Teacher Reacts To "Geography Now - Germany" [FAV COUNTRY]

what's up my name is michael i teach geography and today we're checking out germany make me the coolest teacher in school by subscribing let's go all right leader hoes and schnitzel beer bratwurst order bread and beer complicated history beer no humor edm and gummy bears that will kind of like give you diarrhea i expect him to mention the war i know germany is so much more but i love history i'm very interested in history and when i talk about germany that's the first thing i think of you know as with italy i think of roman empire so but it's like worth it ugh those are such horrible stereotypes that every german is so sick and tired of hearing wanna gummy bear oh they're good it's time to learn geography now hey everyone i'm your host barby so we've conquered belgium's castle jumped through denmark's lagoon danced through france's forest and now we've made it to the final boss of the eu kingpin germany level one begin ah you know why i'm smiling yep germany has a lot of territorial anomalies we'll get into that in a little bit but first germany is located in central western europe bordered by nine other countries don't forget little luxembourg with small coasts on the north and baltic seas which they own about 50 small islands now germany like the us is a federal republic which has 16 smaller states or bundesland each with its own constitution three of which are cities the capital berlin hamburg and bremen i know a little bit of german i like i i german in school you have to have i understand it but i can't really speak it it's it's been a long time and which is actually kind of like two cities including bremerhaven on the coast but they kind of act like one entity fun side no lower saxony is actually geographically situated further north than regular saxony now let's jump into the fun stuff now we already discussed the jung holt's quadripoint and the ven bomb railway enclaves with belgium and austria however there's a few more the entire town of businggen am huchran is surrounded by switzerland whereas part of the constance is cut off by the rhine river and surrounded by switzerland however in wow across the river a small patch of empty land on the german side actually belongs to switzerland finally they split the i do not know that there's a dumb with poland in the north germany is interesting because every state in the country has its own distinct culture dialect history food traditions i mean bavarians will be quite drastically different from fest league holsteiners meklin vaporman will be different from soland this all has to do with ancient and recent history basically in the quickest way i can summarize this germanic tribes roman wars charlemagne three kingdoms this guy marries an italian creating a whole new mess called the holy roman empire made up of 300 smaller separate kingdoms states and dukedom holy moly taxes law every political decision must be a which had nothing to do with romans teutonic knights brandenburgs became prussia habsburgs became austrians lithuanians and poles made their own thing whereas the hungarians joined the austrians wars wars battles battles napoleon comes over and messes everything up and finally german nationalism surges and in 1871 otto von bismarck creates the first proto-german unified state and then they're all like oh dang we came late to this game we gotta scramble for some colonies and that's how all of these countries at one point spoke german oh and also keep in mind like 300 years before this a german banking company obtained colonial rights to venezuela for like 20 years they were looking for the last city of el dorado so technically that's how germans colonized the americas but it wasn't like a nationalized conquest thing fast forward even more and then you get i just wanted to look at the map for a second men's colonized the americas but it wasn't like a nationalized conquest thing fast forward even more and then you get world war one the military ends treaty of versailles they lose land nazis come in world war ii germany splits in two for about 40 years and then finally we get the germany we have today east germany consisting of these states is today still quite different from the rest of germany that was very very simplified but i get it it's a 15 minute video yeah so as i said he mentioned the war actually both wars but this is not a history video i get it pride and influence by the soviet union they are generally not as well off economically as the rest of the country as you can still see the blocky soviet-style buildings sprawled throughout the regions in fact the city of berlin was split in half and the west side was actually an enclave of west germany only accessible by train and highway you can even see i'm still very fascinated how that how that even worked how you can be that surrounded but still have access to the waste it's really cool and all these lights you have a clear border so from a satellite image the divide east berlin still uses the yellowish tinted sulfur vapor light bulbs whereas the west still uses fluorescent and mercury arc white tinted light bulbs it's very sad although berlin is the largest in germany the busiest airports are actually frankfurt munich dusseldorf with berlin tegel ranking at number four otherwise some top notable landmarks and spots would be the brandenburg gate the valhalla cologne cathedral the ulminster church the tallest in the world the berlin victory column and hundreds and hundreds of castles all over the most notable one probably being neuschwanstein the concept behind disney's cinderella castle germany also has over 400 zoos more than any other country in the world why everybody knows about the autobahn the highway system well i've driven this so many times why do you have so many zoos who needs that like geographically nature wise it looks very similar to sweden which if you see this sign it means there's no speed limit and it's like that for a huge portion of the roadway and no wonder considering how vast and wide those cultivated countrysides can get time for level two i've driven fast okay think of it this way in germany the more down you go the more up you move basically germany lies on the atlantic shelf in the north that starts with the mud flats in the north sea seriously this island right here is accessible only for a few hours by foot until the tide comes and floods everything that's kind of creeps up into the alps in the south by bavaria and baden-wurttemberg with the highest mountain pizza located right along the border with austria kind of like france germany is filled with a vast irrigating network of rivers like the spray elba vesa rhine and of course the mighty danube that starts here about a third of the land is arable and another third is woodland and after a millennia of civilization germans have cultivated the crap out of their country most agriculture of course happens in the north flat plains and the central regions of the country which is by the way kind of like europe's tornado alley due to its position sandwiched between the arctic blasts of scandinavia and the moist warm jet streams of the mediterranean below germany can be an atmospheric war zone in the summer there are more tornadoes on average in germany than any other country in europe speaking of flat farmland wow that's interesting i didn't even know they had tornadoes i feel a bit ignorant right now because whenever i think of tornadoes i think of like american cartoons didn't know this and germany is the world's largest rye and hop producer germans abso freaking lutely love their bread there are over 300 different kinds of bread in the country more types than any other country in the world and almost every meal incorporates some kind of slice or small bun or blockchain of bread osteogluten free nein germans are heavy meat-eaters specifically in pork they basically know every possible way to cook a pig over 50 different types of sausage exist alongside schnitzel schweinsteiger had a big party you might find spawn fake beer reigns supreme all over as the third largest consumers of beer after the czech republic even the president has no problem with public intoxication and austria germany is world renowned for their beer which by the way follows the reinheitsgebot rule in which they are only allowed to use water hops malt and sometimes yeast nonetheless about 1300 breweries exist pumping out over 5 000 brands the oldest continuously i can imagine that in the world started by benedictine monks in 1040ad can be found here germany takes the environment very seriously and for the past two days some of the very earliest breweries and just basically beer was invented by monks on a major green revolution as of today they have the largest installed solar power capacity and green infrastructure practices like home installed turbines and solar panels have seen a huge surge in the past 10 years scores dominate the southern regions where the landscape gets hillier and mountainous the most famous one being the black forest or the schwarzwald deer bears boar foxes badgers and the national animal the eagle can be found thriving in these parts nonetheless economically germany is known mostly for their exceptional engineering and industry production companies we've all heard of like volkswagen bmw mercedes benz porsche audi telecom nivea dhl bosh adidas puma adidas puma yeah it's kind of like the whole piscoito bolacha thing from brazil remember well we have mud flats tornadoes pork beer mountains all that's missing is people level three fun little side note in germany this is three not this now if the eu was a family germany would kind of be like the dad who got out of rehab reconciled with his wife and kids and is taking his new life very seriously as he is haunted by the demons of his past every day first of all jesus that analogy really goddamn the country has about 82 million people and is the most populated in the eu second most in europe after russia and has the fourth largest nominal gdp in the world about 80 of the country identifies as ethnically german 12 other europeans mostly polish italian dutch and so on turks make up about 3.5 asians at 2 and the rest are made up of other groups like africans wow i know that there are a lot of immigrants or people from other countries in germany because germany is a it's a very attractive country to move to but i did not know it was this much only eighty percent identified as german then americans also they use the euro they use the c and f type outlets and they drive on the right side of the road germany is without a doubt a global powerhouse it is the strongest economy in the eu and makes up about 16 of the union's population it's the third largest exporter and importer of goods in the world after the united states germany is also the second most popular global migration destination germany experiences a high standard of living tuition-free universities if you get accepted that is a mostly government subsidized universal health care system about a quarter is still privatized and state pension for retirement at age 65. now when it comes to language things get a little tricky each state kind of has their own type of german however to get by most germans learn how to speak deutsch or high german which is the standard dialect the european charter however protects the minority languages of frisian danish romani sorbian which is like a slavic-based language used along the czech polish border and platinum actually i want you i want to ask because of all the benefits we have some benefits in sweden too like healthcare but in my opinion it's pretty so if you're from germany and you're watching this video please could you elaborate like yeah you get some cool benefits but is it actually any good i really want to know so if you have any information educate me german which has similarities to dutch and is typically used by the amish and mennonite communities across the world in terms of regional distinctions though germany is kind of divided into five cultural areas rhineland east and middle deutschland north deutschland baden-wurttenberg and bavaria rhineland is on the west side and has a culture somewhat more influenced by france more catholics carnival celebrations are huge out here east and middle germany was the part that used to be its own country for 40 years as it was influenced by the soviets sorbians can also be found here too northern germany has a coastal sea culture that identifies closer with denmark and the netherlands they are also known for being kind of quiet and reserved baden-wurttenberg has an interesting swabian culture where they speak a dialect so thick that only about 40 of it is intelligible to other germans and then you have bulgaria which is where the americanized perpetuated stereotypes about germany came from with lederhosen dirndls half timber beer houses and cuckoo clocks for the record germans are sick of those stereotypes it's like saying all americans are cowboys with guns and horses speaking of stereotypes some of the stereotypes in germany include things like saxons being very indecisive berliners are always bragging about themselves swabians are stingy bavarians drink too much hessians talk too much holsteiners don't talk enough and so on words differ from regions too for example in high german you would say ovie de zen but in bavarian you would say fiat di gold in kush you would say choose and in rhineland you might say ayus and there's so many compound words to get really long and complicated like green fleischer tickets that's because many words are this german is actually really good ambiguous words that are kind of elongated to give off an extensive meaning germans have very vivid imaginations and make up words for everything like my favorite word backfifen disease not this time by the way for the record this letter makes a double s spelling reformers have tried to decrease the usage of this letter in recent years which has led to some protests germans also love dubbing everything from foreign media into german some like this some don't but either way it's here to stay about 60 i don't like like it whenever i'm in germany uh i can't watch german tv because everything is dubbed i think i watched simpson dubbed in one of my german classes in school that was a homework for us that was pretty cool the simpsons dubbed in german and the homework was to translate it that was a pretty cool homework actually creative descent of the country identifies at least nominally as christians split between protestants and catholics germany was even the birthplace of the protestant reformation split from the catholic church by martin luther otherwise the rest are mostly agnostic or irreligious with a noticeable community of muslims mostly from the huge turkish and middle eastern communities at about five percent as well as a few jews buddhists and hindus rounding up the remainder one percent to kind of get a feel of what it's like to be german you kind of have to understand where they've come from they kind of had a lot of work however it wasn't until the mid-fifties and early sixties that the via wunder or economic wonder happened to which almost everybody got to work basically this guy envisioned and implemented a social market economy combined with free market capitalism alongside socialist policies that established fair competition in a welfare state gdp increased by 80 investments by 120 labor forces were utilized to the maximum things started to get better in germany all children are corralled into general public schools until age 10 when they are given the option to enroll in three different types of middle schools gymnasium geared towards focusing on higher linguistic mathematic and science fields for universities real schula a middle ground type of school and hapscula a school that is geared towards helping kids that seem to show promise in specific vocation or trades germany also has the largest music market in the eu and the third in the world after the us and japan they love preserving their heritage and culture through music and art in fact there are around 130 national orchestras mostly supported by public money and artists get a 50 reduction in health insurance through a special type of offer in the legal system one thing that still kind of supposedly maintains itself in germany is the mindset of their gang and it's actually really cool that's like preserving culture a lot of culture is getting lost or it's forgotten that's a pretty cool way of keeping it i'm not sure how germans feel about it maybe there is some underlying stupid i'm not aware of but it sounds cool totally butchered that which kind of translates to a lingering sense of guilt from the past germans have reportedly some of the lowest levels of national pride and unless if you're at a soccer game chances are you will almost never see anyone holding a german flag or waving it in any kind of like i've heard about that it has to do but the war right although when it comes to football i'm always rooting for germany that's my favorite team that that's the team i want to win every time i enjoy watching germany more than my own country when it comes to football like patriotic setting it's weird but it's kind of how things are you monster they've made great strides to move on from the past nazi flags and mine comp are incredibly illegal items to own in germany and they even have a rule the fox vetsung which basically says you cannot talk trash by denying the past atrocities some people say this infringes on free speech others say it's good because it solidifies truth otherwise some notable germans throughout history i have to it's legal to own mein kampf in germany i just i sort of get it yet but at the same time i think that would be a very interesting book to read out of like interest interest to history i would actually like to read mineconf one day just to like get a better sense of what it is like study purposes and learning purposes but it's that's difficult if it's illegal to own it i don't even know how it is in my own country i i have to check it up but i still i want to read it one day i i think it would be very interesting to see what everything like behind the scenes thoughts of this man include charlemagne although he was a frank but i guess it kind of counts albrecht david friedrich gutenberg bach although if you get the book don't read it i mean read it at home don't bring it like a lot of people read books on the train on the commute to work don't read it on the commute i don't think it would be appreciated and people will probably get scared and you would probably get on a list somewhere sorry back to the video hey tovan carl benz albert einstein although americans would like to claim that he moved to the u.s and became an american johannes kepler johann wolfgang von guter frederick schiller michael shoemaker alex von humboldt and of course karl marx and frederick engels co-founded marxism one thing germans do best would have to be diplomacy to this day the german passport three or four i didn't know about donations out of any other country in the world just beating sweden therefore you can kind of conclude that germany kind of knows how to relate to people let's find out how in the final round level four wait wait what country can you enter that i cannot wait this is cool compare passports it looks very similar this one jeremy oh that's germany if you're german you don't need a passport for germany wait this is the only difference it's visa free for 30 days in mongolia for germans and for swedes it's ivisa what what is that electronic visa that's the only difference oh man interesting though everybody knows how to make friends they have over 220 diplomatic missions abroad and over 350 honorary consuls and have an incredibly high position of authority in the eu their closest african friend would probably be namibia as a former german colony way back in the 19th century namibia held on relations and to this day german is still a recognized language in namibia germans have been supporting and sharing ties both economically and ideologically for over a century india and south korea are really close friends in asia india supported both east and west germany during the cold war and after reunification they were like even better and germany is to south korea what japan is to france they love to piggyback off of each other's ideas and cultures especially in the automotive industry many south koreans were sent to germany after the korean war to work abroad and study and germans have been growing in fascination with visiting south korea the us is probably the closest ally outside of the eu about 30 of americans claim german heritage and after world war ii the marshall plan allowed the u.s to give post-war aid to germany which helped kick-start the economic recovery germany was a key figure in the formation of the state of israel after world war ii which after the holocaust left an obligation to invest in the building up of a jewish community turkey is probably the closest middle eastern ally as the turks make up the largest asian demographic in germany although many of them may or may not also identify as kurds but since kurds don't have a state of their own they usually go under turkish passports when immigrating and are documented as such their best friends however would probably be literally all their neighbors germany is kind of like bazi and herzegovina in which by default they kind of get friends based off of the regional alliances bavarians get along with austrians baden-wurttembergs get along with switzerland east germany has good relations with the slavic countries the orion states love belgium luxembourg and france and the north side loves the netherlands and denmark france though is kind of like the trophy wife of germany as the two have had an anger i mean that's really really well done from germany considering like the war wasn't that long ago what's it been like 80 years now right to recover in such a short time that's admirable that's really cool like i don't i don't see anyone having anything against uh germany nowadays at all fell in love and work together beautifully france is like the beautiful flashy spokesperson for the eu that stands in the spotlight as germany stands in the background managing all the money and logistical work although germanic peoples have existed for thousands of years an actual unified german state didn't appear until kind of recently and the brief time that they've been around they've kind of gone through some of the most intense world revolutionizing historical events possibly imagined yet they've come out working hard and building their way up to become a world superpower you got to give it to them there's something about the germans final boss level complete stay tuned another african state germany has ties to ghana is coming up next man these videos are great some things i already knew about germany i really liked germany as i said i've been there a couple of times i watch a lot of german football and it's definitely one of those countries i could move to without any problems with ease i think i would manage and get along really good although i won't move to germany dude if i'm moving in where i'm moving somewhere warm i think germany has the same weather as sweden all right if you think i should react to your country please type down below what country that is so i know which videos to make if you want to make me the coolest teacher in school you can subscribe it would make me the coolest yeah whatever and without further ado thank you so much for watching take care and bye bye

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Length: 20min 5sec (1205 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 18 2022