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I love when germans say "our genocide was not as bad as yours with the natives". Yes, because my great great great great ancestors were colonialists and my grandparents didn't move from Ireland to new York because of colonialism.
these people are seriously uneducated. They do not understand concepts like immigration and nationhood. I would never raise a kid in this country. They don't get an accurate perspective of the world nor global issues. it's just germany this, germany that...no flexible methods of thinking.
and you know what ? irish people faced discrimination for a minimal time before being "American". such as, my parents being raised in new York, they're not irish, maybe by blood, but they are American so.... germany you can go back 3 generations and are still "Turkish". stupid
Don't waste your time arguing with them about this or feeling bad about their trite insults. These kinds of incoherent arguments are a symptom of defeated master race syndrome. It's like when Germans make weird flexes about preposterous things. I can't remember how many Germans have tried to school me on how German was ALMOST the "official language" (whatever they think that means) of the United States (Muhlenberg legend). Or, when coronavirus first hit, how proud Germans were to say that all the tests being used here were developed in Germany. Or how they always call themselves "Export World Champion" (well then what's China?).
When Germans talk poop about America they usually stick to topics they know nothing about like people working multiple jobs (the number is something like 325,000 in the US versus Germany's 3,000,000!). Sometimes they talk about minimum wage (weird how a median income is higher in every single US state is higher than a median salary in ANY German state). Sometimes they talk about hate crimes (quoting the FBI here "Relative to the size of the population, [there is in Germany] an eightfold higher rate of hate crimes than reported in the US during [2006]." They complain about American "censorship" (the German government has consistently coerced social media networks to remove more posts per year for the past 7 years than any other country - hell they even lobbied the entire EU to implement the Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz which pretty much auto-removes anything reported, in Germany you cannot make certain movements with your arm in public without breaking the law, Germany is still putting books, movies, video games and CDs on an index that basically makes them unsellable.
The difference between Germany and America is that the American identity isn't based on accent-free speech and an unequivocal denunciation of ones home country's culture. Funny how in America there's no nationwide debate on forced integration but that's all they ever talk about here. Also pretty telling that 1. You have to renounce your old citizenship when you get German citizenship (I choose not to call it "becoming German" for obvious reasons), and 2. You're still considered a person with "Migrationshintergrund" unless you are the CHILD of two parents who were born in Germany and had German (and only German) citizenship.
You're still considered a person with "Migrationshintergrund" even if you’re the child of two parents who were born in Germany and had German (and only German) citizenship. If their parents come from other countries, for example. Even their grandparents! It’s crazy! You’re not German no matter how many generations of your parents live or have been born in Germany.
Somebody here recently wrote you can take 2000€ overdraft at your bank... so then. If I do that and try to abmeldung... isn’t abmeldung meaning I have to have all debts paid before I can do it? I HATE THIS SYSTEM
Tell a German that, you are going to move to another country because you find life there
Then watch the German is being triggered. I don't know why but It seems they are being triggered by this one so much
Because people leave constantly. Usually the cycle is new expat LOVES Germany, then starts to notice the problem, then criticize, then leave. Usually at the criticize point they ghost you. And a criticism can be anything minor such as setting a boundary
Everytime I walk thru Berlin it's like being in the movie shindlers list. They all have this special kind of face and mimics....creepy
Can't help but laugh when I hear Germans trying to use the derogatory term "Karen" when the entire nation of Germany is nothing but Karens.
My experience with brick and mortar German Banks:
> Negative interest rate (Don't get any interest)
> Monthly fees
> Crappy Giro card or Maestro bottom of the barrel cards
> Haggle in order to give you a credit card with no features whatsoever such as priority pass or any lounge access (Basically a glorified debit card)
> Makes you pay for instant transfers
> Half ass'd English translations
> German customer disservice
> Phototan garbage
> No sms notifications
Truelu shows you how a Germans mind works the opposite of the rest of the world.
Also fing lastschriftzahlungen... If someone has your bank information (anyone who ever sends you a payment for any reason) then they can make charges to your account and YOU will have to deal with the consequenced (filing a police report, contacting online shops, etc). That system has absolutely NO security features.
Also IBAN account numbers that are like 20 digits long so you'll never be able to remember your account number.
If you ever have a little extra money you are considering investing then don't even consider asking for a Beratung at your bank here. Let's just say that's the first time I realised why the German word Berater and the English word to berate actually aren't false friends.
Richard Grenell is stepping down as American Ambassador to Germany and it's sad that there's one less non-conformist voice in Germany. He did a lot in the few years he was here from lobbying Germany to condemn Hezbollah (even if Germany nerfed the official statement to hell) and getting Germany to step up it's defense expenditure. There will probably be another few years again with no US ambassador in Germany, which is going to be horrible for anyone in Germany that doesn't want to live on taxpayer subsidies.
Germans like to talk poop by saying things like "You're lucky to be living in Germany instead of your home country". Oh really, I am lucky that I worked my butt off to fulfill all entry and visa requirements as set out by German law? I am lucky that I am over-qualified and under-employed like most foreigners here (on average foreigners earn 66 cents per Euro a German earns). Yeah Stefan, I am sure I'll fare miluch better as a foreigner in Germany than I would back in my home country - it's not like Germany's entire history clearly illustrates otherwise.
Why do Germans pretend that "courageous Berliners" (as stated by Gerhard Schröter) were responsible for bringing down the wall? They luterally just sat back and took it for 40 years. The Soviet Union collapsed financially. Maybe Berlin accelerated the process by burning ungodly amounts of capital but I don't see how Berliners did anything at all aside from simply walking across the bordee once the guards stopped shooting.
Technically, a mistake from a party official brought the wall down. He said the wrong thing to journalists asking for travel permission. So people took to the streets and tore down the wall. truth is, a lot of demonstrations happened, for example, in Leipzig, and these people risked a lot but demonstrated nevertheless.
They can't even keep people from jerking off in public parks you seriously think they could overthrow their own government? LOL with what? Slingshots, pepperspray and farts? It was actually the opposite: Something like 20% of the GDR were Stasi informants! Lol brave Berliners my ass.
Have to go back to Berlin for two weeks... not looking forward to it
Well, just because Germany and immigration don't get along well, here are some points I would like to mention.
Germans have very narrow perspective about immigration. They assume, each person who wants to come to Germany or has been living in Germany for some years is willing to settle down in Germany. This is not neccessarily true. If the job I have been doing does not require me to learn German, unlikely I would learn It. Because, I know that, I will be leaving the country after I am done with my current job.
I know, things would be much more easier If you are able to speak local language but there must be some tangible driver to learn It. I mean, do you think all foreign people who are working in Dubai / Singapore / China / Portugal / Poland / Japan etc can speak the local language fluently / on business level ? I don't think so. It's regardless the time you spend in that country. It is all about to be in the need of learning new language or not.
As It has been mentioned couple times in this topic, Germany needs to resolve the conflict between the policy of the state and the private sector If Germany claims that, It needs to have remarkable amount of external workforce to sustain the current economical situation. If you go to the website of DAAD or immigration websites which were created by German government, you would think that Germany is kind of heaven for immigrants in terms of working / studying in English solely. This is incorrect.
The last thing, If German recruiters / companies do think that not being able to speak " business fluent " German can be showstopper, they will keep watching all talented / skilfull people keep moving to Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Portugal etc after some time where being unable to speak local language is not a major issue as long as you are competent with the job you are applying for.
When I moved here I remember thinking "okay, nose to the grindstone - time to learn German so people will take me seriously". Got to C2 level eventually. But no one took me seriously. Seriously annoying when people here constantly mock your accent or constantly say things like "Oh well you're from X country so of course you think Y".
Indeed integration here is a lie unless you are subservient.
I live in another part of Germany, but so many things you write here ring true to me. No matter what germans say, Berlin is as German as it gets if what you describe here is true
So did I get this correctly, Tegel is meant to be closed in June and Schoenefeld carries all the air traffic? BER is not open yet, and will probably not open until the end of time. The whole situation makes me feel extremely trapped in this place. I am afraid that once flights resume we still won't be able to get out due to a lack of airports.
What the fuck? I am reading it is being "temporarily closed" but that it is actually being permanently closed. What the hell is going on with Germans and their rape of language? They are also calling these new bike lanes they "made" (they actually just converted normal two lane roads into one lane + bike lane) were also called "temporary" but admitted to be permanent.
This seriously feels like Berlin Wall 2.0 level shit.
The only thing worse than Tegel is Schönefeld. They have about 20% the number of seats required for an airport of that size and they seem to seriously think it is okay to expect passengers to sit on the floor. The food court sucks so bad and mostly ridiculously overpriced, especially for a destitute city like Berlin. Oh, and it closes at like 11pm at night like some tiny regional airport in the middle of nowhere.
Having a nonwhite body in this city is exhausting
I've met a lot of black Germans and noticed that most of them are not like the kind of Germans we complain about here. Yeah, some are but that's a minority. White Germans hate everyone who is not like them and consider black Germans as Ausländer. The same people though claim they are not racist.
That is the whole issue in Germany children of foreigners no matter what country your from or how long you've been living in the country or even if you were born there they will never consider them to be german!! German society is divided. It's always been that way.
Germans always whine about foreigners not “integrating” but the truth is, no matter how hard we try, they don’t want us to integrate. It’s always “us” and “them” and they feel superior, when in reality they’re miserable, negative, full of hatred and jealousy. When I arrived, I was wondering why immigrants didn’t try to integrate and thought that they were disrespectful. Now I know why.
So Today I thoughtvto treat myself to a nice walk in Grünewald! Great, so I thought! In the middle of the forest I crossed ways with a older Gentleman in very Short pants! Didnt thought a lot of it and stopped right afterwards to sit on a tree stump and have a Little rest and drink something! As my Look wandered around the forest I discovered the Same guy standing behind a tree, masturbating and looking towards me! Sad to say I didnt shock me