Normal everyday GERMAN THINGS that I really don't understand

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

In this video, I talk about some normal, everyday German things that I just don't understand, even after all these years of living here.

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[AntoinetteEmily]

Hey guys, thanks for all the great feedback I can always count on you all for clearing things up for me. I just want to be clear that I didn't mean I actually had to wait in line for an hour. I was just using it as an example to represent waiting a long time, but I understand how some of you may have taken that literally.

[nika]

"Wer glaubt, dass es keinen Kampfgeist mehr gibt, der sollte mal darauf achten,
was sich im Supermarkt abspielt, wenn plötzlich eine neue Kasse aufgemacht wird."

[lukdeh]

Ich fand es immer viel schlimmer, wenn es nach der Schule schon wieder dunkel war, bis ich wieder nach Hause gekommen bin.

[maisda]

We need to start in the dark to get mean and grumpy the whole day.

[timonclaassen]

German is in the title...
Germans: ZUGRIFF!

[carinakazianka]

The problem is also, that if the school starts at 9 who would be at home and help the children to get up, most of the people are working already at this time

[ylva]

Schools start at 8 here in Sweden too. In the winter it's dark when you go to school and dark when you go home.

[bergerle]

About the last one: this actually isn't a rule in Germany - it's the lack of a rule. It's not generally the last people in line that go to the front, but the people who first notice it and take the chance. Often it takes some time for the new register to actually start operating (in many markets they first open the line and then call out for an employee to take it), so if you almost made it to the belt, you might actually be better off just staying in your old line. This of course amplifies the impression of the last people getting to the front.
So yeah, it would be perfectly fair to make it a rule that the person who waitet the longest gets to the front. But somehow this rule wasn't established in Germany and people are generally selfish, so if they see a new line opening, they see the chance to save some of their own time and are happy to take it.

[modeco]

I have never come across anybody that we are getting mean. I think we are just making fun of each others accent which is nothing more than a tease. Never experienced rudeness. 😊

[AlexanderGoeres]

oh and about "austrians speaking german": if you can understand them then they have not been speaking their local dialect.

[KidsStoleMyName]

Für mich als Norddeutschen ist es sehr schwer Dialekte aus Österreich oder Bayern zu verstehen, vorallem da wir hier teilweise regional gleiche Wörter verwenden für eine andere Sache, daher ist es erforderlich das beide Seiten Hochdeutsch sprechen (können). Ansonsten macht das die Kommunikation sehr schwierig.

[ak_propra]

This, ,accent war" is more like a joke. At least for me.

[katertom]

The Problem with the dialects origins from the fact, that "Deutschland" is a rather new thing. Before the "Deutschen" used to live in an awful lot of different, mostly very tiny states with a lot of rivalry between them.

[sogx]

The school starts so early, because "Der frühe Vögel fängt den Wurm" ;-)

[lillyv.]

I actually hate having to go to school so early but if school would start later then I would have to stay in school until like 5 or 6 pm so...

[AceMusicFreak]

The accent shaming is mostly just a joke as far as the people I know think. There are accents like the Saxony accent that just doesn't sound nice to a lot of people. Then there are people from Baden jokingly making fun of the swabian accent because there was this stupid feud between the two regions and especially the younger people just make light of that. There is also making fun of accents because you can't understand them but it's all really light hearted and I've also seen that in the UK like people making fun of the Scouse accent because nobody outside of Liverpool can understand it or people making fun of the scottish accent because it's really thick

[bluetempest]

In Germany it is:
“Wer zuerst kommt malt zuerst”

[carinakazianka]

I am from Austria, but I can't imagine, that you have to wait 1 hour at a supermarket to pay, even not half an hour. Maybe it feels like this. But I don't think that it is more than 10 minutes

[fremejoker]

Check outs: New line -> new game. Simple as that.

Accent shaming: That is a huge topic. You need to know German history. What you know under the term nationalism can be seen on a smaller scale called regionalism. For a German the region comes first, then the nation. You are foremost a Berliner, Hannoveraner, Hamburger, Dresdner, then Sachse, Bayer, Ostdeutscher, before you are a German. As you might know the German nation state is rather young, it formed in 1871, while regional states are much older, so the region is much more important than the greater good of the country, only if you go higher up, Germany comes first before the EU or the world.
As for accent shaming there are two things that you have to be aware of, which is perception and regional pride. Regional pride means your region is better than any other region. Perception means there is a certain standard in your mindset and anybody who doesn't reach it is less, as for accents if you don't speak standard German flawlessly you are perceived as less educated. I don't really know where that comes from, but I would take the bet that it's the school system. The higher your education the more likely you will speak standard German as your standard dialect. If you don't you are more likely to be perceived as less educated. Be aware that dialects aren't teached in school nor encouraged to be spoken, only minority languages are teached.

The thing is a cultural mindset doesn't change quickly, for example we still tell our children to eat everything from the plate. This comes from times of war and starvation, this "tradition/rule" isn't necessary anymore but nonetheless forwarded from generation to generation.

[rumtreiberinalways]

I don‘t know if it is just me, but i really like going to school in the dark. 😅 I can‘t really explane it but i think i just like looking at the stars in the morning.