Pretty sure many ancient civs had marketplaces while germany was nothing but wild tribesmen

This always gets me. People trashing American culture yet consumes it just as much as Americans themselves. I will be the first to admit our culture is pretty garbage in a lot of ways but it is ours and we take ownership of it.

What's their excuse? Is their culture so bland that they have to reappropriate ours and have the nerve to complain about it? Lmao.

pillaging foreign lands what? We Vikings now lol....
If we pulled the bases out of every country they would fall on their face defense wise and money wise due to the amount of money and jobs we pump into the countries. You're delusional brah. Yes I would fight to the death, pretty silly if you think I wouldn't I have pride in my country and have zero problems laying it down to protect my children and fellow countryman's children/families. That is what separates us from you...we are the bad guys keeping bad guys from entering your doorway.

The world will consume whatever is dominant at the time. At the moment, that happens to be America. When the Romans ran chit, everyone was consuming Roman culture. It doesn't mean American culture is better or fit for consumption, it's just the story of the day. The thing non-US people dislike is general ignorance about freedom, or believing a US citizen is more free than say a Norwegian citizen. The second thing is believing America has a right to run everyone over and be the world police because it has aircraft carriers, nuclear missiles and military tech. It's just very narcissistic. The end goal at that stage obviously isn't international harmony. It's the US vs. the world.

The U.S. has done some great, amazing things - but the people who did those things do not correlate to the general populace of America. You can't take credit for Oppenheimer's (a German immigrant by the way) work, extend it to all of America and use it as a tool for national pride.

Strong username to avatar to post content correlation.

u are either a soyboy or a religion of peace follower cause all u spite is utter BS, and i know what im talking about cause i was a long time in berlin and its GONE, DRUGS, GANGS, RAPEFUGEES

Brah tell me about it.

- Some hate our culture, yet most of the things they own or desperately want have all been created by Americans.


- Cringe when I see people bashing America, on a website created by an American and probably running Windows or OSX or on an iPhone.....just LMAO

LMAO what are you going on about.

- We are the world police because it is forced on us, it's not by choice.

- Whenever there's a terrorist attack or natural disaster...what country is called upon 1st and sought after for aid....That's right AMERICA! But then you want to talk chit about us


If other country's would handle their own chit we wouldn't have to get involved


And It's not about taking credit, it's about being proud of what our culture has and continues to contribute to the rest of the world and defending it when jelly people bash us.

Lol if u think ur government and its institutions give a phuk about u . American/western culture is top notch , but spreading it is not why we invade other countries.

Strong this.

Culture is a pretty broad term. There are lots of aspects of American culture and some might appeal to foreigners others might not.
Someone might like Hollywood movies but dislike American gun culture.

If we compare popular music and movies, noone in his right mind would argue that Germany can keep up with America.
If we talk about classic architecture or literatre it looks quite different though.

True, but Americans that appreciate those classic architecture or literature's aren't out here bashing those countries or their culture

The suppression of free speech is nice too like when a grandma was arrested when she criticized Germany's lax immigration policy on ********. But a lack of free speech is a small price to pay for multiculturalism amirite? Its not like Germany and Europe have any history of sliding into authoritarian governments. Wait...

repped off r/c

mirin haynas from the 'furt. Will go there just to leave a trail of girls wanting me to get a German citizenship. Getting sick and tired of these chicks in SoCal with that pie in the sky expectation.

serious question Op, how does the German citizenship thing work? pls explain

Brb every German woman taped during ww2 now proud to be German lulz

lol wut

gorgeous. but how is the plumbing? (srs)

Germany & Germans on average are higher level than your average American. That goes for most of Europe.
However, USA, in the rare case that you make it (very hard these days), and if you live in the right place, can be amazing.

Both countries are rapidly going down the drain though. USA has insane inequalities and the skill gap is widening, they are not producing the tools needed for a future economy (this is why Trump is talking so much about copying the German apprenticeship scheme).

Germany will go down the drain if they dont fix some key problems rapidly: Vast majority of the population is old and above 40. They just dont have enough people to cover the pensions of all the boomer generation that will soon retire (though they are planning to make people work until 70, if they can implement it). This is the non-public reason why Merkel allowed so many migrants to come into Germany, and why she incited that migrant wave to begin with. In the end, immigration is all about supporting Capitalism, Marx said it all in his manifesto.

What irks me the most though are uneducated Americans who think their country is #1, what I call the "conservative mindset" (common on here), when in fact their situation is getting worse and all indicators (education levels, crime, etc) are abysmal. In this many on the left wing of America actually are more critically thinking than their conservative counterparts. For instance, healthcare overhaul is absolutely needed, yet a good part of conservatives are dumbly against reform. Politics are also insanely polarized and it seems the retards are in charge.

Both countries would really benefit from learning from one another. Especially America from Germany, but there is still that cultural chauvinist attitude that makes people not even learn another language, in the USA. It retards progress.

Fellow German here. Yes it's great living here.

i like how "us has its own interests at heart" is somehow deemed a bad thing. whose interest should the US look out for? it's always easy to say "we should think globally", but then all actions should be done by America, cuz everyone else is too poverty or stupid to do anything.

how about everyone keeps the interest of their own people at heart instead of lining the pockets of few at the top?

i agree with 99% of what you said, except (and i'm sure you will agree) change (whether it be healthcare, education, etc) in America is very slow and it's a massive give and take. obamacare in essence is a wealth transfer system of sorts, and it will be easy to "fix" once the money hole it created is plugged with something else.
same with education. there is lots of money (worldwide) in dishing out useless diplomas; it's not that lucrative for the educational system to say "maybe 6 years of schooling isn't for everyone". that's 200+ per student lost. with government enforcing collection, it's a big win.
skilled trades are not sexy enough in present day America; vast majority of skilled tradesmen are hired by small business owners who cannot spend money on influencing the crowds into believing their job is sexy.

Lived in Fulda from age 1-6. Have been back 3 times and love Pascha. Idk if I'll ever go back though. Too much sand now.

The thing that I find crazy is that Americahas the number 1 economy in the world, undeniably, and thus produces an enormous amount of wealth. Yet their government isn't capable of getting its **** together and invest in solid infrastructure, healthcare, lower cost education, etc? Not to mention the US debt which is monumental. There is literally no fiscal responsibility.

If a number of European countries can do it with maybe 15% of the wealth America produces, then what the F is happening here? On the other hand, USA is great at feeding its massive military industrial complex, and bailing out investment banks when they fail. I just think there is a massive crony-corruption problem, and worst of all the population is uneducated about the topics, led into useless partisanship, and really the country will be in trouble if it doesn't reform very quick. I do hope Trump proves all the doubters wrong and actually implements some reforms though.

Personally, I think progressives, if they would stop (for the love of God) always inciting and pushing the crazy trends (LGBT, transexuals, etc) that alienate middle America, would truly have the best program for America. A guy like Bernie Sanders actually made sense, if he didn't bow down to terrorists like BLM which should have not a single second of media time. So instead you got the lesser option (Trump), because people were just outraged.

I dont know, Im just speaking about all these trends because they scare me. The political situation in the US seems very volatile. Im not sure how the next elections will go.

It'ss to big and and not enough space. Which is why all the german boomers buy summer houses here lol ( Sweden)

part of the reason america has the number 1 economy is the cronyism, deregulation, etc. hell, even buying stock in defense contractor companies is good business. just look at raytheon.

How does importing a bunch of migrants from third world ****holes solve the aging population problem? Is an aging population and a low birthrate a problem? My entire life they have pushed that there is an overpopulation problem. Hmmm

Do you realize that the Germans and North Euros work the least in Europe if not the whole world? They are just more efficient.