Poll: Do you like germany?

[Soushi]

Tis the homeland of my ancestors. I took a trip to Germany once, and the instant i touched the ground, i could feel a connection in my very blood, it felt like i was home.

Germany is beautiful, a little troubled still and dealing with some tough issues with more right around the corner, but they will push through. The feelings that you get the instant you put your feet on their soil, the richness of the history, the power of the architecture, the strength of its people and traditions, the depth of its culture, i love it all.

 

[GodOfBrown]

i love Germany. i think it's a really cool country and i love their cars, their guns, their architecture, their language and their history.

i was hoping to go to Berlin this year but i had to stay home due to poverty.

 

[JET1971]

Honestly from experiance I dont particularly care for the people even though I am part german. every one of them I have met acts like there shit dont stink and treats everyone like they are beneath them. Cocky stuck up people I dont like. I am sure there are plenty of Germans who dont act like that but I have yet to meet them and until then I wont have anything to do with the people.

as for the products they produce, they are good quality and allot of craftsmanship put into them. I recently bought my daughter a german chef knife set and am comfortable knowing they are of the best quality.

 

[Henkie36]

Objectively, there is no good reason not to go on a holiday to Germany. The roads are nice and wide, not congested all the time, there are plenty of campsites and hotels, which are all very clean, there's plenty of stuff to see, there's the same climate as northern France, so that's fine. Most of the Germans don't speak any other language, but the same is true for the French, the Italians, Spaniards and so forth.

The thing is, you just don't go there. It doesn't have a welcoming feel to it when you drive into the country, or the wow-factor when you drive throught a beautiful peace of France. German is not a very elegant langauge to learn, because it's only spoken in Germany and a few countries around it, and for the rest, it's only good as a langauge to shout at someone, or maybe in the military.

I live no more then ten miles from it's western border, and the only reason I cross that border is to use the A35 to get myself into the north side of my own country.

 

[Lilitu]

One day I'll go there and do a multi-city vacation: Bremerhaven, Hamburg, Freiburg, Munich, Vienna. West Germany FTW!

Vienna is a city (the capital city to be precisely) in Austria, not Germany. But you will be welcome in Vienna, too (even though all people from Vienna I know, are a bit (or more) crazy but maybe that says more about me than about people from Vienna )

Deutschland, Deutschland! Mein Lieblingsland! Niemand kann Deutschland lieben mehr als ich![footnote]Apologies for any mistakes. Still learning.[/footnote]

The last sentence should be "Niemand kann Deutschland mehr lieben als ich!"
That's all. You are doing great

OT: I was born in Germany and still live there.
I don't love Germany and there are Germans I like and a lot I don't like but that has nothing to do with nationality of any kind. But I guess Germany is kinda okay. I don't have to starve and I don't have to experience physical oder mental violence. There's a lot that could be better but a lot that could be worse.
I have learned a lot about WWII (more than about WWI) in school and I feel ashamed of what happend, what people from my homecountry did to so many other people.[footnote]And apologies for any mistakes. Still trying to become better [/footnote]

 

[VaudevillianVeteran]

From when I visited, the air is clearer than London. The people seem pretty serious and the food isn't that great apart from the pretzels, but none the less, a beautiful country and had a great time there. So yeah, liking them.

 

[Instinct Blues]

They haven't done anything to me personally to make me hate them or like them. I guess I'm indifferent to them, but I do respect them for teaching a war that made their country infamous throughout the world. Other than that Germany is just another country I can't judge because my country doesn't really have its shit together.

 

[dancinginfernal]

A friend of mine lived there for 5 years.

Very kind people, obviously had its share of assholes but mostly nice. He was invited to a neighbor's home and shared dinner there as a welcoming when he first arrived.

I have an extremely large about of respect for the German people. They survived the ridicule of WWI, the Depression that came after, and managed to stay strong even to this day after Hitler abused them. Really great people.

 

[Julianking93]

Ouch. Let me guess: Google Translate? xD

>.> <.<
Probably XD
I couldn't remember what the last part meant so I had to look that up >.<

 

[GeorgW]

I just spent a few days there, it's been very nice. I also have family there, so yeah, I like it. Why do you ask?

 

[dlsevern]

I would like to visit there one day, I'm sick to death of the U.S.

 

[oktalist]

This is the country that single-handedly started the bloodiest war in the history of mankind and used the opportunity to commit atrocities that were so unimaginable that people had to see them with their own eyes to believe it.

Hitler was a democratically elected leader and had massive public support.

There's nothing in particular about the German people that made them more susceptible to the influence of Hitler and Naziism. It could've happened anywhere. There was anti-Semitic feeling all over the world. There were fascist governments in Italy and Japan that had just as much claim to being democratically elected as did the Nazi party. Don't kid yourself that the Allies fought against them just because they were against fascism, because they weren't particularly bothered by it. There were Nazi sympathisers everywhere. They simply fought against the fascist countries because they threatened the Allies' power, regardless of their ideology.

Also it wasn't that long ago, NSDAP members are still alive and make up a large portion of Germans.

Anyone who was an adult in 1939 would now be 90 years old. So there's maybe a handful of them.

There are neo-Nazi groups in every country.

You couldn't be more wrong, or more full of hate.

EDIT: Also, Germany is below the EU average for hate crimes, having fewer than either France, Denmark, Luxembourg, Belgium, the UK, the Netherlands or Sweden. Source: here [http://www.europeansafetyobservatory.eu/downloads/EUICS%20-%20The%20Burden%20of%20Crime%20in%20the%20EU.pdf] (page 52).

 

[Jake0fTrades]

SNIP

I can understand that, but on the bright side, Germans are probably the least likely to start a major war, if only because you know how horrible the consequences would be.

 

[Nickolai77]

Germany's probably one of my favourite countries, i love their the food and drink and the the fact that it's a European country which has managed to keep it's industry alive and prospering, I wish we could have done that in the UK...

Quite a few of my favourite bands are also from Germany: Helloween, Gamma-Ray, Blind Guardian, Rammstein, Reiter....I like the heavy metal that comes from Germany. And some of the posters have said that the girls are good looking, so yeah, all the more reason for me to go back to visit Germany i guess!

 

[A-D.]

Great Music, from Classical over Metal to Techno and Industrial (AKA Goth Music)
Two big Events centered around Music, Wacken and the WGT (Wave Gothic Treffen)
Octoberfest

1) Industrial is not aka Goth-music, neither is techno or metal.some early industrial bands were part of goth culture but thats it (well and we adopted the abominable cyber-scene,who call their techno stuff "industrial" without a hint of knowledge what industrial is. we are just too nice for this world)
2) It's called Wave Gotik Treffen
3)Oktoberfest

apart from that i'm ok with your post

Actually i made those alterations on purpose.

1: I meant Industrial being part of the Goth Culture, or rather Music in that sense, i did not mean to include Techno or metal into this. Although some Subgenres of metal would fit to some degree i suppose.
2: To a non-german, or rather non-goth most would get confused at the name being Gotik instead of Gothic, hence why i wrote it as such. I mean by and large its basicly that anyway ;P
3: Obvious because Oktober is spelled as October in english so there.

Just pointing that out since you felt it necessary to point it out ;P

 

[lunam-kardas]

Are you kidding?! It's the land of meat and beer! Tis the land of manly guys and badass ladies!

 

[Loop Stricken]

It was always raining and nobody like us bloody Yanks.

You'd think they'd get on better with the British then...

From when I visited, the air is clearer than London.

Mud is clearer than the air in London.

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

When I went there it was pretty nice, I guess.

 

[Kitteh]

One day I'll go there and do a multi-city vacation: Bremerhaven, Hamburg, Freiburg, Munich, Vienna. West Germany FTW!

Vienna is a city (the capital city to be precisely) in Austria, not Germany. But you will be welcome in Vienna, too (even though all people from Vienna I know, are a bit (or more) crazy but maybe that says more about me than about people from Vienna ) [/footnote]

Well yeah of course wien ist im österreich i always sorta include austria as germany since its the same people ethnically. the major difference, historically, is austria remaining catholic while germany went protestant.