Why I'm embarrassed to be German

In this video I want to make a personal statement to explain why I'm unhappy about the way that my country has been developing. Germany is not what it used to be.

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[Harakai]

Using Britain as a reference to a well-functioning nation from a policy/leadership perspective is kind of wild.

[d-mancat]

The character pointed at a broken elevator sign and said "this is the empire declining". The person he was talking to thought he was exaggerating, but he went on to explain: if low cost but highly visible repairs are being neglected, what do you think happens to the high cost invisible ones? If infrastructure is decaying, the empire is already falling. From Asimov's Foundation.

[David-xs]

A Cuban friend explained decay. It happens when people have been successful so long that they forget what made them successful.

[edinson]

Hmm. In 1995 after the Jugoslavijan war finished, in which my dad died tragically in Bosnia, Germany took my mother, sister and me in as asylum seekers for three years because we had nowhere to go back to in Bosnia. After our duldung expired in 1998, we moved to Australia where I finished my schooling and uni and stuff. I'm eternally grateful to Germany and the German people for taking us in when we needed help. Hey Germans, don't be ashamed. I love Germany and Germans. Germans have a very kind and generous spirit, and a lot to be proud of in my eyes. ❤❤

[kubuspuchatek]

I used to work for a German company. They closed 2 factories in Germany and 1 in Poland and opened new factories in India. And they boasted that they "reduced emissions".

[DH-rjkv]

Calling the UK a “healthy country” was a lesson in the finest sarcasm.

[cameirusisu]

dont worry. I'm british, you learn to live with a constant state of national

[vd]

So funny story about the electric vehicle thing: I am a German but have been living abroad for more than a decade. Last year I visited and dared to rent an electric vehicle. Which would have been fine if I had found ANY way to charge the damn car! The person at the rental forgot to tell me that you need either a special charging card (also didn’t provide me with one) or that my international credit card would for some reason not be accepted at any charging station. I have been to Germany numerous times since moving and my credit card usually work everywhere-not at charging stations and they also did not take cash. I drove around for -no joke-two hours trying to find a charging station I could use. Bear in mind I have an electric car in my current home country as well so I am familiar with all this stuff. I eventually panicked and drove back to a rental car station near me, who was out of all other vehicles and sent me to an airport nearby to switch to a gas powered car. And if you think this happened in the middle of nowhere-nope, in Leipzig! A huge city that is supposedly exponentially growing. Ridiculous 😂

[brad]

You know Germany has gotten bad when the Germans start joking.

[giovannipiacen]

We thought that us Italians would eventually catch up with Germany. Turns out they are catching up with us.

[timeodaneosetdona]

I don’t think it was efficiency that saved us from Spray Cheese. It was the thought of Switzerland, France and Italy crossing their arms and looking disappointed……

[TheMarman]

As a Brit, I have lived and worked in Germany most of my life after leaving the military. There are many of us who have done the same. When I discharged from the military in the 1980's, Thatchers government had 3 and-a-half million unemployed in Great Britain. I had a job lined up locally and have never had the real urge to go back. Having said all of that Blighty is still my real home, I am an Englishman and have on more than one occasion refused to swap nationalities. Germany has looked after me for the most part - the medical service here is first class. However, my biggest criticism is that they have never escaped their beaurocratic idiosyncrasies - "your papers are not in order". The Germans themselves call their own country "Das Land der Paragraphen" "The land of Paragraphs". It means that there are rules for just about everything and they value bits of paper qualifications and authority above all else. In which case someone who has been active in a job for 20 years but has gained experience through "learning by doing" simply because in the early days 20 years ago, there was no formal qualification, will lose out in a re-application for the same post to someone with a formal qualification ( because now you have to qualify) despite the "qualified" person having zero practical experience. That's where we are folks. It doesn't matter what you can do, it only matters how much you have read. The world turned upside down!!

[brianfoley]

"...buy a dog so you don't have to walk home alone" and who says Germans don't have a sense of humor?

[juanzulu]

German here. My colleagues in Malaysia always laugh about my internet connection

[kwesting]

Don't feel bad, it's not just Germany. The whole world is different.

[Alche_mist]

Czech here: Our historical experience with Germany is summarized in a simple bon mot:
"Germany never makes small mistakes."
Which is pretty much exactly what you said. We, your neighbors, know. As the "officially independent, but de facto just the poorest Bundesland", we often know well too painfully.

[eisenkopf]

You walk from Germany to Czech through the woods. How do you recognize that you have reached Czech Territory? Your phone has network.

[AshtonK]

As an American, seeing a German referring to the UK as healthy is mind bending.

[poeticider]

As a Brit, I think you are looking at our country with rose-tinted glasses. Sure, Germany is pretty infamous for it's poor internet but UK trains are pretty atrocious (hugely expensive, privatised, constant strikes), people have pretty universally given up on politicians, our health service is in an abysmal state and secondary school kids frequently miss out on their education due to lack of teachers (probably about one class per day on average).

Yea, it's no rose-garden over here either

[askel]

German politics:"Let's not invest in any critical infrastructure or social systems!"
Also German politics:"Why the heck is nothing working and everyone miserable?!"