5 GERMAN HABITS I'VE PICKED UP since living in Germany | New Zealander in Germany

Hi, guys welcome to my channel, I'm Antoinette a New Zealander living in Germany.

In this video, I share some of the habits I've picked up since living in Germany.

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[dabegger]

The German philosopher T. W. Adorno once said "There cannot be a right life amidst wrongs." (es gibt kein richtiges Leben im Falschen). It makes no sense to further discuss with people that are mistaken or wrong about a certain point, because everything in that conversation will be wrong aswell because of the false information/fundaments the discussion is based on. In Germany, it is not considered rude to correct someone, as the believe is that you are helping someone growing as a person since you provide the person another chance to reconcider his/her standpoint. This helps to find a mutual understanding of things and helps bringing people together in a society. I love this about my country. Although i understand that we (mysef) may sometimes go to far, as the undersanding of this habit is not a mutual all over the world :)

[julia]

Someone once told me the Berlin Wall wouldn't have to be necessary. A red traffic light would have done the job. 😁
Tolles Video!! 😙

[matthiaslangemeyer]

Opening windows and letting fresh air in is something which becomes more and more necessary, because our houeses in germany are so well insulated that there is not enough air exchange. Thus the humidity of the air stays in the house and get into wall. This leads to mould. Especially for new houses you must open the windows quite a long time of the day to dry the house, because there is so much humidity in the walls through the building process and the very high insulation hinders the humidity to go to the outside . It is then absolute necessary.

[rallen]

One habit I picked up from when I was stationed in West Germany (1987-89), was putting mayonnaise on my french fries instead of ketchup. My family still gives me weird looks for it.

[christophpelger]

Correcing people stating wrong facts is just so important these days! Keep doing that, it´s definatly a good thing

[cheeky]

I can only expand my knowledge if someone corrects me if I say something wrong.

[Allymeg]

I had to laugh yes you are slowly being germanise now. I am not german but lives here some 40 yrs now. Am from Malaysia and you bet by now i am totally germanise. So germanise that i sometimes i even forget i don't look like one.😁 Tks for sharing yr lovely videos i enjoyed them.

[unpluggedist]

I had to laugh heartily. The first time at the point with the backpack and with the green signal at the traffic light. My girlfriend is from France, we were visiting a friend of hers in Paris. We went to the city and I stopped at the red pedestrian traffic light. The acquaintance of my girlfriend said "ok, he is German, backpack and stops at the traffic lights" ....

[Nostrum]

I loved the way how sincere and serious you look when you say that you correct people 0:50 :DDD Sehr gut, weiter so!

[ElinT]

Correcting: Like your example shows me, I would have liked to be corrected, so that I learned something. I find this important.
Airing the house: this is important for insulated houses so that excess moisture does not have the chance to build mold in the house, so this is a very good habit to have. The better a house is insulated the more you should have a good airing habit to avoid health issues.

[BarefootUrbexer]

The reason why we are opening our windows even in the deep winter is to prevent mold fungus. If you have humid air in your apartment due to respiration, steam from cooking etc. and you don't let the humidity out, then you risk to result in having fungus on your walls. This is encouraged by nearly airtight windows. That's why most terms of lease in Germany oblige you to air your apartment.

[hajo]

I was in NZ for a trip 20 years ago. I met a guy in Wellington from Wales who lived on the southern Island and he stayed in Germany for a few years. During an evening in a hostel. There I corrected someone. He gave a coment: "... you germans are all the same!." Now I knowing, what he means😁
By the way. It was a great trip. I am a new subscriber and I enjoy your english with the "kiwi-accent". It remind me about the great time I had in your home country.

[jurgenrathjen]

That video was absolutely great fun!! My mother would open the windows every morning, no matter how cold. I also love coffee and cake almost every day. (I am not in Germany) In the 1950s my uncle owned a restaurant in the Luneburger Heide section of germany, a beautiful area in north Germany. Every afternoon, on the outside veranda at the edge of the forest, the "Klecker Wald" guests would have coffee and cake. We visited his "Pension Gasthaus" for the summer in 1955.

[marcokrueger]

I think we just let the "fresh air" in because most of us Germans have a central heating system. Even if it's freezing cold outside, the room ist comfortably warm within minutes. And it's also pretty efficient. Germans love that :D

[Kingklugi_HL]

😅 ich finde es interessant und manchmal auch sehr amüsant wie du, als Neuseeländerin, uns Deutsche siehst und empfindest. Mach weiter so 👍🌹

[kellnerharald]

It´s simply great that you want to correct that person, finaly it´s the history the nation where you came from, strait to us, which is fantasic too!

[NikolausUndRupprecht]

2:55 Correcting people is a good thing. Otherwise it's only trash talk. I would even think that small talk should be fact based, too.

[SuperLittleTyke]

I lived in Germany for many years and I, too, was admonished when crossing the road before the green man appeared. Since I've been back in the UK I still wait for green ~mostly~, but I have to admit not always as most Brits never wait for green if there's no traffic. But in the 1970s in Germany, not only was it frowned upon to cross against red, a police officer could fine you 10 marks on the spot if he caught you crossing. I say "he" because there weren't any female police officers, least ways not in Cologne.

[fazyam]

What is wrong on learning something when I was wrong in my mind and someone tells me so? For me it's strange to leave someone uncorrected with a wrong claim.
To open windows make sense. Within the last let's say the last 20 years the thermal insulation of the houses were getting better and better. I've never seen before doors and windows were sealed like they're now. That means that the air inside has less oxygen after a while and picks up moisture. If you don't care for exchanging the air the moisture stays inside and it might form mold on the wall which is not very healthy. And I can't remember if it was you in a video who was telling about the houses in NZ which are anyything else than well sealed to keep the heat inside and the cold outside. A steady stream of cold air from the outside was moving through the house and feels uncomfortable.

[Never_again_against_anyone]

Traffic lights: Jackpot. You could not have nailed it better. Most German children are taught this at age 2 or 3 with the rhyme " Bei Rot sollst du stehen, bei Grün darfst du gehen." ( Literally: At red you shall halt/stand on the spot, at green you may go.)
This is even so typical that there are jokes about it as the following one: You know you are German when you wait for a traffic light to turn green at 11pm although you cannot see any single vehicle approaching, in fact are even unable to hear one in the distance.