The reason you need a first aid class for your drivers licence is that every road user is obligated to render first aid when he encounters an accident.
@EvilGNU
Жыл бұрын
yeah there is no "I am going to sue you for trying to help me" here. Quite the contrary, if you do not help out in an emergency (unless you unreasonably endanger yourself or professionals are on the scene already) it is an offense called "unterlassene Hilfeleistung" which sorta translates to "neglection of rendering aid" which could actually cause you some legal trouble.
@MrChili007
Жыл бұрын
@@EvilGNU and to add, you could not be sued if you give first aid and something went wrong. If you harme somone or neccessarly destroy something while trying to safe life no one will sue you for it.
@blatterrascheln2267
Жыл бұрын
But those classes are basically given on any occasion, like at work too. It's not solely for drivers. The video is weird, it trys to frame that as something bad. And then whole Meta explodes because some hole hit a woman with a brick after she didn't give him her number and 9 other holes just watched and helped the guy get away. So maybe helping and actually learning how to is something bad for certain people 😂 And also there are some states that have the same laws regarding that as Germany, others have laws that protect anyone giving help from being sued. (mostly sueing doesn't happen because of malice but because insurances won't pay unless you tried to get coverage from the other participants first) So its more like they don't have a federal standard, but possibly similar approaches.
@ryanwass
Жыл бұрын
thats very interesting and I may have to watch a video on what it takes to get a German license
@madeye6896
Жыл бұрын
@@ryanwassthat’s a great idea man!
@Narcissa-q2c
Жыл бұрын
taxes are high, but I broke my leg and had two operations. I've been sick for 10 weeks now and it'll be a few more before I can walk properly again. but that doesn't make me bankrupt. The health insurance company pays everything and now sick money. I only had to pay a few additional services, which now comes to around €300. In America I would now be in debt and without a job.
@sebovhrd
Жыл бұрын
In my hometown there a lot of dogs and also a lot of dog pee but 99% of the people remove the dog shit so it is total rare to see dog shit on the streed and even in parks its rare But I remember that dog shit on the street was big problem in berlin but I am not sure if that is still the case
@vuhdoo7486
11 ай бұрын
2:30 That'S one of the places you should visit as a tourist in Berlin. Its a museum about east germany, the wall, and the unification. The soldier you can see is a Photo of a soldier who worked there to patrol the wall, when it was still standing.
@SvenGadgetKlemmbausteine
Жыл бұрын
The sign of the American soldier in the middle of the street is in Berlin at the former Checkpoint Charlie. A border crossing between West and East Germany. On the other side there is a sign with a Russian soldier. Checkpoint Charlie was one of the most famous border crossings at the time.
@lutzherbst3083
6 ай бұрын
In Germany, dogs are generally not allowed in shops, supermarkets, restaurants, etc. The entire post is not trustworthy. People don't look closely and quickly generalize when it fits. All I can say is “thumbs down”.
@rampp17
Жыл бұрын
racism is a problem? where was he in Germany and when? Most foreigners here even say that the media plays it up but that the population is not a problem at all. Especially around 2015 it was blatant in the media, but even at that time it wasn't a problem among the population. In East Germany it's probably a little more difficult, but in the rest of Germany it's not a problem - and foreigners say that themselves. and to the point about the language barrier at the end, most Germans can speak English. So if you can speak English yourself then you won't have any problems in Germany. Even English-speaking KZitemrs say that you should be careful what you say in English (e.g. gossip) because most Germans understand you. and I am of the opinion that no matter which country you move to and want to live there, you should learn the language there! I wouldn't join groups or communities in other countries that speak my native language, etc. If I go to another country and live there, I have to adapt to the culture and language. and not just continue to live in a small group and think that they have to adapt to me. For example, there are German-speaking communities in South America where they continue to speak German, etc. I really think that's not ok... I think it's ok that you can still buy specialties there (food for example sausage). or like the Turkish shops here in Germany, that's not a problem. but everything else is..... I'm keeping religion out of this, it's everyone's own business, I can also practice it in other countries and I should be allowed to!
@trinaroach2832
Жыл бұрын
He didn't say xenophobia, he said racism. And you don't have to be a foreigner to experience that. First-hand, and - depending where you live - often.
@guardian1982
11 ай бұрын
the video from this guy is really old, right? smoking in restaurants? no way doing that... and every year less people smoke here. I would think that guy visited Germany in maybe the 80´s or 90´s. and not for a very long time.
@gestemue
10 ай бұрын
nonsense. Dog poop is not everywhere. There are plastic bag dispensers hanging everywhere. The dog owners pick up the poop in the bag and throw it into specially designed trash cans for dog poop. The internet speed in my county is also 1000mBits
@fb3634
Жыл бұрын
I've tried to charge the video multiple times till it worked, because of my bad internet
@skloodzi
Жыл бұрын
In germany, even cows have internet (according the latest episode of "Realer Irrsinn")
@HeIIoWorId
Жыл бұрын
the person that made the video you're reacting to has definitely never been in germany, there is so much false information in there lol
@missoats8731
Жыл бұрын
The "person". I think half of the video was just ChatGPT hallucinating.
@K__a__M__I
Жыл бұрын
"Racial purity rears its ugly head when it's least expected or intended." There's your clue. Written by a machine that doesn't know the meaning of the words@@missoats8731
@bierkraftwerk
Жыл бұрын
So, what kind of false information are you referring to exactly?
@HeIIoWorId
Жыл бұрын
@@bierkraftwerk The biggest points that are wrong: - The internet connection is not as bad as it was pictured in the video. The problem is just the coverage on the countryside. - There are not dog poos everywhere. I actually never stepped in dog poo the last 5 years - Germans do not smoke a lot. From my point of view, it's actually neighboring countries like France or The Netherlands where this is the case. - Racism is not that big of a problem compared to other countries.
@bierkraftwerk
Жыл бұрын
@@HeIIoWorId - Internet: coverage and bandwith are subpar among western developed countries, costs - especially for mobile data volume - are above average. - Dog poo: in big cities there's lots of dog poo to be found in public. Of course depends on where exactly you are, how much money they put into the city cleaning service etc. But you also have to consider that in most western countries there's a lot less dogs than in Germany but in turn often much stricter rules regarding the things that your dog leaves behind. - Smoking: Within Europe, Germany is one of the countries with not that many smokers, true. But a lot of countries have much stricter rules regarding smoking in public or in places like bars. - Racism: yeah, well, how to measure that? Sure there a lot of other countries where racism is much more rampant - doesn't mean that it's not a problem here or all over the world. In general the video never said that Germany is awful or that all those things mentioned are _especially_ bad in Germany. All the video is saying is that Germany isn't paradise, that besides all the good things that are mentioned in tons and tons of other vids (and also in this one), there's also some problems. Described from the point of view and probably personal - thus subjective - experience of some fellow from abroad (US? Can't locate the accent). No biggie, don't know why some people obviously feel the need to go enrage in defending 'Schland.
@lollipop2900
Жыл бұрын
I think this is the first time I’ve commented on one your reactions! The maker of this video has clearly never been to germany?? I live in the countryside and have access to 5g and glassfibre (installed by telekom for free), immigration officers are just that: officers. Ought they offer you a cup of tea? I got my german citizenship when the uk brexited. My immigration officer was friendly and talkative whilst being very efficient and no nonsense. All public spaces, such as cinemas, large shops, museum etc are air conditioned. Homes aren’t. Usually houses just have much better insulation and don’t need it. My house is warm in the winter, and cool in the summer. And people in the cities generally don’t sit at home, they go to a cool beer garden and socialise. And there isn‘t dog poo everywhere. We have to pay a dog tax, the profit of which used to provide dog litter bins/poo bags. We even have to clean up after our dogs when they crap in a field. I stopped watching after that point…
@K__a__M__I
Жыл бұрын
It's a crappy ChatGPT + stock footage channel. It's just sad how this shit wastes everybodies time.
@nicobendig6597
Жыл бұрын
Wo hast du denn auf dem Land 5G? Hier in Baden Württemberg suchst das in den Städten sogar vergebens 🤣
@mulraf
Жыл бұрын
I mean the endcard of the video shows videos about a bunch of other countries so this channel is obviously just making videos about a whole bunch of random places. Which isn't bad. With channels like geography now you can't really say anything about that if it's done well in my opinion. Also i think the points raised were of course dependent on the specific region but they aren't entirely wrong. I mean in statistics we definitely are pretty poor when it comes to internet coverage. We do not have air conditions at homes usually (i mean it's cool for the environment and our money but i definitely am envious a bit of people with AC when it gets really hot). Taxes are among the highest it gets and there is a lot of bureaucracy. Maybe some individual experiences are different but i'd say for the biggest part there is truth to these things. Now i'm german so i won't judge how the immigration officers work or how bad the racism situation is, but ignoring those points i'd say i agree with the stuff. Well. The dog poop thing really was a bit weird and off i guess.
@madeye6896
Жыл бұрын
@@nicobendig6597Da ist das Problem. Du lebst in Baden Wüttenberg 🤣
@jessali_
Жыл бұрын
Two villages over from where I live they don't have any phone service and the fastest wifi connection they can get is just about enough to send and receive emails. I'm not even kidding. These people were unable to work from home in 2020 (well, they still are!). The city is pushing for glass fibre now, so I hope the issue will be fixed in a few years. But right now, in 2023, they can't watch Netflix. This extent is probably rare, but it exists in Germany in the year 2023.
@HappyLoki585
Жыл бұрын
In Germany dogs are not allowed in grocery stores. There are special trash cans with poo bags integrated in places where many dogs are going for a walk
@ryanwass
Жыл бұрын
I knew Germans would pick up their dog poop!!!!
@charlenewolf6208
Жыл бұрын
I used to work at a store that allowed dogs in. I think some places allow it as long as you take responsibility for your pet's behaviour and others just don't want to risk anything.
@dargus1718
Жыл бұрын
@@EingeborenerVollblutmischling most stores don't allow dogs inside it's rather a special store that allows dogs inside even if there is no sign "Hunde müssen draußen bleiben" most would tell you to leave your dog outside
@TrangDB9
Жыл бұрын
@@ryanwassthat dude didn't talk about Germany's real problems, but I understand why, they are not pc conform to talk about. You know, it's like criticism on Uncle Mao in China.
@Rey-vm9it
11 ай бұрын
@@EingeborenerVollblutmischling i live in baden-württemberg, in giengen an der brenz to be exact... and ive never seen a single grocery store where u can take your dog into it. there are even special signs outside the store which tells u that dogs have to stay outside. these stores u are talking about a probably exceptions.
@amimandlReal
Жыл бұрын
The dog poo story is BS! there is in most parks a "Dog poo" bag dispenser for free and almost every dog owner picks up there dog poo. At least here in bavaria!
@freddyfretchen976
Жыл бұрын
In Lower Saxony too!
@bananenmusli2769
Жыл бұрын
They probably got that from Berlin or NRW or they just made it up. I am from Bavaria too and I can count on one hand how often I've seen dog poop just lying around.
@dernarrenkopf
Жыл бұрын
in Hessen its normal to!
@rokkothehund7402
Жыл бұрын
Ha *Bavarians* classic_
@unschuldshascherl
Жыл бұрын
@@bananenmusli2769At least in the Ruhrgebiet it is the same that people pick up the poo and last time I checked we belonged to NRW.
@RustyITNerd
Жыл бұрын
1) I've never had a Zoom or video conference call disconnected, because of a bad internet connection - and I am working from home and relying on my internet service provider. Yes, average speeds are slower compared to the rest of Europe, but in general he is talking BS. 3) Germans in general do not sugar coat things. If something is sh**, we will say so and not beat around the bush. Same applies to personal relations. Yes, it might be more difficult to make friends in Germany compared to the U.S or other countries, but those friendships last longer on average. 5) Exageration. Usually city regulations require dog owners to collect their dog poo. You will regularly find bag dispensers in public parks to avoid exactly that. Not all owners remove it, yes that is true. But again, in general a massive exageration. 6) Income tax is not that much different. The additional deductions for healthcare and retirement are often mistaken as "taxes". There are some very good in depth comparisons out there regarding available income. 7) Bureaucracy is a thing, but if you have problems with visa applications, you should consider becoming a citizen. The German passport grants visa free access to 190+ countries, only second to Sweden. 8)Regarding the drivers license, again massively exagerated. 9) Smoking is socially more accepted than in the U.S:, but it is banned in a lot of places and especially inside caés and restaurants. Maybe his information is outdated - personally, I tend towards exageration to get views. 10) We ALL harbour prejudices. And yes, some Germans are racists. But it is not as "deadly" as video implies. Again, exagerated.
@vomm
Жыл бұрын
2) Not only the foreigners authority is "rude" and "unhelpful", every authority is. At the Bürgeramt or Arbeitsamt etc. you are also treated like dirt, also as native German, especially if you have a question. Civil servants are simply the most broken people, finished with their lives.
@RustyITNerd
Жыл бұрын
@@vommDo I notice a lot of frustration there? Btw. I am a civil servant and I treat everyone the same way he or she treats me. Simple, but very effective. 99.5% are friendly and I am as well and I will happily go the extra mile. For the other .5% I'll do exactly what I need to do. Or in German: Wie es in den Wald hinein schallt, so schallt es wieder heraus. PS: If you want to go into details of your issue with authorities, feel free to do so. Does YT still offer some sort of private messaging?
@vomm
Жыл бұрын
@@RustyITNerd " Do I notice a lot of frustration there?", "Wie es in den Wald hinein schallt, so schallt es wieder heraus.". Yeah you obviously are a civil servant, exactly the attitude I'm talking about, thanks for proofing. Of course if I made bad experiences it's my fault, how could it be not?
@alexia2189
Жыл бұрын
@@RustyITNerdGive me a break, they are the worst. I got the worst discrimination at German offices. Not only me, a ton of other people. You are rude and treat people like trash.
@spitefulwar
Жыл бұрын
Everybody complains about taxes but nobody realizes that taxes are what keep our country, it's services and infrastructure running. I'd rather have less money in a well functioning state and society than be rich in a shithole.
@umbrosia5202
Жыл бұрын
It is clear that the man in the video isn't really an expert in his topic. Some of his points are only half-truths. He makes it sound like Germany would be drowning in dog sh*t, but the towns are not really that littered. I personally never really saw dog sh*t in the city. And the point with the taxes are the worst. Yes, Germany has higher taxes, but in exchange we get free healthcare, free education and other benefits. Unlike other countries, we don't need to spend a lot of money on things.
@Gaston413
Жыл бұрын
We don't actually get free health care. But it is comparatively affordable, but you have to pay for it if it is not automatically paid for out of your wages. My last payment to the statutory health insurance was 217€ per month.
@blatterrascheln2267
Жыл бұрын
@@Gaston413 Most US citizens pay more for a mediocre family plan, the whole "bUt iTs sO mUcH tAxEs" is completely delulu and only makes sense if you think choosing to not being insured and paying nothing at all is the reference point here. Which isn't. But anyways, taxes and social security are two different things, so whatever they want to believe is not my problem.
@eszterjozsa6323
Жыл бұрын
Regarding the "high" taxes: don't forget that the weakest and the unfortunate is helped. I work as a geriatric nurse in a senior care center and have many homeless patients who are receiving the same caretaking as those with insurance .
@headhunter1945
Жыл бұрын
Germany is literally the cleanest place I ever travelled to; in fact it is cleaner than Britain, which from the sound of it is where the video narrator is from. "Not really an expert" is being very kind.
@dargus1718
Жыл бұрын
depends on the city I lived in hamburg, köln, berlin, rostock, kiel and many more so far Berlin and Köln were literal dog shit considering dog shit :) Hamburg, Kiel, Rostock were fine but even there it wouldn't be hard to find dog shit
@laurafelicis1895
Жыл бұрын
I'm surprised that the video you're reacting to doesn't have more dislikes...
@Falk4J
Жыл бұрын
Smoking within restaurants and public places is banned now for many years. I don't know where this man has got his information from.
@AlexGys9
Жыл бұрын
We do smoke a lot though. Our smoking rate is 28%, on par with Spain and Portugal, lower than France (35%) and Greece (39%) but significantly higher than the USA (12%) and Sweden (8%).
@Nel-ep9qc
Жыл бұрын
In some ''Bundesländer'' its still allowed to smoke inside (starting at a settled time), the restaurants and bars can decide if they allow this or not.
@mindestlohn_bartholdy
Жыл бұрын
@@Nel-ep9qc Exactly, it depends on what state you're in. Most German states allow smoking in small bars (and separate smokers' rooms in restaurants).
@Andi12345ism
11 ай бұрын
@@Nel-ep9qcWelche Bundesländer?
@ZebraJess92
9 ай бұрын
Hessen z.B.
@n-i-c5800
Жыл бұрын
When does Ryan finally come ove for a visit? ... do we have to donate for that? 😀
@blatterrascheln2267
Жыл бұрын
Yes. Set up some crowdfunding, some crew to do the videos and some people with houses as hosts and watch what happens. 🎉
@Chris-ss8zt
10 ай бұрын
But he needs to do a meet and greet then.
@MethosHL
Жыл бұрын
Regarding the dog poo... you are totally right, Ryan. People would yell at you if you don't pick up your dog poo. However, it's not only that people pick up the poo, they have to. It's law! Apart from that I've never seen a Store that allows dogs.
@ald00I
Жыл бұрын
obviously germany isnt all sunshine and rainbows but this was a weird video... the points made seem badly researched (like smoking inside) or not fleshed out enough (the racism point). some are plain wrong (not picking up after dogs) and some are definitely personal opinion (being rude). that being said i think racism in germany is an interesting topic and i think itd be cool if you checked out some videos of people sharing their experiences living here.
@Falk4J
Жыл бұрын
The Internet, be it DSL, Cable or LTE/5G services within the cities and most of the villages actually work decently well, especially in the bigger cities. However, it is true that there are some villages and towns in remote areas where the Internet service providers simply don't care to provide the costly infrastructure for they'd get only little monetary return from the few customers living there. Also traveling on the countryside or across the Autobahn or on some trains the LTE signal does let you down on large extends.
@rampp17
Жыл бұрын
But things are getting better and better in the small villages, for example in Bavaria. I myself live in rural Bavaria and we have many small villages. It's true about 10 years ago it was very, very bad. In the meantime, they are trying very hard to expand the infrastructure for the Internet there too. In fact, it is now first being developed in smaller villages than in larger cities. For a long time we still had 16k internet lines, but when that was expanded to over 100k, it was first done in our village with around 40 houses and then in the larger city with over 8k inhabitants. I think it's cool that they do it like that. The cell phone network, for example, is not accessible everywhere in our village. Our village is on a slope, the houses above have no problem but those below “in the valley” have no reception. The same families have lived there for generations and that's why the average age there is very high compared to the upper houses. That's why it's not such a big problem at the moment. but it would annoy me not to have reception there. So it's true yes and no. but I think these are a few isolated cases. at least around here
@heiko3169
Жыл бұрын
Lets say, it is (mostly) "okay". Not bad, not great. However, compared to our european neighbours (or even countries in the far east, not long ago being called "3rd world"), Germany is 1 decade (or a tech generation) behind.
@Cocachin123
Жыл бұрын
Making friends often comes up as a problem. Some of it might have to do with privacy and people being less sociable. But I think a major thing about Germany is that identity is based not so much on what you look like or where you are from or what your passport says but on language and culture - something that likely developed out of the fact that Germany as a nation state is so much younger than Germany as a cultural unit ("späte Nation"). If you speak the language and fit into the culture (that doesn't mean giving up who you are, just being aware that the written and unwritten rules says more about whether or not you belong than any passport ever could), you can be green, have eight arms and hail from Mars, people will likely accept you as one of of their own. If you don't you could end up feeling lonely or living in an expat bubble.
@SchmulKrieger
11 ай бұрын
It's not a Späte Nation, this is coined by imperialist countries like GB and France, which are in fact only sole tribes of a once bigger nation, the Germanics. If you have Bavaria as one nation that controlled Germany as Bavaria titled then you and foreign imperialist countries wouldn't tell such a nonsense.
@agnes1250
11 ай бұрын
Please do explain how the picts and celts are of germanic ethnicity....
@vomm
Жыл бұрын
Ryan after watching 50 episodes of Realer Irrsinn: "So much what I watched, Germany sounds like a paradise"
@dnny1440
Жыл бұрын
I applaud Ryan for knowing Germany so well by now that he instantly recognizes the BS in this video lol
@michaelgoetze2103
Жыл бұрын
🤣
@einwitzigenname585
Жыл бұрын
There is no paradise.
@janeswitthake1836
Жыл бұрын
Come to the dark side, we have Butterkekse.
@MaryRaine929
Жыл бұрын
… and Pretzels!!! 🥨🥨🥨
@Neonblue84
Жыл бұрын
Come to the real dark side, we have "dead granny" *yummi*
@DrMcCoy
Жыл бұрын
The strict driving exams are a *good* thing. Compare US per capita car accidents with German ones, for example. People in the US drive like shit and you're paying for it with lives, but lives are cheap in the US anyway.
@habi0187
Жыл бұрын
They don't pay only with life's but also with money. Car insurance is at least 2 to 3 times higher in the US than in Germany.
@yournemesis192
Жыл бұрын
@@habi0187 really? Its a lot cheaper in Montréal Canada ($340) than in Germany (1000€)
@habi0187
Жыл бұрын
@@yournemesis192 what car do you drive? I pay for a fully comprehensive insurance of a Saab convertible 350 € per year in Germany.
@SchmulKrieger
11 ай бұрын
@@yournemesis192the insurance in Germany is a result of how long you hold your licence, second how long you haven't had an accident and if you drove already at the age of 17 with a parent always next to you. This reduces your insurance to sometimes 400 to 250.
@schnetzelschwester
11 ай бұрын
@@SchmulKrieger I pay 84 € per year.
@danielw.2442
Жыл бұрын
Ok I have to say it. Based on his points, "Learning Canteen" is probably a spoiled sassy Karen. 🤣
@Luziemagick
Жыл бұрын
Du sagst es
@blatterrascheln2267
Жыл бұрын
I think its AI-collected random stuff for clickbait. 😂
@johnwayne3051
Жыл бұрын
I agree. Just "Halbwahrheiten" in that video
@ChRW123
Жыл бұрын
Dog poo everywhere? My own cultural shock when I arrived here in Germany was how there was none. 🤨
@kaess307
Жыл бұрын
2:32 Checkpoint Charlie: Checkpoint Charlie was one of the Berlin border crossings through the Berlin Wall between 1961 and 1990. On Friedrichstrasse between Zimmerstrasse and Kochstrasse, it connected the Soviet and American sectors and thus the East Berlin Mitte district with the West Berlin Kreuzberg district. This video looked for the “dark side” like a fly in the ointment. It seems to be made to get as many clicks as possible.
@NineBerry
Жыл бұрын
To me the video feels like it is describing Germany sometime between 1990 and 2010. A lot of the things mentioned (like bad internet, smoking, dog poop, etc) was correct back then but has changed in the meantime. Regarding racism or xenophobia there are huge regional differences. You will find a lot of that in rather rural areas, but no so much in metropolitan areas.
@MiaMerkur
8 ай бұрын
Right! 30 years ago. Plus they do not seem personal experiences at all.
@MichaEl-rh1kv
Жыл бұрын
2:30 Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin was probably one of the most famous crossing points beween the US and the Soviet zone (=East Berlin) in Berlin. There is a museum now, and they preserved some of the structures. 3:02 Honestly I personally had never problems with my stationary internet speed since the time more than 20 years before when I was the first DSL customer in my residential street and could not connect for some weeks because the switching node was down (and since no other customer was affected they at first searched the problem at my place). But there are some problems mostly due to politics and economical structure: In the mid 1980s a conservative Federal Minister for Communication (that was before privatizing the Telecom and Post company) stopped the use of fiber optic cables for phone, tv and internet connections in favor of copper cables, which were at that time cheaper and quicker available. So West Germany got mostly a copper cable network (which was adequate for internet use then and very soon available nearly everywhere); only in the East they decided after reunification to use mostly glass fiber optics, at least as backbone, but used for the "last mile" in many cases again copper. Only in the 2000s the companies started slowly to replace the copper cables with fiber optic cables, but for economical reasons they prefer to do it only in the most densely populated areas or where they got subsidies for laying new cables. Also we have now a handful of big competing companies which concentrate their activities mostly at the same cities and streets as their competitors - so some places got 2 or 3 cables to choose from, while others got none. It is similar with mobile internet, where licenses for using specific bands for mobile communications were distributed by spectrum auctions, by which very high prices were achieved (the second auction did however not meet the expectations), which meant very high entry costs for the (in the end only) 4 big players, who then also concentrated on the more densely populated areas. Rural hilly areas for example got behind, where you need a denser net of cell towers to get good coverage; additionally there was also some resistance against cell towers in residential areas for fear of radiation. With only so few big supranational players politicians as well as leading bureaucrats tend to rather beg than to enforce rules. 4:35 That got a lot of contradiction in the comments, but since I'm German myself I don't have many personal experience with this topic. The Ausländerbehörde however is the Foreigner's office, not the Immigration office, and they are in general not intentionally "rude", but very bureaucratic and in many states (like Berlin) also chronically understaffed. They manage permits of residence, working permits for non-citizens and expulsion orders, but also ersatz ID papers, family reunification (by granting visa to spouses and minors) and so on. 6:30 Making friends requires probably some more efforts than elsewhere. Coworkers are not automatically friends; in many white-collar branches the tone within the office is more formal than casual (it depends however on business, company and occupation). The most easy way to find friends in a new city or town would be to join some clubs/associations (the German "Vereine") and check them out - there is at least one for every interest: sports (including bowling, chess, boxing, rhythmic gymnastics ... 😉), dancing, music (classical, brass, jazz, fanfares, shawms, pipes, ...), animal breeding, collectors, hiking, tinkering, mountaineering, nature conservation - you name it. That's where traditionally much of leisure time was spent and where you can still find much fun. Younger people however nowadays often avoid fixed and binding memberships. 7:25 Air conditions were never a thing in private homes in Germany, you'll find them only in business buildings and some chain hotels (personally I try to avoid such hotels because the ACs are often annoyingly loud and inefficient). The ones available for home use are mostly expensive and hard to come by. But most German houses are built to need no AC. In winter they have central heating by water-filled pipes instead of nerving and inefficient warm air currents, in most summers they are well-insulated enough to stay cool with some simple technics (like airing in the early morning by opening doors and windows at the still shadowed sides of the house and closing them before the sun comes around the corner - the interior will then keep the cooler morning air even if it is burning hot outside). So no market for AC so far - could change a bit with climate change. 9:20 I don't know to which place that refers. Dog poos were a problem in many places about 30 years before, but nowadays you'll find everywhere poo bag spenders, and dog owners are fined heavily if they do not remove any poo left by their dog. There could be still some (not so wealthy) neighborhoods where they let their dogs run freely and nobody knows whom the dog poo on the street belongs to, but I don't think there are many of those left. Also no grocery shop I know of will allow dogs inside, and if they did, they would soon be closed by the economy control service (which is responsible for checking hygienic conditions in places selling food or similar goods). Some restaurants may allow dogs at their outside tables however. 13:55 Bureaucracy is a problem which became over the years ever more annoyingly. But in many cases you can find someone who handles it for you. For example: if you buy your car at an established car dealer, you can ask them to handle the registration process for you, or your car workshop to handle the 2-yearly obligatory vehicle inspection for you (which includes getting a new inspection sticker at your registration plate as well as some paperwork). If you are self-employed, you should definitively find a friendly tax accountant to do your tax declarations for you, but most other people can handle their tax declaration now easily online with far less hassle than before (except the really wealthy ones, but they can easily afford to hire a tax consultant).
@stefanb4375
Жыл бұрын
I gave it a thumbs up but didn't watch it, I know the original and there's so much wrong that it would upset me. 😅
@m.h.6470
Жыл бұрын
A lot of paperwork for the practical exam of a drivers license? It has been a while since I did mine, but as far as I remember, I literally had to sign ONE piece of paper and give my photograph. That's it.
@jenson1896
Жыл бұрын
The internet is actually not that bad, just on the countryside
@bossus926
Жыл бұрын
also ich hab hier auf dem land überall 5G
@gelbehexe2010
Жыл бұрын
I think it’s mostly bad, maybe it’s better in metropolitan cities. Where I live there is a maximum of 16 MBit, we are currently using a LTE Connection to make todays internet services somehow usable.
@lorexy56
Жыл бұрын
I live in the city and I'm watching this video on 240p and it still buffers the whole time. Not to mention when trying to watch Netflix in the evening. My friend lives here too and they have special times when they can access the internet cause otherwise the network just crashes. In the countryside it's mutch better. My parents have 5G Highspeed Internet. 50km away from the city.
@ClaudiaG.1979
Жыл бұрын
i live in a small village with 1000 inhabitants and i have fibre cable with 50 Mbits
@hahahahahhahahahah5982
Жыл бұрын
@@bossus926und weil das bei dir so ist, muss es ja bei jedem so sein
@Falk4J
Жыл бұрын
Dog poo everywhere? Is he trying to insult us? We actually have dog-stations everywhere where dog-walkers ate provided with little plastic poo bags that they actually use to pick up the poo and throw it into the next available bin, which are also everywhere. To me it looks like this guy has never set foot on German grounds and does retrieve his information from the Internet which, as we all know, never does lie.. And it's true, if someone finds you not picking up your dog's feces he definitely is being yelled at.
@headhunter1945
Жыл бұрын
Here is my full review of the original video: Point 1, internet: Median download speed in Germany is 37.5 Mbps as of 2020. Let's look at their neighbors. Austria: 31.7 United Kingdom: 28.51 Italy: 14.17 France: 12.10... I think we're done here. Point 2: "Germans hurt my sensitive feelings oh nooo who would have thought. Anyway," Point 3, making friends: "I moved to another culture and now I have a different culture from everybody around me, and they seem SO RUDE, oh nooo would have have thought. Anyway," Point 4, AC: Yeah, nobody in northern/central Europe has air conditioners, get over it. It's hot for like two weeks, you'll be fine. Point 5 cleanliness: The biggest dog poo in this video is the ignorant narrator. Germany was the cleanest place I have ever been to. Point 6: Taxes, yes, but the german government actually gives you services for said taxes. How terrible, getting good health care at a fair price... the humanity. I mean, it's true that taxes are high, bit it's not as high as having to pay for the same services in the US. You're just paying to the government instead of Pfizer etc. Point 7: Government Bureaucracy: Possibly the only really good point in this video. Point 8: Too many rules, wait with rules did you mean "Government Bureaucracy?" I think we had this point. It's not wrong though, most everything in Germany is very regulated. Point 9: Germany has maybe 5% more smokers than the countries around it, and less than France. All of mainland Europe has a lot more smokers than the US, though. Point 10, racism, is just a joke, especially coming from somebody in a country that literally left the EU due to their rampant xenophobia. Maybe if every movie you watch about Germans wasn't from 80 years ago with the sexy angry mustache model...
@johnwayne3051
Жыл бұрын
@headhunter1945 Thank you. Common sense is rare nowadays
@nomaam9077
Жыл бұрын
2:29 - Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin. 8:40 - I have rarely heard such nonsense about Germany. 12:57 - Bureaucracy is the basis of every FUNCTIONING state and the recipe for success.
@AC-dn7yq
Жыл бұрын
2:30 --> "Checkpoint Charly" was the most famos borderpass btw east berlin and the american sector of west berlin. inside this building behind the picture you find the Checpoint-Charly-Museum
@N3rdyM0m
Жыл бұрын
I live in a little town in Bavaria and we have glasfibre with 500Mbit/s in our house 😊 so - no lost connections
@m.h.6470
Жыл бұрын
Point 3 paraphrased: "Germans have a different culture than other nations and foreigners struggle with it, therefore Germany is bad!" What kind of BS is this?!?!
@winterlinde5395
Жыл бұрын
6:23 no. That’s how you recognize real friends. They tell you the truth. If you don’t want their honest friendship anymore, that’s on you🤗
@Shulkerkiste
Жыл бұрын
Honest friendship means to communicate the truth in a *friendly* way. Otherwise, it's not real friendship, because it's just rude.
@EvilGNU
Жыл бұрын
@winterlinde Jep I think the same, but I also found when making friends from other cultures (even western ones) my ingrained bluntness can be somewhat offputting for some. Because they are just not used to it from their own backgrounds, and somewhat tend to instinctively categorize directness as a form of hostility. When I became aware of this I try to be more mindful with people from other cultures. Doesn't mean I am less blunt per se, more like more self aware and I just tend to clarify how/what I meant more often when I notice some reaction like "we got off the wrong foot" from my opposite. Not even justifying myself (I don't have to) just like making things clear how I mean it and that it is a thing we do here, and why we do it. Because we actually value being direct not as a form of confrontation but as a form of honesty. As you said, thats how you recognize real friends. Doesn't mean you have to use rude language, but you also gotta remind yourself there are cultures out there where for example addressing an issue directly, no matter how friendly you do it, is already seen as extremely rude. You can't please everybody in this regard, but you can make your intentions clear and clarify that you mean no harm.
@winterlinde5395
Жыл бұрын
@@Shulkerkisteselbstverständlich True. And I think we do that here. But it’s difficult to discuss in the KZitem comments in a foreign language written without seeing each other …to discuss here what is considered friendly in different countries.
@mixlllllll
Жыл бұрын
@@ShulkerkisteBullshit. A real friend can fuck with you and you don't take it seriously.
@MiaMerkur
8 ай бұрын
Yes, and I am proud to be honest and open. Some call it blunt, but they should get used to accet less sugar cover diplomatic lying. And I think, we do not have to adjust to foreigners in our own country. I adjust MY behavior in FOREIGN countries as part of respect for the culture of the ORIGINAL people and communicate in France different than in Ireland, GB, Netherlands or Spain. I adjust cloth, language, movements, behavior, ... as best as I can. It is the same when I visit private people. Rural catholic people should be acepted/treated their conservative way on their farm and the studied gay couple in their apartment in their modern social way. Like I adjust in a beer garden in jeans and slipper different as in the opera in black dress and high heels.
@MrGaldor123
Жыл бұрын
I mean you can get AC for your house. My parents had one installed a few years ago, wasnt even that expensive. My apartment doesnt have one, which is the norm. Of course bureaucracy is bad here. But doing your taxes isnt that bad if you dont have anything "special". I do my taxes "online" within about 1-2 hours, since i just import last year's information and just adjust numbers usually.
@MrChili007
Жыл бұрын
One more point, AC: Hot days in Germany with more than 30°C =86°F are just climbing because of global warming. In 1950's we had in average 3 days per year over 86°F, today we have an average of 9 days per year with more than 86°F. To be honest, yes there are a few hot days but would you invest tenthousands of dollar when you build a house if you had just 3 hot days per year? 70% of all german housings were build before 1980. Newer build houses have much more isolation and the heating is not longer with gas or oil. New homes have heat pumps and they can heat and cool.
@MiaMerkur
8 ай бұрын
Yes, only some days and when I hang wet bed tissues in every room it has nice air and I do not sweat.
@Sarmari86
Жыл бұрын
😂 I don't believe that this videomaking person has ever set one foot into germany. I understand all the thumbs down now. Not all information are true.
@Attirbful
Жыл бұрын
the negative comments come from people who now better than the video maker - which is practically 99% of all people. Yes, the internet is crappy but is currently being improved upon. You can’t just provide fibre optics if there is no fiber optics infrastructure, which can’t be built without ripping streets open and what not, so it is a national endeavor, which the German government procrastinated on for way too long, frankly. What he does not say about friendships is that if you do make a German friend, you usually have a friend for LIFE not slice of life as in America. Airconditioning is not needed 11 out of 12 months a year. The investment at the detriment of the environment is simply not worth it. I can even say when I last saw dog poo! Ever since poo bags and hefty fines for not picking it up have been introduced, I have NOT seen any anywhere! Wonder why he did not include footage of dog poo in German streets. Probably because he could not find any…. And the tax thing - don’t even get me started… We pay less taxes than Americans do if you take into account how much we get back as opposed to how little you guys get! Bureaucracy is a problem, indeed. It would and most likely will drastically improve once the digital structure is much improved. Unlike in America, where first responders can be sued for trying to help save lives, in Germany, everyone is required to assist where they can and knowing first help is NEVER a mistake… And his hyperbolic nonsense of racism is just beyond words! Yes, of course there are racist individuals in Germany and there are socioeconomic or regional pockets in which it is felt more so than in others, but one cannot (as in the states) speak of systemic racism and even everyday racism is rare. In comparison to America, I think this is the most ridiculous claim of them all….
@team-steinbaer
Жыл бұрын
In summer it’s important to close the curtain. That is the only way to cool down the room. And when it’s get night and outside temperature is colder than inside, you must open all the windows. I’m so happy that autumn starts now and it’s colder.
@nicobendig6597
Жыл бұрын
As German I am sitting here laughing because the way that guy pronounces "Ausländerbehörde" 🤣 One more reason, why they are so rude to immigrants. Learn german first before even think about to immigrate 🤪 What the hell is he talking about dog poop? Of course you have to pick it up and it is forbidden to take your dog into the grocery store...
@amyschroder6314
Жыл бұрын
Weird video. Honestly don't agree with a lot of it. I have been in Germany for 12 years now. Never have I seen dog shit everywhere, heard racist remarks ( you will actually find a LOT of videos on toutube from many african decent saying they love germany bacause there is less racisim), and I have an air conditioner. Geez. Once in a while my internet goes array but not often, same as in Canada (where I am from).
@Casy1306
Жыл бұрын
This video came of as whiny and badly researched. Bad internet connection: Yeah, our government didn't invest as much money as they should have into upgrading our digital infrastructure. I'd love to have glass fiber and a lot of areas are currently being upgraded but not everybody has it yet. But even without it our internet is still stable. I've been working from home for 3 years now and I've never had connection issues at any point during work or in my free time. Ausländerbehörde: I'd love to know if this person ever had anything to do with our immigration offices or any other for that matter. Certainly doesn't sound like it. I don't imagine anybody enjoys interacting with immigration offices in any country since they have the power to keep you out for whatever reason. Difficulty making Friends: This is just from my experience but how blunt people are depends on the area you're in. The bigger the city (Berlin, Munich) and depending on the kind of history of the area (Ruhrpott) the more directly spoken and blunt people are. It also depends on how willing you are to integrate yourself into our culture. In my life I have had contact with a lot of people who moved to Germany from all over the world, be it Australia, Romania, South Africa, the US, or anywhere else. Some have lived here for years and have made no enduring attempts to learn to speak German, which in my opinion is a vital part of moving to another country and integrating into the culture. Language is a big part of Culture. Of course, there are a lot of people here who speak English but learning German is a big step into integrating. Also, hate to break it to this person, but we Germans love gossip just as much as any other person. Just not from people we just met. If I've only known you for a bit and you tell me something spicy about somebody or something it's like I would think you just try to badmouth this person since I can't evaluate the trustworthiness of your information yet. I guess I personally am just careful that way anyway. No Air-Conditioners: Public buildings like shops, hospitals, and offices have air-conditioning. It's just not common in German homes because they are well-insulated. With the right behaviors like using curtains and ventilation habits when it's too warm outside, we don't need although a fan is certainly appreciated in the summer and honestly, I don't wanna pay the electricity bill for an AC anyway. The Dog Poo issue: Completely overexaggerated. There are certainly always people that think they are above picking up their dog's poop although there's no shortage of poo-bag stations around and as far as I know they are required to clean up after their furry friend by law anyway. Our cities are generally pretty free of poo, streets get regularly cleaned by the city and there are a lot of green spaces where people enjoy taking their dogs to do their business. High Taxes: Can't relate. I find my taxes pretty reasonable and well-used. Bureaucracy: I mean, yeah, is it annoying sometimes? Of course. I'd rather everything is just done without my having to fill out paperwork. But at least everything is organized, the people who work with my paperwork know what they are doing and it gets the result I want. I also like having big foulders with all my stuff perfectly organized and ready to be wielded at anybody who trys to question anything I used it for. Nothing saver than having a copy with a signature. :D Too many rules: I don't think so? Have you ever lived in a dictatorship? I think our requirements for certain things are very reasonable. Regarding the driver's license. I would expect my car-driving fellow citizens to have a certain amount of training and therefore be reliable drivers and not a danger to the public. First aid classes are necessary because you are required to offer aid if you encounter an accident. Leaving without offering aid is against the law. Also, being able to offer first aid in any situation is not something I would count as a downpoint in any case. Germans smoke a lot: I don't know where or from when this person got their information but in most restaurants and generally indoor areas you are not allowed to smoke. There are some restaurants and bars with specific 'smoking-allowed areas' but in my experience, that's not the norm. I can't speak on if we smoke a lot. I don't know the numbers in comparison to other countries. Racism: Obviously I cannot speak to anybody's experience but my own and as a white German woman racism against me is not something I actively experienced myself in my life. I work in a very inclusive company though with a lot of colleagues from all over the world. Our history lends itself to being very avers to racism in general although I will say, especially among my older relatives and their acquaintances being racist seems to be more common, at least from what I would consider to be racism. This might be a generational topic in that regard. Also, racism is a thing all over the world with every group of people, in my opinion. There certainly are parties of people in Germany that are an absolute embarrassment because of their behavior towards anybody that doesn't match their ideal picture of a German person. But again that's something you find all over the world, not just in Germany. In conclusion, I think that the video was very badly researched, and used topics without or with few reliable sources or experiences. But then again, I'm also a citizen that loves their country so all this could just be my own prejudices. I'd love to see this content creator's sources. Also, I didn't mean to write a wall of text. It just kind of happened....sorry....Have a great Wednesday, to anybody who might read this! 🌻🌻🌻
@janoschwecker1415
Жыл бұрын
As a German, I say he is right on many points, but he is simply exaggerating
@Falk4J
Жыл бұрын
There's not much racism in Germany. Yet we love people who come to live here respecting our culture, learning our language and make their living by working instead of just immigrating into our way too gracious social aid system.
@CorinneDunbar-ls3ej
Жыл бұрын
Yep, I have the exact same sentiments re the UK. We welcome immigrants but not those who just want to exploit our generosity.
@tosa2522
Жыл бұрын
The Ausländerbehörde is not rude, but bureaucratic. That is no room for emotions.
@SatieSatie
Жыл бұрын
Have you ever dealt with the deutsche Ausländerbehörde as an Ausländer in Deutschland?
@SvenGadgetKlemmbausteine
Жыл бұрын
Fun fact: When entering the USA as a tourist (non-immigrant visa), the employees were mostly unfriendly rather than friendly.
@thomasfranz6467
Жыл бұрын
I'm just wondering, is this guy intentionally spreading wrong information, or does he just not know what he's talking about but still wanted to make a video? I just don't get why people would do such things... I also love how he uses pronouns to make people think that he's German...
@heiko3169
Жыл бұрын
Hi, me as a German here. I have to comment and tell you, that this video is obviously made by someone who doesn't live in Germany himself, but rather collected hearsay from anywhere. The things he listed are highly exxagerated ... actually coming close to absurd.
@sebovhrd
Жыл бұрын
There are rasist persons in germany like in any other coutry too and yes in east germany and bavaria (wich is also east in germany but dont like to get called east germany 😅 what is funny for me) have more rasists than west or north germany but compair to other european countrys like poland, italy or hungary germany is very open
@Falk4J
Жыл бұрын
As you can see by the other video titles that guy from learning canteen puts out, he is producing content not based on his own experiences but info collected somewhere from the Internet. So not quite reliable info here paired with click baity titles. No thank you.
@1Mystery10000
Жыл бұрын
Internet connection: True Ausländerbehörde: Don't know, didn't hear bad things from friends but I never interacted with them personally. Hard to make friends: False. Maybe depends on what a friend is. When you try to find friends by talking to everyone in the supermarket for a minute, then yeah, maybe. No AC: I mean, not really. You could get AC, but nobody does, because it's unnecessary. But if you need AC, just get it? (Maybe it depends if you live in an apartment or a house. Dog poos: Hard to compare, but I wouldn't say, there is that much. High taxes: Pretty high, yes. But after everything you get from it, it's actually not that much higher than in most comparable countrys. Bureaucracy: True Too many rules: Not really. In some cases, yes. But most of them make sense. For example I am pretty thankful, that you need to learn how to drive before getting a drivers license. Because a lot of people are really bad drivers and dangerous for everyone around. I wouldn't want them to drive here. Smoking: I mean, it's not like there is smoke everywhere. But it is a lot more then in the US for example, yes. Racism: I can't really say anything about it, but at least I never heard before that racism is a bigger problem here then in other countrys. Especially people from the US often say the opposite. But obviously there is racism.
@ChrisGrump
Жыл бұрын
A video with a lot of downvotes like this is bound to have a lot of inaccuracies.
@mischadorn6037
4 ай бұрын
In Germany, you have to bring dogpoo to trash. Every dogowner have to do this, but not everyone do it.
@rampp17
Жыл бұрын
how old is the video please, smoking in restaurants? this has been banned for a long time. Was he there 20 years ago and thinks it's still the same?
@susuichan
8 ай бұрын
Hallo. Ich schaue deine Videos nun schon eine Weile und finde es richtig interessant, unsere Heimat mal aus der Sicht eines Amerikaners zu sehen. Oftmals muss ich auch sehr lachen, wie verdutzt du über manche unserer Gewohnheiten bist oder versuchst manche Wörter auszusprechen 😁 Doch auch ich lerne bei dir immer wieder was neues - so wusste ich z. B. vorher überhaupt nicht, wie viele Wörter wir im Deutschen besitzen, vor allem im Vergleich zum englischen. Bei diesem Video kam ich aber aus dem Kopf schütteln gar nicht mehr raus - nicht wegen dir, sondern wegen dem Video, dass du dir angeschaut hattest. Es war einfach nur beleidigend und von 10 Punkten konnte ich gerade mal 1 Punkt bestätigen (den mit der Bürokratie). Ich habe auch einen Kommentar bei dem Ersteller des anderen Videos hinterlassen... Eigentlich ist man fast schon genötigt ein eigenes Video dazu zu erstellen und die einzelnen Punkte zu widerlegen, weil man im feedback sonst ein halbes Buch schreiben müsste. Man merkt richtig, dass der Ersteller noch nie in Deutschland war und seine Aussagen nicht recherchiert hat - innerhalb von wenigen Minuten konnte ich mit der Google-Suche (und mit gesundem Menschenverstand) seine Punkte widerlegen! Liebe Grüße aus Deutschland und hoffentlich auf viele weitere tolle Videos von dir :) Suzu PS: Vielleicht solltest du die Videos mit den Memes mit deiner Deutschlehrerin anschauen, ich denke, sie kann dir bei einigen erklären, wie diese gemeint sind. Selbst mancher Deutscher muss da schon zweimal nachdenken 😉
@evas7608
Жыл бұрын
The dog poo thing is a very Berlin thing... Many people there who might feel lonely and get a dog to compensate that. Especially in COVID times so many people got dogs everywhere. But Berlin apparently is not able to get rid of all the poo, since it's just too much. But that's all just me guessing..
@vomm
Жыл бұрын
It was a very Berlin thing. I barely see any dog poop since dog people have to take the warm poop of their dog in their hand and throw it into a bin.
@HeIIoWorId
Жыл бұрын
many people got dogs during covid to be allowed to go for a walk when there was lockdown
@LythaWausW
Жыл бұрын
It's also a Wuppertal thing.
@TheBorgfelder
Жыл бұрын
Dog poo? Yes, in Berlin everywhere. But here, in a northwestern smalltown? Not so much.
@MiaMerkur
8 ай бұрын
Right, Berlin is much dirtier, more aggressive, druged, strange, foreign, ... than rest of germany. And it was 40 years ago. I was shocked when I had to go there with the class, never had seen drug people, homeless, punks, sexworkers before - total cultural shock for kid from the farm. I immediately thought seeing that video: he is only talking of Berlin plus. Internet is bad near border to poland I was told. Berlin people are said to have a "big mouth". So, Ryan rather go to Hamburg! 😉
@MaryRaine929
Жыл бұрын
❗️Don‘t get tricked, Ryan❗️ They just try to scare you away. This IS paradise! 🍎🐍
@SatieSatie
Жыл бұрын
😅
@schnelma605
Жыл бұрын
15:01 In the practical part of the driving test, you have to drive.
@ZJasko
Жыл бұрын
Healthcare is not "free." We pay a not insignificant portion of our monthly salary to the health insurance companies. Every month! In return, you don't have to pay anything - or very little - if you need to see a doctor. If you don't need a doctor's visit, money is still deducted from your monthly salary and is thus available to the general public for any higher doctor or surgery costs. Quite apart from that, the rest of the video is also nonsense.🙂
@ParaSpite
11 ай бұрын
Yeah I'm with some of the others here, this is an AI-written video, maybe even completely crafted and uploaded by an AI. Consult ChatGPT for a script, use an AI text to speech program to voice it, grab random clips of germany for the visuals, upload, 100% automated (potentially). While real issues are talked about, a lot of them are VASTLY exaggerated, and racism as a specifically German problem is just nonsense in this day and age. Obviously there is racism, but there's laws against it to mitigate its impact and it's not socially acceptable unless you're in a specific racism-focused community.
@T0MT0Mmmmy
8 ай бұрын
What a BS video you are reacting to. It seems that the creator read some headlines in news papers but never the hole story they announced in an exaggerated manner. So EVERYTHING is overdone to the bad OR JUST PLAIN FALSE.
@cheebadigga4092
11 ай бұрын
The internet is bad here, true. That's because in the 2000s (or was it 1990s?) the chancellor (Helmut Kohl) invested heavily in the TV network (coaxial) as opposed to the internet (fibre) network, because TV network lobbyists were his friends or something like that. Whereas, for example, the Netherlands invested heavily in both networks. Of course you can use any cabling which is able to transfer bits as internet connection, but as it turns out, fibre is the best option. And I think you can also transfer TV signals using fibre, that's why (again, I think), the Netherlands was able to invest in both, because they simply put fibre anywhere and everywhere.
@nullplan01
11 ай бұрын
Internet speed highly depends on where you live. I have cable, and good internet with it (I have to put up with Vodafone, tho). My boss lives 2km away from my house on the other side of a stream. He has no cable, and has to live with DSL speeds and the Telekom as provider. Dog poo also depends on area. I assume the speaker lives in Berlin or Hamburg, where they apparently let this slide. I live in Swabia, and we don't tolerate that nonsense. Dog walkers pick up the poo, and failing to do so is an order violation and comes with a fine. Racism I personally can't really comment on. I know that xenophobia and tribalism are human behaviors, and you can only counteract them in yourself when you notice them. And there are very few black people (as a proportion of the population), so they get put in the out-group almost instantly. Bureaucracy and taxes - yeah. Probably way worse as a foreigner, because you get to interact with parts of the public administration most people don't, and get to deal with nonsense most people don't. For taxes you can strike a nice balance: In tax classes 1 (unmarried) and 4 (which you get after a wedding), you don't have to file a tax return if you make your income from non-independent employment. Because your withholdings are likely larger than the actual tax debt you owe, so you are forfeiting money. So you get to choose whether to put up with the paper war or forfeit some money. Smoking - as a non-smoker, I think it is getting better. Most places ban indoor smoking now, so smokers have to go outside. That does mean that you usually have to walk through a smoke plume when leaving yourself, but at least your nostrils aren't constantly molested inside.
@moc6897
Жыл бұрын
in the first place, Central Europe geographically is n o t comparable to the US! CE is more like the southern half of Canada, whereas the US is more like North Africa and the Sahara Desert! In summertime, in CE a simple fan with way l e s s energy consumption in comparison to ac does the job. Secondly Germany has the highest energy costs worldwide! Good luck with running an ac 24/7, even 8 hours per day is barely payable with an average income!
@MitmachGaming
Жыл бұрын
Yes, the internet sucks in some corners. Like in all slightly larger countries. But the statement that Germany has the worst internet in Europe is simply a lie. According to statista, we are mediocre. Roughly speaking, everything east and south of us has slower internet. Personally, I can't expect much from the rest of the video because many of the things mentioned there are simply lies. As another example: dogs are forbidden in supermarkets. In my almost 40 years of living in Germany, I have never seen a dog in the supermarket. But yes, with around 10 million dogs in Germany, you can definitely “find” a dog poop every now and then. The smoking issue is also simply a lie. Smoking in restaurants, cafes and actually all public enclosed spaces has been banned for years. And here, too, we are below average in a European comparison - so we have fewer smokers than many other European countries. There is a reason for the downvotes from the video. No idea which sources the video creator used. But he should definitely use others.
@baumstamp5989
Жыл бұрын
1. put 10 half-truths or clichees in a vid and call it dark side of living in germany... 2. upload to youtube 3. ????? 4. PROFIT !
@berndhoffmann7703
Жыл бұрын
That guy's vid is mostly rubbish, for example, the subject Bad Internet Connection, what are we talking about fibre - optics cable, or LTE? Regarding LTE a past Government closed an unfortunate contract, to cover 95% of the population, not the area, therefore they did concentrate on tense population areas and did nothing in the regions which are only sparsely populated. As one has to pass through these areas, there is no internet connection, but it is getting better, Germany's network coverage is really shameful. On the other hand, glass-fibre connections are quite good, but depending on the area. I live in a remote village of around 2k inhabitants and have access to glass-fibre connections, no complaints there. It seems he has not been in Germany or at least he has never been outside Berlin, and obv. has not heard of federalism. Talking about Germany and then picking only the rules of one federal state, Berlin or Bavaria, etc. is stupid: dog poop is handled on community level, smoking in public places on the federal-state level, people are obviously completely different in the North from those in the South, etc. this guy's vid makes no sense. thumbs down from me.
@lucientruth
11 ай бұрын
..you are unfortunately right that racism exists everywhere in the world... but as a genetic mixture of 3 different countries from Germany believes, that humanity will overcome this in the coming decades...hopefully
@Psychofuechschen
11 ай бұрын
this video is mostly wrong or very outdated x3
@suskdhru
8 ай бұрын
Air conditioning systems are not standard in houses, of course. It's not like we have temperatures over 30 degrees here for weeks. we have air conditioning. only costs a few hundred euros. buy, install, done. I think ours ran twice in the last 4 years. But a lot of people I know have one. On top of the 2 times it was cool, it ran for a few days last winter when our underfloor heating was broken. that was our salvation.
@derlaurenz
Жыл бұрын
Just a tip: I wouldn't go for this generic-looking type of listicle-videos. They are usually badly researched and contain a lot of false information. I would look for content, that has at least a respectable amount of followers and are clearly done by someone with experience.
@daysofelijah
Жыл бұрын
😄 You gave me a good belly laugh with at least 17 people from all over the place chastising the hell out of you.. :D You really catch the german nature. The issue with the dog poop is only in the big cities, where it's more anonymous. Berlin actually is 'famous' for that problem. But racism is NOT a thing in germany! Not more or less than in other countries.
@808Fee
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, and it's not all dog poo. 😬There are not that many big dogs... and they don't usually wipe.
@klarasee806
Жыл бұрын
Racism isn‘t bigger here than in other countries, agreed, but racism definitely IS a thing here.
@marvinkant5205
Жыл бұрын
Racism is absolutely a thing in Germany, especially with the rise of the AfD, but that is sadly happening in most western countries right now.
@TheKahlez
Жыл бұрын
That video is mostly just wrong or at least very subjective (which i as a German disagree with personally) and i dont know where those informations come from.
@nicolettarope6030
Жыл бұрын
Internet is not bad. Ask james Bray. He been on Germany. He thought this to Bevor He Visit....wrong Information.
@oberoneledthar3782
Жыл бұрын
I am not sure where he was in germany, but this is the biggest BS ever. Dogpoop everywhere? nope, you have to pick it up. And no you cant have your dog inside a supermaket
@johnveerkamp1501
Жыл бұрын
Smoking is only allowed outside. !!
@MichaEl-rh1kv
Жыл бұрын
15:04 As far as I can remember there is not much paperwork involved with the practical exam, and what there is, is handled by your driver's school. (And the theoretical exam was mostly multiple choice questions.) 15:10 Smoking is still a thing in many European countries, and Germany is no exception. Smoking in restaurants (inside) is generally forbidden, some states however have licensed special "smoking bars", "smoking clubs" for "club members" or secluded "smoker rooms" in pubs, and many restaurants do allow smoking at (some) outside tables. Even on most private parties smokers will go outside if they want to light a cigarette - most people will never invite you again if you smoke inside. Cigarettes are not easily accessible: They are heavily taxed and can only be bought by adults, normally after showing an ID card (including at cigarette vending machines). 16:25 Racism is causing some problems in Germany, but not more than in most neighboring countries and presumably far less than in the US. At least most younger Germans have accepted the scientific fact that there are no human races, only some phenotypes with lighter or darker skin tone or lighter or darker hair, but you can still encounter some ethnic prejudices, especially with the recent rise of right-wing parties and extremists (especially in regions where they never met foreigners).
@sebovhrd
Жыл бұрын
How old is that video? Smoking is banned inside restaurants, clubs or bars. Ok some bigger ones have smoking area and there are smoking or shisha bars but normaly the people smoke in front of the bar or restaurant
@methos1024
8 ай бұрын
That Military Guy on The Picture is there because right in the Back of it - that ist Checkpoint Charly, a historical Place Just look it up
@MacFernor
Жыл бұрын
It feels like the person has been to Berlin for three days, and now thinks he’s an expert on all of Germany. So much bs in one video… 🙄
@mats7492
Жыл бұрын
germany has the most expensive electricity in the world and we have like 4 weeks of proper summer. AC is not really neccessary
@eaglevision993
Жыл бұрын
Germany is probably the least racist country in all of Europe. While it is somewhat more prevalent in the east than in the west, it is still very very low compared to the rest of Europe.
@ChrisSeilerLFD
Жыл бұрын
I don't know where the guy was in Germany, but a lot of what he said was very exaggerated. "Difficulty in making friends" ... Well, it takes a little bit to become friends with german peoples, but it is not that bad how he describes. We want to get to know people, before we let them into our lives. Normaly, germans don't have an aversion to other people, we're just cautious.
@melaniedeimel2296
8 сағат бұрын
Racism is more widespread the more rural it is, especially in eastern Germany. You find the strongest racism/right-wing radicalism in areas with the fewest foreigners. In addition, it also depends a lot on what kind of foreigner you are. Racism is primarily directed against refugees, especially Muslim refugees. As an American, however, you are unlikely to experience much racism as long as you don't behave rudely and arrogantly.
@lilithr5128
Жыл бұрын
No wonder that video have so many dislikes it's total BS lol. This guy seems to hate Germany
@melaniedeimel2296
8 сағат бұрын
The smoking topic: no, you are not allowed to smoke at restaurants, bars (unless there is an outdoor seating area) or in any official buildings. You're not even allowed to smoke on the platforms in the train station wherever you want, even though the platforms are essentially open-air. You are only allowed to smoke in the small smoking area, which is at the very end of the platform.
@beldin2987
Жыл бұрын
I have the feeling its more or less everywhere the same whan you have to deal with bureaucracy. I mean at least the french already made this years ago : Passierschein A38 - Das Haus das Verrückte macht - Asterix erobert Rom GERMAN kzitem.info/news/bejne/wHmOp4OfmopqdnY and from what i see from american movies, the bureaucrats there are also not always just pure joy and sunshine and helpful. But maybe ask some mexicans who want to settle into the US 🤔
@rokkothehund7402
Жыл бұрын
There's a whole episode from the ZDFneo about the "Ausländerbehörde" very nice good to watch_
@gastonkawitzke3272
Жыл бұрын
5. You get a fine for not picking up the shit. Grocerys do not allow dogs.
@melaniedeimel2296
8 сағат бұрын
What's also wrong about the dog topic: dogs are accepted in a lot of places, like most restaurants, a lot of stores like clothing stores or stores like Woolworth. But dogs are definitely forbidden in grocery stores, with the exception of licensed guide dogs or assistance dogs.
@zwojack7285
Жыл бұрын
The regulators ARE serious about their job. Unless you are a company. Then you can do just whatever.
@ChaosTool93
Жыл бұрын
In the German the greeting Hallo, most people put the emphasis on the O sound, like Hallooo
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