The Germans' Love of Order And Rules | Your Inner German
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- čas přidán 22. 05. 2024
- There are rules for everything in Germany: The Hausordnung, the Brandordnung, the Seeschifffahrtsstrassenordnung, the Schrebergartenordnung... Euromaxx reporter Josephine Günther has set off to find out whether the cliché that Germans love rules and order is really true. In doing so, she is repeatedly confronted by her own conscience: her inner German, both an angel and a devil, keeping a watchful eye on her. She judges everything according to stereotypical German standards and has plenty to complain about. Just how typically German is typically German?
Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:46 Waste Separation
1:17 Glass Recycling
2:41 Bathroom Rules
3:22 Cleaning up
3:40 Disturbance of the Peace
4:29 Outro
#Germany #GermanVirtues #Order
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CREDITS
Report: Josephine Günther, Shaheen Welling
Camera: Marco Borowski
Edit: Florian Mettke
Supervising Editor: Mirja Viehweger
Neighbor: Shaheen Welling
Dog: Ole
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So what happens after you wipe yourself on the toilet, do you need to recycle the toilet paper?
Not quite, it’s flushed 😅
Wait. There are people crumple the toilet paper before using?
The implication was that Americans do. Maybe some do. I'm not aware that it's a national trend.
In my school days, in the 1970s, refunds on bottles were very normal. But Coca-Cola Amatil doesn't make its money on the fizzy liquid, it makes its profit on making (new) containers. From 1980 until nearly 2020, Coca-Cola Amatil successfully lobbied Australian politicians, at both the State and Federal level, to stop the refunding of 'empties'. And when that didn't work, they took governments to court. Active government regulations are essential, but Australian politicians look less to their responsibilities now, and more to their 'retirement' into corporate sinecures later - a reward for a job well done... well done for the corporate lobbyists.
Pragmatic British approach: be tidy when you think someone's looking 🙂
They are just slow and they like keeping things on-going instead of taking action to solve. Both in private sector and government. Lack of efficiency but full of meetings/documents and time waste.
and in opposite to the States you wont ever hear "I can do it" or "I am a great person", Germans are the negativity in person and when you once be optimistic wow there cant be any credibility to that!!! 🎉
To be honest, we could use bit more order here in the US. We separate the recycling, but not into as many waste streams as you do. The recycling itself is often not handled properly by the waste management company. Recent articles have pointed out that much of the recycling is never actually recycled. We could definitely use the Ruhezeit though. Motorcycles are often unnecessarily loud and people are running their lawnmowers and blowers at all hours including Sundays. And I suspect that if we weren’t so acquisitive, there would be more people parking their cars in their garages, rather than using the garage as a free storage unit. In the parks it would be nice if e-bikes, and e-scooters weren’t allowed, and dogs were on leashes all the time. There’s always someone who believes the rules don’t apply to them. When my wife and I encounter these people on our walks I always turn to her and say “Germany” - sort of shorthand for “we need to move to Germany”.
I agree. The walking paths in our main park have basically turned into e-bike and e-scooter highways despite large sgins showing their prohibition. I used to have a neighbor who ran his lawnmower at 6:30 a.m. every other Sunday morning during Summer. Can't stand loud cars ( the Japense cars are the worse with a big can exhaust screaming at 100 mph while the car struggles through the gears) The worst noise for me is when people bring bluetooth speakers on hiking/backpacking trails. If a bear attacked them, I would stand by and eat a snack and watch...and give the bear dessert.
@@weirdshibainuAnd then you'd become dessert.......😊😊😊😊
@@toomuchinformation not at all....
USA is trash all over
No, please don't bring these horrible things to the USA, freedom is to be cherrished and putting everybody in a stray jacket of 1 million rules and laws is terrible. If you want that, move to Germany and you will love it there I ran away, left the place and I'm so glad about it.
Quite a difference between 'tidy' and 'in ordnung' in my opinion.
From Kraftwerk to Johann Sebastian Bach, German MUSIC is very ordered. In a good way!
Also, I only use German microphones in my studio!
What a cute little elf. Think, I fall in love. With her attitude of course. As a german, I almost had no choice 😂.
My little German is something very different in my world.
My house is a "black hole"...things go in but nothing comes out!
Love this!!.....lol! 🤣🤣🤣
My house has several small black holes where things just disappear. Only very rarely some of that can escape the black hole again after years.
Once at 10:10 pm my neighbors came upstairs to us to say that the music is loud even tho it was only playing since 5 minutes and it was my mothers birthday.
He screamed at me and i teached him a lesson i bet he will never complain again.
Great video. There arer, however, some million germans who do not abide the rules. 🤗 Manchmal muss man Prioritätn setzen.😅
Are they the “newcomers?”
I was one of them, I left, emigrated to the USA and wow, love it here. No people that constantly want to torture you with their stuffy rules or people that are so noise sensitive. "Lärmsensibelchen"
Life is too short to be like this 😂
Garden waste and compost are two different things?
It depends on the type of garden waste. Usually compost is for organic stuff and garden was that can rot in time, e.g. not big branches
@@ChristophS That makes sense.
German order died out in the generations past, I was born there & see very little of that time nowadays 🧐
Which is a good thing.
Not really, as you can see by this video, Spiessertum is alive and well (ARGHHH). I gladly left and don't have to be annoyed by the small minded (kleinlichen) Mitbürgern anymore.
The downside of this is inflexibility, the results of which we see in today's German economy.
No. It was Merkel being Putins b*tch
There is always advantages and disadvantages
Third economy in the world despite only 80M population; we’re not doing bad. If we don’t grow more is because perhaps infinite growth is a fantasy
@@hypernewlapsenobody knows if infinite growth is a fallacy or not. There has been many studies from people much better versed in the matter than me or you who have come to the conclusion.
@@hypernewlapse The growth problem is that Frau Merkel's guests are a huge drain on the economy and contribute virtually nothing. You cannot expect people with a 7th century mentality to be productive in a 21st century world
Sitting down to pee as a man is just common sense. There is zero chance of spillage.
I don't know what world you live in but in my world such a thing doesn't happen. If an American man admitted he sat down to pee he would be ridiculed mercilessly. As for splash-over, the house cleaner takes care of that.
@@AlaskaErik Do american men often share how they pee with others?
Ok. This is a great piece of work. But Josephine is soooo my type.
I'm Pennsylvania Dutch, so I too have the orderliness and cleanliness genes. Apparently, in my case they're recessive, so the best I can do is to suffer extreme angst over my failures.
Your neighbor should be glad you're only vacuuming after 22:00. We've got a neighbor (or regular visitor) who drives by around 02:00 at high speed blaring their horn.
Sitzpinkler - Stehpinkler, vast debate. Just because 62% of German men say they sit down to pee, doesn't mean they actually do sit down to pee.
Swiss rules are meant to create a well functioning system. German rules are meant to keep people on short leash, especially those seen "others". E.g. a German can call Ordnungsamt if you play Music at 10:02 PM, but you cannot tell anything to a German, if he speaks loudly in ICE Ruhebereich.
Discrimination is not allowed in rental market, but proving it is impossible in same set of "rules", so it is de-facto allowed.
love Germanic sense of order! It creates clarity.
The wrapper? Germans can't print on plastic?
The paper gives strength to the cup so that less plastic is needed and the plastic is cleaner. And paper is better recyclable and probably better to print on.
Since I have a boyfriend, my sense of order is more like Josephine's.... 😅 BTW: I am half German...
No, I will not answer that.
Germans are awesome! They rule 😉
I‘m German, but untidy. We exist.
Ich, auch!!!
Too much order begets bureaucracy ,a little reason why Europe is falling to innovate
Yes, because there is a thing called neophobia that has German in its grip: Old = good, new = evil and bad, must be avoided. There are now a ton of new laws that fight and prevent new technologies and make sure Germany is slowly turning into a 3rd world country and won't export anything anymore (nobody wants obsolete old technology)
For some reason Germans like to be renters, which I'll never understand. That means following someone else's rules all the time. I like waking up in my own house every morning, and not someone else's. Shortly after I was finished with university I bought my first house and I've been a homeowner ever since. I can do what I want when I want and it won't disturb the neighbors because they are too far away to hear anything. And we don't have any silly laws about mowing the yard on Sunday or vacuuming after 10 pm. Not that my housekeeper would ever clean my house that late.
Most Germans can't afford to buy a house and the government has no law or right or even encouragement (or incentives) for them, they accept that the rich people own their house, the normal people can't. That is different in the US, even though thanks to speculation and people getting lots of money from selling their house, flipping properties, the house prices have been going up like crazy.
Wow, I'm glad I escaped all this stupidity with order and forced silence, now I live free and relaxed in the US, with a ton more freedom. "Ordnung ist das halbe Leben" is actually a pretty idiotic saying "order is half of life" means that you are wasting 50% of your life just to keep order and being obsessed with keeping the rules? You are not doing much with your life and are wasting it.
What's it like in my country? Do I separate the waste?
Actually, no. Everything goes in my trash can. Paper, glass, food, cans, magazines, light bulbs, batteries, old electronics, printer cartridges and toner cassettes, grass clippings, everything. And every week my 64 gallon (242 liter) trash can goes to the edge of my driveway, gets picked up and goes to the local landfill. Much easier than going through all that nonsense about separating everything out.
I heard in Germany man not allowed to stay in house. A man must work.
Is this for real? Totalitarian!
Separating waste is below dignity😅
This is the most annoying video I seen to date. I switched it off after 2 min.
What I’d like to see is a mom with small kids doing this