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In fact, it is pretty easy to wind Germans up - just make a joke about us ... we won't laugh but instead irritatedly tell you that things are inaccurate
I'm from the deep deep south (Allgäu), and my father usually says to our lovely visitors from the northern parts of Germany that "it must be a matter of intelligence (for you to not understand me) as I understand you perfectly". Can be applied to most interactions between high-german and dialect speakers...
@@hanszimmer9224 Ich komme aus NRW und unsere Firma hat auch einen Sitz in Stuttgart und Villingen-Schwenningen und viele der Kollegen versuchen sich zwar an Hochdeutsch, aber ich verstehe sie trotzdem nicht. :D Manche schaffen es, aber man hört trotzdem das sie aus BW kommen :D
The "pickle on the christmas tree" is actually really funny, I've heard a lot of americans talk about how germans do that (supposedly), but I've never seen a german do that 😂
Diana42 The Tradition of pickles on a Christmas tree delevoped in the city of Oldenburg, where my father is from. It was a really local hype among youngsters. For a few years now, the retail chain Nanu Nana, (headquarter in Oldenburg) started selling them in all of their shops in Germany, so the pickle thing is now known in many parts of Germany.
@@kerstinola6141 thank you for explaining! I live in south germany, maybe the tradition isn't as big here. But you're right, baubles in the shape of pickles are being sold in every Christmas store :)
There is a simple explanation to the Bielefeld joke: _They_ want you to believe that it is only a joke that Bielefeld does not exist. So in order to undermine all the valid skepticism about its existence, _they_ are claiming that it is all some sort of meme that goes around. It's quite clever, but you shouldn't fall for that tactic.
Again and again I'm astonished by the fact what our government, school book publishing houses etc etc did to convince us all that "Bielefeld" exists. Not to mention the psychological master minds that could convince @Sampler19 and many more people that they were "born" there... Wow! Wow! Wow!
As a rhenish guy I feel highly offended that we are considered as rude... for most germans know that the people in Berlin are the rudest in all of Germany 😉😁
@@jonahhumkamp1032 na ich als "Westdeutsche" ( bin Nordfriesin ) wunderte mich, daß geklagt wird: Mieten, die künstlich niedrig waren, langsam bundesdeutschen Standards entsprechen. Das war in der "BRD" normal. Und dann im Kaufhaus: jehnse ma dahinten . ( als Bedienung)...komisches Volk.
Peter, you´re absolutely right. One day in Cologne and we all know how friendly people can be. One day in Berlin and you breath deeply not to kick somebody in the face.
As far as I know, the lower and upper terms come from geographical reference points. So either from the general height Level (sea level) or for example from a river, as in Upper Austria and Lower Austria (above and below the river Enns).
Interestingly, what is today "Saxony" wasn't Saxon at all in historic times. The Saxons as a family of Germanic tribes lived in northwestern Germany, i.e. in much of what is actually Lower Saxony today, and in parts of the Netherlands. It was only through late medieval power politics between German kings and other rulers that what would later become the state of Saxony was annexed by the Saxons.
Niedersachsen is the original Saxony. The Freestate of Sachsen is just called that way because of aristocrat lineage. It was called Mark Meißen before that 😏 Fun fact: Westfalia is the former Western part of the original Saxony. Therefore the name...
@@frankthetank5708 and there are more "saxonies" ... just like the usa have "new" towns named after Amsterdam, York, Orleans, there is an island to the northwest which is the land of the angle-saxons :-)
Hi Nalf, I am a German and I am not offended at all. You show so much empathy for my country that I am grateful. It is good to have you here. Regards from Berlin.
Good job! This is to answer the question: Bremen - why? After WW II the american troops stayed in the southern area, the north was under british occupation. The american forces needed a harbour to supply their troops, but there is no sea-harbour in the southern region. Then Bremerhaven was chosen to be the "american port" and Hamburg was used by the british. The city of Bremen and Bremerhaven have throughout history been independent from the surrounding parts that now are lower saxonary. Bremen has a very long tradition as beeing an importent part of the Hanseatic League (Hamburg also was, but of less importance). After WW II the victorious powers rebuild Germany, east and west seperated. But for the independent Cities of Bremen and Hamburg, it stayed the way it was. By the way, there is a rivalry between two cities - Hamburg and Bremen! Hamburg still today is very british, some would say nosy (stereotype!) ...
How could a sport be called football when you kick the ball maybe like a dozen times and the rest of the game you do something completely different. In the real football the goal keeper alone kicks the ball more often. I think American Football developed like this: Some people though it would be fun to have a game where you just kick the ball wit the foot. So they asked a guy to make a ball. It didn't work out very well with the shape of the ball and it was really difficult to handle it with the foot. So they decided that you could also carry the ball and run with it, which became the more preferred way of playing. But in the end they forgot to rename the game.
Well i am one of the 5 persons who startet the Bielefeld hoax in 1991. It was the World without www. Well in Hamburg there is one of the universitys of the Bundeswehr (armed forces of germany). And in 1991 the bundesautobahn A2 had a hell of a road work for nearly 2 years at Bielefeld. And some of the studends from the southern parts of Germany had to stand hours in the traffic jam at Bielefeld. On their way from home back to the university. Well there was this motorway exit sign where the name Bielefeld was crossed out with red tape. Well you are in the age now so you will imagine what bored young men in a car in a traffic jam with no mobiles will do. We shoot some photos (analog camera). And started to discuss why the name Bielefeld was crossed out with red tape. It also happened that one of us had run a black board at the University. That is something like a web side before the www internet you know. We all had so much fun discussing the differend possibilities why Bielefeld was crossed out, that we digitaised the Foto and put it on our black board. Than we programmed something that today would be a chat. Within less than a week we had a lot of problems, because the server and the telefon connection could not cope with the amount of people who whant to take part in the Bielefeld discussions. I am not sure but i think it was in 1993 or 1994 that the student who cared for the Bielefeld black board left the university and become an navy officer in Kiel. As much as i know he gave the data from the black board to someone who used it to create a http web side that started in 1995 the word wide hoax of Bielefeld. Well it didn't start the ailen landing and the "Die" for all who opposed the hoax, but it really spread the Bielefeld hoax from Germany to the rest of the world. Now it is something like the Bremen underground rail way or the flat earth theory. A really funny joke no one can get out of the web. I apologize for starting this. Today i know a lot of people who come from Bielefeld and some are even born there. But looking back i have to say that i would do it again. It was too much fun not to do it.
Die DB hat oder zumindest einen ähnlichen Hinweis: Auf dem Abfahrtsplan Bochum Hbf waren beim RE nach Minden zwar Gütersloh und Herford erwähnt, nicht aber das dazwischenliegende Bielefeld, obwohl das ja deutlich mehr Einwohner haben soll.
11:40 actually there is 4 Saxonys: Saxony, Lower Saxony, Saxony Anhalt and Anglo Saxony. The latter established the Kingdom of England.. Its not that important tho ;)
But saxony and saxony Anhalt for me are not saxons the just stole the name, for me the are not even Germanic, the are Slavic. There was just one King from the saxons. I came from the mean region of the saxons “Gau Haduloha” and we are proud to be saxons and for our history and culture.
2:35 definitely true. Germany is the Heart of Europe where many cultures come together. That's why Germans number 1 travel destination is Germany itself; even before Spain or Italy (The Newspaper RP wrote that). And that's also the reason why Germans are sick about the American Stereotype that we are all Bavarian 😂
I work in national parks in the US. Germans definitely get out to our national parks more than others, and considering the population the Dutch get around the US also. I'm in New York City now and of course EVERYONE comes here, and everyone lives here already.
Reason is that most americans in Germany were american soldiers that had its "american sector" in Bavaria after WWII. The British soldiers were more in northern germany.
Dude you know more about Germany than me. I was always pretty ashamed of being German because all I hear on the internet was "Nazi with bad English and creepy language haha funny" and I kind of hated it, so when I discovered your channel it was just really refreshing. I love the fact that you and your friends take so much time to explore Germany and even its daily life. It's just great to see people enjoy the little things in countries once foreign to them and the roasting is always a funny moment for me because there's many things that catch me off guard since I didn't know them yet. Your videos helped me become a little more proud to be German, thank you.
Very nice video - thanks 🙂 Just to help you with the "lower" and "upper" in our geography: This does not refer to southern or northern but to the altitude vs. seas level. What always helps is the direction rivers run. E.g. they run from Oberbayern (upper Bavaria) to Niederbayern (lower Bavaria).
Dont tell everybody in Baden-Württemberg, they have a "swabian accent". 50 km west of you, you would get killed for such a sentence. And even where you live, it is "Hohenlohe-fränkisch", but not swabian...
...haha, right. And here in the deep South we are speaking Alemanic, not Swabian. Sometimes the Swiss people call us (to tease us) "Swabians". - What an insult! We are "Badeners" not Swabians. :-)
In my teens, I spent every year a month with my bavarian penpal, 2 weeks with my family and 2 with her in SMÜ (Schwabmünchen) just south of Augsburg. And I spoke a quiet good german with a weird swabian accent ! It's in the Swabia Distrct of Bavaria :D My host family spoke swabisch and hochdeutsch and my brother, 2 roads away was in a family from München who spoke bayrisch. So we didn't speak german with the same accent, but our 2 family had a strong bayrisch feeling. ( We learned a lot of jokes about people of the nord east Germany ! :D I'm not sure it was jokes in fact ! ).
@@12tanuha21 : Haha - imho you´re right. But Swabians say that they speak a different dialect, which is not related to Alemanic language and they are a different tribe. ....and that they have been first here in Southern Germany, before the Alemanic tribes arrived. Scandal! Which is imho not true. "We" have been here about 100-200 years before! :-) Btw: I like Swabians, I lived in Albstadt Ebingen and Böblingen/Stuttgart for a couple of years. I had a great time there, with great people. ...and I have to admit, after staying there: Now I´m a proud owner of a "Spätzlepresse" (a Swabian pasta press for Spaetzle).
Explanation for the Bielefeld joke: There has been a college party in Kiel in 1993 and one of the guests was from Bielefeld. The others haven't ever been to Bielefeld so one dropped the sentence: " _Bielefeld? Das gibt's doch gar nicht!_ " (Bielefeld doesn't exist). An IT-specialist named Achim Held started to spread this "joke" using the "Usenet" in 1994 treating it more like a conspiracy theory. That's how it all started and spread since then, but the Major of Bielefeld now started a campagne for finally getting rid of that bad joke haha^^
I guess what was missing here: As bavarians always like to point out how wealthy they are and how good there educational system is, many germans think that they're generally arrogant - Not only in terms of football. Of course, when they drunk a lot of beer they're fun to party with. Also I guess the reason why southern germans are often characterized as beeing rural and wealthy is because before all the car companies have settled down with their headquarters over there, they've been mostly known for their agriculture. Industry and engineering was mostly in North Rhine Westphalias Rhein Ruhr Area, which is now the Detroit of germany and therefore called poor (some even think that the air is still dirty, but that's not the case anymore). I find it funny that some people think that people in NRW are more rude than in other german regions. I guess that could maybe be because of the westphalians, they're characterized as beeing reserved (especially if you ask colognians, which are also known for partys because of the carneval).
@@Cowboy-in-a-Pink-Stetson Actually, there's even more. The whole north-eastern part of BW is called Region Heilbronn-Franken for historic reasons and due to the dialects spoken here (a mixture of some Alemannic like Swabian and a good portion of East and South Franconian).
The only thing that's offending me is that after all this time in Germany you still can't count to three properly :D The rest of the video was hilarious!
You canˋt put bavaria with Baden-Württemberg and Switzerland. Bavaria, Austria and Tirol would be fine. Greetings on our cultural brothers from Bavarian 😂😂👍🍻🥨
Thanks for the upload - had a good laugh. The Bielefeld story is quite easy explained. It started as a joke on a student party and went on at the Usenet. So pretty old already. Guess most ppl do not even know the Usenet anymore. Regarding the different saxons, that's historical wise. A typical approach to explain the difference is with the dialects and the kingdoms they originate from. Considering that germany is build up from many many small counties and kingdoms, we can be proud to have only 16 federal states.
Well, Lower Saxony is more or less the original Saxony. The other parts got the name later as the rulers of the original spread their power. Fun fact: Germany is still called Saksa in Finland
can confirm. And Saxony-Anhalt is mostly the former duchy of Anhalt with a slice of the former duchy/kingdom of Saxony (borders changed quite a lot over the last say 200 years) Also another fun fact: considering there's a north saxon county of ... well, "North Saxony" (Nordsachsen) and the other three (Ost-/Süd-/Westsachsen / Essex/Wessex/Sussex) are situated in south east England, it's actually the southernmost of the four :D
And no one lives in the actual city, because it is too expensive. People only go there to work and then drive back to their homes in the surrounding towns. ;)
When I lived in Germany, it was divided and I never went to the east side. I spent a lot of time at OP Alpha guarding the border while stationed in Fulda. It was said that Fulda had more churches than Gasthauses. But we went to Frankfurt a lot and Nurenburg. I never made it to Munich. Amsterdam was fun. I was kind of wild back then. Typical GI on weekend pass. You get the picture. I enjoy your videos. Be well.
The lower Saxony question took me on a wild ride. I instinctively thought it's because of the lower elevation, but I was mistaken. From what I now learnt: The name comes from the language. In the 12th century a duke of Saxony got "dethroned" and the next duke of Saxony moved from todays lower Saxony to (I believe) todays Saxony and split thens Saxony into two. In approx. the 14th century people wanted to differentiate the two. Because the duke of Saxony wasn't living in todays lower Saxony anymore, it made sense to rename it. Now the people there speak in the accent "Plattdeutsch", also called "Niederdeutsch" = low german. Hence the name lower Saxony originates from the accent 'low german'. If you really read into the topic you see once again the massively complex history of Germany and Europe in general.
There is actually a geographic component about the "low" in "low German", though many forget about it these days! Mostly because we say "Hochdeutsch" - "High German" when we mean "Standard German", many people forgot about the origin of it, I believe. Basically, it's about being close to the "Hoher Rhein" - "High Rhine", in Southern Germany and Switzerland, or to the "Nieder Rhein" - "Lower Rhein", in Northern Germany and the Netherlands, low meaning closer to the ocean. That's where even the name of the Netherlands comes from, literally the "Lowlands", and the Dutch language is very closely related to "Niederdeutsch".
Not offended, buuuut the lower saxony being more north is because of elevation in respect to sea level. A side note on that one: there is a tongue in cheek going round with the districts in Bavaria: why is upper Bavaria (Oberbayern) south of lower Bavaria (Niederbayern), but upper Franconia (Oberfranken) is north of under Franconia (Unterfranken). - because Franconias can read a F*CK*NG compass!
To be quite honest... I'm from NRW and I have to say I'm not even offended by 'rude'. We just have this VERY dry humor and don't beat around the bush that much so we'll give it to you straight. That being said I much prefer people being honest and telling me the truth right away to bitching behind my back. But I grew up around that attitude and got used to it so I do get why people might get offended by the directness.
Pickles on the Christmas tree really surprised me as a supposed German thing. I live in Germany and nobody I know does that, we did it the last two years because we wanted to bring something American into the festivities xD
I am from the cheerful and talkative area, so no need to feel offended at all. By the way you seem to think that Cologne belongs to Nordrhein Westfalen but it is actually in the heart of what is called the Rheinland and that area is described as having people that are cheerful, outgoing, talkative and very cosy (gemütlich). Cologne fits that description. The city is known for its carnaval just like München is known for the Oktoberfest. The more bleek description of low income people is north of Cologne and fits was is called "das Ruhrgebiet". A very densely populated area with a lot of industry.
Greetings from neighboring Aalen! I'm not offended at all: As a Franconian (Franconia is the northern part of bavaria) living in Baden-Württemberg, I can confirm all stereotypes about the Swabians 😂
The thing with the pickles on the christmas tree is that the child who founds the pickle first, is allowed to open up the first present. My family isnt going with this, but I´ve heard that it is a tradition by my friends families. Very weird actually xD
Brandenburg "irrelevant" . . . Me: *cries in Mecklenburg Western Pomerania" not even mentioned in the video . . . I'm a bit offended by that, I mean we have one of our two coasts :D
Just to leave this here: apparently a way to help would also be to help in agriculture. Due to thousands of seasonal workers staying at home in their own countries, our german agriculture needs people helping with the harvest and stuff. Also to answer your deal with the three saxonys to the best of my knowledge: As far as I know, Lower Saxony (which is called lower saxony because it is LOWER - not on the map but in relation to sealevel^^) is where the actual saxons lived. You know the saxon people who at some point in time moved to England to mix and become the Anglo-Saxons? They come from that region in the northwest of germany. Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt have the name from the "Electorate" and "Kingdom of Saxony". This is a bit overly complicated to explain all in a short comment, so to keep it as short as possible. At some point in time the Duchy of Saxony grew so much that it took over parts of today's Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia. Later on it split into different parts due to complicated succession rules and as the result of a series of events the title of the "Electorate of Saxony" was granted to the eastern part NOT the western part were the actual saxon people traditionally lived. Later on the new Electorate and Kingdom of Saxony had again grown and merged with several other areas among which is today's saxony. And a few years later threw more complicated succession the duchy was again split into two parts essentially Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt, of which ultimately only the most eastern part (today's Saxony) was given the honor of the electorate. When Napoleon came and ended the Holy Roman Empire, today's Saxony then became the Kingdom of Saxony. Meanwhile when the prussians took over the region around today's "Saxony-Anhalt" they aptly named the area "Saxony" not really caring for the fact that there was the "Kingdom of Saxony" right next to it. Hope that could help.
I think you got that right. As a german i can definitely confirm that we have tons of stereotypes for certain regions within our own country. Are there so many in the US? I know about some for sure, but would you say there are as many?
Beside the hipster club-mate-drinking vegan Berliner (who was not born here) there is also the native Berliner : a grumpy , meat loving , beer drinking person which likes to remember the good old times when Berlin was not cool, you could drive and park everywhere (for free ) and the the rent was cheap. :)
Speaking about accents: When I got of the plane in Greenville, SC for the first time in the mid 90's, I thought I took the wrong plane and landed in Siberia......
Whenever you have "Upper" or "Lower" in Germany, it's always about elevation. Saxony has mountains, Lower Saxony has mostly plains and the coast. Upper Bavaria has the Alps, Lower Bavaria has the Danube (also some smaller mountains in the Bavarian forest but you get the point).
As a German, i have to say this is super funny and it matches most of the stereotypes i have about my country! It is very cool of you to make these kinds of videos and i thoroughly enjoy them! Subscribed!
Actually this is a compliment since people in Schleswig-Holstein are ranking as No.1 on the happiness index, nearly as happy as the Danes who are the happiest on earth.
The thing is as a “Kölsche jung” (someone from Cologne) I can definitely confirm the stereotypes shown. Yes we are cheerful and we are also rude. But in a way that you always know where you stand with us. When we like you you’ll know it and we can be one of the friendliest people in Germany. But when we don’t like you you’ll also know that and we are not afraid to show that. But to be disliked by us you really have to fuck shit up.
Can confirm. I am a Siegerländer, and we are known to be grumpy mountain dwellers, yet there seems to be a weird attraction about our both sides, the laid back, nice and talkative Kölsche in a rather sunny region and the grumpy, reserved and focused ppl from a rather rainy part of Ger.
9:40 that confusion exist in Bavaria as well; there are 7 administrative districts in Bavarian, and 2 of them are called “upper Bavaria” and “lower Bavaria”. Upper Bavaria is south, while lower Bavaria is north. Confusing right? But “upper” and lower” doesn’t refer to the geographical place in this case; it’s about the landscape itself being higher. In upper Bavaria you find mountains which is an indicator for landscapes being higher, whereas in lower Bavaria there aren’t mountains and therefore it’s literally lower. And that’s with every “upper” and “lower” names. Just think about the landscape, not the geographic, and then it makes sense. :)
Some history lessons were already done here about Saxony. But If you want to count them like NALF you have to add NOT 1 Anglo-Saxony but 4 of them. Because there are: Wessex, Middlesex, Essex and Sussex which stands for West-, Middle-, East- and South-Saxony. Together with the German ones there are 7 !! areas. OMG - much to much Saxony in the World. 😱
There is this beautiful area in southern Brandburg called the Spreewald (Spree River going through a nature protected area where there are not even cars allowed), and they are famous for their pickles... they go by boat through the channels with old barges like in venice, kind of... definitly interesting... "Paddeln im Spreewald" you should check it out :-) de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spreew%C3%A4lder_Gurken
ROFL - This is quite accurate 👍😊 Greetinga from a Düsseldorf born, former exchange student in the U.S., having studied and worked in Cologne, Bonn and Berlin.
The reason why so many people hate the 1. FC Bayern is because they just buy so many good football players from other clubs instead of cultivating their own talent. That's how they gained a reputation for buying the championships instead of winning them fair and square.
I'm not even a football fan but, yes, that's my perception of them. They're like a rich kid buying its way through school and college. It's like buying a catalogue wife instead of make someone love you. But the most annoying thing is when they respond to that antipathy with "you're just jealous". Aaaaah!!!
Thueringan is a very old german land that had an important role strengthen early frankish empire. Hesse was part of Thueringan that's why they share same lion symbol born by relation to lions of Lothringen Brabant.
nalf saying "rural" makes me giggle. replayed it a few times (6:18). is that how its actually sounds? like rou'ul? i honestly dont know. legit question here. educate me pls
8:50 it is true. When you take the ICE from Cologne to Berlin the last stop before Berlin is still in Lower-Saxony, either Hannover or Wolfsburg. Behind Wolfsburg the train just pulls through as if there was nothing (Brandenburg) in-between.
By „rude“ in NRW they mean people from the Ruhrgebiet or in slang „Pott“ or „Ruhepott“ area. It’s Cities like Gelsenkirchen, Dortmund, Bochum. It used to be mostly coal and steel industry back in the days. Köln and Düsseldorf People behave differently.
Right Hessen still exists .... its important if you live in the south and want to go north (or vise versa) or live west and want to travel east (or vise vers). just dont stop in Hessen not rly anything there i belive :P
@natalie storm ja aber bis auf Frankfurt ist Hessen schon vernachlässigbar. Und da ich auch seit 2Jahren in FfM wohne, muss ich halt auch einfach sagen, es gibt keinen widerlicheren Ort in ganz Europa als diesen Hauptbahnhof
Re: Pickles on Christmas trees - yes they do exist - we have them on ours for 5 years. The Tradition of pickles (not actual ones, made of glass or plastic) on a Christmas tree delevoped in the city of Oldenburg, where my father is from. Initially it was a really local hype among youngsters. For a few years now, the retail chain Nanu Nana, (headquarter in Oldenburg) started selling them in all of their shops in Germany, so the pickle thing is now known in many parts of Germany. You are welcome!
Kerstinola Oh my goodness. I heard this was a custom from the US to hide a christmas pickle in the tree. But now you telling me about the headquarters of nanu nana there I totally believe you. Strike!!! Finally got that pickle mystery solved :-D
Having worked for a Summer in the Southwest of Germany, I picked up a strong Badish accent and pronounced many of the words like the locals (didn’t help me that they shared exactly the same pronunciations as Yiddish with several common words). I had a friend from Hamburg and when I came back to the USA, he had a hard time understanding me. And my accent was so thick and authentic, Germans didn’t believe me when I told them I was an American.
Feeling slightly offended, but very much entertained, too. 😄 Happens quite often when Americans talk about Germany. Hope, nobody feels too offended by that statement either. 😄 Nice video!
Not really Hanoverian dialect. It was only declared the the Hanoverian pronunciation of high german is the most understandable one. The original native dialect was ( like everywhere in north gernany) low german.
Ich schreib es Dir mal auf Deutsch, Du Must jetzt ganz tapfer sein, wir sprechen alle sächsisch. Das was wir heute als Hochdeutsch bezeichnen, und welches am deutlichsten zu sprechen, sich die Hannoveraner rühmen, entstand erst durch die Bibelübersetzung Martin Luthers. Die deutsche Sprache die Luther verwendete, war das, was man als sächsisches Kanzleideutsch bezeichnet, angereichert durch farbenprächtige Sprachbilder, die Luther den „Volk vom Maul“ abschaute. Erst diese Übersetzung stellte die Blaupause für eine einheitliche deutsche Sprache dar, da sie im ganzen deutschen Sprachraum, selbst in den katholischen Gebieten, als Grundlage benutzt wurde, um lesen und schreiben zu lernen. Luthers Bibelübersetzung ist die eigentliche Geburt der deutschen Sprache. Somit babblen wir also heutzutage also alle sächsch.
@@dikon0172 Stimmt, nur die Sachsen haben in der Zwischenzeit verlernt richtig sächsisch zu reden und sind jetzt eher in einer Mischung aus west-polnisch und simplem Grunzen unterwegs, passend für die NSAFD halt.
Soordhin , naja, als Westdeutscher höre ich die aber immer noch lieber,( und verstehe sie auch besser) als jene wilden Bergstämme, welche nördlich der Schweizer Grenze leben. 😂 Was allerdings weniger mit meiner politischen Einstellung zu tun hat😏
Love Swabia! All of my travels I have done is based in that region. And I love it when I talk German and they tell me "that's not the Swabish way to say that!" Great people and great food!
Thank you. That was absolutely hilarious Enjoyed every minute of it. Didn't know such funny maps existed. For a tour to MecklenburgVorpommern I suggest Schwerin and some of the coastal Holiday Places or Islands. And don't put all Baden-Württemberger into one Pot. The Badener and the Württemberger still see themselves a little bit as Konkurrenz :-D I live now in Stuttgart in Württemberg but have been born and grew up in Baden. So I know.
Well everyone feels like they should be treated independantly ;). I can tell you this even holds true for smaller states like Saxony-Anhalt. Even here are other parts of the state being stereotyped.
It's true: Hanoverians speak accent free german or " Hochdeutsch" - and there is not much else to talk about the city... But nevertheless it's the capital of Lower Saxony which is the most diversified federal state in Germany in terms of landscapes from the coastal regions at the North Sea to the low mountain ranges in the Hartz and the Weser Uplands with its beautiful castles.
The self-attributed accent-freeness of Hanover city is just a legend. Ask them to pronounce the following words: "Elf, Kirsche, Pferd" - I bet my left testicle they will say "Ölf, Kürsche, Fehad".
The moment you called my hometown a "green communist hipster ghetto" ... you hit the nail so perfectly, that i was laughing to tears. Thanks man, you made my day.
Bielefeld is a hidden champion of German industry: Dr Oetker, Miele, Schüco, Böllhoff, etc. call Bielefeld home. Bethel is a big group of hospitals, charities and researchers. They do awesome work and they are a big part of Bielefeld-Gadderbaum. We also have had an American football team: the Bulldogs. I don‘t know which league they play in (are there more?) Also, our soccer team was on the verge of making it back into the premier league before the season was stopped. We have approx 340,000 residents. We have a lively Theater, Opera and Ballet scene. I could go on forever. So, I don‘t know why, we supposedly don‘t exist. 😂
The Bulldogs play in the 3rd league (Regionalliga West). We were in the GFL 2 a couple of years ago and in 2013 just missed the GFL 1 by 3 points (if I remeber right?).
In Thueringen we have the famous „Wartburg“, where the monk Martín Luther translated the Bible into German in the 16th century. And you gotta definitely check out the sausages here! Best taste you‘ll get in the eastern part of our state. We call it „Roster“ here (short for Rostbratwurst - grill fried sausage).
The "lower" ind "Lower saxony" actually refers the altitude similar too the low countries (netherlands, belgium and luxembourg) right next to it. "Sachsen-Anhalt" refers to the combination of three provinces (Anhalt and Magdeburg, Halle-Merseburg where the later two were split of from the province of Saxony). And Saxony inherets it's name from the kingdom of Saxony. All three were part of old saxony the "original homeland" of the saxons before they were beaten by the Franks.
The "Sachsen" is one of the oldest people who live in the area of germany... did you know "Westfalen" wihich is part of the federal state: Nordrhein-Westfalen is also a part of saxony? "Falen" is a old tribe of the pople of saxony. And because the original saxony is nowadays in the east of germany, you call the "Falen" "Westfalen" because they are loacted in the west. And the area around Bielefeld is called "Ostwestfalen" which means it is in the east of "Westfalen" area
While Nalf was as offending as a kitten like him can be *this* is just insulting to any Westfalien. Or any *REAL* Saxon, for that matter. The Saxon people in Germany, the namesakes of the later duchy of Saxony de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westfalen#/media/Datei:Karte_Stammesherzogtum_Sachsen_um_1000.png , was devided in the Westfaliens in the west, Eastfaliens in the east (Magdeburg/Hannover/Lüneburger Heide/Harz) and Engern in between - So far I could turn a blind eye on your text, *but*: While there might have been Falen, the Westfaliens have always been called that. Noone remebers the Eastfaliens de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostf%C3%A4lisch , because they were nowhere as cool as the Westfaliens, who e.g. incorporated the Cheruski and were a center of industrialization in Germany. And Engern,... Well, what can I say.
Dear Sir, you are hilarious! Pretty good observer! To me, all the maps seemed to be pretty accurate... I'm only slightly offended by the fact that you didn't mention Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (in the North-East)! But then: what is there to mention about it?! 😅 Keep up the good work!
I can't give you "offended" because I was too busy laughing my head off watching this video. Well, as an original German I see my home country portrayed quite accurately, so I'd rather call them facts, not stereotypes. ;-) And yes, being Germany's two biggest cities, there's a rivalry between Hamburg and Berlin about which one ist the "coolest", most laid-back, alternative, with the most exciting night life, club scene and so on.
I giggeled all through the video, i liked the Bremen stereotype the most. But i was nearly offended that my state didn't had the stereotype "indiffrent", but then i thought "who cares?".
Brandenburg Concertos by Bach, Check out #2 for the trumpet part. Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. Brandenburgers, German special forces in WW II (avoid in dark alleys, or anywhere else)
I like those maps! I come from Vancouver in Canada. Having started out in Stuttgart 20 years ago, moving to Hildesheim (near Hannover) and now Hamburg, I have to agree with most of this, the accent stuff, the posh, somewhat rude and cheapskate hard working ideals of the Schwäbisch (I was happy to move to Lower Saxony after a year, to start understanding what people were saying - and learning the language myself!) It was kinda boring in Hildesheim, but I made some good friends there. Definately there is a rivalry between Hamburg and Berlin (even if it's only the "Hamburgers" who really feel it...)
