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It is a universal fact that industrialized food is not healthy. It may not kill you immediately, but it is simply not healthy. It is a profit driven business and as such as the same problems as every other profit driven business. The great difference between the United States and Europe is probably more in the availability of alternatives. The rest depends on the consumers if you don’t take the time to value what you eat that’s your choice.

The French don't drink to get drunk. The French drink because they are French.

Great content! Travelling to Saxony with my sister, niece, and nephew this upcoming November. They absolutely love the Leipzig Zoo, which I'm told is quite amazing. Also, I will be spending a couple of nights in Dresden on my own with side trips to Dessau, Görlitz, and Saxon Switzerland. I'm brushing up on my Deutsch before going. Perhaps I'll run into you while over there 😌

This is cool, but the rise of the AFD in eastern Germany is pretty scary

The abbreviation Expat! means expatriated,yes an emmigrant, like I was in uSA!!

It was “East Germany” for only 44 years, not centuries.

Can you explain why you always make such a horrified face in your thumbnails?

look at the stats correctly... 2/3 of gun deaths are S*LF- INFLICTED

I am living for 36 years in the US and love it. But I I never understood the people's acceptance of this lousy processed food and all the preservatives. I don't eat fast food or prepared meals, don't eat junk food and bake my own rye bread. I never had a problem maintaining my weight and look healthy and much younger according to people's surprised comments.

My husband and I traveled to Germany last year. While there, we visited Muhlhausen, where my grandparents were born and raised. We explored much of Thuringia, and loved driving around that part of the country. We also really enjoyed Erfurt and stayed at Wartburg Castle in Eisenach.

In Germany if you decide to go to a bar on the weekend which is more of a social place than a nasty place for dysfunctional people you take your 14 year old teenager with you. They can have a beer in your presence as long as they behave according to an (civilized!) adult environment. You don't teach them to drink but to respect the limits of consuming alcohol in public. When they are 16 they can buy a beer without their parents present. My mother used to make wine at home. She would always allow us to try the beautiful drink, but only a little bit. I never on my life had a big need for alcohol.

Why labeling everybody?

I am German living in the US. The US does not claim that all people are equal like Europe ,which is an illusion and is not and has never been true. Even in Germany where I grew up and lived for 40 years there were differences. I find it to be more truthful to allow people to live the way they want and then deal with that result. In the US where I live now for 36 years it is a clear cut difference. You want order, security and a civilized life you live with people who have the same expectation. It's a very normal psychological decision. Because the US is a big country with big open spaces that has never been a problem. If you don't like crime, disorder or dysfunction you simply stay out of those areas. It's easy enough.

As someone who grew up in the heyday of Mercury, Gemini and Apollo, and aware of the German origins of rocket technology, if I ever visit Germany the Peenemünde Historical Technical Museum will be high on my list of things to see.

No, the repair laws in Germany do not make sense. It's typical authoritarian nonsense that is predicated on the notion that people are irresponsible and/or incompetent.

Erzgebirge in Saxony, especially during Advent, is a must trip.

The area North of Berlin, Mecklenburg, is absolutely beautiful. Lot's of lakes and soft Forest you can walk in, no dangerous wild animals.

Lived in US for a year. Amazing science at an amazing University, but very much in a bubble from all of the rest of the country. I love the natural scenery of the US, I love being a tourist in the big cities, but I cannot believe the problems that the US has with homelessness, drugs, gun violence, gang violence, medical treatment costs, inequalities when it comes to racial and financial aspects, and the fact that public transport is hilariously shit. But hey, at least the weather is good in California, you can Instacart yourself beer in the middle of the night, and Bitchin' Sauce is actually pretty bitchin'. I liked my time in the US, but I like my life in the Nordics. Don't like my opinion? Sue me, like the Americans do.

Hi Aston. I love watching your videos and reminiscing about living in Germany. It is great to see all the positive changes in Leipzig. My family and I visited there in the early 90’s. We could see great potential there, but massive change was clearly needed. I’m glad to see this forward looking and hardworking community made it happen. I look forward to visiting again.

Germans are generally good people and Germany as a country is extremely underrated. amazing place

I suspect that after the Queen of Tears kdrama, there is going to be a spike in tourism in the former East Germany, especially Potsdam and Sanssouci Palace, from travelers in East Asia.

idk last time I checked the country of East Germany didn’t exist anymore /s

I think American culture is stifled by the ignorance of socioeconomic issues surrounding money and wealth. It's like offering a helping hand to anyone is considered treason and unpatriotic because no one wants to admit that there is a need for help in "the land of the free and the home of the brave". The United States is culturally isolated from the rest of the world for no real reason other than patriotism.

You do you. You are free to go live in Europe and be all Europy. I've gotten around the world, beyond the limits of a little while here or there, and the States are the place for me. Oh, and I grew up in a small town in Oregon where Dutch, German, and English were combined with Spanish. Nowadays I live in Lower Alabama, and yep, French is a pretty important tongue. We are not, and never have been a monoglot unaculture, as you suggest. You might want to think about that. Oh, and next door in Florida? Yeah, the Spanish there may as well be a different language from what I grew up with. Chicano and Cubano are planets apart.

I love Kirschensteuer 😂. Cherry tax.

New generation is destroying our historical traditions without knowing what they mean the real different ways then we read about world history book. (4r)

I live in a small former coal mining town close to a large Western German city. There are a lot more "exotic" people nowadays, especially in the city. A lot more shops with foreign sounding names. At the Bushof groups of "youth" are hanging out all day. There used to be a bunch of nice shops next to the Bushof, like a small flower shop, a bakery ... Due to rising crime most of those shops have been standing empty for over a decade. One is now a sports betting place. The city was overall much nicer in the 90s. There are still nice areas. But only rich people can afford to live there. I never go to the city anymore unless I have to. I used to live there for a few years but moved back out and am a lot happier. I wouldn't want to live there now, especially not with small children.

Is it even possible to analyze the heritage with a DNA-test?

And the north (of Hamburg) is also always forgotten, when talking about Germany.

I like Leipzig over Dresden.

Damn, some of your remarks about EU and Germany are so rose-tinted, they are borderline propaganda xD

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Thank you for this great and informative video

Europe number one

Europe has different definition of homeless. If applied to America, the American homeless stats be even higher.

starting an argument by right or wrong is revelant and an insult to the europ

Görlitz is an especially charming town on the Polish border.

Come to Leipzig. Especially during the Book fair or the wave gothic treffen (WGT) :D. Saxon Switzerland is also amazing if you like hiking.

When I visited Ellis Island I found it highly interesting how in an exhibition on the people who went through there, a surprisingly high number was listed as coming from "Austria". Which was perfectly correct, at the time. Most of those were of course from Galicia, one of the poorest parts of the Austrian monarchy back in the days and ethnically primarily populated by ethnic Poles and Ukraines (and nowadays part of Poland and Ukraine). I would assume that their anchestors are nowadays identifying as Polish American or Ukrainian American if anything but it shows how much things can change back "at home".

To stick to the house analogy when it comes to wealth: In the US, there are many big and wonderful houses, but every one of them is surrounded by countless homeless people. Yes, everybody has the chance to live in such a house, even if they weren't born in one, but the odds are way way way higher that you'll be the homeless person enviously looking at the house. And even if you live in the house, you are constantly afraid the homeless people will do something to you or your house. Meanwhile in Europe, the houses are smaller, more modest, but almost everyone lives in a house, even if it's a shabby one. As a result they don't have to envious or afraid of each other.

Dear Ashton, I recomment visiting the Brocken mountain in the Harz region and within it the city Wernigerode (taste the handmade and fresh Baumkuchen) and a few other citys arround it, as well as the lake and marshland landscape in the east of Rostock. cheers

I remember when they called them Osies, and said they were from druben.

millennials love their voice too much, this could be a nice 4 mins video 🙄 blablabla

I remember having cake and coffee at a cafe next to a bombed out church in West Berlin.

My Aunt lives in Hamburg. Will probably have to go there soon. She is 90 and lives alone.

It took a long time for East Germany to be interrated into Western Germany. The roads alone had to be updated from the outside to the inside. I remember driving to my brothers apartment in Smalkalden. So many potholes. Huge ones. We weaved around them. Buildings were updated as roads were updated.

Dresden should have made the bridge look more old fashioned instead of modern. It does ruin the landscape. It was needed but needed to fit into the environment better.

too many nazis

After the wall came down my brother moved to Smallkalden in East Germany. He lived there for a few years before moving stateside. The stories he would tell us.

I am one of those having grown up and living in western Germany who has hardly ever visited the former east - except for Berlin that is. I only ever visited Dresden (back in 1991) and Wartburg in Thuringia. And I think that travel patterns actually have a lot to do with personal ties and family customs. Close relationships have been formed between West-Germans and their European neighbors over the decades after WW2 - through cultural and school exchange programs, trade and, yes, leisure travel. That is simply a result of politics, history and geography. Same is true for the German-American relationship. Tourism in Germany after the war was kick-started by American soldiers based here and their families. It is no coincidence that Rothenburg, Heidelberg or the Bavarian Alps are still popular destinations with visitors from the US and that more Americans have heard of those places than of Wernigerode, Dresden or Mecklenburg's lake district. Can't blame them.