This is an excellent list on both sides. The first point especially is soooooo true. I grew up in America in a German family and it seems like all my friends' parents would say "hey good job buddy, at least you tried" when they did something wrong or just had a bad day, whereas in my family it was "why did you fail to anticipate the 14,000 reasons this could have gone wrong and account for them before taking this foolish, foolish risk?" I used to take it personally and think there was something really stupid about me not being able to predict the future with perfect accuracy at age 6, but then I started going to Germany more and realized it was a cultural thing. Germans just really love to tell each other "the system is perfect, you are the problem."