completely agree with you about the electric bill. i think something was very wrong with my apartment to where my bill ended up being more than what I had paid for...which blows my mind because I honestly was hardly ever in my apartment because i was either traveling or at my boyfriend's. i think i went three months once without even going into my apartment....so it's quite a frustrating mystery to me haha
thank you for sharing and thanks for watching :) i'm glad they bring back memories for you!
welcome to the stand-by mode. the devices still use energy, even if theyre shut off. so you gotta unplug everything before leaving for more that like 3 days
That's why everything is on a seperate .......... uhm electrical outlet (???????) ......... where u have a switch - everytime when I don't use sth .... I put that switch that the light in it vanishes : ) because everything could break .... and ok the bill is a nice idea .... .... I think on FIRE and so on (and yes it happened ... it was a .... oh damn don't know the word ... friteuse (that thing what u heat up and make fries in) ............ stand in fire faster than I could look I just cracked that power Cable from the wall made a towel wet and take that "thing" to the balcony and there it burned lower and lower ...... when that happened once ..... to you .... you never .... NEVER ..... let anything on power ...... ^^" when I wouldn't have been at home (is this correct don't know ... gnah sorry for this bad english .... I try my best ^^) .... don't want to think about that what happened then to all my stuff... all my pen and paper stuff and my roleplaying games my gaming systems (like the sega mega drive - snes - the old game boy - ........) .... *panic attack*
Healthcare is not free !
If you have a Job it will be payed before you get your Money.
If you didn´t have a job jou need to pay it yourself, and it is the double of the value because your Boss pay one half and you the other from your Salary.
After an accident i didn´t had a job and no social money i need to pay Healtcare myself and it cost me like double than food per Month !
Healthcare is actually not free, but I know what you mean. In germany we pay part of our salary to the healthcare. This can be as much as 150 euro a month for some of the healthcare providers if I am not wrong. As a student I still get a discount and pay 90 euros a month. So if you are a healthy person and go to the doctor only once a year you lose out a lot. When you get older you may make up for it. Thing is, the price you pay for healthcare goes up the older you get ;D If you need a lot of medical attention, then our system may be a good one. Should you decide you dont need to see the doc so often, you can leave the public healthcare system and just insure yourself privately.
Hi,nice to see you living and enjoying my hometown so much
Very interesting video. I'd be interested to hear what you'd say about Switzerland. The public transport here is even better.
I rode only one train in Switzerland (we’ll also a ferry on the Bodensee) and was thoroughly impressed
Kelly does her thing I appreciate the way you take time to reply to comments! I try to do the same on my channel. I'm an Aussie living in Switzerland as a train driver, so I also notice a lot of cultural differences. Your videos are great. There are a lot of things you mentioned that I didn't even realise - sometimes you only notice them when you go back to your home country :)
lorirocks777 that is so true!! And I feel like I’ve learned so much about the US by living in Germany hahaha
I've been watching quite a few of those Germany vs Country XYZ videos in the last weeks, and I must say I find this the best, by a mile. Very observant, objective, and smart.
thank you very much :) i really appreciate that
Mc'shop' refers to -tadaah! - McDonald's! That's the odd truth. And the idea behind is: a small, standadized range of goods, available at once.
Restaurant opening hours: that depends on the Bundesland (fed state). Restaurants need to have a license, and opening hours are limited by this license, due to local authorities and lawful rules.
Wow! what are the odds that I would stumble across your website today and see you walking around the city I so loved when I lived in Germany. BTW great video and new subscriber.
Omg it’s so crazy that you lived in the city I‘m living in. I noticed cause you walked past that bar called Karamel😻
One day you should come to Berlin! It was a nice video!
Ist das Sonntag morgen oder was?
It was on Easter Sunday morning of all Sunday mornings haha
@@Kellydoesherthing I thought so :-)
What you called ID is basically city registration. It's called as Anmeldung. It's basically done in the Rathaus or Bürgeramt, a city registration office. You might have also done it. Whoever stays more than 3 months must do
I lived in Kaiserstraße in Mainz. Must be somewhere around where you started your Tour. Very cool to see you Walking through "my town"😊
I just wanted to add one little piece of information towards the "Soli" - the "tax" for the support of the "new states" (former GDR) in Germany: it is disputed indeed, yet everyone with a salary pays it, including the people in the east (!) and also, the money does not only go to the east, but the entire country, depending on which communities have the highest demand.
(History: it is disputed a lot, because it was originally meant to be active only for a few years. However, as the east was not developing as fast as "dreamed of", they kept it and used it for the whole of the country. Also, the additional amount of money comes in pretty handy for many communities in the east and west of Germany.)
ohhhhh ok that really provides some context to a lot of comments i've heard Germans make about this tax. Thanks for sharing :)
Any time again, if I can help :)
The soli is also controversial because some areas in West Germany (mostly cities in Nordrhein-Westfalen) are in worse shape now than East Germany, because funding was concentrated on the East for so long and didn't cater to places in the West which had suffered economic setbacks.
I'll be the first to admit: I am from the East, still the mentioned area (Ruhrgebiet) was a mining&industry-area and purely missed the chance to change&adapt. However, indeed some East areas managed to make the best out of the funding. Economical support however is always disputable... ^^
Kelly does her thing, the whole topic is not that easy and even Germans seemed to be misinformed about the coherences. Probably half of the comments you hear regarding the "Soli" are lacking understanding of it.
First of all the "Soli" (>Solidaritätszuschlag
Tongue in cheek explanation for the cell phone name.
When cell phones were first introduced in south-western Germany - Baden-Württemberg - the most commonly asked question was: "Jo, hen di koi Schnuur?" (Don't these have cables?)
In this regard, the offical state motto of Baden-Württemberg is: "Wir können alles. Außer Hochdeutsch."
I’ve never seen Mainz so empty :D loved this video! ❤️
Excellent summary of difference between Germany and the United States. I used to live in Mainz a very very long time ago, so I felt quite some nostalgia seeing all those beautiful sites. I have lived in the United States for nearly 30 years now and yes, I miss Mainz and the rest of Rheinland-Pfalz!
Thank you! And how coincidental that you also lived in Mainz :) I miss it too
Kelly, I really like your videos so much. Let me just add some comments and forgive my German straightforwardness.
Advertising for cigarettes is forbidden in all countries of the European Union, except in Germany. This is a success of the lobby work of the cigarette industry. Last night there was a report on German TV which has stated so. It sounds to me as being similar to the weapons industry in the United States. The cigarettes vending machines require an age check nowadays. You must insert your credit/debit card before you can get 17 pieces of cigarettes for 5 €uros. Those machines were accessibly to everybody during my childhood and I was able to get 12 pieces of cigarettes for 1 Deutsche Mark (0.51 €).
You must have a current ID Card in Germany by law but you are not required to carry it all the time. However if you do not do you may get into problems since police officer can hold you until they were able to verify your identification.
Marriage at a later age is quite common in Germany; we first want to make sure that we are educated and get a job which makes as able to live, get married, and raise children before we would start this adventure on debts.
Solidarity is a big thing in Germany. Lots of Americans mix this up with Socialism/Kommunism. Germany was the first country on earth to invent a national social health insurance system. When the German Democratic Republic (GDR) collapsed and Germany was reunited it was established that every German has to distribute on the built up of the former GDR. An additional solidarity charge of 5.5% to the regular income tax was invented. Nowadays there are conflicting discussions about this "Solidaritätszuschlag". Some cities in Western Germany have to increase their debts to pay this to Eastern Germany.
Ice-Cream-Shops were opened in Germany in the 1950/60's when Italian guest workers came to Germany and they brought Italian icecream producers with them. Lots of families in the Italian Dolomites went to Germany for the summer to operate icecream cafes and went back home during winter times. I recall the the most favourate icecream cafe in my city was open from the beginning of March until the end of October. It was transferred to a Persian carpet store in wintertime.
Writing of dates is almost done in every country of the world like it is done in Germany. Only the United States make an exception. The same applies to numbering.
Gerd Papenburg thanks for sharing and giving some context to my observations!
pyrotechnic5254 - 20 pieces of Gauloises Rot were 5 Marks (€2.56) in the end of the 90's. Today you pay €5 for 17 pieces; increase - 130%
marriage is getting more and more unnecessary for ppl and i think its really nice because nobody should feel forced to do it. u can have a family or a partner without marriage
hey i am 15 and from germany and our class just recently wrote an essay about all those english words in our everyday-life. it is called "anglizism" or sth and dude, ya, we use a LOT of english words. i am from lower saxony where after the war the britains came to. it is basically normal for us to go to school and learn english at the age of ~7 and keep on doing that until the end of our days there. and it is NOT the kind of lessons you have in france (where u can go hav 4 years of english lessons and still cant get urself a milkshake at mcdonalds in london) nope, we have really good teachers who are of course expecting a lot. we have speaking exams and written essay- stuff with sometimes a length of 5 pages in one exam (that was by the way in our 6th year of learning that language). in germany, i have a B in english and dude, i went to england lived there for a few weeks and got back home with everyone there sayin that i do not sound in any way like a person not speaking english since birth. in fact, they thought i was american because i somehow managed to develop myself a quite nice accent to get better grades in my speaking exams. people are also speaking english so much because in this world, u cant do much with german. i mean, u can go to that one spanish island (mallorca) and everyone understands u because of all germans going there for at least once in their lifetime (i dont know why but that is apparently appearing on people´s bucket-lists) but except that---- what u gonna do? you can stay in germany that´s it. everywhere else u r going to need english and DUDE is english an easy language. i mean not everyone appreciates that of course but what r u gonna do about it? now it is a certain part of our culture and most of the younger people agree when i say that u cant take that away from us.
omg i am sooo damn proud of myself for writing this haha i am sorry that it is that long XD
And you can be proud, matey. thats on the point. English language is an every day thingy in GY and as well I love german as my first language I dont have any issues using english in business and private life. Our education system takes account of the fact that we live in a globalized world and I am totally happy that my kids visit a bilingual school. Its only natural that english expressions are seen in every day life.
i could see your point being damn proud"for your age dealing with such a topic being fifteen years old .However...There is nothing to be proud of criticizing the way English is taught in Latin countries,sorry ;).Bear in mind they do not have Germanic language's background unlike Nordic countries while learning it.You may be fit in a language, but as long you have no intercultural skills about the country you are in -your attitude won't be understood by locals as well..Typical faux-pas:put a typical German preceding an Englishman at a mall 's entrance or a Frenchman.He certainly smashes the entrance door at their faces without thinking of holding it;)That 's a bit the way German manners sound like for these cultures;)Put these three nationalities in Japan-then they become all three "manners' barbarians";)Aligato
@@jobeam01 Hey mate! Seriously, i did not want to offend anyone ;) see, i experienced the english lessons in france and the people's abilities to actually use it. I just wanted to tell what i have experienced without saying that it is like that everywhere. French people are normally better in learning spanish than germans because their own language is closer to it. Anyway, as you spoke about manners, i want to tell you that there are always and everywhere people not quite fitting in clichès, meaning that i personally see a lot of people here opening the doors and hold them for someone behind them :) of course, i am sure you only pointed that out to make me see the cultural diversities between the countrys, but there are always exceptions ;)
thats by far the best comment!
Hi Kelly. You just passed in front of a shop called Kelly's at 2:55!
Kelly i Love your vids! So awesome... and so funny ... and so true....
Just wondering what type of work it is that you do in Germany???
Jimmy D'Nada spying
I heard that german cellphone plans are way more expensive than plans in a lot of other european countries.
Heeeyyy, i love your Videos!
I live in Wiesbaden and a few Kilometres away from my Home theres a Stone thats called the "Goethe Stein". Goethe used to sit by that Stone while writing his books and it has a nice View!
Just cute, loved your vlog! :)