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German mentality in a nutshel
ethicsunwrapped.utexas.edu/glossary/groupthink
Berlin Groupthink is different from wider German groupthink & the mentality is rather more diverse, in different regions. Expats or travellers in Berlin also have their own in-group bubbles, berliners simply never mix with other groups, and each group thinks they are the wisest, sagest and most open minded bunch of people there ever was! Also - Berlin is so not Germany or reflective of Germany, that this is just German bashing, not Berlin hating!
I do not understand this comparison that berlin is so overly different than other german cities and not apart of Germany in that sense - in all german cities most germans act differently towards anyone who is not german!!!!! - and than germans do it to eachother for example someone from munich probably isn't a fan of someone from berlin and vice versa or someone from Hamburg would have issues living in berlin because it's a different German mentality...germans bash eachother depending what part of Germany they grew up in ....the foreigners in other german cities seemed to be more integrated in german society more so than the one's in berlin - I myself grew up in germany with a bunch of other foreign children who were raised here and can say if you were an opened hearted opened minded individual we were cool with everyone no matter the backround race or religion and if you're a afd person/hater/nazi you were just completely ignored no one F with you and that was it... over the years it seems more and more germans became afd sympathisers and new nazis everywhere! Some foreigner's especially in Berlin also have an nazi type mentality!
Why do Germans seem to be extremely sensitive to the smell of anything artificial (air freshener, cleaning supplies, perfume, other cosmetics) but don't seem to notice natural odors at all (sweat, body odor, urine, human excrement)? I can recall many times when I've commented to German colleagues in public about how someone smells horrible (the kind of smell that lingers in supermarket aisles for minutes after the offender has left) only to be met with confused looks and claims they smell nothing. But if I clean my desk at work with disinfectant they always complain. Are their olfactory senses completely ruined from living in these medieval hygiene conditions in Germany? Even well-dressed people here often smell horrible and have visibly greasy hair.
Well, ask someone with ibs, Obstipation etc. Now what are you thinking? Do you think they wanted to offend anybody? I am not sure about this.
Or how about the person taking a shower every day but being internally ill, just like having some cancers etc? Eventhough they might use shower gel , body lotion, Deodorant, they will smell badly, because some of the odours happen for a destroyed body chemistry, alternated metabolism. Even if you are catching a virus and getting ill (no matter if SARS CoV 2 or any other) you will smell different.
But oui, also the perfumed have different skin. And their skin might not react perfect with the perfume and this is hard to endure. Especially when it comes to very intense perfumes;)
Back to the smelly belly stati;)
Being obstipated or suffering intense bloating, can lead to making bad decisions or not being able to think straight! There are studies how head and belly are aligned with each other. So enjoy your free farting and pooping;)))
God, working in Germany is just NOT FUN. No jokes, no humour, no social bonding. You are expected to work like a drone. Also, my office is full of smart butts with limited life experience or any work experience outside of their very narrow field of expertise, constantly trying to outsmart each other and make others look incompetent. All this without doing any ACTUAL WORK. It's always about keeping up appearances and LOOK smart, not actual producing smart results.
God the water in Berlin is so disgusting! I swear the disgusting water and the weather are the two top reasons I have to get out. And I'm sure it's gotten worse since the shutdown, I wouldn't be surprised if they are skipping some steps of whatever water treatment they do.
No Berliners, the water is not full of healthy minerals, it's full of brown crust that ruins your skin and makes your hair fall out and makes your laundry stink. Expats know what I'm talking about.
I am not joking. Germany recycles the toilet poop and pee water in house water. Google it. They truly believe that their chemicals work. A couple years ago they have found so much estrogen and medicals in the water it was crazy. No media talked about it.
A couple of months ago they were debating whether they'll be forced to install new mechanical filters to remove heart medications that are everywhere in the water because of the aging population. And the thing about estrogen is true since pretty much every female in this country goes on the pill at age 14 and stays on it until she reaches menopause. Don't know if other big cities are ever able to source water only from rivers/aquifers but yeah, the water quality in Berlin is definitely terrible. Mention it to any German and you will be met with a screeching retard who will say either 1. GERMAN WATER QUALITY IS THE BEST IN EUROPE, or 2. KALKHALTIGES WASSER IST GUT.
Fun fact: 4 or 5 years ago the government finally got around to updating pipes that go from the main connectors on the street to individual apartment buildings and homes. Up until that point they were still often made of lead and other heavy metals. There still is no law that makes it illegal to have lead pipes WITHIN apartment buildings and homes.
Oh, and speaking of lead exposure - Germans didn't outlaw the sale of melting lead on New Years until two or three years ago. You know, where people sit around and melt lead on spoon and pour it into water. Look up the symptoms of childhood lead exposure and try NOT to imagine your average German while reading them. I assume every German I have ever met was exposed.
Omg KALKHALTIGES WASSER IST GUT I definitely heard that when I was trying to find the source of my rashes and hair breaking off. My skin feels so itchy all the time sometimes I could just cry. I have to get out.
And jesus christ they have rules and laws against everything but they couldn't manage to make a law against lead pipes? Why are they living in the past?
Interesting how much blatant anti German racism there is on this page - and yet, they censor the word s h i t to poop.. I'd really like to save some of this poop here, and show it to some Germans, who simply still think, foreigners are never racist & feel guilty for the three and a half or so Neo Nazis per one million inhabitants..
Berlin is the sensory equivalent of licking an iron bar. I don't know how else to describe it. There is nothing good for the senses. Nothing tastes good or smells good or looks good. No wonder the people don't smile.
I'm from northern Germany, and I hate the hyped, constant extravert Berlin smile - if you don't think, Berlin smiles enough, I assure you, they do, all the time! And want you to smile back, even if you just want to be left alone. I wish nobody would smile & stare at me & look me in the eyes all the time - I hate the Berlin extraversion, I hardly leave my room anymore, because of all these hordes of happy smiley people! I don't mind them BEING happy, but they keep looking at me, expecting me to smile & be happy back. Awful! And it's German Berliners at least as much as Expats!
It seems you were all right. I posted here last week to ask If I should consider an IT job in Berlin. Most of you suggested me not to take It. I have personally experienced why I should have never considered that interview offer at the first place. It was one of the worst experience I have ever had. Not because I was failing to answer any questions but I could not get any answer to the questions I have asked.
Me : On the previous interview, I have been told that your looking to reimplement the technology X What are the reasons to reimplement ?
Interviewer : Ohh actually we are not looking to reimplement technology x but we are looking to improve It
Me : Okay, so could you tell me what needs to be improved ? Any specific process you are looking to improve ?
Interviewer : Actualy we do not know because we did not define any process yet. We want to start over..
I mean, inconsistent, unclear answers. I left 20 mins earlier with some excuse I do not even remember now.
Phuck me, there are sure some chivalrous cucks here defending the good honour of Frauleins :o))) They obviously haven't tried to have a sincere conversation with a Berlin whining lefty Feminists who thinks she knows everything and just like her cuck handbags, she knows nutting.
It should be illegal for german with vaginas to be legally allowed to call themselves women, it's an insult to the beautiful Italian and French women who make them look like sewer rats. Don't get me started on their souls that they prostitute in Dante's inferno every day of the year. hey dump their babies in day 'care' centres and go off to what, form a career to prove they ca be like men and then tell men they have to be like women and sit down to pissss. This place is a disgrace to the human race. There you go, a rhyming line for a dickheadd German rapper to use.
Glad you said it. The women here are garbage. Also kind of difficult to get a hard on over a girl when you consider the fact that she probably showered with her brother until she was 15 and went for the weekly family skinnydip until she was 21. No wonder every German female who has even a drop of non-German blood will pretend she's whatever other nationality.
First came retarded right wing conspiracy addicts. Then came woman-bashing incels. What’s next on this site? It gets worse and worse. I thought I’d find normal people here, since it’s a Berlin hating site and Berlin is anything but normal. But that’s too much. I’m out
Oh, my! I should so show this cra p you write to some German people I know - it might just burst their bubble of "foreigners are always civil & never racist & if they are unfriendly, or do a bad thing, it's our western society's fault".. Germany has it's own cultures, if you don't like it here, leave, if you can't, behave, if you don't think German women are attractive, fine, leave them alone - we are happy about that, we LIKE not being chatted up all the time, and yes, we are fine with putting kids into day care, it helps them to be more socially competent, btw! And yes, we are totally happy not being stared at & watched by you, on the street we don't go out of the house, to be watched by guys - be they Expat or German - if you guys don't get it: We consider ourselves as people - not decoration!! And Germany is severely overpopulated, so no, there is no shortage of guys who are willing to make babies with one of us ugly German girls, there is totally no need for you to be attracted to us! We're fine without you!
You dumb bitch. Look at Germany's population development and you'll see that your social security system is going to collapse within a decade due to low birth rates here. Of course no one wants to have sex with a German woman. There's so much familial sexual abuse here that isn't even considered taboo (i.e. freaking in front of your children) that they lose all curiosity and interest in sex at a young age. Feel free to show the comments to some of your "friends" (voices in your head) and also remind them that foreigners aren't -fucking- entertainers for the benefit of Germans. While you're at it, ask your "friends" when the last time they showered, brushed their teeth, washed their hair, scrapped the dead skin off their feet. Since you guys seem too dumb to smell human sweat maybe ask a foreigner to do an assessment for you.
I freaking hate that dysfunctional shithole. I am (stupid me, I know) unfortunately renting an apartment in Berlin, and they were supposed to install a fire waring system. Ok. So on the day they should have come noon came. BUT they told me the instalment people were the and rang at my door (!?!?!). However, I am telling you, no one came. Then the next time they were supposed to come - no one came again, but they kept claiming that they had been there.
The third time they were supposed to come - no one came yet again - now they are saying that they could not find me (!?!?) - how, I was in the apartment the whole day??????
If you ever hear or read about the German so-called order - know, it does NOT exist. I's myth. I have NEVER seen such a disorganised idiot before.
It is worse than a freaking third world country.
So the moral of this story is a follows - if you still have any life left in you - leave, as soon as you can. It only gets worse.
Hey, all you dumb-phuck Berlin lefties, you'd better learn about who is pulling your puppet strings, the people behind Agenda 21, direct to you from the UN.
These evil creatures get the lowest IQ people to do their bidding by making them feel they are doing something important = lefties. Lefty bureaucrats telling us what to do, think and say, and worse, telling us what we can't say. Educate yourselves through this video.
www.youtube.com/watch Agenda 21 is funded by people like the grand Lefty puppet masters Gates and Soros.
"Please stop, your ignorance is showing."
Please STFU and never repeat this trite bullshit, no matter what. You're both arguing your own stupid opinions. At least the other guy said something that can be verified, whereas you're just being a retarded baby and closing your ears and yelling "it's not true". Show some proof that they're not ideological leftists - oh that's right, you can't because every single initiative that they both support is the exact epitome of leftism run amok. Get fucked.
You pathetic moron. The whole system the world is running on is anything but left wing. You idiot. How can the masters of the world be left wing when the 1% owns more than the rest 99%? Where there’s anarchy in production? Where corporations own governments? Ignorant brainless idiot. That’s far from anything left wing ideology proposes.
Are you actually retarded? Which types of government have ever done a WORSE job of equitably allocating resources than radical leftism? Whether you look at Soviet Russia, Cuba, North Korea, Venezuela, East Germany - they're all radically leftist regimes that concentrate all wealth around people close to the state leaders. If you're retarded enough to not see that then you're being willfully ignorant and should probably move to the next leftist paradise that pops up. Funny how only in far left socialist/communist societies do you find wide spread famine and malnutrition in the modern world. Also, since you appear to be not only retarded but also uninformed, look at literally any initiative that Soros and Gates have founded (ID2020, Media Matters, Open Society) and explain to me how any of those orgs are promoting right-wing ideology.
Boy seems like Berlin broken you the hard way. You must be here for a looking time. Jesus relax why so full of hate. You are right wing? Ok good for you. But let me tell you something. On this site we are complaining about German morons who act hateful and dumb like you do with your posts. Don't you think that you are in the wrong forum buddy?
I am serious
Why is there so much right wing poop on this site? I like reading the stories of people who lived here. And making fun of germans. That’s it. Hate Berlin, but part of the pooping part of Berlin is the right wing hate and psychopathy
Ha ha ha, right wing is the problem, really, perhaps you haven't noticed the filthy scummy AntiFa lefties burning cars, beating people who don't agree with them. Pseudo anarchist lefties living off state money. Lefties telling us what we can say, think and do. Lefties are the morons of the world, they are sheep and parrots, and also lemmings taking us all over a cliff.
Berlin lefties don't realise they are funded by this most evil man, yes you guessed it, lefty funder Soros. humanevents.com/2011/04/02/top-10-reasons-george-soros-is-dangerous/ Berlin is the perfect hunting ground for his recruiters to find low IQ social justice warriors.
Don't really know what you're talking about. Haven't seen a right-wing nazi in Berlin in 10 years. Sure, there are some female reproductive organ racist krauts, but they're not right-wing and not numerous enough to matter. Look at the last election results and see for yourself how few people in Berlin voted for right-wing parties.
And the guy complaining about lefties all the time - he is right. They're responsible for this town degenerating into stone age bullshit. Look at the squatters at Rigaerstr who have had free reign to do whatever they want for at least 5 years. Look at the scum at Warschauerstrasse (if we are ever allowed to go outside again). Read the Berlin annual police report on politically motivated terror - it's done overwhelmingly by lefties. Hate to burst your warped worldview, but the sooner you actually do some simple research to back up your own beliefs the better off you'll be.
I hate to think how many sexually transmitted diseases are spread by lefty scum. I wish they would wash at least once a month and please wear some cheerful clothes, you make Berlin look more morbid than what it is anyway. The sad thing is, by the time they wake up to the fat they have been used as stooges and brownshirt thugs, their opportunities will have passed them by and they will end up like the old toothless alcoholics sitting around kiosks. My god, how terrible their tattoos will look when they have saggy faces, legs and arms, that will be a sorry sight. Oh, did I mention all the pock-holes from their adornments' :o))) Imbeciles.
You two above are also right wing scum. True, there are quite a few degenerates who are nothing but human parasites, but there are also left wing people that have jobs, shower every day, etc but you’re too brainwashed to realize that. Oh, by the way, not all left people are anarchists ffs. Have you heard of anarchocapitalism? I guess not. Anyway, this city needs less hate. Not more. I’m “lefty”, I believe state support is a good thing, but people that are able to work MUST work, not leech off the state. How’s that for your silly right wing propaganda? Idiots.
To the op. 2-3 people who I believe are germans post some afd shit. They also post articles from German newspapers. They Are locals. Provably 1 guy. And I bet my balls that he likes his own shitt. Ignore it. But that is the reason why many people don't use this site anymore. Because of this scumbag/s
'I’m “lefty”, I believe state support is a good thing, but people that are able to work MUST work, not leech off the state."
No one is complaining about everyone who is left of spectrum, they're complaining about radical leftists and it's not hard to see that.
"Far right"...whoo boy, you know you're talking to a low IQ normie when you hear that buzzword thrown around willy-nilly (apparently asking questions and having a dissenting opinion that goes against official narratives is far right now when that used to be a "liberal" thing - back in Hunter S. Thompson and the counter-culture icons of the 60s' days).
Funny how they always fail to call out the extremism on the far left, like it doesn't even exist.
What are you guys opinions on this
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8213859/Angela-Merkel-faces-pressure-ease-lockdown-Germanys-daily-Covid-19-death-count-drops.html
Gonna be hard for her to walk this thin line. Either she eases lockdown restrictions and a week or two later we have a bump in cases or she admits that Germany's been doing a terrible (maybe fraudulent is a better word /- similar to China) job of tracking corona deaths since they don't do any post mortem tests at all and also don't count people who've died at home or in nursing homes. Or maybe just no one in Germany is dying because Germans have such hearty genes and there are no obese/heart disease/diabetic people here. If Germany were actually ever transparent with information we could all know for sure - but alas, Germany refuses to release much information at all> www.euromomo.eu/
maybe Elon Musk set up the Tesla factory to troll them
www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2020-04/corona-usa-donald-trump-krise-strategie-wahrheit
The biggest problem with Berlin is all the Stalin-Mao-loving-lefist-commies. They leech off the capitalist system with their Left hand and denounce capitalism with their right hand. These pathetic little lefty hypocrites wouldn't last a week in Russia or China. Chinese and Germans are robotic, no imagination or original thoughts in their heads. The problem is they still believe in the good old GDR days, it's something akin to Stockholm Syndrome. I don't hate Berliners, I pity them.
I wonder if there are websites where disappointed expats vent about their traumatic experiences in the country they thought would help them build a better life for themselves. No, it seems like it's only expats who lived in Germany who are prone to indulge in this complaining we see here. It's clear as daylight that Germany is not a country for those who wish to thrive and develop. It's no wonder that qualified expats choose other countries instead.
On point.. This country does not provide any development opportunity for expats. If you excel at your job, you will stay at that job for decades... Seriously, the jobs here not satisfying as well. I used to work with Germans. We had to create some documentation ( 10 pages) as team. It took 2 months to create It because of Germans.. They had to verify every single word and kept doing fine tuning. Simply bs