I agree!!!! And I change this sentece a little bit: The best possible education is the best you can spent your children for their life!!! Surely combined with best possible behaviour and self confidence given with love and respect!
@@Mrdinomist What you know today as "education" all traces back to the Catholic church. The first universities and centres of learning were Catholic. Some of the best most elite schools today are Catholic.
if you want to educate yourself about german culture by music a little bit more i recommend "Null positiv" espacely the songs Friss dich auf and Wo rauch ist ist auch feuer, the band "Hämatom" made in Germany, "Nachtblut" Lied für die Götter and many more.. oh and for relaxing matters maybe Faun, any song :)
Are you kidding? The U.S. is awesome! Where else in the world can you go to study a nation with nuclear weapons on the brink of civil war??!!! Maybe we'll turn our nation into a radio active sandbox while Putin just smiles, and sighs....
Ukrainians also have a free education but we aren't wealthy. Because of corruption and Russia. Please help us to fight them, give militaries and consult us in issues of corruption. We have no other option but to ask for help.
And a prerequisite for a good free education is taxes paid by all the citizens who can pay for them. I am sick and tired of Italians justifying tax evasion.
Hi, I'm Brazilian and I've been living in Germany for 1 year and 8 months. I agree one hundred percent with you. When you talk about corruption, it's clear to me that it's not just a matter of politicians being honest. The population also needs to be. In several plantations around Munich, I saw the products displayed for sale without anyone present. You choose what you want to buy and deposit the money in a box beside it. And it's not a safe, just a plain wooden box. I'm subscribed to your channel and I find the videos funny and sometimes educational :)
That's fascinating that Germany excels in niche markets and has so many of them! Archery is a hobby of mine and Beiter is considered the "top of the line" when it comes to certain components! And my daughter is big into aquariums and she often tells me that Germany makes the best aquarium products! Very fascinating!
A well known bow manufacturer here in Rhineland-Palatinate is Horst Perk in Weibern in the Eifel. His manufactury goes by the name "Bogenbautradition".
I only truly started to understand the scale as well as the significance during university. I studied chemistry and material sciences and we often would have guest speakers that produced some boring ass thing one usually doesn't think twice about and that doesn't even have a high price tag to it. However all those companies were producing for a global market and were often the sole or one of very few producers. This made me change the way i look at opportunities to make money as it really isn't in the big shiny things like sports cars, airplanes and their likes, but e.g. a component for glue used in pretty much every house construction around the world, or some small plastic component that is used in every modern piping system around the world. Things that were just replaceable small stuff i wouldn't have thought twice about seeing them everywhere suddenly became a lot more interesting and I started to appreciate the engineering that has gone even into something as mundain as a plastic water bottle or nylon socks
The Mittelstand is often spoken of in Germany and it employs about 60% of German workers. In NJ small businesses with < 100 employ 49.8%. The amount of economic specialization in today's economies is phenomenal. Many overlook this because people often overlook the mundane. In general, the real reason is that people get up and go to work and they make their lives better for themselves, their families, their children collectively resulting in this emergent order of our relatively prosperous societies.
Greetings from India 🇮🇳 Brother i am literally jealous for not being born in Deutschland 🇩🇪 Your Education is free & high quality, Healthcare is excellent..... You have learnt from your history and left all those obsolete mindset back, Excellent luxury car brands, No speed limit on Autobahn, 4th Largest economy of world, 3rd Largest exporter, 2nd on Net import & Export almost 297 billion dollars trade surplus....... Your Lucky to be in Deutschland 🇩🇪 brother...... ✌️✌️
I was Born here and want to move, bit honestly, Not to many countries. You Always Look to Kind of similar countries when moving, e.g. Netherlands, UK, Australia. I wouldnt Go to India or similar countries by the way. But i get your Point Buddy.
@@reneyourlife A guy who is born in one of the most prosperous nation will never understand that. I am not an Indian but my country is full of mess and problems. You should be proud of your nation
@@sandychacko2275 India could be a prosperous nation by this time but Indians ruined it. Of course Pakistan and the British Empire have a role in it but Indians as well.
Germany is a beautiful country with great scientific achievements and admirable culture. I visited a couple of times and I hope I will go there soon again:) Love from Poland:)
whoever came up with the idea of "Mittelstand" was a genius. As an engineer myself I can tell you that, no matter the industry, if you search enough you will find out the sole best product in that industry is "Made in Germany". and yes the device on my profile picture sure is a German-made Gossen Metrawatt.
Great Vid, although Hitler wasn't actually voted into power, he had a minority : " In July 1932, the peak of the Nazis’ electoral reach, they won 37% of the vote, while 35% went to the Socialist and Communist parties. By November 1932, the tables had turned. The Nazis won 32% of the vote, but the combined total for Socialists and Communists was 36.8%. In the last election before Hitler’s appointment as Chancellor, his party was losing ground!" So it was the Bourgeoisie who named him chancellor because the rich fear the left more than fascists, fascists keep the rich, rich and make the poor kill each-other. But the US did vote Trump for président...
Hola. Uno de los mejores videos explicados sobre Alemania, una nacion que construyo un balance, economico y social excelente. Modelo a seguir muchas compañias medianas evitan la corrupcion. We are from so far different parts of the world, but i send you love and light. 😊
Many American's think taxes in Germany are very high. But, at least with income tax, I pay more income tax in the US than I would in Germany. Which is crazy because of all the services you receive in Germany.
As an austrian I tell you, that our taxes are nearly the same as in germany! I'm more than only content with this systeme!!! We ALL pay taxes, no matter if we need something special right now, but this is the best social system for everybody! Some need more healthcare, some less...just for example! If I loose my job for any reason I still know how to pay my apt and when I retire I still get money monthly, I payed for it within all my working years with my taxes! There is also a so called "generationenvertrag"! Working people pays with a part of their taxes the retire money for the olders...and so on! We have no socialistic system, I am proud we have a social system!
6:20 Niemiec can be translated to “niemy”that is unarticulated but in a way “don’t talk” or “don’t talk in our language”. Also, can be translated to “nie my” (with space) that means “not one of ours people”. :) Slavs were calling Niemiec everyone who was coming from West but it stayed with Germans for ever. :)
Not everyone coming from "West". To the Northeast Slavic-speaking tribes, there were only one people westward of them, Germans, and they called them "nemcu/i" meaning people who don't speak our language. Similarly, the term "Slavic" comes from "slovo" meaning "speech" i.e. "people who speak like us". Romans weren't called Nemcu, they were a distinct nation, south of Europe since way before both Slavic and Germanic tribes came around. In the old days, culture meant language, not ethnicity. As long as you speak the language, you are one of them. In that sense, both Slavic and Germanic are linguistic terms, not ethnic groups.
@@ilovecoffee7623 How do you know Romans existed before Germanics and Slavs? The Roman's were an organized polity but that doesn't mean the Slavs and Germanics didn't exist.
Living in Germany for almost 10 years now, and coming from Italy, I would add that I feel Germans have a great sens of State and community, if something is public here it belongs to everyone, in Italy something public belongs to none.
I would be very happy for you if your project becomes more than just a wish. my recommendation for a visit are the Federal States of "Bavaria" or "Baden-Württemberg". Both Federal States are in southern Germany. I wish you and your Family a merry christmas 😊🎄. Greetings from the mountainous and castle-rich southwest of Germany "Baden-Württemberg" 😉.
If you want a cheaper trip to something like Germany, move to california or canada. california is similar to germany in regards to how expensive housing is, canada is just... the people. They're quite european. Germany is pretty much fornias housing/living expenses, canadian "govern me harder, daddy" plus a shitload of beaurocracy. Sure it's nice to visit, but living here can be... exhausting. to some degree. Sure, if you "do it by the book", the welfare system will keep you from living on the streets, but at the same time it will take any penny out of your pocket. Comparing your gross income to the life you get for it, you are living much more comfortable in the US. a miniscule 200sqft appartment (loud neighbors included) will cost you 400€ at least. A "decent" appartment will often cost 1500€ and more, which is about half if not 2/3 of your net income. No, that is not mortgage, that is just rent. To BUY even a small appartment you will need to spend about a quarter million, often more than half a million, resulting in mortgage rates of 2500€ or more / month. If you can sqeeze even 3000€ net income out of your job you can allready call yourself lucky. Managing to save up 50k€ alone will take half a life time for most germans. Oh, and be warned: everyone is going to stare. Especially when you open your mouth and just a single english word passes your lips.
WTF...Do we live in a differnet germany? haha.I am 25 have no debts , a falt /54qm) ,car ...wife.... maybe you should overthink if you are qualified enough to work in germany,if you get paid so bad.....you can always move back .. Also if you live in bavaria...you are not in germany ...
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10 mins video 👏🏻. I was constantly checking it to see how much time it had left. Man, thanks. You are a great entertainer and it must be really cool to talk with you, especially about German culture.
Glad you enjoyed it! As a German i can't really appreciate my own culture too much (except for the bread culture haha), I'm, really fascinated by Japanese culture though
Omg, my friend you nailed it at the end! And this.... Now you go tell your country why isn’t education free in your country. Because here in America they like people to stay stupid 👍🏽
Although I am European and I love the EU, I don't think the US is that bad. There are pros and cons between Germany and US, like with everything else in life. There is a lot more safety nets and social security in Germany, but a lot more opportunities and money to be made in America. I think it ultimately boils down to, what you want in life
The conservative UK govt (it was in a coalition with a left-centre party that was weak af) made it compulsory for students to pay yearly tuition fees, the cheapest £9.5k, that's on top of accomodation, transport, food, utilities.. then a few years later we had brexit and with all the problems we face now, we still have some that rather see the "economy tank" (collapse) than to be part of EU.. noone told us they were planning to let raw sewage into our waters because of chemical shortages.. Education really is the path to progress, especially having some critical thinking skills.. kudos to Germany for looking after its people so well, please do not privatise education, EVER. ☮️
One of the smartest students in my class was German. He said he was Average back in his country. US education fell when we poured in too many immigrants at once.
I'm a German... But you just told me facts about this country I didn't know! Should rather watch your videos than going to university - your videos are really for free hehe :D and very well done!!
Great Vid, although Hitler wasn't actually voted into power, he had a minority : " In July 1932, the peak of the Nazis’ electoral reach, they won 37% of the vote, while 35% went to the Socialist and Communist parties. By November 1932, the tables had turned. The Nazis won 32% of the vote, but the combined total for Socialists and Communists was 36.8%. In the last election before Hitler’s appointment as Chancellor, his party was losing ground!" So it was the Bourgeoisie who named him chancellor because the rich fear the left more than fascists, fascists keep the rich, rich and make the poor kill each-other. The US... they actually DID vote Trump for président
There is something like a female version, but it does different content. The video of her cleaning up the room or visiting Japan is super weird. She has been living in Berlin for 1 year now. Oh yeah, her channel is called Naomi Jon. But there are a lot of very good comedians in Germany, but the problem is that people from abroad don't understand German. And comedians like Torsten Sträter play with language
'Bout Slavics way to call Germans: No one ever told me it's because Germans don't talk much, but because we can't understand what the hell are they saying 😂
but in the most language one word is allways the same IDIOT ...in english in russian in italian ind polish , in tschech .....hHAHAH idiota IN GERMAN STILL idiot ITS THE MOST INTERNATIONAL WORD I THINK
@@kaworunagisa4009 Maybe I should have use *couldn't instead of "can't" 'cause in my country we actually learn German in schools and there's also a lot of German words because of influence. And yes, it (I mean, that we can't understand) doesn't sound good at first but after thinking about it, it's basically hard to understand different language family :'D
When I was living in China, at one point I needed to replace my window. We went to this area specialized in home construction parts (doors, lamps, windows etc.) and my eyes nearly popped out when it turned out many of the window-sellers were selling German windows. Mind you, this area wasn't specialized in high-end, imported products or anything. Anyway, I got myself a German window back then. The workers were super efficient and installed it in just a few hours.
After training for opera for years in the USA my friends went to Germany to get jobs. Even moderately sized cities have opera companies and the jobs are considered municipal jobs with benefits, paid vacations and pensions. In the USA by contrast most singers struggle to make ends meet and have to have a day job to get by. Also tickets to the opera are very reasonably priced and there is even free standing room for students and other people on a budget
In Russia we have free school education. After the school you have two ways in Russia: 1. You pass the exams with high results and the state pays your education 2. You pass the exams with average or low results and you need to pay the education. Pretty fair in my opinion 🤷♂️
How is this fair? It’s the standard way how winners and losers are treated, though. Those who could use some help don’t get it for free, those who already made it this far get all the free stuff.
@@EISERMANN80 I would love to agree with you, but there is a problem : how to deal with mediocrity? While I understand that there is people that will accomplish great things with a little bit of help here and there, there are also sneaky little rats tying to get the good stuff with little to none effort. We shouldn't cast our pearls before swine...nor we should throw resources to people that do not deserve them because that will also not be fair to taxpayers and to the people who is really putting in the effort.?
I am a historian from Croatia, and all I can say is: "Gott mit uns!". Fantastic country, interesting history with ups and downs, lessons learnd and still moving forward in such a remarkable way. Greetings disciplined, hardworking and kind hearted people of Germany!
2:08 It's actually illegal to clean your car yourself in Germany because the cleaning liquid can harm the environment, so you have to go to a professional car wash.
Gavrilo Princip who killed archduke franz ferdinand was not a bosnian terrorist. He was a serbian nationalist who lived in bosnia-herzigova. And he didn’t kill archduke in serbia, but in Sarajevo.
I went to Heidelberg for 40 minutes. 35 minutes in the castle! 5 minutes for petrol. Then.. next castle! Ludwigsburg Schloss and its beautiful porcelain collection. 3 nights, 5 schloss, 3 car factories. Woohoo!
The best thing I learned from this video was that Tetra fish food is German! Had no idea! (Oh and that part about beir and brot better than USA, I will give you that one😀)
Germany has about 20,000 castles, the majority of them in poor repair now. If that sounds excessive, realize that during most of its history it was a patchwork of over 300 rival semi-independent principalities, nominally loyal to the emperor, that ranged from pretentious glorified city states (sometimes even actual formal city states like the Free Imperial Cities; Hamburg is still a city-state) to sizable kingdoms in their own right like Bavaria and Prussia. But even so that averages to around 70 castles per kingdom. It makes a fun place for modern visitors, though it's clear a lot of resources were spent that could have been put to better use for society in general. But think of it from a royal perspective. "Up there on the hill overlooking our capital is the fortress that my ancestors moved into sometime around when written records started being kept. Of course it's been enlarged a few times as building styles changed, and refortified after a couple of sieges. The real improvements came when the townspeople rose up with the peasants during that whole Martin Luther debacle. I'm happy to report that our family stronghold is now quite torchproof and pitchforkproof. Really came in handy in keeping out the Swedes during that whole Thirty Years War thing. The cousins weren't quite so lucky, but the ones who survived can keep their little fortresses and amuse themselves with jousting and gardening or whatever as long as they don't get any ideas like the great great uncle who thought his branch of the family should take the throne after that whole succession crisis in something hundred and something. The whole kingdom almost reverted to Catholicism, and now we have that whole Edict of Toleration thing going on so we make sure to build a Lutheran church next door to any Catholic church just to make sure nothing looks unbalanced and the peasants don't revolt. Again. And then you have to be really careful who you marry so you don't trigger any suspicion that you're going to change the policy. Anywho, I've still got a couple of dozen knightly retainers who have their little castles their great great whatever grandparents obtained with the minor noble titles they got in exchange for their pledges of fealty to my exalted forebears. We've still technically got the oaths, but more importantly the cost of running their households has them constantly hanging around begging to be of service so that they can get something out of the privy purse. Keeps them in my pocket in case the cousins feel up to something again. We still have a few other castles that we built to secure the major trade routes, collect taxes, protect the royal treasuries, etc. Fortunately a few of them came in handy in fighting off the Turks. We had to abandon a couple and start over when the course of the river shifted and the location was kind of rendered useless. A few burnt down and we did a half assed job of rebuilding them. The French took out a couple with artillery during that whole War of the Whatever Succession (I can't keep track of all of them.) So we just abandoned those because obviously they're no good anymore with all these firearms proliferating. Better to spend the money on defense in depth for the garrison towns that are in better shape now. So in any case things have settled down with the locals enough, and we really need to show how modern and prosperous we are, and there just isn't room to host all the artists and intellectuals that befit the glory of our kingdom behind those old walls, and there isn't really room on the hilltop for expansion, and it's just so old fashioned and unsightly, and have you seen what King Louis's got now? So we built a new royal residence down on the edge of town, and rearranged the town square around it with an opera house, a museum, and some nice new office buildings for the various ministries and the royal archives. There's a whole new wing with accommodations for the imperial court. With any luck the Emperor will remember what Dad did for him during that whole Siege of Vienna, and will remember me when it gets time to appoint the chancellorship and access to the Privy Purse. Speaking of Dad he got some weird delusions of grandeur after coming back from the war, and decided the capital just wasn't good enough for him, so he went off to one of his favorite vacation spots outside of town, renamed it Dadsburg, and proceeded to bring in some foreigners to design an entire city from scratch around his new palace. So everyone had to up and leave for the new town and pretend to like it while everything was under construction. So impractical. Admittedly it looks pretty good now, but it's a little dated, so 80's (1680's that is.). Not a bad vacation spot now, except it's all gloomy now that stepmom lives there after dad died. So anyhow we moved everything back to the old capital once the renovation project was far enough along. I'm going to leave my stamp on this city, and no Frenchie or Italian can say anything but wow about the new palace square. It's in the most sophisticated taste possible, and I spared no expense in getting the best painters and decorators to magnify my exalted self in the allegorical stuff all over the place. Though even with the new private rooms things get a bit old with all the courtly ceremonies. Lever, Coucher, a monarch's work is never done. Can't a royal person get a little privacy in his privy chamber now and again? So we expanded the summer residence outside the city to be able to hold the whole court for a few months. Very airy and nice for the hot season. And away from all those townies. The commoners smell a bit ripe in the heat, don't you know. There's even a few maisons de plaisance in the gardens where I can go meditate and commune with nature and with some visitors undisturbed, if you know what I mean. Wink wink nudge nudge. Speaking of which I had to build a nice private place for my mistress when I found out she was pregnant so she could raise the kid away from prying eyes. It's conveniently located so I can visit it discreetly during some of my hunting trips. I inherited a couple of hunting lodges around the country and had to renovate them a bit to keep them up to snuff. Gave one of the old ones to my ex mistress, way out in the boonies so she understands not to pester me at court anymore. I built a new place for my current on again/off again mistress and her husband nearby the main residence. That way I can visit when I send him off on diplomatic missions and nobody will think twice about it. Of course with all this going on I can't let my wife feel neglected. I built a whole nice little villa for her after the birth of our first child, because I know she likes Italy. So she and her ladies in waiting or whoever can have their little girly parties there and everyone keeps the peace in the household. I'm only allowed to visit by invitation, and everyone is happy with that. How many castles is that? I've lost track. That's why we keep accountants I guess. Anyway, I'm exhausted from keeping track of all this. I've commissioned the royal architect to build a new palace where I can retire, out by one of the nice monasteries or a university or something. I can put the students to work on my gardening ideas or sorting the royal rock collection or whatever while I read some of those newfangled novels. I've been curious what the women are all giggling about with their noses in a book all day long. Not traditional psalters I'll tell you what! What can I say, it's good to be the king." And thus we inherit a built environment largely shaped by the whims and needs of aristocrats shaping the material conditions of their times around their self-perceived interests. It's much more fun enjoying them from a remove of a few hundred years than it was living with the actual inhabitants.
Of course there is corruption here. Especially with the CDU / CSU party. But it works a little differently. If the politicians pass certain laws through parliament for the companies, they will get high-paying jobs at these companies a few years later. Or consulting jobs in which they don't have to do anything. This has been going on for many years, especially with the transport minister, economics minister, agriculture minister, previously with the defense minister and some young politicians who are only in politics because they are bought.
Thanks for producing your videos in English...makes it so much easier to watch 👍...and danke for your genuine honesty in answering those questions make us curious 🤔
The main reason for me as a German never considering moving to the US is that whenever people are shot in Germany, it is one of the worst days of the year. For US-citizens, that would be tuesday.
As a brazilian that is interested in visit germany. I would say that I'm very surprised with the number of castles. Probably I'll visit some of them and check if the german bier is really good :)
Go to Munich or so to check out the beer up in the upper part of Germany there are some weird flavored beer I recommend "Augustiner Helles" or "Tegernsee Helles"
I actually find it impressive that germany does so well in so many categories in an international comparison, when you consider how much money our politicians sometimes waste.
You make people fall in love with your country. I am from Latin America I I won't never speak German. Your sounds are impossible !!!!!! I am grateful you speak English. I don't like translations. Thank you young man for your work.
The etymology of Deutschland blew my mind. I never knew that before and I've been there so many times! Great vid also. Do a new years in Berlin video? The fireworks there are amazing and plentiful. I only got shot in the back once ;)
I think the successful country does not exist. The entire world is still very primitive and clumsy. Just that Germany is less primitive and clumsy than the rest, but it is.
On the castles: I think we can all agree on Neuschwanstein being the most famous one, but #2 is not that easy. Being from Eastern Germany, I had never heard of the Heidelberg castle actually. There Wartburg is probably the famost famous one. And I also want a party castle! Can I rent a room in yours? :D
I just love your videos man! You have an amazing style of narration. I hope your channel gets more and more love and support. It is underrated. Love from India.
Fun fact: The United States Marine Corps adopted the Bulldog as its mascot after World War I. According to tradition, the Marines fought so fiercely in the battle of Belleau Wood in France that the Germans called them “teufel hunden” after the devil dogs from Bavarian folklore. The nickname “devil dogs” stuck.
I drive by Belleau wood sometimes (I'm French and there is a British and Italian military cemetery less than a km away) something you aught to know is there were many such battles in WW1, belleau not being any special except it was Americans, and as you weren't destroyed you could do PR. When I did my garden I found bits of bomb and bones... all north-eastern France was destroyed
Germany is successful because it's pragmatic, intelligent, smart-working (not necessarily HARD working) and has a high regard for quality in what it produces.
„Why should you get a car that drives 200km/h or more, but you can’t actually use it?“ I strongly agree. This is one of the greatest things about Germany. I always wondered tho why the other countries are so stuck up about their speed limits
@@madmaggs4305 Maggs, you're not looking at the whole picture here. Imagine if we removed all the speed limits, in a few months we will be left with nothing but good drivers. Maybe we should just let it fix itself.
A lot of people don't get German humor...but man I love it... it is so deliciously dry, so ...bizarre at times, sometimes even social awkward... with a special place for fecal humor jokes... man... I love it... its great! I am Czech btw... so ... you know..we have history together.
Quote: "But the US is the best " - Big laughter when looking at crime rates, the number of repeat offenders, democratic voting results (not a federal state counts, but every personal vote), medical bills, study costs and so on while sitting in the car, having had a beer and enjoyed a good bread and so on drives at 186 MpH (300 km / h) on the motorway. But we don't believe that we are the best, there are many other good countries in the world - and we really like the USA and we count them among the good states, but that the USA are the best - by no means.
Slavic countries like Poland call you „Niemcy” as you said - mute people, not because you don’t speak much, but because your language is so different from any other Slavic languages and Slavic people couldn’t communicate with Germans.
In Portuguese we call u all alemanha, most of romantic idioms call your country something like that alemagna in french so on. It's because of Alamos a kind of three in your country.
Wie gehts Brudder? I loved this video. There are many things that you addressed that's on point, and my favorite part pertains to education. On Reddit, I posted a question regarding Humboldt University. It's VERY cheap for a non-German to study there for her or his bachelor's degree, and it's even cheaper for a German. I asked the subreddit /r/Germany "how is this sustainable as a business model?" I was amazed at the answers that I got. One person politely said to me that my question was quintessentially American, and that in Germany, nobody even thinks about profiteering off of a person's education (or health). In Germany, they don't view education as a for-profit business, but as a necessity. Anyways, my question for Germans would be this: How easy would it be for a brown-skinned guy to make friends there, and which city is it the easiest and the most difficult to make friends?
As a German whit Asia origin i think skinncolour is not a thing that you need to worry in Germany. But you need to know the mindset and the way of life of the German. If you don't understand or can't understand then it's very difficult to find friends here, becuz German are very uniq in there mindset. And for ppl. of colour Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne, Frankfurt are easy to live and made Friends. Munich, Leipzig, Halle, Dresden are less friendlier. For littler Town you are alway a tourist no more or less, event other German too. Sri for my bad english
so true, Americans try to make profit out of everything, even from healthcare. Regarding your last question, i'd say the bigger the city, the easier for a foreigner to make friends. Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Köln.. Small cities and villages are still very narrow minded, especially older people.
@@namiaris2525 Nami - Thanks for the feedback. I'm a brown American guy, and I love the Germans that I've met a lot. I love Berliners a good bit. All Germans are quite mature when compared to Americans, less cheerful and less emotional than Americans, and finally, a lot smarter. I met a cab driver last year, and he was of Nigerian ancestry. He told me that he had experiences in many nations, like the USA, Canada, and other places, and he said that Canada and Germany are his two favorite places.
@@RadicalLiving One of my friends is from "halfway between Dusseldorf and Koln," but she identifies as being from Dusseldorf. Another guy is from Frankfurt, and he's alright as well. My friend who's from the Dusseldorf area hates Berliners. She said that "we call them Berliner Schnauzers because they're so mean."
As a brown skinned person traveling with other brown skinned people in Germany, I loved the small towns and felt that people were much friendlier than in the bigger towns. (Well, Köln people were actually pretty friendly, too, at least compared to Berlin). Of course, I was a tourist, not trying to live there. But I never felt unsafe or even uncomfortable anywhere over there as compared to the US.
Yes, but you learn to foresee the behavior of others here. Sometimes you learn that in driving school. Serious accidents happen on the autobahn, no more than in other countries
Beer in Turkey is 1.50 euros for 50cl, Budweiser 50 cl is 1.70 cl, 1 litre wine is 3 euros to 80 euros cheapest ones are turkish, most expensive ones are australian, california, french wines. 1 litre Jaegermeister price is 18 euros. Whiskey is 50 euros. 75 cl raki, uzo is 40 euros in most restaurants in Turkey. Big mac menu is 3.70 euros, same price as whopper menu. General manager monthly median wage is 7000 euros at private sector in Istanbul.
Let's say almost no government corruption. Our businesses usually still heavily rely on family ties (at least in my Rhineland region, but then again we are also known as the northern most Italians ^^)
Educational and funny video haha, one major reason you have so many castles was/is that you had a law that stated everytime a noble had children they also could own land, so the bundestag was split up into more and more, and ofc they also "needed" a castle :D oh and not being a big earthquake zone also helps preserve them.
So true that about specialized companies. That's why on doubt about which one of whatever you want to buy you simply take the German one. German and quality are considered to go hand in hand. And whenever some German product is of bad quality you think it's rare/bad luck you got one of the few defective ones and run for an identical one which you know will work as expected because it's German. Sometimes I think all of this is half reality and half perception, but German companies won their reputation by hard work.
When compared to Portugal, I think that the only thing Germany has worse than us is probably the weather ... and German cuisine, eheh, but apart from that the country excels in pretty much everything, starting with bread and ending in cars 🙂
Oi our food is delicious. Potatoes, vegetables, pork/ slow roast and sauce, what's not to love about that? Granted it doesn't look as fancy as italian or french food, but soul food is always just a brownish mess that warms your heart ;)
As a German who moved to Portugal I beg to differ. Portugal is beautiful and so underrated. It might not produce a lot economic value but there is more to life than that.
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"a good education is probably the most important thing if you want to become a successfull country", and that's all
Poland can't relate lol
Most ruling parties and dictators don't want that as it will cause them to lose power and make people revolt.
@@regina.phalange. famous example of this is Catholics ( Vatikan )church
I agree!!!!
And I change this sentece a little bit:
The best possible education is the best you can spent your children for their life!!!
Surely combined with best possible behaviour and self confidence given with love and respect!
@@Mrdinomist What you know today as "education" all traces back to the Catholic church. The first universities and centres of learning were Catholic. Some of the best most elite schools today are Catholic.
Loved this video! 'why SHOULDN'T education be free, I dont get this question' 😂 that's the German mentality that makes the country so great
Libertarians and Austrian School economists: well, that's a good question
Here in Spain it's very cheap and it's almost a disaster. The "human factor" is the main thing almost for everything
this is an pan-European mentality. You pay ridiculous prices for education only in Anglo Saxon countries, I.e. the US and the UK.
Foreigners must pay I believe.
@@rumikarapetrova5540 Australia free education like Germany.Free medical treatment. Free dental. Australia is like Germany. DREAM COUNTRY.
Sometimes, I feel most of my German culture knowledge comes from you and Rammstein
if you want to educate yourself about german culture by music a little bit more i recommend "Null positiv" espacely the songs Friss dich auf and Wo rauch ist ist auch feuer, the band "Hämatom" made in Germany, "Nachtblut" Lied für die Götter and many more.. oh and for relaxing matters maybe Faun, any song :)
I’ve found your channel yesterday and I’ve watched almost all your videos 😂. Your content is amazing! Greetings from Brazil 🇧🇷
Awesome! Thank you! Welcome aboard! 😁 Greetings from Berlin
Same thing! haha 😂
I’m from Brazil too!! TH-cam recommended me this channel yesterday and I already watched more than 10 videos! Enjoying very much! 🇩🇪🇧🇷
Alguém aí quer conversar em alemao no wwp? Não tem muita gente com quem praticar na pandemia -_-
Binge watching new TH-cam channels you found is the new trend yo. Forget about Netflix, underground channels are the new thing.
“Why is Germany better than the US?” It surprises me how people still thinks that the US is a good country in 2020
Are you kidding? The U.S. is awesome! Where else in the world can you go to study a nation with nuclear weapons on the brink of civil war??!!! Maybe we'll turn our nation into a radio active sandbox while Putin just smiles, and sighs....
that's why i'm getting my degree there rip
Nah, I still love US... Yeah, many problems out there... But can't deny the charm
@@adrena7321 our food is compromised though here in the US.
I'm an American and I can confirm this. I would love to be in Germany right now. But the US is still a good country overall for many reasons.
Das hast du gut gemacht. Bravo. Kostenlose Ausbildung ist die Voraussetzung für ein erfolgreiches Land. On point.
A good free education, not just a free education. I can say this cause I'm from Italy, and here there Is free education but it's not good.
@@ilariasurico6124 But its better than Shit Payed Education
Ukrainians also have a free education but we aren't wealthy. Because of corruption and Russia. Please help us to fight them, give militaries and consult us in issues of corruption. We have no other option but to ask for help.
And a prerequisite for a good free education is taxes paid by all the citizens who can pay for them. I am sick and tired of Italians justifying tax evasion.
No we don't Like corupt countries, Ukraine is Not in EU and Not our Problem@@Іваній-й3ы
Hi, I'm Brazilian and I've been living in Germany for 1 year and 8 months. I agree one hundred percent with you. When you talk about corruption, it's clear to me that it's not just a matter of politicians being honest. The population also needs to be. In several plantations around Munich, I saw the products displayed for sale without anyone present. You choose what you want to buy and deposit the money in a box beside it. And it's not a safe, just a plain wooden box. I'm subscribed to your channel and I find the videos funny and sometimes educational :)
i have also seen these boxes in fellbach,Waiblingen near Stuttgart.
That's fascinating that Germany excels in niche markets and has so many of them! Archery is a hobby of mine and Beiter is considered the "top of the line" when it comes to certain components! And my daughter is big into aquariums and she often tells me that Germany makes the best aquarium products! Very fascinating!
Interesting, thanks for sharing! And welcome aboard! 😄
A well known bow manufacturer here in Rhineland-Palatinate is Horst Perk in Weibern in the Eifel. His manufactury goes by the name "Bogenbautradition".
I only truly started to understand the scale as well as the significance during university. I studied chemistry and material sciences and we often would have guest speakers that produced some boring ass thing one usually doesn't think twice about and that doesn't even have a high price tag to it. However all those companies were producing for a global market and were often the sole or one of very few producers. This made me change the way i look at opportunities to make money as it really isn't in the big shiny things like sports cars, airplanes and their likes, but e.g. a component for glue used in pretty much every house construction around the world, or some small plastic component that is used in every modern piping system around the world. Things that were just replaceable small stuff i wouldn't have thought twice about seeing them everywhere suddenly became a lot more interesting and I started to appreciate the engineering that has gone even into something as mundain as a plastic water bottle or nylon socks
Also, China is like the world Factory (produce tons of goods), but Germany makes a lot of the machines those factories use.
The Mittelstand is often spoken of in Germany and it employs about 60% of German workers. In NJ small businesses with < 100 employ 49.8%. The amount of economic specialization in today's economies is phenomenal. Many overlook this because people often overlook the mundane. In general, the real reason is that people get up and go to work and they make their lives better for themselves, their families, their children collectively resulting in this emergent order of our relatively prosperous societies.
I love your hair !! 😗
Greetings from India 🇮🇳 Brother i am literally jealous for not being born in Deutschland 🇩🇪 Your Education is free & high quality, Healthcare is excellent..... You have learnt from your history and left all those obsolete mindset back, Excellent luxury car brands, No speed limit on Autobahn, 4th Largest economy of world, 3rd Largest exporter, 2nd on Net import & Export almost 297 billion dollars trade surplus....... Your Lucky to be in Deutschland 🇩🇪 brother...... ✌️✌️
And Deutschland 🇩🇪 is 3rd in passport index with almost 190 Visa Free destinations
I was Born here and want to move, bit honestly, Not to many countries. You Always Look to Kind of similar countries when moving, e.g. Netherlands, UK, Australia. I wouldnt Go to India or similar countries by the way. But i get your Point Buddy.
@@reneyourlife A guy who is born in one of the most prosperous nation will never understand that. I am not an Indian but my country is full of mess and problems. You should be proud of your nation
@@sandychacko2275 India could be a prosperous nation by this time but Indians ruined it. Of course Pakistan and the British Empire have a role in it but Indians as well.
@@kazi_the_wood_fire True Indians unfortunately don’t know how to get along with one another and they don’t like to follow rules. India = Chaos.
Germany is a beautiful country with great scientific achievements and admirable culture. I visited a couple of times and I hope I will go there soon again:) Love from Poland:)
Yes, having a unlimited test subject supply did really well at pushing their scientific advancements during the WWII Era.
@@EC-dz4bq bro... You might upset a certain P person running modern TH-cam...
Poland is beautiful too♡
I am bringing up *that* meme. Germany has the best science in the world.
germany is great for their achievements
whoever came up with the idea of "Mittelstand" was a genius.
As an engineer myself I can tell you that, no matter the industry, if you search enough you will find out the sole best product in that industry is "Made in Germany".
and yes the device on my profile picture sure is a German-made Gossen Metrawatt.
“And we would never vote someone like that in.... well Maybe once”😂😂😂 hilarious loved the video mate
Great Vid, although Hitler wasn't actually voted into power, he had a minority : " In July 1932, the peak of the Nazis’ electoral reach, they won 37% of the vote, while 35% went to the Socialist and Communist parties. By November 1932, the tables had turned. The Nazis won 32% of the vote, but the combined total for Socialists and Communists was 36.8%. In the last election before Hitler’s appointment as Chancellor, his party was losing ground!" So it was the Bourgeoisie who named him chancellor because the rich fear the left more than fascists, fascists keep the rich, rich and make the poor kill each-other. But the US did vote Trump for président...
I love this dude, and everything he says
"In Germany there's no corruption" *laughs in Italian*
*cries in Serbian
Berlin: We just have put corruption to a higher level. ^^
Dude, here in Brazil we have been run by the world most corrupt party for 16 years straight XD (2002-2018) I'm sure you can survive lol
*cries in Hungarian*
They don't call it corruption. They call it donation 😁. Just like in the US
Hola. Uno de los mejores videos explicados sobre Alemania, una nacion que construyo un balance, economico y social excelente.
Modelo a seguir muchas compañias medianas evitan la corrupcion.
We are from so far different parts of the world, but i send you love and light. 😊
Many American's think taxes in Germany are very high. But, at least with income tax, I pay more income tax in the US than I would in Germany. Which is crazy because of all the services you receive in Germany.
You pay taxes which you don't even know. It is weird buying petrol for instance
probably half of your taxes go to the army
As an austrian I tell you, that our taxes are nearly the same as in germany! I'm more than only content with this systeme!!!
We ALL pay taxes, no matter if we need something special right now, but this is the best social system for everybody!
Some need more healthcare, some less...just for example! If I loose my job for any reason I still know how to pay my apt and when I retire I still get money monthly, I payed for it within all my working years with my taxes!
There is also a so called "generationenvertrag"! Working people pays with a part of their taxes the retire money for the olders...and so on!
We have no socialistic system, I am proud we have a social system!
"we produce the best microphones and fish food and pipe organs". Weird flex but ok ... Ahaha
I don’t know if the TH-cam algorism suggested you bc I started to learn German, but hey u got a subscriber from Brazil 🇧🇷
This same thing happen to me. Love from India
6:20 Niemiec can be translated to “niemy”that is unarticulated but in a way “don’t talk” or “don’t talk in our language”. Also, can be translated to “nie my” (with space) that means “not one of ours people”. :) Slavs were calling Niemiec everyone who was coming from West but it stayed with Germans for ever. :)
Interessting! I didn't know that. The Romans also use the term "barbarian" that means "everyone that it is not roman".
Not everyone coming from "West". To the Northeast Slavic-speaking tribes, there were only one people westward of them, Germans, and they called them "nemcu/i" meaning people who don't speak our language. Similarly, the term "Slavic" comes from "slovo" meaning "speech" i.e. "people who speak like us". Romans weren't called Nemcu, they were a distinct nation, south of Europe since way before both Slavic and Germanic tribes came around. In the old days, culture meant language, not ethnicity. As long as you speak the language, you are one of them. In that sense, both Slavic and Germanic are linguistic terms, not ethnic groups.
Very complicated. Well thanks anyway
More like "can't*" talk, but overall you're completely right
@@ilovecoffee7623 How do you know Romans existed before Germanics and Slavs? The Roman's were an organized polity but that doesn't mean the Slavs and Germanics didn't exist.
Living in Germany for almost 10 years now, and coming from Italy, I would add that I feel Germans have a great sens of State and community, if something is public here it belongs to everyone, in Italy something public belongs to none.
And is ripe for exploitation or some other bs "I'm really smart" kind of trick or underhanded tactic.
Germany is generally known for their perseverance.
Me: "There aren't that many castles here in Germany. Like I would know if there were..."
Me:
"Never mind."
Around 15 castles within a 30 minutes of cycling radius around here… can't complain! :)
i can also think of at least 6 castles in my close neighboring towns
Franz Ferdinand, the Austrian noble you talk about, was killed in Sarajevo, and that is in Bosnien-Herzegowina :)
oh geez, didn't even notice the wrong twist. You totally right
but by a serbian nationalist ;)
Today it is. Back than it was Serbia.
@@oliverkroker527 part of Austro Hungarian empire and not Serbia.... Bosnia as King Bela decided.
@Круела right, wanted to write that myself
This channel has grown on me! I don't even have plans to live in German but would like to visit now. You are a star. Love from Malawi.
Bist einfach nen klasse Typ. Bitte mehr wir freuen uns immer wieder 😇❤️👍🙌
Your videos make me want to live in Germany! Perhaps I should start small with a short visit first.
I would be very happy for you if your project becomes more than just a wish.
my recommendation for a visit are the Federal States of "Bavaria" or "Baden-Württemberg". Both Federal States are in southern Germany.
I wish you and your Family a merry christmas 😊🎄.
Greetings from the mountainous and castle-rich southwest of Germany "Baden-Württemberg" 😉.
You should! Come in in spring/summer, best time here 😉
If you want a cheaper trip to something like Germany, move to california or canada. california is similar to germany in regards to how expensive housing is, canada is just... the people. They're quite european. Germany is pretty much fornias housing/living expenses, canadian "govern me harder, daddy" plus a shitload of beaurocracy.
Sure it's nice to visit, but living here can be... exhausting. to some degree. Sure, if you "do it by the book", the welfare system will keep you from living on the streets, but at the same time it will take any penny out of your pocket. Comparing your gross income to the life you get for it, you are living much more comfortable in the US.
a miniscule 200sqft appartment (loud neighbors included) will cost you 400€ at least. A "decent" appartment will often cost 1500€ and more, which is about half if not 2/3 of your net income. No, that is not mortgage, that is just rent. To BUY even a small appartment you will need to spend about a quarter million, often more than half a million, resulting in mortgage rates of 2500€ or more / month.
If you can sqeeze even 3000€ net income out of your job you can allready call yourself lucky. Managing to save up 50k€ alone will take half a life time for most germans.
Oh, and be warned: everyone is going to stare. Especially when you open your mouth and just a single english word passes your lips.
WTF...Do we live in a differnet germany? haha.I am 25 have no debts , a falt /54qm) ,car ...wife.... maybe you should overthink if you are qualified enough to work in germany,if you get paid so bad.....you can always move back .. Also if you live in bavaria...you are not in germany ...
10 mins video 👏🏻. I was constantly checking it to see how much time it had left.
Man, thanks. You are a great entertainer and it must be really cool to talk with you, especially about German culture.
Glad you enjoyed it! As a German i can't really appreciate my own culture too much (except for the bread culture haha), I'm, really fascinated by Japanese culture though
Omg, my friend you nailed it at the end!
And this.... Now you go tell your country why isn’t education free in your country. Because here in America they like people to stay stupid 👍🏽
Although I am European and I love the EU, I don't think the US is that bad. There are pros and cons between Germany and US, like with everything else in life. There is a lot more safety nets and social security in Germany, but a lot more opportunities and money to be made in America. I think it ultimately boils down to, what you want in life
Do people assume education means everyone goes to university is the question?
The conservative UK govt (it was in a coalition with a left-centre party that was weak af) made it compulsory for students to pay yearly tuition fees, the cheapest £9.5k, that's on top of accomodation, transport, food, utilities.. then a few years later we had brexit and with all the problems we face now, we still have some that rather see the "economy tank" (collapse) than to be part of EU.. noone told us they were planning to let raw sewage into our waters because of chemical shortages.. Education really is the path to progress, especially having some critical thinking skills.. kudos to Germany for looking after its people so well, please do not privatise education, EVER. ☮️
One of the smartest students in my class was German. He said he was Average back in his country. US education fell when we poured in too many immigrants at once.
I'm a German... But you just told me facts about this country I didn't know! Should rather watch your videos than going to university - your videos are really for free hehe :D and very well done!!
Great Vid, although Hitler wasn't actually voted into power, he had a minority : " In July 1932, the peak of the Nazis’ electoral reach, they won 37% of the vote, while 35% went to the Socialist and Communist parties. By November 1932, the tables had turned. The Nazis won 32% of the vote, but the combined total for Socialists and Communists was 36.8%. In the last election before Hitler’s appointment as Chancellor, his party was losing ground!" So it was the Bourgeoisie who named him chancellor because the rich fear the left more than fascists, fascists keep the rich, rich and make the poor kill each-other. The US... they actually DID vote Trump for président
@@samdumaquis2033So you want to say Biden isn't working for rich section as well!?
Ahahaha great sense of humour. I like you :)
When people said german aren’t funny they have got to watch your videos 😁
This is an exception don’t get confused
There is something like a female version, but it does different content. The video of her cleaning up the room or visiting Japan is super weird. She has been living in Berlin for 1 year now.
Oh yeah, her channel is called Naomi Jon.
But there are a lot of very good comedians in Germany, but the problem is that people from abroad don't understand German. And comedians like Torsten Sträter play with language
'Bout Slavics way to call Germans:
No one ever told me it's because Germans don't talk much, but because we can't understand what the hell are they saying 😂
but in the most language one word is allways the same IDIOT ...in english in russian in italian ind polish , in tschech .....hHAHAH idiota IN GERMAN STILL idiot ITS THE MOST INTERNATIONAL WORD I THINK
Yep, exactly. It's not that they're 'mute', it that we can't understand them. Which doesn't paint a very good picture of us, does it?
upd: typo
@@kaworunagisa4009 Maybe I should have use *couldn't instead of "can't" 'cause in my country we actually learn German in schools and there's also a lot of German words because of influence. And yes, it (I mean, that we can't understand) doesn't sound good at first but after thinking about it, it's basically hard to understand different language family :'D
@@joergfro7149 True, I can't disagree :'D
Exactly! Ha ha
I binged watched almost all your videos! So smart, funny and informative 👍keep it up. Best regards from Beirut- Lebanon 🇱🇧😘
Awesome! Thank you! All the best from Berlin 😁
The insight about German companies and specialization was genuinely fascinating. ✨👀
When I was living in China, at one point I needed to replace my window. We went to this area specialized in home construction parts (doors, lamps, windows etc.) and my eyes nearly popped out when it turned out many of the window-sellers were selling German windows. Mind you, this area wasn't specialized in high-end, imported products or anything. Anyway, I got myself a German window back then. The workers were super efficient and installed it in just a few hours.
After training for opera for years in the USA my friends went to Germany to get jobs. Even moderately sized cities have opera companies and the jobs are considered municipal jobs with benefits, paid vacations and pensions. In the USA by contrast most singers struggle to make ends meet and have to have a day job to get by. Also tickets to the opera are very reasonably priced and there is even free standing room for students and other people on a budget
"Why is Germany better than the US?” because they drink good beers!! sometimes they are naughty, but most of time they are polite.
Don't forget the legal brothels😄
The castle you described as ugly at 5:25 is way cooler looking than the one you described as beautiful, I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder
In Russia we have free school education. After the school you have two ways in Russia:
1. You pass the exams with high results and the state pays your education
2. You pass the exams with average or low results and you need to pay the education.
Pretty fair in my opinion 🤷♂️
Good russia ^^
Wow!!!! This is amazing!!!
really?
How is this fair? It’s the standard way how winners and losers are treated, though. Those who could use some help don’t get it for free, those who already made it this far get all the free stuff.
@@EISERMANN80 I would love to agree with you, but there is a problem : how to deal with mediocrity? While I understand that there is people that will accomplish great things with a little bit of help here and there, there are also sneaky little rats tying to get the good stuff with little to none effort. We shouldn't cast our pearls before swine...nor we should throw resources to people that do not deserve them because that will also not be fair to taxpayers and to the people who is really putting in the effort.?
I am a historian from Croatia, and all I can say is: "Gott mit uns!".
Fantastic country, interesting history with ups and downs, lessons learnd and still moving forward in such a remarkable way. Greetings disciplined, hardworking and kind hearted people of Germany!
2:08 It's actually illegal to clean your car yourself in Germany because the cleaning liquid can harm the environment, so you have to go to a professional car wash.
Gavrilo Princip who killed archduke franz ferdinand was not a bosnian terrorist. He was a serbian nationalist who lived in bosnia-herzigova. And he didn’t kill archduke in serbia, but in Sarajevo.
I went to Heidelberg for 40 minutes. 35 minutes in the castle! 5 minutes for petrol. Then.. next castle! Ludwigsburg Schloss and its beautiful porcelain collection. 3 nights, 5 schloss, 3 car factories. Woohoo!
The best thing I learned from this video was that Tetra fish food is German! Had no idea! (Oh and that part about beir and brot better than USA, I will give you that one😀)
Germany has about 20,000 castles, the majority of them in poor repair now. If that sounds excessive, realize that during most of its history it was a patchwork of over 300 rival semi-independent principalities, nominally loyal to the emperor, that ranged from pretentious glorified city states (sometimes even actual formal city states like the Free Imperial Cities; Hamburg is still a city-state) to sizable kingdoms in their own right like Bavaria and Prussia. But even so that averages to around 70 castles per kingdom. It makes a fun place for modern visitors, though it's clear a lot of resources were spent that could have been put to better use for society in general. But think of it from a royal perspective.
"Up there on the hill overlooking our capital is the fortress that my ancestors moved into sometime around when written records started being kept. Of course it's been enlarged a few times as building styles changed, and refortified after a couple of sieges. The real improvements came when the townspeople rose up with the peasants during that whole Martin Luther debacle. I'm happy to report that our family stronghold is now quite torchproof and pitchforkproof. Really came in handy in keeping out the Swedes during that whole Thirty Years War thing.
The cousins weren't quite so lucky, but the ones who survived can keep their little fortresses and amuse themselves with jousting and gardening or whatever as long as they don't get any ideas like the great great uncle who thought his branch of the family should take the throne after that whole succession crisis in something hundred and something. The whole kingdom almost reverted to Catholicism, and now we have that whole Edict of Toleration thing going on so we make sure to build a Lutheran church next door to any Catholic church just to make sure nothing looks unbalanced and the peasants don't revolt. Again. And then you have to be really careful who you marry so you don't trigger any suspicion that you're going to change the policy.
Anywho, I've still got a couple of dozen knightly retainers who have their little castles their great great whatever grandparents obtained with the minor noble titles they got in exchange for their pledges of fealty to my exalted forebears. We've still technically got the oaths, but more importantly the cost of running their households has them constantly hanging around begging to be of service so that they can get something out of the privy purse. Keeps them in my pocket in case the cousins feel up to something again.
We still have a few other castles that we built to secure the major trade routes, collect taxes, protect the royal treasuries, etc. Fortunately a few of them came in handy in fighting off the Turks. We had to abandon a couple and start over when the course of the river shifted and the location was kind of rendered useless. A few burnt down and we did a half assed job of rebuilding them. The French took out a couple with artillery during that whole War of the Whatever Succession (I can't keep track of all of them.) So we just abandoned those because obviously they're no good anymore with all these firearms proliferating. Better to spend the money on defense in depth for the garrison towns that are in better shape now.
So in any case things have settled down with the locals enough, and we really need to show how modern and prosperous we are, and there just isn't room to host all the artists and intellectuals that befit the glory of our kingdom behind those old walls, and there isn't really room on the hilltop for expansion, and it's just so old fashioned and unsightly, and have you seen what King Louis's got now? So we built a new royal residence down on the edge of town, and rearranged the town square around it with an opera house, a museum, and some nice new office buildings for the various ministries and the royal archives. There's a whole new wing with accommodations for the imperial court. With any luck the Emperor will remember what Dad did for him during that whole Siege of Vienna, and will remember me when it gets time to appoint the chancellorship and access to the Privy Purse.
Speaking of Dad he got some weird delusions of grandeur after coming back from the war, and decided the capital just wasn't good enough for him, so he went off to one of his favorite vacation spots outside of town, renamed it Dadsburg, and proceeded to bring in some foreigners to design an entire city from scratch around his new palace. So everyone had to up and leave for the new town and pretend to like it while everything was under construction. So impractical. Admittedly it looks pretty good now, but it's a little dated, so 80's (1680's that is.). Not a bad vacation spot now, except it's all gloomy now that stepmom lives there after dad died.
So anyhow we moved everything back to the old capital once the renovation project was far enough along. I'm going to leave my stamp on this city, and no Frenchie or Italian can say anything but wow about the new palace square. It's in the most sophisticated taste possible, and I spared no expense in getting the best painters and decorators to magnify my exalted self in the allegorical stuff all over the place. Though even with the new private rooms things get a bit old with all the courtly ceremonies. Lever, Coucher, a monarch's work is never done. Can't a royal person get a little privacy in his privy chamber now and again?
So we expanded the summer residence outside the city to be able to hold the whole court for a few months. Very airy and nice for the hot season. And away from all those townies. The commoners smell a bit ripe in the heat, don't you know. There's even a few maisons de plaisance in the gardens where I can go meditate and commune with nature and with some visitors undisturbed, if you know what I mean. Wink wink nudge nudge.
Speaking of which I had to build a nice private place for my mistress when I found out she was pregnant so she could raise the kid away from prying eyes. It's conveniently located so I can visit it discreetly during some of my hunting trips. I inherited a couple of hunting lodges around the country and had to renovate them a bit to keep them up to snuff. Gave one of the old ones to my ex mistress, way out in the boonies so she understands not to pester me at court anymore. I built a new place for my current on again/off again mistress and her husband nearby the main residence. That way I can visit when I send him off on diplomatic missions and nobody will think twice about it.
Of course with all this going on I can't let my wife feel neglected. I built a whole nice little villa for her after the birth of our first child, because I know she likes Italy. So she and her ladies in waiting or whoever can have their little girly parties there and everyone keeps the peace in the household. I'm only allowed to visit by invitation, and everyone is happy with that.
How many castles is that? I've lost track. That's why we keep accountants I guess. Anyway, I'm exhausted from keeping track of all this. I've commissioned the royal architect to build a new palace where I can retire, out by one of the nice monasteries or a university or something. I can put the students to work on my gardening ideas or sorting the royal rock collection or whatever while I read some of those newfangled novels. I've been curious what the women are all giggling about with their noses in a book all day long. Not traditional psalters I'll tell you what! What can I say, it's good to be the king."
And thus we inherit a built environment largely shaped by the whims and needs of aristocrats shaping the material conditions of their times around their self-perceived interests. It's much more fun enjoying them from a remove of a few hundred years than it was living with the actual inhabitants.
Love the German Orchestral Music. Absolutely Tripping experience.
Gustavo Dudamel at the picture btw, not german hehe
met him once at my work and had a pretty nice conversation him.
@@castro_458 Yeah, but the accompanying music is Beethoven. 🇩🇪🎶
Education should be free everywhere in the world 🌍 for the sake of this world
"There is almost no corruption, which means you can get things done more easily"
Berlin airport: NOPE
RWE nope
CUM EX nope
Mask affairS (plural!) nope
Of course there is corruption here. Especially with the CDU / CSU party. But it works a little differently. If the politicians pass certain laws through parliament for the companies, they will get high-paying jobs at these companies a few years later. Or consulting jobs in which they don't have to do anything. This has been going on for many years, especially with the transport minister, economics minister, agriculture minister, previously with the defense minister and some young politicians who are only in politics because they are bought.
This dude is hilarious! You go, my man!
Omg 🤣🤣🤣 ! I lost it at 9:48 and I technically died at 9:58
Underrated channel , keep it up
Danke für deine interessanten Videos. Du bist so cool
Made in Germany product's quality is so undoubtable!
Honestly, I'm willing to buy one expensive german goods than five cheap chinese goods.
Thanks for producing your videos in English...makes it so much easier to watch 👍...and danke for your genuine honesty in answering those questions make us curious 🤔
The main reason for me as a German never considering moving to the US is that whenever people are shot in Germany, it is one of the worst days of the year. For US-citizens, that would be tuesday.
More like it would be every day except Tuesday 😂
Happy holidays to you too man! Hope you're well! Great video as always, making my quarantine here in Greece a bit more bearable.
Soon we will be free again! Greetings
As a brazilian that is interested in visit germany. I would say that I'm very surprised with the number of castles. Probably I'll visit some of them and check if the german bier is really good :)
Go to Munich or so to check out the beer up in the upper part of Germany there are some weird flavored beer I recommend "Augustiner Helles" or "Tegernsee Helles"
Very enlightening; I have learnt a lot from this video.
Glad to hear it!
I actually find it impressive that germany does so well in so many categories in an international comparison, when you consider how much money our politicians sometimes waste.
Love watching ur videos man. Currently in Deutschland for studies .
i like how he tried so hard to say "our classical music is the sh*t!"
maybe he asked his US friend how to say it properly lol
You make people fall in love with your country. I am from Latin America I I won't never speak German. Your sounds are impossible !!!!!! I am grateful you speak English. I don't like translations. Thank you young man for your work.
amazing that you studied in Heidelberg! Ever considered making a video out of it?
Yes will do one next time i'm there, maybe April/May 😄
Uffbasse, und sag nix schlechtes über Badens Perle, Longer ☝️sons schdegga ma disch on de Studendekarzer
@@magr7424 ^^ Die wahre Perle ist doch die Untere, wenn sie offen ist ;)
Radical German, what is your name? You are the best TH-camr out here.
The etymology of Deutschland blew my mind. I never knew that before and I've been there so many times! Great vid also. Do a new years in Berlin video? The fireworks there are amazing and plentiful. I only got shot in the back once ;)
Already made a NYE video last year 😉 th-cam.com/video/o_ClXR2IIE8/w-d-xo.html but this year celebrating is banned.... hope it wasn't too painful
OMG this is my new favorite video. So glad I found your channel! Hallo from Utah!
I think the successful country does not exist. The entire world is still very primitive and clumsy. Just that Germany is less primitive and clumsy than the rest, but it is.
the world gets worse when we stop being it
Germany was very successful a long time ago but it rubbed many in the wrong way
5:26 this is not ugly castle.Castles cant be ugly.Have respect for historical buildings
On the castles: I think we can all agree on Neuschwanstein being the most famous one, but #2 is not that easy. Being from Eastern Germany, I had never heard of the Heidelberg castle actually. There Wartburg is probably the famost famous one. And I also want a party castle! Can I rent a room in yours? :D
Wow this is smarter than I thought! Nice stuff 🎉
You should have called it “FAQ in Germany with caution”
I just love your videos man! You have an amazing style of narration. I hope your channel gets more and more love and support. It is underrated. Love from India.
Fun fact: The United States Marine Corps adopted the Bulldog as its mascot after World War I. According to tradition, the Marines fought so fiercely in the battle of Belleau Wood in France that the Germans called them “teufel hunden” after the devil dogs from Bavarian folklore. The nickname “devil dogs” stuck.
I drive by Belleau wood sometimes (I'm French and there is a British and Italian military cemetery less than a km away) something you aught to know is there were many such battles in WW1, belleau not being any special except it was Americans, and as you weren't destroyed you could do PR. When I did my garden I found bits of bomb and bones... all north-eastern France was destroyed
Bro, I found yesterday your channel and I'm REALLY enjoying your videos. Keep them coming and greetings from Münster.
The Poetin laugh, hilarious!! 😂😂
indeed lol
I really had fun watching this!! Prost!!
I love Germany! 🇩🇪 ❤️
Germany is successful because it's pragmatic, intelligent, smart-working (not necessarily HARD working) and has a high regard for quality in what it produces.
I think people should know there's no speed limit in the Autobahn, if you go fast inside the city you'll be in trouble
ah another great video, really enjoyed this one
„Why should you get a car that drives 200km/h or more, but you can’t actually use it?“ I strongly agree. This is one of the greatest things about Germany. I always wondered tho why the other countries are so stuck up about their speed limits
Because they're stil convinced that speed limits will decrease accidents and deaths 🤷♀️
Because here in America people don’t know how to drive even when following the speed limit. I would hate to see what would come if it was limitless.
@@madmaggs4305 Maggs, you're not looking at the whole picture here. Imagine if we removed all the speed limits, in a few months we will be left with nothing but good drivers. Maybe we should just let it fix itself.
@@EC-dz4bqThat's kind of a darwinian way to look at it. I like it.
A lot of people don't get German humor...but man I love it... it is so deliciously dry, so ...bizarre at times, sometimes even social awkward... with a special place for fecal humor jokes... man... I love it... its great! I am Czech btw... so ... you know..we have history together.
Your Thumbmail is my hometown, Schwäbisch Hall :D yeeay
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Place To be
@@RadicalLiving and you didn‘t even know did you?
After this video I love our country a little more than I even did before
Funny videos man! But the US is the best - and we love German things too, especially in the Midwest 🍻 prost mein freund 😄
cheers😺
Quote: "But the US is the best " - Big laughter when looking at crime rates, the number of repeat offenders, democratic voting results (not a federal state counts, but every personal vote), medical bills, study costs and so on while sitting in the car, having had a beer and enjoyed a good bread and so on drives at 186 MpH (300 km / h) on the motorway. But we don't believe that we are the best, there are many other good countries in the world - and we really like the USA and we count them among the good states, but that the USA are the best - by no means.
@@a.p.1470 while still having to take tests to shop, wear masks, and lockdowns…..🙄
Slavic countries like Poland call you „Niemcy” as you said - mute people, not because you don’t speak much, but because your language is so different from any other Slavic languages and Slavic people couldn’t communicate with Germans.
2:59 There is almost no corruption in Germany.
But then Covid happened.
Lobbyists be laughing
You got a subscriber from India... Planning to move to Germany soon as soon as get a job offer letter.. hoping for the best!!
Best of luck!
Dude, your videos are the fucking best! 😀
In Portuguese we call u all alemanha, most of romantic idioms call your country something like that alemagna in french so on. It's because of Alamos a kind of three in your country.
Wie gehts Brudder? I loved this video. There are many things that you addressed that's on point, and my favorite part pertains to education. On Reddit, I posted a question regarding Humboldt University. It's VERY cheap for a non-German to study there for her or his bachelor's degree, and it's even cheaper for a German. I asked the subreddit /r/Germany "how is this sustainable as a business model?" I was amazed at the answers that I got. One person politely said to me that my question was quintessentially American, and that in Germany, nobody even thinks about profiteering off of a person's education (or health). In Germany, they don't view education as a for-profit business, but as a necessity.
Anyways, my question for Germans would be this: How easy would it be for a brown-skinned guy to make friends there, and which city is it the easiest and the most difficult to make friends?
As a German whit Asia origin i think skinncolour is not a thing that you need to worry in Germany. But you need to know the mindset and the way of life of the German. If you don't understand or can't understand then it's very difficult to find friends here, becuz German are very uniq in there mindset. And for ppl. of colour Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne, Frankfurt are easy to live and made Friends. Munich, Leipzig, Halle, Dresden are less friendlier. For littler Town you are alway a tourist no more or less, event other German too.
Sri for my bad english
so true, Americans try to make profit out of everything, even from healthcare.
Regarding your last question, i'd say the bigger the city, the easier for a foreigner to make friends. Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Köln.. Small cities and villages are still very narrow minded, especially older people.
@@namiaris2525 Nami - Thanks for the feedback. I'm a brown American guy, and I love the Germans that I've met a lot. I love Berliners a good bit. All Germans are quite mature when compared to Americans, less cheerful and less emotional than Americans, and finally, a lot smarter.
I met a cab driver last year, and he was of Nigerian ancestry. He told me that he had experiences in many nations, like the USA, Canada, and other places, and he said that Canada and Germany are his two favorite places.
@@RadicalLiving One of my friends is from "halfway between Dusseldorf and Koln," but she identifies as being from Dusseldorf. Another guy is from Frankfurt, and he's alright as well. My friend who's from the Dusseldorf area hates Berliners. She said that "we call them Berliner Schnauzers because they're so mean."
As a brown skinned person traveling with other brown skinned people in Germany, I loved the small towns and felt that people were much friendlier than in the bigger towns. (Well, Köln people were actually pretty friendly, too, at least compared to Berlin). Of course, I was a tourist, not trying to live there. But I never felt unsafe or even uncomfortable anywhere over there as compared to the US.
U got a new subscriber!
330 km/h during the day on a two lane Autobahn? - You better hope nobody is trying to overtake a truck with 120 km/h in front of you...
Yes, but you learn to foresee the behavior of others here. Sometimes you learn that in driving school. Serious accidents happen on the autobahn, no more than in other countries
Beer in Turkey is 1.50 euros for 50cl, Budweiser 50 cl is 1.70 cl, 1 litre wine is 3 euros to 80 euros cheapest ones are turkish, most expensive ones are australian, california, french wines. 1 litre Jaegermeister price is 18 euros. Whiskey is 50 euros. 75 cl raki, uzo is 40 euros in most restaurants in Turkey. Big mac menu is 3.70 euros, same price as whopper menu. General manager monthly median wage is 7000 euros at private sector in Istanbul.
Dang, almost no corruption in Germany. I wish i could say that coming from Portugal
It's also not true. We have a lot, only others have more
Let's say almost no government corruption. Our businesses usually still heavily rely on family ties (at least in my Rhineland region, but then again we are also known as the northern most Italians ^^)
Educational and funny video haha, one major reason you have so many castles was/is that you had a law that stated everytime a noble had children they also could own land, so the bundestag was split up into more and more, and ofc they also "needed" a castle :D oh and not being a big earthquake zone also helps preserve them.
Makes sense. Charlemagne may as well be grandfather of the entire German nobility, come to think about it...
i'm moving to germany
So true that about specialized companies. That's why on doubt about which one of whatever you want to buy you simply take the German one. German and quality are considered to go hand in hand. And whenever some German product is of bad quality you think it's rare/bad luck you got one of the few defective ones and run for an identical one which you know will work as expected because it's German.
Sometimes I think all of this is half reality and half perception, but German companies won their reputation by hard work.
When compared to Portugal, I think that the only thing Germany has worse than us is probably the weather ... and German cuisine, eheh, but apart from that the country excels in pretty much everything, starting with bread and ending in cars 🙂
Oi our food is delicious. Potatoes, vegetables, pork/ slow roast and sauce, what's not to love about that? Granted it doesn't look as fancy as italian or french food, but soul food is always just a brownish mess that warms your heart ;)
As a German who moved to Portugal I beg to differ. Portugal is beautiful and so underrated. It might not produce a lot economic value but there is more to life than that.
Dont forget about the castle in Schwerin, its also beautyful and nice to cycle there! 🚲
very pretty indeed
Another reason is, Germans don't brag. Low key and super successful.
All TH-cam is full of Germans bragging about their country xD