"She is...the Most Interesting Woman in the World."

Amazing vid, pal. Thanks for sharing!

- About 2,1552 trillion € debts and still paying for any bs Europe wants someone to pay for
- Angela Merkel / Wolfgang Schäuble / Otto Schily etc.. = CDU/SPD
- Gentrification / Precarisation
- Massive media control - no real free press
- Karneval (primary in Cologne and Mainz)
- Oktoberfest (Bavaria)
- Most people are intolerant radicals in some way when it comes to politics, there's no reasonable middle ground
- Impoliteness and disrespect to everyone that is not part of one's own peer group
- Obession with certificates: There are certificates for everything, even selling buns (yes, really), you're worth nothing if you can't get them for financial or whatever reasons
- Rapidly degenerating language (the genitive died first, now the accusative is following)
- Nearly no own traditional music embedded in German culture anymore besides the rich classical elite
- The whole "family" concept is nearly dead, one of the reasons for the lowest birth rate on this planet right here
- Extremely ruthless car drivers that care more about a scratch on their tin can than another persons life
- Regional pricing
- Humour mostly based on malice

Well, I guess most of this isn't exclusively German, but Germany is pretty efficient in all of this.

Wait! How is that bad?

Can you elaborate on this? I don't quite follow.

Even more drunken tourists than the usual amount.

http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1991216,00.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/germany-s-birth-rate-lowest-in-the-world-according-to-study-10286525.html
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32929962

- Our neighbours have too much influence over our economy, foreign and domestic policy.
- Continued poor treatment of First Nations people
- Francophone nationalists
- Our head of state is an old lady in another country that doesn't have a real job.
- We get every garbage trend from our neighbours to the south.

AHHHHHHHHHHHH

Or those chip shops that charge 50p for a large packet of ketchup.

That place was Scottish run though >_>

You forgot a few, namely the Flames, Jets, Canucks, and Maple Leafs.

YOU SHUT YOUR WHORE MOUTH!

In Finland we have a prime minister who has done the same! (He's an engineer, after all.)

http://jalopnik.com/el-camino-driving-jalopnik-endorsed-badass-elected-lea-1699009361

Everything that the rest of the world assumes about America. Anything related to 'Murica from a foreigners' perspective. Don't get me wrong, I hate Egypt, Japan, France, Italy, Sweden and Britain just as much as I hate America. We're all equally fubar here. But the 'we do everything right and we're going to bomb you and give your grieving relatives Mcdonalds burgers at your funeral' attitude is overplayed and poorly imitated as a divisive tactic. Get people to hate America for being arrogant and belligerent, then get Americans paranoid of that criticism so they will rally around the very bad taste that others had painted them for having.

Quite a nice trick. It'd be like telling the Germans just how shitty Hitlers mustache was, then the next week seeing 50 million Germans all marching around with matching Hitler 'staches. I'm not really sure anyone is getting the point here.

Holy crap!
When I first saw an El Camino in here, oh boy... such a glorious day.
This finnish dude has a genuine smiley face, eh?

But he ain't beating this adorable old fella as my favorite finn ever! :P

Canada sounds like the perfect holiday destination for me because I hate going on holiday. Presumably you don’t cook bacon until it’s a jagged glass shard, the weather leaves minimal bugs, and if you squint really hard the Mounties kind of look like British palace guards.

Racist: Even though we've been multicultural for decades, due to lax immigration laws for years, we still tend to not trust any other nationalities that isn't Western European or commonwealth. 'Foreigners' would a common term to hear around here.

Conservative: This is not just referring to political conservatism (and especially not the US one), but the Irish tend to try maintain the status quo as long as possible in a lot of aspects of their lives. The major political parties rely more on populist tactics rather than unique stances in this regard.

Alcoholism: The stereotypes are mainly true to be honest and it'd be hypocritical of me to complain about it but I can imagine how alienating it'd feel to anyone who wasn't fond of drink to grow up here.

Easygoing: Nicknamed the 'Sure, be grand' attitude, the Irish have a tendency to not really worry too much about problems. While, this is a positive trait most of the time, it means they tend to not be too concerned with problems until it's too late. This is pretty how Ireland went from the highest GDP per capita in the world at one stage to one of the worst western economies as of late.

Hmm, the example might be badly chosen, not because of Hitler but because of the moustaches??

If you mean that some people take criticism to bury themselves even deeper into their own world instead of looking over the horizon, then yes.

What is really good is living in another country for some time. You realize very well what they are doing wrong and what is wrong in your own country. Doesn't mean that one can change anything but definitely gives a better perspective on things.

Thinking for yourself also helps. "Gods own country" (US), "Poland for the Poles" (Poland), "Russia, Russia" (Russia), "Turkey is invincible" (Turkey), ... One doesn't need long to reach the conclusion, even when the slogan is about the own country, that a lot of these slogans are either strongly exaggerated (if one wants to express it politely) or outright bullshit. This should mean that one stops listening to and taking part in them, not that one tries to continue even more fiercely with them.