At age 21 in the US, you are: - an unsupervised adult - who's buying with your own money - well used to driving and doing it all the time At age 16 in Germany, you are: - a minor, supervised by your parents - with no substantial income of your own - not be allowed to drive (a car) for another 2 years This makes it both harder to drink in excess when starting with it and gives you 2 years to be drunk as drunk can be without being able to be a drunk driver.
Most 16-year-olds in Germany are not constantly supervised by their parents and they can very well buy a crate of beer together and get drunk. It is, however, much harder to get drunk on beer and they can have their first drunk experiences with less hard liquor. It's true that they can't drink and drive at that age (at least not a car).
@@cayreet5992 well still i think he makes a good point, since the 21 us kid can just start beeing an alcoholic, drinking every day for the rest of his/her life from there on out, while ofc that can happen to the 16 year old german kid its much more unlikely cause of the mentioned no money, no freedom thing. also the answer to @Tudas you can get that hard alcohol, i remember asking older boys to buy it for me when i was like 15 but you wont be able to do it all the time
About smoking: My impression is that Germans don't harass smokers. The campaigns are there, the warnings are there, so literally everyone knows about the health implications. If some adult decides to do it anyway, it is their decision. It is not my business to dictate other people how to live their lives. Doing so would be very rude. German culture puts heavy emphasis on personal responsibility, privacy and personal property. Have you seen that video by an Australian mother raising her kids in Germany? The one where she talks about the difference in kids sharing their toys? Her instinct was to tell her son that he must share his toys with random strangers, but the German mothers at that playground said that those were his toys, and if he didn't want to share them, he didn't need to. Same thing; Germans don't like to dictate others how to live and what to do with their stuff. On the other hand, being a bad example (especially in front of kids) will get you a tongue-lashing very quickly. So if you want to ignore red pedestrian traffic lights in Germany, you better make very sure nobody sees you ;)
Wasn't that mother from NZ and was the one that freaked out when her kid wanted to walk on a wall with other kids? Just as a sidenote: Person. §. 1. Man is called a person in so far as he enjoys certain rights in civil society. General Land Law for the Prussian States (01.06.1794) Otherwise fully agree.
Besides the regular laws in Germany, we have a "law" that alcohol is not allowed during work. This "law" is apparently interpreted differently in the federal states. Fun fact: I was born in North Rhine-Westphalia and lived there for about 30 years before moving to Bavaria. In NRW it is strictly forbidden to drink alcohol at work, not even a beer is allowed. During my first job in Bavaria, a colleague celebrated his birthday and we all went to the company's restaurant (large insurer with a swimming pool, doctor, massage and restaurant in the basement). Suddenly everyone is ordering a beer with dinner and I just thought... WTF... On that day I learned that Bavarians see beer very differently and that it's practically part of their life, and I've never left Bavaria again
Every Werkskantine I've been to in Berlin(West) served beer or wine. The worst was the Deutsche Oper Berlin. When I arrived on my first day there was a truck from a brewery unloading large quantities of bottled beer. Naturally I assumed that the bar was restocking but it turned out that the members of the stage crew were just refilling their personal fridges!
The rules about drinking (from my father) were as follows: (1) You can drink as much as you want, as long as you know, how you get/got home. (2) You can drink as much as you like, as long as you don't have to apologize on the next day or if you feel embarrassed about what you did last night.
I would say, we germans like sparkling water not only as it is, but also very much because of a drink, we called 'Schorle'. So we mix sparkling water with different sorts of juice. Without mixing, the juice tasted boring and the water tasted boring! But together, they are just perfect. So every foreigner who don't like sparkling water, try this!! 😎
Or you add wine 🍷 to your sparkling water ( red or white wine) … that’s the real meaning of „Schorle“ …. at least in the south ( Baden Württemberg) greetings from Germany 🇩🇪 🙋♀️
@@juwen7908 z.b. Apfelsaft-Gspritzt, oder Apfelsaft-aufanhalben. (oft auch Obi-Gspritzt, der Markenname hat sich für jeglichen Apfelsaft eingebürgert) Wein ist grundsätzlich ein "Gspritzter", Sommerspritzer für einen mit wenig Wein und viel (Mineral)Wasser. (Sodawasser wird eigentlich nicht verwendet)
Fun fact: The famous purity law from 1516 in Bavaria is predated by identical local laws instituted in Eichstätt (1319), Weimar (1348) and in Thuringia (1434) among other places.
@@gustavmeyrink_2.0 Fun fact: the purity law no longer exists. Breweries are still more or less sticking to it. The question is how long will they stick to it.
@@GreenFart174 I know. At some point Germany traded it in with Italy which meant that beer sold in Germany does not have to adhere to the purity law while Italy allowed pasta not made from durum wheat to be sold there.
The funny thing with smoking is: they did try the same kind of scare campaign here which included printing warning labels with shocking images. So, people collected them. I think we just have a general suspicion of fear mongering, even though smoking has decreased overall, but it usually is more a thing of "I want to live healthier" rather than "this is gonna kill me".
Smoking in Germany went down substantially in the last 20 years, especially younger people in cities, bit less older people and in more rural places. Prices for cigarettes went up during that time, but I think only slightly more compared to other things, and I don't think this is the reason for the decline. I think there are two reasons: First people are more aware of their health nowadays compared to 40 years ago, second, young people stopped seeing it as a "cool" thing to smoke.
Im german and I like normal tap water, no sprudel for me. Although same as you said once it is a lemonade or something I drink for flavour and not for thirst is is nice. Beer in Germany has a lot of carbonation for example, more than some of the english beers I had.
I would assume you are English? Continental Europeans? That is (to me) this strange concept of the English that "we are an island" and those are the others that they are not part of. To me (German) the UK is part of Europe, and it's not American, it's the UK.
When i was a little child, I did not get a knife at the dinner table. I had only a fork in my right hand. When I finally was allowed to use a knife myself I could never bring myself to hold it in my right hand and bring my food to the mouth with the left-handed fork , like it is supposed to do.... I always had the feeling I miss my mouth and it was uncomfortable for me. So here I am, around 50 years old, and hold my fork in the right hand and my knife in the left hand at the table. But yes, it might let people think that I am an uneducated underclass kind of guy.
Yeah, ice cold plain water - with lots of bubbles... Smoking in germany is a private and individuel thing. It is allowed under the free sky from the age of 18 but not in public buildings, restaurants or bars. For that you should pick an old school pub (Kneipe).
When it comes to smoking, it seems, that the german gouvernments tries to find the sweetspot of saving money from the health effects of smoking without loosing to much money from the tobacco tax. A few years ago the bundestag decided a strong rise of the tobacco tax. But the finance ministry feared, that to many people could stop smoking and they changed the law again. They decided to make the rise in three smaller steps, with the hope that they will loose less tax Euros.
I always find it funny when people are like "why are so many people smoking? don't they know it's bad for health?" but then nobody talks about drinking alcohol that way, ignoring the fact that, considering accidents caused by DUI, alcohol is a much more deadly drug. In general it shows how warped and random our perception of certain drugs is.
When I was 12 years old and member of a marching band in Germany, We used to play for old people of the village to honor their birthday or someting like that. We always were offered some schnapps or liquor. Often the woman would say: "Perhaps you take the liquor, the Schnapps will be a bit strong for you".
worst thing ever happpned to me, was a cop in the netherlands kindly asking me to dump my beer in the sewer. As a german I was a lizttle confused, but on the other hand i got stoned as fu** witch would be illigal in germany, so a gladly complied ( and muchend on some mushrooms later that day)
About alcohol: our youth protection law is only for buying or consuming alcohol in public. At home it depends on the parents. It is actually not forbidden to give alcohol to your children at home, as long as you don’t endanger them. In other words: a sip of sparkling wine at New Year’s Eve is no problem. But giving alcohol as a habit to a child might get you into trouble with the child protection service. But most people don’t know that…which is good. Better not start alcohol too early. Anyway: it is better to learn how to handle Alcohol at home than to learn it the hard way somewhere else.
And speaking of smoking: Considering that 1 out of 2 young US adults (and even teens) I see on Omegle are vaping, that's a way higher rate than vaping and smoking combined ever have been in Germany.
theres also things that weird foreigners out. However they arent COMMON in germany more like weird law exceptions like - age of consent is 14 for sex (but you cant film it until 18) - crossbows are illegal warbows are fine, small knives are illegal huge ass 2 handed sword is fine - you have to have sex at least once every 6 months in a marriage - bestiality was legal until 2002 and since then is a minor offense (basicly you get a ticket if caught) - consuming certain drugs is legal but buying them is not (or selling) - public nudity is legal outside of "city areas" and in designated spaces - wearing clothing in a sauna can actually get you banned - you can legally buy alcohol and smoke at 16 but you can already drink legally age 12 with parental supervision
drinking age 14: Parents let their children/Teens try half a glass of wine or beer without beeing criminalised, I think it´s not meant that youngsters drink several glasses together with your parents.
The number of people drinking carbonated water in Germany has been going down slowly for decades but the pandemic really kicked that into high gear. It might just be a fifth of the population now.
The German alcohol regulation is correct. Parents are already able to teach their children the use of alcoholic beverages. Children don't have to lie to their parents like they do in the US. In Germany, people drink wine and beer as a stimulant and not to get drunk (the language usage shows it. In the USA people say they drink alcohol, but in Germany they would never say it). Wine and beer are often drunk with meals, just like in France, Italy or Spain. That's probably the case all over Europe and that's probably the big difference to the USA. In Germany, we don't have the same bar culture as in the USA, where a lot of hard liquor is drunk. However, the UK is also notorious for teens and young adults getting so drunk at the weekend that they can barely walk. This is not so common on the continent. In Germany this tends to happen at folk festivals (Oktoberfest, carnival) The EU rules on smoking apply in Germany. The number of smokers is declining. Smoking is not cool for young people.
Smoking in Germany went down drastically and its basically illegal in any public indoors place. If you have s problem with smokers NEVER move to Austria. They dmoke like crazy and have a record young entry age for smoking at 11! Thsts the only thing I really hated about living there. Smokets absolutely everywhere.
How do I feel about beer? I don’t like it 😎 Thank you, Mama, for giving me the opportunity to taste it as a child (no, she is no drinker). It taste bitter and I never liked it. I used to order a beer in a pub when I was young and broke and needed a drink that would last the whole evening. But that is decades ago. I just really don’t like it 🤷♀️
it just always throws me that Americans hate carbonated water, when almost literally everything they drink apart from milk and coffee (Coke, Pepsi, Mountain Dew, Dr. Pepper, Root Beer, etc. etc. etc.) is carbonated…
6:00 the numbers are going down, but american friends are sometimes amazed that many germans roll their own cigarettes. you can buy tobacco, paper and filters separately and when you want to smoke one, you roll a fresh cigarette no idea if this is widespread in europe
Actually is isn't correct that the "drinking age" in USA is 21. The age to legally buy alcohol is 21 but buying and consumption aren't the same thing. E.g. if your parents buy alcoholic beverages and bring them home and allow you to drink from them, you can legally drink them below 21 depending on the state law of the state you live in. 11 US states allow drinking below the age of 21 in a family setting, 5 allow it in certain locations and 16 allow even both, family settings and certain locations. Only 18 states also set the minimum consumption age to 21 as well.
drinking alcohol is a healthy thing for the states, because of the tax. So they don't limit it too much in Europe. As well as drinking in public. Smoking in public is much restricted now, and I don't have friends doing it. Drinking and smoking are not a matter anymore by most of young citizen. Children are free of choice when they are 21, without parental guarding. Carbonated water is a matter of taste. And yes, we eat in Europe with knife and fork, without having one hand under the table. If you are right handed or left handed, does not matter. So what?
I'm right handed and when I cook and use a knife for cutting potato's for example I use the knife with my right hand but when I eat I have the knife in my left hand and the fork in my right hand. That is a bit strange for almost every German as they used to have any kind of knife always in their dominated hand.
I don't know why there should be any fuss about carbonated water, it is only like drinking coke or other soft drinks without the flavourings. I prefer still water and if very thirsty I would find carbonated water frustrating as I can only drink it slowly. THE US drinking age is just silly but then so was Prohibition from 1920 to 1933.
If you manage to get your hands on a Kölsch in Dortmund, you committed a capital crime. Similar to drinking Scottish Whiskey in Ireland and vice versa. Please do not kill me for my spelling, I never get it right for whiskey 😂
Drinking age for Undestilled Alcoholic drinks is 16 (beer, alcopops etc.) For Distilled Drinks its 18. Its 16 for the low-alcohol drinks because apparently the danger of "Drinking yourself to death" is much lower than, you know, chugging vodka.
I was surprised when I first came to Germany to see many cigarette vending machines in the streets.They have been banned in the UK for a very long time.
At least they switched it to machines which require your id card to prevent too easy of an access for children/young teens. But tbh, aside from those and maybe people on a night out clubbing, i cant think of anyone actually using the machines.
even where smoking is forbidden it's not rly forbidden... for example at the train stations even the security themselves regularly smoke even though it is forbidden, it is almost impossible to get smokers fined for doing that and if they get fined it's just a 15-100€ penalty because of that you have smokers harassing kids just because they ask them to stop smoking at them in a place where it is illegal anyways
You shouldnt drink Kölsch. It's altbier after drinking it and visiting the toillette collecting the once nice beer and putting it in a bottle. That's kölsch.
Nuh, you can have you 6 year old kid in Germany drink a Radler/Alsterwasser (half beer, half Sprite or Fanta), no issues. 😁 Also, Beer is considered food, so your kid can consume it Iin public at an early age, but they can not buy it themselves until age 16.
@@ch.s1292 I was one of those Kids, and yes, that was mostly in Bavaria and Austria. Still, it is not uncommon to have a child with an Alster in Hamburg.
This is absolutely uncommen in Germany. Giving you kids beer or mixed beer under the age of 10-12 will get you some strange and intensive looks from other parents.
@@tomw0815 As in today's parents? 🤔 I suppose you are right. It really depends on the Generation and Location. 😉😅 At least in the 70s and 89s it was also no big deal to send us kids to go buy cigarettes for the parents, so there is that ...
I still wonder what has happened with the tobacco industry in the US. They were so big and since everything is about capitalism there, how could they let it happen that people smoke less these days ? Have they just changed their business and sell now synthetic drugs instead ? Must be something like that i guess. Also "Malboro Man" .. the epitome of "FREEEDOM" .. i mean no smoking is nearly like no guns in the US.
I've learned about that smoking is banned in america nowadays only from these kind of videos on yt from americans in germany. Before that I've no clue, that americans don't smoke anymore. Cause the impression of 'smoking is suposed to be cool 😎' comes mostly from advertisements like the Marlborough Man. And especially here in germany the american soldiers after ww2 make smoking so much more popular here. I always thought, that the cigarette industry in the US is as big as the gun industry. And that they aren't open for arguments like 'It's unhealthy" because of the money they make. Its all about the money, they say. But when they obviously could do that with cigarettes, why they can't do that with guns??? At least I would say smoking were much more worst in germany in 70's or 80's. Sometimes you can watch old tv shows, where you see the guests smoking in the tv studio of a talk show or even at a cooking show. This looks so weird to us now. After the government bannend smoking in public locations like restaurants and clubs ... I had the impression that many people stopped smoking because of that. But as we see, a clear view from outside shows us it is still bad. 🚬 Greetings from Berlin 😎
you see this wrong with the "pisswasser". that joke is a beer called "pißwasser" in GTA. germans say pisswasser to your beer, cause it is bullpiss agains german pils :p and rockstar games took that joke for self ironie. btw: actually the age was changed long time ago. alc and tabac are only for 18yo.
What do you think about this list? Are these all normal in Germany?
Subtitles are available in German (and English)
The best thing about Bonn is that it is the home of a company called 'Hans Riegel Bonn' better known under its brand name of Haribo.
Also beer is not an alcoholic beverage, it is just liquid bread.
At age 21 in the US, you are:
- an unsupervised adult
- who's buying with your own money
- well used to driving and doing it all the time
At age 16 in Germany, you are:
- a minor, supervised by your parents
- with no substantial income of your own
- not be allowed to drive (a car) for another 2 years
This makes it both harder to drink in excess when starting with it and gives you 2 years to be drunk as drunk can be without being able to be a drunk driver.
Most 16-year-olds in Germany are not constantly supervised by their parents and they can very well buy a crate of beer together and get drunk. It is, however, much harder to get drunk on beer and they can have their first drunk experiences with less hard liquor. It's true that they can't drink and drive at that age (at least not a car).
@@cayreet5992 Lets be real, its not hard to get some hard alcohol. Every friendsgroup has someone that is a bit older or has a brother, cousin etc.
@@cayreet5992 well still i think he makes a good point, since the 21 us kid can just start beeing an alcoholic, drinking every day for the rest of his/her life from there on out, while ofc that can happen to the 16 year old german kid its much more unlikely cause of the mentioned no money, no freedom thing.
also the answer to @Tudas you can get that hard alcohol, i remember asking older boys to buy it for me when i was like 15 but you wont be able to do it all the time
And you can drive in Germany at the age of 16, but only when accompanied by a supervisor
About smoking: My impression is that Germans don't harass smokers. The campaigns are there, the warnings are there, so literally everyone knows about the health implications. If some adult decides to do it anyway, it is their decision. It is not my business to dictate other people how to live their lives. Doing so would be very rude.
German culture puts heavy emphasis on personal responsibility, privacy and personal property. Have you seen that video by an Australian mother raising her kids in Germany? The one where she talks about the difference in kids sharing their toys? Her instinct was to tell her son that he must share his toys with random strangers, but the German mothers at that playground said that those were his toys, and if he didn't want to share them, he didn't need to. Same thing; Germans don't like to dictate others how to live and what to do with their stuff.
On the other hand, being a bad example (especially in front of kids) will get you a tongue-lashing very quickly. So if you want to ignore red pedestrian traffic lights in Germany, you better make very sure nobody sees you ;)
Wasn't that mother from NZ and was the one that freaked out when her kid wanted to walk on a wall with other kids?
Just as a sidenote:
Person.
§. 1. Man is called a person in so far as he enjoys certain rights in civil society.
General Land Law for the Prussian States (01.06.1794)
Otherwise fully agree.
But non smoker taxes are being used to pay for lung cancer treatment of smokers.
@@Phiyedough And my taxes are used for road repairs, even if I don't have a car or a license.
unless you want to smoke something else^^
Besides the regular laws in Germany, we have a "law" that alcohol is not allowed during work. This "law" is apparently interpreted differently in the federal states.
Fun fact: I was born in North Rhine-Westphalia and lived there for about 30 years before moving to Bavaria. In NRW it is strictly forbidden to drink alcohol at work, not even a beer is allowed. During my first job in Bavaria, a colleague celebrated his birthday and we all went to the company's restaurant (large insurer with a swimming pool, doctor, massage and restaurant in the basement). Suddenly everyone is ordering a beer with dinner and I just thought... WTF...
On that day I learned that Bavarians see beer very differently and that it's practically part of their life, and I've never left Bavaria again
Every Werkskantine I've been to in Berlin(West) served beer or wine.
The worst was the Deutsche Oper Berlin. When I arrived on my first day there was a truck from a brewery unloading large quantities of bottled beer. Naturally I assumed that the bar was restocking but it turned out that the members of the stage crew were just refilling their personal fridges!
The rules about drinking (from my father) were as follows: (1) You can drink as much as you want, as long as you know, how you get/got home. (2) You can drink as much as you like, as long as you don't have to apologize on the next day or if you feel embarrassed about what you did last night.
One good thing on the german legal ages compared to the us is, that germans are done experimenting with alcohol, before they can drive
I would say, we germans like sparkling water not only as it is, but also very much because of a drink, we called 'Schorle'. So we mix sparkling water with different sorts of juice. Without mixing, the juice tasted boring and the water tasted boring! But together, they are just perfect. So every foreigner who don't like sparkling water, try this!! 😎
Or you add wine 🍷 to your sparkling water ( red or white wine) … that’s the real meaning of „Schorle“ …. at least in the south ( Baden Württemberg)
greetings from Germany 🇩🇪 🙋♀️
Just the same for Austria, but instead of juice we use wine. (And even if we use juice, we have a different name for it.)
@@anashiedler6926 Achja? Interessant, wie nennt man Schorle denn in Österreich?
@@juwen7908 z.b. Apfelsaft-Gspritzt, oder Apfelsaft-aufanhalben. (oft auch Obi-Gspritzt, der Markenname hat sich für jeglichen Apfelsaft eingebürgert)
Wein ist grundsätzlich ein "Gspritzter", Sommerspritzer für einen mit wenig Wein und viel (Mineral)Wasser. (Sodawasser wird eigentlich nicht verwendet)
@@anashiedler6926 Dankeschön. Ich bin im April ein paar Tage in Wien. Da kann ich das dann nutzen 😉
Best comment I've ever heared... "You aren't allowed to drink in public? I thought it's the land of freedom" 😂
How do we feel about beer? We call it liquid bread. It's not to get drunk.
7 beers is also a steak 😅
@@M0ralAp0stel never heard that before
Fun fact: The purity law for beer was actually the first food law in Germany
Fun fact: The famous purity law from 1516 in Bavaria is predated by identical local laws instituted in Eichstätt (1319), Weimar (1348) and in Thuringia (1434) among other places.
@@gustavmeyrink_2.0 Fun fact: the purity law no longer exists. Breweries are still more or less sticking to it. The question is how long will they stick to it.
@@GreenFart174 I know. At some point Germany traded it in with Italy which meant that beer sold in Germany does not have to adhere to the purity law while Italy allowed pasta not made from durum wheat to be sold there.
It was the first food law in the world!
The funny thing with smoking is: they did try the same kind of scare campaign here which included printing warning labels with shocking images. So, people collected them. I think we just have a general suspicion of fear mongering, even though smoking has decreased overall, but it usually is more a thing of "I want to live healthier" rather than "this is gonna kill me".
Smoking in Germany went down substantially in the last 20 years, especially younger people in cities, bit less older people and in more rural places.
Prices for cigarettes went up during that time, but I think only slightly more compared to other things, and I don't think this is the reason for the decline.
I think there are two reasons: First people are more aware of their health nowadays compared to 40 years ago, second, young people stopped seeing it as a "cool" thing to smoke.
this is wrong. recently we got a lot more smokers especially at a young age than in the years before
@@ATOM-vv3xu Yes in the last three years or so among young people, I omitted that. But what I wrote is true too.
I think around 25% of germans smoke. The percentage decreased over the last 20 years, but last year the percentage went up for the first time in years
Im german and I like normal tap water, no sprudel for me. Although same as you said once it is a lemonade or something I drink for flavour and not for thirst is is nice. Beer in Germany has a lot of carbonation for example, more than some of the english beers I had.
I find fizzy water substantially more thirst quenching than still water.
I got tap water in restaurants in the USA that tasted like water from a swimmingpool or dirty. I prefer to pay and get nice, fresh, clean water.
For US-Americans the UK is Europe, for continental Europeans the UK (England) is the US in Europe - sort of.
I would assume you are English?
Continental Europeans? That is (to me) this strange concept of the English that "we are an island" and those are the others that they are not part of.
To me (German) the UK is part of Europe, and it's not American, it's the UK.
@@robwsur Agree with you. My estimation depends a little which aspect of the UK one is looking at.
They are treated live they behave... So both is true. 😅
When i was a little child, I did not get a knife at the dinner table. I had only a fork in my right hand. When I finally was allowed to use a knife myself I could never bring myself to hold it in my right hand and bring my food to the mouth with the left-handed fork , like it is supposed to do.... I always had the feeling I miss my mouth and it was uncomfortable for me. So here I am, around 50 years old, and hold my fork in the right hand and my knife in the left hand at the table. But yes, it might let people think that I am an uneducated underclass kind of guy.
6:11 less people smoke in germany i would say we still behind eastern europe and french but its still really high
Smoking got less popular in the last decade, but I think more because of the price than of health issues.
Yeah, ice cold plain water - with lots of bubbles...
Smoking in germany is a private and individuel thing. It is allowed under the free sky from the age of 18 but not in public buildings, restaurants or bars. For that you should pick an old school pub (Kneipe).
as a German being on an exchange to Brighton being about 12 years old, my guest parents took me to a club on sundays and they offered me alcohol
When it comes to smoking, it seems, that the german gouvernments tries to find the sweetspot of saving money from the health effects of smoking without loosing to much money from the tobacco tax. A few years ago the bundestag decided a strong rise of the tobacco tax. But the finance ministry feared, that to many people could stop smoking and they changed the law again. They decided to make the rise in three smaller steps, with the hope that they will loose less tax Euros.
I always find it funny when people are like "why are so many people smoking? don't they know it's bad for health?"
but then nobody talks about drinking alcohol that way, ignoring the fact that, considering accidents caused by DUI, alcohol is a much more deadly drug.
In general it shows how warped and random our perception of certain drugs is.
When I was 12 years old and member of a marching band in Germany, We used to play for old people of the village to honor their birthday or someting like that. We always were offered some schnapps or liquor. Often the woman would say: "Perhaps you take the liquor, the Schnapps will be a bit strong for you".
Tiny little hint: In English liqueur = Likör but liquor = Schnaps, Branntwein, Whisky etc. ie anything with 38% alcohol or more.
@@gustavmeyrink_2.0 Thank you, I was just thinking that something could be wrong, but didn't know that whether there is a word for liqueur at all.
@@JakobFischer60 Pronunciation is liqueur = lee-cure; ; liquor = lick 'er
worst thing ever happpned to me, was a cop in the netherlands kindly asking me to dump my beer in the sewer. As a german I was a lizttle confused, but on the other hand i got stoned as fu** witch would be illigal in germany, so a gladly complied ( and muchend on some mushrooms later that day)
I would say that smoking in Germany decreased drastically over the last 1 or 2 decades.
About alcohol: our youth protection law is only for buying or consuming alcohol in public.
At home it depends on the parents. It is actually not forbidden to give alcohol to your children at home, as long as you don’t endanger them. In other words: a sip of sparkling wine at New Year’s Eve is no problem. But giving alcohol as a habit to a child might get you into trouble with the child protection service.
But most people don’t know that…which is good. Better not start alcohol too early.
Anyway: it is better to learn how to handle Alcohol at home than to learn it the hard way somewhere else.
And speaking of smoking: Considering that 1 out of 2 young US adults (and even teens) I see on Omegle are vaping, that's a way higher rate than vaping and smoking combined ever have been in Germany.
theres also things that weird foreigners out. However they arent COMMON in germany more like weird law exceptions like
- age of consent is 14 for sex (but you cant film it until 18)
- crossbows are illegal warbows are fine, small knives are illegal huge ass 2 handed sword is fine
- you have to have sex at least once every 6 months in a marriage
- bestiality was legal until 2002 and since then is a minor offense (basicly you get a ticket if caught)
- consuming certain drugs is legal but buying them is not (or selling)
- public nudity is legal outside of "city areas" and in designated spaces
- wearing clothing in a sauna can actually get you banned
- you can legally buy alcohol and smoke at 16 but you can already drink legally age 12 with parental supervision
drinking age 14: Parents let their children/Teens try half a glass of wine or beer without beeing criminalised, I think it´s not meant that youngsters drink several glasses together with your parents.
a lot a lot of smokers. last year the number of teens witch smokes got up over 20%
there he is, my daily Mert 🙃
Let's Start a poll : Americans get to decide wether they wanna carry guns or Drink in public!
The number of people drinking carbonated water in Germany has been going down slowly for decades but the pandemic really kicked that into high gear. It might just be a fifth of the population now.
The German alcohol regulation is correct. Parents are already able to teach their children the use of alcoholic beverages. Children don't have to lie to their parents like they do in the US. In Germany, people drink wine and beer as a stimulant and not to get drunk (the language usage shows it. In the USA people say they drink alcohol, but in Germany they would never say it). Wine and beer are often drunk with meals, just like in France, Italy or Spain. That's probably the case all over Europe and that's probably the big difference to the USA. In Germany, we don't have the same bar culture as in the USA, where a lot of hard liquor is drunk. However, the UK is also notorious for teens and young adults getting so drunk at the weekend that they can barely walk. This is not so common on the continent. In Germany this tends to happen at folk festivals (Oktoberfest, carnival)
The EU rules on smoking apply in Germany. The number of smokers is declining. Smoking is not cool for young people.
Smoking in Germany went down drastically and its basically illegal in any public indoors place. If you have s problem with smokers NEVER move to Austria. They dmoke like crazy and have a record young entry age for smoking at 11!
Thsts the only thing I really hated about living there. Smokets absolutely everywhere.
How do I feel about beer? I don’t like it 😎
Thank you, Mama, for giving me the opportunity to taste it as a child (no, she is no drinker). It taste bitter and I never liked it. I used to order a beer in a pub when I was young and broke and needed a drink that would last the whole evening.
But that is decades ago. I just really don’t like it 🤷♀️
some UK areas have local laws preventing outdoor drinking where it has become a problem locally
We call that knife Brotmesser
it just always throws me that Americans hate carbonated water, when almost literally everything they drink apart from milk and coffee (Coke, Pepsi, Mountain Dew, Dr. Pepper, Root Beer, etc. etc. etc.) is carbonated…
hmm.. I'm actually always holding the fork in my dominant hand and the knife is always in the other hand.. no changing around or anything
6:00 the numbers are going down, but american friends are sometimes amazed that many germans roll their own cigarettes. you can buy tobacco, paper and filters separately and when you want to smoke one, you roll a fresh cigarette
no idea if this is widespread in europe
Actually is isn't correct that the "drinking age" in USA is 21. The age to legally buy alcohol is 21 but buying and consumption aren't the same thing. E.g. if your parents buy alcoholic beverages and bring them home and allow you to drink from them, you can legally drink them below 21 depending on the state law of the state you live in. 11 US states allow drinking below the age of 21 in a family setting, 5 allow it in certain locations and 16 allow even both, family settings and certain locations. Only 18 states also set the minimum consumption age to 21 as well.
drinking alcohol is a healthy thing for the states, because of the tax. So they don't limit it too much in Europe. As well as drinking in public. Smoking in public is much restricted now, and I don't have friends doing it. Drinking and smoking are not a matter anymore by most of young citizen. Children are free of choice when they are 21, without parental guarding. Carbonated water is a matter of taste. And yes, we eat in Europe with knife and fork, without having one hand under the table. If you are right handed or left handed, does not matter. So what?
I'm right handed and when I cook and use a knife for cutting potato's for example I use the knife with my right hand but when I eat I have the knife in my left hand and the fork in my right hand. That is a bit strange for almost every German as they used to have any kind of knife always in their dominated hand.
8:18 I am not even wondering, I know that things are XXL in America xD
I don't know why there should be any fuss about carbonated water, it is only like drinking coke or other soft drinks without the flavourings. I prefer still water and if very thirsty I would find carbonated water frustrating as I can only drink it slowly. THE US drinking age is just silly but then so was Prohibition from 1920 to 1933.
Smoking doubled last year at German's youth. From like 6 to 12 %
that machete would have a visit from the British armed police
If you manage to get your hands on a Kölsch in Dortmund, you committed a capital crime. Similar to drinking Scottish Whiskey in Ireland and vice versa. Please do not kill me for my spelling, I never get it right for whiskey 😂
Drinking age for Undestilled Alcoholic drinks is 16 (beer, alcopops etc.)
For Distilled Drinks its 18.
Its 16 for the low-alcohol drinks because apparently the danger of "Drinking yourself to death" is much lower than, you know, chugging vodka.
Put a lot of sugar in the carbonated water and US Americans will be fine
I was surprised when I first came to Germany to see many cigarette vending machines in the streets.They have been banned in the UK for a very long time.
At least they switched it to machines which require your id card to prevent too easy of an access for children/young teens. But tbh, aside from those and maybe people on a night out clubbing, i cant think of anyone actually using the machines.
even where smoking is forbidden it's not rly forbidden... for example at the train stations even the security themselves regularly smoke even though it is forbidden, it is almost impossible to get smokers fined for doing that and if they get fined it's just a 15-100€ penalty
because of that you have smokers harassing kids just because they ask them to stop smoking at them in a place where it is illegal anyways
and you always have smokers at the train station, it is not the exception
2:21 he´s making the first mistake already, Kölsch is pretty similar to the american piss :D
You shouldnt drink Kölsch. It's altbier after drinking it and visiting the toillette collecting the once nice beer and putting it in a bottle. That's kölsch.
Wrong way around, Altbier is Kölsch after being drunk and urinated into the Rhine river ;)
Nuh, you can have you 6 year old kid in Germany drink a Radler/Alsterwasser (half beer, half Sprite or Fanta), no issues. 😁
Also, Beer is considered food, so your kid can consume it Iin public at an early age, but they can not buy it themselves until age 16.
Don‘t agree with that. I never saw a child at that age drinking alcohol. At least that is not a thing in northern Germany.
@@ch.s1292 I was one of those Kids, and yes, that was mostly in Bavaria and Austria.
Still, it is not uncommon to have a child with an Alster in Hamburg.
This is absolutely uncommen in Germany. Giving you kids beer or mixed beer under the age of 10-12 will get you some strange and intensive looks from other parents.
@@tomw0815 As in today's parents? 🤔
I suppose you are right. It really depends on the Generation and Location. 😉😅
At least in the 70s and 89s it was also no big deal to send us kids to go buy cigarettes for the parents, so there is that ...
@@GrouchyBear411 Ich hab auch schon früh probieren dürfen, aber doch nicht ein komplettes alleine bekommen.
I still wonder what has happened with the tobacco industry in the US. They were so big and since everything is about capitalism there, how could they let it happen that people smoke less these days ? Have they just changed their business and sell now synthetic drugs instead ? Must be something like that i guess.
Also "Malboro Man" .. the epitome of "FREEEDOM" .. i mean no smoking is nearly like no guns in the US.
no matter about the law, young ppl alwaxs want to go to the limit when its about drinking.
I've learned about that smoking is banned in america nowadays only from these kind of videos on yt from americans in germany. Before that I've no clue, that americans don't smoke anymore. Cause the impression of 'smoking is suposed to be cool 😎' comes mostly from advertisements like the Marlborough Man. And especially here in germany the american soldiers after ww2 make smoking so much more popular here.
I always thought, that the cigarette industry in the US is as big as the gun industry. And that they aren't open for arguments like 'It's unhealthy" because of the money they make. Its all about the money, they say.
But when they obviously could do that with cigarettes, why they can't do that with guns???
At least I would say smoking were much more worst in germany in 70's or 80's. Sometimes you can watch old tv shows, where you see the guests smoking in the tv studio of a talk show or even at a cooking show. This looks so weird to us now.
After the government bannend smoking in public locations like restaurants and clubs ... I had the impression that many people stopped smoking because of that.
But as we see, a clear view from outside shows us it is still bad. 🚬
Greetings from Berlin 😎
Bei 8.04 wenn man Untertitel anhat carbonated war 🤣
Hey I´m living in germany and I never understood why cabonated water is so hyped here xD I think it´s unbelievable overrated xD
you see this wrong with the "pisswasser". that joke is a beer called "pißwasser" in GTA. germans say pisswasser to your beer, cause it is bullpiss agains german pils :p
and rockstar games took that joke for self ironie.
btw: actually the age was changed long time ago. alc and tabac are only for 18yo.
I'm german and i also dont like carbonated water 😅
This guy did his research and stayed with his own experience. A lot more enjoyable to me than this loudmouth Wolters.
Pisswater 😂