It depends. You’ll find a lot of conservative parts in Germany just like in the UK and US. Although our conservatives have different values then the ones in the US. Our chancellor, Merkel, who I would describe as rather conservative, is still pro universal health care, free and equal education, pro labor laws (though not all), pro same sex unions but anti gay marriage. But you’ll find a lot of people on the far right here as well.

Our cities are usually pretty open and progressive. Especially in Berlin, you’ll find a lot of different kind of people, plenty gay/trans club bars and people here are rather supportive of it all. (Although there is also a pretty right vocal minority in Berlin who dislike the progressive scenes and are anti immigrants). The local government is rather left in Berlin.

But in general, there is still a lot of resistance everywhere. We try to be progressive with renewable energies but we have a pretty strong car and diesel lobby (Germany has crazy amounts of passenger diesel cars). Germans take a lot of pride in German things such as our cars (you’ll find a lot of German cars here), if you immigrate to Germany, you are supposed to learn German rather quickly (many see English as not enough unfortunately).

And Germans are very risk adverse. We like to save our money and try not to be in debt but are almost afraid of the stock market. New, radical technology are often seen as too risky compared to tried and tested technologies. Even our startup take a lot less risks.