If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my Daily Newsletter. Thanks for visiting!A little known tradition in Germany is the secret crush tradition.  Though I’ve never seen this tradition being performed in Germany, I do know that around May it’s the celebration of Maibaum, or May Tree. 
During Maibaum young men […]

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Kraftwerk from Germany had a lot to do with the origins of current electro music as we know it today, with many new artists forming right out of Germany.

Answers.com: “In the 1970s, the electronic style was revolutionised by the Düsseldorf band Kraftwerk, who used electronics and robotics to symbolise and sometimes gleefully celebrate the alienation […]

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Back in January 1999 the history of the Euro began with it’s first coming into existence.  The euro debuted at 1.1747 US dollars.  This higher worth than US dollars was a good sign to those hoping to the Euro to become the dominant world currency over the dollar.
Over the three-year period of 1999 through […]

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According to a recent Web.de article the typical German Tourists on vacation are wearing socks with sandals and have fat beer bellies. When asked how people recognize German Tourists on Vacations, the most typical response was, sandals with socks.
Where do German Tourists Go the Most for Vacation?
The land of Pizza and Pasta, Italy, as you’ll […]

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It’s toilet time! German Toilets, they use a lot less water, and you can even control the amount of water you want flowing through them. Kind neat right? German toilets don’t come in just one size… they come in all different styles and levels of technology.
A really cool German Toilet
This toilet has […]

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I had this debate with another friend in Germany about what the definition of friend in Germany really means.
When you have a friend in Germany you
1) keep your distance, dont get too imtimate, etc
2) a friend is just someone you know
3) close friends are very hard to make
Which leads us to the conclusion
thats the […]

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This is a reply to my articles written about how cold Germans are and exactly why Germans are cold people.
Germans Are Warm People 
One girl wrote in response: “She is cold and calculating just like the Germans.”
…Pardon me? My calculations have shown, that we Germans +-3,14% as warm and spontaneous as the typical American.
My Response 
Warm?  Yes, […]

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Yes, German is a language of discrimination. Built into the language is already the clear discriminatory difference between male and female. Take Arzt and Arztin, we already know which one is the female, Artzin.
German: Easy DiscriminationIn German, females are distinguished by their noun. German adds “in” to the add of the nouns […]

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I found this article to be very interesting outlining Germany and it’s use of the Euro.
Horst Teubert:
“The EU has turned into “a first-class global finance power with the Euro”, declares the German Foreign […]

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Somehow I always believe that the Copyright Infringement rules in Germany would somehow be less severe in Germany than the United States, yet it is on my latest trip here, that I’ve had to be more cautious than ever with what I download.
New German Copyright Infringement LawsNow those in Germany can be sued just for […]

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