What's The HARDEST Part Of Life In Germany? (BRITISH REACTION)
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- What's The Hardest Part Of Life In Germany? (BRITISH REACTION)
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Swiss here 👋
The Germans are very friendly, they are just a bit more cold from the outside. So when you get to know them better, they will open up, and you'll have a friend for life. 🇨🇭😊❤🇩🇪
I live about 5 minutes away from the German border in Basel, and it's always a pleasure to go there and have a good time with some friends.
Germany is such a large country compared to Switzerland, so I sometimes have a hard time visiting everyone. 😂
we are like little refrigerators, harsh on the outside, yet if you come to know us you get all the goodies that come with that 🖤❤️💛🧊
@@lilithiaabendstern6303 We are like nuts. Hard on the outside, but delicious on the inside
Ah yes a Swiss brother. Everywhere where the German tongue rules the people burn German in the heart. Love you brother! I mean we were once a united folk 🇩🇪❤️🇦🇹❤️🇨🇭
und ich hasse die briten für den russischen brexit
@@frontgamet.v1892 Merci 😊
As a German the most annoying part ist the huge amount of bureaucracy needed here. You have to do so much paper work for every little thing.
Well, if you're one of those who are slow packers at the supermarket line: use a shopping cart. just put everything back into and move to the packing table after paying.
There you have space and time to sort all your stuff into the bags you brought from home.
Yes. Brought from home. No plastic bags!
Me as a German says the dificulty thing is: Paperwork with Goverment, Landlords etc.
To answer some of your questions:
(By the way, i am a german native 👋)
1. Sure there are some differences between different regions and Cities in Germany.
In the rural areas the germans are very straight forward, very open minded, friendly, but also brutaly honest.
So if you act like an asshole (like disrespecting our rules [like walking over the street apart from a pedestrial crosswalk or with a red traffic light] or are disrespectful in general) they will tell you this straight in your face.
The germans are known for their honesty, so for example if you have german friends, they will tell you if your outfit doesnt suits you too.
But in a polite way and only to "protect" you from making mistakes.
In the crowded areas the germans are more selfish.
So if they dont know you, it is not easy for you to start a conversation with them or making friends.
Also it is not normal here to have friendships in your workingplace.
The germans in general separate professional relationships from personal relationships.
2. About shopping:
When it comes to stores german employees working at the cash register are told to handle the customers as fast as possible to ensure a high efficiency.
The goal is to keep the customers as long as possible in your store (because of this greater grocery stores dont have any windows so you cant see the sun/moon) so they can see ALL offers and buy more and they will let you all the time you need for a lookaround.
After that at the cash register, when you have all what you need, they try to get you out of their store as fast as possible so they can handle more customers and sell more products, so the cashier in regular works a lot faster then you can pay or store your purchases.
German thing = all about efficency 😅
3. Costs of living:
In the rural areas of germany the rents are not cheap, but also not expansive i would say..
The more rural it is, the cheaper it gets.
Citys like Berlin or München (munic) also are not affordable at all.
Besides of that germany was the most dependent state on russian gas, so the gas prices for heating your home and the prices for electricity were exploding (double or triple as high as two years ago).
Also if you want to buy food for lets say 2 weeks it can cost you up to 200€.
Two years ago the prices were cheaper and you could buy food for 2 weeks with 100-150€.
So because of the war the costs of living definitely were rising very much.
The hardest part about living in German is being German and watching vidios about foreigners trying to "explain" something they didn't understand in the first place... 😆😆😆
Checkouts in the supermarket are SO TRUE!
Many people keep mentioning German as the most difficult language, but English and German have common roots, yes, German has artkel and umlauts, but there are also common roots. I have the link for a reaction video for you here. th-cam.com/video/VebSZrHmsI4/w-d-xo.html As a local, what bothers me the most about my homeland is the shitty weather in winter. It's gray all the time, it gets dark early, it's light very late and it's cold. We say there is no such thing as bad weather, only wrong clothing. I also live in the north, more precisely in Schleswig-Holstein, the northernmost federal state and here it is exactly the opposite of the situation in Great Britain. The further north you go, the more reserved people are. The southern Germans are a bit livelier and come out of themselves more. But the North Germans are still very helpful people just a bit taciturn. When a southern German greets you, he immediately asks how you are. We North Germans just say Moin. With that, all has been said.😁😊
Such a very positive video and I like your accent. ♥ Best regards from Germany.
It may sound really spoiled to complain that you have to bag your own things at the checkout. But the main point of the guy at 5:15 seems to be, that the cashier rushes the customer often quite unreasonably. And that's something I also can't stand as a german native. A few years back most supermarkets shortened the space after the register, so there ist sometimes just enough time to put everything straight after beeping back in the trolley, otherwise it would fall off the short counter. It really feels somewhat olympic sometimes, as if they had to keep up wit Usain Bolt - no time for strategic bagging...
most americans do the packing things wrong. You just put it back into the cart, then after paying you move the cart to the actual packing area, and there you have all the time you want to pack and organize your bags. Don't pack directly at the cashier, thats too slow and will annoy people.
yes, but i am from the countryside and our cashiers are going like heart monitors, "piep, piep, piep..." but when i am visiting my brother in frankfurt and go shopping at an Aldi they sound more like a missle warning system "pipipipipipipipi" and the groceries are flying over the counter. it can be quite stressing, even for a german.
Let's be honest the food is one of the best in Europe from Germany! By law we have quiet hours and they start at 10pm in the evening and end at 6am the next morning! Sunday is also a day off by law and that means no noisy activities that disturb your fellow citizens, so drilling is then forbidden for example!
well if you tell your neighbours that you are having a party most people are understanding as long as it ist not all the time.
Hi I’m Scottish living in Germany 🇩🇪 😂.
Bureaucracy and the weather.
I completly agree that the scotts are very open and friendly people. 😊
Where ever i was during my travellings in scotland i immediatly met someone talking with me, asking me were i came from and having a nice conversation. One of them told me, its because most of the scottish people rarely travel and having a nice chat with the tourists would give them the opportunity to learn more about the rest of the world and that he appreaciates to get to know so many different people and cultures personaly without travelling.
Dont know if you would agree with this point, but for me it made sense...
What i also realized...they love to share the historical storys about the area and the secret spots where to go for breathtaking nature.
And i personally love the scotish accent
When it comes to multicultural experience, there are in my opinion two hotspots in germany. Berlin and the ruhr area. The ruhr area is a little bit like berlin without tourits and hipsters.
Munich is the most expensive city in Germany, way more expensive than Berlin, not easy.salaries on the other hand also are higher,but hard as a student.
6:34 I am german and I am stressed always at the supermarket check-out bc it‘s failure if you haven’t finished packing before ! you are asked to pay
8:24 in germany its quite common to inform the neighbour if you are partying beforehand or you party somewhere else, one of the best parties I had was with my school class renting a "grillhütte" grill hut or small shelter spot in the woods on a small hill as well so you can be as noisy as you want and nobody cares
In general it highly depends on the area, but there is a law that forces you to respect quite times which starts at 22:00
I really like his channel and his informative videos. But you have to keep in mind that he mostly does interviews in Munich, often around the university district, which is neccessary to find a lot of variety of foreigners, but on the other hand it is often a certain group of people that is shown there. So the jury is still out on how representative they are for foreigners living in Germany. It would be interesting to know how many of them are living there for several years or are planning to stay at all. It surely makes a difference if they are students, studying abroad or people, doing and internship and returning to their home country after some years or if they are economic migrants or people, who simply cannot go back anymore. I think speaking to them will show you much more and more different problems
Yes, also Hayley Alexis and the Black Forest Family channel
yeah for this series, we planned in munich all people have been living in Germany some as long as 15 years!. ;)
@@yourtruebrit thank you very much for clarifying. Keep up the good work, it is much appreciated!
I have been to Edinburgh recently, and I found the people very friendly, but as a tourist, interacting mostly with people who want to sell you stuff, of course they were friendly. But also the bus drivers were super nice compared to the ones I encounter here.
German here, living in England. Firstly, I really think you have to move to Germany to up the numbers of Gingers there (ok, so Germans are not known for their sense of humour, but I think my joke is quite funny, lol). Secondly, not only is quiet expected after 10pm but also between 1pm and 3pm (Mittagsruhe).
the BAFÖG (support for students) is for children from poor peoples very high and you must pay back only the half, if You manage it in 5 Years after Your study finished. Or also less, if You can pay back it at once.
Glas-Recycling bottles have a deposit of 8-15 Cent (if You take a Box, the Box of beer or Soda etc is also with a deposit)
Also the hard Plastik bottles count in this System. (Multiway-System)
For the onway-system the botzles or cans are eith a higher deposit of 25ct each.
The deposit is always Show extra on the receipt.
The old saying:
Americans are peaches and Germans are coconuts. One is easy to get through the outer shell, but it takes a time to become really close with them. The other are hard on the outside, but once you got through you'll be a close friend forever. Pick your favorite!
About the prices: about 4 years ago, i was able to go get a medium sized backpack full of vegetables from edeka (a rather pricier supermarket) for 12€, now that would cost me about 1,5-2 times that amount…
Somth8ng that’s hard for me as a German is when people ask me “have you ever met a nazi” LIKE NO- I HAVENT BECUASE NO ONE IS A NAZI ANYMORE
So, the checkout race... it´s completely true. I get super stressed as well and also know a lot of people, that feel the same way. Apart from the impatiently waiting customers, there´s also other factors, which make this such an uncomfortable situation. For example, the space, where your goods are put after scanning, is incredibly small in many stores, making it very clear that you and your stuff, after checkout, are an inconvenience for the next customer and better get moving... Oh yeah, most cashiers treat the scanning progress, like it was a competition. They´re so fast, that even with shoving everything in my shopping kart, I can hardly keep up the pace... I hate shopping for groceries here....
The cashiers have a time limit, they have to manage a certain number of products in a certain amount of time
If you ever want to see the fastest cashiers and the smallest post-scan-spaces, go visit a german Aldi ;D
gotta like the guy in the pink hat
About the electricity prices: Because I had a rather new contract with my energy provider, my price was still fixed for the last year (part of the contract was two years without raising prices). However yesterday I got a letter about my new price: it more than doubled. So yeah, it's gotten expensive.
Also about Bafög, the money university students can receive: how much you can receive depends on your parents income, so even if your parents don't want to pay you, you might no get the money from the state, but have to take your parents to court. Also there are a lot of traps and if you aren't really precise with the documents, you might get it denied completely, even though you're supposed to get it. And it hasn't been updated in years, so especially in places with high cost of living it often isn't sufficient. So yeah, the basic idea is good, but it's implementation still needs a lot of work
When it comes to cost of living or rent, Munich is a somewhat unfortunate choice. Munich is indeed one of the most expensive cities in Germany, like London in the UK or New York in the US. There are such things everywhere. But as soon as you choose a suburb, the prices are "normal" again.
The hardest part of life in Germany is to live with the other Germans.
The most of us are whiners.😆
it was shot in munich. life standard is 3 times higher than in other parts in germany
What a bullshit.
You should look the Doku named: History Erase Germany :)))
Love you British brothers.. We are so similar! Great inventions! And great history. The only difference is that we are completely full of perfectionism 😂🇩🇪❤️🇬🇧
we are not similar...brexit was influenced by a russian propagandacampaign...most germans wouldnt take care of some bullshit
dude as a fellow german i need to say that the end of your comment is just cringe..
@@hhbased First are you really using 'Cringe' today... I guess you have Tik tok or something like that shit...
Und zweitens ist es beweisen das wir deutschen in unserer Natur einen Perfektionismus haben fürs Handwerk. Ich möchte dich einmal was fragen: wer hat vor kurzem wieder den besten Panzer entwickelt? Wer hat damals den besten Panzer entwickelt? Wer hat das erste Auto gebaut und bis heute sind sie perfekt? Wer hat die erste Rakete gebaut? Wer hat für die Amis NASA gebaut?... Ich könnte weiter machen... Aber die Antwort ist wir. Deutsche wurden über Jahrhunderte nicht nur in anderen Ländern willkommen sondern buchstäblich beauftragt weil die wussten wie krass wir sind. Überall auf dem Planeten waren deutsche. Tatsächlich, sogar die meisten großen Ami Firmen wurden von Deutschen erfunden oder groß gemacht die nach Amerika rüber sind. Also ich weiß nicht was du für ein deutscher bist... Das du nicht mal unsere Mentalität und Geschichte kennst bro. Aber keine Sorge.. Die meisten wissen das nicht.. Weil die alliierten diese krasse Geschichte begraben wollen weil.. Du weißt schon: Böser böser Deutscher. Soll schön unsere Marionette bleiben. Bis heute muss eigentlich komplett Europa den Amis alles vorlegen.. Wir dürfen nichts. Dazu kommt noch diese absolute Schreckliche "Links" versifte Regierung. 90% aller Ausländer machen hier nur alles Schrott (Reale Statistik) und die werden besser behandelt als unsere eigenen Leute... Die das hier aufgebaut haben. Das habe nicht ich gemacht das waren unsere uhr groß mütter und Väter.. Und die werden gerade richtig gefickt vom Staat. Das hat nichts mehr mit "Ausländer feindlichkeit" zu tun.. Es geht um eine enorme Ungerechtigkeit. Ich frage mich wie Leute das nicht sehen können. Jetzt nicht auf dich bezogen sondern auf alle verblendeten. Aber ich bin nicht hier um schlechte Vibes zu vermitteln sondern um zu sagen.. Sie dürfen absolut stolz auf tausenden von Jahren Germanische bzw. Deutsche geschichte sein. Und ich bin hier um aufzuklären.. Also das schadet doch nie:
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Ich wünsche ihnen einen wunderschönen Aufgeklärten Tag
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@@frontgamet.v1892
Your German spelling is so far from perfect that, based on your own definition, you are not German at all.
Deine deutsche Rechtschreibung ist so weit von Perfektion entfernt, dass du, ausgehend von deiner eigenen Definition, selbst gar kein kein Deutscher bist.
@@bestof8099 Bruder.. Ich habe gesagt das in der Natur der deutschen ein gewisser Perfektionismus existiert. Was stimmt... Ich denke historisches wissen ist dir ein Fremd Wort.. Hab ja ein ganz schlauen hier.
Meine Worte waren nicht: jeder Deutsche ist Perfekt....
Komm mal klar und lese richtig.. Wenn du schon die rechts - schreib Keule schwingen willst.. Mach es richtig.
Und wie ich Deutsch bin. Ich bin nicht einer der verblendeten die hier Tag täglich für irgendwelche kranken bubbles hinaus gehen und sich schön instrumentalisieren lassen. Ich bin nicht derjenige der sagt: "Uh die bösen bösen deutschen"..
Der Franzose darf stolz und Russe aber wenn wir auch nur einmal das Wort Deutsch in einem guten Zusammenhang verwenden sind wir Faschisten.. Macht Sinn. Dabei denke ich wären wir es die diese moderne Welt aufgebaut haben mit unseren Denkern und Erfindungen. Dabei werden wir ja sogar gerade von dieser Faschisten "Links" Regierung manipuliert... Wie man hier gut sieht..
3:32 of course there is a difference between a person from Cologne and Düsseldorf 😂
Can you call somebody a person if they like to drink old beer? ;)
Living Prices? Hahahaahaha. Yeah. Buying a Flat costs double the Money that buying a House cost back then. My Sister moved out but had to move back to our Parents in the End because it just was not affordable. Obviously this varies depending on where you live, but at least near Cologne... good Luck...
Hardest part living here by far are the Behördengänge :D
No place at all is perfect, even Germany. The price for rent a flat is high, cost of energy is also high. But over all it`s good here.
each region has the own illness^^ but I love scottish food, more then ouer gernman stuff^^
Yep, Germans complain on a high level, oblivious how much worse things are in other also developed Countries. 😂
One has to be from somewhere else, to appreciate it.
The winters
Check out at the supermarket: they have extra tables where you can take all the time you need to pack your bags. I don’t know why that guy was complaining, really
Depends hard on the region and how old u are and what tipe of percone u are. For Uk it's quiet easy. Beside the all problems it hase to move far away from your home.Germans are realy hard on the outside and realy overstressed sometimes
Germans are loyal friends, but they do have a hard outer shell. Once you get through it, they're funny, warm, helpful, and friendly.
The expectation on the Deutsche Bahn is that it be on time. Not a minute late. Not 30 seconds late. On time is late. 5 minutes early is on time. The Bahn is doomed. You cannot run trains as timely as Germans demand :D Also, we like to complain. We're a 'corrective' society. Leave your engine running while parked, and some Oma will read you the riot act.
After the USA, Germany is the most multi-cultural nation on Earth (i.e. most foreigners living in the country).
The answer to your question is... paperwork. Germany has more government agencies than any country should be allowed to have... and they all have paperwork :/
Ein Fan der Deutschen Bahn? 😂 Schau dir die Shorts von Liam Carpenter an, da weißt du Bescheid.
But you have only to pay a max. of 10k Euro back. So this study money is amazing.
I think, when you already speak English, german is not that difficult to learn, both languages have the same roots.
I find German history incredibly fascinating because the Germans and Germany were always there, but at the same time not and always different like a shapeshifter.
Oversimplified:
Rejects Roman annexation - Teutons defeat Rome, are often slapped in the face, but Rome generally fails to subdue them
Create an empire that wasn't really an empire but somehow lived for 1000 years - very special and unique
The Kingdom of Prussia and hundreds of German States gangsta! Before being defeated by one of history's greatest generals.
defeat the French, unites into a new empire
Get a colonial empire
Fight Europe alone and almost won..
Is treated badly
Comeback as Villian, fights the whole world again and only lost because of own mistakes
Gets divided again
Reunites again and is not allowed to be strong again.
Also a few German inventions:
- Incandescent lamps (Heinrich Göbel 1854)
- The Telephone (Johann Philip Reis 1859)
- The dynamo and tram (Werner von Siemens 1866)
- The 35 mm camera (Oskar Barnack 1925)
- Nuclear fission and atomic bomb (Otto Hahn - emigrated to the Americans during Nazi Germany, of course.. Are they lucky that we exist - 1938)
- The ship chart (Jürgen Dethloff and Helmut Gröttrub 1969)
- Periodic Table (Julius Luther Meyer 1864)
- Jeans (Levi Strauss 1873)
- The recorder, player - with which the first films were possible (Emil Berliner 1887)
- The Aspirin - Which all great athletes felt used to relieve pain, And which saved countless lives (Felix Hoffmann, Klausi Alder.. 1879)
- Spark plug (Robert Bosch 1902)
- Thermos flask (Reinhold Burger 1903)
- the toothpaste (Ottomar Heinsius von Mayenburg)
- The coffee filter (Melitta Bentz)
- Cassette recorder (Fritz Pfleumer 1928)
- Teabag (Adolf Rambold 1929)
- The jet engines - Essential for all jets and rockets + First war rockets V1, V2 of the Nazis (Hans von Ohain 1929)
- First rocket (general)
- The helicopter (Heinrich Focke 1936)
- The first car (Carl Benz - With honorary Schnauzer - 1886)
- Calculator (Konrad Zuse 1941)
- First 3D film (during the Nazi period)
- Fanta (Yes the Fanta.. Also during the Nazi era)
- The typewriter (Peter Mitterhofer - 1869)
- NASA (actually the US buys thousands of German engineers to build NASA because they can't do it themselves)
Well, as you saw, we changed world with our inventions many times. Where we would be today without the German thinkers art.
Germany the land of poets and thinkers - that's how it is known.
The problem is that many Germans are not proud of their country and blood, unfortunately also because they were brought up that way. Because if you say anything to that effect, you will be called a Nazi. The problem is that many people don't have the right deep historical knowledge that people need to understand the world and and that only Hitler himself and his party were Nazis. Almost no German was a Nazi during the Nazi era. Also, any historian will tell you that the Allies, primarily the USA, created Nazi Germany and WWII because of the unfair Versailles Treaty. Germans were so depressed that it is unimaginable for us. They were seen as evil around the world as they were blamed for everything in World War I. And when you have 3 kids at home, no job, money is worthless and no food and water you will follow anyone who fixes it. Because that's what the Nazis did in the beginning - they fixed everything and gave the Germans hope again. No German at the time could have known that Hitler was so crazy.
It's not as easy as we always think. Even in the Wehrmacht, only a few liked the Nazis. They were German soldiers dying for the country. the general German soldier, like my grandfather, had nothing to do with the Nazis and the Holocaust. You must consider this one army fought against the rest of the world. And if we are honest: what kind of "peace" could the general German soldier expect? What could have they expect after all the Nazi crimes and everyone thought that all German were evil Nazis. What "Peace" could they expect. These soldiers fought for their lives and German people against a planet. If even many of Hitler's own generals like Rommel (legend) or Stauffenberg knew that he was not quite right in the head. Then the normal people knew that even more. Many were manipulated and could do nothing about it. The Nazis were a small parasite not the Germans. Calling all German soldiers Nazis is like calling all American soldiers democrats because they were in power.
We should be prouder of ourselves, after all, Germany has repeatedly fought against the entire world, one time under a bad regime. We made this modern world possible and maintain a reputation for perfection and quality. The hard-working German with perfection in his blood! Or rather, we once had this reputation. Today there is no longer a country of poets and thinkers. We are still occupied by the USA. And people are manipulated and have no prospects. A dark age.
What I also find very interesting is that the Germanic people spread very far and are therefore the ancestors of many other people. Therefore, historians are not entirely sure how German the Germanic peoples were, but since they were the first to speak German and also create English, they were already German. In addition, the Germans were also the ancestors of the Vikings means Germanic mythology is almost identical to Norse mythology. Actually the same.
Our supposed "Green" government is not as good as you all think. Everything is going wrong in Germany and around the world. The fact is that the Americans, the government, wanted this Ukraine war at all costs. Because now they can do what they always wanted - they can sell us their incredibly expensive and polluting fraking gas. Which even has to be driven across the water. That's a thousand times more harmful to the environment than buying it from the good Russian. Now, decades after the war, they can completely esolate the Russians from the world. What is the fact? Fact is the West especially the USA brought the Ukraine war. What is another fact? Putin wanted to open up to the West for as long as he tried to get into NATO. But no, the ami who sees himself above all said the bad bad Russian! I'm a historian and the Russian generations went through most of the pain in the last few centuries. The attack by Hitler where every second Russian lost a person, ww1, then the cold war. And all the West and the USA can do is say the bad bad Russians, we don't want them! The US is benefiting enormously from the war and is delaying it specifically to weaken the Russians. Putin started the war and he's not a good one either. But the West and the USA brought the war to Ukraine. First the Germans were the bad ones, now it's the Russians (because Germany is now acting according to the whistle of the USA) and soon it will be someone else again. The West worked against the Russians for years. But the Russians and Putin wanted to open up. Who screwed up everything geo-politically? the amy. Everywhere war started the worst suffering for decades. Everyone can be proud of their country and I know that there are good people in America, just people. But I don't understand how anyone can sing the national anthem for such a filthy government that did everything bad in the new era.
I know many are manipulated by the giant powers.. but please read the book: how the West brought war to Ukraine - Benjamin Abelow (Was part of the US government)
Boah.. geht's noch?
German food can be really good, often it´s not. German people can be very friendly, more than often they´re not. The digital infrastructure of state and administration could be world-class, unfortunately its a mess! Rail services and bicycling infrastructure are a disgrace for one of the richest and "most developed" countries in the world. The Netherlands, Switzerland, Denmark are several decades ahead regarding to that.
Italian and french might be the best cuisines in europe! On average germans spent the least money for food compared to other europeans.
Quality and the range of goods are far superior in France and Italy.
I am german, but if I could make a decent living in France or Italy, I´d rather live there...
"More colourful". Really.
:)
I'm a ginger 😂
What the hell is that for a dialect? Scotish or Danish? Jesus , thats a funny dialect (pelase forgive me) :-). Iam German and and really nice to hear, that the Germans are quite friendly. I think the Berlin dialect hears very unfriendly. My favorit is the North with Hamburg and Flensburg. Thanks for your videos!!!
Yes, its extremely expensive in münchen, baveria. And baveria is hated by the rest of germany because yes, they tend to be arrogant and treat foreigners and even other germans bad.
They are basicly a snob version of texas. Baverians live in the woods and think they are the coolest and best part of germany. Its a beautyful state, but the baverians themself are snobs and selfish and arrogant compared to other germans.
Also, for germans in general, we put much more value into being honest than being friendly.
Thats also where the stereotype in many countries about germans comes from, that germans are cold and unfriendly, but we are just direct and very honest.
In the USA, there is a saying "if you dont have to say anything good, dont say anything".
This wont happen in germany.
Why do you care about a EU-country?Brexit is done and you are out.
Brexit got a big influence by russia btw....
Die Schotten wollten mehrheitlich nicht aus der EU austreten. Sie wurden aber leider von den viel zahlreicheren Engländern überstimmt.
Interesting to hear about the cultural differences. I am German, my kids half British. We live in The Netherlands. I look differently at my own country niw. I appreciate how reliable Germans are, but I am also more annoyed by certain other very German traits.
we have been hiding our gingers
back then when all the german gingers were choraled together and then sent off to these nasty rainy islands where no one would look for them ... well we recall them back little by little ... like a treat 😍
Well, or we would burn them at the stake... Back then, all gingers were witches! 🙃
Its mostly nothing about arrogance but curiosity. Personally i just want to learn more about different cultures, so if somebody looks asian but speaks perfect german i would ask him about where his ancisters come from. Nothing bad in mind with this questions, so please dont misunderstand