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Germans default answer is to compare themselves to America condescendingly, meanwhile America couldn’t give a poop about Germany. The only Americans Who moved to Germany were lured there by promises of a “better” society because German media puts out a ton of propaganda to salvage their reputation (thanks to the invention of the internet), or trash trust fund kids who want to club, or broke butts that want to leech of welfare or move to Berlin because the USA is expensive for artists
No rich, sensible Americans would even think of moving to your trash city. There are way better opportunities in the USA if you have a high income, Idiots.
And try as a German with your poop attitude even DREAMING to last one minute in the USA. You’d be knocked down so fast. Time to keep your dumb butt opinions locked down in Germany with your dumb butt life and rent until you get evicted when you’re old because you could never afford to buy or own anything in life thanks to your “superior” country.
I wish germans would shut up about their xenophobic USA sentiments because they hate every other nation as well, USA is just easiest for all of them to verbalize as being socially acceptable. It’s a good thing we stopped you Nazis from taking over the world, resent us forever.... it’s a good thing there is such a big international population in Berlin who are transient so once they return home they can tell others how you haven’t changed so the world can keep an eye on you. Germans are not to be trusted.
www.reddit.com/r/berlin/comments/6hashn/racism_in_berlin/
“Most Germans I meet believe that racism "only affects browns and blacks". Most younger Berliners I know are left-learning and are involved in some sort of refugees-welcome initiative and talk a lot about "Gleichberechtigung" but will have no qualms when it comes to disparaging yellow Asians. Not all refugees are violent, for example, and you should never paint them all the same but the Chinese are rude, lack creativity and are nerds with no social life. Doesn't matter if you have nothing to do with China. You're yellow, you must be the same.“
Yes Germany and their superior educational system, what a joke
Thread is also full of berliners denying racism happens in Berlin or being so “surprised”, also one guy saying that it’s not racism but fascination that someone says “Ching Chong” to an Asian and pulls their eyes.
You’ve heard this correctly. Germans do not know what racism means.
What's up with all the start-ups and their useless Managing Directors? These are usually white German men in their 20s, almost no professional experience. They get money from old German men from the same socio-economic background (upper middle class) who for very weird reasons regard these younger versions of themselves as geniuses. Very often, the business idea itself is stolen from other countries. These young CEOs have no idea about management, how to conduct business - and usually only speak a cringeworthy version of English.
Once I worked for a company here that was in a very oversaturated market. It did basically the same thing that every Berlin startup does, which is to provide a centralized platform for companies that actually sell products or services. There was one guy in sales everyone regarded as a genius. He was a fat, obnoxious guy who was about 30 but looked like 45. I remember one company meeting where he was praised in front of like 300 people for increasing company turnover on his verticals by like 75% in a month. Want to know how he did it? He thought up the genius idea of offering discount codes that reduced the price of products so much that we made like a 50% loss on every product sold for several weeks. In a normal company/country they would have fired his ass. He's now the CEO of a very popular German subscription box service.
Also I once had an interview for another job at some other stupid Berlin startup. The guy interviewing me, who happened to be the Operations Lead, was demoing their product for me and I noticed he was really young - around 21. So afterwards I checked him out on Linkedin and, surprise, he became the Operations Team Lead directly out of university with zero prior experience. Must be nice to be a German in Germany.
I do find it strange that I went to a German university that felt it is acceptable to give only a limited amount of spots (5%) to "non-EU citizens" (I am sure they also tried to limit the amount they gave to EU citizens but were forced by Brussels) while at the same time having entire degree programs (Informatics) designated ONLY for women. Where are the women-only apprenticeships for construction and manufacturing?
PHHHH a German business IDEA? How could they think of anything innovative. They steal everything, just look at techno or any of their “alternative” culture, that poop is from the UK or USA - or appropriated in bad taste from like Bali, India - or how about Indianer or white dreads?
Germany is a really pointless useless Country , don‘t know why some people admire this country.
Hippies hating on Americans even tho Americans started the hippie movement. Germans are biggest hypocrites on the planet and can’t even formulate their own arguments just “America bad” “orange man bad” then when confronted as to why they turn blue in the face.
“America is destroying the planet”
Meanwhile germans print 50000 documents per day and - yes I’m sure - there are no hippies in California. Before that your country was all Cold War poop and you had to smuggle in tapes and let’s not forget the USA bailed you out after committing one of the biggest atrocities of our time so shut ya mout
Most common German gripe about the US is that the pay is bad and "everyone has to work 2 jobs":
1. Median salary in the U.S. is 10% higher than in Germany. Median disposable income is 25% higher (because lower taxes and fewer mandatory contributions)
2. On a per capita basis, fewer people in the US have more than 1 job compared to Germany (and in most years it is not even close, though during covid I have no idea).
3. The number of working poor (i.e. people earning below the national poverty level) is higher in Germany than the U.S. despite higher taxes.
4. Home ownership is higher in the U.S. which is vital as a financial strategy for retirement. It's why in the U.S. you almost never hear of poor old ladies forced to move from their rent controlled apartments after 40 years.
5. Income inequality is actually lower in the U.S. before taxes and transfers, i.e. American free market principles do a better job of allocating scarce resources than German "free market" principles. The difference in the end being that Americans aren't made to feel like impotent freeloaders who must rely on taxpayer handouts to survive.
Miserable people and sociopaths want you to feel as bad as them. Don’t let them win or show visible frustration. German culture gets off on hurting foreigners. Seem unaffected
i think its a question of lowering your standards when it comes to berliners. Dont expect them to be nice or give a sh1t about you because they never will but dont take it personally cos they are like that with everyone and its their loss. Dont shut down your emotions completely for them, just save them for people who are worth it
Some Cherman number just tried to call me even tho I left Chermany two months ago. I blocked the number. Why are these people so pushy and invasive? Who has time to answer the phone at work etc and they keep calling and calling if you don’t pick up. Have you idiots ever heard of email? Respect for another persons time? How about not using post or fax machine, Imbeciles.
Is it just me or do german men hate eating female reproductive organ
The people in this city have the trashiest taste
It’s funny to play this game in Berlin with the people you know or those around you
-borderline ?
-narcissist?
-Antisocial?
-bipolar?
-addict?
- normal
Try to make friends only with the normal people. Not to bash mental illness but we need to protect ourselves and this city is full of maniacs
Next time someone asks you why you hate Berlin just post this link:
www.reddit.com/r/BerlinSucks/