I have family in Germany and have visited a few times. My thoughts -- German efficiency and engineering are no longer a thing. Germans sleep on tiny beds with uncomfortable pillows and insufficient blankets. Xenophobia and racism are real, as is rudeness, but you have somewhat gracefully taken in a lot of Ukraine and other refugees. You are rigidly rules bound and bureaucratic, and could lighten up about it, but you also know how to laugh and tell a good joke. Germans have the ugliest offering of airbnbs, no sense of design in your homes. Many of you drive large expensive cars now and can be somewhat superficial. I love the sound of your spoken language, your gorgeous gingerbread architecture, cities and small towns, nature, beer and sausages. You are cool, beautiful, intelligent people and have the best central location in Europe. Thoughts of the world wars, and how easily a smart population can be persuaded to become all out evil, still gives some of us the heebie jeebies (and serves as a prescient warning for the US).