after that comes "dat andere"

@@extremchiller410 hahahaahaha digger

@@extremchiller410 aka "dat daneben"

No its das normale

@@nigilan7098 wie normale?wat wolln'se?dat bauernbrot, dat vollkorn, oder dat roggenbrot? dat normale ham wir nüscht!

Though I agree, it's always different once you are in the country. Chances are gun violence will not affect you at all, though statistically high. I think it's worth checking it out. You might not love it, but at at least you know what it's like.

Guns don't kill people. People do.... ;)

@@deichvogt3878 Yeah the number one argument coming from gun supporters. Too bad statistics proof the opposite. Shooting someone in the head is easier than shoving a blade is someone's body. Guns create an easy opportunity to kill someone. The U.S. has more civilians carrying guns than any other country in the world and has a higher killing ratio compare to countries with similar living conditions and standards. Most of the kills in the U.S. happen with guns. If you take the tools for killing away things won't escalate that quickly. You know there are countries where police officers don't need to carry an arsenal of weapons with them and shout at people to get out of the car with hands in sight.

@@connectingthedots100 @Deichvogt I don't say that you will get shot 100%, just the thought that such a huge number of people have guns is insane to me.

@@deichvogt3878 yeah I know and seeing people vote and act like they do creeps me out so I think it's better not to visit haha

I went to Germany last year on a 5 country Europe trip. I absolutely love Germany, it really stood out to me. Would you say it's pretty easy for a US citizen to move and adapt there?

Been thinking about living there part time

@@deebee8825 It depends on how old you are: If you are on retirement benefits that remain stable, no matter where you are, it can be a good place to be - for the 3 months you get on a tourist visum. If you are here professionally, working for a U.S. company that operates in English and on a work visum from them, things are also OK. If you come here looking for work with a Germany company, your tourist papers could easily run out, before you find a job, and you can't work as a tourist. You would also have to learn German at least to the B1 level (2 years of full-time study) to work in a German environment. For regular professional-age people without super IT skills that are in reliable demand, German language is a must.

@@k.schmidt2740 interesting, thank you

@@k.schmidt2740 well I would not go that far. It depends on the sector you are working at if you need to speak German or not. The average German is capable in talking in English at least with minor issues ;) I know people living for years here in Germany and are not speaking German at all but yeah it would definitly not harm you to catch up some phrases

Solltest du aber weil wir sehr priviligiert sind! Wir haben ein riesen Glück!

@@rudebwayful Was sollte ich? :-)

Kirzhe Du hörst dich ziemlich negativ an für das was hier in Deutschland haben oder hab ich das falsch verstanden?

@@rudebwayful Mein Kommentar ist witzig gemeint und die Übersetzung lautet: Ich bin eine Deutsche und bin nur hier, um die Lorbeeren zu ernten und mich besser zu fühlen, obwohl ich kein Stück zu den Errungenschaften beigetragen habe, die du (die KZfaqrin) an meinem Land lobst :D

Kirzhe Oh ooopsss....ich Dumpfbacke! Mein Fehler! GENAU!

Yep pretty much!

How much of this is exaggerated?

@@Frahamen unfortunatly.. none of it as far as i know.. maybe the "freakout" part

The US are among only two (yes, just three in total! ) countries around the whole world which do not have any kind of parental leave while being in the final stages of pregnancy and some time after giving birth. So, it's a more than shining example of the antihuman system in the US which don't give sh** on human basic rights... The US are NOT a good example to the world, the contrary is right.

In Europe having a baby is beneficial for the society in the long run.

I'm German myself, and I've never been in the US, so there's a lot about America, I just don't understand. One example is, that nudity causes much more outrage than mass shootings. Alone the mere concept of shooter drills in schools is far beyond my understanding.

@@undogmatisch5873 In general the mentality about guns. I had a friend from US who told me she would never wear heels/ high heels cuz if she did she couldn't run away if someone was pointing a gun at her... she did not seem to understand my response, that was "well if someone points a gun at you, I doubt you will be able to run pretty far, no matter what sort of shoe you wear"... ik you can miss a shot... but what makes me worry is the mentality they seem to have...

@xellossaxon Idk, it sounds like a pretty unfortunate combination of the less desireable characteristics of Klingons (violence) & Vulcans (oppression of natural behavior).

There is no chance to really understand art, without an understanding (and personal experience) of normal, natural and non-sexual nudity. Besides- what is more normal and natural than your own body. It should NEVER be regarded as shameful! To do so, is just proof of a major mental disfunction.

@@undogmatisch5873 they are shocked tremendously and ask for punishment and measures to prevent this, when they see making babies, but when they see schooting at kids they just want more guns and walk on.

@@mutagen7175 Germany doesn't require you to renounce your other citizenship. I was born in the US but have been a German citizen since I was very young, so I was able to be a citizen in both countries. Hope you get your chance to go some day. It's a beautiful country.

Sancus I was born in Germany lived there for 27 years. Married a Canadian and after18 years I became a Canadian citizen. I did not research to much and was not aware that I was losing my german citizen ship. But I went ahead anyway because my children are born in Canada 🇨🇦. Yet I meet people from different countries holding a German passport and did not lose their citizenship. At the Bangkok airport I meet a thai person holding a German passport. I asked him how he managed to get a German passport

@M K happy to have you. Greetings from Berlin.

@M K All of western Europe is more or less alike because of general EU regulations, so you have way more options than just Germany.

This feeling It is because of the bad history, the shit that happend, its over since around 75 years and we can be proud either of our country yeah. All countries in the world have good and bad things. ^^ but at least "We are far from perfect But perfect as we are We are bruised, we are broken But we are goddamn works of art Works of art" - Rise Against ~ Far From Perfect"

Only GerMoney and AmeriKKKa, other nations are not worth it. regards from europe.

There's a channel here on YT by a German guy in Berlin who shares that he doesn't have health care (somehow...he says he pays cash when he goes to the doctor). in the same video he goes over the various deductions from a paycheck in Germany, and to be honest, the amount paid for health care wasn't bad, so I'm not sure why he, or anyone, would try and avoid paying it.

@@tempest411 I don't get it either. The system isn't perfect, but it works. Not only can you get regular check ups as often as you want, you also don't have to worry about the cost of anything emergency related. Also, one might think they're healthy, but that can change within a day. My mum got a chronic illness out of the blue at the age of 40. She's had 12 surgeries, including two cornea transplants. Idk how we would've paid that. I'd always choose to pay a higher amount of money per month to have that safety net.

@@tempest411 well, it’s not legal.

Bullshit! It's not.

As a American we dont Take we Pass her to canada

Ya.....

That was one of the big reasons why after the war the ECC was set up. I do think with the changes to more artifical materials for manufacing and less relianting on old materials that will even out.

You need, yet not having any since 1996.

@Russ Lindquist Only if the immigration is high-IQ, other shove this mess.

Yep, that's correct.

NL step forward....420😉

Good to know :-) But it's always a bad idea to generalize too much, if you don't have the experience of living in every country in Europe:-)

That is true. The Netherlands are mostly more progressive than Germany. I think they had same-sex marriage like 20 years ahead of Germany as far as I remember.

@@chriscross2473 The netherlands where the first country worldwide to allow same-sex marriage in 2001. Germany followed 16 years later in 2017.

Lol!

Zumal man das Leitungswasser in manchen Gegenden der USA wegen Industrieabfällen nicht ohne Weiteres trinken kann. Ein gutes Beispiel ist das Fracking Wasser. In die Wasserleitungen ist in diesem Fall Methan eingedrungen, weil die Industrie Mist gebaut hat und deshalb kann man das dann anzünden: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/arJynbaJvLe2hmw.html

Von Idioten umzingelt nennt man das.

@@oliverhardy9464 Ich bin überhaupt kein Freund von Fracking, aber diese Videos sind eindeutige Desinformationen. Damit durchgängige Risse über mehr als 1km im Gestein entstehen, durch die das Methan in die deutlich höher gelegenden Grundwasserschichten diffundieren kann, benötigt es deutlich mehr Energie, als eingesetzt wird. Ja, das Wasser enthält Methan, allerdings wäre es aufgrund der geologischen Bedingungen auch ohne Fracking im Wasser enthalten, weil die Gesteinsschichten dort nunmal natürliches Erdöl und Methan enthalten. Deswegen fracken sie ja dort ;). Fracking bleibt dennoch eine Umweltsauerei erster Güte und ist wirtschaftlich schwer ohne Subventionen zu betreiben. Ein Beispiel für das Argument bei mir aus der Gegend. Läßt man sich in bestimmten Gegenden des Landkreises einen Hausbrunnen bohren, kann es sehr gut sein, dass das Wasser bleihaltig ist. Liegt das nun am jahrhundertelangen Bleiabbau in der Region, oder weil Grundwasserschicht ein natürliches Bleierzlager passiert? ;). 100m daneben kann man Glück haben und kriegt perfektes Wasser in Trinkwasserqualität, weil man vorher durch Granit kommt... Bleibt nach wie vor der Fakt, dass Methan belastetes Wasser nie in deutsche Wasserleitungen eingespeist werden dürfte.

@@dirk2349 Hmm ok. 🤔

You're drunk. Don't post when drunk

@@myfavs5393 it really is disgusting, tho.

@@corneliusantonius3108 I wouldn't go that far. 😅

@@corneliusantonius3108 No. Sorry to disappoint you. I just needed a username. I watched some films with these two on tv and a documentary about them at the time when I created my account. 🤔

German talks sincerely.

Well in that sense we have the same problem in Germany. No matter who is in power, the real power comes from the corporations who have people serving as advisors to lawmakers, to influence them into coming up with legislation that benefits them and not society as a whole.

Not totally true. Most Americans believe that working for someone else will make them better off. They also think politicians can read their minds or will stick to election scripts. Business is constantly lobbying politicians while Americans are constantly working and buying from the very businesses undermining them. Thus US citizens overly elect business-friendly with the false expectations they will get more pay and better opportunities. US citizens need to think because the politicians will not think for them. But they will say things false that people want to believe that will make business better off like tax cuts create jobs. And both parties do not use that line to make business better off.

But one is run by fascists while the other is still reasonable.

You made a very valid point...

@@Quotenwagnerianer In Germany it's still better. Even though it could be so much more fair and democratic.

Oh please - anti-American drama queen

People who dont know much are easy to control.

@@myfavs5393 funny how it works in other countries ( Germany, Canada, etc) but Merica! The greatest country on the planet! ( 🤮) cant manage it!

What you are not understanding, is that everyone in the US wants to go to university, whether they are qualified or not. Universities in the US have remedial reading, writing and math classes for the many who can't do it. In Germany, you have to show an aptitude for learning something specific and not just go to classes because. If the US school system was like the system in Germany, that would cut university attendees by over half and then maybe the country could afford to educate scientists and teachers and doctors and engineers, and not just social justice warriors who will end up working in a bank or a store. You can't apply everything from one country to another. You have to understand the background before making ignorant blanket statements.

@@caciliawhy5195 in germany there are many ways for education. Many people want to go to university and you need "abitur" or "fachabitur" for higher education. But we also have "apprenticeships" in companies. You go to school a few days you work a few days an learn the job, earn money and earn a certificate, a qualified education. There are many many ways to get a free or even paid education in germany. We also try to help people find their way and get an education from early on until they earned some kind of certification. Either through institutionalized help and support, some loans without %%% or other things. Free education for everyone is a big thing here. Fun fact if you choose apprentice ship and you master your craft through further education, experience and such you will be officially considered equally qualified as someone that went to university.

Yeah, but its not good to drink alkohol under 18... We Germans can do that, but we know that Alcohol is a poison. Alcohol Lobby is to strong in Germany that we could chance the age to 18 at least... You can drink Alcohol with 16, but you are not allowed to vote xD But allowed to ruin your body. A Blackout with beer? No problem.

@@Wulteras drinking alcohol is generally bad not just at the age of 16. The problem though is. That forbidding it would just create interest. Setting the minimum age for alcohol consumption to 18 isnt gonna change the amount youth is going to drink. It only criminalizes them, opens the doors to criminal organisations (just think of the prohibition era in the US) and cuts into the revenues of stores and restaurants. Forbidding is not the way. Btw. We teach our children to ruin their bodies by showing them wrong movement patterns too so where are we gonna stop? And we ruin their minds with a schooling-system that teaches them that they are only worth their grades in maths, english and german. That would be where i personally would start the big reforms.

@@joethesheep4675 Yeah you are right, but what i mean is that a 16 year old human body isnt fully grown. That means, that alcohol can have really bad influence on your upgrowth. Your Brain and other organs

@@Wulteras i am not sure about that. Doctors keep saying that doing strength training for example underage is a really bad thing because of upgrowth which i, as a strength athlete know better and it has been proven numerous times that that is not the chase. Doesnt matter. Doctors say what they want. So i am not sure if that argument is valid.

@@joethesheep4675 You cant compare training with a cell poison... Alcohol damages you doenst matter which age you are. It is a poison for your cells... And while your body is still upgrowth, your cells need to be intact.

I always say " land of the free - if you are are white, and home of the Brave - if you have a gun

@@joyotten7002 You forgot "and if you have money"

There are some perverse morals in the US no doubt. Here's some of the hypocrisy you will experience, when you fly from Germany to good ole USA, your baggage will be scanned and maybe even opened to ensure you are not bringing in any weapons (including biological or chemical agents, neither animals etc. Then on the plane you will have to fill out that ridiculous paper asking where you are going to stay, for how long, what your purpose of coming to the US is AND if you are planning in involving yourself in any criminal activities, acts of terrorism, espionage and so forth. Then you have to affirm you won't do any of these things and finally leave the country at latest when your visa expires. Makes you think, you are about to enter the situation room or Fort Knox and not just the US. Finally, you made it stateside it's the weekend, before Thanksgiving 2018. At the airport all your answers on the paper get double checked for security reasons. Then four days later a guy decides to go on a killing spree in a mall in Alabama I think. He shoots up the mall, panic breaks out, the cops arrive and shoot the one guy actively trying to stop the gunman. Three days later in San Francisco you go to a hot dog stand to buy breakfast, only to find that the vendor has just been threatened by a man with a knife, go up the street to the other vendor who's also been threatened just 5 minutes earlier by the same guy. In other words the logic is, tourists ought to be treated as potential suspects in crimes or terrorism and whatnot, but it's perfectly fine to be lax about gun control for citizens inside the US. The truth of the matter is: Getting killed or injured by residents inside the country is perfectly acceptable. Scar was right “I am surrounded by idiots”.

@@B.A.B.G. I think you'd love this parody about guns in the USA. The first minute shows the original trailer, then the parody starts (a german production.made in english language): kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g72Va71i0L_DpWw.html

Its easy to buy a weapon in germany but the good thing is that nobody want a weapon

Ich glaube nicht das ich so einen Satz schon einmal gehört habe. ^^'

@@Sachsenfuchs ich auch nicht, lol

Ich kenne den Satz noch, hatte auch immer die Bedeutung im Endeffekt sind wir alle gleich

You have too much hatred of Americans. Stop the hate

@@myfavs5393 haha I rest my case.

@@myfavs5393 No, I don't think it has anything to do with hate. Americans are sometimes a little superficial, they always put on a little show. When they meet you it's always a big hello, how are you, nice to see you. If you ask back how you are, the answer always comes: very good, great, even if you are in the end-stage of cancer. When they say goodbye, there is always the sentence; Come visit us when you are in the area. You should never do this, it's just meant politely, not real. If you work with them and do something wrong, they won't tell you directly. You could say hello, what you do there is great, but if you like it then give it a try just like we do it. That's very polite, but not always honest. The Germans are much more direct. They actually tell them when they feel bad. When someone does something wrong, a German often says straight out that it's bullshit. They show you how to do it right without using many words. Americans then think it's rude, but it should just be honest and not angry. Germans do not a great show about normal things. If a German says something to you, you can 90 percent expect it to be honest, but you don't always know exactly what an US-American think, when he is too polite. However, this changes when you are actually close friends and not just strangers or acquaintances.

How can you make such a stupid generalization about a country of 350 million people? You know nothing about Americans or America-

The taxes Americans pay (of which a part goes into education as well, btw) are only marginally lower than in Germany, really. Our out of pocket expenses are substantially higher than the taxes we'd pay that would cover such basics for everybody, regardless of whether a person decides to go to college or do something else with their lives. At least they'd have a choice.

They have no idea what socialism is....the people who would benefit most are the uneducated (Republicans) who vote against any social programs because, God forbid, they have to give their money to a brown or black person.

We don't have socialisme in Europe, we have a mixed economy. Mixed between capitalisme and whatever else they pick up. Capitalisme can't just be left to their own. That wouldn't be a democracy at all. We all vote what the politicians should be working on, and economy is a very big part of that.

Nor do you. As a person who lived in that system (actually in both systems), I can say that both capitalism and socialism suck. And nobody is trying to make something new to fix their flaws.

@@TullaRask It literally doesn't matter. I'm telling you this as an American myself. You can say whatever you want. Anything they don't like is immediately "socialism" and "unconstitutional". It's all about what they care about and nothing else.

@@KiraDaBeastNY Yes I know. It's just so frustrating to watch. I want you to have something good for normal people.

well... some know the difference xD

@@MiguelStinson88 You are right, many don't, but it is not constitutional knowledge in Germany that a social guy = a lefty = a communist.The hatred for the "rot-grün versifften Antifas" is imported. Many people have forgotten that Antifa is the abbreviation of Anti-fascist, so people, that are Anti-Antifa are logically Fascists.

My wife is German and we live in the Bavarian area and they treat her like shit when they find out that she is born in a certain part of Germany ie the other side of the wall area this hate still goes on today

@@nerrawsivad2638 We are no Bavarians, but we live in Bavaria, too. I know, that many Bavarians - not all - are very special concerning people from other regions. But your wife, even she is not loved by the people, has no difficulty to vote, that is for sure.

You're right. DIe US-Amerikaner setzen sozial mit sozialistisch/kommunistsich gleich. Muss wohl aus der McCarthy-Ära herrühren. Obwohl, in diesem Medium ist unser Land schon sowohl als faschistisch als auch sozialistisch bezeichnet worden. I think many Americans are living in a bubble, regardless of the rest of the world.

America is not a cradle to grave nanny state - and no, nothing is free- Americans don’t need or desire that kind of government intrusion in their lives

Nicht von mir als Deutscher , erzähle mehr !

And Germany's parliamentarian systems comes from the Weimar Republic of the 1920s and 30s, this system of government resulted in Adolf Hitler becoming Chancellor of Germany and the Fuhrer with enabling acts. The fact remains that Adolf Hitler was not elected directly by the German people but instead through politician proxies representing the Nazi Party, why is that system still in effect determining Germany's government when it failed so miserably in the 1930s?

It's a fact

@@wolfganggeiss636 which cool you your first born son for a ride in an Ambulance. Also, you should start a comedy career

@@wolfganggeiss636 yes, if you have the money

@@wolfganggeiss636 yes but if you sum up all these thing, you'll end up with a much cheap and better service on Germany, believe me.

Pay a fortune in taxes for healthcare versus pay a fortune in hospital bills. Same thing.

Exactly, quite delighted to find someone else who is voicing the same opinion on that observation. Folks in general are way more supportive and friendly in the U.S., than germans. It's more relaxed in contrary to envy filled german social environments.

Yeah? Well go back now!

Well, of course they have. How else are you staying alive without wanting to kill yourself for living in a such a shit hole?

Indeed. I heard another KZfaqr talk about how she and her American boyfriend got asked if they want to come to a party and her American boyfriend just said "yes, sure". And when she (German) reminded him, that they already had other plans on that day he said "I know, we're not really going to that party, I was just trying to be polite" As a German, this seemed so crazy to me, because if I host a party, I would want to know how many people are actually coming, so I could buy ethe right amount of food and drinks. Telling someone you come to their party if you have no intentions to actually go there is pretty rude and disrespectful in my opinion.

Hasan Hasan ; Yes, in fact most Americans can't even point out on a map where Europe, Germany, Holland and so on is placed in the World. Sweden is the Capitol of Denmark and so on 😩 Lots of things has gone wrong in that (shithole) country - just think of their President.

Which is why I think it’s ridiculous for people to hate American tourists. Don’t hate them, hate the people that never leave the US.

It's called propaganda bud. Thank the fervent anti-anything remotely leftwing propaganda, and low education standards in a lot of states.

@Peter Kile Yes I've met Americans who say and wholeheartedly believe this.

@Peter Kile Oh I disagree very much. Maybe they aren’t all blow hards about it, but they think it for sure.

Totalschaden right

Martin R. Krause you mean country

Yeah we are there was a video I found showing the parental leave for usa vs other countries some gave 16 weeks off or more that is garanteed and on the graph it showed us being the only one with 0.

We do have parental leave. I got paid leave up to 2 months, when I had my two boys. I live in Minnesota, every state is different, but of course cannot compare it to Europe. We still have a long way to go.

A very good description. The Germans built a very dynamic and exemplary social system that every nation should strive towards such goals.

In some cases you can get Kindergeld Even longer than the Child is getting 18 years old. For example if your child is studying, has no income and you as Parents Pay for the costs...,

@@sabinekarg1226 Yes exactly! But only until the age of 25. But it's still a great concept.

Stephen Pitt honestly, you’re probably right! It’s easy to argue any country is better than America lol yikes!

@@neevabee_ Hilarious part is I GUARANTEE you come back to live in America one day.

Stop hating Americans. Just stop. I know it is trendy and popular, but hatred always leads to terrible things - German history is the most obvious example. Don't hate!

@@BlindingGlow yeah, its like the beaten wife going back to her abusive husband

@@myfavs5393 its not the people we hate, its the corrupt and abusive government, which has exploded to a new level since Trump came into power. We feel for the American people, we want it to stop!

Anglo German I didn’t think that forgners would be so attracted by nude beaches. I haven’t seen one yet.

@@evelinholmes6401 I personally wasn't attracted by (German) nude beaches, nude saunas etc., as a youngster and still aren't! Quite the opposite, in fact! 😂That's why I wrote ""better" things" in inverted commas (British irony). Einen schönen Tag noch ☀️

For the three years that i live in Germany i can definitely tell that the people are not direct at all

@@hrisharlow9367 Oh, that's interesting. Can you give some examples?

and there is a german law for it how much paid vacation days you get so every worker in germany has the right of 4 paied weeks of vacation. means when you work 5 days a week you'll get 20 days of paid vacation a year, when you work 6 days a week you'll get 24 days.

Das komische ist. JEDER Amerikaner findet es gut aber die Politiker wehren sich dagegen, als wäre es Teufelszeug und Kommunismus pur.

@@wernerjacobs5022 politiker in amerika sind halt Privateigentum,in deutschland halt noch nicht

Thank you so much!!!!

Which over 50% of people do so its free as long as your somewhat intelligent, also there is Lehre which means you dont have to study to get a job, while in the States its basically being selfmade or go to uni

For free means that you don't have to pay tuition fees. It doesn't mean that every idiot can study what ever he/she wants

I don't know exactly how it is in Germany, but probably similar to Austria. You can also go to university in other ways, for example, by attending a special evening school, which is especially interesting for older people who could not graduate from high school. For example, if you are already 30 and have worked for 10 years, but then still want to study. Or one goes as an extraordinary listener, officially registered, every inhabitant can thereby free of charge to the university, but one cannot make a degree. Then it's just a matter of quenching the thirst for education.

Yes, one should not confuse "social" with "socialism". Many Americans don't know the difference. Social means that the state offers all citizens services for which no one has to pay out of pocket. These benefits such as health, education, unemployment insurance, retirement, care for the elderly, etc. are financed by compulsory contributions or taxes that everyone in this solidarity community has to pay if they have an income or capital. Socialism means something completely different. It is a form of government in which there is basically no more property. All factories, shops, banks, agriculture, etc. are socialized (communityized), that is, they belong to everyone and are therefore state property. In socialist states there is only one party that controls and stear everything centrally through a planned economy. Socialism is the preliminary stage to communism in which all citizens shall be classless. However, socialism and communism never worked without constant pressure from a dictatorial regime. Because of this, there never was real socialism or communism, there were basically only states in which an elite ruled over the masses. Human nature is not designed as a classless mass. So, dear US citizens, forget to replace the term "social" with "socialism". These are two different shoes.... ;-)

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@@pashvonderc381 I know them already

...anywhere and without wrapping it in a brown paper bag.

@@BewareOfTheKraut That´s not so easy to understand: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_laws_in_Germany

And Champagner and wine

​@Peter Kile Well, this is from the "Global Status Report on Road Safety" from the WHO in 2015: Percentage of road accident deaths involving alcohol: USA: 31% Germany: 9% ...and now please explain again why the US system with waiting until you are 21 and then get hammered because you have no idea how to cope or manage your alcohol consumption while at the same time being able to drive legally with 16 already is working SOOOO much better! Germans get used to alcohol while they are not of legal driving age, and as such get a much better feeling for what it means to be drunk earlier - and as such it's actually educational. [Edit: and yes, even those 9% is still too much, no doubt about this, but we are comparing things here.] It's the same as with sexual education in the US and Germany: in the US, it's way too late, way too less and way too little (and prudish, mostly about "not doing it"), while in Germany, it starts WAY earlier and is much more focussed on the "prevention" and "what happens if you do it" part - which leads to WAY less teen pregnacies in Germany than the US (per 1,000 women between 15-19: US: birth rate 55.6, abortion rate 30.2, combined 85.8, Germany: birth rate 13.0, abortion rate 5.3, combined 18.3). TL;DR: Educating people earlier about some aspects of life (as it is done in Germany) quite obviously works MUCH better than trying to surpress people to try out things until they are of a certain age (as it is done in the US). Your turn.

​@Peter Kile "This is not a debate." - well, actually, it is. Because the "solution" in the US (increase the legal drinking age to 21) doesn't work too well, while the one in Germany (legal drinking age for beer and wine being 16) seems to be working WAY better than the US one (one should think that the prohibition taught the USA that stuff like this simply doesn't work, but quite obviously, learning from own experience doesn't seem to come naturally to people in the US... ;-) ). OK, obviously you don't know how statistics work, because "More Americans drive proportionally than Germans." is totally irrelevant when it comes to the overall amount of deathly accidents in traffic *in relation* to the ones which involved alcohol. It doesn't matter if you had 100,000 deadly accidents and 31,000 of those involved alcohol, or if a country had just 10,000 deadly accidents and 3,100 of those involved alcohol - the result is still 31%, no matter how high or low the base number is. We are not talking absolute numbers here, but relations (that's how you can mathematically compare stuff of different sizes, you know?). "I do not think a lot of them drink and drive." - well, that's kind of the point, right? And I grew up in the country and had my first beer with 16, and let me tell you that we were going to places (e.g. discos or concerts - to which you can go to with 16, too, btw, at least up to midnight) which were only reachable by car all the time (one disco was even in another coutnry, about 70 km away, so it took us about an hour to get there - and we always had a designated driver for the evening), even though we had three (good) pubs in our own village, so that argument is bullocks, too. When you are allowed to drink (some) alcohol, but aren't allowed to drive yet, you get accustomed to being driven by others when going out and having a beer - but when you are already driving all by yourself for FIVE years before you can drink even a single beer, being driven by others instead of using your own car is kind of "strange" for you, since you are just not accustomed to it. When I was living in Cologne, my normal watering whole was a whopping 35 minutes walk away from my apartment, btw (and yes, we walked most of the times, even though we could have taken the streetcar or bus, and quite often, we took a taxi back because we were too tired). "It is easy to train German teenagers in dos and do nots when it comes to drinking." - ROTFL - do you have kids? I don't, but I know enough parents back home to tell you that this is a blatant lie. I borught the sex-ed up because the way it is (or at least was, as you wrote, it seems to get somewhat better nowadays), it has the same reason for the way it is: some people think that prohibiting things (or even ignoring them completely, a common illness in the US over the last few decades at least, as Isaac Asimov already mentioned in the 80s: "Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.") works better than educating people - which is not the case, as can be seen when comparing different countries. And yes, you stated the history of the US in that regard - but again, this doesn't mean that the "solution" they found (going back to 21 years for the legal drining age) is actually the best - or even a good - one. It just works a bit better than letting people drink with 18 (at that time, they are already driving for two years, too - and are even less experienced in driving, so no real surprise there!), that's all.

Das ist aber süß! Alles gute für euch

Higher to be a Bayer thank you! Glad to see a new face here :))))

I get 6 weeks paid vacation here in Germany

@@derekinstuttgart3810 Yes, more and more often you will get six weeks. In fact, it seems to be the normal case nowadays for people who are either older (above 40 or so) and/or working for a company for several years. Four weeks (five weeks for disabled people) is the minimum vacation by law. The additional week for disabled people is always added to the vacation the employer grants to their employees. So in a company where the vacation time is usually six weeks, disabled people would get seven weeks. If there is a national, state or local holiday during your vacation period, it will not count as vacation taken. Plus, vacation taken on Christmas Eve or New Year's Eve usually counts for only half a day of vacation taken each. With tactically smart distribution of vacation days, one can get make up to eight weeks of vacation a year out of their six weeks.

@@Dahrenhorst absolutely true.... ive been working in germany from 1994 til presently.... i have always had 6 weeks vacation 3 different companies... i will probably stay here in Stuttgart for ever... if I ever left it would be to move to Hamburg

That’s so cool! I live in Baden-Württemberg :) thanks for the comment!

Neeva Bee Baden-Württemberg is a lovely part of the country. We visited friends in the Schwäbischen Alb Last weekend. Stuttgart is one of my favorite cities and is where the first German sauna is that I visited. Freiburg im Breisgau is also lovely... and is where my favorite German band is from.

Nämberch! Yäi! Spaß, schön dass ihr beide euch entschieden habt hier zu bleiben...wir können jedes vernünftige Wesen brauchen mit den ganzen Idioten die in letzter Zeit durch das Land eiern... Grüße aus dem südlichen Mittelfranken

Michael Eisen Nicht wir beiden. Meine Frau habe ich in Würzburg kennengelernt, sie ist gebürtige Deutsche.

@@robwilliams2410 ich meinte dich und Neeva

In USA, basically they pay the same percentage that you pay for Krankenkasse in Germany, but they pay that for Medicaire (health care they will benefit when they will be over 65) and some social security stuff. Also worth to mention that from what you pay to Krankenkasse you have also guarantee paid sick leave.

Lol I was unemployed for 3 months only before I started my training in police academy. Super cool Job center refused to pay me at least insurance for three months or anything at all not even Hartz4 because the job I had as a graphic designer before was only 7 months. You need one year to get Arbeitslosengeld1 and since I had a safety plan for building a house I was considered "wealthy" and couldn't get any Hartz4. So here goes the public standard health insurance! If I hadn't payed it myself for three months what took all the rest of my saved money plus ongoing rent I wouldn't have been in an insurance. I don't really get why everyone still thinks we live in a dreamland in Germany. I was never really wealthy, most jobs you can't get in because you need 3 more years of this and that training. And you have to change your job in your lifetime several times anyways here. My boyfriend is a state trooper in Nevada and he has a much better life than me and my studied siblings combined. When you're already living in a country with so many possibilities and freedom, why don't you just take it?! I'm waiting for the day when I can finally join him because one thing that really annoys me the fuck out, is the constant German arrogance. :D bye bye

True. But at the same time - would you like to work in the meat industry? They hire that cheap labor forse in the industries, where no Germans want to work. Of course, they want to save money, that's why they pay so little. But we make them save that money, so that everything is cheap. We want to buy chicken for 1,99€ and 5-6€ pork! When people stop paying attention only to the price, those industries will start paying more to their employees...

@@LexRa Nope. My Meat is organic and a little more expensive than this shit

Nothing is ever perfect.

@@raman9756 and what about the rest of 80 mio people here?

@@LexRa ?