5 Lies America Taught Me About Germany

After moving to Germany and living in Germany, we learned that some "lies" the U.S. taught us about Germany caused some unnecessary culture shocks in Germany because they weren't true! What German stereotypes do Americans believe that are completely false?? Find out in this video 😊

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❤️Aubrey was a Speech-Language Pathologist and Donnie was a graphic designer, but we both had a dream to #travel the world and experience cultures. After three years of being married and dreaming about if something like this great adventure would be possible, we decided to quit the rat race and take on the world. We sold everything we had, quit our jobs, and took off! After 9 months of aimless and nonstop travel, we now get to fulfill our dreams of #LivingAbroad as #expats as we move to #Germany!

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[PassportTwo]

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[baerbelbaer]

In germany you realize your are old when you dont get a slize of Wurst at the butcher anymore... it was a sad moment in my life.😢

[idnwiw]

I have a theory about why US-Americans might think that Europe isn't child-friendly: Maybe the whole family was awfully loud in museums, public transport, their hotels breakfest room etc. so that people were looking at them disapprovingly - not realizing that the looks weren't geard to their kids (alone) but the whole group of them shouting and screaming

[Slad]

The thing with the butcher and the piece of sausage for the little ones is an unwritten law for the whole of Germany. xD

[arthur_p_dent]

It's "Lederhose" in standard German, but "Lederhosn" in the Bavarian dialect. So the Americans don't really get it wrong, I'd say.

[ThorDyrden]

btw - the game "telephone" you descrive in Germany is "stille Post"

[carstenhardt]

Congrats! And remember: Germany is child-friendly but brat-repellant ;)
So maybe the children of those Americans who consider Germany to be child-unfriendly misbehaved and were chided for that?

[janekalbinsky]

For all who care to know, FKK stands for "Freundlich, Kultiviert, Kuriert" (friendly, cultured, curated), meaning those beaches have been certified to maintain the highest standards.

[SatyreIkon]

Thing with Europeans not being "kid-friendly" towards US people visiting is: The kids are attached to their family and 99/100 times people from the US are just OBNOXIOUSLY loud and rude. This of course reflects on their kids. Take it from me, I was a waiter at a tourist-focussed restaurant in a large German city and the Murican tourists were THE. WORST! The Bri'ish being a close second.

[AbudMunichen]

Well, to be fair. In the Bavarian dialect it's "die Lederhosn".

[IrilaR]

FFS, I did NOT expect to see Susanne Daubner photoshopped onto a beachwear model xDDD

[HenryLoenwind]

Don't forget that car manufacturers sell different ranges of models in different countries. The German manufacturers are known as luxury brands in the US, so they don't sell the cheaper models and/or trims over there they sell in their home market.

Also, a majority of cars in the German market start their life as company cars to then be sold after about 4 years on the used car market. This dramatically raises the average trim levels you'll see on the street for "boring but classy-looking middle-class" cars.

[martingerken]

Remember that in Germany all listed prices for consumer must include VAT by law. So you pay what is listed. That differs in the USA

[RunningRonnie]

Dude, you can't just tell people to visitk an FKK beach without warning them! 😂

I believe the use of of "Lederhose" or "Lederhosen" in singular is something that may vary depending on the region or context, as sometimes I see "Hosen" (pants, plural) being referred to a singlular pair of pants.

Also, I have a nice anecdote to illustrate the importance of using the Umlaut: Once I was on a ferry on my way to island vacation, where a sign said "Bitte nicht die Möwen füttern" (Please do not feed the seagulls), as seagulls would follow ferries, hoping to snatch the passengers' leftover lunches. Somehow parts of the writing were scrabbed off so you could barely see the Umlaut-dots and the sign at a glance would read: "Bitte nicht die Möwen futtern" which may be translated to "Please do not eat the seagulls" ("futtern" can be used as a coloquial term for eating).

[plutoniumlollie]

Oh you cheeky boy, regarding FKK 😂😂
Congratulations! 😊

[CoL_Drake]

When taking your size off food we not mean the lunch you make. We talk about a) packages, like you have Nutella glasses 3, times as big as well as your fast food. The fact that our "large" is smaller then medium in the USA as McDonald's and stuff

[thomasgabler]

Many of these luxury cars you see on the Autobahn are corporate cars which the employees are allowed to also use privately.

[joegoss]

The "ship a car back from Germany" trope was probably started by American troops stationed in Germany. In the 1980s, you were allowed to ship back an auto to the US as long as you had shipped a car over (I heard stories of people shipping a junker over just to make sure they can ship one back). Troops would buy a German car and then ship in back on Uncle Sam's dime. You'd see a lot of junior soldiers stateside driving very nice German cars. At the time, the dollar was very strong against the Deutsch Mark, so it *was* cheaper to buy in Germany..

[ohauss]

Having lived in the US for several years, I certainly believe portion sizes on average are larger. I certainly got used to eating more than I did before I went to the US. But then again, I was in Texas, and as you know, everything is bigger in Texas...

[nebelland]

About the dots above the letters: ü, ö, ä. If you can’t type them, just replace them with an additional e. So instead of Küche (kitchen) write Kueche. Umlauts are letters that are created by combining two vowels, in this case always with an e.