Wild English class in Germany - Forts

[@makkintung8645]

Cloud i think you should make more video talking abt ur daily occurence its very entertaining to hear stories from you.And im also from other side of the country.:D

[@davidaugustofc2574]

Could be worse, I'm watching this in an Oled display and the fully black pixels are still brighter than my future.

[@heheheheh-z7b]

story time w cloud 10/10

[@MrMrHiggins]

What she's talking about is called gentrification and it's a problem in a lot of places - lower socioeconomic area (read: Harlem) becomes fashionable, prices of RENT rise, forcing out original occupants and pricing them out of buying. Some of her delivery may have been stereotypical but this information is relevant. Your understanding is binary, hers is nuanced. The kind of "improvements" are massive influxes of development money to sell high-priced apartments, which destroys communities. Yes, you can indeed have your house taken by rate increases and rent increases. The other stuff sounds dumb tho.

[@bananaboy8416]

My favorite exchange student story was a German named Timmy in my 9th grade English class. He was a very stereotypical aryan and a bit quiet but a nice boy. One day the teacher was reading about history and mentioned something cruel the nazis did and several of the boys immediately turned to him and said things like “Aw Timmy” “come on man” “Timmyyyy”, just generally giving him shit purely because he came from the same place as them.

[@walkersears3208]

We have a German exchange student at my school, his names Yawn, we like Yawn

[@lechatrelou6393]

Yawn are just Yoan ?

[@martinwinther6013]

@@lechatrelou6393 Jan

[@Eric-xr6og]

Johann?

[@martinwinther6013]

J a n or J a a n

[@SteveAkaDarktimes]

whenever they build highways into the cities in the 50-60s they selected the black neighbourhoods to bulldoze to make room. so black communities getting a raw deal is not controversial to state. Gentrification is not a straightforward concept, and is woven tightly together with countless other financial, social and urban factors. its also often misused. its not racism, but kinda too: its about classism where a previously lower class poor neighbourhood or area gets "gentrified" or """upgraded""" to a higher class one, in the process or because of it, pricing out and displacing previous community.

[@MrTophatcat]

Its also important to note that because black folks have had a lower income they've had to rent to have housing and renting prices can increase. If an area gets gentrified then the landlords can increase the price and pretty up the property so that more affluent people move in. Because there are more white wealthy people (both because there are simply more white people and because of generational wealth among other reasons) the black renters have to move out because of the increase in rent and that makes space for wealthy white people. Black folk don't get picked on "because they are black" but "because they are black" they have less resources to prevent these things from happening to them.

[@tonnevoncool606]

Greetings from Germany here, yeah our teachers are crazy... were currently running a bingo about our teacher, like when she says one of her usual out-of-context things we cross smth off the board... examples: ''her child'' ''her horse'' ''ex-husband'' -she's our science teacher. (chemistry atm)

[@epox_]

We had a teacher who would say iconic sentences sucha as: "kappe ab, wir sind hier nicht in der bronx", "Flasche runter!", "Zeitzeuge, jetzt paßt mal auf." It was pretty easy to provoce these lines at least once per lesson. Needles to say we also had a large Bingo game running.

[@speedfyyre493]

It was a good game. Thx for the compliment. GG Cloud

[@Funmud]

If you want to know more about gentrification its happening currently in Mexico city. Link if you want to learn more kzbin.info/www/bejne/qnKwf4ObpJx0fZI

[@manijoly7450]

They should read “The hate U give.” I had to read it in high school English in Canada, the book shook me.

[@Jan_III]

Ohh I remember how I absolutely would argue with my teacher over pretty much every homework/test. It worked most of the time if I really needed it to work

[@gradious7497]

8:30 "I think most people are on the side of neighborhood improvement. I mean, it's because of their house values..." This is the spicy opinion that will finally get Cloud canceled, not the thing about sleeping with his sister. 11:33 If your classmates can argue their points well enough in English, then maybe they proved that they didn't need any homework. Except for the guy who hasn't brought his from last year. This reminds me of the story where a student reconnected with an old teacher and admitted that he cheated by studying the old exams and the teacher replying: "who do you think leaked that study guide to you?" The school's English teacher might know more than you think. Who's really fooling who?

[@Eric-xr6og]

He slept with his sister? 😭

[@LQN2]

I think that understanding gentrification is a thing isn't racist. It's not unique to race, sure, but I would argue you're being obtuse to overlook issues surrounding gentrification. "Nobody can take the house from you " - local governments can increase taxes until people who live there cannot afford it anymore. You can also develop parts of a town intentionally running out the people that live there, not to develop infrastructure but just put in different zoning laws and increasing tax burden of specific areas. Waterfronts, commercial zones, and historically, areas experiencing "White flight" will do this. To take race out of the equation, you still see gentrification in areas like Washington and Oregon where the population is overwhelmingly white. But that doesn't mean that there's never a racial aspect to it. I think when it came to "give feedback on what I talk about during VODs" I appreciate discourse but I would want something more insightful or to talk about things you do understand over free flow thought.

[@Gearshoot]

Cloud is also a high schooler. He’s got time to learn.

[@LQN2]

@@Gearshoot Aye, it's why I took the time to just put a blurb in. I don't have a desire to argue on the Internet but if someone's missing something like that there's no harm in explaining a different perspective. No reason to jump down their throat or to write a treatise, but obviously a good time to add context.

[@MrTophatcat]

its also important to note not everyone is a home owner and renters don't have control over how high their rent gets. If the landlord reasons that they can get more money by prettying up the apartments and attracting wealthier renters then they can increase rent and make more money. The renters move in to the new gentrified neighborhood, the landlord gets more money but the original black renters have to move out. Nothing (traditionally) morally wrong happened but we still see people suffer because of it.

[@gradious7497]

I appreciate your comment and think it was totally appropriate. Not too lengthy but adds just enough context to help understand the reading assignment. Cloud also has a bias towards viewing stories through a contemporary lens. It's heavily implied that this story is set pre-Civil Rights Era. I can understand why high schooler Cloud has a hard time imagining local governments acting with discriminatory effect or intent because that's supposed to be a thing of the past. High schoolers sometimes don't understand the deeper meanings of stories. That's a normal part of education.

[@DrRussian]

@@gradious7497 To be fair, a lot of adults these days don't understand the deeper meanings of things.

[@NeygaFaygoot]

You’re going to hate people like that teacher when you have to start paying their salaries

[@Jinx.123]

Regarding the first half if your story. Sounds like this teacher was talking about Redlining and built on from that. Clearly didn't go about it properly if they've left such an uninformed impression. You seem to have been made more aware of the effects and consequences then its practice.

[@Cronkhinator]

Giving me major Technoblade vibes you should make more videos like this

[@iqbalarro]

His story is too good. Even when he lost, he still uploaded it 😂

[@engineer0239]

Tbh english class in germany is an absolute joke. I learned absolutely nothing from it. Its like you said, the most stereotypical shallow topics you could think of, so that even a 3 year old can understand it. But then you have to know all those fancy words for grammar and if you dont apparently youre bad at english. I remember the first time our class got introduced to english sarcasm and no one understood it, because every lesson was so mind numbingly stupid up until then.

[@DrRussian]

I was bad at English for apparently not understanding the meaning behind poetry.

[@olegoleg258]

> making fun of a child for not turning in homework Yeah soudns like Germany tbh. I was that kid lmao

[@treezz5569]

I think this is the most forts video of all time

[@epox_]

We had a similar story in one of our books and my teacher and I had our fun picking all the inaccuracies apart. With some of the stories I really wasn't sure how someone actually signed off on them.

[@ADHD_Gamer_PhD]

That english teacher sounds terreble, being so obviusly prejudiced

[@bananaboy8416]

Based on your comments, you would probably benefit from some more English teachers in your life

[@themadtacoeatingfool5228]

Ask your teacher if cereal is a soup

[@ethancoube2034]

11:37 average french class

[@Cyrielx2]

One of the most videos of the year from you lol

[@MathewSan_]

Great video 👍

[@Grapeman135]

Don't let them take your voice cloud!

[@respys_meh]

you are the forts equivalent of Ken clash royale

[@NeygaFaygoot]

Why no core swing? Seems so good because you can put more weapons in the space your core was

[@jozopako]

Thanks to minority urban planning we have Detroit, one of the worst communities in US. Urban planning increases value of existing homes but that is bad because there is always more people wanting to buy than wanting to sell.

[@ToasterCZ192]

American surprised he has to hear about the systematic racism in their countries abroad :clueless:

[@pharaohthutmosis7803]

in this epidsode of wartime bunker debrefiing...our local commander explains his first encounter with a rabid european system that no one thoughts was real,he is lost for words as not even the cannon shells cutting his base in half can compare to the shock when a very real communist man hating feminist teacher, created by a german hate for their people and masculinity, all because they overcorrect to what an austrian painter once did,Cloud learns quickly that despite his own country's shortcomings, the world of europe is already lost, the people under the thrall of politics that make them eerily close to a ruinoius union of states lead by a central comittee of oligarchs in a city that is called moscow...yet this union of statesis lead from brussels, unelected by the member countries at the very top. We have already fallen to the communist leftist song and dance, we have less rights than foreigniers in our own countries, you defend yourself from a robber in your own home in sweden, YOU are charged with a crime of assault.if you speak anything bad about a certain religion in great britain,even asa free speech critique that so many crimes seem to be done by the same people,especially against children, YOU are jailed. The first and second amendment is the last leg of free humanity cloud, never give it up.

[@AlanZhang-g9z]

Diamond Mod PLEEAASEE Cloud >:D

[@monkeyman1438]

do a story time with the ai mod so you dont have to focus on using the weapons

[@thomasmuller8118]

wait, you went there every week after that xDDDD

[@royalty4376]

What type of german school did you go to?

[@royalty4376]

Okay 9:25 i kind of get it now.

[@royalty4376]

11:50 Now, this arguing about homework thing sounds familiar.

[@royalty4376]

Ah you were at a gymnasium.

[@Webtubesdingis]

Most of oure schools do be shit

[@Nishye501]

Bish stop dying and take care of yourself

[@StellaAlgrim]

🫵👍

[@Aariniogdgamer]

NEVER EVER SAY AUSTRALIA GERMAN IS GERMAN EVER AGAIN. Also, as a average German guy that never even left the county i can say that nothing in this vidios is acuurat to all 5 school i know of.

[@pz8419]

sounds a little bit ignorant from you. I mean are you black and live in these villages? Dont know why you think you know so much about that :D

[@xxizcrilexlxx1505]

tbh i feel a bit glad he is, sure he should inform himself more about the topic rather than just think hes right or whatever but as someone who saw both sides of the derranged coin that is politics hearing someone who isnt derranged and cronically online is very refreshing again he should inform himself more