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An observation: I have bee coming to the university to study/work for about the last 3 weeks. You have to show your Ausweis in order to get past the porter people. It is the same woman allmost every time. The first time I went in and showed the ID thinking nothing of it. On the same day I went out of the building, entered again and was asked to show the ID as if she'd never seen me before. Ok fair enough I'm not that special or attractive..But even after going there 5, 10, 15 times it makes 0 difference and she acts like shes never seen me before and I absolutely must my Ausweis zeigen. Its so weird, its like when you go to the supermarket and see the same person at the till every week but they act like they dont even recognise you.
The thing with the Supermarket is insane. I see the same people, almost freaking daily in my local Edeka and had the audacity a few weeks back to make some small talk after going there for almost 2 years, y'know because I am a human being and I thought they were as well. How wrong I was. Most awkward interaction imaginable.
Agree. I am German. I do yell at strangers in public but would never scream at my friends! I would feel totally offended if a friend yelled at me. Harmony is king in our private life, much more than many of you think. It's just a different culture that has other markers for private and public space.
Also I rather have strangers see me naked in a mixed sauna than my close buddies. Weird indeed
... My US american BFF however will be very aggressive with me when advising me on personal matters and I feel offended on a regular basis. However she would not yell at the weirdest person insulting her on the street as she thinks this might result in a shootout. Totally different cultures ...
Whilst I understand the different markers between public and private, I am hardly trying to be make friends with the people in the Supermarket. A simple "Grüß dich" or "schönen Tag noch" to people you see every day is hardly the deepest private connection. It's pretty much a basic requirement for being a functioning adult.
It’s funny germans are calling Turks germans now suddenly that they made a vaccine. After 70 years, they are finally now “german”. Funny how that is.
The notion of good and bad foreigners in this country disgusts me. If you are white and western, learn German and make gosh darn sure to ALWAYS have a job and you MIGHT just fall in to the good category. If you are from anywhere else, you basically have to create a Vaccine for a global pandemic to come even close to be considered good. These people are evil to the f ucking core.
The leftist / new wave / hipster people over here just want the Berlin of the 90's. Their philosophy is simply conservative. Consequently, the city lacks any progress or vision, but is just "getting by"...
THIS!!! Sorry copied it from below but don't want anyone to miss it.
Berlin is for followers. If you want to lead, or take control of your life & get rewarded for what you deserve, you will never be happy in Berlin. Because german society places the communal over the individual and represses people who are overly ambitious.
So how long did it take until it first dawned upon you that something was really wrong with this place? Me took me 2 years to sense sth was utterly wrong. I fell into a deep depression but by that time blamed it on myself.
After 2 months here I began to suspect that something wasn't right about this place. I persisted for nearly a year before quitting on this country altogether. I too became extremely depressed and blamed myself, only realising at the end that the problem was the culture I had been surrounded by.
I took me forever. I came to study in a village in the south, I tried switching to a proper city (nope), moving to Berlin (nope), getting a german gf (nope), learning the language (nope, they always switch to their arnold-accent airport english), after all those years I realized I have to leave and just now I am starting to work on an exit strategy.
I kind of noticed it on my first visit tbh, all the things - german rudeness, sketchy vibe to the place, dark energy - but I thought it was just the aesthetic, I mean if Berlin is so cool maybe that was why? The first year I struggled to find a place to live but I was also partying constantly and had savings, although things did happen in that year such as problems with housing, money, finding paid work and I also got attacked in the street one time. Once my savings ran out and I had a stable place to live and I decided to stop partying, just before the one year mark, once i sobered up, talked to many people with same experiences ... there when I realized this was a common thing for everyone, and even a decade later some people still struggled with same things. I also had a few friends die from overdose and suicide, I dated a crazy german, had germans constantly berate and harass me.... I became stuck.... with the corona grant, it afforded me enough money to move away and scramble to get my previous life back. Berlin is only good if you have rich parents these days, the housing situation is crazy and it’s expensive now, if you’re doing it yourself like an actual adult, don’t bother. You will struggle.
i noticed when i first talked to my ex gf. Thought she was very out of touch with her emotions but felt sorry for her and didnt quite realise the extent of it at the time as i was young and naive. I think part of me was impressed by how logical and analytical Germans can be but that results in them neglecting the emotional part of their brain and in the long run actually makes them more stupid as they are out of touch with their true selves.
All the young people in Germany, east and west are the children and grandchildren of Nazis, what do you expect, the Von Trapp family? Imagine what hell it must have been growing up in a house/apartment with these people as your role models. An emotionally healthy German is as rare as hen's teeth and rocking horse SShit.
One time a German guy ate me out and when I looked down after he finished he was staring at me with a blank look on his face. Creepiest thing I have ever seen in sex. No emotion. Almost like the fact that I got off was offensive to him. What the hell is wrong w this country.
Germany is the only country where you live ''student life'' during your entire life.
When I was master student here (in a city of NRW) I was more or less living the same life in terms of life standards. I don't know If It is same for you but I am extremely underpaid for the job I do but I am reluctant to change It. I want my next move to be leaving Germany not changing a job.
So, I am patiently waiting for pandemic to be over.
Since like 7 years, I have been struggling to understand this country. How can people work for these ridiculous salaries without complaining? People assume 2500 € net is a good monthly salary. How come? It is going to be my fifth year at my current company 6 months later but I am sure, I will be not receiving any pay rise. I even stopped asking and caring for It. I only want to leave this country at earliest convenience, I am just focused on this life goal.
Berlin is for followers. If you want to lead, or take control of your life & get rewarded for what you deserve, you will never be happy in Berlin. Because german society places the communal over the individual and represses people who are overly ambitious.
The problem is that the tax and social securities, rente, and insurance are too high. It eats up almost 40% of your salary. The company that pays you 2500€ actually needs to add an additional 21%. So the company pays you 2500€ x 1,21% = 3025€ because they pay half of your rente, social securities, and insurance. It is a country that is better to be poor. I know one guy who are cleaning my office, he can have rent for 72m2 in München for 500€ and he have a car too! That's being poor in Germany. While I could not afford all of that luxus because I am considered middle class...
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''Oh let's just not allow the people to leave their homes from 20pm-5am because you only get infected at night and let's force them to do their shopping in the morning and afternoon so that the shops get fuller''.
German politicians, I hate this country man.
Absolutely freaking absurd these people. They genuinely still believe their politicians are competent and have been coaxed in to thinking that somehow, it is their own fault that the numbers are rising and not the fault of their absolutely delusional and incompetent leaders. Imagine being that arrogant that you blame the people you are supposed to represent, whilst at the same time forcing them to go to offices and workplaces where Covid compliance isn't a thing and making sure that they then spend that hard earned money in busy city centres every day. Don't you dare see your family you idiot but do make sure you sit with your colleagues 8 hours a day and pay us our high taxes vielen dank. Whilst most of Europe got some sort of grip over the 2nd wave, the Krauts have just spent months and months talking a lot but doing absolutely fornicate all. Looking forward how they grovel their way out of this one. Sadly, the Volk will be swallowing up whatever lukewarm poop they are fed by their Government. No wonder the past happened.
You're right on every level. I'm really glad someone else gets it. I've been going into work every day and forced mingling with colleagues for six months now but the German government wants to tell me how many people I am allowed to have in my own apartment on Christmas? It's all bullshit, and it's never going to end. And you're also right about the Germans just believing whatever the official rules say. A couple of weeks ago I saw a woman get kicked out of the Post for not wearing a mask - but the worker who kicked her out wasn't wearing a mask either! In fact, almost no one working in stores wears one. If I walked into a Rewe without one the workers and shoppers would all attack me, but since the rules say it's ok for workers to skip masks that's fine. No wonder national socialism and communism were so easy to implement here. These people will believe and do absolutely anything that someone with the tiniest shred of authority tells them.
I left Berlin some months ago. When I look back on my time there, even though some good thing happened, mostly it feels like a nightmare.
I recently noticed that none of the good memories from my life have been in Berlin. I honestly cannot think of one good memory that I enjoy thinking about from here. I wish I'd never moved here, but I also wish I'd left when I realized how bad this place is.
Germans have way too much faith in government regulations.
Reminds me of an article someone shared recently about German police that basically said "German police aren't racist like American police because in Germany you have to be trained for three years".
It is what I call "Small Country Envy" It happens everywhere with every little country in the world to some degree or another As soon as they find out I am American they have to list the things they have contributed to the world and the things that they are better at (in their opinion). I am not a crazy fkag waving American but it is a bit annoying to constantly be put on the defensive just because my parents happened to bear me in California...
Six punches for the krautz haha :)
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If I hear one more German beam that Biontech made the first covid19 vaccine that completed phase 3 trials I am going to punch their smug grin right off their face. When you hear these high handed Germs being proud of this garbage, be sure to remind them that 1/4000 clinical participants given the Pfizer/Biontech vaccine developed Bell's Palsy. I'll bet the Germans won't even care since the Bundesregierung has already told us we'll be wearing masks for the next 5 years anyway.
Has anyone else noticed how German friends enjoy criticizing you and putting you down?
Yeah. Dated a kraut-dame for a while. At some point I noticed the only jokes she ever made were at my expense. Asked her wtf that was about and she flipped out about how I was overly sensitive and tried to convince me I have BPD. Funny thing is she was waaaay more sensitive than I am AND she ended up being institutionalized for like 6 months after we broke up. Germans truly are incapable of self reflection or, more likely, are just deathly afraid that people will see their weaknesses and therefore try to project them outwardly.
In short, OP is 100% correct.
They have zero social skills and they feel insure in society. So, they try to put you down to conceal their inner insecurity.
The other point is, most of things what Germans say on daily basis can be seen as offensive and rude in other cultures but here, they find those things funny or acceptable.
Just watch Germans standing in line at the grocery store to see some of the most obvious pent up frustration imaginable. These people are extremely uncomfortable anywhere they are around other people.
Getting sick of these rich kids invading Berlin