In Germany live about 1 million black people... that's 1,2% of Germany population. But we don't care which color you have. Important is how well you are intergrated.

Yep, my friend graduated political science and then felt like taking physics at 35. Now he teaches pyhsics. You can study any time. We even had a sweet old guy of 67 taking english literature because he liked it.

Germany is actually a very divers country in terms of people of color. Not that high percentage of black people like the US but people from all over the world :)

I think it`s safe to say that at least half of europe is familiar with "florida man" :D

I'm from Sweden and yes you can have more than 1 degree from studying. I have several one from different times in my life the last one I got i was over 40 and they where as you say "free" but I also work in between them. I have had jobs since I was 14.

The dude from radikal living is sooo funny!! But together with nalf is just gold!! They should've made more video's together! you two also amazing as always :)

There are not much black people in germany. But there are a lot of foreigners. If you are against them or talk about problems with them, you will labeled as right-wing or nazi. You can talk with germans about nazis and the dark history, but don´t call them nazis, just because they are germans. But do not make racist jokes or jokes against jews. Nazi salut is strictly forbidden here and also denying the holocaust. People don´t get offended so much, german people are more direct. The whole discrimination thing however swaped a bit from US to us. You will find naked people in some parks and there are FKK (Free Body Culture) beaches, where you have to be naked. Most saunas are mixed and full naked, its forbidden to wear a bathing suit. In TV and magazines you will see more naked people (and nipples) and it is not so much sexualised. It is normal for kids to see naked bodys, however we don´t want kids to view sexual contend. Prostitution is legal, if you are registered as a sex-worker and pay taxes. Also you can drink alkohol in public, but please don´t get stupid drunk. A lot of people still smoke cigarettes here and the government is trying to legalise cannabis.

It is estimated that there are about 500,000 so called Afro-Germans (that is about 0,6%) in Germany. In some areas of Germany you might see some while in other areas you will never ever see anyone of them. I'm 54 years old and from Cologne and i have seen three of them in my whole life.

Europe as a whole is predominantly white, which is normal. It is like asking the same thing for the African continent or any african country if it is predominantly black and the north african countries being predominantly arab. It is the same thing xD One thing that is common in Europe is that we look more on nationality/ethnic background than skin colour.

Ive never heard of any country having any restrictions about drinking in public. The worst you might find is drinking on public transport.

According to a report in the news, just today a Florida teacher was removed from her post for showing the children a picture of Michelangelo's "David" in class, and he's naked. This shows very clearly what a problem the USA has with natural, casual nudity. A more relaxed approach should be within the realm of possibility. The ancestors of Afro-Americans didn't come to the USA entirely voluntarily, and slavery was an issue there for much longer. Sad enough but as late as 1945, white German soldiers had more rights in the US during World War II than African-American soldiers fighting for their own country, the United States of America. Otherwise you will find people from all over the world in Germany who live and work there. In the big cities, of course, far more often than in the rural regions.

Paris, a huge metropolitan area of 13M people, has thousands of public fountain dispensing tap water, some even have sparkling water! It's safe and free. If an agglomeration that size, with some of the oldest amenities in the world, can manage keep its water safe and of high quality, any place else can!

a lot of retired germans studied together with me ... one lady was 80 something

In Germany you can study as much as you like. But the age is limited at 45 years, where you are able to receive money to support your life while studying from the government. It was set at 30 (for bachelors) and 35 (for masters) up until 2022, were the limit was increased substantually. But if you're able to do without the financial support, you'll have to face no age restrictions at all. And of course, you can have multiple degrees. This is actually not uncommon.

I have visited every country in Europe, and Germany is my favourite. The people are friendly and helpful. The food is tasty and healthy. The scenery is breathtaking, particularly in the South. I live in Scotland, but I've been there many times.

Hello from Spain. About the drinking part, I don't know if everywhere but one place that I remember was on one trip in Seville, where people at the sunset go on the riverside with a bottle of wine and glasses (even some girls by themselves). About the studying, in Romania for example (where I'm originally from) the first University is free of charge but for the next ones you have to pay something (I saw engineering for example is around 700 USD/year). Also there are private universities and there you have to pay either way.

Hello from Switzerland, here (as well as in Germany and Austria) tap water is considered food (probably the best monitored!). It is always drinkable, but the taste will certainly vary depending on the region. In mountain regions in particular, it can easily keep up with bottled mineral water in terms of composition, in addition to its excellent fresh taste. Of course you have to realize that the water treatment can be a challenge depending on the situation, and it doesn't really taste very good here in Basel either (compared to rural areas with spring water or the water from the mountain regions). It is water from the Rhine (river) treated by insurance, suitable for drinking, cooking and all. But there is a difference here, the floors are largely not contaminated with pollutants from the past, and attempts are also made to prevent any pollution from motor oil/diesel fuel etc. (e.g. vehicle accidents), which is quite complex, but ultimately worth it. 😂 In some places you can get there better, faster and more effortlessly with public transport than with your own car (where you often have to look for an endless parking space at your destination). The eternal misunderstanding about communism and socialism, I mean, too much of both is not good, if I look towards the USA I can only say that too little obviously isn't either. Interpreted somewhat liberally, common property is everything that belongs to the people, including the property of the city, the district or the country (which everyone has to take care of). And when I imagine the cost of 10k for a birth, I know how far removed one is from social thinking. Both terms are demonized, although, as mentioned, they have a limited amount of good things, except that it involves costs. In the healthcare system, however, I'm sure that billions could be saved if it were reorganized more efficiently. I'm still wondering where all your health insurance money goes, at least not where it should. Well, that's right, there are more white people here than other races/cultures, but here in particular about 25% of the population is made up of immigrants and by no means all of them are white. There are certainly a few racists here too, but they (fortunately) lead a rather shadowy existence. I meet people from other cultures almost every day, sometimes they are a little different than usual, but I can't think of anything that has bothered me about it so far. Sometimes I notice more "own" people with unpleasant/inappropriate behavior (like today, an idiot of about 55-60 years, who just pressed all buttons of the floors in the mall when exiting the elevator). And by the way, if you walk along our Rhine in summer, in the evening, practically the whole city is on the bank, you hear a lot of languages, especially English, Spanish, Portuguese, none of them is a native language; Who cares? nobody. Nudity, well, that's how we were born, to keep in mind. But here in Basel it's not even forbidden by law (unless, of course, you bother someone in this way), on the aforementioned bank of the Rhine people sometimes unabashedly change their clothes after/before swimming in the Rhine, I don't know why anyone should care (kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rNhxoNt-nKjGaKM.html).

Rules around tap water in most western european countries are higher than bottled water so these are super safe to drink

Drinking in public... It saved my life once! Shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall, when I was doing alternative civil service instead of serving in the armed forces, I wanted to go home to my girl for the weekend on Friday afternoon. However, it was midsummer and peak travel season. And there was a good chance that I would be stuck in traffic for an hour or more on the Autobahn at this hour. A colleague therefore suggested that we could go to the river and play some frisbee there. We did. After we didn't want to go any further, he suggested (because there would still be a lot of traffic) to drive to the fortress and drink a beer that we had brought with us. Because our office was not far away and also in the direction I was going home, I agreed. We rode my speedster back to our pad, grab 2 beers and then on to the fortress that towers high above the city. Since the fortress has several wall systems and I hadn't seen the thing from the inside since my 4th grade, I drove in my car as far in as possible. When I was only a few meters away from the second inner wall gate, my little Frenchman collapsed. Although I was only driving over the cobblestones at walking speed, an important part of the front right suspension broke. The result was that the car immediately became unmanageable and the fender came down down to the wheel. As a result, the sidewall of the tire was slightly damaged. Since I have a lot of knowledge about the matter due to my job, after I noticed the damage I turned white and felt nauseous. Because if I hadn't let my colleague Frank persuade me to have a beer with him in the sun on the fortress wall, I would certainly have gone home. In order to explain the situation a little more closely, you have to imagine my car a little more closely. A French R5, with a curb weight of only 850 kg, but with 93 HP, which made the car 180 km/h (almost 110 miles) fast. And I used to use the power of my car, of course. If I had been driving home and that ball pin had broken on the track, like it did at the Fortress, I would have lost all control of the car and would have died. And that's how drinking in public saved my life... A true story!

Yes... Its true. European citizens could study no matter how age they have. Ther are many retired citizens being graduated. Senior university

more answers SOCIALIST both MARX and ENGELS were Germans so technically we invented that. But here socialism is seen as a good think, we WANT our government to take care of certaint thing thats why we vote it. Even out current system is called SOCIAL DEMOCRACY which means we are a capitalistic democratic economy but if the market system fails or the out put is not equal the government interferes in order to gain equal chance for everybody.

From my experience, most people in Germany don't really have a differentiation between 'race' in the american sense and ethnicity. For most people racial differentiation is something reserved for animals (like a poodle is one dog race, and a dalmatian is another dog race) or plants in a wider sense. Technically you can use the same for humans, but only those who follow the racial doctrine (was very popular here in the late 1930s and early 1940s) actually believe that. For the most part, it's about ethnicity and origin though. Like, in France you have lotsa black people, those are french with african origin (obviously) but they are just french for us. I am, for example, a german with asian ethnicity, russian-ukrainian-kazakh origin, swedish-french-prussian ancestry, born in Sacha. Guess how many germans even care? Well, recently a few more than usual, but not to the point to think i'm of a different race.

Since the war between Russia and Ukraine, more than 1.1 million people from Ukraine have come to Germany. In addition, an increase in immigrants from non-European countries. Germany is larger in area than New Mexico and smaller than Montana with a population of more than 84 million people. One in four has a migration background. My family comes from Germany and the Netherlands. According to my DNA, Western Europe, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe.

I cannot remember when I have seen the first black person in Germany. Im am born 1960 and I guess it was around 1970 or so. Could be an american GI doing military training in out village. But there were absolutely no black people living in our area until about 1980. That changed a lot and now we have many people from Africa and also the US. There was one girl in the class of my daughter and now it might be around 20 in our village of 6000. In my company we have about 5 out of 1000.

To be fair, there are 4 episodes of it. 2 on this channel and 2 on NALF's channel.

To your question: no the gen Z over here isn't AS aggressive as over the chanal And of course, the majority in Germany, as Im german myself, is white although there are quite a couple of different "BIG ethniticy groups" like Turkish, Italian, Polish people as well as also smaller ones from other arabic, african or east asian countries

What I found funny was that as Australian, from Frankfurt to Austria was two hours. Yet in my home state you are still in your own state.

I graduated as an electrical automation installer in 1998 and an electrical power installer in 1999. Now, in the old days, I got bored and studied to become a mechanical engineer. I graduated in 6/2022. I turn 46 on Tuesday, so yes, we can study in Finland when we want and at what age we want. Studying is so easy that you can even complete it while working, and that's why I applied again to night school to study electrical engineering. Some retirees even have a hobby of going to high school before they die.

In Romania you can study your entire life if you are academically inclined, but the state will fund only 1 university degree, 1 masters and 1 doctorate. If you want to get more than you have to pay for your own way - the university can still provide scholarships but that’s based on grades and since it’s funded by the university’s own means they usually don’t provide those to people that pay tuition. Places in uni are usually about 50/50 between state funded and tuition. Usually the ones that are state funded are the ones that were accepted first based on grades. Places get redistributed each year again based on grades so if you slack off you can loose your unpaid spot.

I believe that younger generations are much more incline to get offended about pretty much any thing than older generations. I am afraid it is a global thing. BTW i am in France i would have start by this^^

Yes, you can study in Germany as often as you want. Gladly also 20 courses with 20 degrees. It stays free. However, the cost of living is not free. In this respect, sooner or later you will probably have to start working at some point. But before the new degrees like bachelor's and master's came along, in fact some students didn't finish their Magister degree or Diploma until they were 35. However, there is already a time limit within a course of study. That is why these so-called "long-term students", as there used to be many, are now generally extinct.

More answers IMMIGRATION You can honestly ask questions here we have free speech too, we definitely have less people of different ethnic background in Germany than in the USA. I guess (there is not Data for that (it would be rasist to have data) there are less person of color and less Asians in Germany (we were also not so involved with slavery). Currently 2022 about 1/4 of the population has heritage roots in migration but are nowadays mostly German. A lot come from Turkey, Greece, Italy and also Spain because during our economic boost times in the 1950s/1960s we didn't have enough workers so the Government kind of contracted or better allowed immigration but it was (from both sides worker/government) thought that it is only temporary (therefore both side made to little effort in integration (should have made by the government). The current Top 5 of people with a different citizenship living in Germany are (in descending order): Turkey ( 1,5 Million) Polish ( 900 thousand), Syrian 870 thou. mostly refugees), Romaniens 850 thou., Italians (650 thou.) all public record available by statista. A yes generation Z is similar here which brought a lot of good stuff as you said but sometimes it is a bit too much here too.

More more answers NUDITY Mostly here in Germany you are right we don't sexuality nudity so much., Actually to to saunas (people are naked there) and the nudist movement (FKK= free body culture) people are very open minded. Currently a women sued Berlin city because men are allowed to be naked on the upper body in the city public baths bit women are not. She won and now everybody can show the upper body naked.

We can study as much for free here in Norway, but we have a limit on how many years we get ..unsure how to phrase it... stipend? That is, we can get some money to help covering living-expenses while we study from the goverment. The limit is 8 years. You can also apply for a student loan, and parts of it is converted to stipend when you finish your exams as long as you don't earn more than a certain amount working at the same time.

I love the way you two play off each other. And how can Linda look so pretty without makeup.btw you guys look totally different when on your vlog without the headphones

Yeah, even though we are pretty diverse here in Germany, the only "high" percentage is that of Turkish people here, which is around the same percentage as Black people in the US. However, they and their ancestors came here by themselves, if you know what I mean, lol. Tbh, after watching a lot of videos about crazy/stupid stuff that Americans have said, the majority seemed to come from California (followed by, but having a big lead over it, Texas), so Florida seems not to be last state I would want to visit.

Hi Loners, so may question lets answer a few: WATER In Germany all tap water is drinkable unless that there is a sign which states that it is not. It gets checked daily by the water works company only in a few areas close to large rivers they put some chlorine it the water to make it safe (in most areas not).

I never knew what Europeans were talking about, about bad water, until I visited Southhaven, MS last year. The water was undrinkable. If anyone has adapted to that and can enjoy the free tap water there, I'm impressed. But I had the best fried chicken of my life at Gus's in Southhaven. I'm ruined now for chicken.

The younger generation here i live in manchester, england and i’ve never saw any young people get offended by anything like this.

You can basically study as long as you want and yes you can change subjects however you like. And yes, it's completely free, except for a small fee of around 250€ per semester.

When he say his second gun..😂 that kills me

Some answers regarding university in Germany: - There is no expiration date for credits. It used to be possible to study, or 'study', for the same degree for decades. Nowadays degree courses often have a time limit after which you are kicked out. - When there is a time limit, you are kicked out without a degree several years after the official standard time for the degree (which in some cases hardly anyone manages to finish in). If you can't study full time, you can apply for your clock to tick at half the speed, though. - A few states have an additional or alternative system. In those states, once you are 2-3 years above the official standard time, you have to pay penalty fees. These are still very low compared to American tuition fees. - There is no limit on how many degrees you collect, or how many degree courses you terminate without a degree. However, a few states have penalty fees starting with your second or third degree course. (Only degrees you actually got count for this.) - There are free or essentially free programs for senior citizens who want to study at a university informally. But since there is no age limit for studying, those who have the necessary qualification can also choose to inscribe in a regular degree course. There have been cases of pensioners studying for the first time, or in a field completely different from their original one, getting a degree, and then getting a PhD. Some lectures tend to be full of old people, but apart from that, a German student will normally meet only a few senior citizens in the course of their studies. - Very occasionally you can find an eccentric who has been attending courses in the same field in the same university for decades. It's part of their way of life. Some of them are quite knowledgeable, but many are harmless science cranks. Sometimes nobody knows what their source of income is, and whether they actually have a proper home. Some of them are officially matriculated with the university, but in most fields it's not necessary because nobody cares. It only becomes an issue if they become a real nuisance, e.g. due to a serious psychiatric condition. Even then, our university environment is normally very tolerant and very reluctant to expel anyone, even if they are technically trespassing. (So long as they are not on the campus for nefarious or commercial reasons.) - In fact, in most fields at most universities it would be entirely feasible to attend courses until you know enough to pass all exams, then finally register and do everything required to get a degree in half the normal time. It's just pointless because the administrative fees are low and as a registered student you get some privileges that you would be missing out on. Regarding the proportion of white people in Germany and related topics: - Many Germans define 'white' by skin color alone, so it includes East Asians. We also include Mediterranean people, and while we are at it usually also Middle Eastern people. So 'white' isn't a 'race' as much as a statement of how close to the poles most of someone's ancestors lived. - Germany has only recently become a country with immigration. Until less than a century ago we mostly had emigration, and the little immigration we had came from other European countries. - When modern humans first came to Europe, they acquired the genes for lighter skin color from the Neanderthals, who had already been living here for a very long time. Light skin is advantageous in Europe, and almost necessary in northern Europe, so that we can produce enough Vitamin D in winter. Dark skin is advantageous if not necessary in Africa to prevent skin cancer. If a population moves to a region where its skin color does not fit, and another population there has the appropriate skin color, then due to natural selection the genes for the best skin color spread so fast that within a thousand years or two everyone has them. This is what happened to Europeans many thousand years ago. Of course there is a gradient. Icelanders are far lighter on average than Italians. - There are a lot of immigrants in Germany, many from outside Europe, but most of them we consider white. - Modern slavery was a very short episode for Germany, and never happened within German borders. There was a tiny number of black people in Germany already in the early 20th century, but no strong racism against them. The two most important groups were: 1. Descendants of former slaves in the short-lived German colonies. The few who came to Germany usually had been freed as friends of the owning family or for their achievements. Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-George in France (the 'black Mozart') was an early extreme example of the same phenomenon in France. If they were male, they were often considered very eligible bachelors due to being well connected. 2. When French troops occupied the Rhineland after World War I, there were a lot of Africans among the French military. This led to a number of marriages and extramarital children. These children were widely hated, not based on race so much as on the fact that everyone could see what their father's role had been. - Even the Nazis were ambivalent about black people and did not kill them systematically like they did with the Jews. Just before the Nazi regime was ended, there were still enough left as extras for mass scenes of a film taking place in Africa ("Quax in Afrika"). The extras came from all over Germany and spoke a wide variety of German dialects. (I think participation wasn't voluntary.) - Jews are, of course, white. Except the few who are not and are affected by racism even if they live in Israel. (I think that was true even for the Nazis. They subdivided white people into categories such as 'Aryan', Jewish and gypsies). - Like almost everywhere, there is widespread but not universal prejudice in Germany against people who look different. Black people from Africa are one of the groups most affected. While this is mostly for no good reason at all, it is reinforced by the fact that recently many African families send a son to Europe to make money and send it back. Since there is no way for these young men to get a legal work permit, all sorts of problems arise. Black Americans are significantly less affected by racism when they are recognizable as Americans. In that case, the racism is reduced to a level more similar to that against certain white ethnicities such as Turks or Poles.

In Poland its prohibited to drink in public. You can get fined ... BUT ... if you dont behave like a pig the police doesnt really care. At worst when a babuszka annoys the police officers to get ridoff the young people that drink in public they will tell you to go somewhere else or to throw away / hide your bottle and usually people comply with the request since everyone knows how freakin annoying babuszkas can be. Sometimes you can get unlucky and meet a police officer from the category "służbista" which means a strict disciplinarian, but it has negative connotations in the polish language (those are the folks that will apply the law no matter if it actually makes sense or not).

13:44 - Did you hear about the Florida father who got a public school director removed from her position because the school showed Michael Angelo's _David_ (naked sculpture) in a Renaissance Art class, to 11 and 12 year old kids, and he considered it pornography? A freaking sculpture????

Junger Generations don't nessesrely get afended more than older generation, but wenn old people feel attacked by people just existing, you don't call it offended. Sorry for the spelling. I'm German.

11:44 German here. Germany had no African Slave Farms on German Soil. Besides that there was only 30 Years of german colonialism around the world. However African People living in Germany were a very rare exception before WWII. On the Flip Side some Indian People are here for over 500 Years called Roma and Sinti or also known as Gypsy. Or other Eurasian Groups. However big Non-European Migration into Germany only started around 1960 in bigger groups as Working Migrants. Obviously nobody wanted to migrate to Germany right after WWII when ruins still burning.

Germany is like Denmark very white, but we do have a lot of immigrants from everywhere. Integration means everything not skin colour. I don’t believe we are as sensitive or easy to offend as in USA. And I hope it stays that way.

Btw. Naked in the park. In some Cities in Germany, every woman has the right to swim topless, just like men swim topless. It is offensive :) that men are allowed to show their nipples but women are not, just because those are sexualized (usually by men). And yes, a lot of things are now "offensive" and often that is much too strict. However, I hope that reason will regulate this down again where necessary and that the achievements remain. Unfortunately, I have to say, "the web" is, in my opinion, much too much oriented to prudish, old-fashioned American rules.

so my country sweden is often acused of beeing socialist country but we are an Capitalist Country with social reforms so bernie sanders is wrong when he state that we are socialistic😄😄😄😄😄♥♥

Drinking some beer, with nice poeple at a Main Street, in summer evening is great. 🍺🖐️

The number of people being offended increases.. even here in Germany. I still feel though they are the minority but maybe I just don't have contact to them. Your question how the demographic here looks like I would never see as problematic. Just because you use the word "race" doesn't mean that anything bad is being said. o.O we have about 80 million people of these about 20 million have a migration background (I simplifed these numbers but it's about this) of these most are from the Turkey and from Poland, followed by Russia, Kasachstan and Syria, Italy and Romania and Vietnam and South Korea. After WWII the country was in dire need of workers (somehow many of ours died - who knows what happened there) So the majority of migration happened after WWII mostly in the 60s Even though we have people from all parts of the world many of these are also "white". That's why I don't like the differentiation of skin colors. You can still come from a very different culture. You have the same in the US. In the end you guys are all US-Americans and would stand out as these in other countries independent of how you look.

Greetings from Finland! Basicly here is illegal to drink in public, but no-one really doesn´t give a shit if you do. It´s more like where you drink it and where it is appropriet. Of course you can´t go just anywhere with open alcohol product with you like shops, malls, bars, coffee shops etc. and drink your own beverages over there, but you can walk around and sip some beer while walking or in outside park areas, seats in parks or river side & so on. Even most of outside events it´s ok to drink if there isn´t lots of kids around. Just use common sense about the situation. As long as you can behave there´s no problem in public drinking. Here isn´t leagle to be naked or topless (for women) in public or somewhere where can be children around. Nude beaches are for adults only, but still we can go to sauna and there everybody are naked. Only tourists wear towel over the body. Public saunas usually have different sections for man and woman. Locker rooms and shovers are also by gender. If you have dick you are man what ever you claim to be. Here we have most of the places open also in sundays. Even biggest markets can be open 24/7. That is not very common in Europe in general. Shops and markets can deside how they keep them doors open for customers.

Remember my first time in Indianapolis seeing loads of people filling massive water bottles at the grocery store because the tap water was disgusting - I accidentally put some in the kettle out of habit (yeah I still had a kettle) and the tea tasted disgusting

En Europa caminamos mucho...son bonitas ciudades, a la gente le apetece caminar...y hacemos vida social fuera de casa....café, unas cervezas con amigos, más paseo, tumbarse un rato al sol en un parque, sentarse un rato a hablar....mucha vida fuera de casa...

12:01 A interesting bit of fact about Germany during the war is that there was actually quite a bit of a black community there (colonies etc) and they wheren't treated like say the Jews. They did experience increasing levels of discrimination, but they wheren't the primary target of the government at that time. 15:28 Most places, but not everywhere. Here in Norway public drinking is also technically illegal. But usually if you are just lying or sitting in a park and don't get loud or obnoxious and don't make it too obvious the police usually won't actually enforce it unless someone actually complains. Walking around with a beer etc is a different matter.

Not sure about the details of German higher education, but in Sweden you can study for "free" until you die of old age, the only thing is that the ability to get a loan to study gets limited from around when you turn 50 or so. IIRC the pay of around $120 per month for studying is not affected by your age

Well the "white colored"people in germany outweight but they are still not all germans. They are either immigrants from all over the world that either took the german nationality to be able to live here as their first or second one OR belong to the EU Countries which allows them to live in germany as long as they got a job and have a home to live in. :) So we have a lot of asians from different countries and parts of the globe as also black and white americans, africans, mixed races and a lot of white people from several different EU and not EU Countries living here. That's something that I personaly love and wouldn't wanna have differently at all! :)

I have just heard crazy shit from Florida on the radio: they fired a head master because she showed a picture of a statue from Leonardo da Vinci to her 6 th graders in arts class 🙄

Tax on income is paid anywhere in Europe (the percentage varies from country to country, for example, from 10% to 40%). Additionally, employers are legally required to contribute approximately 20% of each employee's salary to the pension insurance. The amount of tax collected by the government is based on a percentage of the salary. For example, if you earn 1000 euros per month, your tax is 20%, if you earn 2000 euros, your tax is 25%, and if you earn more than 3000 euros, your tax is 35%, which, in my opinion, is fair. The tax also depends on whether you are single (higher tax) and whether and how many children you have (more children, lower tax), which, again, I believe is fair. The tax collected by the state is also invested back into free healthcare, affordable childcare, free education, maintenance of cities, roads, construction of parks for children, and other social aspects of the state to provide a more pleasant life for taxpayers, which, in my opinion, is fair. In Europe, unlike America, the crime rate is significantly lower, there are no firearms, and people feel relatively safe and relaxed without the need for exaggeration or fear. In all parts of Europe, people work only eight hours a week (90% of jobs) and have the right to paid sick leave, 25 to 30 days of paid annual leave, and 6 to 12 months of paid maternity leave (the job must wait for you, they cannot dismiss you). Therefore, life in Europe is much more relaxed than in America, where everything is focused solely on earning and consumerism. At one time, America was an ideal for Europe in 80s and begining of 90s, but today, unfortunately, we look at you with mockery and pity.

In Europe in general, nobody has a right not to be offended.

Their is a BIG diference between socialism and comunism. Yes comunism ideas were based on socialism,but then comunism perverted the ideea and took it to the extreme. Mycountry(Romania) had comunism for 45 years so I know a little bit about the subject 😂

Even more answers STUDYING For studying, yes you can do that as long and as much as you want to (but it is as well true what you said most government subsides for students are only for younger people) but University is always free (some retirees even decide to study what the always wanted). Credits points I am not sure I guess after a few years there are gone.

More more more PUBLIC DRINKING /FUSSPILZ Yes, you are allowed to do that in Germany we have even a word to which describes drinking a beer on the way to (party, the beach, the lake a concert etc.) the word is Fusspilz which means transalted foot beer (Pilsner is the most common type of beer).

Yepp, obviously (at least to me) this video is a skit and sarcastic. Or, at the very least, ironic. Both play so well off each other. The second part is also great. ____ Little thought experiment on Civil War participant statues: Imagine Germany having statues of General and later Feldmarschal Erwin Rommel around. That's similar to having statues of General Lee around. Both were highly decorated officers of their side, some would even go so far as to say they were gentleman soldiers to their core. Yet they still represented and helped a despiccable mindset. Guess what: which country still has statues of their respective general around, and who doesn't. ____ Starbucks: yeah, most Germans consider Starbucks an emergency fix when the caffeine addiction hits and you've got NO other alternative available. ____ Socialism/communism: these two words have been used ad absurdum in the USA to stop ANY (!) discussion about the most minor social programs there. It is an inherent, almost genetic knee-jerk reaction to slap the term on ANYTHING you want to discredit, no matter if the facts say something completely different. The worst part about it is that the person using the term in such a derogatory manner actually believes that they are in the right, and can't be convinced with good reasons to the contrary. This usage is so ingrained that it shuts down the active brain participation and lets the reflex system take control. Now comes the really bad part: most US Americans have absolutely NO idea what socialism and communism as defined by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were supposed to be; nor how different politicians throughout history since its inception have spun their own interpretations on either word. The word is used completely devoid of any notion what it means even by well meaning individuals. ____ My uncle decided to enter university at the age of 65 to study history after his early retirement from public office (Beamter for you Germans). He didn't have to pay for tution; only his semester fee of around 250€ for the whole semester. So yeah, it is definitely possible to study just because you want more knowledge; not just for a job. Yes, your credits will expire if you don't do enough work, or earn more credit during your exams, or if you fail to write your doctorate expose. But it takes quite some time. But no, age isn't a restriction. ___ The Reichstag is the seat of the German parliament, and yes, there is a visitors' gallery up atop the main chamber, open even during full session of the lower house (the Bundestag). So yeah, visiting it is only possible with a ticket ordered well in advance cause so many people want to visit, from all around the world. ____ First off: no, there aren't really many different RACES in Germany. We are all homo sapiens. Period. Unless you want to count someone like me who has roughly 2.8% Neanderthal genes, instead of the 0.8 to 1.5% that is normal for nearly everybody on this planet. What you probably MEAN: are there many different ethnicites? Yes, there are TONS of different ethnicities here. Yes the phenotype of white people are still predominant. It IS a genetic adaptation to long, dark, grey winters to allow for better vitamin D production in your skin. However this adaptation is available in almost all ethnic groups; the longer a person stays in Germany (or further north), the more their skin lightens to adapt to the differing light conditions. Similar to white people developing a significantly darker, browner skin in climates with a lot of sunshine, if they constantly expose their skin to it. Within a few generations people even with a strongly darker skin will usually have lightened quite a lot in Germany; just the same as people moving south and living in constant sunshine will turn darker. This is just pure biology at work; nothing racist about this. That does not mean that people with darker skin aren't accepted, or have any (signficiant) societal effects. I'm not saying that absolutely NO racism occurs in Germany; that'd be a lie. But there is no inherent systemic racism; only either brain-dead morons; or some traditional mindsets that haven't caught up to the present yet. In many cases it is just that people haven't thought about it and run their mouth on automatic; not even considering that their comments may be derogatory. When pointed out that a comment may have been derogatory or racist the vast majority of those people will be ashamed, and will actively try to apologize and change. Again, only the morons will retain their mindset. But those morons exist everywhere. However there is a very large Turkish (descendants) group living here, as well as many Italians, and quite a few people from Northern Africa (Marocco, Tunisia, Libya, Algeria). Hamburg for example has its own parish for the very large Ghanaese population living in Wilhelmsburg, a district of Hamburg. No, this was not an enforced ghetto, it was created by immigrants on their own, as many people invited their relatives, as well as their friends to settle in the same area. There are multiple streets on the grid there that are firmly settled by people from Ghana. So, yes, Germany is a very diverse country, and skin color really doesn't matter. Your character is much more important, as well as wanting to integrate into the German society. Not that you have to get rid of your own ethnic traditions; just that you accept German laws, regulations, and the general way of living. ___ Yeah, we get it, that neither Nalf nor the majority of Americans are this extreme. That's what hyperbole is for: pointing out a flaw by exaggerating it to the extreme. 😁😂

It seems obvious to me that it would not seem natural to have escalators or elevators in a historical monument.😅

In norway you can study as long as you wish.and take different studys

Lógicamente, tratamos de salir lo antes posible al mercado de trabajo, porque necesitamos dinero para vivir, sin embargo, como digo, existe algo que se denomina formación continua en el sector en que estás empleado...y ahora, la formación on line ha dado nuevas posibilidades a este aspecto....es muy bueno para el currículum...

Germany, Austria, and all the central european countries don't have colonies in Africa and we never had slavery, so there is a fair amount of refugies, but not a huge one, like in the US or the Netherlands or France.

Couple friends of mine have several bachelor degrees and master degrees because they liked it…

Hahaha, that video is much funnier when Americans react to it 😂 As for the black people: That's not a thing here. They are a minority, german colonizers didn't bring them here. He overplayed a little bit the "we don't talk about black people thing" but basically we don't want to offend anyone by mentioning their skin color at all (of course there are right wingers and racists here too, like everywhere else, but basically that's the reason). However, a far bigger percentage of the population have turkish backgrounds because of the guest workers that came here a few decades ago. That's a bigger issue by far. But basically the majority is white, that's correct. As for the park joke and the girl tanning naked: Since recently several public swimming baths allow bathing topless for women. I'm not sure how I feel about that though 😂

Just fyi I can't think of a place in public in Germany where you have to hide alcohol, or where it is not allowed to have at all

Good morning from Flanders and i love your reports. You are Americans, clearly but at least down to earth. But keep in mind, the USA is different. In the USA you can not sit on a terras on a sunny day with a beer and watching the girls go by. Poor you.

The coulour of a skin is no race, we are all human and that's our race

After WWII, the US forgot a lot of small brown babies in Germany.

As far as white people are concerned, there are a lot of them in Germany. Whilst I was living in London, whenever I went to Berlin, it really felt strange to almost exclusively white people. Now, I live in Switzerland, and I'm used again to the fact that almost everybody is white.

"Florida man" is known over here....

I would say that one big different thing between Europe and the US is that if you have on underwear you are NOT naked.. I used to tease my sister in law who is American with that fact 🤷🏼‍♂️😁😂

Tap water in Germany is probably the best tested and highest-quality food.

People say that they are offended, but that's not an argument to just stop doing the thing which they found offensive. (Quote Stephen Fry) "So you're offended? I'm still waiting for your argument".

Tap water in Norway is ten times cleaner than bottled water. If you ever visit, don't waste money buying bottled water.

With very few exceptions i am against taking down statues. If we always judge people of the past according to the current moral standards and remove the statues of the ones who don't measure up, after some generations nothing is left. Especially in the best case scenario where we assume morals develop towards the better

Germany has a colorful society as well. And there are black people obviously. But you're right regarding the numbers. Statistically some neighbouring countries have higher numbers of black people. It is mostly due to their colonial history. France for example had many colonies in Africa and around the globe, and still controls many parts in Africa and around the world to this day. So they received a lot more immigration, especially from Africa through this. The UK is another big example, with additional ties to India and the Middle East as well. Germany was stripped of its colonies after WW1, so migration through this is minimal or non-existent. Most migrants feel attrackted by specific European countries though their language. It is easier to migrate to somewhere where you already speak the language. So English, French, Spanish are factors to consider and draw attention to the respective countries where those languages are spoken. German not so much, unless you're from Namibia. Eastern Europe has additional factors due to their Soviet / Cold War history behind the Iron Curtain. They also have lower numbers because to these times.

Marx wasn't a "bad" person - he was just a philosofer. He didn't kill anybody!

Germany had only a few colonys and did not import Slaves = native Germans are white , but we took in Millions of Refugees and in the 1960s and 1970s Germany had not enough workforce and invited Millions of Turkish and Greek guest Workers which came at their free will because they got a better Salary in Germany , they stayed ... . Currently we have Millions of Refugees from the Ukraine because Putin decided that Russia invades Ukraine and startet a War next Door , ok , Poland is a kind of Buffer but the Ukraine is not that far away . PS: their is no official limit in Age , but some Universitys limit the Age to 55 for starting to study and you can study eg Biology for usually up to 10 Years but that can be extended and if you have your master then you can continue to study Science or Math or History , if you are smart you are not limited to one Master degree . So , yes , in that sense you can study until youre at high Age in Germany but nearly no one does this , at some point 99,9 % want to start earn Money in a Job .

In Germany tap water is THE most controlled food here.

Unfortunately, what is seen in the video is in no way exaggerated - ok except for the weapon. Many American tourists behave this way and sometimes much worse.

Casi siempre estamos formando os, aunque trabajemos ...gracias al dinero público ( nuestros impuestos) podemos estudiar una carrera, otra, uno o varios masters, formación continua que nos da el Estado o las propias empresas, públicas y privadas....los estudios pueden ser públicos, gratuitos o más baratos que los privados, o privados, si eso nos interesa...y hay preparación para personas que están en paro, para aumentar sus habilidades o conseguir otras en sectores que tengan más trabajo....

Hello, I will try to explain it with the many white people, as Nalf put it. First of all, Germany is not a classic immigration country like for example the USA, where people came from everywhere. But for the last 25 years or so, that has changed radically. Second, Germany is not historically a classic " seafaring country, such as the United Kingdom or France, Portugal, the Netherlands, or Spain. Rather, these nations were central states that sailed the oceans and annexed colonies on almost every continent. Germany had not had some small colonies until very, very, many years later, which were of no interest to the other countries mentioned. Germany at that time was divided into many small kingdoms, principalities and so on. For this reason, for example, the percentage of blacks in France and the United Kingdom is much higher than in Germany. The fact that there are not so many Latinos here is geographically understandable, our country is simply too far away for these groups, these people probably want to go to the USA rather than Europe. So, now to the other point. We have now, as before, a lot of immigration from other European countries and especially from Turkey, Arab countries, Syria, Afghanistan, etc. and as now from Ukraine (Germany has taken in over a million Ukrainians in 2022) But also increasingly blacks from Africa are coming to Germany. Also, the video was shot in Schwäbisch Hall, which is a small town of about 40,000 people. I, for example, live in Berlin, where people from about 190 different countries live, and many other large cities in Germany are also very international. If someone can help me with my alleged explanation, please do. I didn't want to go into too much detail now.

Solo muy recientemente ( en España en los años 50 del pasado siglo) se ha empezado a recibir inmigración, de países de África, América , Asia.... empieza a haber más personas con diversos aspectos raciales, pero, como digo, no es algo tan antiguo como para que sea abundante ...las mezclas raciales que posee Europa se produjeron mucho tiempo antes, y entre países cercanos o por conquista ( romanos, musulmanes...) ese es el motivo.....Estados Unidos tenía una importante población negra y es un país en que, aún hoy, se favorece una especie de separación entre " comunidades"...nunca ha funcionado así en Europa, aunque algunas personas, como los gitanos o algunas comunidades ultrareligiosas o de inmigración reciente, tratan de mantener cierta separación porrbuna idea de protección de la propia cultura , pero, en general, es un fenómeno muy nuevo, todavía....

The most black people are either Americans or Africans in Germany. Not as many as in America since have only a very small "black history" with our colonies in Africa.

Talking about drinking and alcohol, is it true that in USA you cannot have open beer bottles in the car, even if bottle is empty?

I live in NRW in the Ruhr- Area. Its a kind of melting pot of different cultures.

Feudal societies in former historical times are examples of class systems with a very strict separation social layers. The vast majority of the population belonged to the lowest social layer with hardly any rights. Hence Europe has hardly ever received any significant number of enslaved peoples from other continents.

Sry.. thanks for taking him :D jajajajajaaaa :D And no you cant studie as long as you want...... not if you dont know the loopholes lol

was fun but I would suggest to watch Joni &Pete videos. imo

We have over 40 % foreign share, in my City and in the state i live ,its not uncommon. He tried to get arround the Second Skin colore question ,to not explain the American why thay have so much . But but i´m not sure about the first reaction...

This is pretty much the image Europeans have of Americans.

germans majority but alot of turks also portuguese and some others

Yes there are many more white people. But then, we don't call people from the middle east for example a different race like that. That's a cultural or ethnic thing. And most of our immigrants are from europe and the adjacent regions where the above applies. There are around 25% people with migration background here, and a few years back there was kinda a big thing about some cities having more births with migration background than german ones. But the big thing there is that it's migration background, not other ethnicities. Migration background means people who came from other countries to live in germany and their children. A third of immigrants comes from EU countries, another third from other european countries and the last third from countries outside of europe (which can be more or less european themselves look at northern africa or the near east, what difference is there). Race is not counted at all, it's all nationality or nationalities of the parents, greatparents and so on. In the end I wouldn't say that there are few non-white people here, germany is the second biggest emigration destination in the world and especially towns with universities have a lot of foreign students. While the US has around 20% latino, 15% black and 6% asian, our biggest community with migration background is turks with about 6% (So we have way more asians but less others).

Well... I think that communism has a bad ring everywhere, but socialism on the other hand is pretty mainstream. From my viewpoint socialism tries to help poorer/average people in a standard capitalist economy and advocating for a strong democracy, while communism goes to advocate dictatorship and a planned economy, both of which we should know don't work very well (put mildly). On the education (example from Finland): You can study as much as you wan't, and the state will pay for your education, however the state only pays you cash + student loans for your first education. So if you go for a 2nd degree, you will study for free, but you'll need a way to pay for your living during that. On top of this there are also subsidised courses, where you'll be able to enrol for a single course for some 50$, to append your knowledge on different stuff.