5 NORMAL GERMAN CONCEPTS THAT MAKE SO MUCH SENSE💡🇩🇪

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[Force-Majeure]

Thank you for your appreciation of "the German way"

[arnodobler]

My mother is 94, 2 years ago she gave up daily cycling (5-7 km) because of getting off her bike.

[jockorabeni]

I like that you have such a big heart.

[uschil]

As an austrian I can't believe tehy let people work in new zealand retirement homes without training. There is so much medical stuff to know, and of course also social stuff etc.

[dorisschneider-coutandin]

Training is very important. It also applies to the police. In the USA you might become a police officer with as little as three months of training. Impossible in Germany. You need to train for at least three years for such a job. Same thing with the correctional officers in our prisons. They go through a training programme for a long time as well. They're all well trained and highly skilled in their job. It involves very demanding lessons in law, psychology, sociology, martial arts, general administration, criminology, and science of education.

[carola-lifeinparis]

in the retirement home my mother lived for the last 2 years of her life, there was always at least one person present who is trained but then there were interns or unqualified people present doing more helping tasks.

So you could still end up supporting there while in college but you won't do medical tasks.

[Bema]

Great video, thank you 😊
As someone from Germany, I would like to add a little side note: The half a day Fridays are common in some sectors such as the public sector or some big companies. It's also common in the trades sector. But it's not like it is the default in Germany. First of all, if you work in jobs that have shifts, it doesn't really apply.
And there are also lots of white collar jobs where the Friday is a workday like any other.
Summary: It's definitely common, but not the norm either.

[folkehoffmann]

Actually the apprenticeships for caregivers for the elderly and for nurses have been unified now I think. So they are in fact the same now. However from my experience (I have worked in a home for elderly people during one of the stages I had to do during my own apprenticeship) there are also a lot of assistants working there. Those assistants are like qualified as assistants but they are not allowed to to certain things (especially regarding medication) but they are not as highly qualified as the examined caregivers.

[TheManWithTheHatKiel]

Another interesting fact about the German prison system is that escaping from jail is not considered a crime, as long as you don't commit any further offenses, such as hurting people.

[calise]

My husband’s company has a low grade prisoner working for them. He is not dangerous. He is strictly monitored with the time it takes him to get to/from work. He is earning money and more importantly, getting training to continue in the work force.

Oh, both my children just got their German driver’s license. We spent just under €5000 for both. My girlfriends daughter needed additional lessons and it cost near €4000. Both of my children got their BF17 meaning from 17-18 they were only allowed to drive with pre-approved adults who meet specific requirements and are specifically listed on the BF17 paper license. Insurance rates have proven that those who drive this one year of BF17 have lower accident rates from 18-25 than those who first get their license at 18 and drive alone from the start.

[itwasntme]

Maybe I am reading too much into it... but somehow I can't help thinking that our ancestors, after starting and losing WW II, and after committing the biggest genocide in history, were still being helped by the US Marshall plan.
Maybe our prison culture has something to do with that?
It's just a thought, I didn't do any research on this topic. But to anyone interested: I am not quite sure, but I believe at least one of the Scandinavian countries' prison systems (I believe it is Norway, but I may be wrong) is outstanding regarding low recidivism.

[alexgilbert]

Awesome video Antoinette! Hope all is going well on your end :)

[giannamilo]

To work in a daycare center in the US, I heard you need 0 training. To work in a Kita (day care) in Germany you have to complete a 4 year training...

[peterkoller]

I support everything you say about our prison system - but only for a maximum of 3 offenses, after this, the culprit has proven that rehabilitation does not work with him, so why shod society waste any more money on futile attempts?

[lanamack]

Die you forget of don't you know that you need to complete an LSM course (Lebensrettende Sofortmaßnahmen, life saving measures) before you get your driver licence? Imho, doing this course is an eye opener for many teenagers.

[MechmanGetrieb]

You can start your licence with 17 now.
But you can only drive on your own after getting 18.
Until then a second person must be in the car as a Mentor.

[dvnxwuq]

the reality is that in „Altenheimen“ often maximum is one trained and some less trained helper are the reality in a complete house.

[arnodobler]

Is there a dual training system in NZ like in Germany?

[PotsdamSenior]

I'm in my 60s, and of course I bike everywhere. The most normal thing. Especially since I don't have a car. Which is normal too: in most cities, car owners are the minority. My city's population is rising, while the number of cars is declining.

[to.l.]

The greatest contrast is with the prisons in the USA. They are used only for punishment, nothing more. The idea of ​​achieving "justice" through punishment is, in my opinion, medieval.
(It becomes paradoxical in the USA, for example, which, according to statistics, is very Christian, but behaves the opposite way the more religious the states are..)

The basic approach in Germany is either
- to protect the public from dangerous people
and/or
- to attempt rehabilitation.

This approach is more promising and ultimately much more Christian than, for example, the death "penalty" in the USA (since I know nothing about New Zealand, I'll just use the USA as a reference for the Anglo-Saxon justice system. (The number of prisoners per 100k inhabitants is interesting in this regard: the USA is in first place ahead of Russia with 751, New Zealand is at 186, Germany at 91, Sweden at 64 and Iceland at 29 (unfortunately, the figures are all a bit out of date)))

The death "penalty" is in reality torture (until it is carried out). It represents a failure of the state under false pretenses (deterrence has been proven not to work as claimed) and a complacent state which assumes from the outset that there are no miscarriages of justice!

(However, miscarriages of justice also have a dark side in Germany. The compensation that one is entitled to is ridiculous. It would be morally right if the state paid these people (depending on the length of time) a sum that would tend to enable those wrongly convicted to get by without work for the rest of their lives. Once convicted, one has hardly any chance on the job market in Germany, regardless of whether it was wrong or not. In addition, bad proceedings would then be expensive for the state, so that more well-qualified judicial staff would also be "worth it".

The concept of rehabilitation is not only the case in Germany, there are many European countries that follow this principle.