Oh crap - sith happens when your fingers try to be quicker than your brain. Obviously I couldn't make a decision between "a fine line" or "thin ice". So I mixed it up a little. Please forgive me native English speakers...🙇♂🙇♂💛💛
Ja, wir zeigen unseren Patriotismus anders und weniger öffentlich. Seit ich als Deutsche diese ganzen Kulturvergleichskanäle abonniert habe, weiß ich mein Heimatland wesentlich mehr zu schätzen und bin mir sehr vieler Vorteile bewusst, die ich früher als selbstverständlich angesehen habe! Annie, wenn über 50% deiner Abonnenten aus Deutschland kommen, warum machst du dann nicht auch mal Videos auf deutsch? Kleine Anregung: Jasmin, eine Deutsche, die in Frankreich lebt, ( une vie frallemande) macht immer im Wechsel ein Video auf deutsch und eines auf französisch. Das würde mir auf deinem Kanal auch gefallen, wenn du mal deutsch sprichst so wie z.B. Sissi aus Atlanta und Bill aus San Diego .. und mal auf englisch so wie z.B. Feli aus Cincinnati.
Liebe Beatrix, vielen Dank für deine Kommentar ❤️ Tatsächlich habe ich schon öfter mal überlegt ein Video auf deutsch aufzunehmen! 😊 Vielleicht probiere ich es wirklich mal bei einem meiner nächsten Videos aus🤔 Lieben Dank für die Idee ❤️
🤣🤣Ich muss damit anfangen und erkläre es später: wenn man die automatische Übersetzung auf Deutsch aktiviert, lernt man, dass Anni vor zwei Jahren mit ihrer Familie *auf* *die* *Erde* gezogen ist.🤣🤣 Eigentlich wollte ich schreiben, man kann ja eben dieses Abgebot von TH-cam nutzen. Aber angesichts des Schrotts, der dabei rauskommt, ist das vielleicht nicht die allerbeste Idee. Allerdings sehe ich ein kleines Problem: dass über die Hälfte der Abonnenten aus Deutschland kommen, heisst ja nicht notwendigerweise, dass das alles Deutsch-Muttersprachler sind. Bevor man daher die Sprache komplett wechselt, wäre vielleicht eine zweite Umfrage nach der bevorzugten Sprache im Video ganz sinnvoll. Auf der anderen Seite ist die Anregung mit ab und zu wechselnder Sprache auch ganz reizvoll. So richtig interessant wäre das, wenn Anni andere TH-camr, z.B. Jenna oder Feli dazu einladen und eventuell eine ganze Reihe solch kooperativer Videos machen könnte. Ein nicht unbedeutender Nebeneffekt davon könnte dann auch sein, dass die unverdient niedrigen Abo-Zahlen einen kräftigen Schub bekommen könnten... Und ich gebe Beatrix absolut recht: auch ich weiss zum Einen viele Selbstverständlichkeiten mehr zu schätzen und entdecke Deutschland und uns Deutsche zum Anderen durch die Augen der Expats zum Teil ganz neu. Beides eine sehr zufrieden stellende Erfahrung, die auch noch Freude macht.
American here: I will say my hearing about the German wariness of national pride, the history you alluded to that contributes to that wariness, and my own interest in other countries (as well as my religious beliefs, which teach God includes people of all nations) make me wary of nationalism and somewhat critical of US norms that expect displays of national pride (such as how folks got offended when then First Lady Michelle Obama said she was proud of her country for the first time, bc many thought First Ladies should always be proud of their country). Nevertheless, there is one time I will indulge in nationalism: if I watch a TV show that isn’t American, I will think that the show needs an American character. Another display of national pride is that I plan on bringing soul food dishes to events when I go abroad. When I reply to posts in languages other than English, I sometimes do make comparisons to USA and will watch things about USA that aren’t in English, if I feel my language skills are sufficient.
My "patriotism " left town after our humiliating withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the outright lying about it in our national press. It's hard to be "patriotic" when you see the country falling apart day by day and the government tells you you're not really seeing it. On another topic what do you think of the public transit in Boston, where the trains jump off the track, catch on fire and crash into each other?
The only thing which I've found humiliating was the fact that hardly a politician in Berlin did understand how critical the situation was, despite so many experts and advisors. However since the US government stuck to an agreement made by President Trump with the Taliban, there wasn't anything left to save anymore. Neither for the Bundeswehr nor for German politicians. I'm wondering if the German peace movement or the German womens' rights movement feel satisfied by the result.
Hi Karl, till I read your comment I actually thought the public transit in Boston is decent😅 I also took the train to NYC a couple of times. It was really comftable and affordable... Now, I am not sure I want to take a train again 😳Need to do some research 🧐
@@AmericasGotGermans To be honest I have not taken a train ( or Subway) in years, so you would know better than me 🙂 I was referring to what I see on the local news. The Orange line subway trains made in China seem to have the most problems.
Clearly you are a misinformed dnfp dupe; we left the newly freed Afghanistan with the belief that the Afghan people would take over the position America and allies, cleared for them. We left behind weapons and tactics that would have allowed them to keep their country free; Unfortunately the cowards dropped these weapons and ran; like a republican! We were never meant to babysit them for-ever!
Meiner Meinung nach sind Amerikaner eher nationalistisch als patriotisch vor allem im Süden und im mittleren Westen der Staaten. Was aber jeden Morgen an den Schulen mit den Schülern veranstaltet wird gab es auch einmal in Deutschland,wie wir ja im Geschichte Unterricht gelernt hatte. Damals war ja die Farbe Braun bei uns so 'beliebt'. Deutsche sind weniger auf ihr Land sondern auf die erbrachten Leistungen stolz. Und diese Einstellung finde ich super. Btw;auf was ich besonders stolz bin,ist 'unser' Brot. Für mich das beste Lebensmittel der Welt - na ja außer einem guten Pfälzer Wein noch 😉. Gummibärchen? Ich hasse sie,darum vernichte ich sie wo immer ich sie sehe 😂. Fastnacht? Sorry Anni,aber das feiern wir in Mainz besser! Toll das du das Thema aufgegriffen hast. Habt ne schöne Woche und bleibt gesund;liebe Grüße Kelsea
Über Gummibärchen können wir gerne diskutieren😉, aber beim Thema Karneval gibt es keinen Kompromiss 😜 Jedoch muss ich zugeben, dass ich noch nie in Mainz gefeiert habe 🤔 Und ich lerne ja immer gerne dazu 😉 Eine Freundin wollte mich mal davon überzeugen, dass Karlsruhe der richtige Ort ist, um "Fasching" zu feiern. Habe ich ihr zur Liebe mal ausprobiert 😬 Ich sag mal so... Ich war nie wieder dort 😅😉Wünsche dir einen schönen Rest der Woche! Liebe Grüße
@@AmericasGotGermans Tja, der Karlsruher Fasching hat's schon ein bisschen schwer. Es gibt ihn überhaupt erst seit der Nachkriegszeit und in der näheren Umgebung hat Fasching nicht wirklich eine lange Tradition. Mainz ist da mit Sicherheit ein anderes Pflaster. Trotzdem finde ich, dass die Karlsruher nicht verzagen sollten - und sei's nur wegen dem Spass für die Kinder und einem Anlass für ein fröhliches Zusammensein. Jede Tradition hat mal klein angefangen😊
@@thatguy8869 Ouch, please forgive me for saying this, but that would be the aquivalent to a ketchup-coated tenderloin steak! Gummibears (and I dare to claim esp. the white ones - even though I know I might start a cultural war over this😉😎) are fine the way they are, thank you - don't change a winning team...
I would say that I'm proud of Germany as my home country to the degree of having contributed to what it is. It's not nothing. However not much enough to run around celebrating it all the time. My patriotism is more appreciative: I appreciate the political society we've become after WWII. That we've managed the reunification quite successfully. That we're living up quite well to the values of pluralism, freedom, solidarity and democracy to name a few. My patriotism is split into several pieces: Europe, Germany, Baden-Württemberg and even a little bit for Vorarlberg/Austria. We shouldn't feel ashamed about the past. Particularly not the generations born after 1945. It's just not helpful for anyone. We should know our history, all of it - the pleasant parts and the ugly parts. To make us pay attention to what's happening around us and to understand it better. It's for our own good and that of our neighbours. And that's another part of my patriotism: being enormously grateful for Germany being surrounded by good friends.
What the US fetish with stars and stripes shows is nationalism, not pride. The pledge of allegiance perfectly would match into the GDR, not into a modern democracy. Furthermore, every Gerann knows the word Lokalpatriot. Gerann patriotism is local.
It's true that every German knows local patriotism 😀We're from Cologne and I don't think any other city in Germany has so many songs about the feeling of home, friendships and togetherness. I don't often get homesick, but I do when I hear some of my favorite songs about Cologne.
Ooohhhh - you're walking a *very* thin line with your insinuations at the start of the video. Though I totally agree with you that the tools, speach used and the attempted insurrection bear some gruesome similarities with the third and fourth decade of the last century in our common home country. But an American audience might not respond that well to that comparison. Just saying... A big reason for the missing open view pride in our country might also be that an overly felt patriotism not only caused WWII (in fact or at least to my knowledge of history the German population was pretty much tired of war initially and had to be "convinced" by a well tuned propaganda machine and the highlighting of already established prejudices to accept it - but then went in it with, well, gusto you might say disgustedly - dark pun intended). It was also the reason for it's predecessor and the war of 1870/71 with France. So in retrospective you might say we Germans finally learned what dangers and most of all what possible loss of lives can accompany this kind of national pride. So we became very careful and, as you said, show our pride at international sports events at best. Speaking for myself I concur with the last statement of the young lady. I'd expand it to the fact that we did quite well as a country and as a society the last decades. But this doesn't lead me to feeling a "due or die" kind of pride in my country. My last point is that I'm not *that* surprised of the numbers you showed. Though I don't know the poll and support Churchill's sentiment about statistics, the numbers would make sense as a trend, at least. 2020 was not that difficult for Germany. France (PM Macron at least) had some problems, the UK was totally devided by their PM and the Brexit. And I'm sure that one or two Americans might remember what happenend in 2020 and the four years leading up to that date. So basically those numbers make some sense for me... All in all a very good and for some certainly educational video. Well done, Anni. And sorry, I just can subscribe once..😎🖖💛💛
A little known fact perhaps is that in the United States, US flags are flown by people who come from other parts of the world and want passersby to know they love the USA in case anyone might doubt their loyalty because of national origin.
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I am also curious to hear your thought on this hot topic! Can’t wait to read your comments 😊 Thank YOU for being here today!❤
Oh crap - sith happens when your fingers try to be quicker than your brain. Obviously I couldn't make a decision between "a fine line" or "thin ice". So I mixed it up a little. Please forgive me native English speakers...🙇♂🙇♂💛💛
🤣No worries! I got it anyways 😊 AND I am an expert in mixing up things and speaking Genglish as you might have noticed by now 😅
Ja, wir zeigen unseren Patriotismus anders und weniger öffentlich. Seit ich als Deutsche diese ganzen Kulturvergleichskanäle abonniert habe, weiß ich mein Heimatland wesentlich mehr zu schätzen und bin mir sehr vieler Vorteile bewusst, die ich früher als selbstverständlich angesehen habe!
Annie, wenn über 50% deiner Abonnenten aus Deutschland kommen, warum machst du dann nicht auch mal Videos auf deutsch?
Kleine Anregung: Jasmin, eine Deutsche, die in Frankreich lebt, ( une vie frallemande) macht immer im Wechsel ein Video auf deutsch und eines auf französisch. Das würde mir auf deinem Kanal auch gefallen, wenn du mal deutsch sprichst so wie z.B. Sissi aus Atlanta und Bill aus San Diego .. und mal auf englisch so wie z.B. Feli aus Cincinnati.
Liebe Beatrix, vielen Dank für deine Kommentar ❤️ Tatsächlich habe ich schon öfter mal überlegt ein Video auf deutsch aufzunehmen! 😊 Vielleicht probiere ich es wirklich mal bei einem meiner nächsten Videos aus🤔 Lieben Dank für die Idee ❤️
🤣🤣Ich muss damit anfangen und erkläre es später: wenn man die automatische Übersetzung auf Deutsch aktiviert, lernt man, dass Anni vor zwei Jahren mit ihrer Familie *auf* *die* *Erde* gezogen ist.🤣🤣
Eigentlich wollte ich schreiben, man kann ja eben dieses Abgebot von TH-cam nutzen. Aber angesichts des Schrotts, der dabei rauskommt, ist das vielleicht nicht die allerbeste Idee. Allerdings sehe ich ein kleines Problem: dass über die Hälfte der Abonnenten aus Deutschland kommen, heisst ja nicht notwendigerweise, dass das alles Deutsch-Muttersprachler sind. Bevor man daher die Sprache komplett wechselt, wäre vielleicht eine zweite Umfrage nach der bevorzugten Sprache im Video ganz sinnvoll.
Auf der anderen Seite ist die Anregung mit ab und zu wechselnder Sprache auch ganz reizvoll. So richtig interessant wäre das, wenn Anni andere TH-camr, z.B. Jenna oder Feli dazu einladen und eventuell eine ganze Reihe solch kooperativer Videos machen könnte. Ein nicht unbedeutender Nebeneffekt davon könnte dann auch sein, dass die unverdient niedrigen Abo-Zahlen einen kräftigen Schub bekommen könnten...
Und ich gebe Beatrix absolut recht: auch ich weiss zum Einen viele Selbstverständlichkeiten mehr zu schätzen und entdecke Deutschland und uns Deutsche zum Anderen durch die Augen der Expats zum Teil ganz neu. Beides eine sehr zufrieden stellende Erfahrung, die auch noch Freude macht.
American here: I will say my hearing about the German wariness of national pride, the history you alluded to that contributes to that wariness, and my own interest in other countries (as well as my religious beliefs, which teach God includes people of all nations) make me wary of nationalism and somewhat critical of US norms that expect displays of national pride (such as how folks got offended when then First Lady Michelle Obama said she was proud of her country for the first time, bc many thought First Ladies should always be proud of their country).
Nevertheless, there is one time I will indulge in nationalism: if I watch a TV show that isn’t American, I will think that the show needs an American character.
Another display of national pride is that I plan on bringing soul food dishes to events when I go abroad.
When I reply to posts in languages other than English, I sometimes do make comparisons to USA and will watch things about USA that aren’t in English, if I feel my language skills are sufficient.
Thank you for stopping by and sharing your thoughts!
Patriotism is an important part. Americans and French have a strong patriotism. I personally like it
My "patriotism " left town after our humiliating withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the outright lying about it in our national press. It's hard to be "patriotic" when you see the country falling apart day by day and the government tells you you're not really seeing it. On another topic what do you think of the public transit in Boston, where the trains jump off the track, catch on fire and crash into each other?
The only thing which I've found humiliating was the fact that hardly a politician in Berlin did understand how critical the situation was, despite so many experts and advisors.
However since the US government stuck to an agreement made by President Trump with the Taliban, there wasn't anything left to save anymore. Neither for the Bundeswehr nor for German politicians.
I'm wondering if the German peace movement or the German womens' rights movement feel satisfied by the result.
Hi Karl, till I read your comment I actually thought the public transit in Boston is decent😅 I also took the train to NYC a couple of times. It was really comftable and affordable... Now, I am not sure I want to take a train again 😳Need to do some research 🧐
@@AmericasGotGermans To be honest I have not taken a train ( or Subway) in years, so you would know better than me 🙂 I was referring to what I see on the local news. The Orange line subway trains made in China seem to have the most problems.
Sooooo you were in favor of throwing away more $ and American lives on that republican quagmire? Clearly you are not an American citizen!
Clearly you are a misinformed dnfp dupe; we left the newly freed Afghanistan with the belief that the Afghan people would take over the position America and allies, cleared for them. We left behind weapons and tactics that would have allowed them to keep their country free; Unfortunately the cowards dropped these weapons and ran; like a republican! We were never meant to babysit them for-ever!
Meiner Meinung nach sind Amerikaner eher nationalistisch als patriotisch vor allem im Süden und im mittleren Westen der Staaten. Was aber jeden Morgen an den Schulen mit den Schülern veranstaltet wird gab es auch einmal in Deutschland,wie wir ja im Geschichte Unterricht gelernt hatte. Damals war ja die Farbe Braun bei uns so 'beliebt'. Deutsche sind weniger auf ihr Land sondern auf die erbrachten Leistungen stolz. Und diese Einstellung finde ich super. Btw;auf was ich besonders stolz bin,ist 'unser' Brot. Für mich das beste Lebensmittel der Welt - na ja außer einem guten Pfälzer Wein noch 😉. Gummibärchen? Ich hasse sie,darum vernichte ich sie wo immer ich sie sehe 😂. Fastnacht? Sorry Anni,aber das feiern wir in Mainz besser! Toll das du das Thema aufgegriffen hast. Habt ne schöne Woche und bleibt gesund;liebe Grüße Kelsea
Über Gummibärchen können wir gerne diskutieren😉, aber beim Thema Karneval gibt es keinen Kompromiss 😜 Jedoch muss ich zugeben, dass ich noch nie in Mainz gefeiert habe 🤔 Und ich lerne ja immer gerne dazu 😉 Eine Freundin wollte mich mal davon überzeugen, dass Karlsruhe der richtige Ort ist, um "Fasching" zu feiern. Habe ich ihr zur Liebe mal ausprobiert 😬 Ich sag mal so... Ich war nie wieder dort 😅😉Wünsche dir einen schönen Rest der Woche! Liebe Grüße
@@AmericasGotGermans Tja, der Karlsruher Fasching hat's schon ein bisschen schwer. Es gibt ihn überhaupt erst seit der Nachkriegszeit und in der näheren Umgebung hat Fasching nicht wirklich eine lange Tradition. Mainz ist da mit Sicherheit ein anderes Pflaster.
Trotzdem finde ich, dass die Karlsruher nicht verzagen sollten - und sei's nur wegen dem Spass für die Kinder und einem Anlass für ein fröhliches Zusammensein. Jede Tradition hat mal klein angefangen😊
Perhaps you would prefer chocolate-covered Gummi Bears(?)
@@thatguy8869 Ouch, please forgive me for saying this, but that would be the aquivalent to a ketchup-coated tenderloin steak! Gummibears (and I dare to claim esp. the white ones - even though I know I might start a cultural war over this😉😎) are fine the way they are, thank you - don't change a winning team...
Mit Gummibärchen habe ich mal versucht das Rauchen aufzugeben, aber die brannten so schlecht.😅 Pfälzer Riesling 😋
I would say that I'm proud of Germany as my home country to the degree of having contributed to what it is. It's not nothing. However not much enough to run around celebrating it all the time.
My patriotism is more appreciative: I appreciate the political society we've become after WWII. That we've managed the reunification quite successfully. That we're living up quite well to the values of pluralism, freedom, solidarity and democracy to name a few.
My patriotism is split into several pieces: Europe, Germany, Baden-Württemberg and even a little bit for Vorarlberg/Austria.
We shouldn't feel ashamed about the past. Particularly not the generations born after 1945. It's just not helpful for anyone. We should know our history, all of it - the pleasant parts and the ugly parts. To make us pay attention to what's happening around us and to understand it better. It's for our own good and that of our neighbours. And that's another part of my patriotism: being enormously grateful for Germany being surrounded by good friends.
Well said ❤️ Thank you for leaving a comment!
If you don't support our flag, go support yours
What the US fetish with stars and stripes shows is nationalism, not pride. The pledge of allegiance perfectly would match into the GDR, not into a modern democracy. Furthermore, every Gerann knows the word Lokalpatriot. Gerann patriotism is local.
It's true that every German knows local patriotism 😀We're from Cologne and I don't think any other city in Germany has so many songs about the feeling of home, friendships and togetherness. I don't often get homesick, but I do when I hear some of my favorite songs about Cologne.
4/20/24 Here in Anerica; thanks to the commie-red; cap cultists patritism is in short supply!
Ooohhhh - you're walking a *very* thin line with your insinuations at the start of the video. Though I totally agree with you that the tools, speach used and the attempted insurrection bear some gruesome similarities with the third and fourth decade of the last century in our common home country. But an American audience might not respond that well to that comparison. Just saying...
A big reason for the missing open view pride in our country might also be that an overly felt patriotism not only caused WWII (in fact or at least to my knowledge of history the German population was pretty much tired of war initially and had to be "convinced" by a well tuned propaganda machine and the highlighting of already established prejudices to accept it - but then went in it with, well, gusto you might say disgustedly - dark pun intended). It was also the reason for it's predecessor and the war of 1870/71 with France. So in retrospective you might say we Germans finally learned what dangers and most of all what possible loss of lives can accompany this kind of national pride. So we became very careful and, as you said, show our pride at international sports events at best. Speaking for myself I concur with the last statement of the young lady. I'd expand it to the fact that we did quite well as a country and as a society the last decades. But this doesn't lead me to feeling a "due or die" kind of pride in my country.
My last point is that I'm not *that* surprised of the numbers you showed. Though I don't know the poll and support Churchill's sentiment about statistics, the numbers would make sense as a trend, at least. 2020 was not that difficult for Germany. France (PM Macron at least) had some problems, the UK was totally devided by their PM and the Brexit. And I'm sure that one or two Americans might remember what happenend in 2020 and the four years leading up to that date. So basically those numbers make some sense for me...
All in all a very good and for some certainly educational video. Well done, Anni. And sorry, I just can subscribe once..😎🖖💛💛
A little known fact perhaps is that in the United States, US flags are flown by people who come from other parts of the world and want passersby to know they love the USA in case anyone might doubt their loyalty because of national origin.