🔥 my original plan for this year was to go to russia, south africa, turkey, indonesia, and other corners of the world and make these minidocs, but clearly 🤷🏼♂️ that wasn't meant to happen in 2020. if you've been watching my IG story, you've been seeing that instead, i'm back in paris gettin' in fights with uber drivers and trying to get a hold of customer service to locate my damn computer monitor. please 2021, save us all. 🔥 production companies or tv agents who are tryna do a show like this with me, boom: management @ damondominique . com
Looks like your still making the best of 2020. An update on what is going on in Paris would be interesting. But I know we’re all tired of hearing and talking about covid.
this video hurt my heart a little. i love berlin. was born & raised there. i had to move recently because i couldn't afford the rent anymore. i don't get checks from my parents. and even working 2 jobs as a fulltime student isn't enough. yes, university is free but OH MY GOD THE RENT. berlin used to be so alternative and humble. but now, behind the berghain and "festival vibes" facade, it reeks of capitalism and rich kids. berlin has become more colorful culture wise, but also fucking expensive. i never thought the place i call my home would become unattainable to me and my childhood friends. glad you enjoyed it tho hahaha
And now so many former Berliner move to Leipzig so shit will get more expensive here too and less affordable every damn year. I hate it, it used to be so nice and just the right amount of big city with some small city and alternative vibes and now it's getting more expensive and capitalist here too.
Yes this is happening to so many cities... I guess we just have to move on to somewhere else, make it cool, and enjoy life before that gets ruined too🙈
hiss editing. his shots. his FITS. i swear this is one of the most unique yt channels and you can see how much effort is put into every video!! i literally never comment on yt videos but i had to say this cause i’m amazeddddd
The cashier at the Aldi was rude not using any form of "please" - though being rude is typical Berlin, since they think they are capital ... I guess, it is the same with Parisians or Muscovites.
@@judithtraill4246 sorry, though this rudeness is fairly common in Berlin, it is not healthy especially in a city where a lot of tourists from other German regions or other countries are around. But I' m not shy to remind some of those people what impression of Berlin they make.
@@henningbartels6245 I've experienced similar rudeness by Aldi cashiers in southern Germany (Munich and Heidelberg) - unfortunately it's pretty common throughout
bruh why is everyone asking for a tv show......... this is already better than tv shows or at least different in a more personal and special way and its free like hello??????????? although as i type this i realize that he would probably be paid more if it was an actual tv show which would reflect the value better of this incredible work in a monetized way so idk. he definitely deserves it if he wants it
I agree. I think if he signed a contract with some production company, they would take away some of his creative freedom and potentially force him to play some type of role that might get old or not be genuine. I mean ,I don't know Damon personally, so his youtube persona could be different from his non-youtube persona, but nonetheless I like youtube damon and his editing is damn good.
i love this doku, but it was made from a very privileged point of view. For example for the server in the turkish sweets shop, berlin is not all fun and free time and no work. For people who live in berlin since more than one generation, especially immigrant families, Berlin is a hard place to live, its dirty because of all the tourists, party people and junkies, wages are low and rents are rising ridiculously (also because of gentrification and people who can afford to move to berlin and live alone on 75 m^2). And you go to this sweets shop, consume their way to live as a short cultural experience and talk about how much free time everybody has in berlin. While you have partied sooo free the whole night just to eat a Döner at 5 am, the man who makes the Döner has worked in the Dönerstand the whole night. You interviewed people who have the privilege of free time, who can afford to live in a wg (shared flat) to study in berlin, who can afford to live their dream life. But everything you consume is provided by people who have to work really hard for a little freetime and just enough money to pay the rent. Everywhere you can save money and still consume, someone else has to pay the price for it. When you are in the toilet of an alternative café and it says „eat the rich“ their is a big chance, that with „the rich“ they mean people like you. When you travel the world and consume cities, please don‘t forget about the people who actually have to live in these cities and that their experiences in these cities are completely different to yours and also don’t forget that these people probably can’t afford this live, where you hop from one city to another and consume the lifestyle of the city instead of living it. Also you can communicate in berlin because you speak english, while bilingual people who speak for example turkish as their mothertongue will be shamed often. Great doku, but please check your privilege and maybe also talk to original berlin people about the not so pretty sides of the city and its lifestyle.
Yeah... so this applies to basically every major city in the world? What a stupid point to make. This video would obviously have a tourist perspective. Tourists with money go visit places while the working people there have to work to make ends meet. You would rather go sleep on the streets with the homeless first or accompany the garbage men at night to see what it's like for them so you have checked your "privilege", got ya.
@@o0oSM00THo0o at least he should not have said „in berlin it‘s not about money. how do they pay rent?“ and just ask. Because berlin is not about money for HIM, but for most people it definitely is. And yes, i would prever if people would stop consuming place, we aren‘t living in colonial times anymore. Tourism can also be acknowledging how the life in a city really is instead of using the city like a zoo, watching scenarios and just saying „huh interesting“. You don’t need to sleep on the streets or work with the garbage men, but you should be aware, that you as a tourist or as someone living in a fancy apartment, just because berlin is so „iNtErEsTiNg“ are part of the problem that there are also not so pretty sides of living in berlin. checking you privilege doesn’t mean, you have to experience all the stuff the not so privilege people experience, but it means acknowledging that not everybody has the same chances like you, that not everything is only about yourself, that you maybe even are causing the problems of others and that this city does not exist for your cultural experience alone. The video title is „Everything other than Beer and techno that Berlin should be known for“ and Berlin defined should not be known for not caring about money and having so much freetime. That people don’t have money doesn‘t mean, they don’t care, this is a incorrect conclusion, the correct conclusion is, that berlin has a lot of poverty, also because of people who come to berlin, because it‘s so „interesting“ and that berlin should also be known for their inequity and poverty. Berlin is actually very known for their punk and squatter szene which formed the whole culture of berlin. so if you want to make a doku about berlin culture, you should give information or should be informed about the background of this culture.
Thanks for your comment. I have the same point of view and totally agree with you. Because of the rising rentprices I have to drive over an hour to university (in the middle of Berlin). I can not afford the rent near my uni because of the exesive tourism and the people from outside that can afford paying 1300 for 30m2.
the WAY my black ass perked up when the cute boy started talking about the need to address Germany's colonialist past ... in his German accent 🤩 I will take two of those please
Das is bei jedem RU-vid Video so, in dem entweder das Wort Deutsch vorkommt oder ein Deutscher nur durchs Bild läuft. Wir sind eine invasive Spezies, vor allem, was den Kommentar Bereich angeht :D
Can we just take a second to acknowledge that Damon truly is a cultural anthropologist? I'm in school for that now and you're literally doing what I want to do: visit different countries, meet and build relationships with people from all over, explore and learn about their language/culture while filming. This is so awesome and I'm inspired by every video that you make. If you ever go back to school, please get a degree in visual or cultural anthropology! I would absolutely LOVE a series of you just making these kinds of docs. They're interesting, short, and to the point, and you include a lot in them.
going to school for anthropology (archaeology focused) as well and i agree!! his documentaries arent necessarily similar in an academic sense, but i think i am drawned to him just because how close he highlights culture in his videos, especially in his travel documentaries, it is honestly something really rare which even the most high budget documentaries do a poor job at portraying, which is why i love damon
oh yah! except don't some cultural anthropologists think that it's impossible to study Western societies/countries as a whole because of the huge diversity in populations/cultural norms even within the same country? just putting this out there, not trying to bring anyone down! but do you have some thoughts on this?
This episode made me realize that you are the answer to Anthony Bourdain. I think when you have your fully produced TV series people will see you as the next great travel show. 🙏🏻
Love Anthony Bourdain and everything he did and taught the world in his style 🏆 Would be an honor to continue what he did on a larger platform! Anyway thank you for saying that ❤️
This needs to be a netflix series! The cinematography feels so coming of age and the way you handle yourself in front of the camera is so candid, it's unlike any documentary I've ever seen before. A great watch.
The way Damon effortlessly makes friends with complete strangers in random European cities... my social anxiety could NEVER Side note, thank you Damon for inspiring me to make my own content!
Omg same. But I guess he kinda has to because he basically has to ask for help as a foreigner (at least that's what I had to do when I was abroad). But I'm back home and I'm back to not speaking to strangers😆✌️
This is a deep study of a city; you dont just show the standard things, you show the flowing dynamics and the inner values; the overall atmosphere and the little nuances - all the things that actually matter the most when you're experiencing a city.
And since socialism had also proven to not be a sustainable system and you don't like capitalism, instead of being negative, how about giving some ideas? What do you think people should do?
@@slidenapps omg having critics about capitalism isn't "being negative" or being a socialist. You should probably read the comment again (and also read more about both sistems) and be chill pls 💜
really? when I was in Germany (Bautzen) in some kinda super market cashier literally screamed HALLO!! at me with the biggest smile (I was terrified but in a good way haha) and also it's maybe like only Bautzen thing but there was no walkway anywhere so you could just cross the street where you wanted and every car was stopping and no one had a problem with it maybe it's like cultural differences between cities/lands...idk
Berlin is our grumpy town. It's kinda mandatory to be slightly pissed off all the time. Berlin dialect is referred to as "Berliner Schnauze" (Schnauze means mouth, mouth of an animal or here: way of talking) which is a loving way to show the ruffness of the capital.
"Was there like a huge border?" (surrounding East Germany instead of only east berlin is what you were asking I think) Because the lovely dude didn't answer you're question I will: YES THERE WAS. It was called the "Todesstreifen:" aka "deathstripe?" idk. Anyway: Along the border with Schleswig-Holstein, Lower Saxony, Hesse, and Bavaria, a regulation which provided for a 5-kilometer wide restricted area on the territory of the GDR had been in force since 1952. From then on, every border crossing was subject to authorization. In the restricted area, there was a 500-meter wide protective strip "the Todesstreifen" at the border and a 10-meter wide control strip immediately in front of it. Entering the restricted area was subject to the obligation to obtain a permit, for which the residents had to register.
My favorite part of all this was “I’m 29, I’m getting this bowl”. Getting older has been such a point of liberation for me because of little, seemingly insignificant moments like that. Have things the way you want and don’t be too afraid or too shy or too ashamed to ask for it.
@@rafaelandreano hahahaha sure. Dear, keep your 60 hour working week, your low life expentancies, the missing maternity leave, the non-existing holidays and your expensive and unefective health insurances. Here in Europe we stick with socialism 😘
Loved the blond dude mindset on acknowledging historic/current colonial behaviours: "yeah we are changing and doing better than other places, but we can do better" God, i dream about the day i can visit this country ✨
"Germany has enough to say I'm sorry about" is a weird response to someone saying the German colonial past must be acknowledged and spoken about esp because systemic racism (based on colour) is still highly prevalent in all spheres of German society, EVEN in Berlin. jus my 2 cents
That’s a good point... we were all feckin poor by the end of WWII while the USA was BOOMING. It’s like European countries were having tantrums and fighting with each other, throwing our toys out the pram and ripping each other’s up until it was over and we realised we didn’t have any toys anymore 😂
Americans care way more about status symbols. They spend money they don't have on stuff they don't need. It also happens in Europe, but not on the same degree. In Germany in particular we're taught from early ages to save money whenever possible and to think twice about what to spend it on or not.
in the US spending money is unavoidable and part of the stress on having a good job is having health insurance, dental ect since health problems can put you in debt. If you go to college you will have massive amounts of debt as well, and most will be paying that up till they are 45 years old. Most cities in the US are also way more expensive. You couldn't live in NYC by working in a coffee shop unless you lived with 3 roommates and decided not to have children.
Hello Damon, 24 years old Turkish person speaking, i really admire your appreciation of the culture wherever you go or whom you are speaking to. And if your plans work out about travelling to Turkey i would love to show you around and teach you how to consume sunflowers :D
As a Turk, watching Damon struggle with his sunflower seed eating technique was pretty amusing (in a cute way). I feel like if he went to Turkey he would get the cultural context a bit better. In that German cafe it seemed like just a cool thing to snack on, whereas in Turkey eating sunflower seeds to while away the time is more of a national past time, while you catch up on gossip, watch people and think about life :)
It's going to sound SO CLICHE but Berlin changed my life 13 years ago. I freaking love Berlin and I hope to live back there one day...soon. Loved this video!
This little discussion between the tour guide and the native-berliner is actually super interesting. Because i was born and raised in Berlin and people looking from the outside in put Berlin on this pedestal that native Berliners sometimes cant comprehend lol.
Exactly! Just because Germany is doing a better job than some countries doesn't mean that we are doing a good enough job. We do have a problem with racism that shouldn't just be swept under the rug like this.
@@NoPityForThePlatsch exactly! And I totally get that people who come from other countries compare it to other countries like the US (which is a joke at that point)
Honestly his "Berlin/Germany has enough to say sorry for" rubbed me the wrong way, like, why would you think things are perfect now and even BE so confrontational with the other guy who was so chill Like hey, I'm not saying that because he's from Berlin he has ALL the facts but at least have some respect for someone who's clearly speaking from his love of his city, like damn I don't know what the deal with people from other countries (specially the US, honestly) who are so CERTAIN everything they know and say are just facts
okay about that magician=musician thing, I met this German guy once at a beach and he told me he's a 'magician'. Later that day in the evening he started playing music with his guitar and after he's done i'm like cool what about the magic? And he's like that's enough for today. I WAS SO CONFUSED FOR QUITE SOMETIME until I realised...
I love that you mentioned that Berlin "isn't about the money". I'm from Canada, and I feel like we have the same mentality than Americans in the sense that we are a capitalist country where careers are an important social status factor. I lived in Berlin for a year and I noticed that no one talked about their work or how much money they made during conversations with friends... money just wasn't important, nor was climbing up the ladders in big corporate companies. I miss that SO much about Berlin. What a great city - thank you for this lovely and interesting documentary!
Tbh I think that's more of an East German thing. In West Germany many people do care about climbing up the ladders in big corporate companies, especially in cities like Stuttgart, Munich, Frankfurt, Hamburg. Berlin lost all company headquarters when it was split and they never returned. So people intending to make a big career are less likely to move to Berlin. Talking about wages is a big taboo in Germany. That is really frowned upon over here. I think it is the same in most European countries. The idea is that if you tell how much money you make, people will either pity you or be jealous at you. Both isn't nice, so you've got nothing to gain by telling.
The font on the U-Bahn and S-Bahn signs and the whole BVG Plan system was designed by Erik Spiekermann who is the typography genius behind so many signs, logos and typography.
Isso... ich finde es schon krass, wie positiv er über Berlin gesprochen hat. Meiner Meinung nach ist Berlin so eine Stadt, die man entweder hasst oder mag. Bei ihm merkt man, dass er die Stadt gern hat.
Damon can make the most boring storyline extremely interesting. Like walking down a street, or eating... I've watched many of his videos and I can't get enough. What is this voodoo?
Just saying (from a German speaker): The gender of a word does not change in the different cases, it always remains the same. It's just the form of the article that changes (but not the gender)... Loved your documentary, Damon! Keep it up!
Yeah, he just gets it confused because it does seems to anybody who hasn't learned about akkusativ, nominativ and dativ, that the noun's gender will just "randomly" change in a sentence (like from die to der) when in fact this change is because the verb in sentence is either akkusativ or dativ (for example), and this will change the gendered "the" to a new word, which happens to look like other gendered "the's", but that's just a coincidence. Albeit, a VERY confusing coincidence :)
"Oh we're in Berlin, sorry, nothing's weird here." The utter lack of self-reflection in this video is astounding. Y'all tourists need to realize that a lot of the people you consider to be "cool Berliners" weren't born and raised here, but moved to Berlin to indulge in their hedonistic lifestyle and let their parents cover all their expenses. I can't put into words how much this privileged minority has diluted the city's atmosphere, especially in the past 10 years, while immigrants and working class people are being pushed towards the outskirts of town because no one can afford rent anymore in those trendy districts. Immigrants have shaped the city into a multicultural hub, but now that this second wave of privileged, entitled immigrants has arrived it just keeps draining Berlin of its grit and its very essence: the people who created its atmosphere .Also, tuition might be cheap, but if you're working a part time job that barely covers your expenses and your parents can't support you, it's damn hard to scratch together those 300 € every 6 months.
So basically New York, Portland, Austin, etc. Also side note: his videos have been lacking a certain something since him and Jo went their separate ways.
Barförg is a thing and after that you're not 50.000 Dollars in debt. And you still can have a part time job like any other student in this world? I don't get this. I don't say it's easy, but it's definitely 100 times easier here than in the US. There you just have a debt for the rest of your life.
@@MinishMilly Not everyone qualifies for Bafög for different reasons; maybe you changed your major 3 semesters in or don't have proof of your fathers income because you're not in touch with him. As a student without Bafög, you can work for a maximum of 20 hours a week which results in 1000€ a month, if you're lucky. Most students I know make 800€. If you have Bafög, you are only allowed to make an additional 450€ per month, which is great for those who qualify. Don't get me wrong, the American system is absolutely terrible and I feel bad for anyone who has to start their career being heavily in debt, but saying that ANYONE could afford university in Germany is just super ignorant, as was this whole vlog.
@@shinaomisanya5367 I was just about to write how this comment reminds me of my hometown Austin, when I was Germany, I was like this reminds me of Austin. Smh
Am I the only one that gets nervious by the fact that Damon leaves his camera aside to film himself walking risking that a thief grab it and run. no? anyone?
@@nowellahhh i remember when i was younger, we had many kids beaten up at school that looked like the guys in the video. We did not have enough money to live in these flashy neighbourhoods. So we lived in the same house as drug addicts and I saw someone jump before I turned 9. We took drugs, sold drugs and if we wanted to we got our drugs one way or the other. If I was dressed and would behave like the people in the video, I would have been done. So yeah, many rich people here in Berlin. By the way 90% of my friends aren't German. In Kreuzberg, Friedrichshain or Schöneberg this is what you'll see. But visit Nauener Platz or Schönleinstraße at night. That is the real Berlin...
I just started studying law. My semester fee was 250 Euros and that covers public transportation. One of the reasons I chose Germany over English speaking countries actually. (not a native German)
Thats not completely true cause, semester cost include a ticket for the public transport system for berlin and that is round about 200 € which you have to pay if you want it or not... So you end up with more like 300 € per semester.
@@autumnlover12358 that absolutely true, in Germany they want that education is available for everyone... So even if you or your parents aren't able to pay 600 a year for university the government will pay it for you and the only condition is that you prove every semester that you do your best and pass the courses...
@@autumnlover12358 yeah i know how hard the us can be... Have a lot of family in California... I don't know tho how easy it is to come here for studying... I would presume that tere are conditions bound to it... Something like a Stipend or to stay here for some years after finishing the studies or something...
@@autumnlover12358 ohh yeah California is fucking expensive... But the wages are also much higher so i don't know fore sure how it comes out to be... Berlin isn't super expensive like munic for example but the wages here are also much lower so we always have to see the ratio between that... Rent is eating up one third or half of the wage for most people here...
yeah! I love this video, but there was some comments that he said... Germans are... Germany is blah blah, when it is clearly should have been "Berlin is..." or "In Berlin people are... "
@@samal-scharkauy268 yeah it was supposed to be finished earlier and cost way less but it took so long and cost way more than the budget so it’s kind of a joke 😂
The weird thing about this video for me it's all about how carefree ppl in Berlin are but as a brazillian we tend to view germans as really strict and uptight, I don't know how to conciliate these two perspectives lol
Careful Berlin is a special place in Germany AND Damon was only in specific areas in Berlin which I wouldn't call a representative of Berlin because every neighborhood there is like a city themselves. (Kinda like London). When you go to the neighborhoods Spandau or Marzah you'll be surprised to find conservative, less carefree people being in the majority. There is a very different vibe than the central neighborhoods in Berlin and even there you have a completely different vibe sometimes with different streets. Overall: Always make the distinction between Big cities in Germany like Hamburg, Bremen, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Leipzig or even Munich and smaller cities like Darmstadt, Mainz, Rostock, Würzburg, Kassel, Erfurt or Jena. -> Generally speaking, the countryside tends to be more like the stereotype you have about Germany but obviously, people there can be carefree as well. Depends very much on the person. Bavaria is probably the place with the most conservative people even in a big city like Munich but this doesn't apply to everyone. So you can see: Never generalize Germany. The country was always very diverse even back in the middle ages with different kingdoms, religions, and so on and so on.
Well, the hipsters, ravers and fashion students in Berlin are like this. You will see a lot of typical German behavior if you go outside of Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain. But yeah Berlin is kinda it's own bubble. Art students and people who didn't want to serve in the army went to West Berlin during the cold war which is why Berlin is what it is today. After the fall of the iron curtain, people started to use empty factories and buildings for their parties which is how the Techno scene developed. The rest of Germany didn't develop like that.
I've been a fan for years (circa damon and jo...literally all the videos, shut up and go etc) and you are seriously killin' it with this chapter in your life. The artistry in your story telling is so well crafted it feels effortless. THANK you for sharing it with us. I'm a travel junkie myself and am totally living through you during this wacky 2020. You have a life long follower here. Muah!
I'm from Berlin and moved away a while ago and this made me fall in love with the city again. You showed me what I loved about Berlin and what I'll always remember. Thank you! Seriously, thank you so much! Late night Döners, park-encounters, openess, friendliness, the feeling of being sorrounded by people who are down-to-earth and yet at the same time somewhere else in the clouds; depending on how much money you have for the rest of the month haha wonderful video!
@@lucyy1458 it was so funny when I went to berlin for the first time. My friend picked us up, drove to the gas station to fill up the car and immediately bought us Club Mate 😂😂 it was the first thing I was "allowed to consume" in berlin 😄
What an idea to interview the guys from the photobooth!! Everyone sees them and love them but nobody really actually bother to know more about it. Great idea !!
This made me fall in love with my own city, again thank you! I kind of forgot what this city has been about and still is even though, like Yang said, it is changing rapidly
10:12 when Yang said she was part Turkish, I was so surprised! It is so rare that people talk about Turks without insulting them. Bless her, she's so sweet.
I love this video! Berlin is for sure one of my favorite places I've visited. And the one thing you didn't include (probably because i doesn't happen to you) that really stood out to me is that I traveled by myself to Berlin and went everywhere by myself at all times of day and not even once was I harassed! That has literally never happened to me as a female traveler in ANY city I've visited before. I felt very very safe and comfortable there as a solo female traveler.
You've captured the vibe of Berlin so perfectly! I love how genuinely interested you are in different cultures and experiencing cities in a non-touristy way if that makes sense. Also, this video is a piece of art, honestly 😊
