I am German but live in Greece. When my older daughter had her first day of school her teacher had looked into German culture to prepare for her little German student and she had made small Schultüten for all kids in the class. I really appreciated how she helped my daughter be accepted culturally without making her feel different.
As a german I actually disagree. We have lots of choice in bread with all different kinds of grains but the vast majority of it doesn't taste that good imo, it's just heavy and healthy.
@@DevlVergil On average European bread is better than bread in other parts of the world. If you are comparing to other European countries it may not stand out, but to the vast majority of the world it is very good, even if not all is your favorite.
3:01 she chose one the youngest castle in Germany. Neuschwanstein is not a medieval castle, it was built around 1860. Not every castle must be from the Middle Ages and you can easily tell by the style of the architecture. For the video in general I expected a little bit more than bread, castles and sausages. We, the whole world, already know these things about Germany basically stereotypes. 😂
Beer is the first thing to think about german for me , as i studied and still studying german some of the phrase and expressions that i first learn are related to beer 😂
@@phartbay327 I am now 90 years young and I moved in 1957 from Germany to America. I had the "pleasure" to live through world war 2 in eastern Germany.
Schloss (Schloss always indicates a "palace" in that it was build or refurbished as a residence and doesn't serve a defensive function) Neuschwanstein is relatively new and sometime from the 19th century (so it already had running water and electricity). If you want to see a real medieval Burg (castle) I'd recommend Burg Eltz. Contrary to Spain which after the reconquista didn't face a lot of direct invasions and warfare, we Germans always had vulnerable borders, so there are thousands of castles and ruins in our border regions, especially in mine which is close to France. E.g. my town (16k inhabitants) has a knightly castle ruin on a dormant volcano overlooking our area, a town wall and a town castle (in which nowadays my old elementary school is housed). On average we were at war with France every 20 years in the last 500 years (plus all the internal wars, like the entire 17th century), so every town and most villages needed a place to retreat to when the grands of Europe decided to play their games for power in our fields again
Just because there is no speed limit does not mean that the people go crazy and go as fast what the car can. We drive responsible and at the end of the day you pay on the petrol station for every high speed drive. The faster you go the more expensive it is. So you think twice if it's worth to go pedal to the metal.
Also we do have a "Richtgeschwindigkeit" (guided speed) of 130 km/h which means that while you are allowed to go faster, you do so at your own risk. So if you go faster and get into an accident you will always automatically get a partial responsibility for it (and hence insurances will hold you responsible and not cover or only partly cover your damages even if it was no fault of your own)
2:24 Burg Hohenzollern Rebuilt on the ruins of the castle (the ancestral home of the House of Hohenzollern). 1852-1867. Only the St. Michael Chapelle is a remainder from older times. Construction of Schloss Neuschwanstein started in 1869. Wasn't finished when Ludwig II died 1887. The project was halted and only essential parts were finally completed. The few remains of the two small medieval castles there (Hinterhohenschwangau and Vorderhohenschwangau) had to go. The castle is modelled after the Wartburg castle. Plus a lot of King Ludwig II's fantasies. Quite many castle were rebuild in the 19th century. More or less accurate to their predecessors. Castle Romanticism. Castle Romanticism is however considerably older. in 1577 the wealthy Fugger merchant family built a "hunting lodge" in the style of a medieval castle from the Staufer dynasty times (~ 1100) on the ruins of Niederalfingen castle (which was from those times). Also this was already an idealisation. Like: a castle needs a draw bridge. The old castle didn't had one. And at the location it was finally built it had not really any defensive function. But in 1577 castles were anyway obsolete in military terms. Some were however converted to small fortresses with canons.
2:58 Of all German castles, Neuschwanstein Castle is one of the youngest (~1870) and was never completed. In my opinion there are much more beautiful and older castles. My favorite is Eltz Castle.
Neuschwanstein WAS completed. It's a popular misinformation though. It was one of 4 fairytale castles that king Ludwig had built (that delulu guy who wanted to be a fairytale prince and live in a Wagner opera), but this was the last one and was not finished while he was still alive. It was completely finished just a few years after Ludwig died.
It might be small in comparison but Schloss Lichtenstein always had a special place in my heart - the way it's positioned on that small cliff, connected by the narrow little bridge makes it quite magical. In terms of epic badassery I guess Burg Hohenzollern would take the trophy home.
My friendly fellow American is apparently not from Wisconsin. We eat bratwurst here. Hot dogs sometimes too, but what you will smell at Lambeau Field, where the Green Bay Packers play American football, and American Family Field, where the Milwaukee Brewers play baseball, is a whole lot of bratwursts being grilled while people are tail gating. Chorizos and Italian sausages sometimes as well, and plenty of pilsner or some other lager or ale to wash them down with.
Sausages in America are pretty regional, like in New Orleans you can get andouille and hot links (my personal favorite), which are spicy pork sausages. In areas with a lot of Polish descendants kielbasa is very popular. You just have to look around for a store selling the kind you like.
When 🇫🇮 me and my family went on our autumn holidays to the 🇪🇸🇮🇨 Canaries in the late 90s and the early 2000s, the majority of the taxis seemed to be Mercedes. However, when I did my Erasmus exchanges in Granada 2013 and Madrid 2016, things had changed and the majority of taxis were then Toyota Priuses. 🤔 Although the taxis weren't cheap for a poor student, I frequently hopped onboard one (Madrid is huge) and had conversations with the drivers which improved not only my skills in the Spanish language but I learnt about the culture too. That would not have happened had I chosen the bus or the metro instead (as someone from the countryside, I didn't even feel tempted to try out the latter, to be fair). 🤓🤗
the main difference is that those guns are widely used to kill people in the US and no speed limit doesn't lead to very high accident numbers in germany.
The are not "some" castles in Spain, the are a more than 20.000 castles wich is a lot. Also Disney's Snow White castle is inspired by the castle of Alcazar Segovia in Spain.
About the Spanish castles thing…. majority of Spanish Castles is not that they are in bad state of conservation, it’s more about they are older (Medieval times, most of them belonged to the crusaders and many others to the visigoths build during the reconquest of al-andalus times) and they were used as defensive fortresses in wars, while most of German castles are mostly from Renaissance and modern times and have been traditionally used as the luxurious residences of kings and bourgeois like Neuschwanstain for an instance. We can call them both castles but they have not much in common at the end.
not true. Germany was at first part of the Frankish Empire and later the Holy Roman Empire (the Empire with most states). This also meant that you had much more different nobilities, little kingdoms etc. which created castles (if you take all German created castles of Europe than its even way more). Germans has also most cities and most of many other things due to such reasons. Long story short: you had a big fluctuation of castle building and destroying (not always due to war. Many ppl were surprised to know for what profane reasons sometimes castles got deconstructed. Sometimes it was just kind of a moving to another place or because one could not pay back a lend etc.... in general many forget that similar to today the idea to change/re-build something was also already a thing back then - its not that all build something 'forever'. You had in fact much more castles and today its just a fraction - similar to that you had once also more old buildings and today just a fraction already BEFORE the world wars). Anyway, the oldest castles in Europe and the world are in Germany/Austria and UK (one is in Aleppo/Syria which was back then part of the Christian sphere). You are also WRONG about Neuschwanstein! Creating a castle based on older idealism was already in medieval time a thing and many were already back then created for such reasons. Thats NOT a new thing and Neuschwanstein as Castle is NOT in any way 'somehow not a real castle'. People who think that have an entirely wrong view on what castles really were back then and also how the medieval time was. Real differences are rather the different types of castles, for instance real fortresses, fortress castles with real defense structures, more representative castles without serious defense structures (even if on the first glance it looks like) and so on ... palaces of the more modern times (like Versailles, Sansouci, Schloss Charlottemburg etc.) are also a different thing. Apart from that: crusades where not only heading to the middle east etc. but you had also Northern Crusades. The biggest castle in the world was also created by Germans (Teutonic Order which started also as crusader movement). its the Malbork Castle (now in Poland). The longest castle in the world (>1km) is in Burghausen/Germany btw. ... anyway: you had crusader/order castles in many parts of Europe, most indeed in 'backyard' regions like the North-Eastern European parts, Spain, Portugal or in the Middle East/Levante etc. they often were also usually always also constructed with real defense in mind ...
Well, the "normal" speed on the Autobahn would be more like 130 to 140 km/h. At 150 - 170 you would definitely be faster than most other cars. Also on 30% of the Autobahn there actually is a speed limit, especially in urban areas. For the other 70% there is no speed limit but something called Richtgeschwindigkeit. Richtgeschwindigkeit is something like a recommended speed wich is 130 km/h. You are allowed to drive faster than the Richtgeschwindigkeit but only as long as it is save. When you drive faster than 130 and an accident happens you will at least partially be held responsible. Even if a slower car pulled in front of you. You would have to prove that the accident could not have been avoided at 130 in order to not be legally responsible. Also often times it is not even possible to go that fast because there is too much traffic. There have been several attempts to introduce a speed limit but there was always too much backlash from certain groups altough some polls state that slightly more than 50% of the population is pro speedlimit. Races are illegal regardless of the speedlimit. After several incidents, not only on the Autobahn but also in normal streets in city centers, there are even stricter laws now. Using these laws you could even be prosecuted for driving a race aginst yourself when you drive as fast as possible for the sole purpose of driving as fast as possible.
I don't know why that is, but if I drive 150, everyone else drives slower and I always have to overtake. Same at 140, 130 and even 120. Whatever speed I drive at, people always go slower than that. The more I notice it, the more it drives me nuts (pun intended). I can never just drive one speed.
@@Fuerwahrhalunke That is why I actually like driving on highways in neighbouring countries like the Netherlands more. Yes there I'm not allowed to drive as fast as I want to, but almost everyone drives at the same speed, which is the speed limit. In Germany everyone drives at a different speed which forces me to constantly change lanes and my own speed.
Regarding the Taxis, that was an argument made by Uber to get into the market. Only after they realized that, if they somehow managed to be recognized as a matchmaker, not a mobility service, they'd still be on the hook for tax fraud if the self-employed drivers didn't declare their income properly, they calmed down. It also didn't helt that our lobbying machine dug out some stuff like flexible tariffs for high-traffic occasions (the biggest one was, IIRC, an Uber fare for 3 miles from a convention center to a hotel that amounted to more that $80...).
I wish there were rules on what you could name children, bcz some of these modern names are dumb, and the spelling is intentionally incorrect. We have a lot of a---holes in the US and the names of their children reflect that.
Neuschwanstein is called a "fairy tale castle" for a reason... it is not "real". There are a lot of castles in Germany, and a lot of them date back to the age where "castle" was mainly a fortification. A "Ritterburg" - a knight's castle. My own home town has one dating back to the 13th century, and while it has changed over time, the original structure is still the dominating features, the massive walls, the stout tower. Famous example would be the Imperial Castle in Nuremberg, though Castle Eltz is more commonly known outside of Germany. Then there's a large number of more modern castles - the type that is usually called "Schloss" in German - maybe "palace" would be a good translation, or "stately mansion". Many of them were refurbished fortification type castles, others were custom build with the focus on comfort and representation, rather than defense and control. As Germany had a lot of different, larger or smaller, principalities during the modern era, there are a lot of examples for this kind of castle. You can find one of these, in a huge variety of styles and scopes, in basically every city that once was the seat of one of these almost-independent rulers. From my region, the Erlanger Stadtschloss would be an example... or, much more grandiose, the Prussian Schloss Sanssouci in Potsdam. Then there are the "reconstructed" castles. In the late 19th century, there was a huge enthusiasm for all things medieval, and many old, even ruined structures were rebuild, trying to recreate (with more or less success) the old orginal state. Fantastic example for such a castle would be the Burg Hohenzollern. Then, born from the same romanticist ideals of a medieval age of chivalry, is Castle Neuschwanstein. It's a fantasy. A complete fabrication. There had been an old castle in this place... but this new building had nothing to do with it. Neuschwanstein is a dream of a knight's castle, build by a hopeless dreamer. It's definitly impressive... but to put in into historical realation.. it was build after the American Civil War. And as a token of interest, there is Castle Guédelon (in France, not Germany, but a impressive example of a medieval castle). This _is_ as close to an authentic high medieval castle that you can get... and it was build in the late 20th century. In fact, it is still not finished. It was meant as an exercise in experimental archeology, and has turned into a massive and diverse project by now, as well as a huge tourist attraction.
I think a speed limit with 160 kmh would be good and still be fast. A lot of very fast drivers come very close and try to push you to the right side. That is annoying and dangerous.
We actualy don't eat that much bread. It's for providing some carbohydrate and being plated with butter, cheese, meat etc.. I'm used to eat bread in the morning and in the evening. Just 2, sometimes 3 usually small slices plated modestly with cheese or meat (no butter). In the past the poor ate coarse bread and mush like millet gruel, the wealthy a lot of meat. The traditional German dinner is copious with abundant meat and soup as starter, carbohydrates like potatoes or noodles and vegetables as supplements. The host is miffed if the guests didn't eat everything served.
Ah, reminds me of that one time I was in a bus and a Syrian dad was sitting next to me. We were chatting about his daughter who was about to have her first day of school shortly. Man, I worked hard to convince him to get her a Schul/Zuckertüte so she wouldn't feel like the odd one out! I think (and hope) I made it :)
0:39 Emma trying to pronounce "Neuschwanstein" ? 😬 Btw means New Swan Rock 🤓 Edit: her German is pretty good though, the way she says Hamburg 💯% and she really looks like from there, blonde hair, bright skin, sky blue eyes, plus her elegant attitude.
0:53 Spanish lady why did you say that? What was your intention? Did you wanna hurt the German girl? If you say all Germans are angry, unhappy and cold, then you also address HER. It was really insensitive and inappropriate to say something like that. She’s confronted with those malicious stereotypes on social media on a daily basis and you rubbed salt in the wound. Do you think she’s a robot with no feelings? Saying such things is hurtful and mean-spirited
German here. It doesn't hurt our feelings when people say that. It's just their impression, like people think the same of the Finns. To a certain extend it's true. We don't run around all smiley all day long. Why would we? That's not normal either...
Yeah, if you're close-minded, it's been quite a century since this happened. It's like thinking about slavery and the Native Americans when the USA comes up. Or think of the Romans wiping out the Dacians and Dacia from history, or Italian fascism when Italy comes up. I could go on and on, almost every nation has a dark past. Stop living in the past.
La mayoría de los accidentes son por estar borrachos o hacer algo muy imprudente como cruzarse de carril cuando no debía, pero sólo por la velocidad, generalmente no chocas, a menos que intentes doblar una curva cerrada a 180 kms, pero eso es de estúpido también.
6:46 _Du machst wohl Scherze!_ I’m pretty sure every other street in my city in Indonesia is narrower than Spreuerhofstraße 🤣 10:23 I wish we have this law in my country, because the names are getting so ridiculous they’re weirder than those made up names in Japanese RPGs 😓
I love german beers and my favorite german brands are franziskaner weissbier and warsteiner. however, I think the cezch people drink more beers than Germans. 😊
@@GwendolynL. So you must be Drive in another Germany as I do. I’m driving on basically every autobahn in Germany throughout the year due to my job and most of the time people don’t care. At some hot spots they might do it because a traffic jam is common there but if it is spontaneous they don’t do it.
We learn early on what it means to be independent. You don't learn that when mom and dad are always around you and do everything for you. Of course it's not like that for everyone, but after a certain age you don't want your parents to be there anymore
Entspannte Reisegeschwindigkeit ist für mich 180 km/ bis 210 km/h, wenn es der Verkehr erlaubt. Gut, können auch mal 230 sein. Und ja, ich habe die 250, die mein Fahrzeug kann, auch schon ausgefahren. Samstags, Nachts um 11, bei Vollmond. Es war absolut nichts los, kein Tempolimit, keine Kuppen oder unübersichtliche Kurven. Da habe ich mal durchgetreten. Aber meistens ist man doch eher mit 100 bis 120 unterwegs, weil es eben nicht schneller geht. Dass wir in Deutschland kein Tempolimit haben hat einen einfachen Grund. Als die ersten Autobahnen gebaut wurden (um 1920), waren diese für eine Geschwindigkeit von 160 km/h ausgelegt. Diese Geschwindigkeit ereichte aber zu dieser Zeit kein Fahrzeug, also war ein Tempolimit nicht nötig. Und dabei ist es bis heute geblieben. Wir haben allerdings eine Richtgeschwindigkeit. Diese liegt bei 130 km/h. Wenn man einen Unfall hat und ist, auch bei freigegebener Strecke, mit deutlich höherer Geschwindigkeit unterwegs gewesen, kann die Versicherung Zahlungen verweigern, respektive vom Unfallverursacher zurückfordern, da dieser mit fahrlässiger Geschwindigkeit unterwegs war.
For me it is insane because over 100 you burn a lot of fuel (exponentially each 10km/h) and consequently pollute. Given the fact that in Germany you collect plastic bottles to get money in order to be eco friendly and then proceed to launch an SUV 4k TFI 270hp between Berlin and Neuremberg it's german nonsense
@@manofsesame3024 this is inevitable in traffic jams. On the highway it's a choice, the driver understands perfectly that 25l/100km at 170km/h is polluting and burning money much more than 4l/100km at 110km/h so I find that paradoxical for a German with a daily rainbow trash use education
@@quelodequelo not sooo much. I'm driving a VW Polo GTI. 1.8 litres TFSI engine. The car needs roundabout 7.2 l/100km. Not much, if you realize, this engine has 200HP and can drive 250km/h. When I driven the max speed, it needed 12l/100km, but I drove perhaps 5km with this speed. This speed is not relaxed driving, so I went down to 210 again. This was fast enough. But one thing is clear: you don't need a 5 or 6 or 7 litres monster to have fun.
We do have beer in McDonalds in Spain and a lot of castles as well, but I think that they are not as impressive as the German ones, mainly because they are authentic medieval castles.
German is my third language, but don't think I would fit too well in Germany, other than I like to be direct...I am a free speech loving, never touched alcohol or any other drug in my life, vegetarian...
You'd be fine. Many young people in Germany are vegan or vegetarian and drinking alcohol is becoming less popular. I personally usually have alcohol free beer or cocktails without alcohol and that has never been an issue.
Most times when we drink alcohol we do not get black out drunk but just a bit tipsy ("social drinking" (after all everyone from the toddler to the 90+ year old granny are present at our festivities)), so it really isn't that much of a deal if you can't or don't want to drink. Towards vegetarianism: that's huge here in Germany and hence we do have a lot of meals and products available catered for vegetarians and vegans (even most sausage vendors nowadays offer a vegan option). From retailers over restaurants to street vendors, you will most likely find vegetarian and vegan options everywhere. Towards free speech: as we are known to be very direct and honest to a fault free speech is something engrained here and you feel a lot less pressure in how or what you say in comparison to the Anglophone world (well, my main point of reference is Canada as I lived there for a year as a student), the only real topics that are prohibited by law here are denying the Holocaust and calling for violence against groups or individuals and insulting/ defaming someone directly (as a consequence of the ban on duels after ww2, hence our state claims all power over questions of honour)
Berlin is the vegan capital of the world. And Germany one of the best countries for vegetarians and vegans by now. At least in the bigger cities. All my vegetarian friends struggle much more on holiday than here in Germany.
Why is the title „8 things the world didn’t know about Germany“ and they literally just showed the stereotypes I’m mean there’s so much more ppl ACTUALLY don’t know about Germany
Mercedes Benz cars tend to be excellent and uglies. Thank God you have Bmw and Porsche. I have had a volkswagen. Good car though its shape is not that lovable but it's ok.
When I visited Germany, my family and I went to a McDonald’s and they sold warm wine. Also the Disney castle in Germany was for sleeping beauty or Cinderella I could be mistaken
Warm wine is Glühwein and is served at Christmas time, you get it typically/usually at the Christmas markets. Cinderella (Aschenputtel or Aschenbrödel) and Sleeping Beauty (Dornröschen) are natural habitants of a German castle (Schloss).
7:18 Sorry, I have to disagree. The lack of a speed limit is, in my opinion, one of the worst things in Germany. It's bad for: - the outcome of accidents - the environment - health (noise) 11:36 You obviously have a "selective hearing". For years, there has been a majority in favour of a speed limit on motorways. According to statista, 64% are in favor of a limit of 130 km/h in 2024. 21% say "no way" compared to 42% "definitely". Regarding traffic accidents, I think that there are no Europe-wide statistics that generally record traffic accidents on motorways. (Correct me if I'm wrong) There is only the comparison for fatal accidents, which says relatively little as the cars themselves became safer and safer. It is also important that when it comes to the consequences of accidents, the technical condition of the vehicles is much more important
"The outcome of accidents" - On the non-speed limit parts, accidents are not more fatal than on the others, but you are right: if we impose a speed limit of 20 km/h, probably no fatal crashes would occur anymore. "The environment" - Everything has some negative impact on the environment to some extent. "Health (noise)" - Really, let me guess, but you are in favor of windmills? Not to mention that there are guidelines for noise pollution, and a speed limit of 130 wouldn't do anything. It depends on the survey, there are many where most are against a speed limit, and some where most are in favor of it. Objectively, it's about 50/50. Also, if you only ask people who drive cars, you get totally different number,; the vast majority in favor of a speed limit don't even drive cars. There is a statistic from the European Commission. To cut it short, Germany ranks 6th with the fewest traffic fatalities per capita. More people die from drowning than on The Autobahn. I am not a car driver myself, at least not since I moved to the city, so I could be indifferent. But what I don't like is making laws and prohibitions where they are not needed, "Germany, the land of prohibitions." We have much bigger problems that our politicians should be dealing with.
i googled your castle in spain. It doesn't even look like Neuschwanstein and in what distorted world is the castle more beautiful? nationalism at its best. Why can't you admit when something is better somewhere else? so narrow minded.
@@johnnyk3950 IT is not true, and it is not a castle, it is an Alcázar. Place where the catholic kings lived and planned the future of The kingdom of Castile and Aragon. It is not nationalism it is true SEARCH it
@@cosmo9390 AS you see in this video it's always the same. Bad weather, cold people, discipline and quality over everything. I don't say it's bad but even cliches are constant, like for years.
@@aydogank45 When I first read it I thought you meant that Germany is boring :D but you mean the video and I agree with you. By now everyone should have realized that not all clichés are always true. I don't understand why something so irrelevant is still talked about
"Clean"??? I don't know where you are/where you got that picture from, but it really depends heavily on where you are and who is living there. The more you get outside of the city, the cleaner it gets. The more Germans you have, the cleaner it gets. The older those Germans are, the cleaner it gets. This is especially the case in west Germany. Towns and small to medium cities with older Germans are typically the cleanest.
They are all talking to each other in English, which isn't their first language. They are conquering the division of cultures and nations. Their awkwardness is a wonderful thing to see in the name of progress.
