PROST Y'ALL!!! Americans React To "Geography Now! Germany"

[@nettcologne9186]

5:19 No, that castle is not inspired by Cinderella but the other way around. Disney was inspired by Neuschwanstein Castle for his depiction of a castle. Btw Cinderella (Aschenputtel) is a German fairy tale, so it makes sense to use a German castle as a model.

[@thomashering1482]

"There's a castle inspired by Cinderella" killed me. America and its education system.

[@LexusLFA554]

@@thomashering1482 They literally couldn't listen to the sentence said beforehand, it is embarrassing

[@MrProthall]

I mean technically Cinderella as a story is about 150~ years older than Schloss Neuschwanstein, however.. it's a book. So yea... How you arrive at "Disneys Cinderella inspired a 200 year old building" is beyond anyone

[@kaluschke]

Disney's castle was inspired by Neuschwanstein, not the other way round 😁

[@dnocturn84]

"Tornados" over here usually don't get that powerful and as large as in the US. This is due to climate and geographical differences. For example: the Caribbean waters are way warmer (= more energy) and fuel up a tornado on the US coast to much more powerful and dangerous beasts. The shape, position and geography of the US mainlands also further "invite" such monsters, while they tend to die pretty quickly over Germany. We also build our houses in a proper way to deal with heavy storms (while still keeping in mind and trying to be somewhat fair, that they're weaker over here), so that they usually destroy the roof of a house in a worst-case-scenario, if at all.

[@helfgott1]

Neuschwanstein inspired Disney not the other way

[@dnocturn84]

Is this a re-upload? I believe I remember you guys reacting to this video before...

[@Moon_Dancer-O8O]

I had that feeling too. 🤔🤔 Strange.

[@arnodobler1096]

Disney's Cinderella Castle was inspired by W. Disney's visit (1930´s) to Neuschwanstein. Like so many things in Germany that were later seen in the movies.

[@SB-cz9vo]

The video you have just seen is a compressed version packed to the max with information. In order to do that, a lot of things had to be condensed or simplified in a massive way. Anyone visiting Germany has to choose between doing a sped run of the main attractions in many cities or picking a small region and delving deeper into the nuanced history. If you want the big history package, you better have a few months to spare. The city I live in has a history going back to the Romans and a legionary camp they had here. Many sites have a 6 month break scheduled in the excavation to avoid delays from stops when the archaeological teams are recovering something. The other big threat to anyone constructing a new building is if some of the WW2 airdrop surprises are found. Most can still be defused, but more and more are so unstable that they have to be disposed of in the middle of a city between other buildings. If you are interested, there are several videos about the "Kampfmittelräumdienst"/"Kampfmittelbeseitigungsdienst", which is the German EOD in the different states. Some big cities like Cologne or Hamburg tend to have more than one find per week.

[@RustyDust101]

The bomb squads have to disarm over 5000 unexploded munitions every year. So more than 15 per day. Especially in the major cities which were heavily bombed during the war. Not that we blame anybody; it's just a fact of history. FAFO in the worst possible way. 😉

[@LexusLFA554]

The video is already quite old and there are a few errors: - It is Schleswig-Holstein, not Schweslig-Holstein - Tornadoes are still rare - Over 3000 types of bread - on a pure technical standpoint DHL is a american company that had two buildings before being absorbed by the german Post. - the "average, nice living" has been somewhat reduced to atoms. The war in Ukraine basically tanked the economy because of reliance on russian gas, and now major companies are losing money and employees fast because they didn't adapt. Recently, Christian Lindner (FDP) was fired for blocking another attempt of investing money and instead putting it somewhere totally irrelevant. This happened on the day Trump was elected. The memes on ich_iel were so golden. - Misspelled: Bismarcks last name, Wirtschaftswunder, Backpfeifengesicht, Mehrdeutig - We have been overtaken in Visas by one No, Neuschwanstein was the inspiration for Cinderella or the Disney Castle Adolf und Rudolf Dassler (first had the nickname Adi) led the company Adidas (founded by Adi) together, but got into a fight and split up. Rudolf then founded Puma. It is very similar with the Albrecht Brothers, which had a "Diskont" store (Aldi). They also split up, and the southern branch is available in the US as Aldi, while Aldi Nord owns Trader Joes. I recommend Felis video on pronouncing German brands. There a few of these stories are told. Please don't get scared by the long words. It is just a method to block learning the language. There is a lot of short words, for example we have vor instead of in front of.

[@Peter_Cetera]

He did say that Disney was inspired by Neuschwanstein, so why your "No"?

[@baerbelbaer1963]

And the cookoo clock is not from Bavaria its from baden-wuerttemberg 😊

[@Kamil0san]

yeah and compared to the size the tornados that appear here in germany are rather baby tornados the ppl living in the tornado alley in the states would rather laugh about them.

[@qualitytraders5333]

1. We live in The Netherlands in the summer and in Mexico during the winter. In The Netherlands it's a 20 minute drive from the German border and we go on vacation and weekend shopping in Germany. Beautiful country and Germans are friendly but reserved, which goes well with my Dutch character.

[@Thisandthat8908]

Lower Egypt is above upper Egypt. That is about 6000 years of good precedent.

[@abmiyas1585]

Of course, the names are about the hight of the lands

[@FrankStaack-hr4wr]

Thanks and greets from Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein.

[@forfar1956]

As to flag waving, the USA is the other end of the scale, and also strange in a different way BTW, Oktoberfest starts in September, so don’t miss it

[@tatamay126]

You should react to NALF . He is an american who lives in Germany for years and knows what he is talking about.

[@zaldarion]

the "goodbye" thing, everyone will understand a different word for it, it's common even to use the italian ciao, so no worries to say just "bye" or "goodbye" which are also widely used. the compound words are that long because they are compounded. english also have thouse, but mostly just 2 words glued together like: birthday, bedroom or aircraft (yeah I looked some up). german on the other hand is able to add more words, even if they are not in a dictionary, they will make sense and if you are able to fugure out where the words are put together, it's reasy to read them and figure out what they mean (not allways, once I rode down a street in the middle of a forrest and there was a sign with "spurrillen" and I thought wtf are spurrillen... 10 minutes later: oh damn!!! spur-rillen (lane grooves).

[@stephanthomas4410]

First of all, nice reaction. 16:00 Makes no sense at all anymore, but it's actually taught to children. The colors of the national flag (black red gold) are in total contrast to what the “Nazis” stood for. That's why they replaced it with their swastika flag. The colors come from the student unions and student associations that came together in the Paulskirche in 1848 and wanted to develop a free democratic basic order based on a constitution. Those who wanted this were on the right, while those who wanted a more “socialist” soviet republic were on the left. The largest part of their draft constitution (i.e. the “right”) formed the modern German constitution.

[@veryincognito6776]

Schloß Neuschwanstein was not inspired by Cinderella castle, Cinderella castle was inspired by Schloß Neuschwanstein. Schloß Neuschwanstein is mostly 100 years older. Walt Disney wasn't even born at that time.

[@Herzschreiber]

oh HERE you are! I already wondered where you had gone all of a sudden :) Nice to see you again, I really love your videos! There is no need to learn "Auf Wiedersehen" in different German dialects when you simply come as a tourist. Because Germans among Germans will often not understand the dialects of regions they don't live in. This is why we have the "Hochdeutsch", also called "Schuldeutsch" (school German), which is understood and more or less spoken all over the country. Saying "Auf Wiedersehen" will be understood everywhere, from the highest North down to the lowest South, so, don't worry! And you will be fine with knowing just some common phrases because Germans learn English at school and besides some old people from small, rural villages nearly everyone will understand English.

[@dnocturn84]

Yeah, we do have some long words, but you'll rarely have to deal with them. Some examples online are also heavily exaggerated. Some of them are also straight up fake. The longest one (or one of them) is Bundesausbildungsförderungsgesetz (which is a name of a law - just like the outdated one in the video). This here consists of Bundes, Ausbildung, Förderung and Gesetz - which translate to federal, education, support and law, that results in Federal education support law. And in German you can write it all in one word. We'll usually just say "BAföG" when we have to deal with it - it is the lawmakers, who love to come up with such long abdominations and call them "words". And we love to use abbreviations like this in German. One very long example that you can find online is: Donau­dampfschifffahrts­elektrizitäten­hauptbetriebswerk­bauunterbeamten­gesellschaft (80 letters long) - but this is an artifical construct and the thing it is supposed to describe never even existed. It was also based on an Austrian word, that really existed, but extended by a bunch of other words, to result in something rediculous. The one in the video: Rindfleisch­etikettierungs­überwachungs­aufgaben­übertragungs­gesetz did exist (a name of a law, as already mentioned), but it was removed in 2013 - so it stopped existing. Another one would be: Grundstücks­verkehrs­genehmigungs­zuständigkeits­übertragungs­verordnung - another name of a law - stopped existing in 2007. Nobody remembers those legal constructs - but we know how to take them appart and (kind of) understand, what they're supposed to mean. They all come with abbreviations again, that we actually use, instead of the abdomination itself.

[@Salzbuckel]

Merica first Disney thinking "culture" first!

[@corvus1374]

Adidas and Puma were founded by brothers who were enemies.

[@Peter_Cetera]

Finally! 🖤❤💛

[@michaausleipzig]

To be honest, by now the national pride issue doesn't really have a lot to do with the Nazi past. It's just a weird concept. I can be proud of my achievements or of achievements of people close to me. Why would the random place where I happened to be born be a reason to feel proud? It just makes zero sense. Some people would niw claim I hated Germany and beinf german which is just as ridiculous. I'm happy here ... well ... mostly. I know that my life is incredibly privileged compared to the cast majority of people on this planet. I'm somewhat happy for that. Not proud though... 🤷‍♂️ About compound words: They're not very well explained here and most english speakers don't realise that english has them too. Take the german word "Polizeiauto" - "police car". It's a compound word where the first part specifies the second part in both languages. How do we know? You can say "a police car". You can't say "a police". You can also put "officer" in place of "car" but there has to be something there, right? Ta da, compound word. German just spells it as one word and has the ability to in theory put a lot if them together, endlessly specifying something to the last detail while english needs constructions like "of the", "for the" or some such. In practice that doesn't make a whole lot of sense and is not done too extensively in daily use. It may be extreme in for example legal texts though, where this super deteiled description may be neccessary.

[@JohnHazelwood58]

The humans - as we know them today - where from Germany ... 400,000 (!) years ago the "Neanderthals" started the whole thing! XD

[@Kamil0san]

I know you make a joke or at least i hope so, and yes It was a weird decision to chose a "Homo Neanderthalensis" picture, or is it not? Because some humans have genes in their DNA from our "hairy cousins" and the amount we share are higher in Europe, so the mixing might have been more intensive then in other part of the world.

[@seansturrock7890]

You guys reacting to the new sam fender releases?