"Hidden cracks", as someone whos born and lived in Germany for over 30 years I can assure you that for a majority of the population nothing is shiny and sparkling.
@C L Yah... the Germans simply does not know, what is a "really bad". Some months in Putin's Russia ... and all the German people will start to love Germany like never before.
@WP WW Yeah, right, because living in a corrupt dictatorship is the ideal. Stop justifying everything with your hatred against progressive and liberal ideas, boy.
There's a shortage of SKILLED MANUAL WORKERS in most Western countries as everyone is obsessed with going to university. No, not all are cut out nor are needed to become academics. Countries need to restore the image of skilled work and ensure labourers can make a decent wage!
It's also true for East Europe. So in my country an engineer earn about 500-600 Euro/mo after collage and an skilled manual worker about 1500 Euro/mo...
I'm an engineer with decades of experience in R+D and I assure you, there isn't a shortage of skilled manual workers, there is a shortage of people with degrees in STEM fields of work. Here in Germany I can find a plumber, joiner, welder, whatever with a few weeks. A good engineer though is very difficult to find. They're always snapped up by big high tech companies even before they graduate.
12:17 One third Eastern Germans feel the relationship has not improved Two third west Germans feel the relationship has improved. So people on both sides have the similar feeling about the reunification. I don't get why he presented it as if there is any difference.
usually these questionaires are notbinary but have a neutral answer so you could assume theh only 10 or 15% of west germans would say that relationship has not improved and propably less than half, maybe as low as a thrid of east germans would say that relationship has improved. But maybe you have a point that this statement should have been reinforcedwith broader data
One-third has moved to the West because of the thinking of the rest. Opportunity outside of Halle/Leipzig area is spotty. Frankfurt Airport is where you can find a load of them.
A lot of people in the east didn't wanted a reunification, they wanted a better GDR and just after the east became democratic it was integrated in the west
Would assume the intro is done in the former death strip of the Berlin wall where the two iron walls represent where the walls where and otherwise it would make not much sense to see like 100 of meters of rusted metal walls whit a small green strip between. Almost a bit ironic even to talk about cracks in the nation where it was split, not sure if this just meant symbolic or some rather dry humor.
Hardly Urban, these are government buildings. They apparently need more and more of them to cater for more and more civil servants and politicians. German bureaucracy is massive and the number of representatives is now over 700. Only China has more. The running costs and salaries make it the most expensive parliament in the western world.
If your kids have good grades, there’s no reason why they can’t go to gymnasium (academic path). As immigrants our children were afforded every opportunity to get their German to native speaker level in Kindergarten and elementary school and go onto gymnasium and university where they’re studying STEM degrees. This wouldn’t have been possible in the country we came from. We’re very thankful to live here and our children have been brought up to love Germany and be thankful.
Also a smart kid can only go to Gymnasium or University when their parents allow it. This is true for immigrants and lokals alike. The experiemce of a upper middleclass kid with parents who give them money so they can focus on university an the kid who has to work a lot while in uni are QUITE different. Also some smart kids from nonacademic background won't even go to university in the first place even they smart enough because the whoke accademic enviroment and its people seem so foreign to them.
Except no, my bosses daughter was rejected from higher education until they realised her father is PhD working in Max Planck institute. Suddenly she could go academic. Lol
I'm just a German, living in Germany, that's all :,D Jokes aside I feel, personally, the biggest hurdle to successful immigration is SHARED VALUES. Some portion of immigrants have a very "anti-western attitude" while many others are awesome people. A divide can quickly take place, we do have certain semi-self-isolated ethnic subcultures. As long as people that come here actually WANT TO live under the rules and values our constitution has in mind and continue to build a better country, then they are welcome. Some amount of people come "for the money", but don't like the values and societal structures and norms. If people come here and complain about germans or germany, they should go somewhere else.
I feel like a fundamental problem with your view is that "western values" change widely based on who you ask about them. Someone in Berlin might think the values of someone from Munich are less compatible than someone from Beijing. It's all relative.
@@owangejewiceI am pretty sure that the different values are inherent. If the situation was in reverse, I seriously doubt they would be so accommodating.
I think this is how every sane adult feels in all developed/civilized countries - with regards to rampant aggressive exploitative immigration. Well said.
I love Germany and cannot imagine being in any other country. Came here 20 years ago without a cent in my pocket. I may not be rich in money now but I earned an education which nobody could take away from me. Germany made that possible for me. To add to that, I can be my gay self here with confidence and without fear. That alone means the world to me. Discrimination is everywhere. But in Germany people are free to discuss, argue and make protests. I guess as individuals, every one of us has a responsibility to do our share to be more accepting of others. Dankeschön!
@@melrosepark4463 ....maybe those people should simply accept the rules instead of endangering us all. There have been protests about all kind of problems during the lock down, but most of them were done without risking the lives of others. If anything, they were too lenient with those protests, since nearly all of them were allowed to go ahead, to the detriment of us all.
@Red Front very true, but the origin comment talked about courts shutting them down: they don‘t have the right to protest - even tho police doesn’t care
I find it funny how one-sided such complaints are. If there's a group against its current state, then where is the group for it? Is everyone against it? Then why doesn't it improve?
there is always something to improve. Also, as outsiders, you can't really see if something is rotten. It is, my sisters and me had limited German skills back then but did not get any additional German classes (in the 90s and 2000s). Now it's much better, foreigners' kids get additional help from institutions to better adapt and learn the language.
Exactly, in the UK we are told the Finnish and German systems of education and higher training are what we should aspire to. It's a shame the video doesn't outline what they think the problems actually are?
Sure this is true. Every country has drama. As an immigrant from IRELAND my career got a super boost when I moved to Germany. With minimal German language skills. I am very thankful for my time in Germany. It is a country that was very good to me personally and professionally.
@@AconcernedUKcitizen ...if the Alis and the Vlads saw you as competition of course they would be hostile, you were taking a share of their livelihood. As far as your quali's go, the Germans are strict about their standards as you will now know. i was interviewed for photographic work but the boss wasn't interested in my sample works, they were my best examples any way, he said and not indicative of what i do under the stess of a deadline. Show me what you can do, not what you have done, that seems to be what you did in the end. Well done.
I'm a student from the UK studying in Germany. I get treated pretty differently than the other international students pretty just because of where I come from. It's awkward to say the least.
@@DjokovicIsOurLordAndSaviour Not discounting your experience but I definitely experienced the same in reverse. I remember very well when I was young coming to the UK and getting a sneer from the customs official when I showed him my German passport.
@@JNArnold I've experienced that as well. But, when I went to apply for my residence permit recently post-brexit. They asked me where I'm from and when I said the UK I got to skip the queue. 😬 Either way though for better or worse I'm treated differently based on where I come from.
The first time I was in Berlin was the only time ever I felt I was in a largely less wealthy area of Germany...my most recent visit I was astonished at how far it had come in forget the last 30, the last 15 years. I would call these less cracks and more growing pains. A bad day in Germany is better than a good day in America for the vast majority of us.
Well you’re right but Berlin has a special status growing together since it got a lot of money there to be the capital again, it’s most interesting for tourism and was always full of uni students
Wow that sounds amazing I cant wait to go Im going to Hamburg and going to travel around Germany this Tuesday and Ill be there for 2 weeks im excited its so boring here in the US and I get to get away from my abusive family.
Britain essentially abolished the grammar school system and the working class have paid the consequences. The grammar schools used to take in 75% working class kids who were given great opportunities if they had good academic abilities. Now, the good schools are all down to catchment area i.e. you can only get in if you live within the schools catchment area. The house prices around the good schools are now higher than most working class families can afford and so now you have all the middle class families within the catchment area of the good schools and working class kids going to the bad schools. You can say all you like "all schools should be good" but there are always going to be factors that stop this from happening. Thanks ideologues.
I’m an American, born in South America, living and working in West Germany. I think it’s good. Work hard, learn the language, be a good neighbor - and all is good. Also, after seeing the rest of Europe, I appreciate the order and safety that Germany has, compared to the rest of Europe 👍
I travelled and lived in almost every european country. So i think i can compare. I prefer to live in Germany. Sometimes i am jealous of the weather, wine or beaches in other countries. Still i would chose Germany. We are definately not perfect - but our engineers are working on that matter;-)
Maybe look up the term "Völerwanderung"? Then work your way through German history? Or maybe start even earlier if those 2000 years of constant movement of people don't satisfy you.
Stop pushing identity politics!!! I am myself with "Migrationshintergrund" and like Germany because it is distinctively German! I have to adapt to Germany, not Germany to me nor to other immigrants!
@@thepedrothethethe6151 yes, it was formed as a Zollverein in 1870 or 1871 as an economic union of different independent german states, which then confederated into one federal state, while maintaining their different flavour. My favourite is Rheinland (west part of NRW), which is very open-minded, since it is a border region, and was made of free merchant cities since the middle ages, so it managed to absorb many immigrants since 1950s, who are very proud of being rheinländer. Unfortunately, there are pockets of population who live in their separate worlds, without becoming part of the Rheinland culture. The same happens in other Ländern too, and I do not think they culturally enrich Germany by doing so.
what is "German" though? lol the Roman Empire of German Nation consisted of many Völkerwanderungen (slavs, hugenots, etc.) since the early middle ages and roman times..... Germany and Germans were always a mixed nation of people trying to built a working society.
Did Germans choose to be a diverse society? If so, when exactly? Was there a limit to the number and type of immigrants the German people voted for? If so, when and what were the details? This was a very one sided report DW
lmao have you ever heard of such thing as globalization? This was bound to happen, and will happen, to all countries eventually. Travel and connecting with people from different parts of the world is easier now than ever due to airplanes, the internet, and the fact that we are living in pretty much peace time.
As an American living in Germany, the issues here seem so small compared to my original country. Honestly, I do believe some of these issues are overblown by the media in order to get more views because talking about the positive side of this country would never hold people's attention. Germany is one of the most accessible countries I've seen. In the US, students go into over a hundred thousand dollars of debt just to get a university degree, but in Germany it costs almost nothing in comparison. Maybe it is hard for people in poverty to get on the University track, but in general the financial barrier is manageable. In regards to racism and identity, I think people care too much about being "politically correct." Why are we cancelling people for bringing up sensitive topics? Obviously blatant hate speech should not be tolerated, but it's gotten to a point where almost everything is labeled as hate speech. We should have a more open mindset towards discussing identity and race.
The U.S. might be the worst country to compare a "decent power" to. One is a well on-track country, the other still barely avoiding being a hellish dystopia.
Nobody has to pay that much for university. You can go to a perfectly good school for a fraction of that cost, and not pay 1/2 of your income in taxes for the rest of your life to pay for it.
Germans are a PEOPLE, not a passport. A Chinese person born in Germany is NOT German, nor are they any less Chinese. That isn’t racist it is just a fact.
I went from Eastern Europe to Germany in 2004. I had no money, no support. I studied. I started my business in 2012. And I was living above average German standards by 2014. So it's not about where you come from. It's about your attitude, your Einstellung.
German laws, like the one which forbids to wear masks while driving a car - but there was another law at the same time which demanded wearing masks while driving a car with more than one person.
As a Canadian I can honestly, not one of these issues is German. It’s society as a whole. Don’t feel special lol. Every country is cracking…. Just look at the states…they are completely broken. Don’t do the same…for all of us…humans.
watch what happens here in the US as we accelerate our race to collapse, the collapse is going to be more epic than most other countries because we have guns and ammo. You can enjoy our circus, and cavalcade of clowns that created the current Afghanistan fiasco: Biden, Harris, Blinken, Austin, Milley, Schumer, Pelosi, so many old clowns, and many more coming. Enjoy our coming sh*tshow.
@Robby Dey wrong again, Bobby. How the US exited was up to Biden the military brass, who delayed the exit passed the original date set by Trump. Biden and the Pentagon left American citizens abandoned behind enemy lines with no plan for extraction. Biden and the Pentagon told the American people there would be no embassy rooftop extractions, and the Afghan puppet government and military was larger, better equipped and better trained than the Taliban. Biden and the Pentagon left millions of dollars on pallets, weapons, ammo, and information fall into the hands of Taliban. Biden and the Pentagon allowed the Taliban to take Afghanistan in 11 days while the Afghan people did not resist. This fiasco of failure is on the current commander in chief, his administration, his advisors, his pentagon, and the vacationing recessed Congress.
Well there’s populism on the left and populism on the right. It can be a good thing or it can be a bad thing. But republics don’t fare well in a permanent state of populism, republics require stability to function. Edmund Burke has an essay on why the French Revolution is bad and the American revolution is good. In liberalism, populism can either be a shot in the arm or an amputation of the arm. As a society we should hope for a shot.
@@rajarshisarkar999 False. Populism can be on the right as well as the left and we know fascism is a movement of the left like all forms of Socialism. Populism doesn't necessarily lead to extremism and in fact quite a few populists in recent history prove that. Populism is simply doing what a majority of the people who voted for you want.
@@johnmknox It's called "Democratic People's Republic of Korea" are they democratic? The National "Socialists" are not left wing. They are far less right wing than some would think but from an scientific standpoint they are still right wing. And Populism isn't just supporting opinions that the majority of voters have. Let me quote : "[...]which presents "the people" as a morally good force and contrasts them against "the elite", who are portrayed as corrupt and self-serving" " Populist parties and social movements are often led by charismatic or dominant figures who present themselves as the "voice of the people". According to the ideational approach, populism is often combined with other ideologies, such as nationalism, liberalism, or socialism." Please don't spread misinformation based on your gut feeling.
By principal yes. In reality it still have to be done cautiously. To claim there would be a problem often times can create big problems, even though there never was a serious problem, in the first place. In general, everything motivated by an ideology (of any kind) is questionable.
@Chishio Chishio . What do you think , what is neoliberal ideology, politics and rules based order , “ democracy “ bringing interventionism, the globalization project ( which you are advocating, is actually is based on rotten foundation) , it’s all is shared by US , EU and UK imperialism and banks and corporations cabal! It’s exactly is their unity , in order to deceive individuals like you, thinking that they are “ good persons “ who care of people and the world, totally not able to see the true reality ! Are you child?! I don’t mean to offend, but immaturity of your understanding is surprising.
@@joze838 . If you ask me , ideology isn’t necessary at all. We are already having certain cultural backgrounds and are relatively civilized. Neoliberal ideology become aggressive and manipulative. Even the most simple minded people can see , it has nothing to do with common sense. That ruling class is using it as a tool. Grownups understand that much , I do personally worry about young generation, cause they seam to be brainwashed and come across as stupids , unable to think independently and are like parrots.
@@joze838 that is true, but for example providing good education/opportunities for the children of immigrants benefits everyone living in the country. The more people work, the larger the economy becomes and the more educated the participants are, the wealthier the people become. Economics is not a zero sum game
I am east german and mentally disabled. German schools push mentally disabled onto the hauptschulen system where they will have less chances for university. I was good at math and there were no science classes but scored 6 in german. Only way i escaped the system and get my degree in quantum physics was that due to lack of job opportunities in east germany my parents decided to go abroad.
@@nutterztube nope never been in usa. My parents worked in developmental aid and so i was in several countries in africa and middle east but went to international schools where in 1 i was diagnosed w autism (due to lack of awareness many go undiagnosed)
Some of the people featured in this piece are not German or even European. They complain that they aren't accepted as German. They are not and will never be German or European.
Opinions about what kind of "hidden cracks" really exist or are important also tend to vary very very much between different german political factions...
yeah well thats politics. But facts don't have an agenda. There are actually a lot more problems, like our failing agriculture sector, climate action, digital infrastructure and generational wealth gap. All those things are real. But they don't matter for everyone.
Sure, but it is also easy to simply talk past each other. As a financial person (close to the FDP), for example, I have a fairly precise definition of wealth. Others use the term very broadly and also even include opportunities as a form of wealth. A view that I personally don't even dislike, but it is confusing. Then comes the other side, which cannot distinguish wealth from income even in a purely financial context. How are people supposed to find common ground like that?
The school system in Germany is brutal if you do not fit in. It's the German way or the highway. Sadly many talents been suppressed and virtually no way to blossom. I left Germany 20 years ago ,never looked back.
9:00 Sorry , but people who see racism in a musician's adulation of his idol to the point where he even copied some of his physical characteristics... well, you are a bit simple minded and projecting ur own racism. Racism is ubiquitous, go be a white man in Africa or Asia and see how you fit in. Being an OUTSIDER is more about not belonging and being ostracised, and not about which colour of skin is "the best'.
Under the surface the US is still divided into Confederation and Union, additionally there's a crack between rustbelt / fly-over states & coastal metropolitan areas. Both are good analogies to the German Ossi/Wessi crack.
As a South African who visited Germany twice I could see the difference from 1995 to 2005, many more poor people on street but also much more drug users. Most white South Africans have German roots but can no longer speak german. If I ever have to flee from Africa Germany will be my first choice, great nation with good values but very reserved people, they do not easily speak to tourists.
@King Crusader the ruling class prefers immigrants from the Middle East cause it’s easier to divide and rule a multicultural society that turns on eachother
@King Crusader BS. UK has an ancestor's visa. So do other countries with a colonial past like Spain, Portugal etc. But most South African whites were Dutch settlers. Wonder why they would want to go to Germany instead. And yeah, Russia sends out invites since no one wants to live in Siberia.
I feel Germany’s system gives you a chance to have some social mobility. You have to work hard for it though and prove you want it. Less competitive than the US in my opinion and worker rights give it a good balance.
I tend to agree. The issue with Germany is that Germans are so used to their cozy welfare system that they have fewer incentives to work their way out of their personal misery. I met many Germans who exactly knew what welfare payments they are entitled to, where to find the relevant social security statutes online, or what lawyer to consult to squeeze a bit more money out of the government. If they used that energy to take advantage of the endless educational opportunities the internet offers and upskilled, they would all be far more employable. But the issue is the mindset, which is not necessarily their fault. If you grow up in a family of welfare recipients, that's all you know and all you expect from life. It's a self-perpetuating cycle. And I can't agree that it's too difficult to get access to tertiary education. I am from a lower middle-class German family. I didn't make it to high school (In German: Gymnasium) because of poor performance and had to graduate with a middle school degree (In German: Realschule). However, I had decent grades and got admitted to a school that was kind of a polytechnic (In German: Fachgymnasium), where I could eventually get my high school degree (Abitur). Every German could go down the same route. You even get a student loan from the government which you don't have to pay back lol. Even if someone only got a very basic education (Hauptschule), learning a trades job would qualify you to get admitted to the polytechnic. But if people don't have any ambitions and drive, what can you do?! (Other than blaming society, obviously lol). But for me personally, even at university I wasn't the best student of all times, so I really struggled finding a job in Germany and eventually emigrated to a different country. I am living overseas for over 6 years now, got a decent job, chilled people around me, not that degree of toxic German bureaucracy, and have fewer people around me that feel entitled to my tax money and cheat and exploit the system where they can. Haven't looked back and probably never will.
@@ael3377 corporations are much better at leeching money from the government than poor people. And at making everyone else a lot more outraged about poor people getting government money then them.
@@kingofrivia1248 Well, what I consider wrong is that even the 'less money' has to be earned by someone, if it is a welfare payment. I don't have an issue with people working less and having a humble lifestyle, obviously. What I criticise is if people feel entitled to money that other people have earned. Welfare is living living off the backs of people who do work hard and I think those working people have a right of getting something in return from the welfare recipient. I know quite a few German who, for decades, received welfare payments and at the same time went out working in undeclared cash jobs. Evading to pay taxes into the very same system they are sucking empty. And this is just very demotivating for someone who plays by the rules and gets 40% of their salary taken from them. In my opinion, people who are able to work shouldn't get money handed out for free and be able to use their spare time to cheat the system. I would prefer a system where unemployed have a guarantee of a minor government job to keep them afloat. Welfare payments should be exclusively for the physically or mentally impaired. These government jobs need to be unattractive enough to not having everyone wanting such a job but well paid enough to provide a family with a decent lifestyle. But that's just my idea of a fairer society.
@@ooooneeee I don't disagree with you. Corporations, through lobbying and cronyism, have far too much political power. But the main problem are crooked politicians that we vote in. That's another thing that should be dealt with.
Because Preußen culture died with the GDR and the Saxon died around Napolion even before we germans to a large degree have no note worthy culture anymore because most things are done better by others and its sad even sader tho is that the Russians "preserved" German/Preussian Culture more than the West
@@derkurier2710 Indeed it is sad. A bit of irony - a good place to see German culture is various locations here in the States. Millions of Americans are descended from German immigrnats that came here (usually before unification) and they brought the culture specific to their part of Germany with them. There are parts of the USA where Americans with German ancestry are the majority population.
@@reizyka3044 when I was in the region last month, I met a German wine steward living in Switzerland that explained the better opportunities and savings, with pros and cons of living in both Countries, which was really eye opening. He definitely has the better deal living In Switzerland. $2800 per YEAR for universal health insurance that covers everything, and no long waits to see Drs, which he says is still an issue in Germany. I was impressed. But, cost of living was higher in Switzerland. When he did the math, he still came out ahead though.
I cannot believe how so many Western European nation states are just ok with so much immigration. Not too long ago y'all were quite racially homogeneous
I absolutely detest these type of videos. First of all the completely distorted statistic at 12:17, where the statistic is intentionally presented as if there would be a major difference, there is absolutely not though and both sides agree equally. Of course it is going to take a while until people, that grew up in two completely different ideologies, can relate to each other, the ideology didn’t fall with the iron curtain. The Generations after 1989 don’t have these problems at all. Again unnecessary division. In every country with a free market there’s going to be wealth inequality throughout the population. I fully agree that if this gets of hand it needs to be regulated (intelligently), but that is by far not the case in Germany, since we have a "Social Economy". Why is it always assumed that the people at the bottom of these wealth pyramids are motivated, hard working and productive citizens held back by the chains of inequality of opportunity? There are very, very many people completely dependent on the welfare system, not looking for any way out of it and not contributing to the system, that they live off, in any shape or form. Also, why is it that wealth is associated with satisfaction? On the other side there are also many People not on top of the wealth pyramids but still satisfied with the life in Germany. Very one sided video that propagates information that creates these cracks and divides people unnecessarily.
As a scientist myself, I tried to follow these "experts" for a number of years and still can not see what they are even trying to talk about. If you have good grades, you can apply to a higher school form and later to university. All of that costs you 0 €. These experts try to make us believe, you can find doormen at any point in the school system and if you are not rich or influential, they are not giving their OK..
Felix Fritz: I couldn’t have said it any better than you! Thank you for this! The unsatisfied are the (lefties) ideological ones: they don’t want equality in opportunity but equality in OUTCOME! And that kind of social engineering always ends up in many Death eg. Mao and the Bolschewik revolution.
This second argument about immigration and race is a bit of a non-starter. It's those who understand the importance of immigration to economic development trying to use a dead argument against those who oppose immigration. I live in a country (not in Europe) with a great deal of ethnic diversity, and very little genuine racism. One has to think about identity however in 3 different ways. None of these ways precludes the other There is the national identity, that is all citizens. People who can say they live in and belong to that country, which includes 1st generation immigrants. There are those naturally born in the nation. This can include 1st generation people born in the country to immigrant parents. Then lastly, there are those people's for whom the country is the traditional home of their ethnicity or race. This separation is important because not only does it help to understand where society is today, where it was and where it will be tomorrow, but it allows us to acknowledge first nations people's all around the world. More importantly it allows us to understand how and why society functions as it does. The latest arrivals to any human group, be that a friend group, a place of employment or indeed scaled to a community, state or nation, will also have lower social credibility and less social acceptance than those who have been there a long time or whom founded the group. Human groups of any size have a bit of a probationary period for new comers, it's how we work as a species. Acknowledging there is a difference between a first nations person and simple national identity does not preclude nor undermine acceptance of immigration. Immigration is a necessity in all societies, particularly where natural births are in decline &/or where skills shortages exist. Acknowledging the difference between a first nations person and someone who came later, and ensuring that first nations traditions continue to be woven throughout society is about respect. Germany understands this otherwise they wouldn't have apologised to Namibia. Try making the "this is not what someone from Namibia looks like" argument there, preach about Germanic immigration to them and call them "right wing racists" if they don't accept it. See how that lands. It wouldn't, it would indeed be a racist act to try and everyone knows it. Throughout Europe there are indeed first nations people's. Germany has first nations people's, they indeed look a particular way and have a particular ethnic/tribal heritage. Acknowledge them, it doesn't hurt the immigration argument. Acknowledging strengthens it. When you try to demonise people or thoughts all you achieve is pushing those people into the company of extremists. You radicalise them and create a serious problem. Running a successful society is about give and take, it's about making everyone feel heard and acknowledged even if they don't get their way. One can certainly acknowledge that ethnic germanic people's exist and look a particular way, whilst explaining or making an argument why immigration is so important. One can listen to their fears or concerns and work together to find solutions. That's what a genuinely inclusive and tolerant society looks like. Making an argument like the one is this video will only serve to alienate, draw more AfD support and make a return to extremism more likely.
As a German I'm not very satisfied with this video. But there's too much to unpack. Just one point regarding the level of "Germanness". If someone speaks German, respects German traditions, works hard and abides the law then it doesn't matter where he comes from. He'll mostly be welcomed in this society. But if someone secludes himself, looks at German lifestyle condescendingly, doesn't speak the language and tries to enforce his traditions that contradict our basic values then it doesn't matter what his ID says. He will never be German.
Sorry, but if someone comes to the country from abroad and does not assimilate, learn language, habits, style of living but still lives the way they functioned in their previous country does not have a right to ''demand'' respect, if they are not showing it in the first place.
The example that they gave in the video is not relevant to what you said though. Or rather what you saying is not relevant to the example. The debate about immigrants that refuse to assimilate is a different debate than what was said in the video (and also one that mainly focus on recent immigrants). The dude sees himself as German, speaks German, even active politically in Germany. His Turkish origin still cause racism against him.
@@seanchernov7178 true, unfortunately individuals usually are treated based on the behaviour of the group they are part of. With immigrants, religion groups or any other minorities it is also the case. And it will be this way until the group as a whole does not make an effort and big change
Whatever. Make opportunity like the rest of the world. I lived in Germany and the pain is self inflicted. Loads of opportunities and the education system is amazing. Just looking for something to complain about. It’s a great country!!!
To be honest I would have expected the economic cracks that start forming to be mentioned. The over reliance on an ICE car Industry which has to be completely transformed, the slow pace of digitalisation and the small size of the German IT sector makes me doubt how future proof this economy is.
What do you mean? German brands plus money of Germany plus IBM made the one of the first functional Quantencomputer. And Mercedes has the worlds best electric car with a very good software? The only problem i see is China because they can produce cheaper and that is a huge risk for our „Mittelständische Unternehmen“.
@@leogronung3146 Keep dreaming . Germany doesn't even exist in Tech and AI , and it's entire car industry is being raped by a company run by a twitter troll . Tesla is more valuable than all German car companies combined . Germany is still living on the 60s and 70s economy , but the steam will run out soon , it already started , in 2019 before COVID Germany almost had a recession and 0.6% growth . All the innovation is happening in Asia and North America , Germans are too busy talking about integration
@@muatheluafi6816 I agree that we talk to much about integration, but Tesla isn’t worth more than the german car manufacturers. Only their stocks are more worth. But the stocks of Tesla doesn’t help them in any way, VW for example made about 8-times the profit in 2020 or even more than Tesla. Companies like BMW or Mercedes still make double than Tesla. So you don‘t have to worry, german car manufacturers have Tesla kinda under control. By the way, Tesla was almost bankrupt a few times. One of the Times, Mercedes safed them because they worked together for a few years then.
@@leogronung3146 Profit is short term bro , the most important thing long term is market cap , with Tesla being more valuable than all German car companies combined , mainly because of the technology and especially the AI , which German car companies will never have , and investors and experts know that very well that's why they valued it at that level , that's why German car companies are trying to partner with companies like Microsoft to build it , because they don't have the capabilities to build it themselves , and there is a million other things like that . I just think it would've been much more productive to do have spent all this time and energy wasted on meaningless race war and culture war stuff on things that are worth it , but it's too late unfortunately , the train already left the station a long time ago
@@muatheluafi6816 Exact the opposite is the case. Stock worth is not important but Profit is. By the way, stock worth does not equal the actual worth of a company. And the actual worth of Tesla is lower. Also, what do you mean by „the train has left“? 1. America does not have a single High Speed train, 2. Mercedes is in EVs since maybe 2 years and produces the best EV on the Market. And Tesla was in the market since 2013 kinda? Additionally, Mercedes self made autonomous driving system is higher ranked than Teslas in the study of the navigant research. As well as the VW group. Please do not talk about topics you have no clue of. Thank you.
The reporter looks like a bad actor trying to act a serious role. Also, painting all immigrants with the same brush id ridiculous. There is enough of them who don't want to be part of the german society and also there are some that more than happy to live on benefits.
the limit is reached when people can live together in a country without one group treating others like subhumans for being different. the limit is reached when people arent treated differently based on race.
@@dave2.077 The developing world exceeded its carrying capacity decades ago and is now desperately trying to export its surplus populations to regions with self-restrained fertility rates.
@@dave2.077 And yet most of woke Europe thinks this will somehow be achieved by importing people who treat other groups like sub-humans based on race and religion.
@@dave2.077 You're demanding the impossible. "Diversity" destroys social cohesion and everything else it takes to keep a society stable and moving forward.
@@scronx a modern society can base its social cohesion not on race and this overarching theme of the lamd belonging to a racial group but instead base it upon prople of all kinds coming together to communally create a better world based on the actions one takes instead of what race they are.
German is a race and there is nothing wrong in it, foreigners or settlers can be German resident or German immigrants but calling themselves as German is bit awkward, I am foreign investor in Bremen and Immigrant in Germany, I would not like to introduce myself as German. Like introducing as American or Canadian may not make immigrant feel awkward because American or Canadian is not a race, every one knows all are immigrant, foreign immigrant introducing as German is just like an American introducing himself as Red Indian. 😄 I was invited by German and was accepted by Germans as immigrant, My friends are mostly Germans, I am a proud tax payer citizen of Germany.
I think the problem is that since the name of the country is Germany, German has a dual meaning. The first referring to a culture and tradition that has existed for centuries and refers to people of German heritage. The second meaning being of citizenship and national identity. This has to do with the fact that a country has it's own culture and those who participate in the culture are German.
This video just generalized 80% of worlds problems in other countries too.Some have war within their borders to contend with...Germany is lucky and sounds like a great place to live.
Europe is always at war within itself. they only get peace with collapse of the soviet union in 1991.from 1914 to 1991 there is a non-stop war at europe (great war-ww2-cold war) and germany always in the center of this wars. they have a just 30 years peace at germany
@@jackgray305 I am talking about civil wars going on now within their borders not World Wars decades ago.He said September,we all know the history of Germany. We are speaking Germany today.Its not a bad place to live today.
Germany along with the rest of Europe is in long term decline. This video concentrates on inequality and racism rather than asking what creates opportunity and wealth. The problems have been identified, but the commentator only offers social rather than economic solutions.
Yes and no. The identity part is social but looks the school system and the divide between East and West have direct economical effects like opportunities to grow.
This is no different from the systems in the UK and the USA except in the US you could buy your way (with really minimal qualifications) into a degree program that is not academically challenging. What's different in the end? If your parents push you to get educated, to study, to attend every day, to do homework, to read books from the library, to teach you when you are young? It's what the parents respect and value and are willing to invest their limited time in that counts.
It’s an interesting point to mention. It’s not “inequality “ when one family works that much harder. That is what you have to work at changing. And like he mentions (and a HUGE problem in the us) too many people in the us have degrees and it’s now essentially what a high school diploma was 20years ago. Exceptions being great schools and or certain degrees
How would do you know? I lived in both Germany and the US. I think the US is a better place. But if you’re not competent enough to take care of yourself you might prefer Germany.
So Germany is just like every other country with high immigration, ethnic diversity, and capitalism. It's not as easy as it should be but we'll get it together at some point.
1. Very one sided story and a bit unfair to all the efforts that are being done. Everyone has access and a proper chance to make it. It's assumed working hard should not be needed, which is a crazy statement. Always this story of the suppressor and victims, a narrative that is going to end in a bad outcome eventually. 2. Off course people who look different or have different backgrounds are not seen as one of them. The German turks also don't see the native Germans as turks, because they don't belong to that group. Why is this bad or so strange? Plus if you dress completely different and then complain you're treated differently, you either accept that or change your clothing. If you speak my language, dress similar and have a similar culture, I'll see you as someone who is like me. If you're not like me, that's fine too, we can still live in the same society in a proper way. I'm very open to people who are different, but getting a bit sick of the oppressor story tbh.
@@harrydehnhardt5092 is that realy suprising? Those people grew up in Communism. I am from former Communist Country and i am often fighting wars with my parents because we disagree on many things. They also grew up in Communism. Generations that grew up in that system wont change its for the future generations to close the breach.
@@saellenx3528 Mutti grew up in the GDR, how did her mindset lead her to the chancellorship? The one third who complain about being left behind after unification, or about not getting opportunities seem to want to be led by the hand through life. The majority of East Germans MADE opportunity for themselves after unification.
@@acmeopinionfactory8018 there are always exeptions in everything. I agree that most people growing up in Communism expect that someone will solve all their problems for them, like you said someone leading them by their hand.
I DO agree on the "unequal start", but the CAUSE of "low income families" being more likely to fall into that category is NEITHER their "low income" NOR being a migrational background, which seems to be the relation DW tries to make here.
Sorry but Germans have FREE tertiary education. Name 1 other country where getting out of poverty if you have brains is easier financially if your family is poor? Most other countries I know of you pay steeply for education - so really give me a break with complaining about opportunities to uplift yourself. And BTW, any other country would have equal barriers to Schooling.
@@womblytenrecpetit2845 Did I write anything to the contrary? No, hence your "so give me a break" doesn't apply to my comment. I stand by what I wrote though. If you interpret anything into it that I didn't write, that's not my fault. Regarding intelligence... That's by no means a guarantee to be "financially" successful in Germany (or anywhere else).
Good point. But if people from other countries want citizenship of another and if they're economically contributing , then they should be called natives of their new country. In a few 1000 years, all populations are going to be homogenous. Same.
Britishers lived in India for 400 years without any passport. Exploiting all the resources and money, eventually sent back to England making it one of the richest country. Now,I have britan passport but still facing racism.
I'm English and lived in Asia for 8 years, I have a daughter that they call half blood and I was racially abused daily we will never be fully accepted but I would happily be back there now if I could get back into the country.
Yes DW is right. God forbid the indiginous people, who fought in the armies of Fredrich Barbarosa and Fredrich the Great, should be the supreme majority in their own country.
45 years of Strongman military rule left a certain dependency on the State for personal Development but it also left the Easterners with an intact cohesive cultural and ethnic identity.
And you call Germany a democratic republic? The way it looks, they seem to be stuck in the medieval times. Yes, they live well, and they are wealthy, however, wealth it something that comes and goes away. What remains it is only the knowledge. I believe that the best time of Germany is in the past.
I been an immigrant of brown skin in France, Europe for about 3 years. And here is my perspective. I have faced explicit racism one or two times, but people in general are nice and welcoming. I am a strong believer of "When in Rome do as Romans do". So I every possible way to integrate with the group from language to culture. Most of the people even old people I encountered are nice and welcoming. But i feel friendship with locals are at very surface level. Once you try to get close into the inner circle, I feel coldness and indifference from them. Which sometimes makes you wonder, do they really like you or are they just being nice. IDK.
@@nuggie5522 But you[not you as a particular individual] don't let people like me in your inner circle, and then I feel no matter, I will never be part of you people.
Ethnic or biological Germans are white. Germanic peoples have been around since the days of Rome. They make up the Scandinavian countries, Austria, Belgium, Switzerland and Germany. What's wrong with stating facts?
And also it hurts so much that when a non German feel inlove with a Germany , 99 % of German think it because of documents ...it is so painful n stress 😭
@@shieldgenerator7 Not OP, but I think that's not what she meant. Seems to me like "feel inlove with Germany" is "fell in love with a German", and "because of documents" is "because it's a chance to get a passport/citizenship".
I noticed that Germans are not welcoming to criticism of their own country. The news channels report news from all over the world and ppl have no problem pilling on in the flaws of other countries, but when you mention a slight criticism of Germany suddenly people feel extremely offended...
a short story: I was passing with my colleague at the Frankfurt airport transit, since the transit was too long we thought to go out to the Frankfurt city to have something to drink. The border policeman who checked our passports was apparently of Turkish origin. His communication was ironic, racist and uneducated. He ironically told us that we had to go to the gate specified in the ticket and we had confused the exit. My colleague explained that we want to go to Frankfurt, as the transit is long, the answer was no is not allowed! and with behavior that does not belong to a German official and idiotic racism drove us away. Since we are Albanian diplomats and have a diplomatic passport, we thought we should overcome this frustrated man and communicate with someone more responsible. There we found a policeman who was apparently a northern European and told him the request we had to go to Frankfurt. After verifying our passports, he escorted us to another exit, interrupted the queue that was there, passed us and for 30m we were in Frankfurt drinking beer and discussing how frustrated are the people who think that racism is exercised against them for their skin color and how bad they become when they think they are in a favorable position to practice racism. conclusion: I think that people are divided into good and bad, they are not separated by color, they are not separated by ancestry, they are divided by the way they grew up and the complexes they went through in their lives underestimating themselves. In our country there is an expression: if you will to know someone give the chair of power.
Hadfield's photo of Berlin from space is perfect realisation and proof of truth of what one great emperor once said: " *What we do today, echos in eternity* ..." Therefore, we as individuals, and we, as a society, should think twice while making choices and acting upon them. Specially today. God bless you all.
There is a lot of truth told here. One of my nephews living in Bavaria is starting his secondary education this coming winter. His IQ has been measured at over 160 and it shows, already at the age of ten he taught himself English, speaks it fluently (with all the swear words) and almost without a mistake, (I lived in the UK for 18 years before returning to Germany and obviously speak English). He's also shown proficiency in hacking into computer games and also cracking expensive software (don't worry, I'm keeping a close eye on him here). Yet Bavarian school authorities have allotted him a place in a so called "Mittelschule" which offers no qualifications for further education. I can only explain this nonsensical decision with his family background. His mother died 6 years ago and his father, my brother, a car mechanic, always struggled to keep up with his son's schoolwork and doesn't seem to understand the implications and impact this will have on his son's future. I'm appalled, not just at the way school authorities are letting this child down, but also at the intellectual assets this country is allowing to go to waste at a time when we'll be needing such people more than ever before.
I hope it is not too late for your nephew to visit a higher school. Worst case he can jump from the lower school to a higher on after 10th grade. You have to qualify though, meet certain requirements. But it is not that irreversible as the DW video suggests it to be. I did it myself.
@@MesoScale Thanks for your comment. I'm more worried what happens before he reaches the 10th grade. How will his maths teacher deal with a 10 year old who already understands algebra, trigonometry, curve discussions, vector calculus? A few weeks ago he asked me to explain integral and differential calculus, a ten year old! I gave him my old maths books from my time at university (I'm a graduate engineer) and let him get on with it. He insists on speaking to me in English since he found out that I speak the language fluently. He sometimes corrects me. How on earth is his English teacher going to deal with that? To make things worse and my real worry here is that he's completely undisciplined. If he's not interested in a subject it's impossible to get him to concentrate on it. And if you try he has a very short temper and can explode within seconds. This is one of the reasons for his relative bad exam results. Bad as in threes for all subjects apart from maths. There he got a one, he told me the exam was all baby stuff. Rolls eyes.
@@mikethespike7579 sounds like the kid is very very smart , academicly... but...with many issues that you need to address quickly...10 years old and using bad language?? Wash his mouth out with soap that be a good start.Not every super smart succeeds.
@@helgagaines3598 I don't think he realises what these expletives mean. To him they are just words he heard used on the internet which he seems to think must be sprinkled into his sentences and nothing bad. I'm working on this. And yes, he certainly needs strict guidance if his high intelligence is going to be any benefit to him.That's why sticking him into lower level secondary education is very worrying. He's going to run rings around his teachers and become very frustrated if we don't watch out.
I feel like outsiders (especially Americans) view Germany as this strong united country, proudly leading Europe's economy and all Germans are proud to be German, when in reality there's a great rift between the government and the people. There are a lot of people living in poverty, only having a monthly income of about 400€ (Hartz IV). If your parents are poor, there's a high chance that you're gonna be poor too. Also German Nationalism is practically nonexistent. You will few people who are genuinely proud to be German. Most Germans are deeply ashamed of their history. Even though German history is very long and diverse, most German, but also some foreigners, tend to reduce it down to the NS-Dictatorship (1933-1945)
All public schools and universities are free. Inequality in education is much less prevalent than eg. in the U.S., where students accumulate large debt to attend schools. The population of Germany is 87% European, 9% Asian, 1% African, 0.7% American, 1.5% mixed/unspecified.
Poor people are often immigrants or single mothers… as an immigrant, I don’t expect German people to give me their fortune just to have the opportunity of being rich. I work and everything is good for me, but obviously I had to start from 0. It’s been part of the integration process in my case.
Do you agree, that Immigrants should learn German, it seems really beneficial to understand/ speak it, especially when dealing with the authorities. Someone should also be willing to work. (I assume 99% of immigrants are, but they are not allowed to by the authorities at first)
Mr. D VG or course, I got German lessons for free! And my neighbours, tv, music helped me a lot. I had headache at the beginning but now I’m happy of the effort. It’s essential for me, at least to thank those people that received me in their country and gave me an opportunity (even if I work and pay taxes, so nothing is a present)
@@muatheluafi6816 do I need to criticize Germans to be a good immigrant? Complain about everything? Sometimes I feel ashamed of people like this… I prefer to be happy and thankful than angry and grumpy. Believe me, it’s better even for your health ;-)
@@aixucruc who said you have to be grumpy and angry , i also don’t think it’s healthy or even necessary to be emotionally involved in any of this stuff , at the end of the day our “groups “ and who we are and where we’re born and pretty much everything about our circumstance is a roll of dice essentially, an accident, and it doesn’t make sense to spend your time and life defending a “team” or an identity or anything of that nature that you didn’t choose . But that doesn’t mean you can’t point out problems objectively, the same way you point out any other problem you might see or perceive in any domain , without necessarily getting emotionally involved in it , you see what I mean ?
@@Simm2Dimm She has an american point of view of whites and poc which isn't applicable to europe. The moment when she speaks about whites = german ethnic it's clear that she has no clue. It surprised me to learn that she in fact is german and not american as her viewpoint certainly is an american one.
This is why we left over 20 odd years ago and never looked back. It didn’t matter if you were a good student and got good grades, made the effort etc. you were never seen as part of the community and always just seen as an outsider and intruder. The comments about social equality and status are definitely something we experienced as well, instead of being judged based on our character we got judged based on our names. Of course not all people are like this, but a majority is. I still love to go visit family and friends there, but its sad to see that the place I called home for so many years has still not changed that much.
I left as well - Germany (and Europe overall) is just not the place to build wealth. It's nice to see these things finally being talked about and acknowledged, but they've been hidden cracks for over 50 years. That means that many people lived their entire lives feeling suppressed and not having a voice to express how much of an outsider they feel even though it is all they know. My grandmother experienced this when moving here in the 60's/70's as an immigrant, and so did my mother (who was born in Germany) growing up in Germany through the 80's/90's feeling like an outsider. I am fortunate enough to have dual citizenship with the U.S. and am grateful I had the option to at least explore a different country instead of feeling like I had no way out in a country where I am not fully accepted. I personally did not experience much racism growing up in Germany as much as my mother and grandmother did, but it is definitely there. I love Europe - I am fluent in both German and English and speak the popular "Denglish" at home and it would honestly be extremely easy to move back to Germany since I have always made sure to retain complete fluency and keep my passport up to date, but I just won't because I feel like Germany is permanently stuck in 2008 (the issue of slow internet for example) due to it's bureaucratic political nature. Additionally, Germany (and Europe overall) is just not the place to build significant wealth compared to the likes of the U.S; I wouldn't mind moving back to Europe and starting a family in Germany in 10-15 years if things improve, but as a person of color I refuse to raise my children in a country where they will feel like an outsider. I see how much it pained my mother growing up like that, and I would have too if I wasn't fortunate enough to have dual citizenship.
@@FlyingMonet I think you forget (as an American) that the us is the only place in the world where people won’t feel like an outsider because of their Looks. If you go to Japan as a white person you will be an outsider. If you live South America as an Asian people will also ask you where you are from. America is an immigration country and has its whole culture copied from other cultures. But the world doesn’t work that way how you want it. Minorities will always be outsiders it’s just how humans are. That doesn’t mean that you can be welcomed in such a country. And Germany is open for foreigners, especially people with a good education and similar culture. I feel like American don’t understand this because they grew up with the understanding that if you have a American passport you are a true American. But as I said, for most countries the passport is one thing but you still will be asked where you are from if you look different. And I don’t see a problem with this honestly.
@@FlyingMonet Yes, my family and I moved to the US in 2000. I didn’t have as much issues with racism as I kind of ‘blended’ in a bit better, but my name definitely gave it away and that was enough of a reason not to be considered ‘German’. Some of the things that were part of the ‘culture’ I didn’t even recognize as an issue until years later after living in the US. Certain idealism’s are almost ingrained in you from an early age, that you don’t even see it as a problem, until you remove yourself from the situation. I never realized it at the time, but I felt shame, for not being born German, for not having a German name, for my ancestry coming from a different European country, eating different foods etc. You practically spend your whole life trying to suppress that other side and try to blend in as much as possible, but never feeling like you’ve achieved it or it is seen as enough effort by society. Which is really ironic, considering such a big effort is placed on being German and living a German lifestyle so many Americanisms (words (Denglish), culture etc.) are being incorporated into the daily lives. I even asked one of my friends the other week about it, whenever I talk to my friends from Germany they use English words for very common things, like instead of saying “Überrascht” they’d use “surprised” instead. It’s really odd for a country so obsessed with looking German, talking German etc. to be so obsessed with the American culture. I can’t say how many times over the years I had friends and family visit, and expressing the desire to move or try it but then move back because here unlike in Germany you don’t have any securities. You have to make it on your own, and pay/work your own way, there is no job guarantee and most definitely no government insurance. I agree with you 100% on the wealth part, If i stayed I would have been only making probably around 25-30% of my current income, but I did give up my rights to dual citizenship. I think the German mindset/government is just not very flexible in that regard. I have some friends who can bake cakes that rival any Konditorei but in order to even consider to open up your own bakery in Germany it’s next to impossible..There is just no incentive for entrepreneurship. It is a bit sad thought, because the education system is great, absolutely unrivaled, but are at the same time restricted just as much and not allowed to use that knowledge to innovate and grow.
Another point, which seems even more important: germans don't have children... Maybe it's related to the risk of losing social standing due to lower revenue.
It’s not about „social standing“. Many couples thing throughly if they can really provide the necessities for kids and fear that they can’t, cuz everything is getting more expensive and they don’t want to be in depths. Furthermore there are also a lot of couples whom simply doesn’t wanna place kids in this world.
@@Reisbuerger87 True love kids 2much to show them second industriel revolution and shi!..maybe thats good maybe not.. but dogs are fine they can handle XD
@Anonymer Nutzer What world are you living in? You clearly have a much difference definition of liberalization. No it's just a rhetoric question, I don't really need to know the answer
Your comment is so utterly confused as the US is much more unequal in wealth distribution than most western nations. You haven't even tried yet you claim it led to disaster. Doesn't makes sense, doesn't it?
Pushing diversity is not a solution by itself, it has never been. A country has the right to keep its culture and way of life without adapting to newcommers, otherwise it could be destroyed from within.
DW, please dont go down the road of self loathing, as a frequent visitor to DL im also aware of problems in some of your major cities. Its not Germans. I also travel to MENA and I can assure you im exposed to "odd looks" there, im White European and I have experienced abuse from Africans, Mid East and most certainly from Chinese. Those countries dont have TV programming criticizing own countries..AJ, TRT, CCTV..etc..
I moved to Germany from New Zealand for a year before Covid-19. I enjoyed my time, really liked Germans. Unfortunately my careers has been in banking and I just couldn't get a foot in the door professionally. Went to the UK to visit family and was hired by a bank within a week in London. 🤷🏻♂️
@@thomas316 yeah I live in Germany too but I couldn't land a job here so far... I was based in the Netherlands before and had to move here cause of my wife's residence etc. If it is possible I'd like to move to England actually
Who cares what other people think. Just live your life and don't cling on to what people say. Flow like water. All types of control come from a fear/ansxiety. Let people be who they be.
Ironically, the ad I get here is: "How entrepreneurs and self-employed cut their taxes in half" - in German, I translate here. It's still relatively cheap to push SUVs through the town and pump 90 litres of gas every 400 km into it. Our landlord has 2 of them and a Merc AMG for even faster travel. Danke, Finanzamt!
Und dank leuten wie dir bleibt uns die schon wenig auf dem Land noch weniger weil wir auf das auto angewiesen sind. Mein Weg zur Arbeit ist ne halbe Stunde mit dem Auto. Oder dreieinhalb Stunden mit öffentlichen. Das ich mit dem Auto fahre ist kein Luxus, sondern die einzige Möglichkeit wie ich genug Zeit für ein wenig Freizeit und Schlafen habe
@@MyILoveMinecraft Sorry, for far too long the requirements of Nature, of our living sustainably on this earth, have been treated as dispensable, always the last priority. This needs to change if we are going to survive. I’m sure there are several positive changes you can make if you change your attitude from negative (I can’t) to positive (I can). Hinzu Zufugen is right. Individual freedoms in this area must be counterbalanced by limitations based on our collective survival. A stiff carbon tax is only one solution.
This lack of what you call "social mobility" is prevalent in the UK too. London and the south east of England are one of the wealthiest per capita in the world. However it's highly concentrated in a few hands. In fact UK is probably one of the most unequal countries in Europe. The UK's trade and economy and immigrant population come after Germany in the world ranking last time I looked. This lack of "social mobility" resulted in Brexit and possible Scottish and northern Irish independence, so this documentary resonates with me.
@@Rschaltegger State schools don't teach children properly. Indeed even public and private schools are bad now. Children are ignorant compared to just a couple of decades ago.
I am always suspicious about people who complain about social mobility in a welfare state with free education. It's always people who don't want to put in the work, but want to live like they did.
different outcomes doesnt mean there is inequality... look up the pareto distribution.... in ANY endevor of human society it always end up liek that.... most have very little or do very litte ... less ppl have or do a bit more and the tiniest minority has but also DOES the most. in the end its not a lack of euality if u look what each of these ppl put in and get out
@@Hungabrigoo Since the American subsidy dried up in the 1970's broadly speaking, and the oil crisis hit, Western Europe has been gradually declining due to its profligate public spending but without the entrepreneurial base to support it.
1:40 "Although Germany is a wealthy society, that wealth is not spread evenly "
_laughs in American_
Surely that’s true of all 1st world countries.
Laughs in indian
It shouldn't be.
Yes! That's right! Only Venezuela, North Korea, Cuba and the Soviet Union were the perfect societies of this planet.
@@MargauxKim_13 obviously. The attempt to redistribute wealth has always been disastrous.
Plus economically it's flawed
"Hidden cracks", as someone whos born and lived in Germany for over 30 years I can assure you that for a majority of the population nothing is shiny and sparkling.
@C L Yah... the Germans simply does not know, what is a "really bad". Some months in Putin's Russia ... and all the German people will start to love Germany like never before.
@WP WW Because Russia is more racist and anti-liberal?
@@Mateo-if6ry yes
@WP WW Yeah, right, because living in a corrupt dictatorship is the ideal. Stop justifying everything with your hatred against progressive and liberal ideas, boy.
@WP WW ma god stfu 🤦♀️
There's a shortage of SKILLED MANUAL WORKERS in most Western countries as everyone is obsessed with going to university. No, not all are cut out nor are needed to become academics. Countries need to restore the image of skilled work and ensure labourers can make a decent wage!
It's also true for East Europe. So in my country an engineer earn about 500-600 Euro/mo after collage and an skilled manual worker about 1500 Euro/mo...
Just pay them a living wage and ppl will choose these professions again.
True. They all want to be airline pilots and can't even fly a Cessna
western country are automating all manual labor. no one want to be stuck in the next coal mining industry.
I'm an engineer with decades of experience in R+D and I assure you, there isn't a shortage of skilled manual workers, there is a shortage of people with degrees in STEM fields of work. Here in Germany I can find a plumber, joiner, welder, whatever with a few weeks. A good engineer though is very difficult to find. They're always snapped up by big high tech companies even before they graduate.
12:17 One third Eastern Germans feel the relationship has not improved
Two third west Germans feel the relationship has improved.
So people on both sides have the similar feeling about the reunification. I don't get why he presented it as if there is any difference.
usually these questionaires are notbinary but have a neutral answer so you could assume theh only 10 or 15% of west germans would say that relationship has not improved and propably less than half, maybe as low as a thrid of east germans would say that relationship has improved.
But maybe you have a point that this statement should have been reinforcedwith broader data
Lol. Good point. The two thirds of east Germans may have answered various other answers.
They gutted the East welfare state and exploited easterners badly
One-third has moved to the West because of the thinking of the rest. Opportunity outside of Halle/Leipzig area is spotty. Frankfurt Airport is where you can find a load of them.
A lot of people in the east didn't wanted a reunification, they wanted a better GDR and just after the east became democratic it was integrated in the west
He keeps walking through urban landscapes like he's in a Monty Python sketch.
Lol
Would assume the intro is done in the former death strip of the Berlin wall where the two iron walls represent where the walls where and otherwise it would make not much sense to see like 100 of meters of rusted metal walls whit a small green strip between. Almost a bit ironic even to talk about cracks in the nation where it was split, not sure if this just meant symbolic or some rather dry humor.
Hardly Urban, these are government buildings. They apparently need more and more of them to cater for more and more civil servants and politicians. German bureaucracy is massive and the number of representatives is now over 700. Only China has more. The running costs and salaries make it the most expensive parliament in the western world.
@@Smudgie Germany is totally mad. I am glad my country broke of 500 years ago.
I thought he looked like a Jim Henson creation.
WTH, took me a while to realize this was not about tektonic plates...
Wow
Or Merkels butt crack...
Or cooked cocaine.
Nods in german.
Brother, where did you get such good stuff?
If your kids have good grades, there’s no reason why they can’t go to gymnasium (academic path). As immigrants our children were afforded every opportunity to get their German to native speaker level in Kindergarten and elementary school and go onto gymnasium and university where they’re studying STEM degrees. This wouldn’t have been possible in the country we came from. We’re very thankful to live here and our children have been brought up to love Germany and be thankful.
This vid, I think, over exaggerated all points that it listed
Why you ruin the "victim" narrative promoted by the establishment?
Also a smart kid can only go to Gymnasium or University when their parents allow it. This is true for immigrants and lokals alike. The experiemce of a upper middleclass kid with parents who give them money so they can focus on university an the kid who has to work a lot while in uni are QUITE different. Also some smart kids from nonacademic background won't even go to university in the first place even they smart enough because the whoke accademic enviroment and its people seem so foreign to them.
Except no, my bosses daughter was rejected from higher education until they realised her father is PhD working in Max Planck institute. Suddenly she could go academic. Lol
I have a syrian buddy in my university who fled from syria during civil war, went to gymnasium here and is now (more or less) studying here. great guy
I'm just a German, living in Germany, that's all :,D
Jokes aside I feel, personally, the biggest hurdle to successful immigration is SHARED VALUES.
Some portion of immigrants have a very "anti-western attitude" while many others are awesome people.
A divide can quickly take place, we do have certain semi-self-isolated ethnic subcultures.
As long as people that come here actually WANT TO live under the rules and values our constitution has in mind and continue to build a better country, then they are welcome.
Some amount of people come "for the money", but don't like the values and societal structures and norms.
If people come here and complain about germans or germany, they should go somewhere else.
Do American ex-pats behave themselves over there?
I think that’s the issue all over the western world with immigrants who don’t share our values.
I feel like a fundamental problem with your view is that "western values" change widely based on who you ask about them. Someone in Berlin might think the values of someone from Munich are less compatible than someone from Beijing. It's all relative.
@@owangejewiceI am pretty sure that the different values are inherent. If the situation was in reverse, I seriously doubt they would be so accommodating.
I think this is how every sane adult feels in all developed/civilized countries - with regards to rampant aggressive exploitative immigration.
Well said.
5:18
What? only because you have German citizenship or born in Germany, does that make you German now?
What have Europe come to?
I love Germany and cannot imagine being in any other country. Came here 20 years ago without a cent in my pocket. I may not be rich in money now but I earned an education which nobody could take away from me. Germany made that possible for me. To add to that, I can be my gay self here with confidence and without fear. That alone means the world to me. Discrimination is everywhere. But in Germany people are free to discuss, argue and make protests. I guess as individuals, every one of us has a responsibility to do our share to be more accepting of others. Dankeschön!
It’s changing now. Anti corona measures protests are being shot down even by the court. More people are getting more „woke“.
@@melrosepark4463 Actually very few protests in Germany´re shot down. In fact none.
@@melrosepark4463 ....maybe those people should simply accept the rules instead of endangering us all. There have been protests about all kind of problems during the lock down, but most of them were done without risking the lives of others. If anything, they were too lenient with those protests, since nearly all of them were allowed to go ahead, to the detriment of us all.
@Red Front very true, but the origin comment talked about courts shutting them down: they don‘t have the right to protest - even tho police doesn’t care
@@swanpride if you got vaccination why do you worry?
Interesting to hear Germans complaining about their education system. We outsiders have be raised to admire it and look up to it
There is always something that can be improved :)
I find it funny how one-sided such complaints are. If there's a group against its current state, then where is the group for it? Is everyone against it? Then why doesn't it improve?
there is always something to improve. Also, as outsiders, you can't really see if something is rotten. It is, my sisters and me had limited German skills back then but did not get any additional German classes (in the 90s and 2000s). Now it's much better, foreigners' kids get additional help from institutions to better adapt and learn the language.
The best school system in Europe is in Belgium probably.
Exactly, in the UK we are told the Finnish and German systems of education and higher training are what we should aspire to. It's a shame the video doesn't outline what they think the problems actually are?
Sure this is true. Every country has drama. As an immigrant from IRELAND my career got a super boost when I moved to Germany. With minimal German language skills. I am very thankful for my time in Germany. It is a country that was very good to me personally and professionally.
I also trying to get Germany ✌️
@@AconcernedUKcitizen ...if the Alis and the Vlads saw you as competition of course they would be hostile, you were taking a share of their livelihood. As far as your quali's go, the Germans are strict about their standards as you will now know. i was interviewed for photographic work but the boss wasn't interested in my sample works, they were my best examples any way, he said and not indicative of what i do under the stess of a deadline. Show me what you can do, not what you have done, that seems to be what you did in the end. Well done.
I'm a student from the UK studying in Germany. I get treated pretty differently than the other international students pretty just because of where I come from. It's awkward to say the least.
@@DjokovicIsOurLordAndSaviour Not discounting your experience but I definitely experienced the same in reverse. I remember very well when I was young coming to the UK and getting a sneer from the customs official when I showed him my German passport.
@@JNArnold I've experienced that as well. But, when I went to apply for my residence permit recently post-brexit. They asked me where I'm from and when I said the UK I got to skip the queue. 😬
Either way though for better or worse I'm treated differently based on where I come from.
I’m born and live in Germany and can say that this video is not very accurate. It displays only the view of DW.
The first time I was in Berlin was the only time ever I felt I was in a largely less wealthy area of Germany...my most recent visit I was astonished at how far it had come in forget the last 30, the last 15 years. I would call these less cracks and more growing pains. A bad day in Germany is better than a good day in America for the vast majority of us.
yes but for most europeans, we would not want to have the average american life as a benchmark to compare to!
Well you’re right but Berlin has a special status growing together since it got a lot of money there to be the capital again, it’s most interesting for tourism and was always full of uni students
You are sooo right.
And Americans are much more wealthy than Germans and Europeans per capita
Wow that sounds amazing I cant wait to go Im going to Hamburg and going to travel around Germany this Tuesday and Ill be there for 2 weeks im excited its so boring here in the US and I get to get away from my abusive family.
Britain essentially abolished the grammar school system and the working class have paid the consequences. The grammar schools used to take in 75% working class kids who were given great opportunities if they had good academic abilities. Now, the good schools are all down to catchment area i.e. you can only get in if you live within the schools catchment area. The house prices around the good schools are now higher than most working class families can afford and so now you have all the middle class families within the catchment area of the good schools and working class kids going to the bad schools. You can say all you like "all schools should be good" but there are always going to be factors that stop this from happening. Thanks ideologues.
It's an election soon. Many problems aren't even discussed. Housing and rental costs, energy costs, migration, pensions...
and taxes
@@gm7361 tax is good mahn💁🏻♂️💁🏻♂️💁🏻♂️
Just study Economics
The overwhelming majority of people want immigration reduced or eliminated but that simply is an option removed from any political discussion.
Cut taxes. Build nukes, people need cheap electricity to advance.
@@thug43 Only due to the capitalist system that requires constant growth.
I’m an American, born in South America, living and working in West Germany. I think it’s good. Work hard, learn the language, be a good neighbor - and all is good.
Also, after seeing the rest of Europe, I appreciate the order and safety that Germany has, compared to the rest of Europe 👍
Are you white?
@@persianguy1524 Hello. No. I'm from South America.
Where in Europe there isn't order and safety?
I travelled and lived in almost every european country. So i think i can compare. I prefer to live in Germany. Sometimes i am jealous of the weather, wine or beaches in other countries. Still i would chose Germany. We are definately not perfect - but our engineers are working on that matter;-)
@@persianguy1524 Does it matter?
Since when was Germany a "country of immigration" and who decided that?
Maybe look up the term "Völerwanderung"? Then work your way through German history? Or maybe start even earlier if those 2000 years of constant movement of people don't satisfy you.
@@LPVince94 migration is not the same as immigration
Stop pushing identity politics!!! I am myself with "Migrationshintergrund" and like Germany because it is distinctively German! I have to adapt to Germany, not Germany to me nor to other immigrants!
Based
I thought Germany was a union of different States and cultures.
@@thepedrothethethe6151 yes, it was formed as a Zollverein in 1870 or 1871 as an economic union of different independent german states, which then confederated into one federal state, while maintaining their different flavour. My favourite is Rheinland (west part of NRW), which is very open-minded, since it is a border region, and was made of free merchant cities since the middle ages, so it managed to absorb many immigrants since 1950s, who are very proud of being rheinländer. Unfortunately, there are pockets of population who live in their separate worlds, without becoming part of the Rheinland culture. The same happens in other Ländern too, and I do not think they culturally enrich Germany by doing so.
@@thepedrothethethe6151 No
what is "German" though? lol the Roman Empire of German Nation consisted of many Völkerwanderungen (slavs, hugenots, etc.) since the early middle ages and roman times..... Germany and Germans were always a mixed nation of people trying to built a working society.
Did Germans choose to be a diverse society? If so, when exactly? Was there a limit to the number and type of immigrants the German people voted for? If so, when and what were the details? This was a very one sided report DW
lmao have you ever heard of such thing as globalization? This was bound to happen, and will happen, to all countries eventually. Travel and connecting with people from different parts of the world is easier now than ever due to airplanes, the internet, and the fact that we are living in pretty much peace time.
@@FlyingMonet I’m not seeing that trend in Asian countries
As an American living in Germany, the issues here seem so small compared to my original country. Honestly, I do believe some of these issues are overblown by the media in order to get more views because talking about the positive side of this country would never hold people's attention.
Germany is one of the most accessible countries I've seen. In the US, students go into over a hundred thousand dollars of debt just to get a university degree, but in Germany it costs almost nothing in comparison. Maybe it is hard for people in poverty to get on the University track, but in general the financial barrier is manageable.
In regards to racism and identity, I think people care too much about being "politically correct." Why are we cancelling people for bringing up sensitive topics? Obviously blatant hate speech should not be tolerated, but it's gotten to a point where almost everything is labeled as hate speech. We should have a more open mindset towards discussing identity and race.
The U.S. might be the worst country to compare a "decent power" to. One is a well on-track country, the other still barely avoiding being a hellish dystopia.
Nobody has to pay that much for university. You can go to a perfectly good school for a fraction of that cost, and not pay 1/2 of your income in taxes for the rest of your life to pay for it.
Couldn't you go to Community College and then transfer to a state school?
Deutsche welke ist oft anti deutsch.....
Germans are a PEOPLE, not a passport. A Chinese person born in Germany is NOT German, nor are they any less Chinese. That isn’t racist it is just a fact.
"people with low qualifications are at the greatest risk of being poor and staying there"... yeah ???
Right lol
So your saying it’s really a class thing?
Because there is literally no way to go up and depending on gov aids wont cut it
@@moniho6907 your only limited by your imagination!
In dutch we have a saying . Wie als dubbeltje geboren is word nooit een kwartje . Wer als cent geboren wird , wird nie ein quarter.
I went from Eastern Europe to Germany in 2004.
I had no money, no support.
I studied.
I started my business in 2012.
And I was living above average German standards by 2014.
So it's not about where you come from. It's about your attitude, your Einstellung.
Follow German laws or leave.
eyerything the state doesn`t know is legal
no!
US , British , French laws . German laws were abolished in Nüremberg
@Ready For Anything. that’s what I said dude
German laws, like the one which forbids to wear masks while driving a car - but there was another law at the same time which demanded wearing masks while driving a car with more than one person.
As a Canadian I can honestly, not one of these issues is German. It’s society as a whole. Don’t feel special lol. Every country is cracking…. Just look at the states…they are completely broken. Don’t do the same…for all of us…humans.
watch what happens here in the US as we accelerate our race to collapse, the collapse is going to be more epic than most other countries because we have guns and ammo.
You can enjoy our circus, and cavalcade of clowns that created the current Afghanistan fiasco: Biden, Harris, Blinken, Austin, Milley, Schumer, Pelosi, so many old clowns, and many more coming.
Enjoy our coming sh*tshow.
@@zoomzoom3950 you again. You forget all the republican clowns, who caused the mess.
@@Calligraphybooster nice try, comrade. those republican clowns aren't in charge, this is all the demoncrat blue team's sh*tshow.
thanks for playing.
@Robby Dey wrong again, Bobby. How the US exited was up to Biden the military brass, who delayed the exit passed the original date set by Trump.
Biden and the Pentagon left American citizens abandoned behind enemy lines with no plan for extraction.
Biden and the Pentagon told the American people there would be no embassy rooftop extractions, and the Afghan puppet government and military was larger, better equipped and better trained than the Taliban.
Biden and the Pentagon left millions of dollars on pallets, weapons, ammo, and information fall into the hands of Taliban.
Biden and the Pentagon allowed the Taliban to take Afghanistan in 11 days while the Afghan people did not resist.
This fiasco of failure is on the current commander in chief, his administration, his advisors, his pentagon, and the vacationing recessed Congress.
The East-West divide is uniquely German and so is the style of education, but the immigration/integration issues occur everywhere.
Pretending that you don’t have problems to ward off populism is how populism happens
But what is populism exactly and why is it bad?
@@view1st That is the First Step towards Fascism.
Well there’s populism on the left and populism on the right. It can be a good thing or it can be a bad thing. But republics don’t fare well in a permanent state of populism, republics require stability to function. Edmund Burke has an essay on why the French Revolution is bad and the American revolution is good. In liberalism, populism can either be a shot in the arm or an amputation of the arm. As a society we should hope for a shot.
@@rajarshisarkar999 False. Populism can be on the right as well as the left and we know fascism is a movement of the left like all forms of Socialism. Populism doesn't necessarily lead to extremism and in fact quite a few populists in recent history prove that. Populism is simply doing what a majority of the people who voted for you want.
@@johnmknox It's called "Democratic People's Republic of Korea" are they democratic? The National "Socialists" are not left wing. They are far less right wing than some would think but from an scientific standpoint they are still right wing. And Populism isn't just supporting opinions that the majority of voters have. Let me quote : "[...]which presents "the people" as a morally good force and contrasts them against "the elite", who are portrayed as corrupt and self-serving" " Populist parties and social movements are often led by charismatic or dominant figures who present themselves as the "voice of the people". According to the ideational approach, populism is often combined with other ideologies, such as nationalism, liberalism, or socialism." Please don't spread misinformation based on your gut feeling.
Self criticism and looking into issues and problems are the basic ground to develop more harmonious society. 👍🏻
By principal yes. In reality it still have to be done cautiously. To claim there would be a problem often times can create big problems, even though there never was a serious problem, in the first place.
In general, everything motivated by an ideology (of any kind) is questionable.
@Ready For Anything. It is not unelected, it is just not purely democratically elected.
@Chishio Chishio . What do you think , what is neoliberal ideology, politics and rules based order , “ democracy “ bringing interventionism, the globalization project ( which you are advocating, is actually is based on rotten foundation) , it’s all is shared by US , EU and UK imperialism and banks and corporations cabal!
It’s exactly is their unity , in order to deceive individuals like you, thinking that they are “ good persons “ who care of people and the world, totally not able to see the true reality ! Are you child?!
I don’t mean to offend, but immaturity of your understanding is surprising.
@@joze838 . If you ask me , ideology isn’t necessary at all. We are already having certain cultural backgrounds and are relatively civilized. Neoliberal ideology become aggressive and manipulative. Even the most simple minded people can see , it has nothing to do with common sense. That ruling class is using it as a tool. Grownups understand that much , I do personally worry about young generation, cause they seam to be brainwashed and come across as stupids , unable to think independently and are like parrots.
@@joze838 that is true, but for example providing good education/opportunities for the children of immigrants benefits everyone living in the country. The more people work, the larger the economy becomes and the more educated the participants are, the wealthier the people become. Economics is not a zero sum game
I am east german and mentally disabled. German schools push mentally disabled onto the hauptschulen system where they will have less chances for university. I was good at math and there were no science classes but scored 6 in german. Only way i escaped the system and get my degree in quantum physics was that due to lack of job opportunities in east germany my parents decided to go abroad.
6 out of 10 or 100?
@@nutterztube in german grading system 6 is an F and 1 is an A
@@FirstName-bf9ds Oh, thanks
@@FirstName-bf9ds You came to US, right?
@@nutterztube nope never been in usa. My parents worked in developmental aid and so i was in several countries in africa and middle east but went to international schools where in 1 i was diagnosed w autism (due to lack of awareness many go undiagnosed)
Some of the people featured in this piece are not German or even European. They complain that they aren't accepted as German. They are not and will never be German or European.
Opinions about what kind of "hidden cracks" really exist or are important also tend to vary very very much between different german political factions...
And even inside this factions they can differ drastically
yeah well thats politics. But facts don't have an agenda. There are actually a lot more problems, like our failing agriculture sector, climate action, digital infrastructure and generational wealth gap. All those things are real. But they don't matter for everyone.
Sure, but it is also easy to simply talk past each other. As a financial person (close to the FDP), for example, I have a fairly precise definition of wealth. Others use the term very broadly and also even include opportunities as a form of wealth. A view that I personally don't even dislike, but it is confusing. Then comes the other side, which cannot distinguish wealth from income even in a purely financial context. How are people supposed to find common ground like that?
@@jensg.7553 There is no common ground. There is only good or bad compromise !
The school system in Germany is brutal if you do not fit in. It's the German way or the highway. Sadly many talents been suppressed and virtually no way to blossom. I left Germany 20 years ago ,never looked back.
Well for heaven’s sake don’t copy Britain or America
@@seanmoran6510 F me, that's egocentric individualism gone wild at the expense of society.
That's not on germany. Those alternative schooling systems like Waldorfschule are not really a concept in most countries.
it is great if you want to go into a academic chareer path but otherwise its not good
Where did you go?
9:00 Sorry , but people who see racism in a musician's adulation of his idol to the point where he even copied some of his physical characteristics... well, you are a bit simple minded and projecting ur own racism. Racism is ubiquitous, go be a white man in Africa or Asia and see how you fit in. Being an OUTSIDER is more about not belonging and being ostracised, and not about which colour of skin is "the best'.
I think all western countries have more or less the same problems (except the crack between ossis and wessis).
Under the surface the US is still divided into Confederation and Union, additionally there's a crack between rustbelt / fly-over states & coastal metropolitan areas. Both are good analogies to the German Ossi/Wessi crack.
it is nonexistant and overblown, we are own people
@@yurigansmith True. I think the more abstract form is always rural vs metropolitan, in all countries.
@@yurigansmith completely no
@Ready For Anything. Germany is the country which gets the most benefits out of the EU.
As a South African who visited Germany twice I could see the difference from 1995 to 2005, many more poor people on street but also much more drug users. Most white South Africans have German roots but can no longer speak german. If I ever have to flee from Africa Germany will be my first choice, great nation with good values but very reserved people, they do not easily speak to tourists.
@King Crusader why do you think they have this attitude?
We should welcome all you rockspiders.
@King Crusader the ruling class prefers immigrants from the Middle East cause it’s easier to divide and rule a multicultural society that turns on eachother
@King Crusader BS. UK has an ancestor's visa. So do other countries with a colonial past like Spain, Portugal etc. But most South African whites were Dutch settlers. Wonder why they would want to go to Germany instead. And yeah, Russia sends out invites since no one wants to live in Siberia.
That's not true. Most white South Africans have Dutch or French hugenot or UK roots...no idea where you get your facts from, bud.
I feel Germany’s system gives you a chance to have some social mobility. You have to work hard for it though and prove you want it. Less competitive than the US in my opinion and worker rights give it a good balance.
I tend to agree. The issue with Germany is that Germans are so used to their cozy welfare system that they have fewer incentives to work their way out of their personal misery. I met many Germans who exactly knew what welfare payments they are entitled to, where to find the relevant social security statutes online, or what lawyer to consult to squeeze a bit more money out of the government. If they used that energy to take advantage of the endless educational opportunities the internet offers and upskilled, they would all be far more employable. But the issue is the mindset, which is not necessarily their fault. If you grow up in a family of welfare recipients, that's all you know and all you expect from life. It's a self-perpetuating cycle.
And I can't agree that it's too difficult to get access to tertiary education. I am from a lower middle-class German family. I didn't make it to high school (In German: Gymnasium) because of poor performance and had to graduate with a middle school degree (In German: Realschule). However, I had decent grades and got admitted to a school that was kind of a polytechnic (In German: Fachgymnasium), where I could eventually get my high school degree (Abitur). Every German could go down the same route. You even get a student loan from the government which you don't have to pay back lol. Even if someone only got a very basic education (Hauptschule), learning a trades job would qualify you to get admitted to the polytechnic. But if people don't have any ambitions and drive, what can you do?! (Other than blaming society, obviously lol).
But for me personally, even at university I wasn't the best student of all times, so I really struggled finding a job in Germany and eventually emigrated to a different country. I am living overseas for over 6 years now, got a decent job, chilled people around me, not that degree of toxic German bureaucracy, and have fewer people around me that feel entitled to my tax money and cheat and exploit the system where they can. Haven't looked back and probably never will.
@@ael3377 Yeah but whats wrong with that. Some people are happy with less money🤷🏽♂️ Not everyone has to work hard
@@ael3377 corporations are much better at leeching money from the government than poor people. And at making everyone else a lot more outraged about poor people getting government money then them.
@@kingofrivia1248 Well, what I consider wrong is that even the 'less money' has to be earned by someone, if it is a welfare payment. I don't have an issue with people working less and having a humble lifestyle, obviously. What I criticise is if people feel entitled to money that other people have earned. Welfare is living living off the backs of people who do work hard and I think those working people have a right of getting something in return from the welfare recipient. I know quite a few German who, for decades, received welfare payments and at the same time went out working in undeclared cash jobs. Evading to pay taxes into the very same system they are sucking empty. And this is just very demotivating for someone who plays by the rules and gets 40% of their salary taken from them.
In my opinion, people who are able to work shouldn't get money handed out for free and be able to use their spare time to cheat the system. I would prefer a system where unemployed have a guarantee of a minor government job to keep them afloat. Welfare payments should be exclusively for the physically or mentally impaired. These government jobs need to be unattractive enough to not having everyone wanting such a job but well paid enough to provide a family with a decent lifestyle. But that's just my idea of a fairer society.
@@ooooneeee I don't disagree with you. Corporations, through lobbying and cronyism, have far too much political power. But the main problem are crooked politicians that we vote in. That's another thing that should be dealt with.
these scholars are extremely inarticulate and misinformed
They are just cultural marxists. That's all.
Immigration isn't a problem in it self, but the tempo of immigration is.
When you have too many immigrants, what is it that immigrants immigrate to?
@@MesoScale into country, no? :D
How much can you fabricate a certain narrative?
DW: Yes
That's what I also thought .
German culture dates back more than a thousand years and ethnic Germans are descended from Teutons and Saxons. How is that not a distinct identity?
Because Preußen culture died with the GDR and the Saxon died around Napolion even before we germans to a large degree have no note worthy culture anymore because most things are done better by others and its sad even sader tho is that the Russians "preserved" German/Preussian Culture more than the West
@@derkurier2710 Indeed it is sad. A bit of irony - a good place to see German culture is various locations here in the States. Millions of Americans are descended from German immigrnats that came here (usually before unification) and they brought the culture specific to their part of Germany with them. There are parts of the USA where Americans with German ancestry are the majority population.
Deutschland!!!
Great place to live in......yes, there are some cracks but which country is perfect?
Switzerland
@@reizyka3044 renters country!
@@reizyka3044 shallow
@@reizyka3044 hilarious 😂
@@reizyka3044 when I was in the region last month, I met a German wine steward living in Switzerland that explained the better opportunities and savings, with pros and cons of living in both Countries, which was really eye opening. He definitely has the better deal living In Switzerland. $2800 per YEAR for universal health insurance that covers everything, and no long waits to see Drs, which he says is still an issue in Germany. I was impressed. But, cost of living was higher in Switzerland. When he did the math, he still came out ahead though.
I cannot believe how so many Western European nation states are just ok with so much immigration. Not too long ago y'all were quite racially homogeneous
I absolutely detest these type of videos.
First of all the completely distorted statistic at 12:17, where the statistic is intentionally presented as if there would be a major difference, there is absolutely not though and both sides agree equally. Of course it is going to take a while until people, that grew up in two completely different ideologies, can relate to each other, the ideology didn’t fall with the iron curtain. The Generations after 1989 don’t have these problems at all. Again unnecessary division.
In every country with a free market there’s going to be wealth inequality throughout the population. I fully agree that if this gets of hand it needs to be regulated (intelligently), but that is by far not the case in Germany, since we have a "Social Economy". Why is it always assumed that the people at the bottom of these wealth pyramids are motivated, hard working and productive citizens held back by the chains of inequality of opportunity? There are very, very many people completely dependent on the welfare system, not looking for any way out of it and not contributing to the system, that they live off, in any shape or form. Also, why is it that wealth is associated with satisfaction? On the other side there are also many People not on top of the wealth pyramids but still satisfied with the life in Germany.
Very one sided video that propagates information that creates these cracks and divides people unnecessarily.
Well, it's about societal problems only indeed. I'm Dutch and have a university-level education, I'm still seriously considering migrating to Germany
As a scientist myself, I tried to follow these "experts" for a number of years and still can not see what they are even trying to talk about. If you have good grades, you can apply to a higher school form and later to university. All of that costs you 0 €. These experts try to make us believe, you can find doormen at any point in the school system and if you are not rich or influential, they are not giving their OK..
Felix Fritz: I couldn’t have said it any better than you! Thank you for this! The unsatisfied are the (lefties) ideological ones: they don’t want equality in opportunity but equality in OUTCOME! And that kind of social engineering always ends up in many Death eg. Mao and the Bolschewik revolution.
This second argument about immigration and race is a bit of a non-starter. It's those who understand the importance of immigration to economic development trying to use a dead argument against those who oppose immigration.
I live in a country (not in Europe) with a great deal of ethnic diversity, and very little genuine racism. One has to think about identity however in 3 different ways. None of these ways precludes the other
There is the national identity, that is all citizens. People who can say they live in and belong to that country, which includes 1st generation immigrants.
There are those naturally born in the nation. This can include 1st generation people born in the country to immigrant parents.
Then lastly, there are those people's for whom the country is the traditional home of their ethnicity or race.
This separation is important because not only does it help to understand where society is today, where it was and where it will be tomorrow, but it allows us to acknowledge first nations people's all around the world.
More importantly it allows us to understand how and why society functions as it does. The latest arrivals to any human group, be that a friend group, a place of employment or indeed scaled to a community, state or nation, will also have lower social credibility and less social acceptance than those who have been there a long time or whom founded the group. Human groups of any size have a bit of a probationary period for new comers, it's how we work as a species.
Acknowledging there is a difference between a first nations person and simple national identity does not preclude nor undermine acceptance of immigration. Immigration is a necessity in all societies, particularly where natural births are in decline &/or where skills shortages exist.
Acknowledging the difference between a first nations person and someone who came later, and ensuring that first nations traditions continue to be woven throughout society is about respect.
Germany understands this otherwise they wouldn't have apologised to Namibia. Try making the "this is not what someone from Namibia looks like" argument there, preach about Germanic immigration to them and call them "right wing racists" if they don't accept it.
See how that lands. It wouldn't, it would indeed be a racist act to try and everyone knows it.
Throughout Europe there are indeed first nations people's. Germany has first nations people's, they indeed look a particular way and have a particular ethnic/tribal heritage. Acknowledge them, it doesn't hurt the immigration argument. Acknowledging strengthens it.
When you try to demonise people or thoughts all you achieve is pushing those people into the company of extremists. You radicalise them and create a serious problem.
Running a successful society is about give and take, it's about making everyone feel heard and acknowledged even if they don't get their way.
One can certainly acknowledge that ethnic germanic people's exist and look a particular way, whilst explaining or making an argument why immigration is so important. One can listen to their fears or concerns and work together to find solutions. That's what a genuinely inclusive and tolerant society looks like.
Making an argument like the one is this video will only serve to alienate, draw more AfD support and make a return to extremism more likely.
As a German I'm not very satisfied with this video. But there's too much to unpack.
Just one point regarding the level of "Germanness".
If someone speaks German, respects German traditions, works hard and abides the law then it doesn't matter where he comes from. He'll mostly be welcomed in this society.
But if someone secludes himself, looks at German lifestyle condescendingly, doesn't speak the language and tries to enforce his traditions that contradict our basic values then it doesn't matter what his ID says. He will never be German.
Germany has become too tolerant
Tolerance is an amazing trait in cattle to be honest, it was literally bred into them in thousands of years. In people... well...
@@Hungabrigoo NPC has a fetish
Ja, gegenüber Leuten wie dir lmao
Sorry, but if someone comes to the country from abroad and does not assimilate, learn language, habits, style of living but still lives the way they functioned in their previous country does not have a right to ''demand'' respect, if they are not showing it in the first place.
Precisely!
The example that they gave in the video is not relevant to what you said though. Or rather what you saying is not relevant to the example. The debate about immigrants that refuse to assimilate is a different debate than what was said in the video (and also one that mainly focus on recent immigrants).
The dude sees himself as German, speaks German, even active politically in Germany. His Turkish origin still cause racism against him.
@@seanchernov7178 true, unfortunately individuals usually are treated based on the behaviour of the group they are part of. With immigrants, religion groups or any other minorities it is also the case. And it will be this way until the group as a whole does not make an effort and big change
Whatever. Make opportunity like the rest of the world. I lived in Germany and the pain is self inflicted. Loads of opportunities and the education system is amazing. Just looking for something to complain about.
It’s a great country!!!
To be honest I would have expected the economic cracks that start forming to be mentioned. The over reliance on an ICE car Industry which has to be completely transformed, the slow pace of digitalisation and the small size of the German IT sector makes me doubt how future proof this economy is.
What do you mean? German brands plus money of Germany plus IBM made the one of the first functional Quantencomputer.
And Mercedes has the worlds best electric car with a very good software?
The only problem i see is China because they can produce cheaper and that is a huge risk for our „Mittelständische Unternehmen“.
@@leogronung3146 Keep dreaming . Germany doesn't even exist in Tech and AI , and it's entire car industry is being raped by a company run by a twitter troll . Tesla is more valuable than all German car companies combined . Germany is still living on the 60s and 70s economy , but the steam will run out soon , it already started , in 2019 before COVID Germany almost had a recession and 0.6% growth . All the innovation is happening in Asia and North America , Germans are too busy talking about integration
@@muatheluafi6816
I agree that we talk to much about integration, but Tesla isn’t worth more than the german car manufacturers.
Only their stocks are more worth. But the stocks of Tesla doesn’t help them in any way, VW for example made about 8-times the profit in 2020 or even more than Tesla.
Companies like BMW or Mercedes still make double than Tesla.
So you don‘t have to worry, german car manufacturers have Tesla kinda under control.
By the way, Tesla was almost bankrupt a few times. One of the Times, Mercedes safed them because they worked together for a few years then.
@@leogronung3146 Profit is short term bro , the most important thing long term is market cap , with Tesla being more valuable than all German car companies combined , mainly because of the technology and especially the AI , which German car companies will never have , and investors and experts know that very well that's why they valued it at that level , that's why German car companies are trying to partner with companies like Microsoft to build it , because they don't have the capabilities to build it themselves , and there is a million other things like that . I just think it would've been much more productive to do have spent all this time and energy wasted on meaningless race war and culture war stuff on things that are worth it , but it's too late unfortunately , the train already left the station a long time ago
@@muatheluafi6816
Exact the opposite is the case.
Stock worth is not important but Profit is.
By the way, stock worth does not equal the actual worth of a company. And the actual worth of Tesla is lower.
Also, what do you mean by „the train has left“? 1. America does not have a single High Speed train, 2. Mercedes is in EVs since maybe 2 years and produces the best EV on the Market. And Tesla was in the market since 2013 kinda?
Additionally, Mercedes self made autonomous driving system is higher ranked than Teslas in the study of the navigant research. As well as the VW group.
Please do not talk about topics you have no clue of. Thank you.
8:27 Merz's Tweet is misplaced here. Using it here confuses racism and sexism again. We have to talk about women's rights separately from racism.
The reporter looks like a bad actor trying to act a serious role.
Also, painting all immigrants with the same brush id ridiculous. There is enough of them who don't want to be part of the german society and also there are some that more than happy to live on benefits.
Zanimljiv username xD
Germany for the Germans
"inclusive" where's the limit? Who decides when it has been achieved or does it keep expanding like the universe?
the limit is reached when people can live together in a country without one group treating others like subhumans for being different. the limit is reached when people arent treated differently based on race.
@@dave2.077 The developing world exceeded its carrying capacity decades ago and is now desperately trying to export its surplus populations to regions with self-restrained fertility rates.
@@dave2.077 And yet most of woke Europe thinks this will somehow be achieved by importing people who treat other groups like sub-humans based on race and religion.
@@dave2.077 You're demanding the impossible. "Diversity" destroys social cohesion and everything else it takes to keep a society stable and moving forward.
@@scronx a modern society can base its social cohesion not on race and this overarching theme of the lamd belonging to a racial group but instead base it upon prople of all kinds coming together to communally create a better world based on the actions one takes instead of what race they are.
"Right-wing" doesn't mean evil or bad DW. Perhaps you should break down your own prejudice.
German is a race and there is nothing wrong in it, foreigners or settlers can be German resident or German immigrants but calling themselves as German is bit awkward, I am foreign investor in Bremen and Immigrant in Germany, I would not like to introduce myself as German. Like introducing as American or Canadian may not make immigrant feel awkward because American or Canadian is not a race, every one knows all are immigrant, foreign immigrant introducing as German is just like an American introducing himself as Red Indian. 😄
I was invited by German and was accepted by Germans as immigrant, My friends are mostly Germans, I am a proud tax payer citizen of Germany.
I think the problem is that since the name of the country is Germany, German has a dual meaning. The first referring to a culture and tradition that has existed for centuries and refers to people of German heritage. The second meaning being of citizenship and national identity. This has to do with the fact that a country has it's own culture and those who participate in the culture are German.
This video just generalized 80% of worlds problems in other countries too.Some have war within their borders to contend with...Germany is lucky and sounds like a great place to live.
Europe is always at war within itself. they only get peace with collapse of the soviet union in 1991.from 1914 to 1991 there is a non-stop war at europe (great war-ww2-cold war) and germany always in the center of this wars. they have a just 30 years peace at germany
@@jackgray305 I am talking about civil wars going on now within their borders not World Wars decades ago.He said September,we all know the history of Germany. We are speaking Germany today.Its not a bad place to live today.
Germany: spends 70 years trying to get rid of anti semetism
Germany:import anti semetites
Germany: why is anti semetism rising
Germany along with the rest of Europe is in long term decline. This video concentrates on inequality and racism rather than asking what creates opportunity and wealth. The problems have been identified, but the commentator only offers social rather than economic solutions.
Yes and no. The identity part is social but looks the school system and the divide between East and West have direct economical effects like opportunities to grow.
The Peaceful community are the main problems of all western civilization
Big yes, most social issues weren't that big if we had a growing economy
Racism will only go up because of increased immigration. And Germans historically/culturally have never been very tolerant.
@@redarrowhead2 Africa and Asia are way more racist than Europe if anything Europeans are too tolerant and they get taken advantage of.
This is no different from the systems in the UK and the USA except in the US you could buy your way (with really minimal qualifications) into a degree program that is not academically challenging. What's different in the end? If your parents push you to get educated, to study, to attend every day, to do homework, to read books from the library, to teach you when you are young? It's what the parents respect and value and are willing to invest their limited time in that counts.
*Not everything revolves around the US. This documentary didn't mention the US or UK so why are you?*
It’s an interesting point to mention. It’s not “inequality “ when one family works that much harder. That is what you have to work at changing. And like he mentions (and a HUGE problem in the us) too many people in the us have degrees and it’s now essentially what a high school diploma was 20years ago. Exceptions being great schools and or certain degrees
As someone who works in the largest car company in Germany, I can tell you racism is everywhere deep in the culture. They just try to powder it off.
Living in the US I can tell that Germany is way way much better than the US.
I'm German, I've never been to the US, and I don't think I ever want to go there.
not good enough! When Germany gonna become like nigeria or afghanistan - then marxists will be happy!
Maybe in California but not in my state, my state boring.
How would do you know? I lived in both Germany and the US. I think the US is a better place. But if you’re not competent enough to take care of yourself you might prefer Germany.
@@elfboi523 you just summed up the European ignorance
So Germany is just like every other country with high immigration, ethnic diversity, and capitalism. It's not as easy as it should be but we'll get it together at some point.
Thats true its way better than the US and its racism and immigration problems
@@akiraasmr3002 no its about the same we jsut have less racehustlers who rewarm the topic every year
@@iFParasit what do you mean
1. Very one sided story and a bit unfair to all the efforts that are being done. Everyone has access and a proper chance to make it. It's assumed working hard should not be needed, which is a crazy statement. Always this story of the suppressor and victims, a narrative that is going to end in a bad outcome eventually.
2. Off course people who look different or have different backgrounds are not seen as one of them. The German turks also don't see the native Germans as turks, because they don't belong to that group. Why is this bad or so strange? Plus if you dress completely different and then complain you're treated differently, you either accept that or change your clothing. If you speak my language, dress similar and have a similar culture, I'll see you as someone who is like me. If you're not like me, that's fine too, we can still live in the same society in a proper way. I'm very open to people who are different, but getting a bit sick of the oppressor story tbh.
How can one expect immigrants to fit in when even eastern Germans don't.
The left think so
Because after more than 30 years the mindset of some easter Germans is still a problem.
@@harrydehnhardt5092 is that realy suprising? Those people grew up in Communism. I am from former Communist Country and i am often fighting wars with my parents because we disagree on many things. They also grew up in Communism. Generations that grew up in that system wont change its for the future generations to close the breach.
@@saellenx3528 Mutti grew up in the GDR, how did her mindset lead her to the chancellorship?
The one third who complain about being left behind after unification, or about not getting opportunities seem to want to be led by the hand through life.
The majority of East Germans MADE opportunity for themselves after unification.
@@acmeopinionfactory8018 there are always exeptions in everything. I agree that most people growing up in Communism expect that someone will solve all their problems for them, like you said someone leading them by their hand.
I DO agree on the "unequal start", but the CAUSE of "low income families" being more likely to fall into that category is NEITHER their "low income" NOR being a migrational background, which seems to be the relation DW tries to make here.
DW is obviously left wing politically.
@@j2174 Well... Much more than any "wing" they are agenda-driven like the majority of the people nowadays.
Sorry but Germans have FREE tertiary education. Name 1 other country where getting out of poverty if you have brains is easier financially if your family is poor? Most other countries I know of you pay steeply for education - so really give me a break with complaining about opportunities to uplift yourself. And BTW, any other country would have equal barriers to Schooling.
@@womblytenrecpetit2845 Did I write anything to the contrary? No, hence your "so give me a break" doesn't apply to my comment. I stand by what I wrote though. If you interpret anything into it that I didn't write, that's not my fault.
Regarding intelligence... That's by no means a guarantee to be "financially" successful in Germany (or anywhere else).
Erm... the trouble is that we raised generations of people afraid to learn a trade.
If a German couple live, work in Japan and they have a child when they are there does that make that child Asian?
If that child has Japanese citizenship, then they should be called German-Japanese or Japanese of German descent.
Good point.
But if people from other countries want citizenship of another and if they're economically contributing , then they should be called natives of their new country.
In a few 1000 years, all populations are going to be homogenous. Same.
@@vangogh7230 In 1000 years there might be no Humanity!
Britishers lived in India for 400 years without any passport. Exploiting all the resources and money, eventually sent back to England making it one of the richest country. Now,I have britan passport but still facing racism.
I'm English and lived in Asia for 8 years, I have a daughter that they call half blood and I was racially abused daily we will never be fully accepted but I would happily be back there now if I could get back into the country.
Yes DW is right. God forbid the indiginous people, who fought in the armies of Fredrich Barbarosa and Fredrich the Great, should be the supreme majority in their own country.
45 years of Strongman military rule left a certain dependency on the State for personal Development but it also left the Easterners with an intact cohesive cultural and ethnic identity.
Wow that's so dumb
Oh yeah “the eastern German cultural and ethnic group”. how intact and cohesive lol.
@@florianfelix8295 ETHNICally, Culturally, not politically. Not Multiculti.
The communist liberals have one agenda and that is to eradicate German culture once and for all.
Meanwhile people in Asia and Africa: Oh please, cry me a river. 🙄😒😑
You mean a random outside guy trys to convincse Americans how Rasist Germany is yes this guy is salty af . I hate peopl like that .
I didn't imagine the economical inequality of Germany, the most advanced country in Europe have been deteriorated.
Germany is a dystopia, people wont complain due to culture, but just look at all the mini-job stuff. Its basically slavery
And you call Germany a democratic republic? The way it looks, they seem to be stuck in the medieval times.
Yes, they live well, and they are wealthy, however, wealth it something that comes and goes away. What remains it is only the knowledge.
I believe that the best time of Germany is in the past.
Doesn't look like multiculturalism is working well in Europe. Who could POSSIBLY have predicted this?
I been an immigrant of brown skin in France, Europe for about 3 years. And here is my perspective. I have faced explicit racism one or two times, but people in general are nice and welcoming. I am a strong believer of "When in Rome do as Romans do". So I every possible way to integrate with the group from language to culture. Most of the people even old people I encountered are nice and welcoming. But i feel friendship with locals are at very surface level. Once you try to get close into the inner circle, I feel coldness and indifference from them. Which sometimes makes you wonder, do they really like you or are they just being nice. IDK.
Sorry you had to experience racism im very right wing but immigrants who wish to integrate are always welcome
@@nuggie5522 But you[not you as a particular individual] don't let people like me in your inner circle, and then I feel no matter, I will never be part of you people.
250.000 Top performers are leaving Germany on an annual base. Guess why?
Ethnic or biological Germans are white. Germanic peoples have been around since the days of Rome. They make up the Scandinavian countries, Austria, Belgium, Switzerland and Germany. What's wrong with stating facts?
And also it hurts so much that when a non German feel inlove with a Germany , 99 % of German think it because of documents ...it is so painful n stress 😭
is it mostly because not everything is digital yet?
@@shieldgenerator7 Not OP, but I think that's not what she meant. Seems to me like "feel inlove with Germany" is "fell in love with a German", and "because of documents" is "because it's a chance to get a passport/citizenship".
@@kaworunagisa4009 i still don't quite understand
I noticed that Germans are not welcoming to criticism of their own country. The news channels report news from all over the world and ppl have no problem pilling on in the flaws of other countries, but when you mention a slight criticism of Germany suddenly people feel extremely offended...
a short story:
I was passing with my colleague at the Frankfurt airport transit, since the transit was too long we thought to go out to the Frankfurt city to have something to drink. The border policeman who checked our passports was apparently of Turkish origin. His communication was ironic, racist and uneducated. He ironically told us that we had to go to the gate specified in the ticket and we had confused the exit. My colleague explained that we want to go to Frankfurt, as the transit is long, the answer was no is not allowed! and with behavior that does not belong to a German official and idiotic racism drove us away.
Since we are Albanian diplomats and have a diplomatic passport, we thought we should overcome this frustrated man and communicate with someone more responsible. There we found a policeman who was apparently a northern European and told him the request we had to go to Frankfurt. After verifying our passports, he escorted us to another exit, interrupted the queue that was there, passed us and for 30m we were in Frankfurt drinking beer and discussing how frustrated are the people who think that racism is exercised against them for their skin color and how bad they become when they think they are in a favorable position to practice racism.
conclusion: I think that people are divided into good and bad, they are not separated by color, they are not separated by ancestry, they are divided by the way they grew up and the complexes they went through in their lives underestimating themselves. In our country there is an expression: if you will to know someone give the chair of power.
Imagine if you didn't had a diplomatic passport how the things would have ended... Btw we in Montenegro have the same proverb. 👍🏽😀
the more authority try to stop letting people share views on racial problem, less chance that they know how to fix it.
Cool anecdote
Very insightful and objective. When a nation decides to discuss a social challenge, it defiantly means that they are willing towards solving it.
Hadfield's photo of Berlin from space is perfect realisation and proof of truth of what one great emperor once said: " *What we do today, echos in eternity* ..." Therefore, we as individuals, and we, as a society, should think twice while making choices and acting upon them. Specially today. God bless you all.
There is a lot of truth told here. One of my nephews living in Bavaria is starting his secondary education this coming winter. His IQ has been measured at over 160 and it shows, already at the age of ten he taught himself English, speaks it fluently (with all the swear words) and almost without a mistake, (I lived in the UK for 18 years before returning to Germany and obviously speak English). He's also shown proficiency in hacking into computer games and also cracking expensive software (don't worry, I'm keeping a close eye on him here). Yet Bavarian school authorities have allotted him a place in a so called "Mittelschule" which offers no qualifications for further education. I can only explain this nonsensical decision with his family background. His mother died 6 years ago and his father, my brother, a car mechanic, always struggled to keep up with his son's schoolwork and doesn't seem to understand the implications and impact this will have on his son's future.
I'm appalled, not just at the way school authorities are letting this child down, but also at the intellectual assets this country is allowing to go to waste at a time when we'll be needing such people more than ever before.
I hope it is not too late for your nephew to visit a higher school. Worst case he can jump from the lower school to a higher on after 10th grade. You have to qualify though, meet certain requirements. But it is not that irreversible as the DW video suggests it to be. I did it myself.
@@MesoScale Thanks for your comment.
I'm more worried what happens before he reaches the 10th grade. How will his maths teacher deal with a 10 year old who already understands algebra, trigonometry, curve discussions, vector calculus? A few weeks ago he asked me to explain integral and differential calculus, a ten year old! I gave him my old maths books from my time at university (I'm a graduate engineer) and let him get on with it. He insists on speaking to me in English since he found out that I speak the language fluently. He sometimes corrects me. How on earth is his English teacher going to deal with that?
To make things worse and my real worry here is that he's completely undisciplined. If he's not interested in a subject it's impossible to get him to concentrate on it. And if you try he has a very short temper and can explode within seconds. This is one of the reasons for his relative bad exam results. Bad as in threes for all subjects apart from maths. There he got a one, he told me the exam was all baby stuff. Rolls eyes.
@@mikethespike7579 sounds like the kid is very very smart , academicly... but...with many issues that you need to address quickly...10 years old and using bad language?? Wash his mouth out with soap that be a good start.Not every super smart succeeds.
@@helgagaines3598 I don't think he realises what these expletives mean. To him they are just words he heard used on the internet which he seems to think must be sprinkled into his sentences and nothing bad. I'm working on this.
And yes, he certainly needs strict guidance if his high intelligence is going to be any benefit to him.That's why sticking him into lower level secondary education is very worrying. He's going to run rings around his teachers and become very frustrated if we don't watch out.
@D. Engelbrecht your name is german do you know that?
I feel like outsiders (especially Americans) view Germany as this strong united country, proudly leading Europe's economy and all Germans are proud to be German, when in reality there's a great rift between the government and the people. There are a lot of people living in poverty, only having a monthly income of about 400€ (Hartz IV). If your parents are poor, there's a high chance that you're gonna be poor too. Also German Nationalism is practically nonexistent. You will few people who are genuinely proud to be German. Most Germans are deeply ashamed of their history. Even though German history is very long and diverse, most German, but also some foreigners, tend to reduce it down to the NS-Dictatorship (1933-1945)
All public schools and universities are free. Inequality in education is much less prevalent than eg. in the U.S., where students accumulate large debt to attend schools.
The population of Germany is 87% European, 9% Asian, 1% African, 0.7% American, 1.5% mixed/unspecified.
This is an example of a woke program. What a shame
Poor people are often immigrants or single mothers… as an immigrant, I don’t expect German people to give me their fortune just to have the opportunity of being rich. I work and everything is good for me, but obviously I had to start from 0. It’s been part of the integration process in my case.
Do you agree, that Immigrants should learn German, it seems really beneficial to understand/ speak it, especially when dealing with the authorities. Someone should also be willing to work. (I assume 99% of immigrants are, but they are not allowed to by the authorities at first)
Mr. D VG or course, I got German lessons for free! And my neighbours, tv, music helped me a lot. I had headache at the beginning but now I’m happy of the effort. It’s essential for me, at least to thank those people that received me in their country and gave me an opportunity (even if I work and pay taxes, so nothing is a present)
@@aixucruc A German dude pretending to be an Immigrant
@@muatheluafi6816 do I need to criticize Germans to be a good immigrant? Complain about everything? Sometimes I feel ashamed of people like this… I prefer to be happy and thankful than angry and grumpy. Believe me, it’s better even for your health ;-)
@@aixucruc who said you have to be grumpy and angry , i also don’t think it’s healthy or even necessary to be emotionally involved in any of this stuff , at the end of the day our “groups “ and who we are and where we’re born and pretty much everything about our circumstance is a roll of dice essentially, an accident, and it doesn’t make sense to spend your time and life defending a “team” or an identity or anything of that nature that you didn’t choose . But that doesn’t mean you can’t point out problems objectively, the same way you point out any other problem you might see or perceive in any domain , without necessarily getting emotionally involved in it , you see what I mean ?
My god the "diversity" manager obviously has no idea what she's talking about.
please do elaborate
@@Simm2Dimm She has an american point of view of whites and poc which isn't applicable to europe. The moment when she speaks about whites = german ethnic it's clear that she has no clue. It surprised me to learn that she in fact is german and not american as her viewpoint certainly is an american one.
@@IsomerSoma i see you're point
This is why we left over 20 odd years ago and never looked back. It didn’t matter if you were a good student and got good grades, made the effort etc. you were never seen as part of the community and always just seen as an outsider and intruder. The comments about social equality and status are definitely something we experienced as well, instead of being judged based on our character we got judged based on our names. Of course not all people are like this, but a majority is. I still love to go visit family and friends there, but its sad to see that the place I called home for so many years has still not changed that much.
where did you go?
I left as well - Germany (and Europe overall) is just not the place to build wealth. It's nice to see these things finally being talked about and acknowledged, but they've been hidden cracks for over 50 years. That means that many people lived their entire lives feeling suppressed and not having a voice to express how much of an outsider they feel even though it is all they know. My grandmother experienced this when moving here in the 60's/70's as an immigrant, and so did my mother (who was born in Germany) growing up in Germany through the 80's/90's feeling like an outsider. I am fortunate enough to have dual citizenship with the U.S. and am grateful I had the option to at least explore a different country instead of feeling like I had no way out in a country where I am not fully accepted.
I personally did not experience much racism growing up in Germany as much as my mother and grandmother did, but it is definitely there. I love Europe - I am fluent in both German and English and speak the popular "Denglish" at home and it would honestly be extremely easy to move back to Germany since I have always made sure to retain complete fluency and keep my passport up to date, but I just won't because I feel like Germany is permanently stuck in 2008 (the issue of slow internet for example) due to it's bureaucratic political nature. Additionally, Germany (and Europe overall) is just not the place to build significant wealth compared to the likes of the U.S; I wouldn't mind moving back to Europe and starting a family in Germany in 10-15 years if things improve, but as a person of color I refuse to raise my children in a country where they will feel like an outsider. I see how much it pained my mother growing up like that, and I would have too if I wasn't fortunate enough to have dual citizenship.
@@FlyingMonet I think you forget (as an American) that the us is the only place in the world where people won’t feel like an outsider because of their Looks. If you go to Japan as a white person you will be an outsider. If you live South America as an Asian people will also ask you where you are from. America is an immigration country and has its whole culture copied from other cultures. But the world doesn’t work that way how you want it. Minorities will always be outsiders it’s just how humans are. That doesn’t mean that you can be welcomed in such a country. And Germany is open for foreigners, especially people with a good education and similar culture. I feel like American don’t understand this because they grew up with the understanding that if you have a American passport you are a true American. But as I said, for most countries the passport is one thing but you still will be asked where you are from if you look different. And I don’t see a problem with this honestly.
@@lamiz3786 I moved to the US with my parents and sibling in 2000. The rest of my family is still in Europe (Germany, Italy, Bosnia, Sweden etc.)
@@FlyingMonet Yes, my family and I moved to the US in 2000. I didn’t have as much issues with racism as I kind of ‘blended’ in a bit better, but my name definitely gave it away and that was enough of a reason not to be considered ‘German’. Some of the things that were part of the ‘culture’ I didn’t even recognize as an issue until years later after living in the US. Certain idealism’s are almost ingrained in you from an early age, that you don’t even see it as a problem, until you remove yourself from the situation. I never realized it at the time, but I felt shame, for not being born German, for not having a German name, for my ancestry coming from a different European country, eating different foods etc. You practically spend your whole life trying to suppress that other side and try to blend in as much as possible, but never feeling like you’ve achieved it or it is seen as enough effort by society. Which is really ironic, considering such a big effort is placed on being German and living a German lifestyle so many Americanisms (words (Denglish), culture etc.) are being incorporated into the daily lives.
I even asked one of my friends the other week about it, whenever I talk to my friends from Germany they use English words for very common things, like instead of saying “Überrascht” they’d use “surprised” instead. It’s really odd for a country so obsessed with looking German, talking German etc. to be so obsessed with the American culture. I can’t say how many times over the years I had friends and family visit, and expressing the desire to move or try it but then move back because here unlike in Germany you don’t have any securities. You have to make it on your own, and pay/work your own way, there is no job guarantee and most definitely no government insurance.
I agree with you 100% on the wealth part, If i stayed I would have been only making probably around 25-30% of my current income, but I did give up my rights to dual citizenship. I think the German mindset/government is just not very flexible in that regard. I have some friends who can bake cakes that rival any Konditorei but in order to even consider to open up your own bakery in Germany it’s next to impossible..There is just no incentive for entrepreneurship. It is a bit sad thought, because the education system is great, absolutely unrivaled, but are at the same time restricted just as much and not allowed to use that knowledge to innovate and grow.
Another point, which seems even more important: germans don't have children... Maybe it's related to the risk of losing social standing due to lower revenue.
Or because they just have those they can afford.
It’s not about „social standing“. Many couples thing throughly if they can really provide the necessities for kids and fear that they can’t, cuz everything is getting more expensive and they don’t want to be in depths.
Furthermore there are also a lot of couples whom simply doesn’t wanna place kids in this world.
@@Reisbuerger87 True love kids 2much to show them second industriel revolution and shi!..maybe thats good maybe not..
but dogs are fine they can handle XD
Children are luxury. One costs their parents roughly as much as a house.
Have you seen the rent prices in Munich? Not possible to afford a kid as a normal person anymore...
When leaders becoming more dictate, people don't feel real democracy is exists anymore
please don't liberalize Germany, learn from the US. Diversity and wealth distribution are not always the answers
Germany’s been far more liberal than the American democrats for a long long time what are u talking about
@Anonymer Nutzer What world are you living in? You clearly have a much difference definition of liberalization. No it's just a rhetoric question, I don't really need to know the answer
Your comment is so utterly confused as the US is much more unequal in wealth distribution than most western nations. You haven't even tried yet you claim it led to disaster. Doesn't makes sense, doesn't it?
Pushing diversity is not a solution by itself, it has never been. A country has the right to keep its culture and way of life without adapting to newcommers, otherwise it could be destroyed from within.
@@Solid_Snake99 Why don't they push for diversity in Africa and Asia?
DW, please dont go down the road of self loathing, as a frequent visitor to DL im also aware of problems in some of your major cities. Its not Germans. I also travel to MENA and I can assure you im exposed to "odd looks" there, im White European and I have experienced abuse from Africans, Mid East and most certainly from Chinese. Those countries dont have TV programming criticizing own countries..AJ, TRT, CCTV..etc..
I moved to Germany from New Zealand for a year before Covid-19. I enjoyed my time, really liked Germans.
Unfortunately my careers has been in banking and I just couldn't get a foot in the door professionally. Went to the UK to visit family and was hired by a bank within a week in London. 🤷🏻♂️
How's London doing btw?
@@SA-iu7xj Great, much cheaper to live than New Zealand cities. I can see why young people so often move and don't come back. 👍
@@thomas316 yeah I live in Germany too but I couldn't land a job here so far... I was based in the Netherlands before and had to move here cause of my wife's residence etc.
If it is possible I'd like to move to England actually
@@SA-iu7xj Ireland is a good shout as well. Employment is still picking up after Brexit. 👍
@@thomas316 what can a Dutchie do there anyway?
Who cares what other people think. Just live your life and don't cling on to what people say. Flow like water. All types of control come from a fear/ansxiety. Let people be who they be.
Ironically, the ad I get here is: "How entrepreneurs and self-employed cut their taxes in half" - in German, I translate here. It's still relatively cheap to push SUVs through the town and pump 90 litres of gas every 400 km into it. Our landlord has 2 of them and a Merc AMG for even faster travel. Danke, Finanzamt!
Und dank leuten wie dir bleibt uns die schon wenig auf dem Land noch weniger weil wir auf das auto angewiesen sind.
Mein Weg zur Arbeit ist ne halbe Stunde mit dem Auto. Oder dreieinhalb Stunden mit öffentlichen. Das ich mit dem Auto fahre ist kein Luxus, sondern die einzige Möglichkeit wie ich genug Zeit für ein wenig Freizeit und Schlafen habe
@@MyILoveMinecraft Sorry, for far too long the requirements of Nature, of our living sustainably on this earth, have been treated as dispensable, always the last priority. This needs to change if we are going to survive. I’m sure there are several positive changes you can make if you change your attitude from negative (I can’t) to positive (I can). Hinzu Zufugen is right. Individual freedoms in this area must be counterbalanced by limitations based on our collective survival. A stiff carbon tax is only one solution.
@@MyILoveMinecraft Meiner ist 35 Minuten Auto, 7 Minuten Fahrrad. Ich fahre aber angepasst - statt wie normal 9, braucht die flotte Kutsche 6 liter
@@hinzuzufugen7358 schön. Hätte ich die Gelegenheit hätte ich kein Auto. Realität sieht aber anders aus
This lack of what you call "social mobility" is prevalent in the UK too. London and the south east of England are one of the wealthiest per capita in the world. However it's highly concentrated in a few hands. In fact UK is probably one of the most unequal countries in Europe. The UK's trade and economy and immigrant population come after Germany in the world ranking last time I looked. This lack of "social mobility" resulted in Brexit and possible Scottish and northern Irish independence, so this documentary resonates with me.
See...you just had the born a royal or a blue blood. The Best schools are open to you...
@@Rschaltegger State schools don't teach children properly. Indeed even public and private schools are bad now. Children are ignorant compared to just a couple of decades ago.
I am always suspicious about people who complain about social mobility in a welfare state with free education. It's always people who don't want to put in the work, but want to live like they did.
different outcomes doesnt mean there is inequality... look up the pareto distribution.... in ANY endevor of human society it always end up liek that.... most have very little or do very litte ... less ppl have or do a bit more and the tiniest minority has but also DOES the most. in the end its not a lack of euality if u look what each of these ppl put in and get out
@@Hungabrigoo Since the American subsidy dried up in the 1970's broadly speaking, and the oil crisis hit, Western Europe has been gradually declining due to its profligate public spending but without the entrepreneurial base to support it.
I dont find it hard to escape poverty in Germany. It was really easy for me
I was down there too, but worked my way up to a good life. People always helped me
you escaped poverty? where to? homeless?
I lived in Germany for 2 years near Frankfurt and i loved Germany and german people.
It is funny how only western countries are criticized for not fully accepting foreign people. This never happens in other countries. Give me a break.