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- Original Video: • Geography Now! Germany
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@Free Speech kinda impressive if we consider their relative populations too..
What about communistic symbols? Would it be strange for you if they were forbidden?
Really good reaction 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Please react to Geography now South Africa 🇿🇦
U trust Uncle Sam? Ur labour market and workers rights are far worse than in germany, ur healthcare system is far more expensive for every citizen yet worse than in germany where its nearly free. And ur universities are hell expensive too, while here the state pays for my studies. Why is that? The allmightigy dollar! America isnt a social market economy like germany with capitalism that is regulated for the people, its way less regulated and doesnt protect them from the evil side of capitalism. Even the healthcare has to make huge profit. I recommend u to watch this: America Compared: Why Other Countries Treat Their People So Much Better by second thought (an us-citizen btw) th-cam.com/video/yhBkeAo2Hlg/w-d-xo.html
11:25 "Any Germans out there?"
Good one. 😆 Your video is actually owned by us.
Ein Land, ein Reich, ein Kommentarbereich!
Ich liebe es wie alles betont wird
Deutschland!!!
@@iamkeks4059 ich finde das auch übel ulgich
Ein paar Rechtschreibfehler hat er aber schon. XD
"Can you visit those castles" the majority of them are owned by the country, so you can not only visit them (on your own or in guided toures, depending on the castle) but you can also book them for events or for marriages. Its not even *that* expensive.
As a German who had visited so many castles in his childhood, I just thought "meh, yeah it's a beautiful old castle, what's so special about it?" :D
BWL-Justus be like...
@@spiritualeco-syndicalisthe207 yeah, we get so used to having them all around, for me I can get to 3 (I've been to and can remember) within a 30-60minute drive
@@spiritualeco-syndicalisthe207 Just put your mind into the head of an American. They don't have castles. Their country is too young for that. Castles must have some alien nature to them.
@@spiritualeco-syndicalisthe207 same with me. I grew up in a small town to which belonged 4 (!) castles. For me it was nothing special growing up. Only later I realized that my hometown was totally sleepy and awesome at the same time.
Btw: I am still amused that in the USA 150 years is viewed as old. My school was founded in the year 1605. That is old!
I would describe our "friendship" with turkey as rather complicated tho😂
The friendship with Turmey became more complicated with the rise of "President" Erdogan. Turks helped a lot rebuild Germany since after WW2 Germany lacked men ... obviously.
Also take notice that Trukey changed a lot since the 1970's due to the rise of a more "religious" party now lead by Erdogan.
@@corneliusdobeneck4081 also erstens können wir denk ich auf deutsch schreiben und zweitens war das keine Kritik an der Türkei oder türkischstämmigen Mitbürgern sondern einfach ein ironischer Kommentar zur diplomatischen Beziehung der Länder in den letzten Jahren. Bitte nicht negativ verstehen👍
@@user-uw6nu2cy5y Hatte ich nicht so aufgefasst. War mehr als vertiefende Information gedacht. :)
@Momoshiki Ōtsutsuki aber haben nicht 66% der deutsch Türken Erdogan gewählt?
Meiner meinung nach kommt das deshalb, weil die Türken hier in der EU immer noch nicht "loslassen" können. Anstatt sich auf ihre Heimat zu konzentrieren, leben Sie immernoch so, als ob sie alle auswandern werden. Der Nationalstolz wird Ihnen so dermaßen ins Hirn reingeprügelt, dass Sie sich nie voll und ganz intigrieren werden können. Spreche hier aus eigener Erfahrung.
You’re allowed to visit the most castles. There are some Castel at a risk of collapse and usually you’re not allowed to visit those. Some of them still belong to European monarch families and when the owners are home you usually only get restricted access to the castles.
also, some castles are still (or again) in private hands and not open to the public. On other public-owned castles, it's forbidden to do professional photoshootings etc.
And the kings of Hannover are in the familie of the Kings of England
@@wilkomueller that's not true. The ancestors of the Windsor family are related to the families of Saxe-Coburg, Gotha, Hesse, Hanover and Prussia.
@@TheKartoffel101 but also of Englend one of them was king of England and that was bevor that
@@TheKartoffel101 didn't you visit Marienburg near Hannover
While there is little to no national pride, there's quite a bit of regional pride within Germany. For example, city rivalries are pretty big around here which is mostly visible in football/soccer.
Yea I hear a lot of people say I am a Berliner or a Ostfriese or anything else but it makes sense because we are so devers in culture.
Bavaria is the best example of regional pride instead of national pride. A Bavarian would rather say he is Bavarian then German.
As a german i can tell you one thing, the National Pride here is bigger than most might think.
@@crazyroostereye3557 you forget Franconia, go to a franconian village and say that they are bavarians. They will throw you out of the village.
But Germans normaly don't get an erection if we see our flag somewhere...like other nations...
That first picture of a Gymnasium, called "Jospeh-König- Gymnasium" is pretty sad, cause those students met to say farwell to their 16 classmates and 2 teachers whom died by an airplane crash. the 10th class was part of a schooltrip onboard, when that plane was used by a suicidal pilot and crashed. 150 people died in that incident. Because of it you can see so many red candles, so called "Grablichter" on that picture infront of the pupils and the policemen.
thank you for noticing and explaining!
I was wondering what event had happened there, with police standing in the entrance and the kids lined up like that. But the school's name didn't ring any bells for shootings or stuff.
Jibbin: "so Berliner's are the New Yorkers of germany, is that right?"
me as a german: "holy fuck, he is right 0.0"
Noooooo!!! We don't brag. We only explain why we are the best.
@@Zimtbiss1 :D
Berliner Schnauze
And Bavarian’s are kinda like Texans = The stereotype of their country and they’re very proud of their country.
Klar Berlin is ja so NYork alda 🤣🤦🏽♂️
There is a difference between communism, Marxism and socialism.
Americans often do not understand that our system of social market economy has nothing to do with communism.
soviet russia was socialism
@@zore5220 NO, soviet russia was communism, GDR was socialism.
@@zore5220 so?
i wouldnt say "nothing to do with communism" as socialism definitly stems from communism, but its not the same thing you are right in that regard, its abit like saying "wine has nothing to do with grapejuice", they are fundamentally different that is true but they are definitly related to each other, the reason why germany has the best of both worlds is because half well more like a third of us where in east germany which was heavily socialist/communist and the other 2 thirds where in west germany which was verry much so capitalist due to americas influence, when we came back together as proper germany we had to get some agreement between both worlds and so we got to chose the best of socialism/communism and capitalism
@@EinScharzerPhoenix No, there was never real communism, look at the final state of communism, this could only be achieved if mankind as a whole would change their mindset. It is, to this day, only utopia.
me as a german: had to giggle on every german word he said 🤣🤣🤣
Yes hahah
The thing about us Germans and the past is, that we cant allow ourselves to forget it. Americans for example never think about their past and the atrocities they commited. But we learn extensively about it, we remind ourselves nearly everywhere with little metal plaquettes on buildings that there once lived someone there that fought against the nazis. And we hate that there are people who want to hold on to such ways of thought.
indeed and to that like after ww2 (almost) the whole world was like you're the worst! while no-one seemed to care about the genocide that Japan did...
@@thelostcause1562 yeah the first thing I heard about japan in ww2 was not the atrocities they committed but the two nukes they got in the end for it.
I think too, we germans should really be careful with our political partys, because if something like that, that happened 76 years before now would happen again, it would be complete disaster for the whole world.
@@IrgendeinTyp22 At least AfD did worse this year than in 2017? It was quite fascinating to see their polling drop in January 2020 once Trump was out of office. I actually talked with a friend from Norway last night about that and he told me something similar happened with their right wing populists. It's like him being in power empowered similar leaning political parties in other countries.
@@masha8770 That's such a scary thought that one prominent right wing person can cause such a shift in other countries' politics as well
"Hast du glutenfree?"
"NEIN!!!"
**SLAP**
Never laughed so hard
We have glutenfree though. And the bakers note the names down, so when the next cleansing begins, these ppl will be the first to be.... re-educated and force fed with regular bread for half a year.
@@No_Way_NO_WAY Well we do have gluten free, but to be honest, it´s not good... The bread from the bakery next to us was horrible. And many restaurants or even hospitals have no clue what it is or how to avoid gluten in ther meals.
It's like asking for Radler
@@999.TeeJay ? Radler is a great isotonic beaverage.
Ummm no we do have great gluten-free bread. You have to dig a bit deeper to find it, but it's there
11:26
Yes, in most cases we can visit these castles. Sometimes we may not enter, or see all of the inside, but a lot of castles are property of a city and not private persons, so, mostly, it is possible. There even are quite some castles which are partially or completely museums
Mate, "Pause" all you want - we're here for your reactions and it's far better than talking over the video and missing something. Great to see Barby on the channel - gotta appreciate that energy. As a Dane I'd naturally like to see the Danish one reacted to but I'll happily second the request for the Dutch vid.
very cool and funny video... I have laughed a lot :-D with nice reactions. i like this reaction. Greeting from Germany
And at min 5:05 is the answer why Europeans laugh about Americans when they talk about traditions 😂
@@cuzimazooxhivesg398 We have the originals and the history that goes with them, thousands of books on incredibly specific histories and time-frames - invariably a more murky story than Walt Disney would allow lol but much more intriguing and fun for it. In their defence, they've known nothing else and been told 'they did it first/best' for 90% of the good stuff that's occurred. I can't blame a kid in Arabia for believing in Allah nor someone going Walkabout down-under for believing in the ancestor spirits. Same as an old Chinese/Russian dude for believing in their Red book - I've learnt to approach the elder US citizenry similarly. The source of public information has until recently been just as restricted and controlled - and so few seem to read once they leave school at 16. Like some of those places though, there's too much focus on *the book* as opposed to the books.
It's pausieren
education is really different tho. we had an exchange student last year and he said the stuff they learn in america in 10th grade is the stuff germans learn in 6th grade/7th grade💀🧍🏻♀️
Yeah, we also rarely do multiple choice tests. It's pretty much always a written answer, explanation or some sort of math problem you have to solve correctly.
Also we use something called the metric system
@@swanpride I never had a multiple choice test after 4th grade.
It is like that ngl
@@spaceowl9246 never made it to 5th grade? 🤔
Just joking 😉😆 couldn't resist
Can we talk about how he literally translated ,,Hochdeutsch" to "High german"
it's not wrong, it's both called Standard German and High German in english
It's the literal english translation mate....
17:38
You're talking about "Mein Kampf" and the Nazi Flag.
This book that Adolf Hitler wrote - you can own a commented copy of it in Germany, so history is preserved, BUT: It's commented. The thing about Hitler is, that he's been insanely skilled in being a demagogue. His words are dangerous, and shouldn't be left uncommented. I, as a German, am proud of what my country stands for today. Democracy, freedom of speech, religion and many more things associated with being a free person in Europe, BUT: Some things just don't sit right with us germans. Basicly we hate Nazis more than anything else on this planet (with maybe the exception of terrorists, who are on the same level) and we don't want any of their signs around us. We stand for peace, trade, engineering, freedom and prosperity, as well as social capitalism. No sane German would like to see a Nazi flag. It may be part of what our grandparents and great-grandparents were, but we despise this episode of our history.
Very good speak of you! Danke!
the thing with books like "mein Kampf" is that your are allowed to own them, even a original, its just not allowed to sell or buy them
And still we are allowing a fascistoid expansive ideology like Islam to take over and nullify our great advanced in civil liberties.
There is nothing to be proud about in Germany. We are on the path of utter self destruction.
@@matthiwi6901 pretty much
@@matthiwi6901 so the old 1933 fairy tale of some kind of world conspiracy and overruling our great culture goes on even today (and is covered by freedom of speech in our hopefully well-fortified democracy)
not proud of you fellow German
It's kind of funny: you're concerned about the illegalisation of Nazi symbols and whether that restricts freedom. On the other hand, you are extremely cautious about wording in areas you consider controversial and feel compelled to emphasise several times that this is only your opinion and that others can have different ones.
Germany sees the tabooing of unfreedom ideologies as a consolidation of freedom itself.
As the german poet Wilhelm Bush said: "Tolerance is good, but not for intolerance." did I translate that correctly? if not, please answer.
@@biggsdarklighter0473 Truer to the original would be "Tolerance is good, but not towards the intolerant." On that note the German philosoph Karl Popper can be cited: "Unrestricted tolerance will without fault lead to the disappearance of tolerance. BEcause when we, with unrestricted tolerance, tolerate the intolerant and not restrict the tolerant society in a way that it is defended, then the tolerant will be defeated and consequently tolerance will disappear.
But one also has to see, that mein Kampf isn't illegal to own, you can own it if you study it in school or uni for example, but you will not find it in a store, you have to request it. and Nazi symbols are also allowed, if used for art or for education.
@@Bumi-90 In fact Mein Kampf is now available. It was for long time illegal to produce new ones as the copyright was in the hands of the government and they didn't allowed to print and sell more copies. But as the author is now dead for more than 70 years, it's now under public domain and can be bought again in Germany.
This is so true here in germany we say deutsche haben immer was zu meckern which translates to badically germans are never satisfied
The "Nieder" - or in English "lower" - part of the name "Niedersachsen" ("lower saxony") doesn't refer to the geographical location in relation to "Sachsen" ("saxony") but is a description of the rather flat surface. For the same reason, in Germany we call "The Netherlands" "Niederlande". ;-)
The best Line how you can describe germans national feeling and identity: "We are proud of not being proud."
We see ourselves superior to other nations because we don’t see ourselves superior to other nations
Umm wow
Wahr
@@alexanderzippel8809 nice profilpicture
@@rueblimaster danke
No, germans are usually not keen on waving flags. Yes, it's done at the soccer world championship for example, but then purely out of pride for the team, not really out of nationalism. And for the most part we are just confused by people from other countries waving their flags like crazy, because to us this doesn't make a lot of sense. For one because auf the german history, but then also, because you can not decide in which country you are born, so why be proud about it? It's nothing someone achieves by working for it.
I think us Austrians feel very much the same way. "Nationalism" has a bad ring to it. Around here, the only people seen using the Austrian flag a lot are right-wing parties. We do hang flags on buildings on national holidays and stuff, but we wouldn't go around waving flags and chanting or something.
As a patriot myself I just want to say that I feel national pride because of what the Germans achieved. Germany had a lot of setbacks and has a complicated history, but we still managed to pull through and built up our strong nation again and again. The word nationalism sounds weird to most Germans because for them its only one step away from nationalsocialism and thats why I think some people may not even have the "courage" to be proud of Germany.
I also want to point out that my experience of being a German patriot is quite saddening. It's not like I walk around with a flag or always talk about Germany, I only tend to refer to the good sides of Germany more than others and that alone was enough for people to call me a nazi and a racist. It's crazy.
@@lizadd I think patriotism is seen as pride in something random. You can't really choose where you were born. With bad wording, this patriotism can sound a lot like what Nazis or the AfD say. I'm really proud of the freedoms we have in Germany, but we had 12 years that showed us how far nationalism can go, and I think a lot of people are afraid of that happening again.
@@chadratboi2849 Don't get me wrong, patriotism =/= nationalism. Nationalism is an unhealthy dose of national pride that can or will lead to the repetition of history, but I also agree that, with bad wording, patriotism can be mistaken for nationalism or nationalsocialism. I just wanted to point out that, even though it's subtle, patriotism for Germany is always received with a little bit of bad thoughts/feelings.
@@lizadd Yeah because youre never sure if that person is proud of all our history, including Hitler, proud of beeing a german or even aryan or just proud about the good things, as you mentioned.
Thats why most are a bit sceptical about such opinions, best is to not use patriotism as an conversation starter with people you dont know.
I almost never hear about the fact that the English language actually derived from the old German language. So as a US American you're also speaking a Germanic language even though it sounds really different nowadays as French had a huge influence back in the day. As a German it's quite simple to understand old English, even more so than it might be for native English speaking people.
woah
17:00 When you go to another country as a German you are often questioned about the Nazis or even insulted as a Nazi. That's annoying and I think that's why we don't use the German flag as much
Yeah, i hate it when someone calls us (the germans) Nazis
FR its so annoying ugh
Yea it's horrible
I never got called that in a foreign country
Frankly, I simply don't understand what is patriotic about waving a flag. Patriotism is wanting your country to become better, not claiming that it is already the best.
16:50
"you guys must go crazy then when you can wave it"
Actually no. It's not like we are not allowed to, we just don't see the point in doing it. Germans aren't proud of being german, they are just glad. Being proud of your country means being proud of what it is right now, what it achieved and its history. Especially the last part is just not right as a german (even though some say otherwise). Why are you proud of your country in the first place? You just were born there, you achieved nothing.
"Germans aren't proud of being german, they are just glad" puts it together perfectly
Literally any country in europe don‘t really have their flags everywhere. Only when there is em or wm😂.
@theMoonrider i‘ve been to italy countless of times because my grandfather owns a restaurant there. Here and there you can find some but def. not like in america.
@theMoonrider Using one of the few outliers doesn't mean that what the person has said is wrong. And even when you take that one specific outlier into account, Italy is nowhere near the US in terms of national pride. So yeah, stop being annoying and arguing just for the sake of arguing.
@@unnameduser5647 nich wirklich
Visiting castles depends on the "owner". Some are kinda like a museum and open for public.
One of my favourites is the word "Moin", which is primarily used in northern Germany and is used for greeting people. The great thing about it is that it can be used both casually as well as in more professional settings. On top of that, it is not bound to any time of day.
I remember a conversatiuon with someone who must've been from the far south:
A: Hallo
Me: Moin
A: Do you speak german?
Me: *visible confusion*
Same with servus in bavaria ^^
@@nihzit8185 Weird, never met anyone who doesn't know moin and I'm from Bavaria, living in Baden-Württemberg.
We actually use it sometimes as a greeting.
Well actually Moin has not only been used to greet someone, but also to say goodbye. Even though it kinda got out of fashion nowadays.
@@nicoep335 ??
"Can you visit these castles?" - Cute. Of course you can! The thing is though that Germany has so many castles (apparently around 25,000) that most are too small or too boring in comparison, so they're either still someone's house or being rented out as venues for stuff or as hotels or whatever. But you can visit more than enough castles and pretty much every bigger one!
some are just there to be somesort of outpost while other are where the king or a Fürst(count) personally i love germanies history especially the medieval time
The school system in Germany is a nice concept but the schools are equipped with 10+ year old tech. In Austria ( where I live) its almost the same where the students have to ask for a projector and have to wait ~1 year before you get one or your old one gets replaced.
The „lower“ in „Lower Saxony“ is meant as topographically, not in the direction of compass.
Yeah, it‘s pretty weak for someone making a geography video not to know that.
15:02 the early split of students is actually one of the largest problem of the German school system. Because the bad students get left behind, because classes with only bad students just don't work and the Gymnasium doesn't have a significant impact on the godd students. The school system in countries like Finnland where they split 9th grade, are much better and more efficient.
Yes. I didn't care for school till i was 12/13 and then it was so much harder to get somewhere if you were classified as Hauptschüler/Mittelschüler. But I finished my high school in 2018 and now I study at university. It was definitely not a straight forward way as the simple Gymnasium to university route 😅
Yeah the video also makes it sound like children that go to Hauptschule are supported to go after their strengths and what they are actually good at, but it really doesn’t.
exactly. The main problem is that kids get split up so early. At age 10, you haven't developed enough to tell which job you want to learn and what you're good at. Also it kinda supports social problems. If you're born in a rich family, you're much more likely to have a better early development of for example language and a lot more, than in a poor family. You can't overcome these differences in just 4 years of school. Also it is confirmed that kids with disabilities learn a lot better and faster in classes with "normal" children. Diversity is something you can learn from, if you differentiate this early, it only splits society.
Also these types of school don't prepare you for jobs later on, they just simplify the school curriculum a little and maybe have some extra classes like cooking, but that isn't mandatory and differs from school to school.
All in all the system isn't great at all and you really shouldn't try taking on these ideas in other countries. Just learn from the fact, that it sucks.
@@Lisa2206xP Genau. Allerdings habe ich selber eine Gemeinschaftsschule besucht, in welcher Haupt-, Real-, und Gymnasialschüler in einer Klasse mit unterschiedlich schweren Lernnachweisen(=Klassenarbeiten) sind. Das hat den Vorteil, dass man sich eben erst ab 8., 9. Klasse entscheiden muss welchen Abschluss man anstrebt. Ab da wird dann die Klasse nach Leistungsniveau eben in die drei Gruppen aufgeteilt. Ich selbst habe seit der 5. Klasse auf Gymnasialniveau gearbeitet, bin dann ohne Abschluss nach der 10. in die 11. in ein berufliches Gymnasium gewechselt, und hatte den selben Wissensstand wie Schüler die vom allgemeinbildenden Gymnasium gewechselt sind.
Lange Rede kurzer Sinn: Auf einer Gemeinschaftsschule muss man sich erst ab der 8. bzw. 9. Klasse für einen der drei Schulabschlüsse entscheiden.
@Lisa K Exactly. However, I have attended a community school myself, in which secondary school, secondary school and high school students are in a class with different levels of learning evidence (= class work). This has the advantage that you only have to decide from the 8th or 9th grade on which degree you are aiming for. From then on, the class is divided into three groups according to performance level. I myself have been working at grammar school level since the 5th grade, then switched to a vocational grammar school after the 10th without a qualification, and had the same level of knowledge as students who switched from the general grammar school.
To cut a long story short: At a community school you only have to decide on one of the three school-leaving qualifications from the 8th or 9th grade onwards.
10:32 "Why don't we get tuition-free universities here?"
Because of attitudes and habits. Specifically, Americans have fallen into this weird habit of, whenever someone shouts "THAT'S SOCIALISM!!!", to shut up and accept that as the end of the conversation. By comparison, in Europe we have the far more sensible habit in that same case of responding by saying something like "Yeah, so? So what".
And that is why tuition here is low or zero at the entrance to the university and in the US it is high.
Well free tuition isn’t all benefits. We in England and Wales and I think NI don’t have it.
About the "You guys must go crazy when you can [swing a flag]"
Depends. People who're really into football/soccer sometimes do and when you go to a supermarket you'll see German flags all over the place, but if you're not into football/soccer at all, you just want it to be over as fast as possible. Plus, you still get a lot of strange looks, when you walk around with a flag outside. (The only thing which is kinda tolerated is a football/soccer trikot)
Thats because we are not used to see our flag in public, or even wave them. My parents were born in the late 1940th, right after the war, they were raised with the reminder, that germans are the big baddies in history (which is true by the way), and my parents transported that feeling to me. Maby the generation of our grandchildren will get a new feeling for the german flag, but for me its weird to wave one.. never have done that in my live. Thats also why we don't have that kind of patriotism, my parents were forced to feel guilty about WW2 and it's hard to get that out of the mind of that generation. I don't feel guilty anymore - i didn't do it, and my parents either, yes my grandparents where involved in WW2, but it lies 80 years in the past and they are dead, but it's pretty important, that any german knows everything about this time, and the cruelty and the holocaust so it will never ever happen again.
But the people ARE going crazy, when they „allowed“ and this is only acceptable at football games 😉
@@veselgana yeah, if you actually ho to a football game, then nearly allnof them go nuts xD
@@Moleman0815 I still would never even dare to swing a german flag. I did sometime when I was a kid but when I think about it now I just cringe at the thought of it.
@@purpleandgreen5161 I'm austrian and swinging the austrian flag is quite different than swinging the swastika. Swinging the modern flags (in my opinion) shows pride for the progress the country has made since then.
"Fremdschämen" is the german word, when you want to say "Cringe".
But great Research for the Video. :)
Ich vermisse das Wort Fremdschämen wirklich .. ich kann Cringe einfach nicht mehr hören..
@@moonfyps9307 Ich find dass auch ziemlich cringe.
I'm Germany and I now that we say cringe because ''fremdschämend'' is cringe 😁
@@angebranntenudeln5556 das ist akkurat :D
ich muss mir fett einen abcringen, wenn jemand "cringe" sagt.
As a German out there: You can visit most castles in germany. A lot. A big, big lot. Bavaria has a "castle pass" where you can buy one ticket and visit all open to public bavarian castles, which are to say it frankly, a lot.
Fun fact: The middle-rhine river is the region with the most castles in the world and you can visit most of them because it‘s pretty expensive to keep them in good shape. Also it‘s definately worth a visit, it‘s unbelievably beautiful.
P.S.: Kuckucks Clocks are from the Schwarzwald in Baden-Württemberg, not from Bayern
German and sociologist here, the split school system we have here is actually detrimental to many students especially those who come from lower income families or families with an immigration background. Going to Gymnasium is very much tied to the economic and social class of the parents and causes generational social immobility for those who go to Realschule or Hauptschule. Since there is somewhat of an 'education inflation' happening in Germany were it is expected for many jobs - even for vocational trainings - that people can provide at least a Gymnasium diploma if not a university degree. Another point to consider is that each German state has their own education laws and even school systems varying not only in what and how students are being taught but also how long they stay in school, e.g. Gymnasium in Baden-Würrtemberg is until grade 12 but Gymnasium in Rhineland-Palatinate is until grade 13 with the exact same diploma at the end.
In a nutshell the education system in Germany is a bit of a mess, there are of course good things to it too like being able to choose a focus where you want to go, but there is a lot to be done still.
The problem is less the split, though, it used to work pretty well, until the Hauptschule was basically graded down to being for "problematic" children instead of truly focussing on the vocational stuff.
I still remember my classmates in elementary school and I am very grateful that all of these idiots who couldn't even shut up for five minutes during class and tended to violence were sent to the Hauptschule, so I could learn in relative peace on the Gymnasium. It's not that the school was too incompetent to teach them, but rather their parents were so bad at educating them, so the poor teachers were pretty much helpless. And it's not like on the Gymnasium everyone was from the high society. Most were from middle class
I totally agree, since it happened to me. My Family was never Wealthy, never had a Dad since he left once i was born and my Mother never had any Money or worked. There was literally no one caring or putting any Efford into "me" when i was younger. i had alot of Friends with Intact Family tho, they all managed to do well, traveled and visited with their Families other Countries, got all the Support.
It is an very outdated System and does favor Wealth and intact Families. Even tho you can manage to break tru this by beeing "poor" or been born into it, it is difficult if you never had anyone to look up to. Mostly no one talks about this sadly, now we have also the Problem that we miss alot People that went for Educations and we got too many Students that wont fill that spots. I would say this is due to the pressure (i had) that you "must" Study to be "something". Alot Jobs deserve alot of Respect , especially in the Health Sector. Yet they can be entered by the lowest Grade of Degree, which is only partly correct. For alot of those Jobs you still needed Realschule which wasnt archievable for alot of People (otherwhise we would have now more of the Workers we actually try to find everywhere in the World).
Good Points is: You can manage to Climb even from the Lowest Grade, but it's taking more Time, more Efford compared to someone who had Support.
It can be fixed in many Ways and also would help to solve alot Problems.
Anyways, i know alot of Germans disagree to this, but maybe it's reaching someone who actually thinks about it proberly isntead of instant Judging.
Great Video :)
@@Marcus-ym1kt Another point is: since my schooling didn't end with Gymnasium, I experiented how it is if you share a classroom with people who simply aren't as well on the uptake as you are. It is honestly a very difficult and frustrating experience. And yes, one could naturally do the "different track" thing for example Japan does, by having advanced and not so advanced classes - but then you have basically the same system Germans have EXCEPT you are less honest about it AND you let pupils get away with slacking in certain classes (if I hadn't been forced to do languages in Gymnasium, I would have most likely avoided them altogether after the initial failure english was for me). On top of this, you have pupils which do have a problem following the material getting frustrated even more, because they are constantly measured against those, which have an easy time with it. The lack of success can really frustrating.
Which is why I am less for changing the system in itself and more for 1. offering optional help for pupils who don't come from "academically inclined" homes and 2. Turn the Hauptschule back into what it was supposed to be, a place were children which don't care all that much about academics get the opportunity to learn other useful skills to a degree, that they are more sought after for certain vocational training than their Gymnasium peers.
@@swanpride It's a good Idea for a start into the right Direction for sure, however from Personal experiences i know that Kid's from poor Families or Problematic ones, tend to often run away and be rebellious.
It was the same with me and there actually was offered help but i refused because i was just full of anger back then.
In that Case what would that bring? You cant force kids to accept help, i dont say its wrong to offer it and maybe it even will help the most of them but there still will be Kids that will be left out, even One is one too much.
We have to change the System, give more Chances, better Teacher Educations (we had alot in our little City that didnt even wanted to do the Job but somehow ended in it and reflected it onto us then).
Heck i even say more "Praktikums" will help.
We had the Case that every Christmas ONLY the two best of the Class got a free Travel to other Countries or Christmas Markets. It was almost every Year the same two. Funny enough they didnt even want to anymore. This for example created an even bigger Gap between the "Fails" and "Successfull ones". Kids that already knew, they doing worse felt now even worse.
I'd love to go to those Markets but guess what, back then with no Money, no Car in the Familie - i wasnt allowed to experience it.
11:30 : yes you can visit those castles. Most of them even have a museum in them
Actually, the outlets we use here in Germany are a lot safer as the ones in the US, as the plugs contacts cant be touched because its recessed, and they can be made even more secure with so calles "Kindersicherungen" (Child safety things) that require you to put the plug in sideways then apply a lot of force and turn it sideways which is simply pain to do but at least no one can get hurt.
Not all outlets have this types of safety things some are just to plug in but I get what you mean
@@C4664L you can buy the Kindersicherung aftermarket.
@@bthatking4050 I know at my parents house we had them when I was a kid but now we don't need them any more
6:44 These are inland tornadoes, they don't have the Atlantic to level them up. Not nearly as devastated as in America.
11:30 Some, many are museums, but some are still privately owned.
17:50 The law is much more complex than it is presented here, you can own the book, but you cannot sell it or give it away. You are not allowed to advertise it or anything like that. With the symbolic it is the same, if you have a museum about the NS time it is not a problem.
One addition on the book, I believe that a critical, commented revision was released several years ago, with annotations highlighting e.g. false facts.
@@basti6160 cause by german copyright law Mein Kampf became public domain in 2015 (70 years after the death of the author) and something that does not have to been sold is hard to ban from selling. Noone knew what to do about it, publishing a commented version was the solution.
For teacher, it's allowed to show.
America is a continent, not a country
@@Revolución_Socialista What is your point in over same difference ? And here is a German word for you: Wortklauberei
this guy is so nice, like i dont think he said anything without making sure he wasnt offending anyone, what a legend
"any Germans?" well Germany is in the title so...:
Hiermit erkläre ich die Kommentarsektion zum Grundeigentum der Bundesrepublik Deutschland! xD
148 likes für so ne doofe Sache holy shit ;'D
ui! 258 likes sinds jetzt schon! xD
Darauf erstma, ein Bier mit nem Brötchen und Bockwurst.
Dachte sich TH-cam auch, darum bin ich hier. xD
Schon einen Tornado hier gesehen? Ich noch nicht
@@Questrelgon ich auch nicht
@@Questrelgon Tornado.. ist das nicht so 'n überall-außer-in-Deutschland-Ding? xD
As a F1 fan I love how Schumacher is in between Goethe, Schiller, Gutenberg and Einstein
Good old times.
saaaamee
Einstein is from Switzer land
@@C4664L Nope, he is from Ulm(Germany).
Your reaction is very genuine, loved the video
When it comes to flags, it's simply that we don't feel the need (like Americans) to wave a flag around all the time. When I see recordings from the US and people have one or more flags on their house or in their yard, I always ask myself if they're compensating for anything or if they think they'll be hauled away for not appearing "loyal" or "patriotic" enough.
And regarding Nazi symbolism. You can put up swastika wallpaper if you want and have those flags in your home. Just not outside.
There are some people who got arrested for this kind of flags, and they had it only in their homes
@@kayad.239 They were not arrested for the flags but for other stuff they had at home, mostly weapons etc., the flags were just a side thing which was mentioned in the media to show where they came from idiologically.
All Nazi flags fall under the german law which he described "Volksverhetzung" (Incitement of the general population). So they are all out illegal. The book is harder bcs it is legal to own it when it is an original but you're not allowed to share the content. Reprinting is only allowed when it has comments describing the ideology for educational purpose.
@@lisab.2334 I think my previous answer got deleted, bc I used a link. But you can look it up yourself. There are cases where they got punished for just owning the flag. They had it in the living room etc. When it comes to this kind of symbols Germany is very sensitive. Even movie covers or games must censor it, when they arent for a education purpose.
@@kayad.239 I'm german myself and believe me, there are many people who might have a flag at home but all cases I could find when I googled it were cases where you could see the symbols from outside the apartment or house which was the problem why people got arrested.
It is illegal to show the "Hakenkreuzflagge" etc. openly in a political context or for that matter; for the public to see but it is not illegal to have it in your home where no one can see it though the windows etc.
It's kinda debated again and again in different cases in court over the years.
Hey, I'm from Germany and yes it's true, in Germany you rarely see someone running around with a flag, you can only watch it at the World Cup, and we don't show much interest in our military either. As I know it, soldiers in the USA are greeted with respect and joy, we don't do that.
I think we should!
More like the opposite... It was quite sobering when in basic training we had a lesson about, more or less, acting as a soldier in public, and the captain told us, if we want to travel home in uniform, we shouldnt. There are certain train stations were soldiers get beaten up for being soldiers.
Part of what makes you far more civilized and advanced than the U.S. And of course for good historical reasons.
@@535phobos Ich find es immer cool am Bahnhof Soldaten in Uniform zu sehen. Ja, ich weiß, die Bundeswehr wird in den Medien tlw. lächerlich dargestellt und ihr Einsatz in anderen Ländern ist öfters fraglich (z.B. Afghanistan), ABER ich denke für mich ist das so eine Art Kindheitstraumjob (so wie Pirat, Astronaut,…). Nur ist die Bundeswehr da doch realistischer
And I wish my country, France, had learned the same lesson, but no. Apparently getting defeated in 6 weeks in the latest world war (despite efforts of the Free French and the Resistance later on) strikes up a massive inferiority complex nowadays. I think my countrymen are getting more jingoistic and chauvinistic. They're hypersensitive to French surrender jokes and what they perceive as "Anglo-Saxon propaganda" and if you haven't heard the tired "France has won the most military victories in Europe" by now, good for you.
Anyway, most people aren't crazy on the military like the US, but I think it's growing, and I'm not sure that's a good thing. As for the flag thing, outside of Bastille Day, national elections or World Cup games, you only ever see very right-wing people put them up. It's not taboo like in Germany, but the majority aren't big fans of ridiculous very visible displays of nationalism.
As an American I think it’s easier to be patriotic, Because we are a much more competitive we’ve been fighting wars for the top spot against Russia for example, which is when American pride skyrocketed. Because when your country/community is being threatened people tend to get along to fight the opposing team. Germany is very neutral and not as competitive unless it’s soccer/football, which is why you see them wave flags during that time. During the Cold War Americans got together and overcame our differences and made a lot of technological progress that we are proud of. While Germany doesn’t have much to be proud of mainly because of WW2 overshadowing any progress made in the modern day. As for the “What’s there to be proud of, I didn’t choose to be born here” argument, This doesn’t really matter to Americans, In life you can’t choose where you are born, But where you are born is where you make friends/family/learn/grow and live all experiences, it’s the place you’re most familiar with and can relate to the most. No one is born into patriotism you’re molded into it.
About the part with "Mein Kampf": You can still buy and own the book, however you can only get commented versions where his ideologies are highly questioned and analyzed. This way it´s less likely that people get caught up in the book and start thinking this way. Also people will judge you if you have it lying around openly in your house, Germans and Austrians really don´t like that. About the Nazi flag: You said, that you don´t really agree with forbidding people to own symbols. The way we see it, you don´t have a reason to own it if you don´t agree with what it stands for. Of course this doesn´t count for museums and KZ memorials. But private persons who use the flag or have them up in the house nowadays usually have connections to neo-Nazis and it will get you in trouble with the police if someone notices you proudly owning it. We take our past very serious. A lot of time in history class is spend with talking about the world wars, especially the second to make sure we never make the same mistake again. Almost every school class (at least in Austria and in my region) visits a KZ once, some even more times; it was common practice to have survivors come to talk at your school (when more of them were still alive) and we watched countless documentaries (some with actual footage from KZ´s when they were active e.g. piles of bodies being carried around) and recorded and commented speeches of Hitler and his people. Every child learns about it as soon as they are old enough to understand and deal with it and it is a reappearing theme throughout school. Every German and Austrian (except those who find a liking in Nazi ideologies - f*#"ing disgraces) grows up with a feeling of "guilt" and sadness about the past and therefore no one in their right mind would want to own or do anything that is related even in the slightest with Nazis.
As a German myself, I think that forbidding symbols or even worse demonizing and dehumanizing people like Hitler leads to problems too. We here in Germany tend to put all the bad stuff into this person or the symbols around it and to many people the only explanation for what happened is that he must have been some kind of evil being. I always thought that accepting that Hitler still was a mere human and part of a bigger movement would be important. Important because it takes into account that it _can_ happen again - and not only in Germany but everywhere in the world. Its in us humans everywhere and at any time. Also that the history about what lead to ww2 can not easily described in terms like good & evil. Nearly any participant did things that are despicaple deeds of inhuman atrocity. Of course such indescribable crimes as the holocaust, but also Gulags by sowjets, nuclear bombing of innocent people in japan or cluster bombing innocent people in Germany. If you bring this up - there will always people who take the stance: “They were not innocent” - but if we take away the nationality and reduce it to the simple fact that we are all human an evil deed can never be talked into something good.
@Vandole Yes of course - thats why its done. And I don't think it has to change. I do think though, that forbidding things also boosts them for certain people. People who want to shock or provocate or who want to feel in a crude way "special".
"Mein Kampf" isn't actually illegal, although that's a common myth. The copyright for the book was held by the state of Bavaria for a long time and they simply didn't allow anyone to print Mein Kampf. Today, there are commented versions of the book that you can legally buy.
Funfacts about Germany:
-German Trains are NOT usually on time. Trust me on this.
-The Internet in Germany is really slow. Almost half of what there is in Britain right now.
-While theres hardly any national pride, the 16 "Bundesländer" have a lot of pride. And often, people from different Bundesländern dont like some other. For example Bavarians (mostly the older generation) really dont like North Germany.
-The German Army (Bundeswehr) also really doesnt have a high reputation amongst the public. A military parade in germany would be unthinkable, and most soldiers go to Austria for a job. A famous comedian once said "The united free firefighters of Austria could invade us and we would have nothing to stand against that.
-We have several festivals where politicians go to, for example the "Knockerberg" where a theater show is held, the actors playing the highest politicians of the nation (which are mostly in the room at the time) and portraying them with satire. The politicians and other guests are drinking strong beer and get honestly really drunk at this.
And yes, you can visit those castles.
It was never illegal to own Mein Kampf in Germany. However, the State of Bavaria held the copyright to the work and was thus able to prevent a reprint. After 70 years of the author's death, copyright protection expires in Germany, and in 2016 the book was republished in a new, historically annotated edition. However, depending on the context, it can be classified as anti-constitutional writing if it is sold by Nazi websites etc.
Also with the swastika it depends on the context. Depictions are generally allowed in the context of education, research or art.
While freedom of expression is important for a democracy, it should also be weighed against other fundamental rights. If I say you should be killed, your right to life may outweigh my right to freedom of expression.
11:30 Most Castles are open for the public. Many of them are still owned by a privat person (mostly remnants of german nobility) but you can visit them at designated hours, often for a admission fee that is used for maintenance.
11:25 Germany is mostly like an open world RPG "you see that Mountain, you can go there". Only a tiny minority of Castles aren't open to the public
We also have "Gesamtschulen", which are basically very big schools including all three other types. Most of them divide the students into 2 to 3 different classes for almost every single subject, based on their knowledge. So one student can have math class like "Hauptschule" and german class like "Gymnasium" at the same time
find ich auch besser so
Ich war an einer Gemeinschaftsschule in Baden-Württemberg. Wir waren in E (Erweitertes), M (Mittleres) und G (Grund) -Niveau unterteilt. Wir waren alle in einer Klasse, hatten unterschiedlich schwere Lernnachweise (Klassenabeiten)und wurden halt dann auch unterschiedlich bewertet. Um die verschiedenen Abschlüsse zu machen musste man bei uns auch ab der 8. Klasse mindestens auf dem Niveau arbeiten, auf welchem man abschließen wollte.
@@Notfallkaramell Hauptschulabschluss (G-Niveau), Realschulabschluss (M-Niveau), or Gymnasialabschluss (E-Niveau).
The thing about german national identity is that we don't feel the need to wave the flag as well. It's something different in sports. And the Nazi Flag and Mein Kampf are illegal because of what they mean. They stand for racism, which is illegal in Germany
Die Flaggen und Mein Kampf sind nicht verboten, das ist größte Irrglaube überhaupt. Du kannst beides hier legal kaufen. (Was natürlich nicht gut macht)
@@foty8679 bei der Flagge kann es zu Problemen kommen aber nur wenn man sie offen zeigt und das Buch ist legal gewesen so lange man ein Orginal hatte mittlerweile kann man es mit Kommentaren zu Lehrzwecken wieder kaufen.
@@alsatianx4748 Bin ich mir bewusst. Aber noch mal gut für andere :)
@@foty8679 alles klar dann die noch nh schönen abend und gude nacht
@@foty8679 naja eigentlich stimmt es schon. Mein kampf gibt es entweder als teures und seltenes original für echte sammler oder als kommentierten nachdruck, in der regel für lehrpersonal. Nicht aber als unkommentierten nachdruck für interessierte an der ideologie. Auch bei den flaggen ist alles verboten was ns symbolik enthält, du meinst wahrscheinlich die reichskriegsflagge welche eigentlich zum deutschem reich gehört und nicht zu den nazis. Wird natürlich trotzdem zweckentfremdet hat aber an sich nichts mit den nazis zu tun und stammt aus dem jahrhundert vor dem ns regime.
If I am not mistaken the castle you find so beautiful (11:30) is schloss drachenstein. It is an "artifical" castle similar to Neuschwanstein. It was built in the 19th century and is actually quite small. A friend of mine got merried there so you can rent it as a venue.
I‘m from Germany and I just love it when people try to say German words. It sounds so funny
17:53 that's an interesting point of view for me since i only get the other side. For me it would feel wrong to have stuff like nazi symbols NOT banned and anyone could have these. i guess we just have the mindset of having to protect our democracy especially after what happend to the weimarer republic, that we feel much more comfortable and safe with banning stuff that is inherently antidemocratic
Symbols that go against the constitution are banned. Mein Kampf is allowed if you get a commented version.
How do you protect democracy by banning Nazi symbols? It's not that you change the minds of these people. It's more like "I don't want to see this stuff because I'm offended by it!". Don't get me wrong, I don't like to see it neither but banning it doesn't make it go away.
@@hansmeiser32 but banning it shows how wrong it is. If it wouldn’t be banned it would look like it’s condoning those thoughts and sentiments.
@@franziskamaria5157No, banning speech doesn't in itself show how wrong these ideas are. Tyrannical states always suppress some ideas which they consider harmful but that doesn't make this ideas wrong. I'm not saying that Germany is a tyrannical state. What I'm saying is that just because something is banned or illegal doesn't mean it's bad. Homosexuality was illegal for a long time and it was free speech which allowed to change this.
You eradicate this ideas by confronting them, not by banning them.
@@hansmeiser32 the confrontation happens as well. But even after educating people there should still be rules to keep countries, especially Germany, on the right way and not turning radical again. There are laws to protect people from bullying and hurtful slurs, so the same rightfully applies to Nazi symbols, since they are especially horrible to endure for people that are either judes or lost family due to the Nazi regime.
15:50
the picture is quite tragic.
it shows a memorial event after 16 students and 2 teachers were killed in an airplane with a suicidal pilot
"I got this!" *switches to fluent mandarin
As a German, I didn't understand anything from that word
6:40 I didn't even know Tornados existed in Germany... I have never experienced one nor saw news about it, I live in Leipzig. The only thing that often happens is storms
We have quiet a lot of Windhosen and a few Tornados, but luckily most of them appear in the less populated middle of Germany. Personally I've seen a few Windhosen (short living smaller Tornados that often only damage some crops or a few rooftops and usually don't get broad coverage in the news) even here in the south. If you google for tornados in Germany or middle europe, you can find quiet a few recent reports about bigger incidents (e.g. in northern Germany and the Czech Republic).
You can see quite a few tornadoes in the Rhine area. A few years ago a small tornado swept through Bad Schwalbach and tore down quite a bit of Forrest, but luckily it went right by the town without a lot of damages to structures. My hometown in NRW also had a small tornado a few years back, which destroyed a hole street, but was so small, that it disappeared after that street
Brandenburg is also prone to have them. I personally see woodfires as a bigger threat though.
Ther are quite a view. But they usually don't get as destructive as in america. That's why they are not that often mentioned in the news.
Doch es gab allein dieses jahr 28 bestätigte tornados in deutschland
Yes, you can visit castles. Not all the time but its mostly open.
I was once talking to an American (with immigrant parents, so he has had cultural diversity and exposure to at least another country outside of America) and he legit assumed German and Russian were related languages. Disappointment.
At least they are all in the Indo-European language family. But besides that it's not like most Europeans know wether Assamese and Khmer or Bengali and Telugu are related. Why would a US American know that. Especially if they immigrated from South Korea or whatever.
I mean... it's really not common knowledge for someone outside the EU
@@nonofyb Before we start, the "EU" is not a continent. It's the European Union, a loose organisation with many other European countries, but not all of them. The EU's concept is a union of commercial, economical, social and partly political intentions, Switzerland e.g. doesn't belong in it, even though it's literally in the center of Europe.
But as English speakers, don't you come across the term "(west)germanic language"? Bc English belongs to that category and studying a language without knowing in which family tree it even belongs to and its relatives seems... insufficient to me. And since the English term for the country GERMANy has the word germanic in it, one can almost put 2 and 2 together.
I understand that Africa and Asia focus on their countries more since they have just as many, if not more, but America just has Canada and Mexico on its continent (excluding Greenland since it's just kidna floating in between Europe and the Americas). Do you guys learn countries from Southern America as well then? I feel like I'm in a filter bubble, assuming America knows nothing about the outside world and also not enough about the US itself (where the states are located).
@@ducklingscap897 Yes, that's a valid point but in my case, he was born on American soil with immigrant parents so I'm trying to criticize the American education bc if America is so focused on speaking English, why don't they also mention that it's a West-Germanic language. Do they completely disregard the linguistic history?
@@ducklingscap897 Isn't the relation between the German language and the russian language only connected via the old mongolian language, as they used to integrate a few words after the invasion of D. Khan and the turkish invasions? So Russain would fall under the term of turkic based language. The German nowadays is way more related to the old roman language and influenced of Karl the Great and the "Kreuzzüge" (don't know the english term) named the indo-german language afterwards.
Don't want to start a fight only pure interest an want an opinion.
Yes, nearly every castle in Germany can be visited.
Fun Fact:
Bavaria(so called Bayern) is split into several parts:
1. Oberbayern (Upper Bavaria)
2. Niederbayern (Lower Bavaria)
3. Oberfranken (Upper Franken)
4. Mittelfranken (Middle Franken)
5. Unterfranken (Under Franken (my english is not the best i dont know it)
6. Schwaben (It is an own name i guess)
7. Oberpfalz (Upper Pfalz)
All small regions/parts have an own dialekt
Regarding 17:10
Swastikas and certain runic symbols are illegal to have as tattoos or on flags (or in clearly naziesque contexts). Mein Kampf is not illegal to own, but it is indeed illegal to sell or distribute it in an uncommented/uncriticized form.
It's not illegal to own them, but it's illegal to show them (showing them is "Verbreiten verfassungsfeindlicher Symbole" (distributing of anti-constituent symbols)). You can get yourself a Swastika tattoo or the runes of the SS, but it has to be always covered. So no relaxing at the lake where the tattoo can be seen. That would be a criminal offense. I know about a few incidents where neonazis got arrested at the lake or at the swimming pool
Fun fact about the German economy: Shortly after its first unification as the German Empire it started competing for first place in the world, beating out the US for a time. Even though it was beaten and with heavy restrictions after WW1, it immediately surged back to the top - and even the devastation at the end of WW2 didn't stop it from returning to compete for the top just a couple decades later. Some rumor the European Economic Community and later the EU were partly formed in hopes of piggy-backing off of this success.
Actually that is right the pressure of the EU was the Montan-unit (so heavy industry like steel) a eco political union of France Germany and same other countries
The "German economic miracle" mainly came about because of the post-war U.S. Marshall Plan. It didn't come about merely through German "efficiency". Huge amounts of money were poured into Germany after WW2 by the Americans. This was in the form of grants i.e. no debts to repay. On the other hand, the U.S. demanded huge war debts be repaid for many years from Great Britain. The U.S. made certain that the British Empire was in decline after WW2. Now we see China threatening to become "top dog" on the world stage.
@@briantitchener4829 Yeah, that is the propaganda, but in reality the patents the US took as war loot alone were worth multiple Marshal plans. Plus, the Marshal plan wasn't just for Germany, it was offered to all European countries, and between those who took it, Germany actually got the smallest share by capita (the UK got ten time as much).
That makes a difference though is what Germany did with the money. Since the assumption was that it would have to be paid back one day, it wasn't really "spend" but instead invested into a number of micro credits, most of which got repaid with interest. The money is still there and is still giving out credits in order to push the economy forward, and it has multipled. And it is nearly untouchable for our politicians, so it will always be there, even during budget cuts, there are always investments in science and economy.
@@briantitchener4829 both the uk and france got way more money through the marshall plan than west germany did. Not saying that it didn't help to rebuild the economy though.
Also in Baden-Württemberg we don't only have the Swabian culture but the Baden one as well. There is somewhat of a rivalry going on between these two cultures and if you get it wrong with a person from the area the discussion can get quite heated ;)
true from Baden
16:50 it's Not that we can't Wave it. It's Just that we don't want to, Most of the time. But still, yeah they kinda do Go crazy at Football/soccer Games
14:07 Not "Wierschaftswunder" = in german sounds really wierd. Its ralley called "Wirtschaftswunder" like economic miracle.
I thought he misspelled that on purpose the way he pronounces it
I'm German and grew up in the Hallertau, the world's biggest cultivation area for hops. 1/3 of the world's hop is harvested here.
During the harvest season the whole area smells so awesome and the plants can grow up to three feet on a good day.
thank you for treating germany with respect and dignity, what a good video you watched and a good reaction to watch too. thank you!
As a Bavarian, this was incredibly fun to watch.
Grüße aus Thüringen
@@FreedomAtLast845 grüße aus Rheinland-Pfalz
Grüße aus Schleswig Holstein 🤗
Grüße aus Hessen
Meddl
Me (M, 20) live in Germany since about yh *20 YEARS* and even I was surprised how much cool stuff we have around, that noone else does. It feels so normal to me, but if you watch it like that, it's just astonishing how Impressive many things actually are.
11:29 I live in Germany and YES you can visit these castles, but you can’t enter specific rooms :)
Sometimes there will be special events where you can enter some of the secret rooms which is cool! :)
Regarding the "not being allowed to hold a symbol or a book", the US has banned books for centuries and continues to do so, they even enact severe restrictions on what prison inmates or kids in school are allowed to read in some states so.. yeah ^^'
But the confederate flag is still okay to patriotically fly...
@@frauleinzuckerguss1906because the USA is a free country so you can do whatever you like
@@francoisdaureville323 except for reading books i guess
I live in germany, and about the Pension when you're 65. We have joke: parent: hey son Pension.
Kid: I don't get it
Parent: that's right
As a german I can confirm that yes for the most time we have no speedlimit but we also have so many construction zones that it doesn't really matter
"Can you visit the castles?" In most cases: Yes, absolutely! Some castles even regularly host their own rennaisance fairs, complete with mock tournaments/swordfights and stuff like that. Others double as fancy hotels or have been converted to museums. But there are still a tiny number that have only restricted access to the public, or none at all, due to the aristocratic owners actually having their residence there. One castle along the Rhine was bought by a wealthy Japanese guy in the 1980s, so there is no public access to it whatsoever.
As a german i can say that you definitively wouldnt want the german school system in the US. It feels like everyone who is not at a Gymnasium is neglected by the state and automaticaly seen as stupid (not the case). Also you need a "Abitur" to go to the free universities, which can only be obtained in Gymnasium. So this system creates a huge gap in income and education
The photo of the „Fachwerkhäuser“ at 12:01 is from a German city called Celle in Northern Germany 🇩🇪 🥲 it has nothing to do with Bavaria
Nice that he mentions Sorbians. We are often overlooked as native inhabitans. Even most Germans don't know we exist.
Wie nennt man euch denn auf deutsch?
@@MB-ux9me Sorben. Oder wie meinst du das mit mit "nennen"?
@@irrisus8 lmao, wer kennt denn bitte die Sorben nicht?
@@nickyjul9642 selbst die Sachsen nicht...
i'll tell you why there is a reinheitsgebot:
In the middle ages poor people drank beer basically every day and when there were famines, people mixed all kinds of things into the beer to make the hunger more bearable. They put in herbs, mushrooms and all kinds of stuff, which sometimes resulted in an entire village being high as a kite and many people dying.
To prevent that, since 1516 you were are only allowed to brew after the reinheitsgebot.
Nowadays its a bit different, because there is a bavarian reinheitsgebot which consists of only these 4 ingredients you named and there is a german reinheitsgebot in which about 70 other ingredients are listet if i remember correctly.
Some spelling mistakes (without rewatching only "Wierschaftswunder" comes to mind; should be "Wirtschaftswunder"), but I have to admit even I (native German with History as a minor in uni) learned a few things here.
"Mein Kampf", BTW, is not illegal to own or sell (though it couldn't be printed as the US government, having confiscated Hitler's estate in '45, held the copyright until 2015); we had a few copies left at our uni library and even though those were kept in the "poison cabinet" that was only because all the others copies had been nicked...
And you can buy it (as a commented / analysed Version) again since last year or 2019
this is absolutely hilarious
*Bavarian government
to tack on to that: Nazi symbols aren't allowed to be used outside of a historical context, especially not for glorifying the Nazi regime. A documentary can display nazi symbols (including the flag) and even Computer games might (it's a bit unclear since nearly nobody tried - but I think "Through the darkest of times" doesn't censor them).
@@forchtsengar6071 I think this was changed recently. You couldn’t do it before but know you can, I think. I am not sure though.
I don't think ANYONE other than a German national, understands how it must feel to have the history Germany has. I guess in many ways it's the antipathy of the UK mentality.
What I do know is that all the Germans I have met in my travels, are incredibly friendly, polite, genuine and interested in other cultures/nation's.
I've had a strong affection for German since I was young, I learnt German at school, and have travelled extensively around the country, I love it.
Me as a German see that part of the video a little bit different, don't get me wrong i actually love that video, as it is probably one of the most realistic information i have ever seen in those kind of videos, specially about Germany.
But the part with the national pride i see that a little bit different, as i believe that Germans in general have a very high pride in Germany, means, we know what Germans can tribute to the world, in the same time, we know our history and specially WW2 and we see it as a responsibility to not let that happen again and that's the point where our history and the response to it makes our pride to the country different as most citizens of other countries.
To explain, if we see Americans for example, singing the national song before every event, or flying Jets in national colors over a sport event and praise our army more than everything, most of the Germans probably think there, exactly such behavior and falls pride made it easier for Hitler to rise to power.
As well as we aware of that hardly nobody who is still alive today has anything to do with what's happened, we also know that Germany as it is today, is there because all Germans helped to build up Germany again and we also realize that we had a lot of help from other countries, with that said, i think Germans in general probably define pride more like in, can i show pride for this because I was involved or am I only pride of it just because it's German.
@@danielfahrion2603 exactly. We don't need to wave aroukd flags all the time, bragging about how great our country is. We know how great it is, but we also see the flaws. And that's what I like to call "real patriotism"
Only bragging and thinking your country and the people there are perfect and the best in the world leads to things like WWII. Or citizens storming federal buildings, trying to overthrow democracy. We know about that, and by that, we tend to not do such things.
@@danielfahrion2603 well said👍
@@danielfahrion2603 If asked I nowadays just answer, watch and listen to Rammstein's Deutschland and then add that I'd call myself a Verfassungspatriot (patriot of the constitution) as Böhmermann said. I think that is as close as it gets in a short description.
I live 10 Minutes from that Castle at 11:30 away. It's the Reichsburg Cochem, and yeah, it's open for tourists :)
Yes, you can definately see a lot of the castles. My favorite is Eltz Castle, because it is the most beautiful, and unlike many others has never been destroyed and rebuilt, and is unchanged since medieval times, unlike a lot of others which were "romantacised" or - in the case of Neuschwanstein - only build in the 19th century.
13:15 This "ß" does not make a double s sound. The double s "ss" is basically a harsh s sound that makes the vowel that comes before sound shorter. The ß is called "scharfes S" = sharp S wich is pronounced very sharp but also makes the vowel in front of it sound longer. And the normal S is the "rundes S" = round S cause it's ahm round I guess.
Also I think the ß is kinda obsolete there isn't even a caps version of it, if you want to write a word like "Straße" in caps you have to switch the ß to a ss like "STRASSE" and then the pronunciation doesn't make any sense anymore. lol
With all due respect, for a foreigners it may sound a bit like two letter "SS" together but the sound itself (obviously it an change a bit depending on which German dialect you speak) is "schs" or "sh"... Or at least it is it sounds to me.
@@byronofrothdale The „s“ itself sounds similar. The „ss“ is used in the same way as in English. For example in „stress“. It makes the „e“ short followed by a quite harsh „s“. The „ß“ just makes the vowel sound longer. You could transcript „vast (majority)“ to „waßt“ in German with the exact same pronunciation.
Actually, there is a caps version of it now, but I've never seen it used anywhere .... But look at Wikipedia about "Großes ?"
@@katharinawinter3788 while there was no uppercase version of it, some people (with surnames like "Groß") couldn't correctly fill out official forms: this had to be done in "all uppercase", while names had to be kept unchanged (which the conversion to double-s would have done). an uppercase version of this letter was introduced in unicode in 2008, and it was officially (there are no laws for language and letters but only a commision that edits a kind of dictionary, the DUDEN) included in this Duden in 2017 : ẞ
to look it up in wikipedia, you can search for "großes ß", but also for "grosses sz" (redirection to the same page), and you can copy&paste from this line: äöüß ÄÖÜẞ
ps: an origin of that letter is the ligature between two different kinds of writing "s", depending on whether it was at the end of syllables, and the placing and the looks of those two different "s" letters also have caused the names "rund s" (round s) vs "langes s" (long s, looks like "f" without the dash), "Schluß-s" (end s), and for ß: "sz" or "scharfes s" (sharp s)
A good example to hear a difference is by looking at a pair of words that also show that you can't really go without the ß fully. "Maß" and "Masse". Or better yet, the terms "in Maßen" (in moderation) and "in Massen" (in large quantities). As you can see, the usage of "ß" or "ss" in this case turns the meaning on its heel.
You can google the terms and listen to them on google translate. You'll hear that the "a" preceding the "ß" is stretched out, while the "a" preceding the "ss" is more succincty and thus the "ss" is more prominent.
The Reinheitsgebot was mainly a measure to prevent tax evasion. It was supposed to stop brewers from adding ingredients to avoid paying the relevant taxes. The secondary reason was to stop brewers from substituting the required ingredients with lower quality stuff to make more profit while serving bad quality beer.
08:58 adidas vs Puma really is funny, because it's true. Theses two companies exist in the same city and were managed by two brothers who hate each other. adidas was a family company till one of them got out and build his own company - the rival PUMA.
there are several companies with rivaling brothers who has founded a company and then (at some point, and for different reasons) split up.
another such pair of brothers are the Albrecht brothers who founded the "ALbrecht DIscount" (short ALDI) and who then agreed to restrict themselves to half of germany and thus created Aldi Nord and Aldi Süd. one of them bought Trader Joe in the usa already a while ago, and the other started the american branch with the name ALDI more recently.
@@Anson_AKB dont forget about austrian aldi
"east germany has good relations with the slavic countries" 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 no, absolutely not. most east germans are unfortunately extremely hateful towards their slavic neighbours, despite their shared history as soviet satellite states. it's the most nationalist region of the country
They only have good relations with the liquor and cigarette shop over there to buy them cheap.
Most East Germans I know are pro Putin and support Polish and Hungarian politics. They also like that they never accepted refugees and keep their borders shut.
yes, good relations with slavic countries, as long as slavic countries means russia. east germans don't give a fuck about the interests of their neighbouring countries
thtas not true, there are studies that show that especially east german companies have higher bonds with slavic companies. they trade way more often with, have more subsidiaries there. more east german people can talk and write the russian language. In some job applications its your advantage if you speak polish or czech.
saying that „east germany“ it the most nationalist region is quite missleading. yeah if you look at the percentage than there are more right wing voters there, if you look at absolut numbers. you can combine sachsen, thüringen and sachsen anhalt to get the same amount as in baden württenberg. here is to notice that these structures came after the reunification and was braught to by a guy from hamburg. the right wing problem is even larger in the west, but its talked down in the media.
To your question if you can visit the castles: yes you can. Not all, but very very many. Greetings from Germany
Ich erkläre diese Kommentarsektion nun als Eigentum der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. 🇩🇪
Yes Sir 🥳
Seh ich mich
I am from north Germany and I can say the Ostfriesen have a really interesting culture of pirates ( like Störtebeker) and being freedom. The freedom thing is just very differently from the US.
I personally see no freedom in weapons but in roaming free through the country side.
Also we personifie the north sea a lot it's very interesting.
formerly known as Frisian Sea :3
Question: Do you know why Americans are allowed to carry weapons?
What the original idea behind it was and still is?
To explain the origin of the REINHEITSGEBOT: They wanted to prevent barley and wheat from being used for beer. Since these ingredients should only be used for bread. Especially after various famines, these ingredients became valuable. In addition, some tended to manipulate tastes with additives that were sometimes toxic. The purity law should also protect against poisoning. Today it is a tradition and therefore still exists.
I just learned that selling, buying and owning the book "Mein Kampf" never has been illegal in germany (according to a high court decision in 1979). After 1945, just making new prints of the book was prohibited. And just for copyright reasons. Depressing.
Bro das is illegal
@@SirSmokeALot27 Ist es nicht, weitverbreiteter Irrglaube. Beides ist legal, ist trotzdem beides Schmutz.
You can visit almost all of the castles and old fortresses, a lot of them have cafés and hiking trails that lead up to them.
u did a good job on the long word! love ur authentic not fake reaction ! thx
Oh, I could watch Geography Now all day (if I didn't have to work, eat, or sleep). You have found a very good channel to react to.
I actually learned more about Germany in this Video than in all History lessons
-Yes you can visit those castles at least most of them…
-Compared to other EU countries the German school System is not good…
-Yeah National Proud in Germany isn‘t really high. You‘re more weird when holding flags…
-Appart from the EU Council and the EU Parliament there is another Parliament between France and Germany who both countries send 50 People each because of the german french friendship