Germany SLANDER

for the people who are upset about it. it is all in fun of course and should not be taken seriously.

[aimlessxy]

Berliner ist die einzige richtige Antwort

[Dxniell]

As an English guy, it took me a while to figure out why hamburgers were paying rent

[danieltankwwe]

Bremen ist so unnützt, dass man vergisst das wir existieren

[hannahxvii]

Ich bitte dich, das ist ein Typischer Sonniger Tag in Nordrhein-Westfalen

[UserOnline]

As a German I can confirm this to be painfully true

[salilbhatnagar]

As a person who is not german i can confirm that i can't confirm any of this

[Xtastic]

I'm fascinated that you didn't talk about the drug usage at the train station in Frankfurt

[hp]

I was looking for a good Germany Slander and I found it <3

[_Lewo]

as a not German, i can confirm that reading all of those names this quickly was really hard

[jamelabarrogo]

I'm not German but I always laugh to the fact that you can call a person "Hamburger" because they live in Hamburg. (🤣)

[skittlesbutwithchocolatein]

north german trying to understand south german is so funny hahaha

[bulldowozer]

Brandenburg getting roasted for their Abi
Meanwhile NRW: "sweats profoundly"

[Coastal_Cruzer]

Planning to move to Germany some day, this gives insight on the state of the people

[jonasp.]

As someone from Rhineland Palatinate I always found it funny that virtually every other state has a stereotype and we don't. Even in the news if feel like we never get mentioned except maybe because of carnival. We're really just existing

[riploljustforfu]

Lower Saxony is geographically lower than Saxony if you go by altitude.

Technically there is no "up" on a map.

[ahnok]

As someone from Schleswig-Holstein i would rather be mistaken as a Dane than a Hamburger

[dracodistortion]

Alabamans to Saarlanders: maybe you and I are not so different after all

[alba_]

Some explanations cause it's 2am and I can't sleep lol:

0:00 Hamburg is the second largest city in Germany, and just like with pretty much all other big cities here, rents are pretty much unaffordable.

0:03 Thuringia is a central German state that is not really known for anything except for their dumplings (Thüringer Klöße), which have a popular meme song written about them, and their Rostbratwürste (sausages).

0:05 Schleswig-Holstein is Germany's northernmost state and borders Denmark, with both regions sharing some cultural similarities. Also there's quite a significant minority of Danes living there (they even have their own party in our parliament, the SSW).

0:09 The Saarland is Germany's smallest state by area (excluding city states) and our second smallest state by population. They're basically our Alabama because we joke about them being into their family.

0:14 This one probably refers to the devastating flooding of the river Ahr which took place in the summer of 2021 in North-Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate. It killed a bunch of people and destroyed many towns and villages.

0:18 Saxony has the highest percentage of voters voting for the AfD, a right wing populist/extremist party that is often compared to the Nazis.

0:21 We Bavarians like to insist that our state is the best of them all (because it is ;)). You can think of Bavaria as Germany's Texas, i.e. a very strong and pretty distinct regional identity.

0:25 The state of Lower Saxony actually lies to the north of the state of Saxony. As far as I know, it's called Lower Saxony because it's very flat, and so when it comes to elevation it's mostly below Saxony.

0:29 I don't really get this one, I've never heard of a stereotype about many old people living in Baden-Württemberg.

0:31 Swabians (people who live in central and eastern Baden-Württemberg and Western Bavaria) are known to be very stingy. I'd say that this is probably the most widespread stereotype in Germany lol.

0:38 A Krapfen (which is the only correct name of course) is a type of filled donut which is beloved across Germany. Around Berlin they're called "Pfannkuchen" (lit. "pancakes") and pretty much everywhere else in Germany except for Bavaria (we call them "Krapfen"), they're known as "Berliners". Debating what the "correct" name is has become a bit of a meme here in recent years.

0:45 The state of Saxony-Anhalt isn't really known for anything and is often confused with the more well known state of Saxony to its southeast.

0:49 The state of Rhineland-Palatinate is also not known for anything and rarely thought about.

0:52 There is no single South German dialect, but the dialects spoken down here (Bavarian, Swabian, Franconian, etc) are infamous for being very thick and hard to understand; second only perhaps to the abomination that is the Saxon dialect. Also, dialects are basically dead in North Germany, with North Germans being known for their very "clear" Standard German, while they're still somewhat common in the south.

0:58 Berliners are known to be very aggressive and rude, perhaps comparable to the American stereotype about New Yorkers.

1:04 The Abitur is Germany's high school graduation exam (actually it's a bit more complicated than that but whatever), which you have to pass in order to go to university. Since Germany is a very federalized country, each state gets to create their own exams, with Bavaria's Abitur being the hardest and many other states' Abiturs being renowned as very easy (including Brandenburg).

[Leechlordfestus]

Hessia immune to criticism due to being invisible

[LaFinchy]

*Lubeckers talking about the trade empire they use to have and why they should be a city state again*