I can still vividly remember buying a loaf of pumpernickel from a supermarket in Freiburg in 1992 while Inter-Railing - and being staggered by its 1kg (2.2lb) mass. I was full after about two bites!
Germany has influenced the whole of Europe long before the wars, and long after. It's strange that we're taught with a focus on such a short period, I understand why - the never forget philosophy, but there is more to Germany and it's culture. You might be surprised how much English culture evolved from German culture, not least the English language...
@@hyenalaughingmatter8103 I don't know enough about WWI but WWII was triggered by outside forces, primarily the withdrawal of promised financial support from the USA due to their great depression, but Germans did vote for Hitler - a known ex-convinct with a history of violence and hatred in a minor political organisation with anti-Semitic ideology, don't pretend otherwise, they did see what was going on and although desperate under crushing super-inflation still empowered a tyrant. Their hands are definitely not clean. So please tell me dig deeper where to find what out, I am interested to know your perspective since you've raised this subject?
The English language is Germanic. That’s not the same thing as “German”. It’s a linguistic branch that has roots in an area of Europe that ENCOMPASSES modern-day Germany (hence the name) but also other countries and is where many different pagan tribes (including the Angles, Saxons, Jutes etc etc) originated before migrating across to Britain and various other places.
@@penname5766 That's like saying Latin isn't Roman when ancient Rome spoke Latin, which by the way also exists in English as one of the core languages it evolved from. Don't forget old Norse, old English (aka Anglo-Saxon) and Celtic too... Plus your misconstruing my words. Perhaps purposely?
3:40 “Lower” and “Upper” in geographic names refers to elevation, not North and South. Which wouldn’t even make sense, because historically maps were not always oriented “North = Up”. Lower Saxony is obviously “lower” because it sits on the coast. The real weird fun fact is that “Lower Saxony” is the original Saxony. What is now called Saxony got its name from inheritance shenanigans.
Not really. Unless you define inheritance very loose. The Saxon tribe (also never using the term "Saxony" as they were unaware of being named after their weapon by one Roman scholar until after the invitation to Kent. They introduced themselves as "Germani" instead, as that was what the Romans called them at this point.) wouldn't quite fit either as their settlements hardly reached "German ground", they were settling more in the Netherlands than Germany, although we might find some evidence (with Google's help) of them being in Frisia. So I cut the tribe out for now. Now the next point where the name could have been "stolen" would be from the actual duchy of Saxony after it got split into many tiny pieces, by the German king that was still angry about his cousin the Saxon Duke not helping him fighting in Italy. Well that could fit since the County of Meißen got the title, as it was granted by said king to the Wettin house. Only problem: All 3 states that contain Saxony in their name as well as parts of other states were part of said Duchy. This puts a strong claim for Lower Saxony but since it didn't exist it can hardly be called the original Saxony while Saxony is denied this originality. Even if you put both aspects together. I simply can't agree with the statement that one state is more the original than another. Sorry pal.
@@bellpepperknight809 I call it the “original Saxony” because it is the area where people spoke Old Saxon (aka Old Low German) rather than Old High German. The dialects spoken in the state of Saxony are all High German (excepting the Slavic minority). They are not descended from the Saxon language, unlike Low German (Plattdeutsch), and of course, English.
@@eypandabear7483 I think you have a little different idea what High-German is, since the Old Saxon belonged to the Pre-Old-High-German not the Low-German. Or maybe they shifted that from the Germanic sub groups in your country and we run into language barriers here. Short Data Exchange: There is a Germanic language group containing 2 major groups: South (including English, German, Dutch, ...) and North including the Scandinavian languages. Pre-Old-High-German can also be called West-Germanic (Wikipedia claim) After Pre-Old-High-German, there is a split between the Old-High-German and the colonizer groups. But Low-German is still not part of the language group "West Germanic". Pre-Old: starting around the 3rd century, 5th century: time of the Anglo-Saxon-Invitation (colonization of "England"; in reality only Kent and then conquering the 7 kingdomsland) Old: 8th-11th century, Middle: 11th-15th century, New: 15th-21st century. (Although some people declare Standardgerman as Modern-High-German, no confirmation given for this in language science yet.) Low-German is from an entirely different concept it seems. (Being a sub group of Northsea-Germanic, not fitting in the direction context yet also being a sub of a sub of the West-Germanic sub) My understanding for High-German though is, that this is the base of the South-Germanic languages (including both West- and East Germanic) that all Germanic people could understand (possible since it in the oldest form seems to be a simple replacer for West-Germanic.) With this though it would include Low-German as a sub's sub's sub, and before the split in the 6th century, which also didn't instantly change the language groups and end Pre-Old-High-German which is a logical error, there would be a common ground. After the split Low-German was a sub of Old-Saxon which was a sub of Northsea-German which was on the same level as the Old-High-German. *This is probably the point on which you sit* with High-German and Low-German being devided. So, where can we find a middle ground? How proceed on the matter? Shall we ignore Pre-Old-High-German and the premise of High-German to fit the narrative that High-German existed in Germany except the coastline and then go on to limit the Saxons to those? I'm looking forward to where we will go with this and I'm eager to absorb your knowledge. But I will say this, whoever came up with those categories needs to take some logic classes. :D
@Tim Willemsen Going fully historically accurate in a YT reply? -> Not gonna happen. It would take hours of writing to address every tiny bit and fit the so old history together including the disclaimers for the legends how the Saxon association main tribe which was successful at raiding therefore got many other tribes to join their association became named after it's weapon and so on. Serving in the Roman army and giving the Roman attitude to just call every Germanic tribe Germani, nso. In the end the comments would become TLDRs anyway and it simply isn't worth the time. So of course they get shrunk down and gain the ability to be attacked by everybody doing a short Google research and reading 10 minutes on a secific point. I for example only jump through my notifications here atm. However following his reply from earlier, his claim is less based on any of those and more on the language development. Which after checking it out, was made by somebody who needs some logic classes. It was a mess to read through this stuff and idea presented greatly differs from his idea as well. So I will now look forward to whatever deepening he will see fit. As I will assume that he also doesn't like to waste too much time on YT replies. (Because I'm a bad person and see bad in others only. :P)
10:40 The eagle is probably the single most common national symbol in Europe - Germans, Poles, Austrians, Russians... When the US was picking its symbol, Ben Franklin was against adopting an eagle because he said it wouldn't stand out.
The eagle (aquila) was the symbol of Rome. And in mediaeval Europe, Rome was the ultimate symbolic source of legitimacy. That’s the main reason eagles are so ubiquitous in European heraldry.
Eagle, lion, bear ... lordly symbols of strength and power. Who would respect a country with a rabbit as the "national animal"? The "coolest flag with a symbol" contest is obviously between Wales (the obvious top -dog- dragon) and the Isle of Man (the "weird guys" contender).
Germany is a massively underrated tourist destination. Great country and people. Berlin for my 40th was an all-time great party - and those guys certainly know how to do that!
17:45 No tests, parents can choose. The teachers give a recommendation, however it's up to the parents if they follow that recommendation or ignore it. There are a few things you need to know about the German education system though: 1) The system is not a one-way system. If for example someone graduates from a Hauptschule after 9th grade with really good grades he/she can decide to switch to a Realschule, go to school for a 10th grade and get the Realschulabschluss (a higher qualification) as well. And likewise everyone who graduates from a Realschule can switch to a Gymnasium and go to school for three additional years and graduate with Abitur at the end of 13th grade. Likewise pupils can switch to a "lower" school if they can't keep up - a friend of mine from elementary school - or Grundschule - decided to try his luck at Gymnasium; however he didn't do all that well with his grades on average being in the 4s and 5s (in Germany we don't use letters for grades, we use numbers, with 1 being the best and 6 being the worst; in tests 1-4 means you passed while 5 means you failed the test and 6 means you failed horribly); but after switching to a Realschule he was able to cope much better and managed to get up his grades to 1s and 2s. 2) Even if you don't go to another school for higher qualifications but decide to start vocational training instead (which is highly valued in Germany, it's not at all looked down upon as it is the case in the USA) you can still aquire additional qualifications later, including the Abitur which then qualifies for University. 3) As said before - vocational training (= Berufsausbildung, including craftsmanships) and trade schools (kaufmännische Ausbildung, commercial education) are held in high regard in Germany and are not considered low skilled jobs at all (because they are not, all of them are highly regulated trainings that require 2-4 years of training and grants an official degree and certificate at the end). In contrast to the USA many of these jobs are also way better payed; if you learned a craft for example you usually finish your training as a journeyman, but you can aquire additional qualifications and become a master - and craftsmen are usually well payed.
After Hauptschule you must be so much behind the others drom Realschule, how can you catch up in just one year? Or pass those exames? The problem is not want you can do later, is the stigma you have on you staeting with 10 years. And children from other countries were stigmatised too. The teachers send them to Hauptschule, they ddidn't give them a chance. Putting them down right from the beginning.....
@@sosprichtportugal you have similar things you learn, the pace is just different and some subjects are different. Where in Gymnasium you learn German, Englisch and a mother language the other students can decide if they want to learn a mother language or rather do some computer skills or other things. It is mainly just the pace. Yes they'll need to out a little more effort into it but they should be prepared to be able to cope switching from hauptschule to realschule. I know many students who did so. Of course they did not have perfect grades in all subjects on the first year. The only problem they have is the 2nd language. If they choose not to do the language they have to learn it in order to get a gymnasium degree. So that is more difficult/work
@@sosprichtportugal Firstly you have to understand, that Hauptschule is not a school for kids with learning issues, or something like that. You basically learn the same, just not quite as specialized and not as long as in Realschule and Gymnasium but it's nothing major, nothing you couldn't compensate. For the really specialized stuff, we have universities anyways. And foreign kids are not discriminated in this system. Teachers don't send them anywhere. They are trained to learn to know the likes and abilities of the children, independent of their language, and give their opinion to the parents, who have to choose in the end. If you're a foreigner and can't speak german, there are programs and classes in- and outside of school. But it's on you to use it, if you want to keep up in Realschule or Gymnasium. The school system can't do everything for you ;)
In four Bundesländer, to be allowed to go to the Gymnasium does require the elementary school teachers to ‘sign off’ on this. This is generally based on a minimum grade average. In two other Bundesländer this used to be the case. But there are ways around this, usually by passing extra tests or by doing a trial run at the Gymnasium.
13:20 Deutsch is NOT what you call Dutch in english at all. Deutsch is the German word for what you call German. Dutch in German is translated as Holländisch. High German and Low German are two different languages. High German is based on the languages of the Southern Germanic tribes like the Alemanni and the Lombards, while Low German is based on the languages of the northern tribes, like the Saxons and Angles. Low german is also way closer to Dutch, Frisian, the Jutic dialects (which is a variety od danish) and the other scandinavian languages (except Finnish which is an uralic language and related to just one other language in Europe which is Hungarian). Low german is also closely related to a language you may be very familiar with - English. The reason is that the basic language from which modern Low German derives is actually Old Saxon, also known as Old Low German....and as Old English. It's the language the saxons spoke when they conquered England during the 5th and 6th century. Because of that modern day English and modern Low German are still way more closely related than English and High German. In a historc sense Low German was way more common in the Holy Roman Empire than High German. High German was spoken only in the Alpine regions in the South while the rest spoke Low German.According to many historians that slowly started to change when Martin Luther translated the bible - and even though he himself spoke Low German he chose to use High German for his translation.
Yes although Old English was derived from multiple Germanic (as opposed to strictly German) languages that were brought over to Britain via the Angles, Saxons, Jutes etc.
Notable: The "Dutch" dialects in the USA (e.g. Pennsylvania Dutch) are NOT Low German, not similar to the Dutch from the Netherlands, they are derived from High and Upper German dialects (Pfalz, Switzerland). In the 17th century the English word "Dutch" included German. The transition between the dialects was (and mostly still is) gradual and without a German nation they didn't see any reason for a second language name, I guess.
The German dialects of the Pfalz, which the Pennsylvania-Dutch is mostly based on, actually belong to West Central German dialect family. While they fall into the second category when dividing German dialects into Low and High German, they have not followed all sound shifts that separated High from Low German, and thus have elements of the German dialects spoken roughly West of the Rhine river up to the Dutch border.
Regarding regional differences: I mean, we all speak high German and naturally there is a common ground, but it does make a huge difference if you are from the North, South, West or East. Different traditions, different cuisine, different clothing...the differences are sometimes subtle, but they are there. And if people start to speak their lokal dialekt, you can bet that other Germans would have trouble to understand them.
The Adidas/Puma skit is because the two brands were founded by brothers, Adolph (Adi) and Rudolf Dasler. Puma's original name was/is RuDa. Sorry, I know more random information about so many things that it's almost detrimental lol.
One thing I really appreciated in Germany is the food. If you're eating in a restaurant, you'll find some of the least adulterated foodstuffs. It was a breath of fresh air to enjoy tastes and textures that haven't been sullied by one thing or another. I'm a 'mostly veggie' now, but the roast suckling pig I had in Munich was a thing of wonder.
The only reason why German food isn't more famous is because France and Italy are our direct neighbours...they kind of overshadow us. Except when it comes to the bread, naturally. And the beer. And the sausages....
@@swanpride we could say that basically, the bar for "good (as in tasty) food" in Europe is very high, so you don´t stand out particularly, but don´t worry, that´s why we have the EU with Schengen, so that anyone everywhere in Europe can taste a lot of different cuisines! ;) LG
Regaring Germany's colonisation history: You most likely missed it out, because the period was pretty short. Basically Bismarck wasn't a fan of having colonies, so he actually prevented Germany having some at least initially, until he bowed to political pressure and took what the English, Dutch, Spanish and French left over - then Bismarck did, WWI happened and the colonies were taken as loot. So basically those colonies were only long enough under German control for around 30 years, but that period was sadly long enough to do a lot of damage, especially to the hereros.
Regarding schooling: that is one of those things that is handled by each individual state. So if and how you can choose between the different schooling options depends on where you live.
@@joellassan1582 nope its not. you get a recommendation based on grades and it will be harder to get into a school in a more populated area if you dont have a recomendation for that type but the decision is the for the paretns to make. :) and also the point verena made was that schooling is statelegislated not federal legislated so how the different types of school are setup and what is taught can vary (within a framework set out by the federal legislature)
@@joellassan1582 Thing is, depending on the state you got those grades in, they're worth more or less, because some states have stricter schooling than others.
8:30 We had a tornado few weeks ago across our city of Paderborn in North Rhine Westphalia. I never thought I'd ever have a tornado that strong so close to me 😵💫
Schnitzel: Mostly pork but can be calf, Rouladen is Beef, Sauerbraten is nowadays mostly beef, originally horse. A lot of mistakes in this one but that's ok because of the limited time.
@3:46 the "lower" simply doesn't refer to latitude, but to elevation. Lower Saxony is on the coast. @15:50 religion is far less important in Germany (and Europe in general) than it is in the US, hence why he said they identify as Christian "at least nominally". E.g. nobody would ask a politician running for office what faith (if any) they have in Germany, whereas in the US that question seems to regularly end political careers.
Don't give up, Chelsea. I know it's a difficult language to learn but every language you speak besides your own is a "key" to a different world. Liebe Grüße aus Deutschland. 🙂
wow ... all by yourself? That's tough! I admire your courage! Hope you have someone to practise with at least... Keep at it, cause we all know: "Übung macht den Meister"! :)
@@michaausleipzig no one to practice with unfortunately ... i write better German than i do speak it but im getting there. i use alot of learn German while you sleep videos on YT and watch alot of German movies and drama series. its a beautiful language, and a beautiful country, i hope one day to live there. Ich möchte in Deutschland leben. ich liebe Deutschland :)
German and English do have in fact more in common than you would first mention. Dont give up. You'll manage it for sure. :D Sadly enough i dont no option to direct message you on youtube to send you some contact information but im pretty sure if you want you will find somebody to practise with ^^
@@newnyu7763 English is a french Germanic language so i know there are many similarities however the british tongue does not move in the same way. Due to the way we speak it can take many years to master another language we move and form our mouths differently
Im From Germany, living in the southern Tip of Hessen. Plattdeutsch is not the one language, it depends on the Position you are. It can be very different even from Village to Village even if they are only a few Kilometers apart.
But they are similar, because also dutch and danish language are similar. The northern language was similar, but with much dialects. When you understand "Plattdeutsch" you can also understand a little bit on dutch or danish language. Also it is easier to learn danish or dutch. Also english is a old language and build from old Scandinavian, Netherlands and "German" languages. Seeing Anglo-Saxons. You can hear it, when you look about the old Celtic language. There not really so similar with the today English language.
@@IMFLordVader In old north German also "Schnacken wi tusammen" - also in the near from Danmark are the same "å" That will be speak like "ooh" - in Schleswig Holstein give it also more time in old northgerman language - some words are different, but it give some words also in old languages like "Plattdeutsch". - its really more similar like english between celtic language how in Wales, Scotland or Ireland. - When you can read and speak a little bit Plattdeutsch, you can easier learn danish how when you come from south Germany. Also to english is it similar with old Plattdeutsch. But it is also a few years ago, where have had language was build in. "Hochdeutsch" for example is not really old :) ruclips.net/video/TN__OMjqpu4/видео.html
@@TilmannB0710 I can hardly speak Plattdeutsch but my parents speak it fluently. But I can understand nearly everything and there are some funny nouns like "Michampel" or "Froatenböld"
I personally don't get mad at Americans claiming ancestry (I just find it weird, although I fully understand *why* you do it)… I *do* get mad at people claiming "I'm German" (or "I'm Dutch", "I'm Swedish" or whatever country) just because some (maybe just one) of your more or less distant ancestors came from Germany. No, you're not German. You may feel an affinity, and I don't mind that. But you *are* not German.
Yea I could see that and why that could be annoying for people.
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Yes, ve Germans know every vey you can cook a pig. Ve also know how to eat uncooked pig. Raw pork. "Mett". One of the scariest foods for Americans. ;-) (And so yummy. *And* safe.)
As an Austrian, I can say that this description is incorrect. This description is the description of an American who named his RUclips channel "Geography Now". Not really historically relevant.
These DNA tests are kind of ridiculous. Do you Americans really think there's a genetic difference between someone from Northern Germany (like me) and someone living 80 kilometers from here in Southern Denmark? And to make these thinks even more weird this distinction by country is only made in regards to European ancestry but rarely when talking about Asian or South American ancestry and basically never when talking about african ancestry. In the case of african ancestry it's always "you're x % african". Seriously? Africa is a massive continent - the second largest on the planet, 18 % larger than North America and almost 3 times as big as Europe - which means the population is actually quite varied, from people with arabian ancestry in the northern countries like Egypt to central africans to South Africans (with a substantial minority of 9% who are actually white - Charlize Theron is a popular example). Why don't these DNA frauds not separate African ancestry by nation? Like "you're x % from Nigeria and y % from Kenya"? It makes no sense whatsoever. Is it possible to make some distinctions, like "You have ancestors from Northern Europe" or you have ancestors from East Assia"? Sure. But not on a country by country basis - countries are randomly drawn lines on a map and have nothing to do with genetics at all. Heck, 110 years ago the grandparents and great-grandparants of the same people in Southern Denmark would actually have been German because the southernmost parts of Denmark actually belonged to Germany until the end of WW1.
We dont get mad that you take a DNA test we get mad people says they are the same as us or when they say they know our country because of their ancestors gave from here and similar. A DNA test does not mean a lot here because our peoples have mixed for so long in Europe you often cant go Im so and so if you were born in a country its where you are from if you move to another country thats now your nationality you ethnic background is a different story and we tend to be more relaxed on that subject on account of all the wars we have had through history because ethnic groups or religions. Your families history and your DNA is a cool thing to have and to know just remember it means more as a personal thing than anything else, some will be happy to listen to it others wont but if it makes you happy go for it
True. Bavarians actually have been found to be pretty mixed, even with arab ancestry. They think it's because of the area having been part of the Roman empire and soldiers from other parts of the empire settling there. Also after the war against the Turkish some thousand "Turkish" soldiers were brought to Bavaria as prisoners and after some years of forced labour were freed and many stayed and married local women. And then we've always had strong bonds with Italy and Italy again was partly colonised by the Greeks... Europe is a genetic melting pot.
oh, there's a lot of mentioning the war and it's atrocities in Germany. It's part of every school curriculum. In the higher grades, most classes will visit one of the memorial sites at least once during their time at school. The notion that you shouldn't mention the war does definitely not originate from Germany. You will have no problem finding somebody to have a meaningful discussion about that topic. Maybe, I wouldn't use it as a smalltalk topic. But germans don't do smalltalk anyways ;) btw: buying, owning or selling this weird Hitler-book never was illegal in Germany. That's a misconception even held by most germans. It was, however, illegal to *reprint* and publish the german version of that book. And the reason for that were simply copyright reasons, which belonged to the state of Bavaria until 2015. The english and other language versions of that book could and were always reprinted and sold. Mainly in the US.
German Christianity isn't comparable by far to US Christianity. These are nominally Christians mostly without really believing in Jesus. The evangelic and katholic church is institutionalized and if you're born into families of either confession you're called a Christian where you're not actually.
Each state has its own constitution !!!! Not at all ! There is ONE constitution, the Grundgesetz which is applied in all of Germany and is the same for all. Some local décision of a regional parliament can be applied within the limits of one state but they don't form a constitution on a legal point of view.
Bears? We have...bears? I was born and raised on the border to the black forest. The only bear i heard of was that one in Bayern that walked into Germany over the border of Poland. And they shot him (couple of years ago).^^
Austrian here. I really don't like the section about Vergangenheitsbewältigung. It doesn't translate to "a lingering feeling of guilt from the past" at all. It rather translates to "overcoming/dealing with the past". You won't find many national flags in the vast majority of other European countries either. And that isn't just the case in Europe. In fact, the US is "kinda weird" (as Barbie puts it in the video) in how rampant nationalism is there compared to most other democratic countries. I feel like he put a lot of his personal bias in that part of the video which really is a shame imo because the rest of thd video is quite accurate (for the most part). But that specific part makes me cringe everytime I see it. And I think it perpetuates the stereotype that Germans (or we Austrians) are hush hush about WW2 and don't wanna talk about it. Heck, my grandfather was a fully fledged national socialist and I live near the concentration camp in Mauthausen. We can talk about the crimes against humanity committed by my ancestors all day long. In my experience, a it's often foreign people (including Americans, but also Brits, French, Russians etc) who get way more defensive when I hold their own countries to the same standard as mine and when I don't romanticize crimes like colonialism, slavery/Jim Crow or the clusterfuck that was the USSR. It often feels like their utmost priority is to emphasize that their own countries' crimes certainly weren't as bad as what the nazis did - even tho I never make that kind of claim, I observe this reaction almost every single time I talk openly about these crimes from the past. EDIT: Typos :( EDIT2: Oh and a funny thing about Marx: When I meet a socialist from an English speaking country, they insist that Marx wrote most of his work in ENGLAND (which is true) while capitalists from the anglosphere always point out that Marx was GERMAN (which is also true). Just something funny I've picked up on over the years. Make of that what you will ;)
9:27 well yes but actually no. His German is really good for him not being German. But if tries to get from Hamburg to Berlin with this he will probably end in Munich.
ja but a tornado does not really break down brick and cement built houses, so they dont have their houses ruined and massive media outbreak and stuff, just oh look its very windy - lets make sure everything is packed away and strapped down.
Actually its notillegal to own said mustache guys book, it never was. It was illegal to PRINT it cause of copyright not actually something else. Serdar Somuncu, turkish heritage german comedian became famous for doing public readings of that book mocking it in the process. And the copyright neded in 2016 so if you want you can print the book and plaster the streets with it if you want. Its at worst littering
to laws - federal laws trump state laws so most laws are the same. Differences are usually very minor like which subjects get how much attention in school, if you need to go 12 or 13 years to school to get the university licence, and so on. As example bavaria technicly still has the death penalty in its law but since federal law outlawed the deathpenalty it hasnt been used in bavaria since ww2 To school - its a testing thing. You can however get your higher education later through other means like if you are a handyman and worked a few years as such making your "Meisterprüfung" thats seen as same quality diploma as the gymnasium one and opens up university for you.
You said we seem to be pretty put together. In fact right now unfortunately it seems that we are more and more falling apart like a house of cards due to woke politic leaders who behave like kids in a candy store...
24:45 The North beats the South by far. In the southern region you cannot smell the salt in the air, there's no wind to speak of to clear your mind and every other kilometer some stupid mountain blocks the view. Joking aside - all parts of Germany are nice and have their own distinct perks. If you come to Schleswig-Holstein one day you shouldn't expect to see much castles though because we don't really have any here, at least not castles in the original sense (which means a fortified home of a noble family). It's a bit complicated because the english speaking countries have fewer words for structures like that, for you it's always a castle - however that is actually a bit unspecific and in general english speakers tend to throw two different types of structures into the mix and call them castles. In Germany there's a distinction between the term Burg (which is the original thing, a fortified home of a nobleman during the Middle Ages) and Schloss, which is usually less fortified (sometimes not at all) and more of a fancy place, somewhat overlapping whith you would call a palace; they are also usually newer than the Burgen. And there's also structures that are definetly fortified but where never home to a family but strictly military structures - these are also technically not Burgen/Castles, these are fortresses. As I said - it's complicated. In general we don't have many of the Burg type structures in the North. There's a variety of reasons for that: One of the most important is that the landscape is flat and stones to build big castles was hard to find. This means that most noblemen in the North built their fortified homes with the ressources that where easily available - mud and wood. However these materials do not stand the test of time all that well which means none of the medieval wooden castles in the north exists anymore. We have a few Schlösser but that's it. If you come to the North some day make sure you visit the North Sea coast - but don't go there with the intent of doing all that much. The best way to enjoy the coast is to sit at the beach or at the dike, enjoy the calm and quiet and wind down while listening to the waves and sea birds. So good to recharge the batteries. And then there's of course the city life in the North as well, up and foremost of course Hamburg, but also Bremen or Lübeck. And if you happen to be in the region during the last week of June you should visit the city of Kiel and the Kieler Woche (=Kiel week) which is not only one of the largest sailing regattas in the world but also a huge festival with about 3 million visitors each year (except the Covid years of course).
Hi, l do think that looking at different European cities would be a great learning curve. I am from England and I would be interested in finding out more about Europe 🇪🇺 l am sure the different countries that make up Europe are really interesting too look at. I send my regards to you and your family!! Sean Xx
Wow. For me as a European and German England belongs to Europe despite not being a European union member state anymore... our history and our culture is strongly connected... we are neighbours! I am sorry you have to learn about it as if we were some distant far away place in the world. This comment is just another knife into my heart after Brexit. But I guess it's a step forward to be interested. My adulthood only counts a decade. But I feel so old and tired by now. I wished Germany would stand out more for being the country that holds Europe together, preserved peace and worked for equal living standards in all of Europe - East and West, South and North and beyond the borders of the European union. Now there is war in Europe. And for the first time in my life I feel personally ashamed for my country. We don't do enough to support the freedom of Ukrainians and to end this war as fast as possible. Looking back we were watching and even supporting Russia to convert into a place that is more and more like a fascist dictatorship. Although I was lucky enough to be born into a free and democratic Germany, I do well remember my grandparent's experiences of being born into nazi Germany or my parents experiences who grew up into Eastern/ socialist Germany. I understand what propaganda can do to people and how propaganda changes a society. I don't speak Russian fluently but I understand the language well enough to draw my conclusions. I was watching all signs of change during my internships in Russia in 2015 and 2017. After the annexation of Crimea everybody should have waken up. But we, me too, were dreaming with open eyes not believing a real war could ever happen again. When I was working as an au pair in England after finishing school in 2012 the world seemed to be so free, so open, so wide. I registered that Brits over all were far more critical towards the EU even back then but would I have imagined to be in need of a passport to enter England ever in my life? Certainly not. Even in 2019 while making friends with a group of Brits during an internship in Tokyo the Brexit seemed to be just surreal to all of us. Then this horrible pandemic came over us.... Just last week I was talking to a teenager who would have loved to work as an au pair in England but right now, it's not possible to get Visa for this purpose. How altered the words is compared to the day when I was 18! I would have never imagined I will be founding my family in such a world. That I would share my flat with a war refugee from Ukraine, that I would sent money to Ukrainian friends or Ukrainian family members of Russian friends as my Russian friends are afraid of consequences if they supposed their Ukrainian part of their families, that I would stop any contact to my Russian friends in fear of getting them into trouble. But here we are. We better start to learn more about our European heritage and recent history right now. Sorry for this outburst of frustration. It just broke free. Please let us all appreciate and actually preserving the privileges we have in life and let us try to make it better to our fellows and ourselves.
They're way smaller and therefore less destructive than in the US, so they're not all over the news. But my weather app sometimes shows it in their news feed.
Here in Germany we don't have 1 school system but about 16 (education is in the hand of 16 the federal states). All of which are more or less different. This also applies to the "classification"-process after elementary school.
Visa free means, you can go to a country and stay there for up to a set amount of time. Mostly 3-4 months without applying for a visa and all the paperwork it entails. Just take your Passport (in some countries your ID is enough) and go there.
True, but that is primarily due to the construction of the houses, the tornadoes that exist in Germany would also completely destroy a house built in the usual American way, fewer tornadoes but just as dangerous as in the usa.
@@stiibuderschrat7522 thats right the the overall intensity is not much lower compared to the us and our country is small so its more likely to see a tornado in Germany than in most US states
Tornadoes: _While other countries may get more severe tornadoes or more tornadoes overall in a year/season, the country that receives the most tornadoes by total area is England. Between 1980 and 2012, England experienced 2.2 tornadoes per year per 10,000 square kilometres (3,861 square miles) - which equates to one per every 4,545 square kilometres (1,754 square miles) annually. By comparison, the entire USA (including the non-contiguous states of Alaska and Hawaii) experienced 1.3 tornadoes annually per the same area - or one per 7,693 square kilometres (2,970 square miles)_ Source: Guinness book of records... _This research was conducted by Kelsey Mulder and David Schultz from the University of Manchester, UK, using reports from the Tornado and Storm Research Organisation (TORRO). The findings were published in the Monthly Weather Review, published by the American Meteorological Society, on 28 May 2015_
I was going to say something similar, Tornados in the UK often occur in cities as can be several degrees warmer than the surrounding countryside causing the exact conditions for one. They are short lived though, only minutes, but still very damaging. Ones occurring in the countryside often don't get reported unless it starts 'raining' Wheat or Barley even Fish, sometimes but very rare, livestock. Crop circles? maybe one explanation.
[1:35] As a German, may I provide my thoughts about your idea of learning German rather than Spanish. Spanish is way easier to learn and is spoken by so many more people around the globe than German. Plus, many Germans understand English to a certain extend. Most Germans don't speak English very well, frankly, but at least they try, and it is often good enough - although with a very thick accent and by unintentionally using lots of "false friends" - to make up for some kind of conversation. In short, Spanish is the language to go for. As for the video - well made, very authentic, and fun to watch. Keep up with it...
As a person living in Lower Saxony (call's so 'cause we r closer 2 the sea level than the other Saxony's) 30 miles south of Hamburg: I never noticed it, but after visiting friends in Hesse and Northern-Franconia with all their 'babbeling' who told me "Man, you are speaking like we write!" (They meant High German) Northern German isn't High German. But it is close enough for my beloved "wildlings" from the middle, eastern and south! And yes, they know that I'm calling them names.. but hey: we R friends, for them I'm a Swamp-German (despite the fact that the Netherlands are still 135 miles west from my hometown) That's German humor 😄
It comes because as base for New High German, the dialect of Hanover was used. While New High German is approximately 500 years old, it is the current Standard German. So the closer your pronunciation is to your state's capital, the more you will be confused as a pure High German Native. ;o)
Other interesting videos about Germany (without spoken voices, music/view only): German Castles and Palaces: ruclips.net/video/Gz15VVdhjMM/видео.html (~9 minutes) This Is Germany: ruclips.net/video/8IJzZSVRpbU/видео.html (~14 minutes) A bird's eye view of Germany: ruclips.net/video/T7SIxJOoQd8/видео.html (1 hour long!)
Roulade isn’t pork - it’s beef 🥩😉 And yes, we have eagles 🦅 in Germany. The eagle is our heraldic animal 😉 BTW: „Mein Kampf“ is legal to buy in every bookstore since a few years ago.
@@MrMillhouse72 Naja, ich kenne das nur von meiner Familie welche ursprünglich aus Ostpreußen kommt und nach der Vertreibung nach Westfalen kam. Kann sein das, dass noch ein preußisches Gericht ist, kann aber auch sein das das hier aus Westfalen kommt, gibt es jedenfalls hier auch beim Metzger
Regarding the Tornadoes and the atmospheric Warzone: Back then i was the one in Contact with Geography now telling about it. The Video was published shortly after a Year of several significant Tornadoes (2015) and deadly devastating Floods (2016). For a bit more Context: On average, there are 30-60 (i counted 38 since 2000) per Year. The Information that Germany has the most in Europe might not be correct anymore since recording throughout the Continent got much better since. I´d say Italy is leading. Last Year Europe (via ESWD) has seen 282 Tornadoes (with 3 Fatalities and 195 Injuries) of which 31 occured in Germany and 61 in Italy. Globally only a few Countries have ever seen (E)F5 Tornadoes. The US, Canada, Argentina, probably Australia as well as France, Germany and Italy. They don´t occour in that ammounts known from the Great Plaines, but on global comparison, Germany/Europe certainly should be considered as an Area with high tornado activity. Flooding: The 2016 Floods caused severe damage (6 Billion USD) and 21 Deaths, most of them in Germany. Also recent Years have shown again, that flooding is a serious threat. The 2021 Central European Floods became the costliest disaster in German History (40 Billion €) and 188 Deaths in Germany. Other Nations had been affected as well, bringing the death toll to 235 (and 54 Billion €). The 2021 Event counts as a one in 100 Years Event. Compared with the rest of the World, Germany is not among the countries worst affected by Weather. But we certainly have our share of Extremes. Thats something People here should understand and prepare for. And thats what i intended originally with my Mail to Geography Now. Because many People in Germany still believe that we are a very safe Place and that Personal preparedness is not necessary. People still get surprised by Weather which was forecasted Days in advance. And in Case of Disaster, Minutes can decide between surviving or not. In that Situation you cannot wait for Advice from Authorities. You need to know what to do. And so far we fail in both. Neither the People, nor the Authorities are able to deal with even regular things. Easily preventable Deaths have been already reported this Year.
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I find German history incredibly fascinating because the Germans and Germany were always there, but at the same time not and always different like a shapeshifter. Oversimplified: Rejects Roman annexation - Teutons defeat Rome, are often slapped in the face, but Rome generally fails to subdue them Create an empire that wasn't really an empire but somehow lived for 1000 years - very special and unique The Kingdom of Prussia and hundreds of German States gangsta! Before being defeated by one of history's greatest generals. defeat the French, unites into a new empire Get a colonial empire Fight Europe alone and almost won.. Is treated badly Comeback as Villian, fights the whole world again and only lost because of own mistakes Gets divided again Reunites again and is not allowed to be strong again. Also a few German inventions: - Incandescent lamps (Heinrich Göbel 1854) - The Telephone (Johann Philip Reis 1859) - The dynamo and tram (Werner von Siemens 1866) - The 35 mm camera (Oskar Barnack 1925) - Nuclear fission and atomic bomb (Otto Hahn - emigrated to the Americans during Nazi Germany, of course.. Are they lucky that we exist - 1938) - The ship chart (Jürgen Dethloff and Helmut Gröttrub 1969) - Periodic Table (Julius Luther Meyer 1864) - Jeans (Levi Strauss 1873) - The recorder, player - with which the first films were possible (Emil Berliner 1887) - The Aspirin - Which all great athletes felt used to relieve pain, And which saved countless lives (Felix Hoffmann, Klausi Alder.. 1879) - Spark plug (Robert Bosch 1902) - Thermos flask (Reinhold Burger 1903) - the toothpaste (Ottomar Heinsius von Mayenburg) - The coffee filter (Melitta Bentz) - Cassette recorder (Fritz Pfleumer 1928) - Teabag (Adolf Rambold 1929) - The jet engines - Essential for all jets and rockets + First war rockets V1, V2 of the Nazis (Hans von Ohain 1929) - First rocket (general) - The helicopter (Heinrich Focke 1936) - The first car (Carl Benz - With honorary Schnauzer - 1886) - First Computer (Konrad Zuse 1941) - First 3D film (during the Nazi period) - Fanta (Yes the Fanta.. Also during the Nazi era) - The typewriter (Peter Mitterhofer - 1869) - NASA (actually the US buys thousands of German engineers to build NASA because they can't do it themselves) Well, as you saw, we changed world with our inventions many times. Where we would be today without the German thinkers art. Germany the land of poets and thinkers - that's how it is known. The problem is that many Germans are not proud of their country and blood, unfortunately also because they were brought up that way. Because if you say anything to that effect, you will be called a Nazi. The problem is that many people don't have the right deep historical knowledge that people need to understand the world and and that only Hitler himself and his party were Nazis. Almost no German was a Nazi during the Nazi era. Also, any historian will tell you that the Allies, primarily the USA, created Nazi Germany and WWII because of the unfair Versailles Treaty. Germans were so depressed that it is unimaginable for us. They were seen as evil around the world as they were blamed for everything in World War I. And when you have 3 kids at home, no job, money is worthless and no food and water you will follow anyone who fixes it. Because that's what the Nazis did in the beginning - they fixed everything and gave the Germans hope again. No German at the time could have known that Hitler was so crazy. It's not as easy as we always think. Even in the Wehrmacht, only a few liked the Nazis. They were German soldiers dying for the country. the general German soldier, like my grandfather, had nothing to do with the Nazis and the Holocaust. You must consider this one army fought against the rest of the world. And if we are honest: what kind of "peace" could the general German soldier expect? What could have they expect after all the Nazi crimes and everyone thought that all German were evil Nazis. What "Peace" could they expect. These soldiers fought for their lives and German people against a planet. If even many of Hitler's own generals like Rommel (legend) or Stauffenberg knew that he was not quite right in the head. Then the normal people knew that even more. Many were manipulated and could do nothing about it. The Nazis were a small parasite not the Germans. Calling all German soldiers Nazis is like calling all American soldiers democrats because they were in power. We should be prouder of ourselves, after all, Germany has repeatedly fought against the entire world, one time under a bad regime. We made this modern world possible and maintain a reputation for perfection and quality. The hard-working German with perfection in his blood! Or rather, we once had this reputation. Today there is no longer a country of poets and thinkers. We are still occupied by the USA. And people are manipulated and have no prospects. A dark age. What I also find very interesting is that the Germanic people spread very far and are therefore the ancestors of many other people. Therefore, historians are not entirely sure how German the Germanic peoples were, but since they were the first to speak German and also created English, they were already German. In addition, the Germans were also the ancestors of the Vikings means Germanic mythology is almost identical to Norse mythology. Actually the same. The one German beer brand is older than the US 😂🍻 Germany talks about everything in our history .. Every dark thing .. Sometimes to much. You can't say anything like I'm proud to be a German... You will called a Nazi immediately although Mostly no normal German was a Nazi during the Era. Only Hitler and his party.. Germany is the strongest power in Europe and builded itself up in this short time with all the disadvantages like still paying millions to everyone.
German engineering is also BAD ... because we OVERENGINEER a lot. Always have ... and it might have something to do with the limited amount of resources and space, i.e. it is better to "build a really good tank that will last" compared to simply "building 100 times more tanks" (which need to be stored somewhere). So ... the tanks became "more comfy to drive" ... but also "harder to repair" and "easier to break down". Overengineering also includes THE NORM ... which is clearly overengineered when you require cucumbers to be DEAD STRAIGHT and also invent a norm for tractor seats.
You can freely choose which school you go to, but often your elementary school and teachers recommend one type for you depending on your performance. Still, obv some kids are forced by their parents into specific schools, especially into Gymnasium as it has the image of being like the "best" type of school (in relation to career).
The laws are in all Bundesländern to 99% the same And next to the rivers we have much Kanäle means menbuild rivers Fun fact in the in Russia and In the USA the headbuilder of rocats were Germans (1950-1970) Fun fact 2 the Erfinder of Puma and Adidas were brothers
Es war ein Starker (F2 Tornado) bei Paderborn & Lippstadt am 20. Mai 2022 101 Facts About Germany Why is GERMANY such an INDUSTRIAL LEADER? REACTION - Reaction to Germany Economics all good videos about Germany.
Oh so for which type of school you go to is actually up to the parents and the child nowadays. But depending on your grades the teachers tell you which school is most likely best for you and mostly people go with that type of school. Btw in germany the schoolsystem in every type of school is build upon general knowledge all the way. Hauptschule graduates after 9 years. Realschule after 10 years. And Gymnasium after 13 years. You have the opportunity to switch between schools if your grades are high enough or to low. Many students from Realschule often come to the Gymnasium after their graduation.
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I live near cologne and because of the „Plattdeutsch“ I can understand many words from the Dutch,Amish and Yiddish speakers but I wouldn’t say i could have a good conversation with them😅only the basic stuff would work
The Amish and Mennonites speak mostly Pensylvania Dutch, wich isn't nearly similar to Plattdeutsch and more likely a mixture of some south-western dialects wich are spoken in the regions of Rhineland Palatine, Hesse, Saarland, the north-west of Baden-Wuerttemberg and the south of North-Rhine-Westphalia. But the main influence comes of Rhineland Palatine. The English word Dutch has it's origin in the German word for German "deutsch" wich is in the dialekt of Rhineland Palatinate called "deitsch" and was etablished for the German speaking settlers in general. The description for people from the Netherlands as Dutch came up far later. Fun fact: the Dutch Oven was an invention by German settlers. Me as a German, grew up and still living in the federal states of Baden-Wuerttemberg and Rhineland Palatine, can almost fully understand Pensylania Dutch.
Sauerbraten (sour roast) was initially made with horse meat, but is nowadays made with beef. I’ve never seen it made with pork. The retirement age is now 67, not 65. When I was in Stuttgart, I didn’t understand a single word of Swabian 😂. Although Germans might for the most part call themselves Christians, unlike the Bible belt in the US, religion is not really a big thing, except maybe in some highly Catholic areas, but even then I don’t think it’s as strong as it is with US evangelicals. Where I live, I don’t know a single person who goes to church outside of weddings, baptisms and funerals. Seriously, lol. Parents decide where their kids go to middle school, normally on advice from the elementary school teacher. It’s not mandatory to visit a concentration camp - maybe if you live close by, but nit where I live. They don’t hide from it, though, it is taught in schools. BTW: his German isn’t as spot-on as you think it is, he actually has a very strong American accent when he speaks it.
0:39 we don't get mad at Us Americans for claiming ancestry. That is fine by us, but what we don't like is how you do it. It is fine if you say that your grandparents came from Germany, France, Italy or wherever, we loath that some of you claim to be Irish-American, Italian-American, German-.American and the distinction betwen African-American, Asian-American and "normal" Americans is disturbing to us. We don't care about whatever DNA you have. It just doesn't matter. You are born in the USA, you have an American passport, then you are American, plain and simple. If you have an additional German passport, then you can say that you are German as well. US-American claim to be "Irish-American, just because 10 or 15 generations ago one of your ancestors came to the country to start a new life. This ancestor whould have been the only one who could claim that he was Irish. Hios decendants , who know nothing about the coulture, the people or the country itself just sound ridiculous to us, when they claim a heritage they have no idea off. Stop being obsessed with bloodlines, DNA and race. You are all US-Americans no matter where your ancestors came from.
Two points from my side: There aren't Amish Communites in Germany. My Parents grew up in the northern part and speak fluently Plattdeutsch. I can speak it a little bit but understand nearly everything. To be honest american amish german is not even close to Plattdeutsch. There is no comparison. The Amish german evolves by it own. The second part is Religion. 60 % may be Christians by ID, but don't really believe in God (like me). In my opinion the US is more religious than Germany
Actually, the US is much more religious than Germany. In Germany you have to declare your religion for tax purposes, whereas in the US the numbers have to be based on surveyys, but still: Germany this summer will reach the landmark of less than 50% of all adults identifying as any kind of Christians, while in the US this number ist still about 65%. Eastern Germans actually are the most atheist population on earth, with some states showing 14% Christians and 65% atheists/unaffiliated.
Language: If you're a real grammar freak, you might enjoy learning German. Otherwise, you will get much quicker results in Spanish. (I teach German to foreigners 5 days a week.)
It is a testing thing. Your grades determine your path at 12 yo. Too early and usually not good enough to provide equal opportunities for immigrant kids. The one good thing about the German system is the that the trade school education system is excellent in a global comparison ... probably leading. You might not get the Turkish kid to University but he will learn his pro-skill stuff at AUDI/Siemens/BMW/Mercedes/Telekom and get get to work there. Salaries there are solid as is the job security.
Sorry I know it may be not meant to be correct in all ways, but I hate it as a German/Spanish to hear the German language stereotype and spoken out wrong, we have words spoken in a hard way but mostly not, also the really long words we don't use them in everyday life, the ß SZ is from the Old German Language it still is used but it isn't used in every word with ss like (Wasser, water, aqua) I am jet to see a video about Germany/ German language with correct pronunciation and not stereotype-like. There are many accents in Germany, Bavarian, Sächsich, etc. pp
18:46 Uhm. No, it´s not a taboo or something nobody ever mentions. Quite the contrary. I think the problem of "not talking about it" is mostly in the former DDR (east Germany), because the approach of USSR to German history was completely different than what happened in the schools and society of the western German federal republic. There is an interesting video about it if you want: ruclips.net/video/-cgoSk_yg6k/видео.html .
The Mennonites don't speak any Dutch. "Plattdeutsch" is a dialect spoken in the north and northwest. "Pennsylvanian Dutch" is actually incorrect and should rather be "deutsch", which means "German" and sounds for the untrained ear like "Dutch".
How different are the state constitutions? Hessen had death penalty until 2016 while the rest of Germany removed it 1945. Oh yeah and how good the passport is? It's easy to get in (and hopefully also out again) of North Korea. Based on the friendship of East Germany with the Kims.
The constiutions of the states are next to meaningless. Every state has it's own constituition, that's true, some direct descended from older constitutions of the predecessor states of the German state. But pretty much everything that's different from the German constitution is not arguable in a court of law and they can't differ from the central tenets of the German constitution (the first 18 articles) in either way. The federal nature of the state is more on the level of several institutions and areas of law being decided by each and every state by itself. Prime examples are education, police (both in that each state has its own police force and the regulations for it (law in practise)) and holidays. From that selection you can already see that the differences can be not unremarkable but also very by the way, depending. If your friend has made different experiences in different states, I much rather think it depended on the county ordinances than on the state's laws. In the end, Germany is a federal state but not one that blindly follows laws made with sensibilities of over 200 years ago. Sorry, I can't phrase this without that dig on the US. Germany lost it's colonies in WWI. Which led directly to the seperate German path or "Sonderweg" to concentrate on getting dominion over primarily all regions with ethnic Germans in them (ethnic German is basically a joke, by the way. Its a bit like saying that white Americans are one ethnicity) and secondarily getting new living space and ressources close to home. Sound familiar? About the school thing: Obviously I only know how it was when I was a kid and youth and only in the two states I went to school in. In grade four the main teacher gives a recommendation and if the parents think otherwise they have the right to put the child in another category but they have to be prepared for quite a bit of discussion with the teacher and the principals of the old and new school. Testing is only ever used for a recomendation, if it happens at all. Coralling the children into the three paths at ten is controversial enough, making it dependent on a test at that age is just idiotic. And changing between the paths is possible. A child can both change over at the beginning of each school year (or even in the school year, I guess) or, in a more regular way, after each of the paths reaches its end (Hauptschule ends at 16, Gymnasium at 17 (19 when I went to school)). Of course changing is hard. Going from Hauptschule to Gymnasium might be compared to going from a school with no AP courses to one with only AP courses. Vergangenheitsbewältigung: I'm sure you heard that germany censors... stuff about the Third Reich. But that is not really true. Obviously it is not something for smalltalk, it is for really serious talk. But we talk about it. A big part of social studies and history classes (most of the last two years of Gymnasium) is about WWII, the Third Reich and fascism. The censoring is that showing symbols of anti-constitutional organisations is not allowed outside of education and art. That even lead to symbols of the radical left with smashed Swastikas or Swastikas being thrown into trash cans being illegal, because it wasn't seen as either educational or art (that's changed now). "Mein Kampf" was never illegal in Germany, but the copyright lies with Bavaria and they didn't reprint. Owning one of the old printings would lead to raised eyebrows, but reading it to know about it is acceptable (I stopped after a few pages. It is utter shite, unreadable even if you'd ignore the madness). It is also illegal to lie about the holocaust and to belittle, dishonour, jeer or similar the crimes or victims of the Third Reich. But remembrence is everywhere. If you visit Germany, look out for brass plaques on the ground (the size of cobblestones). They're much more common in cities, though. Each commemorates someone murdered or abducted by the Nazis, with name, date and place of death and other data. They're in front of the houses the people used to live in. It is not unusual for a German to have visited Concentration Camps (I went with my class when I was ten. I can't remember a time when I didn't know what my grandparents and their generation did, but when I was there I suddenly understood. There were pictures). The members of the White Rose are national heroes with streets and schools and other named after them. Regarding Sophie Scholl, the most prominent member of the White Rose, there was a telling event just a few years ago. At a gathering of our flavour of national populists (you know them as alt-right. All the same right wingers and outright Nazis who try to relabel themselves) a woman took the stage who compered herself to Sophie Scholl, because she is a young woman who is oppressed, too (yeah, right). A security guard started telling her that she's full of shit and that he's not gonna work somewhere where shit like that is said. She started crying and ran from the stage and in the following days she became the laughing stock of the whole nation. And she got of easy, I think. How egocentric and self righteous do you have to be to think that being an asshole who won't wear a mask is comparable to being a pacifist resistance member against the Nazis who went to her own execution supremely calm, without recanting and without spewing poison against her murderers. TL;DR We don't censor, we remember. It's just not something for smalltalk.
The basic public school types are not chosen. The kid qualifies by its semester grades by which the principle writes a recommendation for a higher education... or even lower. Hauptschule is the very basic type of school and not well received. Realschule is the most common education. Many ppl have kind of plan. They make their kids gradute in Realschule, get a job, then let them hve jigher education on their own if desired. That way you get life experience before age of 20 but still can aim for a higher career. Gymnasium is preparation for university and not mandatory.
In general the differences are minor but only because Federal Law breaks State Law. An infamous example was that in several states the death sentence was still in it. The last state who had it in its constituition was Hessen (until 2018) . Bayern also had it until 1998. But as the federal law prohibits such things they where never in effect anymore since 1981 where the last execution took place in the DDR.
The Thing is with school in Germany, If you missed a Higher Grade or totaly messed Up. You are everytime able to do this , even at a high age! Either you need maybe for a employing or just unhappy with that. Well we know how we are where in our Young ages puperty time, you know 😅 ....well with that you have the Chance to Change that..at any time. 😉
Biggest difference that i noticed for laws in 40 years of being german: in lower saxony you are allowed to drink alcohol in public transportation (on paper) ^^. I really would hate to be a controller on holidays for this :D
Oh for the best culture shock and germany lifestyle videos Watch Feli from Germany she is the best in talking about specific things and culture shocks and everything related to Germany
The main reason for why germany never had many colonies was because Otto von Bismarck activly worked against germany gaining colonies because he (for very good reasons) feared that germany gaining a lot of colonies would destabilize the power balance in europe and lead to a massive war. Which ultimatly did happen but not because of germany gaining some colonies but because of a massive destabilization of austria hungary. The entire story is quite long and complicated and filled with massive amounts of ignorance, arrogance and incompetence, but long story short, every country in europe had a faction in their government itching for war, hungary wanted to cecede from austria, austria didn't like that, Franze Ferdinand the archduke of austria got shot by a bosnian nationalist, warmongers furious, incompetence happens, world war I starts.
The Amish speak old Swiss German with a little Palatine mixed in, not Low German. I think he made that mistake because it‘s known as Pennsylvania Dutch. But it’s not Dutch at all.
Hey, german native here 👋 About the costitutions of the different states: Yes, every state have its own cinstitution, but the law and many other things are running by the government. For example, until recently, the Hessian constitution still included the death penalty as a legally enforceable criminal procedure. Since Germany has a constitution that applies to all federal states and in which the death penalty is illegal throughout Germany, federal law beats state law. So the only things who are actually runned by the "Bundesländer" (member states) are the police, the healthcaresystem and the schoolsystem. The law and the legislation and also things like taxes are runned by the german government and are the same in all german states. So germany is more "One state" when it comes to laws then the USA is. Here you dont have to fear that you dont know some laws does existing in one state, but doesnt existing in another state. German school system: Based on the child's performance, the school makes a recommendation to the parents as to which secondary school the child should attend. However, it is up to the parents to decide which school the child goes to later.
Bears went extinct a long time ago in Germany. They got all hunted down. Every now and then a bear ends up in germany while searching a new place to live but most of the times they get killed because they cause "problems". The most prominent expample for this would be the Problembär Bruno or rughly translated problematic bear Bruno. He has eaten a few sheeps and was sighted near villages so he got shot
You sit in one room with teacher and parents. Teacher tells how he thinks of you and gives a recommendation. But you decide youre self where you want go. On wich scool. If you cant make it you have to go to a scool thats " less good " and if you cant make it there you'll go more "down"... and so on. ( if you have good parents they'll let you decide ) ( if you decide wrong you'll learn from it)
Small correction: In Germany wo don't have 300 different types of bread... it's more like 3000 different types 😄
Yes, also the number of castles are way higher.
Approximately 3,200 different types of bread, yes.
Its 300 different types of Bread per Bakery :)
I can still vividly remember buying a loaf of pumpernickel from a supermarket in Freiburg in 1992 while Inter-Railing - and being staggered by its 1kg (2.2lb) mass. I was full after about two bites!
And 25000 castles, more the 1500 different types of sausages and at least hundreds of different receipes for cakes and pastries 😋
Germany has influenced the whole of Europe long before the wars, and long after. It's strange that we're taught with a focus on such a short period, I understand why - the never forget philosophy, but there is more to Germany and it's culture. You might be surprised how much English culture evolved from German culture, not least the English language...
His-Story is also written by the winners... ww1 ww2 was a crime against Germany if people try to dig deeper you will see it.
@@hyenalaughingmatter8103 I don't know enough about WWI but WWII was triggered by outside forces, primarily the withdrawal of promised financial support from the USA due to their great depression, but Germans did vote for Hitler - a known ex-convinct with a history of violence and hatred in a minor political organisation with anti-Semitic ideology, don't pretend otherwise, they did see what was going on and although desperate under crushing super-inflation still empowered a tyrant. Their hands are definitely not clean.
So please tell me dig deeper where to find what out, I am interested to know your perspective since you've raised this subject?
@@daveofyorkshire301 Freedom of vote is a illusion. Hitler is a masonic tranny and works for Rotschild.
The English language is Germanic. That’s not the same thing as “German”. It’s a linguistic branch that has roots in an area of Europe that ENCOMPASSES modern-day Germany (hence the name) but also other countries and is where many different pagan tribes (including the Angles, Saxons, Jutes etc etc) originated before migrating across to Britain and various other places.
@@penname5766 That's like saying Latin isn't Roman when ancient Rome spoke Latin, which by the way also exists in English as one of the core languages it evolved from. Don't forget old Norse, old English (aka Anglo-Saxon) and Celtic too...
Plus your misconstruing my words. Perhaps purposely?
3:40 “Lower” and “Upper” in geographic names refers to elevation, not North and South. Which wouldn’t even make sense, because historically maps were not always oriented “North = Up”.
Lower Saxony is obviously “lower” because it sits on the coast.
The real weird fun fact is that “Lower Saxony” is the original Saxony. What is now called Saxony got its name from inheritance shenanigans.
Not really. Unless you define inheritance very loose. The Saxon tribe (also never using the term "Saxony" as they were unaware of being named after their weapon by one Roman scholar until after the invitation to Kent. They introduced themselves as "Germani" instead, as that was what the Romans called them at this point.) wouldn't quite fit either as their settlements hardly reached "German ground", they were settling more in the Netherlands than Germany, although we might find some evidence (with Google's help) of them being in Frisia. So I cut the tribe out for now.
Now the next point where the name could have been "stolen" would be from the actual duchy of Saxony after it got split into many tiny pieces, by the German king that was still angry about his cousin the Saxon Duke not helping him fighting in Italy. Well that could fit since the County of Meißen got the title, as it was granted by said king to the Wettin house. Only problem: All 3 states that contain Saxony in their name as well as parts of other states were part of said Duchy. This puts a strong claim for Lower Saxony but since it didn't exist it can hardly be called the original Saxony while Saxony is denied this originality.
Even if you put both aspects together. I simply can't agree with the statement that one state is more the original than another. Sorry pal.
@@bellpepperknight809 I call it the “original Saxony” because it is the area where people spoke Old Saxon (aka Old Low German) rather than Old High German.
The dialects spoken in the state of Saxony are all High German (excepting the Slavic minority). They are not descended from the Saxon language, unlike Low German (Plattdeutsch), and of course, English.
@@eypandabear7483 I think you have a little different idea what High-German is, since the Old Saxon belonged to the Pre-Old-High-German not the Low-German. Or maybe they shifted that from the Germanic sub groups in your country and we run into language barriers here.
Short Data Exchange:
There is a Germanic language group containing 2 major groups: South (including English, German, Dutch, ...) and North including the Scandinavian languages.
Pre-Old-High-German can also be called West-Germanic (Wikipedia claim)
After Pre-Old-High-German, there is a split between the Old-High-German and the colonizer groups. But Low-German is still not part of the language group "West Germanic".
Pre-Old: starting around the 3rd century, 5th century: time of the Anglo-Saxon-Invitation (colonization of "England"; in reality only Kent and then conquering the 7 kingdomsland)
Old: 8th-11th century,
Middle: 11th-15th century,
New: 15th-21st century.
(Although some people declare Standardgerman as Modern-High-German, no confirmation given for this in language science yet.)
Low-German is from an entirely different concept it seems. (Being a sub group of Northsea-Germanic, not fitting in the direction context yet also being a sub of a sub of the West-Germanic sub)
My understanding for High-German though is, that this is the base of the South-Germanic languages (including both West- and East Germanic) that all Germanic people could understand (possible since it in the oldest form seems to be a simple replacer for West-Germanic.) With this though it would include Low-German as a sub's sub's sub, and before the split in the 6th century, which also didn't instantly change the language groups and end Pre-Old-High-German which is a logical error, there would be a common ground. After the split Low-German was a sub of Old-Saxon which was a sub of Northsea-German which was on the same level as the Old-High-German. *This is probably the point on which you sit* with High-German and Low-German being devided.
So, where can we find a middle ground? How proceed on the matter? Shall we ignore Pre-Old-High-German and the premise of High-German to fit the narrative that High-German existed in Germany except the coastline and then go on to limit the Saxons to those?
I'm looking forward to where we will go with this and I'm eager to absorb your knowledge. But I will say this, whoever came up with those categories needs to take some logic classes. :D
@Tim Willemsen Going fully historically accurate in a YT reply? -> Not gonna happen.
It would take hours of writing to address every tiny bit and fit the so old history together including the disclaimers for the legends how the Saxon association main tribe which was successful at raiding therefore got many other tribes to join their association became named after it's weapon and so on. Serving in the Roman army and giving the Roman attitude to just call every Germanic tribe Germani, nso.
In the end the comments would become TLDRs anyway and it simply isn't worth the time. So of course they get shrunk down and gain the ability to be attacked by everybody doing a short Google research and reading 10 minutes on a secific point. I for example only jump through my notifications here atm.
However following his reply from earlier, his claim is less based on any of those and more on the language development. Which after checking it out, was made by somebody who needs some logic classes. It was a mess to read through this stuff and idea presented greatly differs from his idea as well. So I will now look forward to whatever deepening he will see fit. As I will assume that he also doesn't like to waste too much time on YT replies. (Because I'm a bad person and see bad in others only. :P)
10:40 The eagle is probably the single most common national symbol in Europe - Germans, Poles, Austrians, Russians... When the US was picking its symbol, Ben Franklin was against adopting an eagle because he said it wouldn't stand out.
The eagle (aquila) was the symbol of Rome. And in mediaeval Europe, Rome was the ultimate symbolic source of legitimacy. That’s the main reason eagles are so ubiquitous in European heraldry.
Eagle, lion, bear ... lordly symbols of strength and power. Who would respect a country with a rabbit as the "national animal"?
The "coolest flag with a symbol" contest is obviously between Wales (the obvious top -dog- dragon) and the Isle of Man (the "weird guys" contender).
you mean seriously Russia is Europe?😒 best regards from Germany
@@christofkruppa5742 The Russian double eagle is explicitly derived from the (Eastern) Roman Empire.
@@christofkruppa5742 Yes. Russia is in Europe as much as Turkey is in Europe. The country is both in Europe & Asia, but both capitals are in Europe.
Germany is a massively underrated tourist destination. Great country and people. Berlin for my 40th was an all-time great party - and those guys certainly know how to do that!
17:45 No tests, parents can choose. The teachers give a recommendation, however it's up to the parents if they follow that recommendation or ignore it.
There are a few things you need to know about the German education system though:
1) The system is not a one-way system. If for example someone graduates from a Hauptschule after 9th grade with really good grades he/she can decide to switch to a Realschule, go to school for a 10th grade and get the Realschulabschluss (a higher qualification) as well. And likewise everyone who graduates from a Realschule can switch to a Gymnasium and go to school for three additional years and graduate with Abitur at the end of 13th grade. Likewise pupils can switch to a "lower" school if they can't keep up - a friend of mine from elementary school - or Grundschule - decided to try his luck at Gymnasium; however he didn't do all that well with his grades on average being in the 4s and 5s (in Germany we don't use letters for grades, we use numbers, with 1 being the best and 6 being the worst; in tests 1-4 means you passed while 5 means you failed the test and 6 means you failed horribly); but after switching to a Realschule he was able to cope much better and managed to get up his grades to 1s and 2s.
2) Even if you don't go to another school for higher qualifications but decide to start vocational training instead (which is highly valued in Germany, it's not at all looked down upon as it is the case in the USA) you can still aquire additional qualifications later, including the Abitur which then qualifies for University.
3) As said before - vocational training (= Berufsausbildung, including craftsmanships) and trade schools (kaufmännische Ausbildung, commercial education) are held in high regard in Germany and are not considered low skilled jobs at all (because they are not, all of them are highly regulated trainings that require 2-4 years of training and grants an official degree and certificate at the end). In contrast to the USA many of these jobs are also way better payed; if you learned a craft for example you usually finish your training as a journeyman, but you can aquire additional qualifications and become a master - and craftsmen are usually well payed.
After Hauptschule you must be so much behind the others drom Realschule, how can you catch up in just one year? Or pass those exames? The problem is not want you can do later, is the stigma you have on you staeting with 10 years. And children from other countries were stigmatised too. The teachers send them to Hauptschule, they ddidn't give them a chance. Putting them down right from the beginning.....
@@sosprichtportugal you have similar things you learn, the pace is just different and some subjects are different. Where in Gymnasium you learn German, Englisch and a mother language the other students can decide if they want to learn a mother language or rather do some computer skills or other things. It is mainly just the pace. Yes they'll need to out a little more effort into it but they should be prepared to be able to cope switching from hauptschule to realschule. I know many students who did so. Of course they did not have perfect grades in all subjects on the first year.
The only problem they have is the 2nd language. If they choose not to do the language they have to learn it in order to get a gymnasium degree. So that is more difficult/work
Hab's nicht cht ganz gelesen wird richtig sein
@@sosprichtportugal Firstly you have to understand, that Hauptschule is not a school for kids with learning issues, or something like that. You basically learn the same, just not quite as specialized and not as long as in Realschule and Gymnasium but it's nothing major, nothing you couldn't compensate. For the really specialized stuff, we have universities anyways. And foreign kids are not discriminated in this system. Teachers don't send them anywhere. They are trained to learn to know the likes and abilities of the children, independent of their language, and give their opinion to the parents, who have to choose in the end. If you're a foreigner and can't speak german, there are programs and classes in- and outside of school. But it's on you to use it, if you want to keep up in Realschule or Gymnasium. The school system can't do everything for you ;)
In four Bundesländer, to be allowed to go to the Gymnasium does require the elementary school teachers to ‘sign off’ on this. This is generally based on a minimum grade average. In two other Bundesländer this used to be the case. But there are ways around this, usually by passing extra tests or by doing a trial run at the Gymnasium.
13:20 Deutsch is NOT what you call Dutch in english at all. Deutsch is the German word for what you call German. Dutch in German is translated as Holländisch.
High German and Low German are two different languages. High German is based on the languages of the Southern Germanic tribes like the Alemanni and the Lombards, while Low German is based on the languages of the northern tribes, like the Saxons and Angles. Low german is also way closer to Dutch, Frisian, the Jutic dialects (which is a variety od danish) and the other scandinavian languages (except Finnish which is an uralic language and related to just one other language in Europe which is Hungarian).
Low german is also closely related to a language you may be very familiar with - English. The reason is that the basic language from which modern Low German derives is actually Old Saxon, also known as Old Low German....and as Old English. It's the language the saxons spoke when they conquered England during the 5th and 6th century. Because of that modern day English and modern Low German are still way more closely related than English and High German.
In a historc sense Low German was way more common in the Holy Roman Empire than High German. High German was spoken only in the Alpine regions in the South while the rest spoke Low German.According to many historians that slowly started to change when Martin Luther translated the bible - and even though he himself spoke Low German he chose to use High German for his translation.
Yes although Old English was derived from multiple Germanic (as opposed to strictly German) languages that were brought over to Britain via the Angles, Saxons, Jutes etc.
Dutch is actually tranlated as "Niederländisch". Holland is a region of the Netherlands.
Notable: The "Dutch" dialects in the USA (e.g. Pennsylvania Dutch) are NOT Low German, not similar to the Dutch from the Netherlands, they are derived from High and Upper German dialects (Pfalz, Switzerland). In the 17th century the English word "Dutch" included German. The transition between the dialects was (and mostly still is) gradual and without a German nation they didn't see any reason for a second language name, I guess.
The German dialects of the Pfalz, which the Pennsylvania-Dutch is mostly based on, actually belong to West Central German dialect family. While they fall into the second category when dividing German dialects into Low and High German, they have not followed all sound shifts that separated High from Low German, and thus have elements of the German dialects spoken roughly West of the Rhine river up to the Dutch border.
Regarding regional differences: I mean, we all speak high German and naturally there is a common ground, but it does make a huge difference if you are from the North, South, West or East. Different traditions, different cuisine, different clothing...the differences are sometimes subtle, but they are there. And if people start to speak their lokal dialekt, you can bet that other Germans would have trouble to understand them.
"we all speak high German": Except for the Swabians. "Mir könnet alles, außer Hochdeutsch."
@@dekai7992 its only the würtemberger Schwaben.
The Adidas/Puma skit is because the two brands were founded by brothers, Adolph (Adi) and Rudolf Dasler. Puma's original name was/is RuDa.
Sorry, I know more random information about so many things that it's almost detrimental lol.
And there was always a cultural fight over which brand is better. Especially in the 90s.
One thing I really appreciated in Germany is the food.
If you're eating in a restaurant, you'll find some of the least adulterated foodstuffs.
It was a breath of fresh air to enjoy tastes and textures that haven't been sullied by one thing or another.
I'm a 'mostly veggie' now, but the roast suckling pig I had in Munich was a thing of wonder.
The only reason why German food isn't more famous is because France and Italy are our direct neighbours...they kind of overshadow us. Except when it comes to the bread, naturally. And the beer. And the sausages....
OK if you like Sausage. 🇬🇧
@@swanpride we could say that basically, the bar for "good (as in tasty) food" in Europe is very high, so you don´t stand out particularly, but don´t worry, that´s why we have the EU with Schengen, so that anyone everywhere in Europe can taste a lot of different cuisines! ;) LG
Regaring Germany's colonisation history: You most likely missed it out, because the period was pretty short. Basically Bismarck wasn't a fan of having colonies, so he actually prevented Germany having some at least initially, until he bowed to political pressure and took what the English, Dutch, Spanish and French left over - then Bismarck did, WWI happened and the colonies were taken as loot. So basically those colonies were only long enough under German control for around 30 years, but that period was sadly long enough to do a lot of damage, especially to the hereros.
Vergangenheitsbewältigung Exhibit A
@@realdomdom Stupid comment ... exhibit 3.850.123
@@realdomdom Wait I dont get it, thats not Vergangenheitsbewältigung he just stated how and why that stuff happened.
@@realdomdom Vergangenheitsbewältigung is (normal) just used in WW2 context and the Nazi crimes
Regarding schooling: that is one of those things that is handled by each individual state. So if and how you can choose between the different schooling options depends on where you live.
No its decided by grades
@@joellassan1582 nope its not. you get a recommendation based on grades and it will be harder to get into a school in a more populated area if you dont have a recomendation for that type but the decision is the for the paretns to make. :) and also the point verena made was that schooling is statelegislated not federal legislated so how the different types of school are setup and what is taught can vary (within a framework set out by the federal legislature)
@@joellassan1582 Thing is, depending on the state you got those grades in, they're worth more or less, because some states have stricter schooling than others.
8:30 We had a tornado few weeks ago across our city of Paderborn in North Rhine Westphalia. I never thought I'd ever have a tornado that strong so close to me 😵💫
Schnitzel: Mostly pork but can be calf, Rouladen is Beef, Sauerbraten is nowadays mostly beef, originally horse. A lot of mistakes in this one but that's ok because of the limited time.
Schnitzel is Austrian.
And we est it correct. Without tunke
Germnay, as told by Americnas : )
No its Deutschland anyways 😉😂
@@hyenalaughingmatter8103 *Deutschlnad
@@cooperspruce 😂😂😂👍
@3:46 the "lower" simply doesn't refer to latitude, but to elevation. Lower Saxony is on the coast.
@15:50 religion is far less important in Germany (and Europe in general) than it is in the US, hence why he said they identify as Christian "at least nominally". E.g. nobody would ask a politician running for office what faith (if any) they have in Germany, whereas in the US that question seems to regularly end political careers.
If you haven't already, I suggest you watch some videos about German inventions. It might surprise you...
Greetings from Germany
ive been teaching my self German for a while its a wonderful language. Mein Deutsch ist nicht sehr gut
Don't give up, Chelsea. I know it's a difficult language to learn but every language you speak besides your own is a "key" to a different world.
Liebe Grüße aus Deutschland. 🙂
wow ... all by yourself? That's tough! I admire your courage! Hope you have someone to practise with at least...
Keep at it, cause we all know: "Übung macht den Meister"! :)
@@michaausleipzig no one to practice with unfortunately ... i write better German than i do speak it but im getting there. i use alot of learn German while you sleep videos on YT and watch alot of German movies and drama series. its a beautiful language, and a beautiful country, i hope one day to live there. Ich möchte in Deutschland leben. ich liebe Deutschland :)
German and English do have in fact more in common than you would first mention. Dont give up. You'll manage it for sure. :D
Sadly enough i dont no option to direct message you on youtube to send you some contact information but im pretty sure if you want you will find somebody to practise with ^^
@@newnyu7763 English is a french Germanic language so i know there are many similarities however the british tongue does not move in the same way. Due to the way we speak it can take many years to master another language we move and form our mouths differently
Im From Germany, living in the southern Tip of Hessen. Plattdeutsch is not the one language, it depends on the Position you are. It can be very different even from Village to Village even if they are only a few Kilometers apart.
But they are similar, because also dutch and danish language are similar. The northern language was similar, but with much dialects. When you understand "Plattdeutsch" you can also understand a little bit on dutch or danish language. Also it is easier to learn danish or dutch. Also english is a old language and build from old Scandinavian, Netherlands and "German" languages. Seeing Anglo-Saxons. You can hear it, when you look about the old Celtic language. There not really so similar with the today English language.
@@TilmannB0710 Similar yes but some words are completely different. "Speaking" for example: proaten, küren or snacken
@@IMFLordVader
In old north German also "Schnacken wi tusammen" - also in the near from Danmark are the same "å" That will be speak like "ooh" - in Schleswig Holstein give it also more time in old northgerman language - some words are different, but it give some words also in old languages like "Plattdeutsch". - its really more similar like english between celtic language how in Wales, Scotland or Ireland. - When you can read and speak a little bit Plattdeutsch, you can easier learn danish how when you come from south Germany. Also to english is it similar with old Plattdeutsch. But it is also a few years ago, where have had language was build in. "Hochdeutsch" for example is not really old :)
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@@TilmannB0710 I can hardly speak Plattdeutsch but my parents speak it fluently. But I can understand nearly everything and there are some funny nouns like "Michampel" or "Froatenböld"
ei gude wie ^^
I personally don't get mad at Americans claiming ancestry (I just find it weird, although I fully understand *why* you do it)… I *do* get mad at people claiming "I'm German" (or "I'm Dutch", "I'm Swedish" or whatever country) just because some (maybe just one) of your more or less distant ancestors came from Germany. No, you're not German. You may feel an affinity, and I don't mind that. But you *are* not German.
Yea I could see that and why that could be annoying for people.
Yes, ve Germans know every vey you can cook a pig.
Ve also know how to eat uncooked pig. Raw pork. "Mett". One of the scariest foods for Americans. ;-) (And so yummy. *And* safe.)
As an Austrian, I can say that this description is incorrect. This description is the description of an American who named his RUclips channel "Geography Now".
Not really historically relevant.
These DNA tests are kind of ridiculous. Do you Americans really think there's a genetic difference between someone from Northern Germany (like me) and someone living 80 kilometers from here in Southern Denmark?
And to make these thinks even more weird this distinction by country is only made in regards to European ancestry but rarely when talking about Asian or South American ancestry and basically never when talking about african ancestry. In the case of african ancestry it's always "you're x % african". Seriously? Africa is a massive continent - the second largest on the planet, 18 % larger than North America and almost 3 times as big as Europe - which means the population is actually quite varied, from people with arabian ancestry in the northern countries like Egypt to central africans to South Africans (with a substantial minority of 9% who are actually white - Charlize Theron is a popular example).
Why don't these DNA frauds not separate African ancestry by nation? Like "you're x % from Nigeria and y % from Kenya"? It makes no sense whatsoever.
Is it possible to make some distinctions, like "You have ancestors from Northern Europe" or you have ancestors from East Assia"? Sure. But not on a country by country basis - countries are randomly drawn lines on a map and have nothing to do with genetics at all. Heck, 110 years ago the grandparents and great-grandparants of the same people in Southern Denmark would actually have been German because the southernmost parts of Denmark actually belonged to Germany until the end of WW1.
We dont get mad that you take a DNA test we get mad people says they are the same as us or when they say they know our country because of their ancestors gave from here and similar. A DNA test does not mean a lot here because our peoples have mixed for so long in Europe you often cant go Im so and so if you were born in a country its where you are from if you move to another country thats now your nationality you ethnic background is a different story and we tend to be more relaxed on that subject on account of all the wars we have had through history because ethnic groups or religions. Your families history and your DNA is a cool thing to have and to know just remember it means more as a personal thing than anything else, some will be happy to listen to it others wont but if it makes you happy go for it
You really pushed the boat out with your use of punctuation!
True. Bavarians actually have been found to be pretty mixed, even with arab ancestry. They think it's because of the area having been part of the Roman empire and soldiers from other parts of the empire settling there. Also after the war against the Turkish some thousand "Turkish" soldiers were brought to Bavaria as prisoners and after some years of forced labour were freed and many stayed and married local women. And then we've always had strong bonds with Italy and Italy again was partly colonised by the Greeks...
Europe is a genetic melting pot.
@@helgaioannidis9365 Yes and then the Woke Muricans dare accuse us of no being diverse XD
oh, there's a lot of mentioning the war and it's atrocities in Germany. It's part of every school curriculum. In the higher grades, most classes will visit one of the memorial sites at least once during their time at school. The notion that you shouldn't mention the war does definitely not originate from Germany. You will have no problem finding somebody to have a meaningful discussion about that topic. Maybe, I wouldn't use it as a smalltalk topic. But germans don't do smalltalk anyways ;)
btw: buying, owning or selling this weird Hitler-book never was illegal in Germany. That's a misconception even held by most germans. It was, however, illegal to *reprint* and publish the german version of that book. And the reason for that were simply copyright reasons, which belonged to the state of Bavaria until 2015. The english and other language versions of that book could and were always reprinted and sold. Mainly in the US.
What’s your favourite part of visiting UK
Is it what you expected or was it a surprise
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German Christianity isn't comparable by far to US Christianity. These are nominally Christians mostly without really believing in Jesus. The evangelic and katholic church is institutionalized and if you're born into families of either confession you're called a Christian where you're not actually.
Each state has its own constitution !!!!
Not at all ! There is ONE constitution, the Grundgesetz which is applied in all of Germany and is the same for all.
Some local décision of a regional parliament can be applied within the limits of one state but they don't form a constitution on a legal point of view.
Bears? We have...bears? I was born and raised on the border to the black forest. The only bear i heard of was that one in Bayern that walked into Germany over the border of Poland. And they shot him (couple of years ago).^^
Austrian here. I really don't like the section about Vergangenheitsbewältigung. It doesn't translate to "a lingering feeling of guilt from the past" at all. It rather translates to "overcoming/dealing with the past". You won't find many national flags in the vast majority of other European countries either. And that isn't just the case in Europe. In fact, the US is "kinda weird" (as Barbie puts it in the video) in how rampant nationalism is there compared to most other democratic countries.
I feel like he put a lot of his personal bias in that part of the video which really is a shame imo because the rest of thd video is quite accurate (for the most part). But that specific part makes me cringe everytime I see it. And I think it perpetuates the stereotype that Germans (or we Austrians) are hush hush about WW2 and don't wanna talk about it. Heck, my grandfather was a fully fledged national socialist and I live near the concentration camp in Mauthausen. We can talk about the crimes against humanity committed by my ancestors all day long. In my experience, a it's often foreign people (including Americans, but also Brits, French, Russians etc) who get way more defensive when I hold their own countries to the same standard as mine and when I don't romanticize crimes like colonialism, slavery/Jim Crow or the clusterfuck that was the USSR. It often feels like their utmost priority is to emphasize that their own countries' crimes certainly weren't as bad as what the nazis did - even tho I never make that kind of claim, I observe this reaction almost every single time I talk openly about these crimes from the past.
EDIT: Typos :(
EDIT2: Oh and a funny thing about Marx: When I meet a socialist from an English speaking country, they insist that Marx wrote most of his work in ENGLAND (which is true) while capitalists from the anglosphere always point out that Marx was GERMAN (which is also true). Just something funny I've picked up on over the years. Make of that what you will ;)
Thank you for explaining Vergangenheitsbewältigung!! Now I don’t have to. Gut, weil dazu reicht mein Englisch nicht. 😃Grüße vom Nachbarn im Norden 👋
@@winterlinde5395 I got you, bro 👋
9:27 well yes but actually no.
His German is really good for him not being German.
But if tries to get from Hamburg to Berlin with this he will probably end in Munich.
ja but a tornado does not really break down brick and cement built houses, so they dont have their houses ruined and massive media outbreak and stuff, just oh look its very windy - lets make sure everything is packed away and strapped down.
Actually its notillegal to own said mustache guys book, it never was. It was illegal to PRINT it cause of copyright not actually something else. Serdar Somuncu, turkish heritage german comedian became famous for doing public readings of that book mocking it in the process. And the copyright neded in 2016 so if you want you can print the book and plaster the streets with it if you want. Its at worst littering
to laws - federal laws trump state laws so most laws are the same. Differences are usually very minor like which subjects get how much attention in school, if you need to go 12 or 13 years to school to get the university licence, and so on. As example bavaria technicly still has the death penalty in its law but since federal law outlawed the deathpenalty it hasnt been used in bavaria since ww2
To school - its a testing thing. You can however get your higher education later through other means like if you are a handyman and worked a few years as such making your "Meisterprüfung" thats seen as same quality diploma as the gymnasium one and opens up university for you.
You said we seem to be pretty put together. In fact right now unfortunately it seems that we are more and more falling apart like a house of cards due to woke politic leaders who behave like kids in a candy store...
we have over 3000 kinds of bread not 300 :)
9:45 That's the Czech President, not the German one. Just thought I'd make that clear.
At 19:00, we Germans know that too much patriotism can turn into nationalism. That why we are very reserved about it.
24:45 The North beats the South by far. In the southern region you cannot smell the salt in the air, there's no wind to speak of to clear your mind and every other kilometer some stupid mountain blocks the view.
Joking aside - all parts of Germany are nice and have their own distinct perks. If you come to Schleswig-Holstein one day you shouldn't expect to see much castles though because we don't really have any here, at least not castles in the original sense (which means a fortified home of a noble family).
It's a bit complicated because the english speaking countries have fewer words for structures like that, for you it's always a castle - however that is actually a bit unspecific and in general english speakers tend to throw two different types of structures into the mix and call them castles. In Germany there's a distinction between the term Burg (which is the original thing, a fortified home of a nobleman during the Middle Ages) and Schloss, which is usually less fortified (sometimes not at all) and more of a fancy place, somewhat overlapping whith you would call a palace; they are also usually newer than the Burgen. And there's also structures that are definetly fortified but where never home to a family but strictly military structures - these are also technically not Burgen/Castles, these are fortresses. As I said - it's complicated.
In general we don't have many of the Burg type structures in the North. There's a variety of reasons for that: One of the most important is that the landscape is flat and stones to build big castles was hard to find. This means that most noblemen in the North built their fortified homes with the ressources that where easily available - mud and wood. However these materials do not stand the test of time all that well which means none of the medieval wooden castles in the north exists anymore.
We have a few Schlösser but that's it.
If you come to the North some day make sure you visit the North Sea coast - but don't go there with the intent of doing all that much. The best way to enjoy the coast is to sit at the beach or at the dike, enjoy the calm and quiet and wind down while listening to the waves and sea birds. So good to recharge the batteries.
And then there's of course the city life in the North as well, up and foremost of course Hamburg, but also Bremen or Lübeck. And if you happen to be in the region during the last week of June you should visit the city of Kiel and the Kieler Woche (=Kiel week) which is not only one of the largest sailing regattas in the world but also a huge festival with about 3 million visitors each year (except the Covid years of course).
Nope. No elephants in german rooms.^^ We want to remember because we don't want to repeat that s***.
Whenever you are in munich - feel free to give us a call
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Hi, l do think that looking at different European cities would be a great learning curve. I am from England and I would be interested in finding out more about Europe 🇪🇺 l am sure the different countries that make up Europe are really interesting too look at. I send my regards to you and your family!! Sean Xx
Wow. For me as a European and German England belongs to Europe despite not being a European union member state anymore... our history and our culture is strongly connected... we are neighbours! I am sorry you have to learn about it as if we were some distant far away place in the world. This comment is just another knife into my heart after Brexit. But I guess it's a step forward to be interested.
My adulthood only counts a decade. But I feel so old and tired by now. I wished Germany would stand out more for being the country that holds Europe together, preserved peace and worked for equal living standards in all of Europe - East and West, South and North and beyond the borders of the European union. Now there is war in Europe. And for the first time in my life I feel personally ashamed for my country. We don't do enough to support the freedom of Ukrainians and to end this war as fast as possible. Looking back we were watching and even supporting Russia to convert into a place that is more and more like a fascist dictatorship. Although I was lucky enough to be born into a free and democratic Germany, I do well remember my grandparent's experiences of being born into nazi Germany or my parents experiences who grew up into Eastern/ socialist Germany. I understand what propaganda can do to people and how propaganda changes a society. I don't speak Russian fluently but I understand the language well enough to draw my conclusions. I was watching all signs of change during my internships in Russia in 2015 and 2017. After the annexation of Crimea everybody should have waken up. But we, me too, were dreaming with open eyes not believing a real war could ever happen again.
When I was working as an au pair in England after finishing school in 2012 the world seemed to be so free, so open, so wide. I registered that Brits over all were far more critical towards the EU even back then but would I have imagined to be in need of a passport to enter England ever in my life? Certainly not.
Even in 2019 while making friends with a group of Brits during an internship in Tokyo the Brexit seemed to be just surreal to all of us. Then this horrible pandemic came over us....
Just last week I was talking to a teenager who would have loved to work as an au pair in England but right now, it's not possible to get Visa for this purpose. How altered the words is compared to the day when I was 18!
I would have never imagined I will be founding my family in such a world. That I would share my flat with a war refugee from Ukraine, that I would sent money to Ukrainian friends or Ukrainian family members of Russian friends as my Russian friends are afraid of consequences if they supposed their Ukrainian part of their families, that I would stop any contact to my Russian friends in fear of getting them into trouble. But here we are. We better start to learn more about our European heritage and recent history right now.
Sorry for this outburst of frustration. It just broke free. Please let us all appreciate and actually preserving the privileges we have in life and let us try to make it better to our fellows and ourselves.
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Did u know , that the first computer is made in Germany.
"Deutsch" actually means "german" in German.
Germany - Germans have a great sense of humor, so fix the title at least.
I am German (born and raised here) and I can confirm that ve haf no sense of humor. None at all. Ve are alvays absolutely serious.
I never knew we had tornados in Germany. Props from Berlin.
Coming from Cologne, neither did I. Middle-Eastern Germany is quite weird apparently.
They're way smaller and therefore less destructive than in the US, so they're not all over the news. But my weather app sometimes shows it in their news feed.
Here in Germany we don't have 1 school system but about 16 (education is in the hand of 16 the federal states). All of which are more or less different. This also applies to the "classification"-process after elementary school.
I am 18 and I have never heard of a tornado in germany.
Bio (organic food.) has been a thing in Germany for a hundred years. Recycling is just a way of life. All round top country.
Visa free means, you can go to a country and stay there for up to a set amount of time. Mostly 3-4 months without applying for a visa and all the paperwork it entails. Just take your Passport (in some countries your ID is enough) and go there.
I've been waiting for your Vblogs on the UK. Hope you're enjoying your stay with us.
I am looking forward to the vlogs of your Holiday too Great Britain. I look forward to your Reactions on my country.
I think while tornadoes do technically happen, they are almost always not that serious or destructive in comparison to the US.
True, but that is primarily due to the construction of the houses, the tornadoes that exist in Germany would also completely destroy a house built in the usual American way, fewer tornadoes but just as dangerous as in the usa.
@@stiibuderschrat7522 thats right the the overall intensity is not much lower compared to the us and our country is small so its more likely to see a tornado in Germany than in most US states
Don’t mention the WAR 🇬🇧
Tornadoes: _While other countries may get more severe tornadoes or more tornadoes overall in a year/season, the country that receives the most tornadoes by total area is England. Between 1980 and 2012, England experienced 2.2 tornadoes per year per 10,000 square kilometres (3,861 square miles) - which equates to one per every 4,545 square kilometres (1,754 square miles) annually. By comparison, the entire USA (including the non-contiguous states of Alaska and Hawaii) experienced 1.3 tornadoes annually per the same area - or one per 7,693 square kilometres (2,970 square miles)_
Source: Guinness book of records...
_This research was conducted by Kelsey Mulder and David Schultz from the University of Manchester, UK, using reports from the Tornado and Storm Research Organisation (TORRO). The findings were published in the Monthly Weather Review, published by the American Meteorological Society, on 28 May 2015_
I was going to say something similar, Tornados in the UK often occur in cities as can be several degrees warmer than the surrounding countryside causing the exact conditions for one. They are short lived though, only minutes, but still very damaging. Ones occurring in the countryside often don't get reported unless it starts 'raining' Wheat or Barley even Fish, sometimes but very rare, livestock. Crop circles? maybe one explanation.
Now compare intensity.
Bullshit
Nominally Christian is the point.
[1:35] As a German, may I provide my thoughts about your idea of learning German rather than Spanish. Spanish is way easier to learn and is spoken by so many more people around the globe than German. Plus, many Germans understand English to a certain extend. Most Germans don't speak English very well, frankly, but at least they try, and it is often good enough - although with a very thick accent and by unintentionally using lots of "false friends" - to make up for some kind of conversation. In short, Spanish is the language to go for.
As for the video - well made, very authentic, and fun to watch. Keep up with it...
For sure. Try to explain to someone the diffrence between der, die and das and when you have to use which one. A nightmare
As a person living in Lower Saxony (call's so 'cause we r closer 2 the sea level than the other Saxony's) 30 miles south of Hamburg:
I never noticed it, but after visiting friends in Hesse and Northern-Franconia with all their 'babbeling' who told me "Man, you are speaking like we write!" (They meant High German)
Northern German isn't High German. But it is close enough for my beloved "wildlings" from the middle, eastern and south!
And yes, they know that I'm calling them names.. but hey: we R friends, for them I'm a Swamp-German (despite the fact that the Netherlands are still 135 miles west from my hometown)
That's German humor 😄
It comes because as base for New High German, the dialect of Hanover was used. While New High German is approximately 500 years old, it is the current Standard German. So the closer your pronunciation is to your state's capital, the more you will be confused as a pure High German Native. ;o)
Geography Now is an incredible channel. Barbs does his research and is a very charismatic guy.
Other interesting videos about Germany (without spoken voices, music/view only):
German Castles and Palaces: ruclips.net/video/Gz15VVdhjMM/видео.html (~9 minutes)
This Is Germany: ruclips.net/video/8IJzZSVRpbU/видео.html (~14 minutes)
A bird's eye view of Germany: ruclips.net/video/T7SIxJOoQd8/видео.html (1 hour long!)
Roulade isn’t pork - it’s beef 🥩😉
And yes, we have eagles 🦅 in Germany. The eagle is our heraldic animal 😉
BTW: „Mein Kampf“ is legal to buy in every bookstore since a few years ago.
Es gibt auch Schweine Rouladen, finde ich sogar fast besser wie Rinder Rouladen, nur die Soße ist nicht so gut
@@barneystinson951
Das muss dann aber eher ein nördliches, oder östliches Ding sein. Im Süden und Südwesten gibt’s nur Rinder Roulade 🙂
@@MrMillhouse72 Naja, ich kenne das nur von meiner Familie welche ursprünglich aus Ostpreußen kommt und nach der Vertreibung nach Westfalen kam. Kann sein das, dass noch ein preußisches Gericht ist, kann aber auch sein das das hier aus Westfalen kommt, gibt es jedenfalls hier auch beim Metzger
Regarding the Tornadoes and the atmospheric Warzone: Back then i was the one in Contact with Geography now telling about it. The Video was published shortly after a Year of several significant Tornadoes (2015) and deadly devastating Floods (2016). For a bit more Context:
On average, there are 30-60 (i counted 38 since 2000) per Year. The Information that Germany has the most in Europe might not be correct anymore since recording throughout the Continent got much better since. I´d say Italy is leading. Last Year Europe (via ESWD) has seen 282 Tornadoes (with 3 Fatalities and 195 Injuries) of which 31 occured in Germany and 61 in Italy. Globally only a few Countries have ever seen (E)F5 Tornadoes. The US, Canada, Argentina, probably Australia as well as France, Germany and Italy. They don´t occour in that ammounts known from the Great Plaines, but on global comparison, Germany/Europe certainly should be considered as an Area with high tornado activity.
Flooding: The 2016 Floods caused severe damage (6 Billion USD) and 21 Deaths, most of them in Germany. Also recent Years have shown again, that flooding is a serious threat. The 2021 Central European Floods became the costliest disaster in German History (40 Billion €) and 188 Deaths in Germany. Other Nations had been affected as well, bringing the death toll to 235 (and 54 Billion €). The 2021 Event counts as a one in 100 Years Event.
Compared with the rest of the World, Germany is not among the countries worst affected by Weather. But we certainly have our share of Extremes. Thats something People here should understand and prepare for. And thats what i intended originally with my Mail to Geography Now. Because many People in Germany still believe that we are a very safe Place and that Personal preparedness is not necessary. People still get surprised by Weather which was forecasted Days in advance. And in Case of Disaster, Minutes can decide between surviving or not. In that Situation you cannot wait for Advice from Authorities. You need to know what to do. And so far we fail in both. Neither the People, nor the Authorities are able to deal with even regular things. Easily preventable Deaths have been already reported this Year.
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I find German history incredibly fascinating because the Germans and Germany were always there, but at the same time not and always different like a shapeshifter.
Oversimplified:
Rejects Roman annexation - Teutons defeat Rome, are often slapped in the face, but Rome generally fails to subdue them
Create an empire that wasn't really an empire but somehow lived for 1000 years - very special and unique
The Kingdom of Prussia and hundreds of German States gangsta! Before being defeated by one of history's greatest generals.
defeat the French, unites into a new empire
Get a colonial empire
Fight Europe alone and almost won..
Is treated badly
Comeback as Villian, fights the whole world again and only lost because of own mistakes
Gets divided again
Reunites again and is not allowed to be strong again.
Also a few German inventions:
- Incandescent lamps (Heinrich Göbel 1854)
- The Telephone (Johann Philip Reis 1859)
- The dynamo and tram (Werner von Siemens 1866)
- The 35 mm camera (Oskar Barnack 1925)
- Nuclear fission and atomic bomb (Otto Hahn - emigrated to the Americans during Nazi Germany, of course.. Are they lucky that we exist - 1938)
- The ship chart (Jürgen Dethloff and Helmut Gröttrub 1969)
- Periodic Table (Julius Luther Meyer 1864)
- Jeans (Levi Strauss 1873)
- The recorder, player - with which the first films were possible (Emil Berliner 1887)
- The Aspirin - Which all great athletes felt used to relieve pain, And which saved countless lives (Felix Hoffmann, Klausi Alder.. 1879)
- Spark plug (Robert Bosch 1902)
- Thermos flask (Reinhold Burger 1903)
- the toothpaste (Ottomar Heinsius von Mayenburg)
- The coffee filter (Melitta Bentz)
- Cassette recorder (Fritz Pfleumer 1928)
- Teabag (Adolf Rambold 1929)
- The jet engines - Essential for all jets and rockets + First war rockets V1, V2 of the Nazis (Hans von Ohain 1929)
- First rocket (general)
- The helicopter (Heinrich Focke 1936)
- The first car (Carl Benz - With honorary Schnauzer - 1886)
- First Computer (Konrad Zuse 1941)
- First 3D film (during the Nazi period)
- Fanta (Yes the Fanta.. Also during the Nazi era)
- The typewriter (Peter Mitterhofer - 1869)
- NASA (actually the US buys thousands of German engineers to build NASA because they can't do it themselves)
Well, as you saw, we changed world with our inventions many times. Where we would be today without the German thinkers art.
Germany the land of poets and thinkers - that's how it is known.
The problem is that many Germans are not proud of their country and blood, unfortunately also because they were brought up that way. Because if you say anything to that effect, you will be called a Nazi. The problem is that many people don't have the right deep historical knowledge that people need to understand the world and and that only Hitler himself and his party were Nazis. Almost no German was a Nazi during the Nazi era. Also, any historian will tell you that the Allies, primarily the USA, created Nazi Germany and WWII because of the unfair Versailles Treaty. Germans were so depressed that it is unimaginable for us. They were seen as evil around the world as they were blamed for everything in World War I. And when you have 3 kids at home, no job, money is worthless and no food and water you will follow anyone who fixes it. Because that's what the Nazis did in the beginning - they fixed everything and gave the Germans hope again. No German at the time could have known that Hitler was so crazy.
It's not as easy as we always think. Even in the Wehrmacht, only a few liked the Nazis. They were German soldiers dying for the country. the general German soldier, like my grandfather, had nothing to do with the Nazis and the Holocaust. You must consider this one army fought against the rest of the world. And if we are honest: what kind of "peace" could the general German soldier expect? What could have they expect after all the Nazi crimes and everyone thought that all German were evil Nazis. What "Peace" could they expect. These soldiers fought for their lives and German people against a planet. If even many of Hitler's own generals like Rommel (legend) or Stauffenberg knew that he was not quite right in the head. Then the normal people knew that even more. Many were manipulated and could do nothing about it. The Nazis were a small parasite not the Germans. Calling all German soldiers Nazis is like calling all American soldiers democrats because they were in power.
We should be prouder of ourselves, after all, Germany has repeatedly fought against the entire world, one time under a bad regime. We made this modern world possible and maintain a reputation for perfection and quality. The hard-working German with perfection in his blood! Or rather, we once had this reputation. Today there is no longer a country of poets and thinkers. We are still occupied by the USA. And people are manipulated and have no prospects. A dark age.
What I also find very interesting is that the Germanic people spread very far and are therefore the ancestors of many other people. Therefore, historians are not entirely sure how German the Germanic peoples were, but since they were the first to speak German and also created English, they were already German. In addition, the Germans were also the ancestors of the Vikings means Germanic mythology is almost identical to Norse mythology. Actually the same.
The one German beer brand is older than the US 😂🍻
Germany talks about everything in our history .. Every dark thing .. Sometimes to much. You can't say anything like I'm proud to be a German... You will called a Nazi immediately although Mostly no normal German was a Nazi during the Era. Only Hitler and his party..
Germany is the strongest power in Europe and builded itself up in this short time with all the disadvantages like still paying millions to everyone.
German engineering is also BAD ... because we OVERENGINEER a lot. Always have ... and it might have something to do with the limited amount of resources and space, i.e. it is better to "build a really good tank that will last" compared to simply "building 100 times more tanks" (which need to be stored somewhere). So ... the tanks became "more comfy to drive" ... but also "harder to repair" and "easier to break down". Overengineering also includes THE NORM ... which is clearly overengineered when you require cucumbers to be DEAD STRAIGHT and also invent a norm for tractor seats.
You can freely choose which school you go to, but often your elementary school and teachers recommend one type for you depending on your performance. Still, obv some kids are forced by their parents into specific schools, especially into Gymnasium as it has the image of being like the "best" type of school (in relation to career).
The laws are in all Bundesländern to 99% the same
And next to the rivers we have much Kanäle means menbuild rivers
Fun fact in the in Russia and In the USA the headbuilder of rocats were Germans (1950-1970)
Fun fact 2 the Erfinder of Puma and Adidas were brothers
Es war ein Starker (F2 Tornado) bei Paderborn & Lippstadt am 20. Mai 2022
101 Facts About Germany
Why is GERMANY such an INDUSTRIAL LEADER? REACTION - Reaction to Germany Economics
all good videos about Germany.
Oh so for which type of school you go to is actually up to the parents and the child nowadays. But depending on your grades the teachers tell you which school is most likely best for you and mostly people go with that type of school.
Btw in germany the schoolsystem in every type of school is build upon general knowledge all the way.
Hauptschule graduates after 9 years.
Realschule after 10 years.
And Gymnasium after 13 years.
You have the opportunity to switch between schools if your grades are high enough or to low. Many students from Realschule often come to the Gymnasium after their graduation.
I recommend the following Video. From Thomas Sowell.
Facts about Germans never taught in School | Thomas Sowell
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I live near cologne and because of the „Plattdeutsch“ I can understand many words from the Dutch,Amish and Yiddish speakers but I wouldn’t say i could have a good conversation with them😅only the basic stuff would work
The Amish and Mennonites speak mostly Pensylvania Dutch, wich isn't nearly similar to Plattdeutsch and more likely a mixture of some south-western dialects wich are spoken in the regions of Rhineland Palatine, Hesse, Saarland, the north-west of Baden-Wuerttemberg and the south of North-Rhine-Westphalia. But the main influence comes of Rhineland Palatine.
The English word Dutch has it's origin in the German word for German "deutsch" wich is in the dialekt of Rhineland Palatinate called "deitsch" and was etablished for the German speaking settlers in general. The description for people from the Netherlands as Dutch came up far later. Fun fact: the Dutch Oven was an invention by German settlers.
Me as a German, grew up and still living in the federal states of Baden-Wuerttemberg and Rhineland Palatine, can almost fully understand Pensylania Dutch.
Sauerbraten (sour roast) was initially made with horse meat, but is nowadays made with beef. I’ve never seen it made with pork.
The retirement age is now 67, not 65.
When I was in Stuttgart, I didn’t understand a single word of Swabian 😂.
Although Germans might for the most part call themselves Christians, unlike the Bible belt in the US, religion is not really a big thing, except maybe in some highly Catholic areas, but even then I don’t think it’s as strong as it is with US evangelicals. Where I live, I don’t know a single person who goes to church outside of weddings, baptisms and funerals. Seriously, lol.
Parents decide where their kids go to middle school, normally on advice from the elementary school teacher. It’s not mandatory to visit a concentration camp - maybe if you live close by, but nit where I live. They don’t hide from it, though, it is taught in schools.
BTW: his German isn’t as spot-on as you think it is, he actually has a very strong American accent when he speaks it.
0:39 we don't get mad at Us Americans for claiming ancestry. That is fine by us, but what we don't like is how you do it. It is fine if you say that your grandparents came from Germany, France, Italy or wherever, we loath that some of you claim to be Irish-American, Italian-American, German-.American and the distinction betwen African-American, Asian-American and "normal" Americans is disturbing to us. We don't care about whatever DNA you have. It just doesn't matter. You are born in the USA, you have an American passport, then you are American, plain and simple. If you have an additional German passport, then you can say that you are German as well. US-American claim to be "Irish-American, just because 10 or 15 generations ago one of your ancestors came to the country to start a new life. This ancestor whould have been the only one who could claim that he was Irish. Hios decendants , who know nothing about the coulture, the people or the country itself just sound ridiculous to us, when they claim a heritage they have no idea off. Stop being obsessed with bloodlines, DNA and race. You are all US-Americans no matter where your ancestors came from.
Two points from my side: There aren't Amish Communites in Germany. My Parents grew up in the northern part and speak fluently Plattdeutsch. I can speak it a little bit but understand nearly everything. To be honest american amish german is not even close to Plattdeutsch. There is no comparison. The Amish german evolves by it own.
The second part is Religion. 60 % may be Christians by ID, but don't really believe in God (like me). In my opinion the US is more religious than Germany
Actually, the US is much more religious than Germany. In Germany you have to declare your religion for tax purposes, whereas in the US the numbers have to be based on surveyys, but still: Germany this summer will reach the landmark of less than 50% of all adults identifying as any kind of Christians, while in the US this number ist still about 65%. Eastern Germans actually are the most atheist population on earth, with some states showing 14% Christians and 65% atheists/unaffiliated.
Language: If you're a real grammar freak, you might enjoy learning German. Otherwise, you will get much quicker results in Spanish. (I teach German to foreigners 5 days a week.)
It is a testing thing. Your grades determine your path at 12 yo. Too early and usually not good enough to provide equal opportunities for immigrant kids. The one good thing about the German system is the that the trade school education system is excellent in a global comparison ... probably leading. You might not get the Turkish kid to University but he will learn his pro-skill stuff at AUDI/Siemens/BMW/Mercedes/Telekom and get get to work there. Salaries there are solid as is the job security.
Sorry I know it may be not meant to be correct in all ways, but I hate it as a German/Spanish to hear the German language stereotype and spoken out wrong, we have words spoken in a hard way but mostly not, also the really long words we don't use them in everyday life, the ß SZ is from the Old German Language it still is used but it isn't used in every word with ss like (Wasser, water, aqua)
I am jet to see a video about Germany/ German language with correct pronunciation and not stereotype-like. There are many accents in Germany, Bavarian, Sächsich, etc. pp
18:46 Uhm. No, it´s not a taboo or something nobody ever mentions. Quite the contrary. I think the problem of "not talking about it" is mostly in the former DDR (east Germany), because the approach of USSR to German history was completely different than what happened in the schools and society of the western German federal republic. There is an interesting video about it if you want: ruclips.net/video/-cgoSk_yg6k/видео.html .
The Mennonites don't speak any Dutch. "Plattdeutsch" is a dialect spoken in the north and northwest. "Pennsylvanian Dutch" is actually incorrect and should rather be "deutsch", which means "German" and sounds for the untrained ear like "Dutch".
How different are the state constitutions? Hessen had death penalty until 2016 while the rest of Germany removed it 1945.
Oh yeah and how good the passport is? It's easy to get in (and hopefully also out again) of North Korea. Based on the friendship of East Germany with the Kims.
The constiutions of the states are next to meaningless. Every state has it's own constituition, that's true, some direct descended from older constitutions of the predecessor states of the German state. But pretty much everything that's different from the German constitution is not arguable in a court of law and they can't differ from the central tenets of the German constitution (the first 18 articles) in either way. The federal nature of the state is more on the level of several institutions and areas of law being decided by each and every state by itself. Prime examples are education, police (both in that each state has its own police force and the regulations for it (law in practise)) and holidays. From that selection you can already see that the differences can be not unremarkable but also very by the way, depending. If your friend has made different experiences in different states, I much rather think it depended on the county ordinances than on the state's laws. In the end, Germany is a federal state but not one that blindly follows laws made with sensibilities of over 200 years ago. Sorry, I can't phrase this without that dig on the US.
Germany lost it's colonies in WWI. Which led directly to the seperate German path or "Sonderweg" to concentrate on getting dominion over primarily all regions with ethnic Germans in them (ethnic German is basically a joke, by the way. Its a bit like saying that white Americans are one ethnicity) and secondarily getting new living space and ressources close to home. Sound familiar?
About the school thing: Obviously I only know how it was when I was a kid and youth and only in the two states I went to school in. In grade four the main teacher gives a recommendation and if the parents think otherwise they have the right to put the child in another category but they have to be prepared for quite a bit of discussion with the teacher and the principals of the old and new school. Testing is only ever used for a recomendation, if it happens at all. Coralling the children into the three paths at ten is controversial enough, making it dependent on a test at that age is just idiotic. And changing between the paths is possible. A child can both change over at the beginning of each school year (or even in the school year, I guess) or, in a more regular way, after each of the paths reaches its end (Hauptschule ends at 16, Gymnasium at 17 (19 when I went to school)). Of course changing is hard. Going from Hauptschule to Gymnasium might be compared to going from a school with no AP courses to one with only AP courses.
Vergangenheitsbewältigung: I'm sure you heard that germany censors... stuff about the Third Reich. But that is not really true. Obviously it is not something for smalltalk, it is for really serious talk. But we talk about it. A big part of social studies and history classes (most of the last two years of Gymnasium) is about WWII, the Third Reich and fascism. The censoring is that showing symbols of anti-constitutional organisations is not allowed outside of education and art. That even lead to symbols of the radical left with smashed Swastikas or Swastikas being thrown into trash cans being illegal, because it wasn't seen as either educational or art (that's changed now). "Mein Kampf" was never illegal in Germany, but the copyright lies with Bavaria and they didn't reprint. Owning one of the old printings would lead to raised eyebrows, but reading it to know about it is acceptable (I stopped after a few pages. It is utter shite, unreadable even if you'd ignore the madness). It is also illegal to lie about the holocaust and to belittle, dishonour, jeer or similar the crimes or victims of the Third Reich. But remembrence is everywhere. If you visit Germany, look out for brass plaques on the ground (the size of cobblestones). They're much more common in cities, though. Each commemorates someone murdered or abducted by the Nazis, with name, date and place of death and other data. They're in front of the houses the people used to live in. It is not unusual for a German to have visited Concentration Camps (I went with my class when I was ten. I can't remember a time when I didn't know what my grandparents and their generation did, but when I was there I suddenly understood. There were pictures). The members of the White Rose are national heroes with streets and schools and other named after them. Regarding Sophie Scholl, the most prominent member of the White Rose, there was a telling event just a few years ago. At a gathering of our flavour of national populists (you know them as alt-right. All the same right wingers and outright Nazis who try to relabel themselves) a woman took the stage who compered herself to Sophie Scholl, because she is a young woman who is oppressed, too (yeah, right). A security guard started telling her that she's full of shit and that he's not gonna work somewhere where shit like that is said. She started crying and ran from the stage and in the following days she became the laughing stock of the whole nation. And she got of easy, I think. How egocentric and self righteous do you have to be to think that being an asshole who won't wear a mask is comparable to being a pacifist resistance member against the Nazis who went to her own execution supremely calm, without recanting and without spewing poison against her murderers.
TL;DR We don't censor, we remember. It's just not something for smalltalk.
The basic public school types are not chosen. The kid qualifies by its semester grades by which the principle writes a recommendation for a higher education... or even lower.
Hauptschule is the very basic type of school and not well received. Realschule is the most common education. Many ppl have kind of plan. They make their kids gradute in Realschule, get a job, then let them hve jigher education on their own if desired.
That way you get life experience before age of 20 but still can aim for a higher career.
Gymnasium is preparation for university and not mandatory.
In general the differences are minor but only because Federal Law breaks State Law.
An infamous example was that in several states the death sentence was still in it.
The last state who had it in its constituition was Hessen (until 2018) . Bayern also had it until 1998.
But as the federal law prohibits such things they where never in effect anymore since 1981 where the last execution took place in the DDR.
The Thing is with school in Germany, If you missed a Higher Grade or totaly messed Up. You are everytime able to do this , even at a high age! Either you need maybe for a employing or just unhappy with that.
Well we know how we are where in our Young ages puperty time, you know 😅 ....well with that you have the Chance to Change that..at any time. 😉
Biggest difference that i noticed for laws in 40 years of being german: in lower saxony you are allowed to drink alcohol in public transportation (on paper) ^^. I really would hate to be a controller on holidays for this :D
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The main reason for why germany never had many colonies was because Otto von Bismarck activly worked against germany gaining colonies because he (for very good reasons) feared that germany gaining a lot of colonies would destabilize the power balance in europe and lead to a massive war. Which ultimatly did happen but not because of germany gaining some colonies but because of a massive destabilization of austria hungary. The entire story is quite long and complicated and filled with massive amounts of ignorance, arrogance and incompetence, but long story short, every country in europe had a faction in their government itching for war, hungary wanted to cecede from austria, austria didn't like that, Franze Ferdinand the archduke of austria got shot by a bosnian nationalist, warmongers furious, incompetence happens, world war I starts.
08:33 Well, we have.. Storms... we dont call it Tornados that often.... But there are storms that match the basic Tornados in America i belive.
The Amish speak old Swiss German with a little Palatine mixed in, not Low German. I think he made that mistake because it‘s known as Pennsylvania Dutch. But it’s not Dutch at all.
Hey, german native here 👋
About the costitutions of the different states:
Yes, every state have its own cinstitution, but the law and many other things are running by the government.
For example, until recently, the Hessian constitution still included the death penalty as a legally enforceable criminal procedure. Since Germany has a constitution that applies to all federal states and in which the death penalty is illegal throughout Germany, federal law beats state law.
So the only things who are actually runned by the "Bundesländer" (member states) are the police, the healthcaresystem and the schoolsystem.
The law and the legislation and also things like taxes are runned by the german government and are the same in all german states.
So germany is more "One state" when it comes to laws then the USA is.
Here you dont have to fear that you dont know some laws does existing in one state, but doesnt existing in another state.
German school system:
Based on the child's performance, the school makes a recommendation to the parents as to which secondary school the child should attend.
However, it is up to the parents to decide which school the child goes to later.
Could you react to geography now Romania?
Mentions Bremerhafen but totaly ignores poor Wilhelmshafen wich is also on the coast and belongs to Hamburg...
Bears went extinct a long time ago in Germany. They got all hunted down. Every now and then a bear ends up in germany while searching a new place to live but most of the times they get killed because they cause "problems". The most prominent expample for this would be the Problembär Bruno or rughly translated problematic bear Bruno. He has eaten a few sheeps and was sighted near villages so he got shot
You sit in one room with teacher and parents. Teacher tells how he thinks of you and gives a recommendation. But you decide youre self where you want go. On wich scool. If you cant make it you have to go to a scool thats " less good " and if you cant make it there you'll go more "down"... and so on. ( if you have good parents they'll let you decide ) ( if you decide wrong you'll learn from it)
And Germany really has over 25,000 castles and palaces...
Hi guys. If you are interested in your German heritage, you may want to check out the current video of the "Black Forest Family" here on YT.
I think if your grandparents come from germany. He came maybe over Bremerhaven to America. Our City.