Okay, first of all, the ARD is the joined program of the regional broadcasting stations in the different states. That system is established after World War II due to the fact that there were three respectively four military agencies controlling the media at all and with the post-war formation of the Bundesrepublik each state got its own public broadcasting network. The ARD is getting its input from these regional station, but also creates its own content. The fact, that the Tagesschau is transmitted through all networks at the same time is was a budget decision during the 2010s. Before, the regional stations had their own regional and world news. What is not mentioned, is the fact that ARD and its regional networks have the duty of information written in their network contract. So, there was a controversy about putting the Tagesschau on all channels at 20h. Not true is the idea that the Americans built up the system. In fact, the German media in the post-war time were first encouraged by the British, and in the further context, German newspapers, radio, and later TV prefered the rather rational, neutral news style of the British, the BBC. All the large news organizations, even the private ones, started their business under the strict idea of report unbiased and neutral and fact-orientated, which led to a sometimes strange rather cautious and sometimes even boring sounding news-reporting. But this just reflects the idea that propaganda and indoctrination should not ever enter the news sphere / system again. The German news and media business is based on research and fact checking, especially the large public ones. Their news presentation follows in general the theory of news-worthiness. Most important news first. During the 60s political parties initiated another public media network which did not consist out of regional subsidiaries, but should be one centralized network: the ZDF (Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen - Second German Television). Its original setup was to form a kind of state tv network like the CDU and especially the CSU in Bavaria wanted. But that was unconstitutional. So, the ZDF formed a leadership-council that reflected the main relevant social groups of the society: politicians of all parties, churches and universities/science, etc. Today these councils in all public networks differ a bit, but they are mainly trying to resist political pressure. Yet, political influence is a problem and can be sometimes be seen especially in Bavarian television, the BR. Some people say that you cannot get a job at the BR, Bayrischer Rundfunk, if you you are not a member of the ruling party CSU. But then again, many people working there, absolutely do not support them. The public TV in Germany is a success which annoys the private TV networks which openly lobby for the destruction of the public system because it would mean a larger more lucrative market for their purpose. Claiming the public system is ineffective and expensive, the private networks are even more expensive with additional fees and on top with advertisement all along. In short, a mimikry of the American system. In terms of quality, news are still best on the public services, and the other content may be boring on ARD and ZDF (self-produced series, shows, talkshows), but the private networks have failed to produce a better programme/content. They are like the US-networks with a little corporate bias while importing US formats like Reality tv, etc. which do not convince quality-wise. In many respects Austrian TV-system, ORF being the public service network and the private networks are mostly the same players like in Germany, is very similar to Germany. The main difference is this one. Austrian TV is less boring, it is more provoking. The reason is the same as for Austrian Film: Austria is small and 15 mio. Austrians are never a big audience to make lots of money. The consequence is the that the producers are more daring and more brave. The content is more provoking than appealing or trying to constantly pleasure the audience taste. If failing, well, who will notice? If the producer/ format succeeds, fame is for sure.

"Blabla....the US and Europe.....the differences between these two countries"??? Seriously? That's a stereotype right there!

Hi that was a nice video! 🤩 So I‘m German and I went to a „Realschule“ and to be honest that was a very good idea, because I was a bit slower than other students when I was younger. I wasn’t that stupid 😂 but to be honest I just didn’t understood why I should learn things that I‘m not interested in. 🤷🏻‍♀️ At the „Realschule“ I had more time to learn things and that was great, so I enjoyed my time as a Child with Sports, meeting my friends and searching for new hobbies. In my State in Germany (Baden Württemberg) it was very easy to switch to the „Gymnasium“ the highest school level, after the Realschule - it’s a bit complicated to explain but in the end I went to school for three more years with a specialization on Design. After that it took me half a year to get into the pubic University to study Design. We got BA and MA degrees and sometimes even Diploma Degrees - so some of us are studying 3 years and others up to 7 years or more. 🎓👩‍🎓 So it’s completely different and Individual for every student how long they are studying. One important Point: at my age, like 10 years ago, the Teachers decided if you are „smart“ enough to go to Gymnasium or not - so if you got a difficult teacher in the first years you weren’t able to even join the „Gymnasium“ - I think nowadays in the most states the parents are able to decide which school they want their child to visit. I hope sharing my story helped a bit to understand that even if you are at a „lower“ school system in the first place, you are still able to study for a small amount of money here 😊 So yes there is pressure, but you will be supported to get the Degree you would like to have 🙌🏼 Thanks for sharing your Perspective - it’s always interesting to see how other people think about Germany 🇩🇪 ☺️

I wouldn’t even know how to make cheesecake without Quark.

In Denmark, there is a very liberal law when it comes to naming your children, and this has lately become even more liberal (but Elon Musk would have no luck). In most of Denmark, the state church is taking administrative care of registering the name of children. The story goes that about 150 years ago, a Danish priest should name his sixteenth and hopefully last child, and he came up with the name "Punktum" = "Full Stop". As he was the priest, it was accepted 😊

*Always Pancakes...*

Other way! And I'm be gratefull for every single other way I could choose.

SPOILER: The Finanzamt will tax all your US income at the higher German tax rates when living in Germany. That is why I would not be a citizen. US TAXES ARE MUCH LESS!

getting closer to the new front? not a good idea

Homeschooling is band to prevent children from being abused. If children are forced to go to school then their teachers can spot abuse and stop it.

For me there is a misunderstanding in the statistic: To pay in a save way for both we Germans pay a lot by "EC-Card" - that's much more common than a credit card. This payment may be summed in "Debit card payment". EC-Card payment is guaranteed for the seller and cheaper than by credit card.

Seltsamerweise gibt es in Österreich den Geschäftsmann Julius Meinl VI.

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Hint: if the name ever appeared in a historical context of any country, you have good chances that the name will be accepted, even if it is not in the official catalogue. For example, old latin or greek names.

Do not look to Switzerland for how amazing trainsystems can be! As a Swiss, of course I will complain about this system here too. It is too pricy you might aswell get a car. It also has not improved over the past few years, but I still think it is better than the whole lot of nothing of public transport the US offers. It is though in my opinion, not holding up with the metro in Taiwan, Japan and according to my dad, in China. Taiwan, where I lived for a while, they have a high speed rail that takes you across the island (top to bottom) in 3-4 hours. In Switzerland the same distance takes you 6-8 hours. The local systems such as the MRT in Taipei is punctual up to .3 seconds. That is a crazy average to even measure, Switzerland does not give that any competition. The last thing is also, the system in Taiwan is cheaper and also more foreignerfriendly, I ran into several people that see you can get the S12 train and don't figure out that that train goes in two directions, the ticket system in Zurich is a nightmare that no one can really explain and causes many to eventually pay a fine for sitting on the wrong train. In Taiwan it is overall cheaper, it is near impossible to enter the train or MRT system without paying the right amount, and the trains are cleaner.

If you only skip through publicly broadcasted channels obviously you'll the same. But there is a lot private stuff as well if you like kt

In Switzerland there’s drinking water fountain on every corner, and unless a warning sign is on it, the water is safe to drink. Of course I let my dishes soak. 😅

Gemütlichkeit propably describes every situation you feel relaxed and stressless. I was just thinking of the Song "Probier's mal mit Gemütlichkeit" from the Movie Dschungelbuch (Jungle Book). The song is "the bare necessities " in Englisch. Gemütlich is cozyness but also your feeling of being with good friends and without a hurry.

Expats 😂 you're an immigrant 😅

In my opinion the German system is quite good. Nobody keeps very good students away from giving their best and kids with more practical talents can prove their skills they will need later but all kids get a good basic education in German, English, maths, chemistry, physics, biology, geography, arts, music and sports. The higher the school the proper the education is. When a kid is on gymnasium and learning is a torture he or she can change school and go on one level lower or finish after 10th year. No problem. The oposite way is a little more complicated. The gymnasium is a lot faster and more content is tought. So changing upwards could be too hard. But there are several schools to do the classes 11 to 12 (Fachholchschulreife) or to 13 (Hochschulreife/ University) and so everybody can get the highest education level for free if this person is qualified enough and intelligent enough to pass the exams. Even if a girl gets pregnant with 17 and stops all schools she could continue when her kid can be in a kindergarten during the day time and she can do the 10th year up to her approbation on university. There is no limit. Very intelligent kids even can absolve their school in one or two years less. A friend of mine gota baby when she was 16. With 30 she went to university and with 35 she was a doctor. Another friend did not do the first and the fifth year because it was too boring for him. He was a doctor for chemistry in an age of 22 and then he studied physics and got another title. I think the system seems to be cruel but it is not. There are so many ways to get to the goal and in between there is less pressure to learn.

Please. Quark is easy to describe: think philly cream cheese but a shade looser.

What do you mean we definitely approve your name

Don't get a German citizenship if you are black or mixed race !!!!

If you're not a king, you can't add numbers to your name in Germany because we abolished the monarchy in 1918.

Check out the full video linked at the bottom of this Short 😊

I must admit that I've never even heard of ApplePay. Many people here in Finland use MobilePay, but google tells me that it is used only in Denmark and Finland.

Is in whole Europe

Sorry kid a America is not a country and Germani is not a country the are cold USA and Duitsland look it up any map

I was homeschooled by my parents. I learnt to read and write at age 4 and I skipped the 1st and second grade and the first half of the 3rd class. I was bored until 10th grade. Studied, learned langauges.....Now I work in sales and while I am sometimes bored, my worst nightmare is ending back up in an office, sitting at a desk all day, starting at a computer screen.

And new to this game: Cannabis social clubs 😂

Ooo, ooo, I want to answer that check question! Here in Finland, I've seen a check only once. That was in 1985 when I was selling Girl Guides Christmas Calendars. I sold them to our neighbors, in other words, I was selling them to my friends' moms (which is what everyone did). One of them didn't have cash and said that she'll write a check. I didn't know if that would be acceptable, but she said that she's pretty sure that it is. Then when I met with the other Girl Guides and we all brought the money we'd got, there just happened to be one person who was an adult and she said that she knows what to do with the check. The rest of us didn't know. Then during the 1990s, I went to California for a language course. I was going to stay there for several months so that it was practical for me to have an American bank account. Getting one was easy, because there was a lot of us foreign students who started at the same time of the year, so a local bank came to our campus and we all opened bank accounts with them. They gave me an ATM card and a checkbook. I only intended to use the ATM card, but later, I decided to buy an electric guitar that cost $1200 dollars. I asked the employees at the music store if they can take a check from me. They needed to discuss it and the answer was no, they can't take a check because I don't have a Californian driver's licence. My Finnish passport wasn't valid identification from their point of view, they would have needed an American driver's licence number or something like that. So the one time in my life I actually might have wanted to pay with a check, it wasn't possible because of bureaucracy :D

In the Netherlands it's not that easy to have several creditcards. They check your income, and they also check if you are in debt or not. If you do, your applicatieontwikkeling will be declined.

Yeah, full disclosure here, I'm an American Expat who's Been in Germany for 50 years now (I came here when I was 10 years old.) I have a colleague who studied in Münster which is in Westfalia, who lived in an international student dormitory. She told me that at one time she went to the main train station to pick up an American student coming to study there he came from the Midwest and arrived in lederhosen and a checked shirt. You've been living long enough in Germany to realize how absurd this must've looked. But that's just what he had been told - try to look like the locals...

Here in Finland Dec 24th, 25th and 26th are holidays anyways. This year is one of those "super years" when they happen to be Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, so by using only two vacation days (Mon 23rd + Fri 27th) people can get nine days of vacation at one go (21th -29th). On those years when two of those days happen to be Saturday and Sunday, too bad. We can't get them as extra holiday then. There are 11 national holidays per year and 7-10 of them fall on weekdays depending on the year. Some years are better than others :D

Yes. (Just a yes with no context)

Trump??

The First thing that i think is how fat amerikans Are and i am german

I hope you don't mind if I edit a little bit of what you said? You did what people from the US tend to do, and referred to 'Europe' as if 'Europe' is a country, It's very much not, and each country varies enormously. Then, about how US people often only have one huge trip of a life-time. Yes, this is probably true (I think most people in the US don't even possess a passport?), but for those of us in the UK, it's so easy to do even day-trips to nearby countries. We are blessed to be able to experience different cultures so easily, which isn't possible for those in the US. When I went to Germany with a German friend who lives in the UK, she drove and we passed through 4 countries before we reached the last one - Germany. I came to the US once to stay with a friend in California and before I left I said to Marc that I'd like to visit Amish country. His response was that I'm nearer that in the UK than he was in CA. I didn't believe him until I checked it out. Even now I struggle to grasp the vast differences in distance between the UK and US. So this probably accounts for the 'trip of a life-time' attitude of those in the US.

In Portugal we also raise 1 finger in classes so I don't think that has anithing to do with the Nazi greeting🤔 but I do't know why it is though

That reenactment at the end had me laughing so hard! What a great story

Zwei wochen in schweden und dessen Radiergummi artiges brot NIE wieder (No offense)

Yes we use our shoes. When its not clean for you put a sack around it.

I am pure german. Never heard of Krampus. But "Knecht Ruprecht" who knows always the bad stuff what kids fid last year, and if its too much, there is no sweets, just a "Ruthe". He is coming with Nikolaus.

No one fits into American stereotypes. USA about Colombia : Hispanic people, expect it to be Mexican like. I go to Colombia: Multiracial society with West African, American, Western European and Native American influence, sort of like the US. No Colombian fits the Mexican cliche stuff.

unfortunately, a majority of American's view Europe as an extension of Disneyland.

A little correction, it's not necessary to take a test in 4th grade to decide which school path a child takes. That's only true in Bavaria, in all other german states the parents can decide. Of course they get a recommendation based on the grades from the teachers, but they don't have to follow it. And if you finish the Realschule with good grades, you can easily goo afterwards to a Gymnasium. It's the same with Hauptschule and Realschule. This system isn't so deviding as it might seem at first

America is inverted as in the ppl author social contracts on the state you can always take up arms. Rebuilding Europe and industrializing 3rd world new nations drawing new borders like in the middle or China come at an expense on the native family cells in multiple generations. Now that we liberated all common sense marginalized groups leaving only criminals or extremist from woman's suffrage to affirmative action it's on to the new paradigm computational infrastructure. Things are about to change as America returns to its own original domestic goals of classical America. To be fruitful and multiple becoming kings of our own castle useing tech to overcome handicaps and live out our dreams through a love of labor..

The poop shelf makes you notice if you have something in your poop that shouldnt be there. Like blood...

The only reason to wear a money belt is as an excuse to be able to scratch your privates 😂

Brot ist gut 👍