Beautiful language, great cuisine, very good people, awesome politicians, exciting countryside and great culture, beautiful cities, nice music and cinema, strong army, state of the art economy with a lot of native industry, and the list goes on.
Germany is literally the star of Europe
It's as big as Poland with twice the population, and has more achievements than more than half of Europe combined It's great at jobs of any kind Expelled Jewish population but it's still good at finance and economics Any average person will know Germany as "the country that single-handedly made Europe what it is today". Most are surprised how resilient it is. Most people can find Germany on the map, despite what memes tell you. It's a country that is consistently helpful to countries around it, and it's full of strong minded people. Germany is so interesting and exciting that everybody, even the Swedish or the French (well-known for their lack of immigration) want to live there Germany has endured all that Europe has thrown at it, suffered, and yet, still persists, to the amazement and delight of millions of people.
So fucking great and competent you mistook it as a utopian world country.
While I absolutely agree that Germany is the star of Europe, the USA of Europe, if you will...
>Beautiful language I guess it depends on your perspective but as an English speaker German comes across as very harsh/not beautiful (Italian sounds beautiful), and my ancestral roots and my last name are all German. Also, like my Russia friend pointed out: imagine playing Germany in soccer and how terrifying that is to hear them all speaking in German
>great cuisine With great cuisine you think Italy, Germany...not so much right? My Russian buddy who has been to Germany said I would like it, lots of good meats served everywhere. Other than that, none of the people I know that have been to Germany mentioned good food in the things that they liked about Germany (now beer, yes)
>great culture in Bavaria but elsewhere in Germany?
>beautiful cities which one? One of my pet peeves about Germany in comparison to the rest of Europe is the lack of beautiful cities (in comparison to the rest of Europe)
>nice music and cinema does anyone in Europe listen to German bands or watch German films?
But again, I agree Germany is the star of Europe, they are very easy to like and have tons of positives
They were just overshadowed by the rest powers since then, until the 21st century.
Elijah Lopez
>Beautiful language, great cuisine, very good people, awesome politicians, exciting countryside and great culture, beautiful cities, nice music and cinema, strong army, state of the art economy with a lot of native industry, and the list goes on. Yes, France just like this. But why you've put g*rmoney flag?
I honestly find most German abhorrent, the standard language that seems to be getting more and more prevalent sounds terribly feminine. The southern dialects are better in that regard but it's really only when German is spoken through Slovene as loanwords that it truly sounds the way it should
Dylan Taylor
I too enjoy listening to Laibach my germano-slovenian friend
>I guess it depends on your perspective but as an English speaker German comes across as very harsh/not beautiful (Italian sounds beautiful), and my ancestral roots and my last name are all German. Also, like my Russia friend pointed out: imagine playing Germany in soccer and how terrifying that is to hear them all speaking in German youtube.com/watch?v=2H5rusicEnc >With great cuisine you think Italy, Germany...not so much right? My Russian buddy who has been to Germany said I would like it, lots of good meats served everywhere. Other than that, none of the people I know that have been to Germany mentioned good food in the things that they liked about Germany (now beer, yes) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_German_dishes >in Bavaria but elsewhere in Germany? t. has never been to Northern Germany >which one? One of my pet peeves about Germany in comparison to the rest of Europe is the lack of beautiful cities (in comparison to the rest of Europe) pic related, literally every German city outside of the dystopia that is Frankfurt, Berlin or the Ruhr area >does anyone in Europe listen to German bands or watch German films? we do okay, Rammstein is a bit meme-y to mention but even you know them, German cinema is not as great as it used to be though with some noteworthy exceptions like Das Boot, The Life of Others or Goodbye Lenin
Laibach's German is alright but that's thanks to the singer's voice
Michael Sanchez
>the standard language that seems to be getting more and more prevalent sounds terribly feminine
getting to listen to all the Russian being spoken this World Cup, i was surprised at how French (feminine) Russian sounded... which is a beautiful thing. German is too masculine/harsh, which isn't a bad thing but it doesn't sound beautiful (feminine)
Jordan Miller
Eigenlob stinkt Brudi
Michael Foster
>does anyone in Europe listen to German bands or watch German films?
You've got things mixed up, Russian may have soft sounds but it's still a much more rugged language while German just sounds effeminate unless it's some rural dialect.
Josiah Lee
Try listening to it in STALKER
Camden Rodriguez
>still persists Indeed, they never learn
Ayden Foster
>i was surprised at how French (feminine) Russian sounded..
I il heard exactly the opposite that russian sounds a little bit harsh for non-slavs
Ryder Perez
Thanks for the reply. First of all with your picture there, yes, that's the kind of architecture I associate with Germany, and it's its not very pleasant-looking. If you go look at Strasbourg, where they have the mix of French and German architecture, that looks a lot better.. Austria and Switzerland both look nicer as well for German-speaking countries
Owen Morgan
You have a lot of "ye"/"ya"/"yi"/"yu" sounds, so maybe that's why.
Evan Brown
I never noticed that. What would be the implications of it?
Xavier Lewis
Next: the language, while that video you posted sounds beautiful, everything sounds beautiful when you sing it opera-style. I'm talking about the regular spoken language you here all around you (maybe post of video of a hot chick speaking German). One funny youtube video i was was they had an English-speaker in Germany and he asked Germans on the street to pronounce the word "squirrel" .... that shit was funny. As for Germans that speak English, the German-accented English doesn't sound that bad. It's actually fairly pleasant
Nolan Bell
>German sounds feminine Go home Ivan, you're drunk.
Juan Perez
next, the cuisine. I skimmed over the pics in your link, and yes that's the kind of food I associate with Germany. It's not very impressive which is why German restaurants are not popular here and its very rare to see one (now Italian, Asian, Latin.... they are everywhere and really really good)
I have a Dutch friend and she cooks some traditional Dutch meals that were a lot like German. Don't get me wrong, it's good stuff but could be WAY better
I forget to add Greek and Lebanese, both also amazing and are very popular here as well
Jordan Young
Forgot your proxy?
Xavier Brown
>You are that EU shill, aren't you? Euflag might be morally decadent like the west but he is not their shill
Carter Jackson
They are the enemy, what do you expect? I would like to see a similar picture showing the views about Russia.
Landon Sanders
next. as for the culture in Northern Germany:
What culture would that be? When it comes to Northern Germany, Hamburg is the big Bundesliga team and has German's great seaport (I was actually reading up on it the other day because that is where the Zyklon B used to gas the jews came from, the pestiside company in Hamburg that supplied it to the Nazis was a company that specialized in using Zyklon B as a pesticide to clean the large ships and warehouses in Hamburg's massive seaport)
I was not expressing my personal opinion, I was simply trying to explain why the overall views about the USA are so negative in Germany.
Brandon Morales
finally, as for German music/film
That is funny you mention Rammstein. My Russia buddy is a huge scream-metal fan and one day he played some Rammstein for me and i loved it. So I go to another friend's party, and I'm talking to some of my peers, and I brought up Rammstein and how they were a good band I never heard of, and they were all like "how have you never heard of Rammstein?" lol
I wish German cinema would get better, same with French, Italian, etc. Here in the US, we have theaters that play foreign films with english subtites and Bollywood (Indian) and Hong Kong (Chinese) both have a lot of great well-produced epic movies.
>does anyone in Europe listen to German bands or watch German films? Rammstein, 99 Luftballons, Atemlos durch die Nacht, Kraftwerk, Eisbrecher, WBTBWB, Silbermond For films, I just know die Berührte, die Welle, Auf der anderen Seite and Lola Rent
Anthony Mitchell
Yes. I, Inspector Lunge of the BKA, would be inclined to agree that Germany has some excellent qualities.
Its national character produces many great strengths, but this is accompanied by certain weaknesses. A double-edged sword, if you will. This goes back to the state of Prussia, which was important in creating Germany under Bismarck. Prussia and Germany achieved great things under a strong central leadership, but this backfires when the leadership is unsuitable. Germans also tend to have a shared understanding of helping one another, as can be seen with the early adoption of public healthcare and education reforms. Thoroughness and conscientiousness are their hallmarks, whether one agrees with their more infamous historical periods or not.
This can also make them somewhat impractical at times and prone to idealism. The land of poets and dreamers, as it has been called. And they have undoubtedly expressed themselves well in the arts and philosophy.
I suggest you read the book called The German Genius, if you haven't done so already. I found it to be very informative and helpful. I extracted this data from the "hard drive" in my mind. There are some other books I could recommend if you're interested.
lol, I thought you were joking, but that is actually popular In Germany. Look how big the wiki page for that band is: >de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rummelsnuff
Thanks for the reply. I'll save those bands and check them out some day
Levi Cooper
>he is not their shill From my experience he is
Mason Mitchell
Fuckable.
Eli Foster
nah, trust me
Tyler Jones
even if you take out all the International food offered here, American-cuisines is actually amazing (for example you Germans like meat: our four main types of BBQ are Texas, Kansas City, Carolina and Memphis styles (all are great and have spread to all cities). I'll go start another thread on how awesome American food is one day, probably in /ck/. Do you not get any of those shows where they go around America introducing you to all the amazing cuisines we have, both American and International? We also have shows where they go internationally and look at all the great food other countries have, you never see Germany featured
But even if you want to get rid of all the American food, the sheer number of International food you have here is amazing, and Germany doesn't make the cut (now the beer, yes)
Levi Bell
>very good people lol, if we were good people we wouldnt have >awesome politicians as awesome as they are.
>great culture Not much left of it but I wont bash it >nice cinema l o l Pls examples
Hanseatic League I have heard of because that is where Lufthansa got it's name (hansa). I don't see how that has anything to do with German culture today as that was 1358-1450. I mean you guys like to tease Americans about being /MUH heritage/ fags but we aren't that embarrassing
if you go down to Modern Hanseatic connections, they have: >Despite its collapse, several cities still maintained the link to the Hanseatic League. Dutch cities including Groningen, Deventer, Kampen, Zutphen and Zwolle, and a number of German cities including Bremen, Demmin, Greifswald, Hamburg, Lübeck, Lüneburg, Rostock, Stade, Stralsund and Wismar still call themselves Hanse cities (their car license plates are prefixed H, e.g. –HB– for "Hansestadt Bremen"). Hamburg and Bremen continue to style themselves officially as "free Hanseatic cities", with Lübeck named "Hanseatic City" (Rostock's football team is named F.C. Hansa Rostock in memory of the city's trading past). For Lübeck in particular, this anachronistic tie to a glorious past remained especially important in the 20th century.
>The legacy of the Hansa is remembered today in several names: the German airline Lufthansa (i.e., "Air Hansa"); F.C. Hansa Rostock; the Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Groningen, in the Netherlands; the Hanze oil production platform (also in the Netherlands); the Hansa Brewery in Bergen; the Hansabank in the Baltic states (now known as Swedbank); and the Hanse Sail in Rostock. DDG Hansa was a major German shipping company from 1881 until its bankruptcy in 1980. There are two museums in Europe dedicated specifically to the history of the Hanseatic League: the European Hansemuseum in Lübeck and the Hanseatic Museum and Schotstuene in Bergen.
german cinema is dead since the 20s and only produces shoddy imitations smothered by an institutionalised incompetency fueled and protected by taxmoney.
Luis Murphy
>trusting a serb
Logan Smith
outside of England, is there anyone in Europe who still has a notable film industry? I wonder if there is a way to get countries like Germany a good film industry again, that would be nice
When it comes to watching movies in German, like when you go to the movie theaters, what movies do they offer/do Germans watch?
Kevin Peterson
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Dominic Green
Recent productions that were filmed and co-produced ,in Babelsberg:
>V for Vendetta, Captain America: Civil War, Æon Flux, The Bourne Ultimatum, Valkyrie, Inglourious Basterds, Cloud Atlas, The Grand Budapest Hotel and The Hunger Games, The Monuments Men, G.I. Joe: Retaliation, The International, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
Ian Rivera
Babylon Berlin is a noteworthy too.
Gavin James
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Michael Turner
yes Americans and Brits film some of their movies in other countries but they are still American/British movies.
Here in my city, what we did to attract Hollywood to come film more movies in my city is that we gave then this huge tax breaks so we have a lot of movies filmed in my city now, its pretty common to walk around downtown and run into a big movie being filmed (which is weird because it wasn't like that before). As for the studios where they take that footage and produce it into a movie, that's probably mostly n Hollywood. Other places have studios too (we might even have one now for all I know, I would imagine NYC does. London definitely does: look at all the movies that were filmed just in Pinewood Studios in London:
Most of your food is fastfood/takeaway though. German fast food is decent but not that good (except for Currywurst and Matjesbrötchen). However if you like rustic and hearty food, German cuisine is one of the bests. Bavarian pork roast with beer sauce and dumplings and you are in heaven.
Camden Walker
>I wonder if there is a way to get countries like Germany a good film industry again Break state hegemony over cultural output, wait for harsher times so that the suffering might inspire higher art again.
It's actually the complete opposite. Hardly anyone eats at fast food/takaway places and it's crazy you think we do. For example, i just finished cooking lunch (salad: red cabbage, green cabbage, lettuce, carrots, bacon, onions and some pork i grilled). It was the same way growing up, my parents cooked all our food. As for going out to eat, that's very rare to go to a fast food/take out place because they suck compared to all the other options in your neighborhood that are the same price. For example, here are the options just in walking distance just in my neighborhood (give a sec and I'll write them out):
Matthew Cook
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Camden Nelson
>It's actually the complete opposite. Hardly anyone eats at fast food/takaway places and it's crazy you think we do. We are talking about the USA, right? I wasn't implying that Americans don't cook any of their own food or only eat at burger joints. But fast food restaurants are more widespread than in Europe and there is a reason why you have such a high rate of obesity in the USA. Many international known US dishes are fastt food too.
Owen Nelson
>Any average person will know Germany as "the country that single-handedly made Europe what it is today" Yeah. Weak, broken, demographically-polluted, soulless, afraid of nationalism and of sovereign nations, economically stagnant, existentially confused, over a century behind where it would otherwise be, more irrelevant on the world stage than it has ever been before, and totally at the mercy of foreign powers that Europe had and would otherwise still have had on a leash.
Easton Smith
>mercy of foreign powers that Europe had and would otherwise still have had on a leash. Germany isn't the reason you lost your colonial empire. And Europe is at the mercy of "foreign powers" at least since 1945. So get over it.
Mason Ross
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Landon Johnson
As for the area I live in, the people in my city would consider where i live to be a boring section of the city not worth visiting (and that's true). And in walking distance this is what i have:
I live in the middle of my neighborhood so all four corners are only 3 blocks from me, like a 5-10 minute walk to each
let's start with the NW corner: >salad place (basically everything they serve is a salad >upscale waffles place that is new. Not really sure what they offer. Only ate their once for breakfast >three nice coffee shops, one has a kitchen (the breakfast is really good) >sandwich shop that serves our local style of sandwiches (really good) etc >snowball stand >new American restaurant I haven't tried >two upscale pizza places (have a full menu, calzones, salads etc) >really nice cafe/deli that serves all kind of awesome home made food
That's just one corner. No fast food/take out places. The nearest fast food place going that way would be the Wendy's a few neighhorhoods over (for fast food/take out Wendy's is the only one that serves fresh beef and isn't total trash like McDonalds and Burger King).
now the next corner...
Jason Richardson
>Germany isn't the reason you lost your colonial empire The actions of Germany are essentially the reason all of Europe (and its colonial powers) lost its hegemony over the world. >And Europe is at the mercy of "foreign powers" at least since 1945 Yes. Exactly. That's exactly what I mean.
Christopher Rodriguez
now the NE corner: >Vietnamese restaurant >Japanese restaurant >American restaurant (mom and pop) >upscale italian restaurant >two upscale local restaurants serving our local cuisine >a nice little mom and pop place that has pizza, sandwiches, salads, etc Chain restaurants: >a donut shop that does serve fast food/take out >a fast food/take out place that focuses on fried chicken and southern-style bisquits, green beans, rice, potato salad etc >a Smoothie King
now the next corner (note i might be forgetting some stuff)...
Matthew Phillips
oh i forgot about the two Chinese places, both mom and pop. So that's two Chinese places, one Vietnamese, one Japanese on that corner. You also have a grocery store there were you go to get most of your food
as for the SW corner of my neighborhood: >Vietamese restaurant (one of the most popular in the area) >Oriental market (run by Asians like all the Asian places) Chain restaurants: Subway (sandwiches and salads) there used to be a Burger King but it went out of business because Burger King sucks. Now my closest Burger King is miles away
also two grocery stores (where you go to get most of your food)
as for the last corner...
Owen Carter
as for the SE corner of my neighborhood: >really nice coffee shop that serves our local style of coffee and our local style of dessert >Japanese restaurant (i love this one, it's really nice but inexpensive) >Korean restaurant >Chinese restaurant >Indian restaurant (really good) >Vietmanese restaurant (my favorite one by me) >local bakery >French bakery and cafe (also has Vietnamese, i know weird) >Cuban restaurant (one yeah, i also have a Cuban market on one of the other corners that has good Cuban sandwiches) >seafood restaurant >American restaurant (mom and pop) >New York style pizza place (mom and pop) >etc
chain restaurants >Taco Bell >Panera Bread >Hooters >italian chain >seafood/steak chain >another fast food/take out place that focuses on fried chicken and southern-style bisquits, green beans, rice, potato salad etc >chicken wing place
No McDonalds or Burger Kings! No Walmarts either!
Ian Rodriguez
What does German sound like with a english or Austarlian accent?
Wyatt Allen
literally all of this is wrong, except for the economy part.
Julian Thomas
we pronounce the "r" sounds like aussies (eg. bigger = bigga etc)
Luke Hall
WEWUZEMPIRENSHEIT? Should've won WK I completely back then or stumped out Hitler back when he was still weak.
>Yes. Exactly. That's exactly what I mean. Maybe the USA and Russia are just bigger countries than most European states? And this would have probably happend even if there wasn't any WK I.
Luis Cox
Sounds good. But is your town the typical town in the USA? When I visited the USA most small towns either had some McDonald's, diners or Mexican/Italian fasfood joints.
Elijah Jones
>if you didn't want Germany to destroy Europe you should have destroyed Germany first yeah again, you're not wrong
James Gutierrez
>Germany is so interesting and exciting that everybody, even the Swedish or the French (well-known for their lack of immigration) want to live there
I don't think this is true, I'm pretty sure the number who move to Germany are really low since nobody knows german anymore. Everyone can speak English, so most people move to UK, USA, then Norway or Denmark.
Hudson Robinson
where did you visit?
Isaiah Watson
Overstretched Nationalism and the dynamic it caused pre-1914 isn't only Germany's fault. Most European countries willingly took part in it. And because Germany wasn't completly defeated and most European countries where to lazy to make sure the Weimar Republic survives, it is there own fault.
Gabriel Wilson
I think the obesity rate in America is way overblown. If you're fat, you're going to get teased in school your whole life because there aren't a lot of fat people. We play a lot of sports and are very active
When you go to college, they have something call the "freshman 15" or whatever, meaning some people (myself included) put on 10-15 pounds when they get to college because they don't have their parents cooking for them and don't know how to cook or eat right now that they are away from home. But this doesn't happen to many people. You don't see a lot of fat people in college
Where you start to see that fat people is among the older people with desk job, people aged 30, 40, 50 that have desk jobs so they aren't exercising anymore like when they were young. To get around that you just need to work out (weighs) and do cardio (run, ride your bike). A lot of older people with desk jobs exercies and don't get fat. it's the the older people with desk job who aren't exercising that get fat and there are a lot like that
as for food, you are way off. I realize that you guys only get American chain restaurants over there so i can understand why you think that is all America has. Its not like you have a lot of Americans moving out of America and cooking all the various American styles of food for you
Julian Scott
East Coast and West Coast. Drived from town to town and stayed there one night each time (big and small ones). I enjoyed the US and wish to visit someday again.
Kevin Evans
>I realize that you guys only get American chain restaurants over there so i can understand why you think that is all America has. I know there is more to US cuisine than McDonald's and Taco Bell. But I was under the impression that most restaurants I saw at the USA weren't of the good-and-healthy-variant. Also most international known dishes from the USA are rather unhealthy (although pretty tasty).
And I think you got a point that the life style of desk jobs and obesity are linked. But they are also conntected to the consumption of fast food and junk food. For the same reason obesity rates in Europe are strongly increasing. People often lack the skill of cooking or are to stressed out/lazy to cook after work.
>Its not like you have a lot of Americans moving out of America and cooking all the various American styles of food for you I live in a big German city so there has been some influx in the last years. But in general you are right. But to be fair most expats and native people from Germany don't care about good German food. So it is quite hard to get really good German food even in Germany if you aren't in Bavaria or staying with a German family.
Luke Jenkins
well this is what I do whenever I move to a new neighborhood, when am in a part of town I'm not familiar with, or when i'm in a different town...
Yes, when you're in a place you're not familar with, the McDonalds and other chain restaurants and fast food places will stick out at you. That's why I use:
1. Google maps - you can type in food, restaurants, chinese, or whatever and you'll see a bunch of places to eat you had no idea were right there by you 2. same concept but even better (from my experience) is apps/sites such as Yelp and Tripadvisor. They are sites where people have taken pics of the restaurants in your area and the food they serve, the menu, etc...give it a rating, and review it. The good places are going to have tons of reviews. The McDonalds and shit will have like 8 reviews, all full of people bitching about how terrible it is lol. With an app like that, you just type in your location and it will give you a ton of places to eat right by you that you didn't even notice or now where there that aren't shitty McDonalds and such
and yes i've been to places where it was like "this sucks just a bunch of chain restaurants" but then by using the above to i see that "oh, there is a shit ton of other stuff right here too that i didn't see that is actually good"
Xavier Stewart
Deutschland ist das schönste und großartigste Land der Erde.
Grayson Peterson
thank you
Thomas Morales
To be honest, if I would visit today I would stick with these apps or Google Maps. Back then smartphones weren't that much a thing. In Germany most people only use Google Maps, Yelp and Tripadvisor have fallen back someway.
At one point of the trip we had to stay overnight in a small town unplanned. Went to a local steak house there and I ate the best steak in my life.
