5 THINGS GERMANS FIND WEIRD ABOUT THE USA
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00:00 Things Americans do that Germans find weird
00:52 Backpacks are not allowed in school in the USA
04:45 How "things" are measured in the USA
06:22 No Allgemeine Meldepflicht in the USA
08:07 Sales tax- yes it annoys me too!
09:45 Hayley's conspiracy theory
10:46 Circumcision is common in the USA
13:00 Thank you for watching and don't forget to subscribe!!
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you don't have to have every
skin flap removed because unhygienic dirt could be hiding behind it. I think regular washing would be a feasible solution.
Myanmar using the imperial system is a common misconception. They use traditional Burmese units, and apparently have announced a desire to switch to metric in the near future.
Thanks! I always read these maps as „not using metric“, not as using imperial.
The transparent backpack thing means taking away parts of a kid’s privacy 😢
That’s a experience that can shape someone psychologically for the worse for life …
I regard circumcision of children (i.e. without consent) as a form of abuse, unless there is a specific medical problem with the individual concerned. Ritual circumcision for religious reasons should be made illegal.
It is abuse. I get it when the kid has a bad case of phimosis. Everything else is abuse.
That is a method to rid the country of Jews.
@@peterpain6625 ...oh, there are several more reasons: lower chances of cervical cancer, lower chances of transmitting STDs and a few more. I am circumcised and do not consider this as abuse. I liken it to removing tonsils or wisdom teeth.
@@TheWuschelMUC Tonsil removal were very "fashionable" in the 1960. I don't know a younger person who had their tonsils removed. It is not necessary.
And wisdom teeth are not present in babies, so not the same thing.
They dont ban weapons in US but they ban back packs 😂😂😂
This is a lie on the backpacks. Only 8 out of 50 states banned backpacks for the entire states. My Middle School and Highschool banned backpacks long before school shootings were a real issue. The reason being is backpacks were to heavy and causing long-term damage to kids bodies.
The obligation to register in Germany has two advantages. On the one hand, it can save you from being in prison (as a suspect of a crime, a magistrate can order detention on remand, but only does this if there is no registered residence and there is a risk of flight and collusion, in contrast to the USA, where every suspect will probably be arrested ) and on the other hand you don't have to register yourself in an electoral register, because you did that automatically when you registered your apartment.
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I was waiting for what in my mind is the weirdest thing that us people do, the pledge of allegiance to the flag at school. I bet over 90% of Germans think that this is totally weird. That thing is super creepy and sounds like something that would happen before 1945 here.
That is done in many countries. It's weird to Germans because WW2 changed all that for Germany
And yes, they did do exactly that kind of thing during that time in schools. I had learned in history class about it. A while later, I learned in English about schools in the USA and was shocked to learn they do the same thing, which I had seen as symptom of the unhealthy attachment to the nation that was fostered during that time in Germany, to this day.
@@tolletalk I don't think many other countries pledge allegiance to the flag every moring at school, at least in Europe. I'm Norwegian and never ever have we done that.
The Pledge of Allegiance is about the ONLY thing reminding the average American kid that he belongs to a larger community, to a nation, and should accept *SOME* responsibility to it. Otherwise, the vast majority of kids here only acknowledge their tiny little circle of friends and (likely broken) family, and that's it. The average U.S. citizen could care less about what it means to be American. It's just all about money anyway. They may tell you otherwise, but if they genuinely cared they 'd behave much differently. Is there not anything at all to instill a sense of duty to the nation in Germany, even if merely symbolic?
@@tempest411 I am trying to remember something but nothing comes to mind. I would say it‘s „just“ upbringing and education. It‘s just the way Germans (and I guess Europeans?) are.
We have a totally different system and way of seeing things. We have a working social system and learn about it at home and school. We are raised to be social, that helping the less fortunate benefits us all etc.
As for Germany specifically, we learn in History class, German, English and other subjects about WWI and WWII and how we should never ever be again, which in turn makes us (want to) be better than our forefathers.
I don‘t know… to care for other people snd the environment is a skill learnt everywhere. Your parents teach it by example, the school teaches it and people on the street will admonish you if you do something bad. It‘s a group effort in passing 😂
Oh yeah! I am German and just visiting USA. I totally agree with you. PLEASE get stricter laws about guns and wheapons! It is not good everybody has a gun on the one side, and you still have death penalty on the other side. Just stop killing on both sides 🙏🏽
die Leute sind so gewöhnt an Waffen, denkst du die werden dann aufhören mit Gewalttaten? Die werden dann halt Macheten , Messer etc nehmen
@@Ultraviolence2024 Yes I think so. It is much easier just to press a button of a gun than killing someone more physically with your own hands/knife. I think shooting is the easiest way, you don't even need to touch the other person. So I bet it would make a difference, yes.
Oh! Pearl Harbor memorial! Those clever people with clear plastic backpacks could bring their stuff in with them. I had to pay 6 bucks to store my purse in a locker because my purse was bigger than 4 X 6 inches, I think. (then I had to pay TAX on the 6 bucks - WTH Hawaii!) Clear backpacks are such a weird thing, do I want people to see my particular brand of tampon? Do I want pickpockets to see exactly where the wallet is?
finally I can show off my immense wealth by letting people know I only use O.B. silk touch 😏
I just imagined circumcision as a topic for small talk, let's say as an ice breaker... very funny idea :D
I would melt into the ground if that happened lol
@@HayleyAlexis You should meet a friend of mine. She's an gynecologist and has no shame talking about work ;)
@@peterpain6625doctors (even medical students) tend to be that way. I love it! (even though I am not in the medical field)
Wow! I'm shocked! 😮
I had never heard of transparent backpacks or prohibiting children from bringing backpacks to school! (Canadian here) 🇨🇦
How do they carry their books, then?
Unfortunately, the USA has "stopped in time", they still live like in the "old wild west" with their guns and measuring things by the size of someone's foot! 🤣
Sad, very sad ..😢
You don't always have a ruler or a tape measure, but you always have a foot.
@@tempest411 🤣🤣🤣You can't be serious! 🤣🤣🤣
I think the tipping culture in the US also deserves a spot in this list. And the importance of Christianity (in its rather radical forms) while having a totally secular constitution
When listening to this I am beginning to see the first good point about Hayley leaving for the USA: One more American in the USA with a working brain ...
don't believe the things you see on the media. There is just as many stupid people in Europe as in the USA😅
Ouch!
@@janheinbokel3969 she is right! 🇺🇸 in 🇪🇸 for 30 years….
Brain alone is not enough, but a better tuned common sense.
We need the smart people back!
Guns is big business, especially in the USA. Big business means big profits. And the USA is notorious about putting financial profit over human health and life. Since the USA is effectively a Plutocracy (regime of the rich, a.k.a. those, who derive their privileges from those profits), this will not change anytime soon.
I consider it a case of child abuse and it really this practice of mutilation grosses me out. Absolutely barbaric.
You’re not the only one feeling like that. Same for me, the society of pediatrics and at least one judge in Cologne (called it bodily harm/Körperverletzung).
It should only be done if there’s a medical issue and all other treatments fail.
@@jennyh4025 "and all other treatments faild" - Until this is determined, it is a torment for the young man, especially if the phimosis occurs after puberty and/or with an erection and thus makes coitus impossible.
@@rolandscherer1574 that’s still no reason to just cut off a body part of hundreds and thousands of babies and small children without medical problems. The religious practice stems from a time when hygienic practice was bad and child deaths were common (because it was easier to have another child die than to treat an adult and keep him alive) and the societal reason in the USA is from the strange thought of the cornflakes Kellogg, that circumcision would prevent masturbation - which it doesn’t, but the prudish people didn’t know that at the time.
What? I'm circumcised. I have zero memory of the experience, and certainly have suffered no trauma.
@@tempest411 Every highly stressful experience alters the brain negativly, doesn't matter if you can't remember it. Even stress your parent had while carrying you impacts you. Besides, just because you assume you suffered no repercussions, doesn't mean that on avarage people are harmed by it.
When I lived in the US, I couldn't believe when visiting a "Dollar" shop that, having picked up one item, the person on the cash desk was asking for $1.05 or $1.10... in a DOLLAR Shop...
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Regarding the backpack, what about bulletproof backpacks? I heard that's a thing in the USA. Are those banned too?
The issue with backpacks is they are already to heavy. Kids are already carrying 30% more than thwy should be because of all the books. My particular highschool and middle school banned backpacks long before school shootings were an issue. It was because kids were carrying a 12-15 kg backpack where they should be carrying 4.5-12 kg backpacks. Middle schoolers should be carrying a 4.5 kg backpack while highschoolers should be carrying a 12 kg backpack. Anything bulletproof that works is way to damn heavy. Majority of my neck and back issues came from carrying a backpack way to heavy.
Another thing only 8 out of 50 states banned backpacks for the entire state. Haley is spreading lies.
The backpacks thing is just crazy.
It's like instead of taking away the matches that could cause harm to people, you just ban everything flammable for everyone. 🤪
So if kids have nothing to carry their giant stack of university-sized books in, does that mean they have no homework? Or do they have to use little red wagons that get searched like they're crossing an international border?
YESSSS!!!! Topic 1….yesssss!
I never agreed with circumcision & neither of my sons were circumcised. But (as you might see in the comments lol) people are very passionate about it! I just did t feel it was needed.
Also, I’m very curious why/how gun violence is nearly nonexistent I. Europe and other countries but the US it’s ridiculous!
Yep, time. I booked a flight recently from Jakarta to Munich, leaving at 12:30 am. I had to ask two folks in my house, Americans, to be sure that I booked for the right date at 0:30 in the morning.
That's military time. Are in the military?
@@tempest411The 24 hour format in not accepted within the military.
@@charisma-hornum-fries Are you saying in Germany the military uses AM/PM nomenclature, and citizens use 24H time?
The changing of adress and having to register it in Germany makes it so we all get a voting notification automatically for every election. No registering for voting needed.
If weather conditions are dry and home + school organization is clever enough, a reduced minimal carried weight instead of heavy full school bag might be healthier for school children.
But as dry weather conditions are a even in summer not constant nor perfect foreseeable, a school bag should be waterproof depending on the distance of the way to school from bus/tram/train.
My children have had to carry heavy school bag packs in the elementary school, later my girls have had an personal lockable school cabinet (Montessorie Gesamtschule Aachen) so they didn't needed to carry to heavy school bags full with all heavy books, but that lifted their organization requirements and forced their organization skills.
probably a weird question. the US uses gallons, but not the british imperial gallon but the US liquid gallon which is based on the wine gallon, which is an entirely different thing. doesn't that confuse anyone?
I'm confused by anything that's not metric ;)
@@cadeeja. I've worked on an oil drilling rig. the unit of density was pressure (in psi) increase per yard or something ludicrous like that.
I didn't know there was a difference?
@@HayleyAlexis Yes, the UK gallon is a little over 4.5 litres, and the US gallon is a little less than 3.8 litres. That's because the UK pint is 20 fluid ounces, while the US pint is 16 fluid ounces.
@@HayleyAlexis imperial gallon: ~4.5l, US liquid gallon ~3.7l
I'd say, the difference is substancial
Regarding circumcision: One should also not forget about religious reasons. In many groups of faiths this is still performed on a daily basis.
Seems a bit stupid, first to claim you have a omnipotent god, only to then say, he was so bad at doing his work, that simple humans now have to repair it.
My God is absolutely perfect - he just can't make willies 🙄
That’s how you get the 10% in Germany. Otherwise it would probably be more like 5% or less.
I only got interested in the topic after seeing a baby shortly after circumcision naked. It looked horrible and made me want to cry every time I saw the little boy. When I asked the mother why they did it she said „I want him to look like his dad.“ WTF?!? It’s a baby not your lover and definitely not your body to change without any chance of it every going back to the way it was before!
I’m still miffed that the German politicians were afraid of being viewed as „anti non Christian religions“ when they kept circumcision of minors for non-medical reasons, even though the society of pediatricians (and some other doctors) said to make it illegal and judges said it was bodily harm when done without medical indication.
it may have made sense to a desert dwelling people where water was scarce and therefore the possibility to transmit diseases 3000 years ago. And how to make people act in a more healthy lifestyle ? easy, some God wants it.
How can you get circumcised on a daily basis
Once would seem to be more than necessary
@@thomasschumacher5362 ahhhh you dived into the joy of taking something literally , Ich muss Ihnen sicher nicht erklären dass tägliche routinemäßige Eingriffe höchst selten an immer dem gleichen Individuum erfolgen 😉 😁 😆
That's weird, banning backpacks at school. Like that's going to help. The government should try to change the law on guns and restrict it or actually banned that. True about the taxes, a couple of years ago I was in the US, i find it confusing or actually disturbing cause like in Germany here in the Netherlands taxes are included when you get your groceries or whatever you're purchasing. I just wasn't used to pay taxes added to the stuff you buy. Have a wonderful Sunday.
It isn't just for qhat she said. It's for health reasons and space reasons. For kids ages 11-14 backpacks are supposed to be 10% of their weight. This isn't the case. Kids are carrying 30% of their body weight. From ages 15-18 your When I was this age I should have been carrying 4.5 kg. The weight I was actually carrying was 12 kg. From ages 15-16 my backpack was 14 kg. It should have been 12 kg. When I was 17 and 18 I stopped carrying a backpack. I just carried my binders in my hands and pencil box. I copied pages from my schools textbooks and placed them in my notebooks. I'm 40 and 98% of my neck and back issues came from carrying a heavy backpack.
The other point of space issues is the more books you carry the bigger the backpack needs to be. Schools aren't being built bigger so there's no floor room.
It would be logical to introduce a ban on clothing in public.
Clever! Then they can't hide any banned books on their bodies 🤔
Also don't forget to an additional law that has a mandatory sentence of 20y (or the needle if you're any shade of tan) when you dare looking. /S
Nudity at least that would make it difficult to carry a "concealed" weapon".
@@skinnyjohnsen Considering those inbred states that allow open carry it's not doing much i'd say ;)
@@peterpain6625 Yeah, but they will put you in jail for indecency/nudity.
I could never be a teacher in the US. Guns being legal just blows my mind
As a teacher myself, I heartily agree
We don't want you here anyway.
It should be 100% legal, BUT having stricter requirements is what is needed. No one needs an assault riffle. Assault riffles were banned when I was a kid. Everyone lived without it. Germany and some other European countries (not all) don't have the dangerous animals that the US has. Everyone has the right to protect themselves and their family. In Alaska it's a requirement for you to put moose out of its misery if you hit one. It's also a requirement to call the wildlife agency to come and pick up the animal. They donate the meat to Needy Families (1 adult size moose can feed 5 families of 4). I don't know of this law in any other states.
I should say parents or whoever sold the person should be held responsible also. Haley might be to young for this, but back in the early 80's Florida was having an issue with kids finding their parents gun and shooting their friend, sibling, or cousin. To stop this there's a law saying you have to keep your gun out of child's reach (safe is best option, but can't force people to do this). If you didn't and your child injured or killed another person you the parent were liable for what happened. Magically all of the young kids shooting friends, siblings, and cousins disappeared. You'll go back to just gang bangers shooting and killing each other. Gang bangers weapons are generally illegal. It's not difficult to buy a gun off the internet from another country. Banning guns will do absolutely nothing for them.
Another thing clear backpacks weren't a thing in my school district until 2019. I grew up in Florida just like Haley, but I was way south. With this knowledge Haley is either still young to have to own a clear backpack or her school only allowed clear backpacks before 2000's.
My backpack rules changed in 2000 onward.
I guess the sales tax issue derives from where the tax is actually set. That's a federal tax in Germany, but a 'regional' tax in the US.
With "regional"/local taxes, why shouldn't it be possible to factor them straight into the price tag?
@@klarasee806 Because they would have to print a lot of different tags ^^ AFAIK it's not only differing from state to state, but also counties and such.
@@cadeeja. I understand that when it comes to prices that are already factory printed on the product packaging. But where can you find them today? Stores usually print the prices themselves. Even if some product packaging continued to show gross prices, there would be no problem labeling them "gross price" and displaying the net price (incl. tax) (possibly additionally) at the front of the shelf.
I think the reason for not including tax is because each state uses a different rate. And they are afraid if they do that people will think that a store in state A the item is cheaper than in state B. And of course that can't happen because then the store will lose its customers....
@@cadeeja. I used to work on stocktakes. On (Swedish based) Children's clothing shop literally had prices in about seven different currencies on every tag...
But that's what Europeans do...
Canada has the same kind of tax system as the US. You have the product price, then you have the GST (Goods Tax Services tax) - 5 percent and then a provincial sale tax ((PST) 13:12 except the province of Alberta) which varies by province. In Manitoba, where I live the PST is 7 percent. So you have a total of 12 percent added to your purchase. Food is excluded and some other essential items.
It’s a big pain in the b*tt!
There are no taxes on food? 🤔
@@matanadragonlin , no. When I grocery shop, no taxes on meat, vegetables, fruits, etc. Some things like bathroom products, cleaning products are taxed.
@@nancyrafnson4780 I like this 🤩
With us, it's less. Except prepared meals in restaurants.
5:00 i believe recently even Liberia and Myanmar voted to switch to metric, which leaves only the US in that group
6:16 just in case you didn't already know, the US gallon pound mile etc are defined in metric: th-cam.com/video/SmSJXC6_qQ8/w-d-xo.html
8:15 many years ago when i used to live in New Jersey, i was surprised to find out you can also buy a winter jacket in NJ without sales tax (a jacket being considered 'essential' in the NJ/Northeast winter; i don't know if it has changed since then)
Buying essential things without sales tax isnt weird. Its the way things should be. In a bunch of states theres no sales tax on food that you cook, no tax on prescriptions, and no sales tax on medical devices (walker, wheelchair, oxygen, etc). For example fruits, vegetables, meat, dairy, eggs, cake you have to bake, TV dinners, soup you have to cook, canned vegetables, and maybe a few other things you dont have to pay sales tax. Things like soda, ice cream, prepared food, etc you have to pay sales tax. Florida is one of these states where you pay no sales tax on the foods I listed.
Frühschoppen mit Hayley, besoffen noch vor der halb 10, vielen Dank dafür. 😅😊
LMAO... I am just trying to make the world a more fun place :P
What I always find absolutely ridiculous as a German is how easy it is to get your hands on a gun in the US and on the other hand how hard it is to have a beer if you're under 21. Gun possession seems to be so well accepted and even demanded by people due to the second amendment and yet a beer under 21 is basically frowned upon. I remember my first ever walmart experience in Orlando/FL. I went through the sports section and stood on front of pump guns. Stood there for a minute with my mouth open. So of course, the German in me wanted to try american beer. So I brought back a sixer of Coors. We came back to the house and I was in big trouble. "You can't bring alcohol to the house". "What would the lord think of you?". "Are you even 21?". "This is so illegal.". Jesus christ leave me alone, throw the six cans away and give me a tap water please. But I can keep the pump gun I bought, yeah? Sure, it's your right!!!
I assure you Americans, especially younger ones, are not the same as younger Germans. Young Americans can not be trusted to act responsibly with alcohol. Germans drink beer and appreciate the taste while in the U.S. they drink to shit-faced drunk. Why do you think American beer is so bad? All it has to do is serve as a way to get alcohol in people, while identifying as beer on a technicality.
I‘m just at the Backpack-Point in your video and agree 100%. Not more to say, thank you so much ❤
Tax rate differences not only exist at the state level, but may also exist at the local level within individual communities in the more than 3000 US counties. There are literally thousands upon thousands of different tax jurisdictions. For chain businesses that work across many state, county and local community tax districts, it would be a complete logistics nightmare to try to manage labeling accurate post-tax pricing on every item across every tax jurisdiction. Very rarely an independent single store might price their goods post tax because they only have to account for that single location jurisdiction.
For example: The county-level sales tax rate in Miami-Dade County is 1%, and all sales in Miami-Dade County are also subject to the 6% Florida sales tax. Cities, towns, and special districts within Miami-Dade County collect additional local sales taxes, with a maximum sales tax rate in Miami-Dade County of 7%. Consider this example and multiply it by more than 3000 counties and you can begin to understand the magnitude or the logistics nightmare.
Yes, it would be a logistics nightmare if you want the same net turnover, but chains just might set their prices to the same gross value in all jurisdictions and just accept they have different net turnover in every area. IMHO just forwarding the nightmare to the consumer is not a real solution. In Germany it's easier for chain businesses, because only one level has jurisdiction for each kind of tax. The VAT is set at the federal level (and the resulting income shared with the states) and states or local municipalities may not levy a similar tax.
That's BS.
Every store knows the taxes they have to add, so they easily could add it when they print the tags. Or do you think they print their tags in one place and send it via mail around the continent?!
The real reasons are, 1. that the companies want to show a lower price and scam you, and 2. that the government don't want to make it obvious that US different taxation is mad.
🤔 I know of transparent backpacks only for employees of one large company (parcels). That should prevent theft.
In USA start weeken in sunday in Europa in monday
I was a german exchange student in the USA in the 80's, visiting high school there.
Until then, I hardly ever saw kids with backpacks in school here in Germany. Visiting high school introduced me to school backpacks and I love using then until today.
Having a backpack as a kid in school was 'cool'. You wrote your favourite music bands on them or let your friends sign. Which made it a very personal item. I even bought one in the States and brought it back to Germany.
A transparent backpack leaves no space for individuality. And will not kill the killer.
If a would-be school shooter sees that you are also packing they may be less likely to be a shooter in the first place.
I don't think you can register a new place of residence online in Germany! When you change your site, the new address is entered in your ID and passport at the residents' registration office.
Hayley, your new _channel_ photo looks _wonderful._
Thank you so much!!!
You're probably right concerning price psychology. Germans are a bit crazy here as well. You never see price tags with nice round numbers. It is never 2 Euro but 1,99 . And when you by gas it's even 1,999. The Netherlands didn't even bother to introduce 1 and 2 cent coins. But of course Germany won't budge. Completely unthinkable to round payments to 5ers...
You make a slight error. The Netherlands did introduce 1 and 2 cent coins. They exist and are official type of payment. They were not given out in as large quantities as in other countries though, as there is a widespread practice (not a law! - common misconception) in the Netherlands of rounding to the nearest 5 cents at the cash register.
Maybe you were thinking of Finland. While they of course also technically have 1 and 2 cent coins, they are not actually used at all. Because there, the rounding thing IS a law. Only small quantities have been produced, probably most if not all of them are in the hands of collectors.
24 hour format is used by the US military - for a good reason. The switch to metric has been going on in the US for a few years, and it will take 100 years in total.
I have a watch, made in Germany, by the way (Laco), that displays 1-12. Not 1-24. Ergo, AM and PM. I could only see using 24H time if you spent days working underground where you might lose track of day and night. And if you're going to go to 24H time, you may as well go all the way and use GMT.
@@tempest411 The military uses it because it is unambiguous and always 4 characters. Five if you include time zone which is one appended letter. 8 o'clock? Morning (even if they write it 0800). 8 pm would be 2000 (or 2000Z, or 20:00). And regarding that watch - if it's analog, well, d'oh, while 24 hour analog watches exist as far as I know they are simply not very practical (all digital watches I've seen can be adjusted to the wearer's preferences) being too cluttered. But that watch is for checking the time, and as you said one usually knows whether it's morning or evening and stating AM or PM is unnecessary. For setting a time one would use 24 hour format around here. Almost all public digital watches are also running 24 hour time.
I think it's rather safe to say that hereabouts either AM or PM is either clear from context and no mentioning it is required or it is still not used due to 24 hour times.
Here in Europe they'll put the price at say, 9,99. That way they can say less than 10 euro. In Europe they play this game too.
Hayley should have a podcast
To talk about all the crazy sh*t in the world?? lol
Yes, it is annoying that the prices in US stores do not include tax. Obviously this is a trick to make people buy more. If the US had common sense consumer protection laws this would never be allowed. Personally I find it more frustrating that the sales tax is not a federal law so people in all states pay the same which would avoid confusion and help increase state income so they can maintain a healthy society. Oh, and you can put tipping in the same category of things that needs to be abandoned in favour of a decent living vague.
Thank God it isnt a federal law. In Florida I dont have to pay sales tax on most groceries, oral hygiene products (toothpaste, mouth wash, etc), prescriptions, pads, tampons, essential items for baby, and medical devices where I'm at.
I need to say this. Every state has different amounts of money they earn through tourism and farming. Florida gets lots of money through tourism and farming so there can be no sales tax.
Funnily enough gas stations don't have any issue to display the full price (after taxes) for fuel. Once you walk in and buy a candy bar (or whatever), you're back to pre-sales-tax prices...
I've been living here (US) coming from Germany for more than 10 years now, but some things still seem weird and overly complicated.
(And hardly anybody can explain, whether an ounce is a fluid measure, or.a weight...)
What will be next? transparent clothes so you can see if someone is carrying a gun?
No, because carrying a gun is legal, even carrying a concealed gun.
@@wora1111 if carrying a gun was legal for school kids they wouldn't need transparent backpacks in the first place.
No no...Guns are ok, if I have grasped this correctly.
Clear backpacks are ridiculous. Everyone can put drugs/weapons in a towel or a baggie inside the transparent backpacks
@@Ray-pt5bi Just like taking off shoes for security at US airports is ridiculous, because some weirdo had some explosives in his shoes on a plane some 20 years ago. But if he flies from Europe to the US, like this weirdo did, he doesn't have to take them off. Wow, that's really logical.
Actually, the people in the USA are using metric system more than they realise, it is just a few daily routines that are left on British Imperial Measurement for length, weight and temperature. The measures for electromagnetic phenomena, light, science (micro-sizes), also measures for length, mass and/or volume in photography and cinema, science, and medicine, are from the SI system (a.k.a. Metric System). SI is used in military planning and weapons too (9mm not 9/25in).
and every body knows 1 cent, 10 cents are a dime, 10 dimes are a dollar and so on......
*METRIC SYSTEM*
A lot of things you mentioned show the tight ties to the UK the United States have (and I still don't get why, since the US kicked the UK out of their country). Anyways: Imperial system, mandatory registration of your principal residance and such things. I don't know why you won't change that, because calculating on a decimal basis is far easier. PLUS: ROW won'z need a calculator to undestand you guys.
*TAXES*
I'm german, so maybe it's just me being used to things like we have it over here. But again: having everything included to the price tag at the shelves is just handier. It's imposible to calculate the end prices of the goods in your cart in your head, because you can't just sum the shelf prices up and add a percentage (which would be circumstantial enough). because there are different tax rates for certain goods.
Giving you an example from myself: When I go to the beach or pool I usually don't bring credit cards, because they can get stolen while I'm in the water or busy. I usually take 5, 10 or 20 Euros notes just in case i want to get me something spontanously. Now I'm on my way home and a friend calls to have dinner and asks me to bring something. So I go to the supermarket and have to do all the math and percentage calculation to know if I can add things to my cart or not. Same things If you have to buy things on a budget. And all the kids which are send with one Dollar to the corner shop to get themselves some candy and have to learn the hard way how the state is shanghaiing them, because they have to pay 1,10 Dollars for their 1 Dollar candy, but they just have one single one dollar note in their hands. And I don't think a discussion about taxes and how to calculate percentages is something for a 6 y/o.
"interesting, bizarre, I hate it" - My MiL is taking her first trip to America this fall and my husband just gave her the "Tax Talk" as you have done here. Exactly like you say, the longer you live without this, the more it irks me and my husband. But now she knows. And how wonderful to enter Oregon, go to Taco Bell, and have no tax at all!. And hey, does anyone know if you're supposed to tip the people in Oregon who pump your gas? I gave the guy 2 bucks out of guilt for sitting in my car like a queen as he did the work. He looked surprised and thanked me profusely. Help? (And for the first time in my life, I actually pumped my own gas in Oregon in a remote area - no one was there, so I just did it. Woo!)
Transparent backpack - what about putting all the stuff in there in non-transparent baggies?
It definitely teaches kids not to let anything go to waste in their backpacks😅
Hayley's conspiration teory 😂
"Kids express their personality".....today that has shifted, I think, to personalizing their 60Euro Hydro Flasks with dishwasher safe stickers. And since the flasks are too big for the backpacks, they get to express their personalities constantly, and their commitment to protecting the earth, and to promoting tap water. Bravo Gen Z.
Yes, I think kids express their personality not by decorating their backpacks (or anything else) they express themselves by buying brands, which can be seen (like the batches / sticker on their clothes. The badge seems to be worth more than the t-shirt) This may not be individual, but expressing 🫤
There are over 10,000 tax jurisdictions in the United States, and prices are not necessarily set in the same place where the product is sold.
that is true but the price shield still has to be printed... The prices on the labels are not the same all over the country or in every store...The Publix closest to my house has different prices than the other Publix that is 4 miles away from where I live... So the labels can be different numbers- I just dont understand why they can't be made to include the end amount... There is nothing really stopping them from doing it- they know what the taxes will be when getting the items and placing them on the shelves.
But the shop where it is sold knows the local tax. They could print that on every product or at least in small type underneath. Or just the tax in small print underneath. 🤷🏼♀️
I would prefer if they make it transparent like with the backpacks 😁.
Circumsition in the US actually started with Kellogs, be ause he thought it would stop the lads from masturbating.
The other "reasons" were later invented
I think USA isn't going far enough! I think they should ban clothes as well...
Only in USA 🤦♀️ban backpacks instead of guns.
Guns good, back packs bad. Yes, that is the definition of insanity.
I'm surprised that you did not know that the states levy the sales tax and cities can add their own tax so that is why they ate not on the product.
This metric vs. imperial is even more wired, cause many companies are using internally the metric system and only for the customers in adds and documents the convert them to imperial.
And the official name of these units gives a hint:
US costumes units
(only for stupid costumers, not for everybody else). 🙂
As someone who does not live in the USA I have another theory about the not-included sales taxes. As the map about sales taxes in the USA as shown in your video, there is a huge difference between USA and Germany (also Europe): the tax rate in Germany is the same everywhere, while in the USA every county has its own tax rate. (In Germany that would mean every muncipality (Gemeinde/Landkreis) has its own Mehrwertssteuersatz.) So I think state-wide or nation-wide price offers are easy if the sales tax is not included in the shown price. Otherwise companies have to run county-leveled ads campaigns if they are allowed to show the gross prices only.
You need to go as far as every city has their own tax. When you get a receipt youll find on there state tax, county tax, and city tax. For example in Tennesse the food tax is 5% for the state, 2% for county tax, and 2% for Nashville city tax
@@jessicaely2521 Oh my gosh! But wouldn't it be fair to the customer to show also the end price on each price label? Or is that forbidden?
Greetings Hayley, do you think one of the reasons for mass shootings in the United States could be due to media coverage? I've always hated that when a shooting would happen, that the news outlets would play it over and over again. I think this just encourages other mentally disturbed people to seek their 15 minutes of fame. Would you agree?.. as always, blessings to you and your family😇
No, that's not the reason. The media coverage in Germany for mass shootings is the same, but they are super rare nonetheless. You can't shoot anyone if you don't have a gun.
Nice, we ask people about their religion, in the US they ask about their race 😆. This question would overwhelm me 🫣🤯.
They only really ask about religion because of church tax (if you belong to one of the two major Christian religions, the federal government deducts church tax for those religions from your salary).
It is absolutely fine to say NONE (religion), if you want to.
The tax at the end of the Total makes no sense...let's all agree on this.
Privacy lives in Bagpacks. Poor children.
I am done with the US. I would never ever take the risk to visit USA again.
You're missing out. The US has great people and places to visit. Yet they're somehow stuck in the middle ages in places and see to move even more backwards in others. But still. Great place.
I agree with the Germans' criticism of all these except registering addresses every time you move. I'm sorry, that is some bureaucratic control freak stuff. I like the freedom to pick up and move neighborhoods without having to report to Big Brother. But that said, I love everything about living in Berlin.
Are there bulletproof but transparent backpacks? How does that work? Please answer with a link to a brand.
Also... why do US students need backpacks at all? I thought, books would be left in the locker at school🤔.
Yes,there are.Kentucky Ballistics just posted a video with a test about it
@@chkoha6462 thx
@@chkoha6462 I found a video of them/him testing two backpacks... but neighter were seethrough/transparent... you got a link?
Btw... good innovation for kids doing a school shootings. Now they have guns AND a bulletproof vest🙈
You still have to transport stuff from your home to school and from school to your home....
@@chkoha6462 They don't work though. Like a band-aid on the geyser of a wound. Maybe for the odd stray bullet but imagine a elementary school kid holding said backpack up in front to defend themselves. For a highschool aged kid maybe. But with the emergence of .277 fury in private weapons once after the us military has adopted those the "bulletproof backpack" is done.
In the past when my children went to school in Germany there were also backpacks for the older children and young people that were like satchels and were very stable and had plenty of room for the books. My children always found them very practical. I feel sorry for the kids in the USA that they can`t carry for school, just because of the gun laws.
3:40 - this sounds as if backpacks are not allowed, *_unless they are bulletproof_* ???
@@Anson_AKB I think that backpacks are completely forbidden in schools even if they are bulletproof.
backpacks are not allowed in general... doesn't matter if they are bulletproof or not
That`s how I understood it too.I`m sorry for the students.@@HayleyAlexis
@@HayleyAlexis that sounded a bit different at 3:40 _"we are implementing lockers, _*_bulletproof backpacks_*_ (did i mishear this?), armed teachers, bulletproof windows and doors, ..."_
a while ago, i had seen a video where they talked about difference in backpacks, european parents buying lightweight backpacks with shoulder and front straps for good back support and health of children, while american parents bought heavier backpacks for children where you could insert plates for protection against ricochet while traveling back and forth to school and to have protection in school when needed.
maybe that was an intermediate step between normal backpacks 100 or 50 years ago and the current situation ... ?
But you always know that deposit bottles and cans are 25 cents and glass bottles are 15 cents.
*and 8 cents
I guess people in America like imperial measurements - and when it comes to measurements in Canada - personal measurements are _still_ imperial.....24 hour time is called military time in the U.S. - CAnadian height and weight - feet and pounds there - same thng applies to cooking in Canada - all fahrenheit - why? Cause i.e. stoves have Fahrenheit measurements that are imported from the U.S. - stoves, I mean
SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED.
Cope and SEETHE, Comrade.
Awwwww. Bet you pleasure yourself over the next school shooting also, do you? You gun nuts are a pathetic bunch. Compensating for something obviously while sacrificing children and other people on the altar of "but but i feel powerful for once holding a gun!!!!1111". A gun is a tool. Considering the way some Americans light up when handling said tool I've got to say it's got to be something sexual. In a very sad way though. Bless your heart
The point with the religion is that in Germany you pay Kirchensteuer, when you are christian. If you are not a christian, you don’t need to pay taxes for the christian church…
The difference is also that in Germany every German citizen can vote regardless of anything they are or did in the past. And when you are registered, you automatically get a letter before elections, you don’t need to register again and hope to be able to vote, you have the right to. With this letter you just go and vote. You as a citizen don’t need to do anything beforehand to be handed a human right…
"... you pay Kirchensteuer, when you are christian." - No, that's not correct. You can be Christian without paying Kirchensteuer, and you can pay Kirchensteuer without being Christian.
You pay Kirchensteuer when you are a member of a religious organization that uses Kirchensteuer to collect money from their members (in contrast to other churches and organizations which are primarily financed by donations). These organizations include the two - by far - biggest church organisations in Germany (the Roman Catholic church and the Protestant church), but also many Jewish congregations. On the other side, most smaller Christian churches ask their members for voluntary donations and don't participate in the Kirchensteuer system.
@@tobyk.4911that's the way it is.
I myself, was so involved I couldn't imagine another way of being religious (signint somewhere and pay taxes 😆).
You theoretically can declare everything you like to. But once you have said e.g catholic you are in the Catholic church and pay taxes. The only way to change this is to go to the Einwohnermeldeamt (Residents' registration office) and sign off. You give this deregistration to your employer. Then you no longer pay church tax.
@@matanadragonlin Opting in is free (and automatic for people born in Germany), opting out is a hassle and costs money ;)
@@hypatian9093 yes 😁staying (the monthly tax); may be more than leaving (a one-time fee)
Is there no "freedom of express"-law in the US?
The inside of my bag is none of your business!
But aren't it the books and the drags?
Bringing something safe for school might be mistaken for something unsafe
3:54 my bestie in the US would love you 💙 *no guns at all!* (german by blood)
on the other hand southern states like Idaho.... oo, I mean can you hear all of them r-necks crying? 😭😁 but I have to admit, I'm hold out myself, till some degree.
But if bagpacks are forebiddon, how shall kids carry their stuff?
In the US every boy is born with a free money voucher. All the doctor has to do is cut it off.
Our whole attitude toward arms control is _so_ ridiculous. I graduated from high school in the '90's. We didn't _do_ this kind of thing, back then. We _knew_ no one had guns because there were gun _restrictions_ in place.
I'm so glad that circumcision rates are dropping in America as people learn that men have *internal* sexual organs that don't need to be made external. I am against it for its religious reasons, I've seen it done before my eyes and the kid was way too old. Then again, my nephew needed it medically at a later age and that must have messed with his head. If I may be explicit here, I wonder about rape statistics in circumcised vs. not. There must be something to that. Or am I deluded?
Banning backpacks to safe children...
Lie. Only 8 out of 50 states banned backpacks because of weapons. Some schools banned backpacks long before school shooting were an issue. The reason was backpacks are to heavy for kids and is causing long term damage to kids. I carried a backpack to heavy for me for 5 years. The last 2 years backpacks werent banned but kids didnt use them. The school bought books for school and books from home.
98% of my back and neck issues comes from carrying a backpack to heavy.
the address thing seems a bit creepy. What if you're homeless ? - UK perspective
🤨 _Vanity?_ Getting a flap removed to make it _look_ better?
I mean, let's be clear. With the flap present, it looks kind of silly. The thing is, though, with the flap removed, it _still_ looks kind of silly. Not quite as silly as this _argument,_ though.
The wild part is, the kinds of people who promote this, in the US, are often the _same_ people who believe the human body exhibits signs of intelligent _design._ Well an intelligent design does not have any unnecessary _features._
I feel... they look silly regardless if it has skin or no skin.... LMAO
@@HayleyAlexis Ages ago, there was a British sci-fi sitcom called _Red Dwarf._ On this show, there was a mechanoid named Kryten. In _one_ particular episode, circumstances rendered him _human,_ and the transition turned out to be a _rocky_ one for him.
He couldn't figure out how human beings zoomed in on what they were trying to see the way _mechanoids_ did.
Lister, the only other human being on the crew, explained that we don't. Human beings are not the product of technology. We just move our eyes closer to whatever it is we want to _see_ better.'
He couldn't figure out how human beings recharge, even though he believed he had found the port.
Lister explained that human beings _don't_ recharge. We eat and sleep.
But the _most_ unsettling change for him was found in suddenly having a peni5. He told Lister he wanted to talk to him about _that_ and at first, Lister was _surprised,_ and then he smirked.
Kryten said, "Oh, I should've known. You've gone _directly_ into _smirk_ mode. Really, Mr. Lister, sir, can't we discuss this _without_ adolescent smirking?"
And Lister sobered and said, "I'm sorry. You're right."
So Kryten produced what was seen, at the time, as the absolute _paragon_ of photographic technology, a polaroid photo, and handed it to him.
Curious, Lister took the photo, looked at it, and then looked caught off guard by it. "I don't know what you're _goin'_ for, here, Kryten."
"Well... is this _normal,_ sir?"
"What? Takin' _pictures_ of it and showin' it to your _mates?_ No."
"Well, I mean... is it supposed to look like _that?"_
Lister sighs, takes another look and replies, "Yeah."
And then it's _Kryten's_ turn to be dismayed. "It's _hideous._ Is that _really_ the best they could come up with? The last-chicken-in-the-shop look?"
Time for another amendment to the Constitution of the United States which consolidates the right to bear backpacks. Freedom _[insert waving the flag and some fireworks here]_ should be worth the enormous risk! /sarcasm
Even us blue state Americans don't understand why we will think up anything except banning guns.
Regarding the tax added at the register, tax rates change independent of product prices, which would just increase how often the prices on a store's shelf would have to be changed. And it's not that much. Even the more dim-witted here can approximate the extra cost in their heads...
The product prices are not the same in the stores either though? Tax rates are pretty consistent and you know the taxes beforehand. When the item lands on the shelf the taxes have already been paid or calculated... The only thing added after it hits the shelf is the sales tax which is usually dependent on state, county, or city.
Every Publix in my city has different prices for the same items (with or without tax). It's not like the price of an item is the same across the board in every store (even same chains or same owners). The price tags are pre-made and it is not hard to pick one that would dictate the end amount with tax. They have to pick one that dictates the number without tax.... so what is the difference.
Approximate vs Actual are not the same. I like to know the exact amount when purchasing something.
@@HayleyAlexis As I mentioned, if the had to change the price on the shelf every time the tax rate went up or down .25% on top of the regular price changes they'd be changing the tags much more often than they already do. And since state requires accurate shelf pricing for the product by itself, not the total with tax, I'm guessing the store isn't going to bother with the additional work unless it had to, especially in retail where margins are usually razor thin. Either way, this is one of those things that only seems to bother people from outside the U.S. Everyone here is fine/used to the way it's done.
What tax rate fluctuates every day? every week? every month? Florida's tax rate has stayed the same almost 40 years, my hometown's tax rate has stayed the same for about the same time.... No place I have visited has a daily fluctuating tax rate.
That still makes no sense because the item's price always fluctuates...A pack of eggs is not going to stay the same price over the course of 30 days but a sales tax rate usually does.... and the signs will have to be changed anyways so why not change it accordingly? It isn't extra work...A computer does the calculation and prints the label out... Literally requires no extra work except typing in the number.... and doing the calculation. Gas stations do it and they seem to be ok.... and not overworked...
My theory is that people are kept being dumb. They aren't.
The hygiene argument is interesting. If a man is circumcised, does he no longer have to wash every day?🤔😱
In terms of smegma buildup under the foreskin, no. But a circumcised penis is also not a self-cleaning oven either. 😅
But he's also likely feel less sensation during sex.
I get how this was a practise from ye olden times to prevent genetically diseases in men, but its really unnecessary nowadays
@@noahsarkhive4482
And yet this was only a practise in the US. Does that meens that America is more dirty than the rest of the world?
No, but he don't have to touch his "thing" closely to get clean.
When the knowledge came that for boys to maintain their hygiene they either had to get intimate with their willy or they had to get circumcised.
The choice was either teach your boy how to clean it or make a small and pretty much harmless mutilation of it, it was and is a no-brainer for most US parents.
For most Europeans to, but for the other way.
When men go to the hospital and female nurse may not know to pull the extra skin back to clean.
I think the USA's fascination with guns has A LOT to do with its complex racial history and this mosaic image that many think is "truly" American. No matter how many children become unalived due to gun violence, you'll hear the pro-gun people talk about the 2nd amendment which they exploit as if it's a right to be bearing arms. They so cherry-pick what they want to hear or what they think is in the 2nd amendment. I think it's a case of mass hysteria.
you do need a rental agreement to get a driver's license - or - ID card - hotel address in California isn't enough, at least not in California - can't speak for Florida.
Don't forget - Europe is very, very far away from north America. Most people don't even leave their state.
You also need a rental agreement or deed to your house to get a driver's license in parts of Florida.
Just a moment: you are wearing a ring on your right hand. Did Michael and you get married after all? Or would you wear a wedding ring on your _left_ hand?
I have been wearing a ring on my right hand since 2018 :p
@@HayleyAlexis Also noch kein "Fangeisen."
You know all that and still want to go back ? I hardly can understand it.
📽👍👍👍
Only three countries - the U.S., Liberia and Myanmar - still use the antiquated imperial system. The fact that the US has not been able to convert to metric even after introducing the 1975 metric conversion act is just plain stupid and it exposes exactly how broken American politics are. All other countries successfully converted to the modern and universally used metric system which is MUCH easier to use mathematically because logical! How many feet to a furlong? How many barley corn to an inch? The antiquated imperial system is infuriating to modern people!
The Land of the free.
As a lot of doctors in the medical field are _Jewish_, I am sure people adhere to circumcision, even gentile patients.
Plus, having worked in the hospital myself, I have seen what happens when people don't take care of their 'male private parts'. Not all do, just saying, Hayley.
But - as a JEW - you don't get much say in the matter as a _baby_
One could think - why aren't there any Jewish newscasters or moderators in Germany?
It is not just about Jews also Muslims and Christians from middle east are doing that. I have done it as an atheist Serbian guy (with half family being Muslims and half being Christians) when I became adult since my parents didn't want to make decisions about my religion and if I should be circumcised
Why do you presume that there aren't?
One Thing Germans Find Weird About The USA: The USA.
Hi Hayley, after beeing back to the states, how do you feel? I hope you are great and I hope you love youre scool or university. Hopefully you don´t have to deal to much with youre governeur Mr. DeSantis. You are not allowed to talk about gay people and what I heard was that this man was talking about that the slaves had some advantages from there slavery. I think that you are pretty mad about things like that. Hopefully you don´t vote for that maniac. Imagine somebody like him beeing president. It´s the same shit as Trump, maybe worse.
Ban backpacks?!?! Why? Guns are the problem not backpacks. I have jet to hear of someone killing his classmates with a backpack.
As for circumcision it should only be done if it's medically necessary. Example: my stepbrother was circumcised because he fell awkwardly as a child and the injury caused the skin to be damaged and he would have had issues later, which I agree with, my father was circumcised because his parents were Muslim, that is mutilation of a child in my eyes. As for keeping it clean. Wash the damned thing thoroughly and it will keep clean, I have never had a complaint or health issue with my personal joy stick and all I do is wash it every day.
Yes backpacks are an issue. Some schools dont have a set of books for home and a set at home. Kids are carrying backpacks that are 2-3x the weight they should be carrying. 98% of my neck and back issues is from carrying a backpack to heavy as a kid.
Sales tax... what a difficult subject, but I did find a reason: something called drop shipping and the 50+ different regulations on sales taxes and the regulations on stating the sales location vs origins and again different regulations.
The pain for the consumer, the psychological aspect (yes, very important) are big too.
In Europe the consumer is placed more importance on than in the states. (And this has nothing to do with the service wüste, no it's the way the society reflects the right to live, Marx has moved a goal post there in the 19th century)...
The world is big, the mind is bigger. (Not better, mind)
There is no technical reason of any kind preventing the individual shop to put the after-tax-price of the items on the shelf's price tag. Any other shop in the developed World can do that, too. The one and sole reason for not showing this after-tax-price is to make the product seem cheaper at the time you decide to grab it or not as it really will be at the cashier, as Haley stated.