The 35 Faces that explain GERMAN POLITICS

Politics is more than just parties and lawmaking! It's also the diverse people around it! Let's take a look at who exactly is shaping our politics in the center of Europe! Everything you need to know about German political culture, explained in just 35 little cartoons! #educational #culture #politics #politicalcompass

🇨🇦 35 tribes of Canada, @JJMcCullough
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*CHAPTERS*
00:00 Intro
01:02 Left-behind East German
02:25 Anti-German Pessimist
02:55 Pro-German Narcissist
03:44 Climate Doomer
04:59 Bavarian Exceptionalist
07:38 Social Christians
08:46 Russia-Understander
10:58 The Center
12:21 Erdoğanist/Putinist/Orbánist
13:15 Union Man
14:32 Eastalgic
17:41 The Rich
18:37 Conspiracy Theorist
20:09 EU-Megafan
21:45 Social Justice Warrior
23:29 Anger-Citizen
25:26 Rural & Urban Vote
26:58 Young & Old Vote
28:57 Migration-Background
31:55 Uninterested
32:59 Auto über alles
34:35 Pacifist
36:10 Haven’t we heard enough?
38:21 Mittelstand
39:58 Esoterics
41:18 Community Politician
42:02 Extremists
42:46 Grey Mouse
44:48 Ancient Elite
46:22 ÖRR Enthusiast
48:31 Transatlantic
49:55 Data-Protector
50:50 Party-Soldier
52:54 Tribe 36
53:43 Final Thoughts

Special thanks to Ana for her knowledge, my roommate Greta, for lending Ana her voice and to macagil on Instagram, whose figure I traced for the Eastalgic section.

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*IMAGES*

- Plakat aufhängen by Piratenpartei Deutschland/ Michael Brückner via flickr, BY SA 2.0
- Obama Bumper Sticker by Tony Alter via flickr, BY SA 2.0
All the following via Wikimedia Commons
- Climate activist by Stefan Müller, BY SA 4.0
- Greens hugging by Raimond Spekking, BY SA 4.0
- Brandt und Stoph by Bundesarchiv, BY SA 3.0
- Sandmännchen by MB Custom, BY SA 4.0
- Rainbow flags fly over Washington, DC by Kingofthedead, BY SA 2.0
- November Pogroms by Jean-Pierre Dalbéra, BY SA 2.0
- Guttenberg by Dirk Vorderstraße, BY SA 2.0
- BR-Logo by BR-Unternehmenskommunikation, BY SA 4.0
- Podiumsdiskussion: Partei der Zukunft: Partei in Bewegung by Martin Heinlein / DIE LINKE, BY SA 2.0

*SOUND EFFECTS*
- Retro 8-bit game, hit 01 by Little Robot Sound, BY SA 4.0
- Retro 8-bit game, hit 02 by Little Robot Sound, BY SA 4.0
- Retro 8-bit game, collect point 01 by Little Robot Sound, BY SA 4.0

*MUSIC*
- [8-bit] Auferstanden aus Ruinen by SINA
- 8 Bit Think by HeatleyBros
- 353: Greek Zeimpikiko Karsilamos Music | Vlog 6 No copyright by Faris Al Orfali
- Music: “Army March by Thor Oach"
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
- Music: Morning Stroll by Steven OBrien
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

*4 plants died to make this video.*

[LucasBenderChannel]

Thank you to everyone who stuck around since my last video! It's been really sweet to see so many returning faces! 🤗

Obviously, I could only fit super short caricatures of these identities into one video. But you COULD write full books about every single one! So feel free to expand on anything I've said in the comments. Just be sure to remain friendly and grant other people the freedom of having their own opinion. 🫶

//Edit: I love that I've already been called a right winger, a left-winger, a liberal and a socialist. Anybody wanna call me an Anarcho-Georgist to complete my bingo card? 😂

[Bubim]

I think a group you missed is the Bildungsbürgertum. The (educational) petty elite.
Teachers, professors, highly skilled proffesions like doctors, engineers and architects, civil servants or, as I notice as one myself, journalists. Usually university educated and from a family with a similar level in education. They are generally not rich, but with a good and reliable income.

Concered with public matters and the 'less fortunate', they are often disconnected from people who struggle on a daily basis or only meet them in professional relationships. They are often active in local politics, church or social organisations, wanting to help in a well meaning, but patronising way.

They are well informed about local and global politics. Newspaper readers, with full bookshelfs. Despite this they always are surprised when they learn that people don't concern themselves with politics or why someone would not vote in an election.

[fntatn]

This guy is one of those Youtubers where he doesn't upload a lot but when he does upload it's an instant classic.

[illjabludov]

A tribe that died literally this month is the weed activist. They were almost everywhere

[PakBallandSami]

the real faces of the German politics where the friends we made along the way

[edwardsheehan]

Seems like the Speed Limit debate in Germany has much in common with the gun debate here in the states.

[realhawaiio]

5:07 Bavarians trying not to mention Bavaria: 💀

[simmi]

#tribe36 The Vereinsmensch: The people that spend most of their free time working for the Verein (club). Those people are the ubsung heroes that are holding communities together. Especially in rural areas.

[jkitty]

Lucas. With only two, now three videos, you've cemented yourself as one of my favorite political commentators on YouTube. I've watched your videos numerous times and I'm sure this new one will be no different. Please make more.

[isarsnitkovsky]

2 YEAR UPLOAD SCHEDULE, WE ARE SO BACK

[luisdergroe]

An interesting addition to the Bavarian is the fact that the three women shown as examples here are conservative, green-progressives and liberal respectively. While Bavaria is a conservative state, a very obvious one at that, this kind of Bavarian identity is compatible with basically every political ideology. By itself it’s not really a political statement at all.

Conservatives tend to lean into their Bavarian identity in a different way though. Especially talking down to other states is more or less exclusively a conservative thing.

[kaynight]

In Portuguese, "Justiça Social" (Social Justice, literally) has the German rather than American meaning - it's about people having the income to live with dignity, fighting hunger, providing public education and healthcare...

A famous quote by left-wing economist Maria da Conceição Tavares: "If you are not concerned with justiça social, with those that have to pay their bills, you are no serious economist - you're a technocrat!"

[TABSman]

3:30
As a greek myself, I totally agree.
Fun fact: The Greeks are not actually THAT lazy, in fact, they're the people who have the most work hours a week in all of europe...

Though that probably just shows we arent payed nearly enough and we need to resort to working a lot😎💪😎🇬🇷💪😎💪

[kaanyasin]

>Drops a vid
>Banger
>Leaves for a year
>Repeat

[benp.]

If my math works out, given the current rate of videos and the increase in length, we can expect a 5:14:58 long video in approximately 2 years

[jessevandeinsen]

I am dutch, but today i learned that indeed we are just swamp germans

[einfachJordan]

I'm German myself and as soon as I saw JJ's Video I desperately wanted this type of video for German politics. Thanks dude!

[malegria]

My German teacher is definitely the pro-German narcissist 😭 like I’m a dual French-American citizen and she’ll just take a dig at the French for no reason every now and then and then just stare directly at me

[uberlandleitung]

The speed limit debate in Germany, is the German version of the banning firearms debate in the USA.

[AduckButSpain]

5:30
So many of the stereotypes of Gemany today, are Bavarian, mainly because the American occupation zone was mainly in Bavaria. The soldiers brought the ideas they saw back home, and the US is, of course, the dominant influencer of world culture.