German Culture Shocks: Expats Talk About Berlin Traditions & People Mentality! | The Movement Hub

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[@seeyouchump]

People should stop generalizing and judging a population of millions based on a sample size. I have been living in Germany for a very long time and had nothing but positive experience. So please do me a favor and stop with the premise: "Germans are..." If you find Germans cold, then lord knows what you're going to say about eastern European countries and balkan countries

[@ghostramp8578]

What Balkan countries? Nobody is cold there.

[@royblack2395]

Berlin is not typical of Germany. Berliners always had a reputation for being very rough and very rude. But contrary to what the lady from the Czech Republic said, they are very willing to improvise. You have to be like that in Berlin, because nothing works there.

[@S_P-fg3mu]

Yes, it's because the berliners are a mix of poles, other Slavic people and Germans.😂 They have very Slavic temperament and behaviour.

[@Mediaevalist]

Berlin can barely be called a part of Germany at this point. It's like its own bubble that contains a runaway social experiment for some decades now, while slowly, but steadily decaying. If you want to know how most of the inner districts look like at this point, just look at the background between 0:00 and 0:04. So beautiful... I'm German and went to Berlin almost yearly between 1995 and 2015. Over the years I really learned to despise Berlin and most of the people who intentionally moved there and now have developed this sense of being ahead of everybody else in our republic.

[@gillan5]

You are right: it is like calling Amsterdam a Dutch City- Amsterdam is its own world within the Netherlands. Same with Berlin and Germany. Among us Germans real Berliners are known for not being very nice and polite. PS: I do not give a fuck on how somebody from Africa etc. thinks about me or us Germans. If someone does not like Germany he or she should go back to were they came from. Apart from that: why do they all come here if it is so terrible? So everyone who has a mice in front his face thinks he can speak derrogatively about us. We are not talking about the bush like Austrians or Japanse. We are very direct. If you want humour than go to England- if you find a real English man or woman anyhow.

[@dutchymcdutch2553]

I'm sorry, but "When in Rome..". You don't hug people on the first meeting. That is just ridiculous, I don't care how you do it in your culture.

[@adwaitnaravane5285]

Kraut detected

[@ghostramp8578]

True. It depends on the context, but to think bad of Germans for protecting their space etc. that‘s dumb and kind of arogant.

[@drhausig797]

That sound more like Berlin People. Dont Compare us with them.

[@Daniel-oj7bx]

why do you move here if you don´t like it .. don´t push youre expectations on us native germans

[@caraa-cl]

Schon Schwierig , die Deutsche mentalität generell ist zu verklemmt und nicht sehr Aufgeschlossen .

[@eddiebrune8209]

Czechs have good sense of humor? maybe they should develop better sense of self awareness..... too uptight? darling you are coming from Czechia ...... and if speaking about being tourists .... wellllllll if I would be Czech I wouldn't criticize others in this field. Thinking out of the box? she is really Czech...... ? the most non out of the box people on earth and because of that they are trying to show that they are very "different" in..... how to say? not the cleverest way and when it comes to solving problems they just shrug ..... and the first answer is "NO". What you had to improvise? even during so called communism you had very convenient life comparing to hard core communism in' lets say' Bulgaria, Russia and Ukraine if not the EU huge funding Czechia would still be in the communist box (and even now the way of thinking is very communist)

[@fajfos]

Agree. She described Czechs pretty well. And there are of course some overlays with Germans. But i wouldn't comment on the communist experience unless youre not from a country with the similar experience. You can also easily say that the communism mostly destroyed our ability to think out of the box as it's exactly what that regime has been doing.

[@Nepenthis]

Gähn...

[@motocyklist.gdansk]

Its utmost presumptuous to judge Germans by what you foreigners experience in Berlin!!! I lived there in the 70ties and when my 1st child was born there, I told my wife:“I am not going to raise our children in THIS city! It will do them no good!“ So we left: people there are traditionally the most rude and loudest and impertinent of all German people, ignoring agressivly rules of respect for otherthinking people and the boundaries between individuals constantly, yet by creating new moral rules making the city mire and more unruly and deeply chaotic - I as a lawyer could not stand it any longer - and I never regretted that I left: today I look upon that city with deep contempt and wonder, what I have been doing there? However with regard to humor: how dare foreigners with only a short time in Germany judge on that topic? Humour is deeply woven with language - and even though I do not like Germans any more: humour they do have (not so much in Berlin though, because theirs is traditionally directed only against others). You just do not have to be blind to it!!! On the other side I do happen to have a flat nearby Westerkerk in Amsterdam and when I am there, I am deeply upset by the direct bluntness of the local people - but I wouldn’t credit this to the Amsterdammers, but rather to me being unable to look behind their fassade!

[@derKosmoprolet369]

I'm German, living in Munich, and I'm in my 60s now....I seldom leaving my flat, not because I am not fit anymore, but I am bored of this city with all its conformistic ( german) norms, its materialism and so on ( it would be probably different in Berlin for me) Yes, ppl are different -- what you are calling 'chaotic ' I would call 'entertaining and inspiring When I was younger I've been a couple of times in Berlin and I appreciated the Berliners sense of humour ( straight, sarcastic cynical) which is pretty rare (at least) in southern Germany .This city is a good place for open minded ppl, therefore a lot of my compatriots hate this place ( it's so 'ungerman ') But I can understand, that somebody who chose to be a lawer will see it differently.

[@Mediaevalist]

@@derKosmoprolet369 Berlin's "non conformistic" attitude would be charming, if it wasn't such a cliché and the penultimate counter-"argument" to any criticism. Berliners are getting poorer. - Yes, but it's so creative! Infrastructure is crumbling. - Yes, but it's so vibrant! Crime is getting out of hand in many districts. - Yes, but look at the art scene! Schools in Berlin are ranked place 15 of 16 of all German states. - Yes, but the clubs in Berlin are the BOMB! Being "different" can only carry a city and its inhabitants so far. I know both Bavaria and Berlin quite well due to relatives living there: While "indigenous" Berliners indeed carry a rough charm, many (esp. Germans) who moved there, indeed develop a superiority complex and belonging to the moral and societal avantgarde. None of that happens in Bavaria, neither with indigenous Bavarians, nor with the "Zugroasten" (domestic or international), they are doing their thing and welcome those who want to take part in it.

[@derKosmoprolet369]

@@Mediaevalist it seems that you really don't know bavarians ( I'm living in Munich since 1972 btw) . They ALLWAYS bragging how unique and superior their 'Free State " and they themself are! ....and please don't exaggerate 'criminality going out of hands ' -- comparing with most big cities worldwide Berlin is pretty safe! to make it short: Munich is a good place for ppl who enjoying a regulated life without any disturbing surprices -- Berlin is good for ppl who wants more!

[@dagmarvandoren9364]

You make me love my home town. Have a good life

[@moritzlohmann8682]

​ @Mediaevalist Your are totally wrong, there are so many socio-economic factors, you mix everything together in your points and don't have any clue how it works in reality! Yes the Golden Rule of Berlin society is freedom "Do what you want, be who ever you want as long as you don't interfere the freedom of others." that only applies on day to day social interactions. Foreigners (including other Germans) often misunderstand that as a free for all (lawlessness) and they are the freaks you meet at 4:00 in dugged out in streets. The Natives (Ur-Berliner) are open minded and don't judge a book by its cover, we don't care if you are rich or poor, or what you are doing as your job, since life is more than work and status. Most of the problems you are mentioning above are in reality bureaucratic or historical in nature, from the history of six cities becoming one city state, without losing their sovereignty own (produces today a bit of bureaucratic wild west) over a divided state and hub at the front of the Cold War and the front gate from the East to the West, and the bad economics, corruption, mismanagement, selling out the city, till it was broke and even than Berlin did make something out of it... "Arm aber Sexy!" The "being different" is the outside perspective, in the inside it is more being your real true self, and a save space for new and different ideas, artists, architects, and any other creative mind was always welcome in Berlin, and it "was" (like the guy in the video said) "cheap" to live here... Now it has whole gentrified sections, but those guys have really difficulties to get the Berlin mentality. Since your "Status" & "Money" don't carry you far in this City. Yes it has many, many problems, but it isn't their mentality. The issue is most ideas from outsiders aren't "any good" or we tried it already in the past and it failed or the last one who said the same screwed us over... What I never get is Berlin is a nursing station for creative minds, those all of Germany (or the world) is in need of, a place of intellectual freedom, where young minds and personalities can grow... And on the other side we are Europe's biggest Open Air Madhouse/lunatic asylum/looney bin, we get them all and keep them here for a while, that the rest of your orderly societies can work without interruptions of pesky rebel minds. We don't get any "Thanks" for that service Berlin provides ;-) Most people who come to Berlin are on the Search of something, themselves, their calling, their future, love, education... and most of them will leave eventually at a time in their life, when they found something! Often not that what they thought they would find, but something (for better or worse) that gets them on their path. Others stay or come back to us like an addict, since that kind "Freedom" you can and will experience here is very rare in the World.