Most people call us arrogant, because we are raised to have an opinion and to stand up. If you dont want an answer dont ask us a question. And we separate daily life from our life with friends. It´s very simple.
What are the germans like what are the british like what are the dutch like...BULLSHIT AT ALL, we´re all people who live in one continent, british,german,dutch,french,spanish,italian and so on, Ich gebe einen Dreck auf Vorurteile!!!
I've lived among the french for ten years, and they are shit. Anyone that thinks the french are friendly doesn't have a clue about them. A bunch of stinky, arrogant ultranationalistic douche bags the french. The Germans are infinitely better than the former
What a question, put out there to cause apprehension, tension and dissention! Any group of people will fall on a distribution of characteristics, so putting labels on a group will always not describe huge numbers of them. As the one wise person in the video said, "Stereotypes."
I am a German who lived abroad for many years and I think Germans are oftentimes arrogant, unfriendly, short-tempered and brusk. No wonder there is no service culture in this country like in the US or UK. However, Germans tend to be also more frank than the Brits and the Americans and usually will give you their honest opinion about sth instead of beating around the bush and engaging in small talk. I never thought national stereotypes were true, but to some extent they actually are :)
Yeah, that's true. Nobody has no sense of humour. There ain't even no such thing so how could anyone have it, right? I also think that the Czechs are the ugliest bastards in the world but at least they have got some sense of humour AND marijuana is practically legal in Czechia even if it's still a bit illegal, so they are cool. They also have Václav Klaus which is cool, too, by the way it's pronounced "vah-tsluff". Lear some Czech before you start picking on the good ol Germans!!!
Yeah, that's true, I think that nobody really has no sense of humour. I also think that the bloody Czechs are even worse. But at least they have got some sense of humour AND marijuana is practically legal in Czechia, even if it's still a bit illegal there, so they are cool. They also have Václav Klaus which is cool, too, by the way it's pronounced "vah-tsluff". Learn some Czech before you start picking on my friends the Germans! I don't get it! Was I being sarcastic or what? Yes.
@HLPaulJ I agree with you, it´s the language and how the language sound in foreign ears. I am german and i never understood why other countries thought we would be arrogant, till i watched an old charly chaplin movie were he spoke in fake german. His words didn´t make sense but it sounded very rude and arrogant. For me british english sound very arrogant too but when i learned it and understood it the language ( or the accent ) changed. So it´s about knowing a language....
Stereotyoes. Some have a good portion of truth in them and some are thoroughly false. Germans are mostly nice and obliging people, just tend to have a reserved attitude towards strangers, which is why most visitors would say we are cold. Get to know us better and I tell you we will open up. As for the rude ones, well, there are dicks in any country, but they are the minority and will grow up eventually. Want to get along with a German? Be kind to him and he'll be kind to you. It's that simple :)
Your comment is very interesting. I've studied German for about two years and have some German friends, but I've never thought about the language that way before. I tried to explain to one German friend why Germans might be thought of as arrogant or haughty. She understood my point, but when I asked her "why do Germans sometimes say things that way?" she couldn't explain why. she said she honestly didn't know. So thanks for giving me a possible answer.
I'am positive surprised of the British People. Thank you for your all in all friendly answers. From your newspapers we hear to much the Panzer, Blitzkrieg and Hunns, but I got to correction because this we hear from our -Sun- called - Bild-. Same stupid shit.And for the guys which discuss what English, Dutch and other German - old German people come from, read Des Teufels General...The Devils General from Dürrenmatt. Who knows how many mixtures Europe was made from ? Not me....as a german.
@GermanAuthority so the angles and the saxons were not germanic tribes because you say so? lol on that basis i can say the chinese are not asians. May i suggest you change your name as your current name really dont suit you.
whilst part of what you say is correct the rest is wrong the closest language spoken toady is Frisian which is spoken in north holland. Whilst we have the same stucture as the french language we share more words with the german language. We share very little in common with celtic languages you would know this if you had heard them spoken.
@GermanAuthority Nothing in common? English is a Germanic language. They have plenty in common, i.e hand, arm, finger, haus (house), maus (mouse) all pronounced the same and have the same meaning. Stupid statement from you more like!
@GermanAuthority Okay, at the time of the migration Angeln was a part of Denmark. If you believe i have something else that is wrong, please do enlighten me.
@GermanAuthority During the American war of independence Britain employed many many Germans to go there and fight on the side of the British. After the war many many Germans stayed there, so yes, there are many Americans who do have the right to call themselves German.
@MsPsychophil Judging from the age of the video, I would venture to guess this was a few years after the Berlin Wall came down or possibly when the decision was at hand to join or not join the European Union... That's what I'm gathering..
It was a great country to visit and I had no problem with them. The one problem I did have with a few of them ironically happend here in the States. They were arrogant and I almost punched one and really wanted to go Audie Murphy on him. If you don't know about Audie Murphy, look him up and then you will know what I meant. But like every country, you get good and bad.
quite interesting that the british have a better opinion about us than the americans, I always thought that its vice versa, because british cities burned and not americans.
everyone who have met some of my folks said nothing bad about us, thats great. someone below me claimed, that germans are ver proud, but I think its the exact opposite (or we barely show that we're proud),
I took it the other way. To me it seemed the people with British accents were the ones who said "Arrogant". I don't recall any responses from American accented speakers saying that. A couple said "a little confused now". What were they referring to? Is there currently some turmoil there?
I like Germany its a clean country, with no litter on the streets. Not like the UK the streets are filled with litter and chewing gum. I also like German beer.
Germans give me the impresion that they are boring, self-centered and live on the same wavelength. They are also hard-working folk with no life, but they are emotional and not all are racists and anti-semitic monsters. They have a good side too, discipline and many children have golden-blond hair, blue eyes.
What kind of Germans are they thinking of? Northerners? Southerners? Ossis? Wessis? Swiss? What, exactly, is a German? A Bavarian and a Prussian, for example, are quite different and should never be confused.
@eduardite she is not the only one, the guy on the beach reacts similar. but i guess the answer to your question is pretty obvious. she doesn't dare to say what she thinks in front of the cam.
i cant speak very friendly and welcoming with all the nations.ok organised civilizated are suitable,serious,but they are machine like or they keep out the beautiful part of things.i had a boyfriend there and shortly after my turn in Romania, he was prisoned for stealing robbery, thief.imagine how i felt.ok we all mistake but was a weird situation,too misterious persons they hiden so much things.
Great idea to ask english people about us germans!!! Maybe you ask better the jewish people or the polish or - the Austrians!
THE germans do not exist, but I would agree: we are stiff, arrogant, (cranky-)precise, efficient in comparison to our neighbours - and thats the point: we are not like the drunk-danish, the inventious-polish, the fierce-bohemians, the selfloving-french or the nazi-austrians. We are that crap history made of us
And thats typical for this kind of historic relations! I never met any german who did actually hate the swiss... indeed, they are slower and more self-comforted, but theres no way for a german to hate them. At least, their assumptions or image of germans derives from our tourists: fat, loud and annoying to the whole surrounding of their holidays - thank GOD, those people go out on vacation in stead of coming to my beautyful city.
Your videos are very useful. Thanks for your videos. But some videos don't have subtitles. We are not able to follow them. Can you provide the videos with subtitles. Bye. Take care.
cette vidéo est tellement bête, les stéréotypes des allemands sont fous! j'aime bien les allemands, et les français? nous ne sommes pas du tout gentils...haha
les americans et les anglais...les deux ne savent rien!
Interesting to see, yet senseless. Most participants only tell stereotypes and prejudices. Best example: "I don't know any, but they are very arrogant." What's the basis for that comment?
normally you always see americans telling german stereotypes up and down so it's quite joyful to see that the britains are way more open minded and ... ye i dont like to say that but...more intelligent. respect from germany!
I am german and it´s very interesting to hear what other people think about us. Everytime I asked someone the said thinks like "Lederhose" and "Sauerkraut".
But the problem is that many peolpe around the world think, that everyone in a country is like they think, everyboby is unique.
@MrAaahh1 your not! I'm half german half american! I mean my dad's side german but anyway but their nice helpfull people never arrogant! I mean it seems to mean when ever your lets say oh Spain and a spanish person went on youtube and said ppl from another country was arrogant well how does that make Spain look? you know?
@MrAaahh1 your not! I'm half german half american! I mean my dad's side german but anyway but their nice helpfull people never arrogant! I mean it seems to mean when ever your lets say oh Spain and a spanish person went on youtube and said ppl from another country was arrogant well how does that make Spain look? you know?
I'm German and I'm everything they said I was. haha! Although I don't think that there's a huuuuge difference between Germans and the British. After all we're kind of related to each other...
just want to say something about the stereotype "germans are rude / not friendly or whatever":
Actually we are not more or less friendly than the rest of the world, we are just more reserved than others. It seems to be part of our mentality. If you have the time to get to know us, you will be surprised. In a positive way.
People who say "germans are rude" never really got to know one. Or met one of the black sheeps.
lol patriotisch.....die meisten deutschen schämen sich nur für die vergangenheit und denken sie wären nazis, wenn sie ne deutschland flagge hissen, ohne dass gerade ne wm läuft.....ich für meinen teil bin patriot, aber damit steh ich fast alleine da....
@me0and0my0rejects This vid showed mostly stereotypes. You can't label all Americans as ignorant or all British as very, very polite, as well- but that's the all-round picture that everyone has and it seems horribly hilarious to me ;D
seems like the people who have actually been to germany and met the people, always have to say nice things about germans. the other ones probably haven't met any german, ever.
Been to Germany a few times and found them friendly, helpful and generally decent people. The french are the oppisite. My two favourite countries to visit on mainland europe are Germany and Spain. Nice people.
Very interesting. Many of the Europeans who were interviewed preceded their comments by saying that they didn't actually know any Germans. Whereas, most of the Americans jumped in with an immediate assessment. Funny to hear the Americans say that they were "German"...and all give the same answer. :~)
@Gaeladore :: Yeah, Americans are funny that way. When Americans ask me if I am Italian, they are thinking of my ancestors - in my case, 4 teeanagers who all arrived from Italy in 1912 and 1913, i.e., my 4 grandparents who I never knew. This makes me "Italian", but I only speak French as a 2nd language.
@realenglish1 yeah that pisses me off how many americans claim to be 'irish' or 'italian' or whatever when they were born and bred in america, ive never understood why they do that.
@dellboid just imagine you live in a country where there was "no culture" (leaving the natives out) some hundred years ago. you'll feel the need to find your roots. and many americans never leave the US so when they are amongst each other, it's enough to say "i'm half irish, 10 percent italian and so on". that's my theory.
@Gaeladore Americans may call themselves Germans in an ethnic way. My ethnicity is Irish and Dutch, but my nationality is American. The only ethnic Americans are the Natives.
@Gaeladore There is a very good reason for this that Europeans sometimes dont realize. In America, even after a cultural group has been "Americanized" and has lost their original language, they have tendencies they keep, and in some ways they are more noticeable because we have so many sub-cultures to compare it to.
true result genetics give Saxon the inhabitants of islands for visible 80 % to France to Bretons and basques with R-M167 / SRY2627 AND R-L21 / M222 and for about 10 % in with R-U106 / L11* and about indigenous European 10 % I2a.
they never say how we, the germans, really are....but you can't say anything general about "the germans", because you cannot judge people by the country they live in :P
Would be interesting to see what these people thing nowadays :D
I went to Germany a few years ago, and I found the people very friendly and the culture wonderful. They are gentle and welcoming: they try hard to overcome their stereotype, and I love everything about them.
@RCD503 that is so nice to hear, sometimes I really worry about the picture other people have about us, but I think, Europe has changed and with it the picture about us. :)
American English is hopelessly corrupted. Words can mean whatever one wants them to mean. Read any corporate memo, listen to any denizen of the ghetto, watch a political show, overhear the awful butchered English in the shopping malls. Ideas of any weight cannot be carried by American English. Attention spans are short because the mind is overloaded from translating the endless slang, euphemisms, and political jargon into usable thoughts for conversation. The Tower of Babel rises again!
I see what your saying and I agree to an extent. But the butchering of English is largely a cultural affair. Blacks tend to make up words on a daily basis, while most every other race sticks to the structured language yet creates the occasional slang word in relation to some sort of event/inside joke/likeness/etc.
English is a "living language," it's constantly evolving, gaining new words and addition meanings (continued)
to existing words, which is kind of cool, but it doesn't work if you're not "in the loop." For example: "Yo dawg, spit dat goo' shit on me ma'" would be offensive to anyone who doesn't know that means "tell me some good news."
I hate that it's a sincere waste of the greatest language in existence.
English is also really cool because it has bits of many other (probably every) languages in it. Though it's primarily Germanic, it has Latin, Slavic, etc. influence as well.
Most people call us arrogant, because we are raised to have an opinion and to stand up. If you dont want an answer dont ask us a question. And we separate daily life from our life with friends. It´s very simple.
cyreander 1 week ago
so american our loud where loud oh wow
bluebella951 2 weeks ago
4:16 what? doing their native sport scatplay?
kcuskcid0 2 weeks ago
im a germand and NOT arrogant
xhouxtenx 4 weeks ago
sagt eddi der in der stadt als ritter rumrennt
spreewaldgurke23 1 month ago
What are the germans like what are the british like what are the dutch like...BULLSHIT AT ALL, we´re all people who live in one continent, british,german,dutch,french,spanish,italian and so on, Ich gebe einen Dreck auf Vorurteile!!!
DeWe3107 2 months ago
Bill should have cleaned his teeth they are hell yellow =P
MultiEmily11 2 months ago
Bill is right.
ReviewYourChoices75 3 months ago
@1:05 wot are germans lyk? strtait :D lol gotta luv german accent
babyfac20 3 months ago
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what are the 90s like? you see it in this video...
Holowachuk 3 months ago
2 words: Anglo Saxons!
We Germans are your Mother and Father!
PPL who was in Germany are loving us! All other are just stupid and never talked to one!
oXbOxr00X 4 months ago 4
@oXbOxr00X
english people have nothing to do with anglo-saxons
north germans and danes are anglo-saxons
english people are a mix of french and spaniards
EuthanasiaForPoles 1 week ago
Love the comment @ 5:56 So true.
garyc2 5 months ago
Es ist sehr interessant, wie stereotyp Deutsche gesehen werden...it is interesting how stereotypically Germans are considered...
Otonosekai 5 months ago
@noob10192 that's great you noob
sonnetxi 6 months ago
@noob10192 do you have that on video
Germtalia 6 months ago
...in first line we are Europeans and Friends....love and respekt and nice greetings from Lüneburg Germany
TRASH1965 7 months ago 2
and what are brits like? imperalist dutch bags
birdmanswag 7 months ago
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Susan says everything we are not...
schiggi1988 7 months ago
Germans like chuck norris jokes and breadrolls....
steunitpassword 7 months ago
@noob10192 Take in a step into my shower, my foreign friend ;)
rysn09 7 months ago 2
@noob10192
you're just not a person one should take seriously. stupid comments that create racism, and that the world doesn't need. just stop talking!
anjaraeubertochter 7 months ago
can you imagine if these people went around asking what the Jews are like?? they'd probably be arrested!
hegelets 7 months ago
Obvious racism just boggles my mind. Can these people not hear themselves talk?
chremes 7 months ago
"not as friendly as the french" :DD haha good joke !
FcBayerin 7 months ago
@FcBayerin
I've lived among the french for ten years, and they are shit. Anyone that thinks the french are friendly doesn't have a clue about them. A bunch of stinky, arrogant ultranationalistic douche bags the french. The Germans are infinitely better than the former
shitonMOHAMMAD 7 months ago
What a question, put out there to cause apprehension, tension and dissention! Any group of people will fall on a distribution of characteristics, so putting labels on a group will always not describe huge numbers of them. As the one wise person in the video said, "Stereotypes."
greengringo2003 8 months ago
I am a German who lived abroad for many years and I think Germans are oftentimes arrogant, unfriendly, short-tempered and brusk. No wonder there is no service culture in this country like in the US or UK. However, Germans tend to be also more frank than the Brits and the Americans and usually will give you their honest opinion about sth instead of beating around the bush and engaging in small talk. I never thought national stereotypes were true, but to some extent they actually are :)
Ilsimeone 8 months ago
also, germans have no sense of humour.
sidewinderAUT 8 months ago
@sidewinderAUT
Yeah, that's true. Nobody has no sense of humour. There ain't even no such thing so how could anyone have it, right? I also think that the Czechs are the ugliest bastards in the world but at least they have got some sense of humour AND marijuana is practically legal in Czechia even if it's still a bit illegal, so they are cool. They also have Václav Klaus which is cool, too, by the way it's pronounced "vah-tsluff". Lear some Czech before you start picking on the good ol Germans!!!
bortlikjaroslav 8 months ago
@sidewinderAUT
Yeah, that's true, I think that nobody really has no sense of humour. I also think that the bloody Czechs are even worse. But at least they have got some sense of humour AND marijuana is practically legal in Czechia, even if it's still a bit illegal there, so they are cool. They also have Václav Klaus which is cool, too, by the way it's pronounced "vah-tsluff". Learn some Czech before you start picking on my friends the Germans! I don't get it! Was I being sarcastic or what? Yes.
jakubbcz 8 months ago
The people in the vid, wich said bad things about the germans never met any before, i think.
MrJoe000097 8 months ago 11
Hmm Germans think that we swedes are abit to organized :)
TinyArts 8 months ago
The biggest group of americans with european ancestry are actually of german origin. Interesting facts
TinyArts 8 months ago 2
Cindy is fat and ugly,
wonder what she'd feel if she was black LOL
GreatBlueKnight 8 months ago
@HLPaulJ I agree with you, it´s the language and how the language sound in foreign ears. I am german and i never understood why other countries thought we would be arrogant, till i watched an old charly chaplin movie were he spoke in fake german. His words didn´t make sense but it sounded very rude and arrogant. For me british english sound very arrogant too but when i learned it and understood it the language ( or the accent ) changed. So it´s about knowing a language....
mirco1205 8 months ago
dependabel... well just take e ride with the german railways and u see thats not realy true XP
mrsebumatica 8 months ago
@mrsebumatica only someone from switzerland could say that...oh wait.
but after all our railways is still amongst the "most dependable". i'm fine with it.
iwantahat 8 months ago
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@iwantahat
"is still amongst the "most dependable". .. ok lassen wir gelten XD
mrsebumatica 8 months ago
Stereotyoes. Some have a good portion of truth in them and some are thoroughly false. Germans are mostly nice and obliging people, just tend to have a reserved attitude towards strangers, which is why most visitors would say we are cold. Get to know us better and I tell you we will open up. As for the rude ones, well, there are dicks in any country, but they are the minority and will grow up eventually. Want to get along with a German? Be kind to him and he'll be kind to you. It's that simple :)
19TruthBeTold83 9 months ago 3
@HLPaulJ Very informative. Thank you.
ParrhesiaJoe 9 months ago
@PureBredGerman i'm swedish, Jag är svensk :D
12345678909269 9 months ago
Your comment is very interesting. I've studied German for about two years and have some German friends, but I've never thought about the language that way before. I tried to explain to one German friend why Germans might be thought of as arrogant or haughty. She understood my point, but when I asked her "why do Germans sometimes say things that way?" she couldn't explain why. she said she honestly didn't know. So thanks for giving me a possible answer.
@HLPaulJ
SilviaBritt 10 months ago
I'am positive surprised of the British People. Thank you for your all in all friendly answers. From your newspapers we hear to much the Panzer, Blitzkrieg and Hunns, but I got to correction because this we hear from our -Sun- called - Bild-. Same stupid shit.And for the guys which discuss what English, Dutch and other German - old German people come from, read Des Teufels General...The Devils General from Dürrenmatt. Who knows how many mixtures Europe was made from ? Not me....as a german.
sundance069 10 months ago
@Kamal900 Dutch is very similiar to german
12345678909269 10 months ago
@GermanAuthority so the angles and the saxons were not germanic tribes because you say so? lol on that basis i can say the chinese are not asians. May i suggest you change your name as your current name really dont suit you.
Skyswinger 10 months ago
@GermanAuthority
R1b is higher in Bulgaria than in Poland
R1a is lowest in the Balkans in Albanians & The Albanians are the biggest closers in the Balkans
R1a is highest in the British Isles in Scotland & The Scots are the most superior in the British Isles
R1a is lowest in Iberia in Basques & Basques are the biggest losersi n Iberia
R1a is lowest in Scandanavia in Finland & the Finns are the biggest losers in Scandanavia
6Sterben6Sterben6 10 months ago
@GermanAuthority
Germans are mostly R1b haplogroup like Spaniards, Italians, Portuguese, English, French ect
ITalians have more R1b than Germans
Spaniards have more R1b than English or Dutch do
R1b people are not white people
You are Arabs
If not for Slavic genes Germans would look just like Italians
Germans look pretty close to Italians as is
6Sterben6Sterben6 10 months ago
@GermanAuthority
German language, Facial features & R1b haplogroup is much more like the Dutch than Swedes
Swedes are more like us Slavs in looks & genes that is why they have more R1a than R1b
6Sterben6Sterben6 10 months ago
@GermanAuthority
Both in person & Online I have alot more trouble telling Dutch from German than German from Swedish.
Dutch looks alot like German in spelling & sounds quite a bit like it
6Sterben6Sterben6 10 months ago
@GermanAuthority
So you don't understand English?
So do you use google translate?
6Sterben6Sterben6 10 months ago
@GermanAuthority
German is certainly much closer to Dutch than to Swedish language.
YOu love near the Danish border you probably speak alot of Scandanavian
6Sterben6Sterben6 10 months ago
@GermanAuthority
English is a Germanic language closest to Dutch,
But, It is not fully Germanic it is partially Latin Based with some French in it too.
But, Then again so is German when you compare German to Swedish you can see German is also much closer to Latin Languages as well.
6Sterben6Sterben6 10 months ago
@6Sterben6Sterben6
no its closest to frisian
eaststandred 10 months ago
@eaststandred
Yeah English is closest to Frisian but Frisian is really a dutch language
6Sterben6Sterben6 10 months ago
@6Sterben6Sterben6 When I went to school I had a few Frisian lessons Frisian sounds a little bit like Enlish
Domenek82 10 months ago
@6Sterben6Sterben6 NO !!! Dutch is an unique language !...Frisian is another Germanic language !!!
Domenek82 10 months ago
The SIL Ethnologue lists 53 different Germanic languages.
Number of native speakers: 560 million
Total speakers: 2 billion
AntiXxISLAMxXGeRmAnY 9 months ago 2
@eaststandred the English Language is closest to the Frisian Language
Domenek82 10 months ago
@Domenek82
thats what I said
eaststandred 10 months ago
@GermanAuthority
whilst part of what you say is correct the rest is wrong the closest language spoken toady is Frisian which is spoken in north holland. Whilst we have the same stucture as the french language we share more words with the german language. We share very little in common with celtic languages you would know this if you had heard them spoken.
eaststandred 10 months ago
@GermanAuthority Call it what you want mate. But they have plenty in common!
grainger2295 10 months ago
@GermanAuthority Nothing in common? English is a Germanic language. They have plenty in common, i.e hand, arm, finger, haus (house), maus (mouse) all pronounced the same and have the same meaning. Stupid statement from you more like!
grainger2295 10 months ago
@GermanAuthority well tell me about it then?
Skyswinger 10 months ago
@GermanAuthority Okay, at the time of the migration Angeln was a part of Denmark. If you believe i have something else that is wrong, please do enlighten me.
Skyswinger 10 months ago
@GermanAuthority During the American war of independence Britain employed many many Germans to go there and fight on the side of the British. After the war many many Germans stayed there, so yes, there are many Americans who do have the right to call themselves German.
Skyswinger 10 months ago
@MsPsychophil Judging from the age of the video, I would venture to guess this was a few years after the Berlin Wall came down or possibly when the decision was at hand to join or not join the European Union... That's what I'm gathering..
ryapickinup 10 months ago 2
@ryapickinup well Germany was cofounder of the EU in 1954
MrWraxter 10 months ago
I miss Germany was there for three years ;) I had good old time there and enjoyed the architecture. The coolest thing about Germany is the people.
123GlobalFailures 11 months ago 2
It was a great country to visit and I had no problem with them. The one problem I did have with a few of them ironically happend here in the States. They were arrogant and I almost punched one and really wanted to go Audie Murphy on him. If you don't know about Audie Murphy, look him up and then you will know what I meant. But like every country, you get good and bad.
Dietpepsivanilla 11 months ago
americans FAIL
hcvang 11 months ago
Not French
130panzerlehr 11 months ago
quite interesting that the british have a better opinion about us than the americans, I always thought that its vice versa, because british cities burned and not americans.
everyone who have met some of my folks said nothing bad about us, thats great. someone below me claimed, that germans are ver proud, but I think its the exact opposite (or we barely show that we're proud),
MrWraxter 11 months ago
@MrWraxter
I took it the other way. To me it seemed the people with British accents were the ones who said "Arrogant". I don't recall any responses from American accented speakers saying that. A couple said "a little confused now". What were they referring to? Is there currently some turmoil there?
TheVille1980 11 months ago
@TheVille1980 The video looks not up to date, maybe it was filmed in the early 90s after reunification?!?!
MrWraxter 11 months ago
"There are not bad at football - unfortunately."
Yessss!
:-)
TheBahnhofskino 11 months ago
Germans are not very emotional ?? I think they're they just don't show it^^
AtheneSelene 1 year ago
I like Germany its a clean country, with no litter on the streets. Not like the UK the streets are filled with litter and chewing gum. I also like German beer.
WAYNE1977100 1 year ago
Hooray for stereotyping? Of course no two people are the same even if they come from the same country.
MeinAufschnitt 1 year ago
Germans give me the impresion that they are boring, self-centered and live on the same wavelength. They are also hard-working folk with no life, but they are emotional and not all are racists and anti-semitic monsters. They have a good side too, discipline and many children have golden-blond hair, blue eyes.
amasonga 1 year ago
I sometimes Wonder, since there don`t seem to be negative Stereotypes, except the Nazithing and "Hairy" (which amused me).
ReezeGoingSenseless 1 year ago
What kind of Germans are they thinking of? Northerners? Southerners? Ossis? Wessis? Swiss? What, exactly, is a German? A Bavarian and a Prussian, for example, are quite different and should never be confused.
Audinos 1 year ago
as a german i love this :D
BeyondOrwell 1 year ago
@BeyondOrwell What do you think of the British?
WAYNE1977100 1 year ago
@WAYNE1977100
i don't like the english football fans (the loud aggressive drunken ones) but the rest of gb is ok i guess ^^
BeyondOrwell 1 year ago
I watched this video before and re-watched today,
I wonder why Maria (last person to be asked what are the Germans like) (I think she's russian) would say I won't comment on that?
Any ideas?
eduardite 1 year ago
@eduardite she is not the only one, the guy on the beach reacts similar. but i guess the answer to your question is pretty obvious. she doesn't dare to say what she thinks in front of the cam.
wuestenkamel 1 year ago
ummm does nayone remeber germany and england have been in good relations up till the world wars, any one remeber seven year war, rome, etc
SuperTravis898 1 year ago
We all should behave like germans.
OnceUponAtimeInLeb 1 year ago
Arrogant, Ignorant, eat to much, drink to much! Agressive robots, un-organized lazy!
sherp2u1 1 year ago
@sherp2u1 thanks...im german^^
souljalinchen 1 year ago
i cant speak very friendly and welcoming with all the nations.ok organised civilizated are suitable,serious,but they are machine like or they keep out the beautiful part of things.i had a boyfriend there and shortly after my turn in Romania, he was prisoned for stealing robbery, thief.imagine how i felt.ok we all mistake but was a weird situation,too misterious persons they hiden so much things.
diacony 1 year ago
the germans are like goethe, goebbels, merkel, hitler, schroder, wihlem II, strauss
fxPxx 1 year ago
@fxPxx
Do not forget Bach, Geiserich and Cajus Gracchus!
11Kralle 1 year ago
woher kommen diese Vorurteile...?-ich verstehe das nicht.-ich hab mich in ganz Europa rumgetrieben und ganz tolle Menschen kennen gelernt...überall !
Und Arschlöcher gibts immer immer....die sind nicht auszurotten.
TheRatsCompany 1 year ago 2
Great idea to ask english people about us germans!!! Maybe you ask better the jewish people or the polish or - the Austrians!
THE germans do not exist, but I would agree: we are stiff, arrogant, (cranky-)precise, efficient in comparison to our neighbours - and thats the point: we are not like the drunk-danish, the inventious-polish, the fierce-bohemians, the selfloving-french or the nazi-austrians. We are that crap history made of us
11Kralle 1 year ago
@11Kralle Or you ask swiss people. I few of them don´t like (or hate) germans .
Gott2070 1 year ago
@Gott2070
And thats typical for this kind of historic relations! I never met any german who did actually hate the swiss... indeed, they are slower and more self-comforted, but theres no way for a german to hate them. At least, their assumptions or image of germans derives from our tourists: fat, loud and annoying to the whole surrounding of their holidays - thank GOD, those people go out on vacation in stead of coming to my beautyful city.
11Kralle 1 year ago
2:50 mr. scott: "i ought not to say i think ..." :-D this is what i as a german imagine british humor to be.
qwertzu3 1 year ago
arrogant ? we are not arrogant , :-(
thats not fair
ianoderso 1 year ago
What are the Germans like?... Awsome
Cadillacboy2 1 year ago
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yeah stereostypes rock... great how everybody sees us xD
this video is a big epic #FAIL
Azrael261 1 year ago
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yeah stereostypes rock... great how everybody sees us xD
this video is a big epic #FAIL
Azrael261 1 year ago
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yeah stereostypes rock... great how everybody sees us xD
this video is a big epic #FAIL
Azrael261 1 year ago
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Azrael261 1 year ago
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40sreesai 1 year ago
haha emotionless and no sense of humor,......imagination.
TwistedTransistor88 1 year ago
cette vidéo est tellement bête, les stéréotypes des allemands sont fous! j'aime bien les allemands, et les français? nous ne sommes pas du tout gentils...haha
les americans et les anglais...les deux ne savent rien!
x0andxily0x 1 year ago
Interesting to see, yet senseless. Most participants only tell stereotypes and prejudices. Best example: "I don't know any, but they are very arrogant." What's the basis for that comment?
GoodFella2306 1 year ago
1) why wimen need support of their friends in order to have an opinion.
2) how the fuck somebody will be friendly if you dont give'em the chance to.
3) arrogant? from an english? that's stupid.
4) french are way colder than germs if we are doing steriotypes.
5) am not german.
6) sorry for my english.
TheLzeppelin68 1 year ago 8
It's funny to hear other people say we're proud and arrogant. I think that's what the most people in the world like. But I just want to say:
We're not emotionless or homorless, we aren't ;)
chicaMelia 1 year ago 2
normally you always see americans telling german stereotypes up and down so it's quite joyful to see that the britains are way more open minded and ... ye i dont like to say that but...more intelligent. respect from germany!
bleakjw 1 year ago
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I like German people, they are very nice.
sheilatakeabow1990 1 year ago
I am german and it´s very interesting to hear what other people think about us. Everytime I asked someone the said thinks like "Lederhose" and "Sauerkraut".
But the problem is that many peolpe around the world think, that everyone in a country is like they think, everyboby is unique.
PinkLemon411 1 year ago
@PinkLemon411
Not everybody in germany is a "Bayer" :-D
Hessen rocks!!!
p.s.: sry for my english!!!!
Sweettigerlilly 1 year ago 2
@Sweettigerlilly I am no "Bayer", but many people think that everybody in Germany is like a "Bayer"
PinkLemon411 1 year ago
@PinkLemon411
Thats right..... and I hate it :-(
Bayern is not Germany :-D the most german people don`t like Byern :-D
Sweettigerlilly 1 year ago
@Sweettigerlilly
Yeah, thats right =D
PinkLemon411 1 year ago
The Germans are hilarious people always making me laugh.
ItalianKid20 1 year ago
@ItalianKid20 I know I didn't at all agree on the person who said they're "humorless"... I think they have an excellent sense of humor! xD
odorobou 1 year ago
@ItalianKid20
You are always welcome to do so! Laugh your heart out - you seem to need it!
11Kralle 1 year ago
why do so many people think we're arrogant :D
MrAaahh1 1 year ago
@MrAaahh1 your not! I'm half german half american! I mean my dad's side german but anyway but their nice helpfull people never arrogant! I mean it seems to mean when ever your lets say oh Spain and a spanish person went on youtube and said ppl from another country was arrogant well how does that make Spain look? you know?
littlegirl6645 1 year ago
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@MrAaahh1 your not! I'm half german half american! I mean my dad's side german but anyway but their nice helpfull people never arrogant! I mean it seems to mean when ever your lets say oh Spain and a spanish person went on youtube and said ppl from another country was arrogant well how does that make Spain look? you know?
littlegirl6645 1 year ago
yes we are very arrogant and fucking nazis and all stuff like that :D
haha we are very nice and lazy !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! not busy
kickboxen1234 1 year ago
I'm German and I'm everything they said I was. haha! Although I don't think that there's a huuuuge difference between Germans and the British. After all we're kind of related to each other...
flx2525 1 year ago
just want to say something about the stereotype "germans are rude / not friendly or whatever":
Actually we are not more or less friendly than the rest of the world, we are just more reserved than others. It seems to be part of our mentality. If you have the time to get to know us, you will be surprised. In a positive way.
People who say "germans are rude" never really got to know one. Or met one of the black sheeps.
BlackBlade1986 1 year ago
lol patriotisch.....die meisten deutschen schämen sich nur für die vergangenheit und denken sie wären nazis, wenn sie ne deutschland flagge hissen, ohne dass gerade ne wm läuft.....ich für meinen teil bin patriot, aber damit steh ich fast alleine da....
TjinDeDjen 1 year ago 2
"what are the germans like?"....."genocidal maniacs..?!!."
delzottoj 1 year ago
Germans are just people.You cant just label them like this o.o.
me0and0my0rejects 1 year ago 4
@me0and0my0rejects This vid showed mostly stereotypes. You can't label all Americans as ignorant or all British as very, very polite, as well- but that's the all-round picture that everyone has and it seems horribly hilarious to me ;D
killi4manchara 1 year ago
seems like the people who have actually been to germany and met the people, always have to say nice things about germans. the other ones probably haven't met any german, ever.
Sicklehead88 1 year ago 2
Been to Germany a few times and found them friendly, helpful and generally decent people. The french are the oppisite. My two favourite countries to visit on mainland europe are Germany and Spain. Nice people.
samger02 1 year ago 5
Once in a year all German & Brits meet on Mallorca Island /Spain.
I'm not sure who drinks more beer and behaves worse there *lol*
HesseJamez 1 year ago
lol patriotic and confused wtf
ExtensiveAmusement 1 year ago
How dare they say we Germans have no emotion!
We show a whole lot of emotions:
- Hate
- Anger
- Rage
- Hate
wieselkopp 1 year ago 6
Very interesting. Many of the Europeans who were interviewed preceded their comments by saying that they didn't actually know any Germans. Whereas, most of the Americans jumped in with an immediate assessment. Funny to hear the Americans say that they were "German"...and all give the same answer. :~)
Gaeladore 1 year ago 2
@Gaeladore :: Yeah, Americans are funny that way. When Americans ask me if I am Italian, they are thinking of my ancestors - in my case, 4 teeanagers who all arrived from Italy in 1912 and 1913, i.e., my 4 grandparents who I never knew. This makes me "Italian", but I only speak French as a 2nd language.
realenglish1 1 year ago 3
@realenglish1 yeah that pisses me off how many americans claim to be 'irish' or 'italian' or whatever when they were born and bred in america, ive never understood why they do that.
dellboid 1 year ago
@dellboid just imagine you live in a country where there was "no culture" (leaving the natives out) some hundred years ago. you'll feel the need to find your roots. and many americans never leave the US so when they are amongst each other, it's enough to say "i'm half irish, 10 percent italian and so on". that's my theory.
iwantahat 1 year ago
@iwantahat you have a point, but for me they can dress it up as much as they want, theyre american and should be proud of it.
dellboid 1 year ago
@Gaeladore Americans may call themselves Germans in an ethnic way. My ethnicity is Irish and Dutch, but my nationality is American. The only ethnic Americans are the Natives.
mkf272 1 year ago
@Gaeladore There is a very good reason for this that Europeans sometimes dont realize. In America, even after a cultural group has been "Americanized" and has lost their original language, they have tendencies they keep, and in some ways they are more noticeable because we have so many sub-cultures to compare it to.
BigBadassR 10 months ago
Clean,hospitable,make good friends,blunt (in an oddly endearing way).
exeuroweenie 1 year ago
"arrogant ..very arrogant" .. "and you agree?" ... "yea i do, i never really met, so i don't know" .... #FAIL
sooperfukker 1 year ago 38
This is getting out of hand. I just removed a racist remark that made me sick.
realenglish1 1 year ago
@realenglish1 ikr i meant 2 vote up ahh
littlegirl6645 1 year ago
@realenglish1
true result genetics give Saxon the inhabitants of islands for visible 80 % to France to Bretons and basques with R-M167 / SRY2627 AND R-L21 / M222 and for about 10 % in with R-U106 / L11* and about indigenous European 10 % I2a.
polarisreseau 1 year ago
they never say how we, the germans, really are....but you can't say anything general about "the germans", because you cannot judge people by the country they live in :P
Would be interesting to see what these people thing nowadays :D
Barthoof 1 year ago
Good luck Germany! You doing very well at soccer!
amasonga 1 year ago
the beer part is right^^
waldbacher1886 1 year ago
After the World Cup in 2006 said many people - Oh. The Germans are humorous and very friendly.
asus575 1 year ago 2
@asus575
yeah, we tricked them all :-)
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CALIBoy412 1 year ago
I went to Germany a few years ago, and I found the people very friendly and the culture wonderful. They are gentle and welcoming: they try hard to overcome their stereotype, and I love everything about them.
RCD503 1 year ago 33
@RCD503 what a nice comment!
mitchells1988 1 year ago
@RCD503 that is so nice to hear, sometimes I really worry about the picture other people have about us, but I think, Europe has changed and with it the picture about us. :)
pizzaschachtel 1 year ago
"I think they kinda love themselves right now..."
"Could be a problem"
LOOOOOOOOL :D
NaruMikoo 1 year ago
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Bomben auf Engeland....
soeren1707 1 year ago
The Germans are like everyone else, only because of stupid stereotypes do people believe any different.
"Germans are arrogant, no YOU are dickwit".
ThreeLionsSam 1 year ago
@ThreeLionsSam good said my friend. i see that your footballfan. see u sunday if you know whta i mean^^ may the better one will win
jimtheripper 1 year ago
@jimtheripper
Look forward to it mate, good luck to us both!
ThreeLionsSam 1 year ago
Yapp.. I am confused :P
CAChab93 1 year ago
American English is hopelessly corrupted. Words can mean whatever one wants them to mean. Read any corporate memo, listen to any denizen of the ghetto, watch a political show, overhear the awful butchered English in the shopping malls. Ideas of any weight cannot be carried by American English. Attention spans are short because the mind is overloaded from translating the endless slang, euphemisms, and political jargon into usable thoughts for conversation. The Tower of Babel rises again!
InfiniteMushroom 1 year ago
@InfiniteMushroom
I see what your saying and I agree to an extent. But the butchering of English is largely a cultural affair. Blacks tend to make up words on a daily basis, while most every other race sticks to the structured language yet creates the occasional slang word in relation to some sort of event/inside joke/likeness/etc.
English is a "living language," it's constantly evolving, gaining new words and addition meanings (continued)
SKoGoMoney 1 year ago
@SKoGoMoney
to existing words, which is kind of cool, but it doesn't work if you're not "in the loop." For example: "Yo dawg, spit dat goo' shit on me ma'" would be offensive to anyone who doesn't know that means "tell me some good news."
I hate that it's a sincere waste of the greatest language in existence.
English is also really cool because it has bits of many other (probably every) languages in it. Though it's primarily Germanic, it has Latin, Slavic, etc. influence as well.
SKoGoMoney 1 year ago
Hilarious Clip, nowadays of course.
ReezeGoingSenseless 1 year ago
Ja ich bin Deutsche und es stimmt vieles was sie gesagt hab okay manches hab ich nicht verstanden aber ja vieles stimmt
myliveoo7 1 year ago