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Is it just German men in Berlin that are emasculated, have psychological/emotional problems because of being brainwashed by feminism/leftism and growing up in a cold family? I have known some messed up guys before coming to Berlin, but German guys take the prize. They seem almost afraid of women. Is it the same in all of Germany? I've only lived in Berlin.
Afraid of women and other things.
I lived with a German guy once who was pretty much the most emasculated person I've met:
-Only showers twice a week because he doesn't want to age too fast (already looks fifty despite being 34)
-Doesn't have Skype, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Hotmail or Myspace because he's afraid of being spied on.
-In four years never had a visitor
-Has a girlfriend he has only met once in real life. Together for over 4 years.
-Afraid of dogs
-Locks the door of his room whenever he is away, out of fear of thieves.
-Thinks feminism is not that bad.
-Didn't want to learn how to play a musical instrument because it'd "ruin the sensibility of his fingers"
-Whenever I'd download stuff and the internet speed would decrease, he'd express his concern regarding possibly being spied on.
-Peed while sitting
-Only went to the supermarket before closing time so as to avoid standing in line with other people
-Played videogames all the time, despite being a bit too old for that.
-Didn't know how to cook. Main dish was noodles with a sausage thrown in. No sauce.
Germans lost their best stock in WWII, someone else said. There might be some truth to that statement.
A little off-topic, but Germans are complete idiots when it comes to American-run online services and the Internet in general. The government in Germany can legally demand all saved data on specific users without even going through the courts and obtaining a subpoena but they'll all voice their pseudo-intellectual opinions about sharing their data with facebook and google. But the zenith of idiocy was shortly after the Snowden leaks when Merkel gave a speech saying something along the lines of "Part of being an outspoken citizen is the ability to anonymously engage in discourse online" - after decades of the draconian Impressumspflicht.
www.theeuropean.de/valentin-weimer/10728-berlin-ist-arm-an-allem
Brilliant, a must read. Just copy and paste into Google Translate.
Fünf Gründe warum Berlin eine miserable Hauptstadt ist
Berlin wird von Spießern als “die coolste Stadt Deutschlands” gefeiert. Modern, wild, inspirierend, sei sie. Arm, aber sexy. In Wahrheit ist Berlin vor allem arm. An Erfolg, an Leistung, an Geist, an Wärme. Fünf Gründe, warum Berlin eine peinliche Hauptstadt ist.
berlin hauptstadt
© wcw
1. Arm
München brummt, Frankfurt auch, Stuttgart ebenso. Es sammelt sich Kapital und Intelligenz in den süddeutschen Metropolen. In Berlin sammeln sich dagegen Hartz IV-Empfänger, Subventionsritter und Selbstverwirklicher. Vor allem wirtschaftlich schwadroniert Berlin seit Jahrzehnten von „Boom“ und „Gründerszene“, man sieht sich als „hot spot“, Leuchtturm“, „Cluster“ und „Zukunftsmetropole“. Doch von einem Dreh- und Angelpunkt der Wirtschaft ist Berlin so weit entfernt wie die Schrippe von der Südsee. Ökonomisch ist die deutsche Hauptstadt eine langweilige Provinzposse.
Paris hingegen ist in jeder Hinsicht eine wirkliche Hauptstadt des Landes. Von den zehn größten Unternehmen Frankreichs sitzen neun in Paris. Nicht anders sieht es in England aus von den zwölf größten englischen Unternehmen haben zehn ihren Hauptsitz in London. In Madrid und Rom sind es immerhin noch fünf der zehn größten Unternehmen des Landes. Ganz anders in Deutschland: Kein einziges der größten 30 Dax-Unternehmen sitzt in Berlin. Und das bei einer Stadt, die mit 3,5 Millionen Einwohnern nicht nur eindeutig die größte Stadt Deutschlands ist, sondern auch die größte Stadt Kontinentaleuropas. Eine internationale Studie „Cities of Opportunity“, hat 30 Metropolen weltweit nach deren Wirtschaftskraft untersucht – und dabei unter anderem die Zahl der Konzernsitze, das Volumen der internationalen Investitionen und das Wirtschaftswachstum verglichen. Berlin landet hier abgeschlagen auf Platz 22. So im Umfeld von Nairobi, Jakarta oder Buenos Aires.
Nicht einmal in der Medienbranche hat Berlin den Durchbruch geschafft. Dachte man in den Neunzigern noch, hier werde alsbald Deutschlands Fernseh- und Internetgeschichte geschrieben, so herrscht heute Funkstille. Kein einziger großer Sender ist nach Berlin gekommen, Unterföhring ist heute medial einflussreicher als die Hauptstadt. Und auch in der Internetindustrie tönt Berlin zwar lautstark vor sich hin – doch passieren die digitale Revolutionen anderswo. Weder Google (Hamburg) noch Yahoo (München), weder Microsoft (München) noch Facebook (Hamburg), weder Apple (München) noch Amazon (München) haben ihre Deutschlandzentrale in Berlin. Und wenn Huawei sein Forschungszentrum in Deutschland aufbaut – dann in München.
Berlins wirtschaftliche Unfähigkeit wird besonders bei dem Berliner Flughafenprojekt deutlich. Die für den 30. Oktober 2011 geplante Eröffnung des Flughafens wurde bis heute immer und immer wieder verschoben. Dabei wäre selbst der neue Flughafen lächerlich klein gegenüber den Flughäfen anderer Metropolen Europas. Berlin-Tegel ist gerade mal auf dem 23. Platz der größten Flughäfen Europas und landet sogar hinter der Urlaubsinsel Mallorca. Für ein wirtschaftlich so erfolgreiches Land wie Deutschland ist Berlin als Wirtschaftsstandort fast schon peinlich.
2. Links
Der Sozialismus ist gescheitert und außer Mode wie eine gammeliges Marmeladenglas. Nur in Berlin wird immer und immer wieder daraus genascht. Stasi-SED-Linksparteien-Kommunistenkader im Osten, sozial-ökologische Spinner im Westen der Stadt und dazwischen jede Menge linker Etatisten, die am liebsten von „Staatsknete“ leben, prägen das geistige Milieu Berlins bis heute ungeheuer. So kommt es, dass Berlin nach Nordrhein Westfallen die höchste Verschuldung Deutschlands hat.
In der Stadt, in der die Vielfalt gefeiert wird, gibt es häufig bloß rote Einfalt. Politisch-geistig wirkt die Stadt wie in der Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts stecken geblieben. Bleiern, staatsfixiert, bevormundend. Statt liberale oder experimenteller Avantgarde herrscht in Berlin gestriger, spießiger Parteienfilz. Jahrzehnte lang war Berlin durch den Kommunismus eine geteilte Stadt, geistig ist sie es bis heute. Und immer noch erzielt die SED-Nachfolgepartei hohe Wahlergebnisse. Die beiden Parteien (CDU und FDP) hingegen, die in Deutschland am längsten an der Regierung waren, stellten in Berlin bei der Wahl des letzten Abgeordnetenhauses zusammen gerade einmal 25 Prozent. Rot-Rot-Grün zusammen mit den Piraten erzielten dagegen 65 Prozent. In 47 von 66 Jahren Bundesrepublik Deutschland stellte die CDU den Bundeskanzler. In den anderen Jahren waren es mit Schmidt oder Schröder eher liberale Flügel der SPD. In knapp 40 Jahren wirkte die FDP in der Koalitionsregierung mit. In Berlin war es genau umgekehrt, das bürgerliche und liberale ist hier eine Fußnote der politischen Geschichte der Stadt geblieben.
3. Ungebildet
Nach einer Studie der Initiative Neue Soziale Marktwirtschaft (INSM) hat Berlin das schlechteste Bildungssystem Deutschlands. Ein relativ hoher Anteil der Schüler erreicht nicht einmal die Mindeststandards. Auch die Quote der Schulabbrecher ist mit sieben Prozent dreimal so hoch wie im Rest Deutschlands. Der Zusammenhang zwischen sozialer Herkunft und Bildung ist hier auch besonders hoch. Nicht umsonst siedelt sich Berlin in den PISA-Rankings immer im unteren Bereich an. Inzwischen werden nicht einmal mehr die Schulleiterstellen besetzt. An den Berliner Schulen fehlen 136 Schulleiter und stellvertretende Schulleiter. Besonders dramatisch ist die Lage an Grundschulen, dort sind allein knapp 90 Führungsstellen nicht besetzt. Damit ist fast jede fünfte Grundschule von diesem Problem betroffen.
4. Konfessionslos, treulos und einsam
Berlin dürfte die wohl gottloseste Metropole der Welt sein. 60 Prozent der Berliner gehören keiner Religion an. Damit ist der Anteil noch einmal doppelt so hoch wie im Rest Deutschlands, das im weltweiten Vergleich auch im unteren Bereichen rangiert. Außerdem gilt Berlin als die „Hauptstadt der Singles“. Der Anteil der Singlehaushalte liegt bei sagenhaften 54 Prozent ! Nirgends auf der Welt leben die Menschen einsamer. Und obendrein leben in der Stadt auch noch 100.000 mehr Frauen als Männer: 1,7 Millionen Frauen auf 1,6 Millionen Männer. Wenn sich zwei von den zigtausenden, einsamen Berlinern dann trotzdem mal gefunden haben sollten, ist die Wahrscheinlichkeit der Trennung dann auch noch ziemlich hoch: Genau die Hälfte aller geschlossenen Ehen gehen in Berlin zu Bruch, in Deutschland sind es dagegen gut ein Drittel.
5. Hauptstadt nur für sich
Nach der Wiedervereinigung schien es, als würde Berlin die Projektionsfläche, die Bühne, das Sinnbild eines neuen, weltoffenen, modernen Deutschlands. Es hatte die Chance, als Hauptstadt die bunte, aufbrechende Republik zu verkörpern. Doch daran ist Berlin gescheitert. Die Stadt wirkt im Rest der Republik wie ein selbstverliebtes Solitär, das sich von den anderen aushalten lässt. Es verliert Sympathie und Integrationskraft. Berlin ist in weiten Teilen Deutschlands so beliebt wie ein Dortmunder auf Schalke; und es hat in den Retro-Trends der deutschen Heimaten zu wenig Gemeinsamkeiten mit den Landsmannschaften. Junge Bayern, Hessen, Schwaben, Sachsen, Rheinländer, selbst Norddeutsche orientieren sich heute weniger nach Berlin als vor 20 Jahren. Es ist eine große generationelle Enttäuschung. Berliner sehen sich ja selber gerne als Welt-Hauptstadt. Dabei sind sie nicht einmal akzeptierte Kapitale des eigenen Landes. Ihr Reiz verfängt nur noch bei Spießern des verblassenden Nonkonformismus’. Oder wie Fjodor M. Dostojewski gesagt hat: „Aber mein Gott, was für eine langweilige, entsetzliche Stadt ist Berlin.“
First -- thank god for this website, I just found it and it alleviated the guilt I've been carrying about how dreadful this city is. I really tried my best to like it but it's finally broken me. Second -- the slacktavist lefties in this city drives me mad. I worked as a community organizer in the U.S. and saw communities fighting tooth and nail for better wages, healthcare, immigration reform, marriage equality, etc. In Berlin it seems being left-wing seems more like a narcissistic lifestyle where you grow a dreadlock mullet, get an antifa stick n' poke tattoo, and harass non-vegans. I've seen very little meaningful grassroots political organizing like in other countries, but I have seen a tofu-load of 'progressive' dropouts who think pooping on auslanders, spray painting anarchy signs, and drinking stern
cont: drinking sternburg in their squats is going to change the freaking world. It gives those of us whose actual careers are dedicated to social change a pooping reputation. (sorry, accidentally submitted the post too soon. Lot's of love to all the fellow haters.)
> I just found it and it alleviated the guilt I've been carrying about how dreadful this city is.
Haha, welcome! I think most people here had the same feeling. First, you get really more and more depressed. Then you start investigating why and it comes out that it's either you or them. Of course, you think, it must be me. Gotta get more vitamins, sun (lol, good luck), exercise, etc. That doesn't help. Then you come upon this place and suddenly see that no, other people have the exact same feelings and problems.
2 more weeks and I'm gone. No more people scowling at me for now reason, no people blocking doorways while talking on the phone, no people pissing EVERYWHERE, and finally some sunshine. I wish all the other people here a hasty departure as well.
Random piece of a conversation on the street: Berlin father saying to what seemed like a mate about his daughter who was in the buggy: Jetzt ist die n Meter eins oder irgendwat. It translates to Now she is one meter one ..that accuracy..or what the fornicate do i know...combined with this
One thing I honestly don't understand about Germany is that they apparently see the need to have mandatory healthcare, but their doctors are some of the least educated in the world (merely 6 years of higher education). Moreover, if you need any kind of specialist you will wait ages to get an appointment. And something like 100k people who are "qualified" to be physicians in Germany do not even practice medicine. And then there's the whole malpractice, misdiagnosis and ungodly hygiene standards in hospitals. What is wrong with this country?
Do German fathers piss with the door open?
Berlin = Edgy at all cost.
And by the way, the social system was ment for who is need not for you pseudo artists that smoke pot Tuesday morning at Boxy/Görly.
No one needs welfare. How do people in countries with no welfare survive?
Ah yes! They get a JOB and go to WORK.
They can't afford to be single moms with 2 kg of piercings and 1 liter of ink on their body.
They can't afford to be drug addicts who waste their life away.
They can't afford to party every day and do drugs with the money the state gives them.
They can't afford to abandon their family because the state will give them a flat somewhere.
economy is great but zero culture, being cool here seems to be only related to looks and not personality, but hey the Germans were never known for being adventurers, maybe that's why they are not romantics but a bunch of miserable conformists : ) they seem to follow only one way, its OK the world needs boring people so other folks can have a laugh at them, never get tiered joking bout Zee German lol
but anyways lets leave poor Germans alone, they already suffer so much mentally its pathological, looking at 90 percent of them I feel pity, they are so joyless and miserable, they must have inherited that from their parents, and their patents from their parents and so on, you know what I mean, wink wink!
I recently came back from a lovely holiday spent in Poland and once I was back to Berlin I was on the verge of depression.
While people in Poland seemed simple and friendly, people in Berlin are just rude and look angry and sad 24/7. The women in Poland look youthful, feminine and best of all: no piercings or disgusting tattoos. In Berlin: lots of ugly women who instead of spending money and time on books and on developing a personality, decide to ruin themselves further by getting inked or pierced.
Can't wait to get out of this shithole.
Why the hell don't these savages have privacy dividers between urinals? How freaking cheap can you be that you cannot even put a piece of synthetic board between two urinals? Sick of these pigs at university trying to check out my gear.
It's an odd thing you'll find in a lot of European countries. No one wants to make a fuss about it because they're afraid people will think they have a tiny penis so there's no pressure to do what most men actually want. At least the toilets aren't Asian squatting style.
Hamburg airport. Time to pretend we don't know who is behind the attack or why.
don't trust people without humor aka psychopaths or Germans
Germans are not known for their sense of style, but German women take it too far. It's like they wake up everyday and before getting out of bed they spend some time thinking "what are some new ways I can make myself look uglier?"
Has anyone noticed how Germans like to talk about "freedom", "independence" and "individualism"?
Take the welfare state away from them and see how much "freedom" and "independence" they have left. A lot of people can only study because they get BAFöG or because tuition fees are no longer a thing to worry about. A lot of single mothers can only survive because of Kindergeld. Without Hartz-IV and government-sponsored appartments lots of people wouldn't have a place to live.
These people couldn't survive an entire month in a country where there is no nanny state that gives them money for nothing.
Yes, this is true. Only thanks to their beloved taxes and transfers is Germany able to move it's GINI from being one of the most unequal in the world to being among that of developed countries. Going only by income, German income inequality is worse than almost every other country on earth.
Wages have mostly stagnated for the past 20 years.
Nepotism is a huge problem here, most wealth is inherited and there is no room for socio-economic mobility in this country. If you're a foreigner then things are twice as hard. The government will pay for you to live at a standard you could achieve with "normal" job in Germany. If you ever want to progress further then good luck.
But the Germans will celebrate their beloved trade unions and workers' councils. The trade unions that represent like 18% of employees, mostly in dying industries, and that are in part responsible for making life in this country even more miserable (train drivers refusing to work, pilots refusing to fly). And the workers' councils do nothing more than offer vehicles for "altruists" to waste firm resources. And they are only present in like 30% of firms.
" there is no room for socio-economic mobility in this country. If you're a foreigner then things are twice as hard."
This. Germans like to point the finger at Turks and Arabs for not wanting to "integrate" (whatever that is), while praising the efforts done by Asian immigrants to become a part of German society. Interestingly enough, in 10 years of living here I haven't seen an Asian person in a position of power. Most of them run their food businesses, or will do your nails.
Germany is not a country where you can make good money, much less a fortune. It's not the USA.
For Berliners, words like "freedom" and "independence" only mean "I can drink beer in a park" or "I have enough vacation days in a year that I can spend a week in the canary islands" and "I get to see a doctor that someone else paid for". As soon as you bring up anything such as how hard it is to start a business, how you can't even name your child what you want, how you can't even homeshool your child - they'll get defensive and start pointing out everything wrong with your country. Basically, to them "freedom" means "freedom from consequences" ie. "I dont have to make choices, I dont have to care about consequences - the State does everything for me".
And yes, I second the observation that integrating here if you're not aryan or close is extremely hard. You'll not see a foreign-looking person at any city or state government position, not even things like the order-police (the ones that check if your car is parked right). If you're turkish - good luck EVER getting an apartment - hell, this might happen to you just because you look turkish even if youre spanish or mexican or indian. It's disgusting.
Nepotism is just as bad in U.S. as it is in Germany. The Trump family is an extreme example of it.
Most entrepreneurial asian-americans open mostly small businesses like restaurants, food markets and nail salons.
The main difference between U.S. and Germany is that u.s. welcomes and cherishes innovation and risk taking while embracing failure as a valuable learning experience. Germany especially in the south is much more traditional, rigid and risk averse because failure is not viewed here as optimistically.
Koreans, Vitnamese, Thai and Chinese are predominantly Christians or Buddhist so maybe that's why they are treated better than middle eastern and north african people.
Like I said risk averse.
The average German stays in his small village and buys a house near their parents. The parents help with everything and the government pays for 1-2 years of parental leave. Many of them would not survive an economic collapse. They were given so much. They judge others for being incompetent when their government spoon fed them. In u.s., it is much more difficult for young adults. Many of them are resilient and independent.
Why is there no active ventilation in this country? In every other developed country I've ever been to I have seen recessed ceiling fans in bathrooms/public bathrooms. Why are people here so cheap they want to smell their own feces?
It is because Germans are afraid of drafts. Really, google it. Or try opening a window in a moving train/tram/bus - you'll instantly get shouted at. Yes, it's 2017 and these people think that cold/moving air causes sickness. That's why there are no ventilator, barely any AC, why you can't open windows on public transport, why apartment contracts include a provision about airing out your apartment for 15 minutes every month. It must also be why Germans don't feel bad when they don't wash for a few days - they're used to the smell.