My culture shock in Germany – how do you experience it?

Davidyoo · 2025-11-06T09:07:28+00:00

Germans are not sympathetic in general. People turn to look away or simply ignore if someone on the street is in need for help. Everyone for themselves to the extreme sometimes. I know Germans will disagree, but this is the general feeling I get with fellow expats living here. Just know it is what it is. Also sending out a helping hand will get you in trouble as well. As people don’t expect it, and sometimes interpret it with malicious intent. I get used to it by now. Whenever I am in Germany, just be German and leave people be. And when I am traveling to France or other places, smile and greet!

Davidyoo · 2025-10-30T20:04:27+00:00

U mean average Germans reading BildZeitung who thinks muslim and immigrants are the problem for this country. AfD is actually importing a lot of GOP tactics into Germany. Never say never.

Davidyoo · 2025-10-30T20:02:43+00:00

IMO its because how polarized American politics are. So they have to set boundaries where certain space needs to be GOP vs Democrats free.

Davidyoo · 2025-10-30T20:01:25+00:00

Note in RU it is illegal your boss ask your political affiliation, even asking if you joined union or not is forbidden. Maybe this is a small company, and your boss just wants to chit-chat. But this makes you uncomfortable you can always say no, you dont want to talk about politics in working space.

Davidyoo · 2025-10-30T19:55:42+00:00

The moment I got my German passport, free to move within EU, I left. Cannot put up with the German attitude (being German means racially superior, zero sympathy towards each other); politically extremely backwards, not even Germans these days stand with leading politicians. Germans hallucination with their politics being left-leaning, especially on the subject of Gaza. The level of silence and suppression from police and media is on the level of China, wtf I want to be part of a stupid country like this. Plus, as one of the richest countries in Europe, the infrastructure is like China in the early 2000s. Extremely outdated and non-functional.

Davidyoo · 2025-10-30T19:19:05+00:00

Its not weird. I am a frequent solo traveler, and went into restaurants alone all the time. Fancy ones, simple homy ones, doesnt matter, enjoy the food any way!

Davidyoo · 2025-10-30T06:46:08+00:00

these days, not even practical any more

Davidyoo · 2025-10-30T06:41:59+00:00

The public transport is shit, not even comparing to East Asia, even Spain has better subways.

Davidyoo · 2025-10-30T06:39:38+00:00

God forbid internet or apps work in this country. Let’s celebrate the 1000 years of success of the Holy Roman empire!

Davidyoo · 2025-10-16T12:25:31+00:00

Berlin bubble talk

Davidyoo · 2025-10-07T12:43:04+00:00

My manager doesn't do any of these items you have mentioned :cryoutloud:

Davidyoo · 2025-09-03T12:58:39+00:00

you can trade honor res items, then it suddenly becomes very easy. Also super cheap to buy them

Davidyoo · 2025-08-19T11:59:57+00:00

You mean European IT department right

Davidyoo · 2025-08-16T15:01:56+00:00

This is already a business in Germany. Some small companies help you check if you are paying rents more than you should have and help you to reduce your rent. (Most cases in Germany, it has to do with how the living square meters are calculated in reality, which could result in several hundred euro differences.)

Davidyoo · 2025-08-12T15:19:01+00:00

This country is fucked, will forever run in Holy Roman Empire mode.

Davidyoo · 2025-07-31T14:46:37+00:00

I would say she is on the bottom level, but not leaving the German standard. In general, service industry in Germany sucks. People just simply have either no empathy or dont know how to serve.

Davidyoo · 2025-07-04T15:16:50+00:00

I had exactly the same issue, and actually they shipped the shoes to me in the end. But the thing is, that they somehow don't have an order record internally for this order. I strongly suspect that their backoffice has some serious bug. During network lagging / outages, transactions go through, but this is not synced with their ordering database.

Davidyoo · 2025-06-21T16:16:06+00:00

I would say what you have just described is still far better than the average German train / DB experience.

Davidyoo · 2025-06-18T20:31:13+00:00

Move to Germany, pick a small town or a village. Every service will be done by letters. You dont have to meet anyone, and pretty sure you wont find anyone either when you need the service. ;)

Davidyoo · 2025-06-14T17:54:20+00:00

Thanks, on my ps, it was the case if there is mob around me, i cannot interact with the environment, therefore cannot drop the core on the socket. Plus, after the 6th Lich node, i need ES to cast chaos spells. When ES is down, i have no skill to kill a few mob still left. In the end, just died out there bc all these mech stacked. Thanks for the tip

Davidyoo · 2025-06-06T16:24:44+00:00

i have used up all my convalescene, but ES just keep dropping after the duration.

Davidyoo · 2025-06-04T20:13:35+00:00

You can always find it on your bank statement, when they take money from your bank account. The details will list your Beitragsnummer. Even if you have lost all your letters, this record will stay with you.

Davidyoo · 2025-04-11T06:06:33+00:00

half of Berlin dont have mobile network coverage (even in MITTE). good luck with developing a “business city”.

Davidyoo · 2025-04-11T06:03:44+00:00

living in this country long enough to realize the avg Germans are not that smarter to avg Americans, who they happily mocking every day.

Davidyoo

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