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👉 Over the last 9 days, this amazing group of Americans has explored Munich, Neuschwanstein, Nuremberg, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, and Heidelberg with me! Before we head to our final stop in Berlin, I want to know if they’ve had any culture shock in Germany so far or which cultural differences have stood out to them. Here are the answers!
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ABOUT ME: Hallo, Servus, and welcome to my channel! My name is Felicia (Feli), I’m 30 years old, and I’m a German living in the USA! I was born and raised in Munich, Germany but have been living in Cincinnati, Ohio off and on since 2016. I first came here for an exchange semester during my undergrad at LMU Munich, then I returned for an internship, and then I got my master’s degree in Cincinnati. I was lucky enough to win the Green Card lottery and have been a permanent resident since 2019! In my videos, I talk about cultural differences between America and Germany, things I like and dislike about living here, and other topics I come across in my everyday life in the States. Let me know what YOU would like to hear about in the comments below. DANKE 🙂
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7:39. Sounds like America desperately needs German craftspeople. There's a couple youtube channel people, home inspectors, who show the crap jobs some big builders do on new $500,000 and up; broken windows, roof tiles, leaky bathrooms, unsafe wiring, etc. One of these is a man named Cy and another whose "catch phrase" is That ain't right.
3:03 Maybe good BECAUSE of being Americans, being patie t with us dumpfkopfs.
Die Kommentare zu den Spielplätzen sind sehr interessant!
"Der Hauch von Gefahr"!?! 🤭
Hier zieht aber auch nicht jeder gleich vor Gericht! Ich hab mir als Kind oft Verletzungen auf Spielplätzen zugezogen… zweimal waren das sogar Knochenbrüche! Aber meine Eltern haben mir daraufhin lediglich nahe gelegt, beim nächsten Mal besser aufzupassen, und haben mich anschließend zum Unfallarzt gebracht und nicht zum Anwalt!
Und obendrein hat das dann zusätzlich noch zu einer besseren Ausbildung meiner Räumlichen und Motorischen Fähigkeiten geführt.
In den Staaten hätte das Kind wahrscheinlich nie wieder diesen Spielplatz besuchen dürfen und der Besitzer/die Komune wäre wahrscheinlich auf Schmerzensgeld und Entschädigungen verklagt worden!
Aber das habe ich dort schon öfter beobachtet… ALLES (!!!) wird einem erklärt! Einmal stand ich an einer Haltestelle an der tatsächlich ein Video gezeigt wurde, wie man richtig in einen Bus einsteigt und das Ticket kaufen kann!!! 😮
In den USA werden Erwachsene wie kleine Kinder behandelt und kleine Kinder werden wie Babys behandelt!!!
13:56 i know this Background. It's on the A9 near Weißenfels 🙂
Hard to find black Coffee?! I cant imagine one place where you don't get simple black coffee in germany – and guess what, the coffee is real coffee, not the slightly treated water you got in the US! 😉 The Cars are smaller in Europe, because the Citys layouts where made several hundred years ago, way back before cars where invented. The US just have the space for big cars, Europe doesn't.
To: "Why the hatchbacks?", I want to respond: "Why the pickup trucks?". 😂 There's rarely anything in the bed of those things that warrants their use, yet still it feels like 50% of vehicles are pickup trucks, especially in the south.
Hello, I was stationed in Schweinfurt West Germany, January 1989 to November 1991. I was there for the fall of the wall to Berlin in August 1991. That was a great time to go there. Then in October 2019 went to Berlin for a week and I could not believe how Americanized Berlin was. Still a beautiful city, but definitely Americanized to go back again. I’d like to even go check out Schweinfurt again.
Sadly, Germany "lost its song as a result of television. …I was stationed in Munster bei Dieburg Kaserne in pre-television days in the mid 1960s. I very much enjoyed going to beer/wine fests in the small villages surrounding my Army post. ..Hundreds of Germans would sing traditional folk songs. It was absolutely wonderful. ,,,I returned to Germany on a vacation in 1979 and found that no one sang songs anymore. Also, i noticed people in gasthauses staring at the television rather than sitting in a circle talking, and on occasion — singing. …Sadly, television truly transformed America as well as Germany.
I agree with that man who talked about the craftsmanship of the buildings. I did once look at houses for sale in Germany. I was looking at the cheaper end of the market and a lot were described as needing modernisation or renovation. When I got to view such properties they were far better than I expected but I suppose by German standards they were perceived as imperfect.
So I know some American Missionaries(Im mormon) and if they come here in germany, even if they are in europe, the number one thing that they say that they were surprised is A: How less We are proud of Germany, B: The Deutsche Bahn and C: supermarkets and especially bakeries I dunno why but Everyone is like, "WOW German supermarkets are so different" And if I ask them why they say "Yeah you guys have way more stuff thereway bigger for a small supermarket then expected , way more supermarkets in general, way more to choose from, and so on.
I've never been there, I was hoping that the military would've put me there but was stationed stateside.😢
It's my original nationality and I took three years of German while in high school, my mother was of German/Austrian decent and my father was German.
I even had a great-grandmother who would often speak in German and broken English.
I was told that my ancestors have a castle somewhere in Germany and wanted to see if that was true or not.
I'll probably never get there now, as I'm getting older and even my other "bucket list" things seem more distant than likely.
It's interesting how you have ppl exactly opposite things about the customer service. Several said it's really good and the guy at the end (with agreement from Feli) said you have to twist their arms to do anything.
I fthink its a European thing, but way more smokers.
danke feli für das video … du solltest mal beim deutschen tourisik-verband nachfragen, dieses video als werbeclip für deutschland herzunehmen 😉 bin überrascht, sooo viele positive eindrücke eurer reisegruppe gehört zu haben … anscheinend ist nicht alles schlecht in good old germany
One thing that stood out to me was the vehicles more specifically the lake on damage on the cars. To my understanding is that in Germany (Munich) it is more expensive to get and have a license. Stricter on repairs. I think that americans just don't care as much about our stuff, ie: disposable silverware, close we wear (cheap pochos vs nice rain jacket) including our cars. Germans just treat driving more like a privilege not a right. Also traffic light went yellow before both the red light and also the green. Allowing drivers to get ready to go. I like that. As a disabled it was more difficult to get around from elevation changes (stairs) to ground surface (coble stones, curbs) people were always willing to help, also had my family around. All in all just understand that there are many ways to live life not one is perfect. But what we need food, shelter, and connection/communication. Everything else will sort itself out. I love these types of videos. I really enjoyed my trip to Germany.
I would recommend never judging a country by the behaviour of its teens. teens are universally just rebellious and general A-holes
Feli, vielleicht ein kleiner Hinweis wie auch Tip: Ist es möglich auch Untertitel auf Deutsch einzustellen? Wäre ja interessant, als nicht so perfekt Englisch sprechender dies hier verfolgen zu können, was auch all deine anderen Beiträge anbelangt. Ein herzliches Dankeschön und viele Grüße.
About the teenagers in the museum: It doesn’t matter what the museum is about (if it is not one for children). Being loud and disturbing in a museum is always wrong. The trial museum is not a sacred place though.
I'm from Cincinnati too! And my name is Diedrich. Haha
I remember that rule about pedestrians staying off the bicycle paths. Man, they’ll run you over.
Hello! I hope my comment will get noticed. Can anyone recommend me german speaking youtubers? Not the language study ones, but just anything. Gaming, art, nature, commentary, a whatever. I will find something that interests me out of recommendations. I kinda learned English without even noticing it, but it is so much easier to randomly interact with English than with any other language..
Kippfenster!
When I first came to Germany in 2013, several things intrigued me. The first thing I noticed was the alcohol in the streets, the next thing was that quads (ATVs, four – wheelers) were driven on the street, just like any other motorcycle or car. Lastly, I was staying at a hotel in Dresden, and the taxis would just drive right up to the door. I didn't realize that these were actually unloading zones! They did the same when I was at work.
You seemed to show your guests a good time. Their responses were enthusiastic and interesting. Perhaps you will become the replcement for Rick Steves !
I had to check my passports to see how many times I was in Germany-primarily Berlin. The first trip was in 1968. It was the first trip for me and our two preschool children and the first trip back home for my wife. We flew from Cleveland to New York, to Newfoundland, to Frankfort and finally Templehof in Berlin. The 4 of us lived with my mother-in-law and father-in-law in a one-bedroom apartment. All of our sightseeing was done with public transportation. Mutti only knew "hello" and "goodbye" in English, but Vatti was pretty good at it. In 2022 My son and I made a trip (the 12th one) and this time we flew into the new BER airport and stayed at a hotel. We relied on public transportation and only got lost once.
Meine erste Reise nach Deutschland war mit dem MS Europa im Hebst 1969. (Ich nahm am Aussenstudiumprogramm von Kalamazoo College teil.) Wir stiegen ins Bremerhaven aus. Unser Programmführer sagte uns wir sollten unser Abendessen unabhängig versorgen. Ich bin um die Innenstadt herum gegangen und habe mir einen Imbißwagen gefunden. Dort kriegte ich meine erste echte Bratwurst. Ich war aber zu schüchtern als Pommes frites auch zu bestellen. Nachdem ich die Wurst erledigte, hatte ich noch Hunger. Ich bin um die Ecke gegangen und dann wiederum zur "Mobile Wurst Unit" und habe mir die Kartoffeln bestellt.
lived in Nurnburg 80-83 with the US Army; my sister is going back as her daughter will be living in the Graf/Vilseck area; hope to duplicate old photos with modern updates