Poll: Do you like germany?

[GeorgW]

I just spent a few days there, it's been very nice. I also have family there, so yeah, I like it. Why do you ask?

 

[dlsevern]

I would like to visit there one day, I'm sick to death of the U.S.

 

[oktalist]

This is the country that single-handedly started the bloodiest war in the history of mankind and used the opportunity to commit atrocities that were so unimaginable that people had to see them with their own eyes to believe it.

Hitler was a democratically elected leader and had massive public support.

There's nothing in particular about the German people that made them more susceptible to the influence of Hitler and Naziism. It could've happened anywhere. There was anti-Semitic feeling all over the world. There were fascist governments in Italy and Japan that had just as much claim to being democratically elected as did the Nazi party. Don't kid yourself that the Allies fought against them just because they were against fascism, because they weren't particularly bothered by it. There were Nazi sympathisers everywhere. They simply fought against the fascist countries because they threatened the Allies' power, regardless of their ideology.

Also it wasn't that long ago, NSDAP members are still alive and make up a large portion of Germans.

Anyone who was an adult in 1939 would now be 90 years old. So there's maybe a handful of them.

There are neo-Nazi groups in every country.

You couldn't be more wrong, or more full of hate.

EDIT: Also, Germany is below the EU average for hate crimes, having fewer than either France, Denmark, Luxembourg, Belgium, the UK, the Netherlands or Sweden. Source: here [http://www.europeansafetyobservatory.eu/downloads/EUICS%20-%20The%20Burden%20of%20Crime%20in%20the%20EU.pdf] (page 52).

 

[Jake0fTrades]

SNIP

I can understand that, but on the bright side, Germans are probably the least likely to start a major war, if only because you know how horrible the consequences would be.

 

[Nickolai77]

Germany's probably one of my favourite countries, i love their the food and drink and the the fact that it's a European country which has managed to keep it's industry alive and prospering, I wish we could have done that in the UK...

Quite a few of my favourite bands are also from Germany: Helloween, Gamma-Ray, Blind Guardian, Rammstein, Reiter....I like the heavy metal that comes from Germany. And some of the posters have said that the girls are good looking, so yeah, all the more reason for me to go back to visit Germany i guess!

 

[A-D.]

Great Music, from Classical over Metal to Techno and Industrial (AKA Goth Music)
Two big Events centered around Music, Wacken and the WGT (Wave Gothic Treffen)
Octoberfest

1) Industrial is not aka Goth-music, neither is techno or metal.some early industrial bands were part of goth culture but thats it (well and we adopted the abominable cyber-scene,who call their techno stuff "industrial" without a hint of knowledge what industrial is. we are just too nice for this world)
2) It's called Wave Gotik Treffen
3)Oktoberfest

apart from that i'm ok with your post

Actually i made those alterations on purpose.

1: I meant Industrial being part of the Goth Culture, or rather Music in that sense, i did not mean to include Techno or metal into this. Although some Subgenres of metal would fit to some degree i suppose.
2: To a non-german, or rather non-goth most would get confused at the name being Gotik instead of Gothic, hence why i wrote it as such. I mean by and large its basicly that anyway ;P
3: Obvious because Oktober is spelled as October in english so there.

Just pointing that out since you felt it necessary to point it out ;P

 

[lunam-kardas]

Are you kidding?! It's the land of meat and beer! Tis the land of manly guys and badass ladies!

 

[Loop Stricken]

It was always raining and nobody like us bloody Yanks.

You'd think they'd get on better with the British then...

From when I visited, the air is clearer than London.

Mud is clearer than the air in London.

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

When I went there it was pretty nice, I guess.

 

[Kitteh]

One day I'll go there and do a multi-city vacation: Bremerhaven, Hamburg, Freiburg, Munich, Vienna. West Germany FTW!

Vienna is a city (the capital city to be precisely) in Austria, not Germany. But you will be welcome in Vienna, too (even though all people from Vienna I know, are a bit (or more) crazy but maybe that says more about me than about people from Vienna ) [/footnote]

Well yeah of course wien ist im österreich i always sorta include austria as germany since its the same people ethnically. the major difference, historically, is austria remaining catholic while germany went protestant.

 

[Hanzo Hattori]

I'm from Austria, it's pretty much the same thing apart from the fact that over here we aren't as biased as our neighbor. Lots of Austrians don't come along with Germans, personally I quite like them, I can't see why there's such a rivalry anyways.

Oh, by the way, Hitler was Austrian. Most of you will know that, I just wanted to point that out.

 

[Creator002]

Deutschland, Deutschland! Mein Lieblingsland! Niemand kann Deutschland lieben mehr als ich!

The last sentence should be "Niemand kann Deutschland mehr lieben als ich!"
That's all. You are doing great

Danke schön. Wenn Leute wie du mir helfen, kann ich mein Deutsch verbessern.

 

[Smokej]

the baron approves this country


apart from some common problems you have in every first world country, this country has everything you can wish for (a leading culture in europe, cutting edge technology and engineering, strong economy, high standard of living...)

 

[Booze Zombie]

I have no dislike of Germany, but I haven't been there so I can't have a positive opinion, either.

 

[ThisIsSnake]

I'm under the impression that Germany is magical.

In the past 100 years they've been brutalised on the losing side of one of the most depressing wars in history which ended in mass starvations due to naval blockades.

They were economically annihilated by the Treaty of Versailles.

They had hyper inflation under the Weimar. Leading to poverty all round.

They were on the losing side of the bloodiest war in human history.

Said war split the country in two with the East side in the horrible USSR.

All that and they are still more economically powerful than the majority of 1st world Europe.

As well as that they:

Produced the Angles, Saxons and Jutes who formed the English.
Are a world leader in engineering, science, arts etc.
Gave the Romans their most brutal defeat.
And they invented the car.

 

[KezzieZ]

I spent a week there (and Austria) on vacation once and I enjoyed it. Most everyone was very friendly (one storekeeper was a bit snippy with my younger bro, but that was the only thing close to drama that happened with locals).

I spent my time in southern Germany (Bavaria) though and they tend to have that happy Germans stereotype as far as I've heard.

 

[holy_secret]

I mog de Saupreißen net.

I laughed so hard at this, I almost fell out of my chair.
How is it that a Swede even knows that exact expression, and in dialect no less? xD

Funny story. I made friends from der Oberpfalz, and learned to speak German from them. I just listened and picked it up from them.
I ended up learning Oberpfälzisch better than German, and feel more comfortable speaking in a way that too.
Believe me it's a pain in the ass for a non-native to switch between the dialects. It's so damn confusing. It's like speaking in Italian for one sec and then having to talk in Spanish.

 

[holy_secret]

I mog de Saupreißen net.

De Saupreiß mag di a ned, hoast mi?

Crazy Mountainfolk.At least they have to deal with the annoying tourists and we can live our lifes undisturbed

Joa fralle. Des dade a net

I think that dude kukulski should visit Germany as it is today before deciding how it is like over here.

 

[Sonicron]

I mog de Saupreißen net.

I laughed so hard at this, I almost fell out of my chair.
How is it that a Swede even knows that exact expression, and in dialect no less? xD

Funny story. I made friends from der Oberpfalz, and learned to speak German from them. I just listened and picked it up from them.
I ended up learning Oberpfälzisch better than German, and feel more comfortable speaking in a way that too.
Believe me it's a pain in the ass for a non-native to switch between the dialects. It's so damn confusing. It's like speaking in Italian for one sec and then having to talk in Spanish.

Oh, believe me, I know. I live about an hour from the border to Denmark, and when I visit my family down in Southern Germany there's a chance you'll meet people who speak a dialect that's basically its own language. Heck, I was born in Bavaria, and sometimes I can't understand some people when I'm in Munich.
Sounds like you learned that dialect via immersion therapy; rather impressive, I must say. Reminds me of that cool scene from "The 13th Warrior".

 

[holy_secret]

I mog de Saupreißen net.

I laughed so hard at this, I almost fell out of my chair.
How is it that a Swede even knows that exact expression, and in dialect no less? xD

Funny story. I made friends from der Oberpfalz, and learned to speak German from them. I just listened and picked it up from them.
I ended up learning Oberpfälzisch better than German, and feel more comfortable speaking in a way that too.
Believe me it's a pain in the ass for a non-native to switch between the dialects. It's so damn confusing. It's like speaking in Italian for one sec and then having to talk in Spanish.

Oh, believe me, I know. I live about an hour from the border to Denmark, and when I visit my family down in Southern Germany there's a chance you'll meet people who speak a dialect that's basically its own language. Heck, I was born in Bavaria, and sometimes I can't understand some people when I'm in Munich.
Sounds like you learned that dialect via immersion therapy; rather impressive, I must say. Reminds me of that cool scene from "The 13th Warrior".

What is immersion therapy? Worry not, for I shall wikipedia it!
Yeah but virtually everybody can speak standard German...right? I thought it was rude to speak different dialects to each other.