I Asked My Friends What They Think About Germany (Gets Crazy)
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- I asked my 6 American friends what stereotypes come into their mind when they think about Germany. Only one of my friends had actually been to Germany so it was fun to ask her what she was expecting to see, and what reality was like once she got there. None of them knew I was going to make a video so their answers are very raw and unprepared :D haha.... I ask them what they think about the language (if they find it nice sounding), if they would date a German and if they'd expect dating differences if they dated a German, if they think about Germany's dark past... which was the question they really weren't expecting and most people I think like to avoid talking about that but I tried to catch them off guard and get some answers hehe... which my one friend breaks down and gives me the real answer finally :D
Hi! I lived in Germany for 2.5 years where I studied a masters program and took intensive German classes. I am on youtube to share my love of learning about other cultures: specifically, German culture. I plan to make many videos where I compare American and German culture, including some videos where I will practice German. Please subscribe, like the video, and follow along every week for a new video. :)
Hello! I am one of the voices in the video and am enjoying reading the comments. Being an American is confusing! My fathers side is German/English and my mothers side is Norwegian/German. My great grandfather (his father was a Norwegian immigrant who married a German immigrant in Minnesota) was drafted in WII and was sent to France/Germany after D-Day.
He came back to the US and had extreme PTSD and was never quite the same, left my grandmother and my great grandmother and “became” an “alcoholic”.
I always wonder if he thought about the people who he was shooting at..or if the people he killed...if they were relatives or relatives of his mother. Something to think about.
My Great grandfather lived in America and was closely to become American citizens, but when he flew back to Germany in December 1939 to visit his sick and dying mother he got drafted into the wehrmacht by force and had to join a "strafbattalion" it's like a suicide platoon as punishment for your Ungerman behavior whatever disobey orders stuff like that.. he survived somehow but got coughed by Russians. he wasn't allowed to leave Russia until 1954 and wasn't allowed to left the gdr to fly back to the staats becaus of his educational background .. he became also alcoholic and left his English-American wife and married 10 years later the widow of a death friend he had found in the punishment battalion..my great grandmother... tbh I dont think it was love just a need ....war is devastating in all aspects..and i can't imagine how horrifying it must be no doubt! but that is a reason why I like content like this! ppl around the world are able to get to know each other better and are able to see what wonderful ppl exist out in the world today ,and that we're all equal
Btw you guys appear like a bunch of nice ppl lamplike deserves 😉😁
Hope my English wasn't that bad at all, I'm not used to it anymore !
The first casualty of war is innocence.
Everyone who ever was involved into a war could tell you stories that would make you throw up and cry at the same time. But mostly they are silent, for a good reason. So even if you survive a war, you leave something behind that once was a happy innocent part of yourself.
Awh I just came back to this video to show it to a friend. I am catching up on the comments. I will read through and comment and respond. I honestly didn’t think anyone would read through/respond to my comment. Thanks Emily for posting this video!
wasgeht dichdasan I just read your comment quickly want to respond more in depth. I absolutely love it!! Thank you for your response
@@EngelinZivilBO I also have similar stories of marriages of need versus love after WWII in my family as well. My great grandparents/great great grandparents never taught or tried to teach their kids Norwegian/German but it never stuck and unfortunately throughout the generations living in the US I don't speak any of the language of my ancestors...your English is very good though! I wouldn't even begin to know how to speak German even though I'm genetically 1/2! We in the US seem to be obsessed with DNA tests hehe.
I don't have any ancestors that fought in WWI in Germany, but I'm assuming that must have been absolutely horrible due to the high rate of immigration from Europe in late 1800's into US and the men that had to go fight their family members/relatives. In the US we mysteriously had a huge fire that destroyed most if not all the the military records from Vietnam war and earlier in a large fire in late 1970's...which...is very very odd...
That's such an incredible story about your great grandfather! Do you know which state in the US he was living in when he was living here?
Listen guys: We germans are driving fast down the Autobahn in our hightec cars while drinking beer and wearing a Lederhosen to arrive punctual to our daily Oktoberfest style sausage barbecue (yes, there will be delicious potatoes, Sauerkraut and bretzels as well). Every day. Always. Nothing else. Only exception: if we decide to start another war. So true, so simple. ;)
You forgot that we only eat potatoes and bretzels and that all of germany is bayern
@@dubbl4229 Not only potatoes - also sausages as I mentioned above! Of course potatoes and bretzels belong to a good german style sausage barbecue - together with the famous Sauerkraut XD. And for the Germany=Bavaria thing: did you realise the Lederhosen and Oktoberfest reference? ;)
Mit unserer Bundeswehr wird das gegenwärtig aber nichts! :D
@@thomasmargis9808 Ich habe ja nicht gesagt, dass "wir" den gewinnen. Auch so eine stereotype Tradition übrigens (im letzten Jahrhundert) ;)
@@dubbl4229 ironie wenn man außerhalb Bayern irgendwen fragt was er über Bayern denkt sagen alle es ist doch Ausland.. xD Bayern sieht sich auch gern eher als eigenständigen Staat .
When you talk about Nazis with Americans you actually get their own problems mixed in, people always talk about people of colour. Like Nantional socialism was about "white" vs "black", but it was about the german ethnicity "aryan" vs all other poles are "white", russians are "white" european jews are "white". In Europe people jsut don´t think of themself as white they think about them as german or french. Nationalsocialism is pretty complex and based on many different ideolgies social darwinism, anti communism, chauvinism, nationalism, anti semitic, anti liberal and folkish ideologies. People should really learn more about how the Nazi Party actually came to power and what events let to its rise, those things are much more important then knowing about the battles.
I agree with you, but what i often miss in those history topic is the fact that bolshewism is mostly sorted out of the context. Without the so called jewish bolshewism and the threat of a communist takeover of european states in the early 20th century there never would have been a nazi party in the first place. It all started with the last breaths of World War One and the red revolution in russia.
Very good comment! I was quite confused when I heard many American comedians talk about Spanish, Italian or Greek people as not being "white". "White" and "Non-white" are terms much more related historically and currently to America than Europe.
Yes I was just thinking about this the other day. Education in US is lacking and underfunded. Our history classes in US never make it up to WWII. usually stops at 1860's because teachers don't have time/class sizes too large/parents don't value education. It's really bad in impoverished areas.
@@Alexis-fv4ej I guess you're talking about Civil War? Do you learn about absolutism, the French Revolution and Napoleon in US high schools? Here in Germany it was all about: French Revolution, 1st and 2nd WW, seperation of Germany.
@@hurtigheinz3790 Yes, my apologies. US Civil War, in 1864. We have to take World History in High school (age 12-18) but only one year. It's a bit of a joke of a class. I had to learn a lot of it on my own because I was interested. If we decide to go to college then we have to take another year of history (we get to pick if its world or US). So yeah...kinda a bummer. A lot of kids in impoverished areas don't get the education due to lack of funding or large class sizes/drop out early.
AAAAHHHHH, Du warst in Norddeutschland, bitte sag Deinen Freunden, dass wir nicht alle Bayern sind ;)
Nicht mal Bayern besteht nur aus diesen Vorurteilen. Generell ist der Stereotyp veraltet und einfach nur noch nervig. ;)
I think its quite sad when people still think modern day german society is still like it was in the 1940's. The fact is that germany's "erinnerungskultur" - the culture of collective remembrance and reflection of historical events, has led to germany being much more progressive than other countries in many ways. It is noticable in society and in politics that everyone is aware of the wrongs that the country committed and continuously works to remember and honor the victims as well as make sure it never happens again.
The same absolutely cannot be said for the UK and to some extent the US. Looking at war memorials in the UK, all of them portray the country as heroic winners with very little mention of the atrocities they too committed along the way. The Allies also bombed cities, they appeased hitler and mussolini allowing horrible things to happen to the citizens of czechoslovakia and Abyssinia etc. They tortured the people of the colonies during the time of the british empire and this fact is not known to most British people. It is the whitewashing of history that allows scandals like windrush and praising of people like Edward Colston to continue in england where it would not be accepted in germany. They were never held accountable and it shows.
I am absolutely not saying that germany is racism free, that there are no neo nazis or far right extremists, but the fact is that as a society they are making an effort to be better where others aren't.
ps- i am 17, half english, half german, living in england and this is just something i have become aware of during the current BLM movements
This video is a testament to how happily ignorant young Americans are about present day cultures other than their own. Spend a day watching American travel vlogs on TH-cam and you'll find, despite numerous video choices for any overseas city, that such vloggers rarely offer anything but the most superficial picture of the city visited, and a far less rich description than one would find in the most basic guidebook. American travel vloggers are far more interested in the image of themselves they present to their audience than the location visited, the latter is mere background.
Re. the negatives of the British Empire- what you say is nonsense- growing up in the U.K., we are taught of the Irish potato famine, the Bengal famine, enslavement of Africans etc.there is no whitewashing of history going on.
Wienerschnitzel is Austrian... "Wien" is Vienna.
Do you own Hitler too?NO? Then you have to continue to share the Schnitzel with us and the Bohemians! XD
@@Philemaphobia Not in the EU days, I don't. If the French can patent the word champagne, well the Wienerschnitzel bliebt Osterreichisch. Aber sie koennen Hitler haben wenn sie wollen.
@@phillipsanchez4192 you‘re right, we keep the Schnitzel Wiener Art XD you know I live in Berlin, I might torture you with a Sojaschnitzel XD
@Krakra Kranich Um..It was a joke, the entire exchange was intended as tongue and cheek, not at all meant to be taken seriously by anyone, least of all the two of us comparing Wienerschnitzel, Hitler, Champagne, and Sojaschnitzel. That you missed the obvious clues to this fact calls into question your ability to label anyone an idiot to be honest. Maybe you should have a glass or two of that sparkling wine, or better smoke something because you seem a bit uptight.
@Krakra Kranich Schon gut. Keine Beleidigung... If I may ask one question, why were you so aggressive out of the gate? If I had actually thought that champagne was patented and was legitimately mistaken, why not just clarify things without calling me an idiot? I'd say the last half of your post was respectful and tried to be clear. Calling me an idiot didn't seem to fit with the tone of everything else you said. If I had continued to insist on something incorrectly after you tried to explain it to me, then maybe calling me an idiot would have been accurate. Just an observation. All the best to you. Stay safe out there wherever you are.
Great video!
Laughed so hard at the "large German sausage". :D
Funny, insightful, but also a bit too stereotypical in some answers.
For all Americans coming to Germany for the Oktoberfest: it does NOT happen in October, but in September.
Why? Heck, I wouldn't really know. So plan accordingly.
Men being hairy? Well not every guy, but me, hell yes.
If the Oktoberfest would actually start in October and not September too many people would show up, for an already overcrowded event. I make this same mistake every year and start to plan a trip when it's basically over.
THX! I am a german - i am disappointed of the reactions shown at the beginning of the video. Many of them seen to be so naive. A lot of very simple stereotypes, but their is an elephant in the room - Nazis. Later you discussed it and we have to discuss it. So I thank you or being in germany and discuss your experiences with your friends in US.
yes,Reibekuchen mit Apfelmus you had to try.
The other word for Reibekuchen in North Germany is "Kartoffelpuffer".
@@ecobrain and the proper word for it if you are from the south is Reiberdatschi! (sorry PReißen but our words sounds so much cuter than yours!
@@veritasequitas1 sorry, datschi klingt doch nicht cute, sondern nach Gesundheit!
@@kraftandre5538 😁
Potatopuffers
“The Sound of music“ takes place in austria and the Van Trapps where a real austrian familie.
All bad austrian things somehow end up as being a German cliche.
@Andreas Berni Sweet, I was justlooking for some banter and expected the first part of your answer, but there seems a lot of hurt on your side from past discussions, wasn’t aiming for stirring up hard feelings. Just let people paint if they want to paint okay? ;)
@Andreas Berni well, the Schnauze and the Schmäh kind of get lost in translation sometimes. I was educated about Art in post WW2 Germany, so I could try and bullshit you for half an hour why said painting truly is a masterpiece... but please let’s not retraumatize me XD
@Andreas Berni from now on I would have to get a little dirty and I don’t want to scare away the Americans ;) Looking forward to banter in a future comment section (there must be another rave tonight, just have to fluff up my unicorn float XD)
Interesting approach, a part two would be nice. Maybe which some older peoples as well?
"Wer feiern kann, kann auch arbeiten" - someone able to party is also able to work.
That is how we manage to party until morning and go to work afterwards 😂
Egal wie lange man schläft oder wie viel man getrunken hat, nach dem aufwachen ist man nüchtern!
@@oliverlehmann3750 🤔🤔🤔 rein Biologisch und Physisch nicht richtig... leider... hätte so einige Arbeitstage besser verbracht wenn das so stimmen würde.. 😅
@@FrAzzorE 😂😂Nein das stimmt natürlich nicht,aber arbeiten gehen muss man trotzdem😅
Oder man ist klever genug sich Tag zb nach festivals "katerfrei" zu nehmen😂😂
9:26 hi there, I'm pretty sure racism is quite a bit worse in America. You and your boyfriend would pass as a majority of Germans from your outer appearance. But if you're really interested in how Germany is like for darker skinned people I could recommend Hayley Alexis "racism in germany" videos or maybe soldier of life's "living in Germany as an American black dad" :-)
As of late though, anti-Semitism in Germany has intensified to scary levels.
It's a bit sad to watch/hear that americans don't know a lot about germany. The opinions and knowledge of germany (apart from the woman with german ancestors) were kind of falling flat and somewhat cliched. Other than that the video had an interesting take on asking friends about opinions on germany.
Like it.
Did you guys know that german schools take a whole year of history class (usually in ninth grade 1-2 hours every week) to talk and learn about germany during the third reich era, the atrocities done and how we and other countries developed after that in regards of the holocaust and war crimes? Other obligatory school subjects take a shot at this topic too like religious education or society classes. I remember the obligatory reading of a novel for german class which was written by a holocaust surviver about that time period.
Regarding the question of the girl at 10:24 I really do hope we all learn from the past mistakes and wrongdoings and form a better future. In that regard i think a better understanding of our fellow humans and their nations and lifestyles is essential to form mutual understanding and respect for another.
Just my 50 cents. ;)
Krakra Kranich same for me, it felt like 3 years but i think it was 2 years. Ww1 is like 6 month but sbout ww2 u learn all the time. Even in ur german classmu do stuff about ww2. Then u take trips to auschwitz, nazi facilities where they tested stuff on children. They try so hard to make u feel guilty. I think its a mistake, its german history but its not even our generation, germany talked alot about ww2 and took responsibility for it. Japan just doesn't talk about it at all, they just ignore is.
Pa Lo i dont feel guily at all. 0. They just try to teach it this was and i guess majority of the teachers are pretty in the left win political sphere. They do not teach them in a neutral way but to push them intro a political direction. Because if u use the wrong answers they dont like to hear, u will use their answers, which they like. And u have to do it for years
Hello! I'm the voice in the video with the German Ancestors (there were two of us I think) Thank you for your kind words. My family is from Minnesota/Iowa where there is a large population of German immigrants who married Norwegian immigrants (my moms side) in late 1800s. My great grandpa was the last one who immigrated in 1920 from Norway and married my great grandma who was German. I'm fascinated to hear that point of view about our history lessons. Ours don't often include the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (or if they do its...a bit skimmed over). So, I think its important to admit that the US Government has done some...not so great things as well in its past (Trail of tears, Vietnam War, ect)....but to keep in history books, acknowledge Remember, honor the victims, hope and pray they never get repeated.
@@nuggetmcfly8482 That's not only the teachers. Also in the TV we are flooded with Hitler stuff and our politicans also remember us over and over of what "we" did. It is more a culture of guilt that must kept alive then a neutral discussion about the times of WW 2.
Liked especially the more deeper dive into things.
Congratulations to you having these friends. 😁👍
Thanks for this insight, it quite matches the conversations, I had while staying in the US. However, there is a lot of people, with different backgrounds, here and there. Having said this, opinions and experiences differ a lot, of course.
Greetings from Bavaria!
I liked your friends' stereotypes, although I had difficulties understanding it all, because of the background noise, especially the wind at the beginning. There are pretty cheap external microphones that can avoid these problems.
The history part astounded me a bit. I thought: What? World War two? Don't they teach them in the US about the peaceful revolution in the former GDR (east Germany), the fall of the Berlin wall on Nov 9th 1989, and the final reunification in 1990? About Ronald Reagan''s famous sentence when he spoke in Berlin, "Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall!".
There are many rumors about the circumstances of reunification; just three of them:
- Allegedly, the communist polit bureau called in the Soviet army for help. The Soviets refused. (They were stationed then in east Germany, so it would have been easy. But probably, they didn't want to start the 3rd world war.)
- It is said that there was an order to the east German police to fire at unarmed protesters, but the middle level didn't forward the order to the troops. (200 guns against 20,000 protesters would have been useless, if not even suicide, and besides, you don't shoot at your own people.)
- And the famous message that "the borders are open now, immediately". Was it a communication mistake, or was it deliberate? No one will ever know. And that led to the fall of the Berlin wall, because THOUSANDS of people gathered on both sides, because we all saw it on TV.
Yes, I watched it on TV. That's how old I am.
A little reminder, they did shoot at their own people maybe not that day but the 45 years before.
And I'm that old that I watched it live, as soon the press conference from the former GDR ended, I and my flatmate just looked at each other and decided to jump into my car and drove almost 400km through the night, up to Berlin to watch history been made . And because on all November 9. before (1918 ; 1923 ; 1938) when something big happened in German history I wasn't alive, so this was my chance to be a witness of history and I'll never regret or will forget about this night my whole life.
I also watched it on TV. I was 6 at that time.
That German dude looks so baked. What did you do to him?
HE just knows what is coming for him - MURICANS
Tolles Video! :)
I gotta be honest here, as a german I feel mildly attacked ^^'
"Wiener Schnitzel" Translation of Wien: Vienna so ist from Austria.
Well yes, but actually no.
Austrians are germans and when the wiener schnitzel was invented, germany wasnt a real thing, there were german states and austria was one of them, so schnitzel is a german food.
@emskirchner Oger yeah the holy roman empire of the german! nation.
The flag waved in 1848 in vienna was the german black-red-golden flag.
Every historic figure of austria mentioned themselves as german (max austrian german).
Its also interessting that you mention austria-hungary, because the german speaking minorities living there now, are considered as german people not as austrian (donauschwaben, deutschungarn).
It was kinda cool to see that LambLike is one of the few Americans who made their "German" experience in North Germany rather than in Bavaria. When travelling to Germany, most Americans end up in its southern part, preferably in Munich, Bavaria. So they don't see the difference, they identify Bavaria with the whole of Germany which isn't realistic. We in North Germany are far away from wearing Lederhosen, or have you seen any in the streets of Oldenburg @ LambLike? The mentality and cultural differences of people in Hamburg or Berlin are pretty much different from those in Munich, as is their dialect. We even prefer other sorts of beer to the Bavarian "Löwenbräu". We drink "Pils"!😉
Nightclubs close at 2 am? WHAT? Land of the free...
Pls stop thinking that we all are bayern.
Your friends are hilarious.^^
It's pretty interesting how many US proms can speak excellent german, like i.e. Leo diCaprio (love his movies !), Chris Pratt (Guardians of the Galaxy), Christopher Lee or Sandra Bullock.
My grandfather took part in the Poland conquer, and later he was in France around D-Day. I was very interested in some first-hand information, but all he told me was that there was a lot of battle noise - ha, I could have guessed - and then his leg got wounded. A comrad pulled him out of the focus and then he went to a hospital. Then with the US troops coming closer, he was moved closer to Germany more and more, and finally he went back home. But I would of course be much more interested in details about his personal war impressions, but he refused to talk about it... and as a young boy I did not insist.
I know much more about my other grandpa, on my mother's side, as he was missing in war and his wife - my grandma - never heard what had happened to him, so neither his four kids - my mother and her three brothers - nor me had any clue what happened, so I sent a request to a german reasearch department and then they told me about his military career, very interesting where he has been, from northern France down to Crete in Greece, and then finally did most likely not survive the massive attack of the red army in august 1944 in the Ukraine. I thought: If only Stauffenberg's operation Valkyrie would have been a success, then I most likely would have met my grandpa...
As far as I know Christopher Lee is British, born in London.
@@Cornu341 Ok agree, sorry.
Hello. I'm one of the voices in the video. My great grandfather was missing in action multiple times in WWII as well (but on US side and was drafted) not sure if you saw my comment. My great grandfather was sent over as a replacement after D-Day. He was part of the troops that pushed into France and into Germany. He was also missing in action several times. I have a letter from him that he wrote to my great grandma and my grandma on Christmas (I think Dec 1945) sitting in a foxhole in Germany. I wonder if they were close by to each other :( My great grandpa (Gordon) never talked about it either. He died in his sleep from a PTSD related heart attack. My uncle also tried to get Gordon to talk about what his experience in WWII was like but he also never talked about it. He came home and became and alcoholic.
Funny as humans...we are all the same...no one wants to shoot at each other...everyone has families....everyone loves and wants to see their children...its the few absolute psycho's the come into power....and then ruin everything. I wish you could have met your other grandpa. :(
9m Hello Alexis ! Yes I read your 1st comment (and gave it a big thumbs up, of course) Now really thanks so much for this very personal comment here - yes war is terrible, and I think one of the roots of WW2 was that after Germany lost WW1 the treaty of Versailles was such an enormous humiliation that it was easy for the Nazis to come into power. Fortunately the winning nations of WW2 learned from this, and they had the Marshall plan to help Germany (the western part, not the GDR part controlled by the sovjet union) to stand up again from the ruins (fortunately the US did not decide to do the Morgenthau plan which would have sent Germany back to the middle ages).
Do you know maybe the book by Erich Maria Remarque "Im Westen nichts Neues", it has been banned during 3rd Reich ? Or better known maybe by the title of the movie "All quiet on the western front", it is about WW1. I remember a heart breaking scene in the first b&w movie version, where a german soldier sneaks his way through no man's land to get back to his comrads, when he suddenly sees a french soldier hiding in a bomb crater. Fearing that he could notice him and shoot him, he decides to kill him first by stabbing him in the back before he notices him. This alone is very sad, but then the german looks into his enemy's pockets and finds a letter from his french wife with a photograph of her telling him that she loves and misses him so much - then he realizes what he has done...
Never again !!!
@@MultiScooter63 No! I will have to read the book "I'm Westen nichts Neus" We don't learn about the Marshall plan nor the Morgenthau plan :( perhaps in higher education world history classes it would have been taught, but now i'm going to have to look it up. Our education system here is lacking a bit, especially in regards to history. The older I get the more and more I realize the less I know! Then again it's just more for me to learn :) That is an interesting story about the French soldier....in the US we have a very popular story that is told about the German/American army during WWI during Christmas when both sides stopped fighting and played *American* football! Do you guys hear about that story as well?
As to German history I would like to point out that there is a lot more than just the Nazis. In fact there ist some 1.000 years of it. And even Ameriacan history is strongly related to the German one as well as to the Irish, French, Italian, British.... European one.
I would really like to do such an interview with some of the people here to check their knowledge about the USA. I bet you'll get the same amount of stereotypes. All are complaining about their lack of knowledge, what I honestly find pretty arrogant and typical German.
Americans don't have the advantage, that every few hundred miles in each direction lies another country with a different language and culture. And they can't book a weekend trip to France to see Paris, eat Baguettes and drink wine all day _(ups, some stereotype)_ . But also they don't have to travel to different countries, they have mountains, beaches, desert, forest ,,, you can travel from subtropic to arctic landscape and theoretical wouldn't even need a passport and everyone speaks your language. Oh did I mentioned that they have to leave the continent and fly over an ocean to see what Europe is really like, not everyone can afford this.
You don't have to travel to a country to know a lot about it. I do believe Europeans are quite well aware of the Americans through social media. I think it's not like that the other way around, since most Americans don't understand German.
PS: You literally said that arrogance is "typically german". Is that a steriotype, racism or just a stupid thing that was written by an upset American? But I'd also agree on playing your game and now telling you that the Germans are very humble, whereas the Americans are arrogant. Why?
1. The Americans are extremely proud of their nation, although it's certainly bad in many many ways. Your current president's speeches are mostly statements like "America is great", "America is the best country in the world". Germans don't do that.
2. Germans are extremely critical regarding their history. For a whole school year, history is all about the Nazi-Times and the horrible things they did. The people should know what happened back then, why things like that must not happen again. Other countries don't really talk about the mistakes and bad things they did during those times.
I am Austrian by the way, but Germany is similar in most ways, if you feel like you have something you disagree with, you can tell me, but this is all I have to say for now. Good night.
Oh thank you, thank you all very much for your Californian compliments
Boris Brejcha may be cool for people who enjoy going to the Oktoberfest :D
Hallo Lämmchen,
sehr spannendes und interessantes Video. Very interesting.
A good example why travelling and maybe living abroad is a good part of education. See other countries and having an experience there can open our eyes and change your mind.
For the Nazis you don't have to leave the US.
In Munich they call it Oktoberfest when everybody goes crazy and drinks a lot with weird clothes on, in Berlin it is a normal Tuesday.
Thanks, Merci und vielen Dank 🍻✌️
Thanks Robert for the supportive comment. I’m glad you found the video interesting! ☺️ I was nervous to upload this but now I feel better :)
@@HiFromHamburg different meanings and opinions are always very interesting for my, of course about Germany but also about all the other countries of the world. So i hope you are doing more videos like that. I like the natural way you are doing the videos, it's authentic!!
Good point. I always forgot how biased our history is.
@Wolfgang Preier
*_"The Nazi Party still exists but only in the USA."_*
Ahem... no.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Party
@Wolfgang Preier And just to add, unlike the US swastikas are banned in Germany as well as any other former Nazi symbols, and to show them in public is being treated as an offense or even as a felony.
Boris Brejcha!! Dein Freund is mir direkt sympathisch :D
How funny (in a good way) ... compare with a video of germans you ask for 'whats come into your mind when you think about the US' ... They would say "Disneyland' (the opposite to the Oktoberfest), 'everyone is wearing a gun' (what is striktly forbidden in Germany - not only about history reasons...) and so on ... - Oh yes - about the 'Lederhosen' - remember: American Military is mostly in the southern part. What would they say if Americans had the military in the northern part? Thats really (!!) interesting ... :) ... And about the sterotype of Nazi-Germans - what do you expect if Hollywood is showing Germans only in Nazi roles? Thats the same like every movie would showing Americans with a gun ... oups .. hey do :P .. no, kidding... Yes, we have a problem with Neo-Nazis - but the US, too. There are dorks everywere. A lot of americans told me: "Uhhh - Germany was nice ... and the people are so friendly and nice, too." - Then I always struggle and ask them: Tell me were have you been? I want to go there, too ... " :)
99 Bottle Of Beer On The Wall.....get in the store to get some more!
Grüße nach und aus Berlin!
Ordering to do things to his schnitzel xD xD
I like the Intro!!
Wiener Schnitzel is from Vienna which is in Austria
there's so many diverse aspects about Germany, about the history (not just the Nazis, for example it's been devided for about 50 years and there was a hyperinflation and there was the time with Bismarck etc.), there's so many interesting things about the culture, not just beer and Oktoberfest, there's so many interesting things about politics and the social system, which is different to the one ion the US. And there's so many other things to tell about Germany but I have the feeling that some people in this video just don't have a clue about it, which means they are just not that well informed. (From my imporession).
They are not interested. To know about other countries is not their thing.
I m always a bit sad when i hear the Nazi Stereotype from almost every American. Sad that the education ended there, 75 yrars ago. Askin myself what had happend the last 200 years in the US with tje nativ Americans and if Reservats were also a Thematik in your shool. Cause here in D you heare both mayory the Nazitheme. Just my thaughts not petsonaly ment. :)
i bet, there are way more "nazis" living in the usa, than in germany these days.
but the simple american knows nothing about the world outside of their own country. they knew only the stuff from movies or history books, and are always amazed how different it is, when they travel somewere.
we have a big nato airbase in our town. one black dude told me, he is stationed in germany for over a year now, and he encountered almost no racism at all, where at home, in the usa, its part of the daily life....
@@chriskappler3321 i have, and not only that.
a few of my family members served in the SS.
one was serving in a PoW camp, for russian prisoners, for some time.
let`s say this, the russians had a bad time in there, just like the german PoW in siberia.
but the point was, that most americans only know germany from movies and ww2 history lessons. so they think, germany is all about nazis.
but these days, there are a lot more of these nazi wannabes in the usa, than in germany.
I agree. I wish we could see more of how Germany turned around and disengaged the hate/racism issues it had. The more I learn about Germany the more amazed at how the country turned itself around after WWII.
@@Alexis-fv4ej It's a bit more complicated I would say, because Germany was the place where, after WWII, the ascendent new U.S. mega-empire fortified its domination through massive investments, rebuilding German cities under U.S. aegis, taking whatever ideas/technologies/science they wanted for U.S. business or military purposes. Germany got some good socialist policies that we don't have in the U.S. (like affordable healthcare) but that's because our Left/Labor movement was crushed and really stayed crushed, while Germany's was allowed to come back a bit, for political expediency (though it remains politically neutered where major decisions are concerned.)
Your roommate... doesn’t say much but if so... on Point XD
That's typical German. 😊
If we don't have something meaningful to tell or to contribute to the actual conversation we don't talk.
Imagine an elevator, you step in, one other person you don't know is already in there.
In Germany we greet each other and maybe the person who was already in the elevator could ask you which level you are going to, to press the button for you.
That's it. Both will be silent until one leaves the elevator and they will say goodbye and maybe wish a nice day.
That's totally enough, for Germans a very friendly encounter and no one will feel awkward because of the silent ride.
@Krakra Kranich I was working in Bremen and Hamburg... not really villages, or are they?
You did realise she cutted the video everytime he tryed to correct a stereotype? ...
@@alliroggorilla have you read the title of the Video?
I guess/bet that most of the Americans don't know that English and German are related languages. Both languages belong to the west germanic languages. Also west germanic languages are: Dutch, Frisian, Afrikaans and Yiddish. I am sometimes pretty annoyed by thoese dumb stereotypes of the German language and culture.
best statement at 15:11 ....boris bester mann
This was quite nice actually, I’ve never not been asked if I liked Hitler whenever I said I was German. I’m in Middle school though and kids are stupid so that may be why.
Beer, sauerkraut, Oktoberfest and Nazis ... I was quite shocked ...
What's wrong with the US if people still think like that when they are asked about Germany? I just wonder what americans think when they are asked about Italy. Wine, pizza, roman legions and gladiator fights in the collosseum?
Is it because of too many bad movies or bad school lessons? Dear Lamblike, come back to Germany and bring your friends. Maybe your friends will discover that Germany has more to offer than just beer, sauerkraut, Oktoberfest and Nazis ... ;-)
Well actually none of them brought up that subject about nazis until I directly asked them. So I don’t think it’s actually something people my age think too much about until I pushed them.
What do you expect from "homeschooling"?
@@HiFromHamburg If you had asked an American in 1960 what he thinks about Germany, he would probably have said Beer, sauerkraut, Oktoberfest and Nazis. The same answer would probably have been given in 1980 and 2000. Now it's 2020 and the answer is still the same. I feel a little sad about that.
After all, you have been in Germany long enough to get rid of these stupid prejudices. By the way: Please don't go to the Oktoberfest when you and your friends come to Germany again. Bavaria is not Germany (not really ... ) and most people at the Octoberfest with leather pants are neither Bavarians nor Germans ... ;-)
as an american living in germany it's the same way with Germans. when i first moved here my classmates said that they thought that i would be fat and they always said "in america everythings bigger" its just a stereotype
I am one of the voices in the video and would love to go to Germany to explore my heritage when this covid virus is over :) German heritage in US was unfortunately very frowned upon after WWII and not talked about. I think our generation is changing and finally starting to heal while not forgetting the past or the brutalities/ mistakes of all world leaders.
Greetings from Hamburg
It pisses me off. that every time the Pretzel- Lederhosen- Sauerkrautcrap comes.
Go somewhere other than Bavaria and find out that Germany does not only consist of Oktoberfest!
Why did you cut him off so often? Would've been interesting to hear what he thinks to some of the things your friend said :/
Wiener Schnitzel from Germany O.o
Hi Lamblike, for a bit of "moral support", (for you and your boyfriend) in the face of all the inevitable, obligatory cliches of "associating" the German language with World War 2... (I traveled a lot too, I'm from Vienna... :) ..... if any of this typical "Nazi German" footage or Nazi movies were to be dubbed realistically (!) in ANY other language, i.e. people pathetically, aggressively shouting about like those crazy Nazis in ANY language, then ANY language shouted out in such an aggressive, pathetic way would sound very harsh and aggressive. If you have a french policeman shouting at you angrily and aggressively, it's NOT going to sound romantic or soothing in any way, "trust me... :) " and likewise if an American or British officer were to shout at you for whatever reason. even just listening to an average sports event commentator in England can make the English language sound astonishingly aggressive and stressful...,
THE MORAL OF THE STORY apparently most of humankind hasn't realized yet that EVERY language can either sound very harsh OR very soft and gentle SIMPLY depending on the "energy and vibes" etc. of the person speaking it at that moment. I guess, as someone who's been working with and teaching languages (German and English) for decades and who's had people in his classes from all over the world, you might think, I know a thing or two about the extreme relativity as to how every language can sound very harsh OR very soothing and very attractive...
P.S. I wonder if maybe 1% of the world population is aware that the German family of languages and culture existed thousands of years before World War 1 and 2 (e.g. the English language would not exist, if it wasn't for its roots in the German family of languages), and that the German culture has contributed a lot of valuable things to the world before 1914 (more than most people are aware), AND that the "Nazis" (at the beginning a small group of people) did not become big just by themselves but received plenty of "support" from (let's just say) "abroad" in the lead up to and during the war. You know, there's not just "chemical" or "biological" "means of warfare" but also (very cynical) "psychological/ psychiatric warfare", like deliberately "utilizing" some crazy, radicalised originally small part of a population like "fighter dogs" for some other (economical) "purposes", ...until, oh what surprise, they suddenly "get out of hand..." (might sound familiar even in this day and age...) There are plenty of (even American) historians with historical documents proving that the Nazis were supported from "abroad" as "a means" to fight communism spreading in the 30ies.
A student in one of my classes (from Canada) once put it "spot on" : official "history" is always written by the "winners" -and I might add: just think of a conflict within a family of, say 10 people, and you'll get many different versions of how the conflict actually developed. And then you can get just a little bit of an idea of how ridiculous it is, to just have one "official" perspective of a conflict between so many countries with millions of people involved (you may have noticed yourself: "HALF TRUTHS" are often worse than outright lies...). Just one final hint: no matter what, most ALL wars originally develop for economical/financial reasons (in one way OR another...), -no matter what B.S. "reasons" are "fed" to the population to "buy" it, and that is especially true for 1914, World War 1, and the extremely unfair "treaties" after that first war were simply a preparation for world war 2....
P.S. it might also interest you to know, that in my earlier years, I tended to have little interest and little respect for the German language and instead tended to think that several other languages were much "cooler" etc. But then after teaching German as a foreign language for many years, I couldn't help but develop plenty of respect for it. I mean, there's a unique perspective and wisdom in every language, but I kept discovering especially much hidden wisdom in the German language, especially in the original meanings hidden in certain words, for example the word for "reality", die "Wirklichkeit" ist einfach das, was eine "Wirkung" hat, ...das, was "wirkt" ("that, which has an effect"). I think, that that is (not only) a philosophical but also a very psychological and even a spiritual perspective (not just a physical, material perspective as in Latin "Realität"), the word "Wirklichkeit" even hides an answer in it, as to the question of "what reality really is..." namely that which has an effect, and that of course also includes the various relative "subjective" parts of reality... :)
There's a great difference between the German language spoken in that old harsh, aggressive Nazi style like Hitler and his lackey Göbbels and others pronounced it and the modern way of speaking German today. Each time I watch a historic documentary dealing with the Nazi era and hear the voices of that time I gotta laugh bc it sounds like sooo ridiculously out dated.
@@ecobrain agreed, but look how Höcke and other AfD "politicians" use the 90 year old rhetoric and style to get votes. Sadly enough it works for them. Not a laughing matter.
I'm from Munich. I never wore a Dirndl or a Lederhose, and never will. And the Oktoberfest is one of the cringiest events one can imagine!
You have my full sympathy.😉
The lehft boy in the start of the Video is a german i think so :)
Und alle amerikanischen Mädchen sind Cheerleader und gehen mit dem QB ins Bett... hahahahaha
The German language definitely does not sound sexy. I agree it sounds harsh and arguing. My perception is a lot of large backpacks, tall blonde big-boned people who reek like yeast from beer. After watching the video, I swear Germans are never gonna shake the WWII stigma just like the US can't shake the slavery history. It's both crap history for our countries, but that's not us now. Time to move on from the stigmas.
Where are there so many German places to eat in Los Angeles? I have looked and looked and found hardly anything. I would kill for a real Brötchen mit Eier for breakfast sometimes oder Wurst mit Zenf.
I have tried a few times to bake my own Brötchen but they never turn out right. Wurst is simple enough. and eggs are just eggs, ganz einfach. But the Brötchen ist nie "echtes Brötchen" it is always not quite right. And anyway, it's good to support the local businesses especially now. I would gladly support a German restaurant If I knew where to find one.
@Krakra Kranich Very true. That must be why becoming a German baker takes more than two years of study and practice.
Solche Videos tragen mehr zum Weltfrieden bei als alles andere. Menschen, die sich offen begegnen und die Kultur des anderen kennen lernen, lassen sich nicht so leicht als Soldaten für einen Krieg missbrauchen.
It was kind of a funny video, just a bit sad that most of your friends had just stereotypes in mind, both the fun and the precarious ones, which made it harder to watch. I know Germans and I can already see them twitching every time someone mentions either a Bavarian stereotype or the word nazis. It's probably not their fault because as far as I know in the USA these topics aren't tought in detail in school.
your roommate looks like bradley cooper :D
Hey Lamblike, your German friends don't wanna talk about the third reich? That's surprising. I consider that a stereotype about Germans, actually. :) I don't think you can understand German society that well without talking about the third reich and its aftermath. I discuss it all the time.
Doesn't that get tiresome after a while?
@@ericminch Not really. "All the time" with a pinch of salt, obviously.
Drinking in public is not the best behavior. Next time take a closer look who carries a "bierbottle" through the pedestrian zone.
Mostly students, which is totally fine. What is your problem!?
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Deutschland!
If you go deeper than Nazis theme is coming everywhere everytime..
If you understand the German language its a beautifil lenguage..
To be or not to be ....sein oder nicht sein.. thats the question whats nicer..
120 years slander against Germany and his lenguage starting in England because envy of German strong and successful ecconomy ( and two wars ), have this result now,
1917 described the wonderful Creel commission,to convince the american public go to war
Germans are blooddrinking Huns and so on.By the way Germans didnt start Ww1 but they were blamed always,..and the result was Scam Versailles and Versailles was the Birthplace of Hitler.
Please think about. The slander , and only oneway looking ,was continued by Hollywood until today.
ecconomy .
These bavarian stereotypes about Germany make me sick. Sure, it is not your fault, but Bavaria is not Germany, and frankly, they should be their own country anyway. They don't even speak German. Not that you guys would notice.
What's with the hate? 🤣
The reason most Americans think of southern Germany is because that's where their soldiers were mostly stationed after WWII.
Also you do realise that northern Germans speak more "high german" because the original northern dialect was close to being another language (just think of plattdeutsch) Bavarian is closer to high german, even if that's hard to believe 🤣
Im pretty sure that thinking that german is a very harsh language comes from Rammstein being popular like everywhere
Germans talking to each other: "Man, this country is full of idiots, the weather is giving me depressions and everything is getting worse and worse...Let's migrate to Australia or somewhere else where it's warm and sunny!"
Same Germans in a random comment section: "HOW DARE YOU GET A MINOR DETAIL WRONG ABOUT OUR GLORIOUS FATHERLAND?!"