Geography Now! Germany (BRITISH REACTION)

BRITISH REACTION TO Geography Now! Germany

This is my reaction to Geography Now! Germany

Subtitles are available in German (and English)

[sabinebluhmentahl]

The traditional Bavarian culture is so well known in the U.S. because the South of Germany used to be occupied bei the Americans after WW2. So all of the soldiers took their knowledge back to the U.S. This also influenced a lot of the Hollywood stereotypes of Germany and the Germans.
Also, I guess, the Bavarians celebrate their traditions a lot more excessively than other parts of the country, which especially Americans are very attracted to.

I'm in Northern Germany (Lower Saxony) which was influenced by the UK occupation and it shows. Every town in Northern Germany has a partner city or town in the UK with student exchanges and so on. Although there's also partner towns in France and Poland.

[nmmknh]

As a german, I will never forget the one time my it was my dad's birthday and we literally drove to Paris in the morning went shopping, had a little birthday dinner and drove back home the next day after watching the sunrise at the Eiffel Tower. We do make use of that and it is amazing!!
Also, I want to add that I really enjoy your videos about germany. Most think of Germany and instantly think of WW2. But our country and history had so much more to offer.

[caro]

I'm from Germany and it's really awesome to just drove for a few hours and then your suddenly in another country. Sometimes you dont even realize that you crossed borders right away. Like I can drive for like about 3 hours and I'm in the Netherlands

[frfuchs]

I wouldn’t say that I’m proud but rather thankful to have been born here and to be able to live here

[florentin]

You don't know how proud your words made me to be a German. I think we still are afraid of loving our country because of our troubled history. Of course there are many things that are not so good but we could be more proud of our country...

[s-it]

Correction: Cuckoo clocks originally come from the Black Forest and not from Bavaria. To be more precise, they are now manufactured in Schonach.

[heha]

Hi Mert, a German here :) Our bread .... I think there are far more than 300, today there are ca. 3200 registered sorts of bread and Brötchen (Semmeln, Wecken, Schrippen and so on). Well, IMHO Brot and Brötchen are so good, than you can actually eat them without anything on it, maybe a piece of butter, so it can be a full meal. And the odour of a bakery is just mouthwatering.

The diversity inside and between the federated states (Bundesländer) is enormous, considering the vast of dialects, culture differences, traditions, local celebrations and festivals, traditional costumes (from ancient times), theatres, landscape, castles (more than 20 000!!) and of course the mindset of the inhabitants which in turn depends of you upgrowing. There are funny but historically grown slight aversions between federated states, between cities (Köln and Düsseldorf f. e.) and even between some districts within some cities, but nothing would go beyond mutual well-meant insults :) It may come from those ancient little kingdoms which had, everyone, ist own ruler, its own currency, own belief, own churches, own taxes and so on and so on. And although this all is know united a lot of those peculiarities have survived.


I am „based" in Mittelfranken (Middle Franconia, look out for Nürnberg) which is a part of and belongs to Bayern (Bavaria) which is insulting for every Franconian :) 'cause we ARE NOT Bavarians :) There also are Lower Franconia and Upper Franconia in the North, Upper Palatinate in the East, München, Upper Bavaria in the South, Lower Bavaria in the southeast and Bavarian Swabian in the southwest.
Viele herzliche Grüße aus Deutschland!

[_TiNo__]

I’m from germany and it’s pretty nice to be surrounded by so many countrys, I’ve been in the czech republic, austria, france, the netzerlands, poland, denmark and italy(which doesn’t boarder germany but you just have to drive thru austria or switzerland

[HenryLoenwind]

Bismarck is quite underrated. He had his hands in so many things that formed Germany to this day, like base civil law, workers' rights, social security and pensions, ... Without this base, the free market capitalism of the 1950s would never have been possible.

[xyfg]

I’m from Germany and absolutely happy about your videos/ appreciation!! :)

[uwekall]

Proud is not really the right way to call the way we think about being German. It's more like lucky. I think most people agree that you can only be proud of something you manage to achieve by yourself...
By the way, I love your accent! :-)

[kati-sama]

It's realls SO cute how much more you appreciate the things we gotten so used to :) !!! As a hobby cook i would say that France, Germany and Italy have the best breads in the world - everyone of us good in a special type of bread: France (Baguette/Pastry) - Italiens - Germany (Pastry/Dark Bread) - all of us do great bread. But germany has a more bigger variation when it comes to bread types and put more ingredients in it. Some like dark bread - some not.

[xXHanniBunnyxDXx]

Great Video greetings from east Germany ☺️

[bene.]

I'm from a City called "Aachen" in the very west of Germany and I can go to the Netherlands or Belgium by bicycle in 30 minutes. That's one of many perks of living there ;)

[rikenerys]

I'm amazed. About you. You hear a few sentences about our schoolsystem and you found the weak spot instantly! Also your understanding of the "volker pisper" content is impressive. Btw. love your accent ❤

[bavo]

lots lots lots and LOTS of love from germany. English is the only language I could ever really get behind and I am thankful to this day that I have made the effort to learn it. Thank you loads for this reaction, I love our brothers on the british isles and I hope we'll never ever be enemies again.

[majortom]

Insel Neuwerk (6:55) bei Cuxhaven, sehr nice zu besuchen bei Ebbe mit der Pferdekutsche ^^ ;-)

[justusdrath]

i love how you watched the video, so many people stop a lot to talk a lot of stuff about it, and you just kept it short and how you really feel and asked your question straight up instead of talking and talking and not coming to your point. Great video!

[travel_peet]

Moving to Asia a couple of years ago, I still dream every night of Brötchen 😭

[benjaminsutphen]

About the national pride thing. Talking for me and my social circle, one can't be proud of their heritage, because one can only be proud what one has achieved themselves.
So I cannot be proud to be German, but I am very thankful and happy to be born here!
I hope that makes sense for you and you can understand the part of the video better.