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Germany sucks big time. Most people are unfriendly and don’t know how to communicate properly. Fortunately, there are some exceptions, but you have to try very hard to find them. If germans are good to you, in the 97% of the cases they want something from you.
The reason we don’t know how much Germany sucks is that they’re very good at hiding the bad things to preserve their reputation abroad.
That dictatorship mentality never disappeared from this place. Also, most Germans are so racist and they don’t know it!
I tend to agree with the sentiments on this thread. Germany is up to it's eyeballs in issues, despite it's astoundingly successful PR campaign (must be the best in all history). I sensed a dislike/disdain of foreigners among many native Germans. Ironically the issues could, over time, be resolved through people who have immigrated from more tolerant and open-minded societies.
Agoraphobia is a thing in Berlin. People get afraid to leave the flat, because of the poop they have to endure
It's only natural. If you have a rage-inducing incident 99% of the time you leave your apartment then of course your brain tracks it. But in Berlin you cannot seek refuge in your own apartment because there you just have to listen to your retarded upstairs neighbor dropping bowling balls on the floor all the darn time.
Berlin made me grateful for my home country. I just wish people in my home country understood my trauma. But I’ve told the story to a few other people, and they knew others who left Berlin. So there is still hope
My dad reminds me of a German. Teaches obedience, yells at any mistake, talks over you and likes bossing people around. Oh wait, he’s a narcissist. Germans are narcissists. Anyone else here feel they resonated subconsciously with this culture because they had abusive families? Anyone else find there are a ton of traumatized people in Berlin?
Germans masturbate too hard. They should switch hands and use lubricant.
On my way to work this morning I saw a BVG bus waiting to turn left in a bus lane. In front of it was a guy who obviously accidentally ended up in the bus lane because the street is under construction (Berlin) and it's an easy mistake to make. The guy couldn't turn because there was oncoming traffic. So the BVG driver basically just honks for 30 seconds and then goes on the intercom system that's outside the bus and yells "This is a bus lane you idiot!". Only in Germany could that happen.
The driver was to dumb to react to a situation as it didn’t fit the regular pattern he was programmes to follow. It wasn’t the drivers fault you know, thats just a programmed machine doing its job. The cyclist shouldn’t have misused the lane.
Germans are not people who can react depending on the situation. They just run a program in their head.
Moving to Berlin feels a lot like eating caviar for the first time. You've heard it talked up your entire life and everyone else eating it acts like they love it. But in reality it's disgusting, overpriced and smells terrible.
For a while you think it's just your unrefined palate or your unreasonable expectations. But eventually you get the self confidence to accept that it just sucks and all the people claiming otherwise are afraid to admit the obvious truth of the matter. Berlin sucks.
Can you guys help me? I feel like I just don't understand Germany at all. How do people start careers here? I graduated at the beginning of the coronavirus lockdown and have been looking for a job here ever since. I want to work in data analysis. I have a degree in data analytics. But every single job I can find posted anywhere here says "You must have 2-3 years of experience". In my home country my CV would be very competitive. Here I have not even got a single interview. I do have some general office experience in student jobs but I was never able to find any student job in my field. Is this normal in Germany? What am I doing wrong? I can't ask any of my classmates because they were all so annoying that I was happy when I never had to see them again.
Well, first off, it was hard starting any career before the pandemic hit. Now, it’s gonna be next to impossible to find anything. And since all the bone head Germans and other foreigners walking around like the virus is gone. Well, we’re probably going into another lock down soon. Every thing is just fuckery. And if the pandemic wasn’t here. I would tell you to run to another European city before you end up being a waiter or working in hotel for the rest of your life. When this pandemic is over you should leave before this city ruin your life. Like it has so many other people with University degrees. This place is not really for young University graduates, not really. Again, this hell hole will destroy your career before it even begins.
You could always just say you have 3 years experience... these fucktards only want to feel like they are getting experienced people.. when you show up and prove to be better than all the other brain dead idiots they will push you up to CEO.. UNLESS, you don't look German or speak the language perfectly ...
I am from a mid-sized toen in Canada. I came here for my M.Sc. and thought I would stay. But I didn't realise how bad this place it. In my hometown average salaries are actually 100% higher than here.
^thats why I left. Well because Canadians are insecure and fantasize Europe, toronto is very corporate many venues closed and it’s gotten extremely expensive. However there is potential to make money and it’s REAL multicultural and not racist. Not xenophobic either. Growing up In toronto I had friends from all races. Only when I got to Berlin did I realize how broken up and racist and xenophobic people can be. It made me grateful for my home. I’m white but I had to leave, I can’t live with such backwards mentality around me.
Yes really 6 months. Using mostly indeed and linkedin. A guy I went to uni with wrote me yesterday and suggested meeting over a beer. Said he also had huge problems. Even when he has made it to an interview the companies just quit ghosted him afterwards. He said it has happened more than 10 times.might be because he is a foreigner.
People have mean resting-expressions. Full of doubt, cynicism, and Schadenfreude. Seeking the negative
On the street people squint at me and openly give me weird looks. Like, didn''t you ever learn to modulate your facial expressions? If you want to stare at people but claim it's not rude, then at least rearrange your expression into something pleasant/neutral.
So many times I feel like Germans never learned basics of interacting with other people, emotional basics, communication basics, courtesy basics. I feel like I'm dealing with..people who missed some basic developments.
"as if we just thought their culture magically changed since the Nazis."
For a long time I would have thought saying this kind of thing was unfair. It's not. It's the truth.
Germans still have the same mentality they did 70 years ago. They still blame everything on foreigners. They still think non-Germans are their underclass. This country is the worst place on earth. I have no idea why the international press spends all its time sucking Germany's dick.
I love how they think they have an awesome accent in English. Tschoemeniiii
Well a big part of German high school is writing down word for word long passages that teachers dictate aloud.
Luckily I wasn't here for high school, but I can tell you with 100% honesty that in German university we were taught exactly what was tested and given practice exams in most subjects that had the exact type of questions as the ones on the real exam, just different numbers.
Berlin with give PTSD sooner or later. Found this interesting youtube comment. For all of you guys out there with PTSD and those that will get it. Also you will understand Germans better after reading this.. That's why you can't have peace with them.
''As someone who had PTSD, I'd offer it was because combat was the place they most felt at home. Being a civilian becomes too difficult to contend with—everything seems phony and shallow and layered under unnecessary BS while you walk around half-expecting the facade of civility to crumble at any time, but it doesn't (Except for when it does and guess who's ready!). You feel alienated because the few people you trust don't understand this kind of overactive ennui mixed with suspicion. This also leads to difficulties with the civilian environment and its people because you're always ready to go full on attack, which can lead to extreme overreactions (either externalized or internalized) that scare the poop out of the normals or else you hold it in and that can lead to other problems without learning or developing healthy coping skills. But in violent situations, the reactions lead by the circuits of the rewired brain are entirely appropriate. For all the chaos and horror of war, there's a kind of simplicity and honesty that can be missed. This isn't the same for everyone with PTSD, but that's how I interpret the story of this Spartan through the lens of how my own PTSD manifested. I agree that it says a lot about Spartan society in that, being so focused on warfare, it's almost as if it was largely set up for and by people with PTSD (which is probably close to the truth) and to prime people who aren't prone to develop PTSD for function in that environment.''
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.
Reminds me of that one time a Korean streamer visited the most touristy part of Berlin and got made fun of on her livestream.
www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php
They invade her personal space too, invade their table. And that’s how you behave when you step foot in “their” country. Anywhere else this is grounds for arrest. You can’t just saddle up to a woman and put your arm around her, I’m surprised she didn’t do anything about it
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?