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Exactly right!
I hate Small Talk. Of course as a geographer the differences between areas is important for me. And of course the topic of Small Talk is treated differently in various parts of Germany.
My family is rooted in the Rheinland-area around Cologne and Bonn. Here is the center of KArneval in Germany and people are much more chatty than in othere regions. I was born and lived my whole life in the very north of Germany between the nordic and the baltic sea. Here, people don't talk at all. We just mumble and make noises or stand by each other, saying nothing and afterwards we say something like "good talk" and leave.
And I love it.
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On December 01 2010 23:51 Mavkar wrote:
Exactly right!
I hate Small Talk. Of course as a geographer the differences between areas is important for me. And of course the topic of Small Talk is treated differently in various parts of Germany.
My family is rooted in the Rheinland-area around Cologne and Bonn. Here is the center of KArneval in Germany and people are much more chatty than in othere regions. I was born and lived my whole life in the very north of Germany between the nordic and the baltic sea. Here, people don't talk at all. We just mumble and make noises or stand by each other, saying nothing and afterwards we say something like "good talk" and leave.
And I love it.
:D why talk just because you feel like it's an obligation or you think you're ought to do so.
I like interesting conversations, could be about anything, but it just has to have some meaning
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Belgium9953 Posts
Nice blog
On December 01 2010 21:11 disciple wrote:
actually I think germans are very talkative, Ive been approached countless times by strangers on bus stations, trains and whatnot. Which is always nice. I had a cool story with a girl the other day on a bus station, she was complaining about her cold and other random stuff from her life. When I finally got the chance to say smth she picked my accent and said 'wait wait wait - lemme guess, you are from switzerland?' so I checked out the girl - solid 8/10 and said 'yea Im from switzerland'
A story you should finish in another one of your blogs.
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This is really awesome! I look forward to more random facts
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On December 01 2010 22:08 DoXa wrote:Show nested quote +On December 01 2010 19:56 green.at wrote:add "and it all ends in an massive drinking orgy" and it sounds like austria xD but maybe it's only here, cause i live in so close proximity to germany(?) I can see the border when looking out the window  no, happens alot here in switzerland and i think in germany too. Show nested quote +On December 01 2010 21:30 green.at wrote:On December 01 2010 21:11 disciple wrote:
actually I think germans are very talkative, Ive been approached countless times by strangers on bus stations, trains and whatnot. Which is always nice. I had a cool story with a girl the other day on a bus station, she was complaining about her cold and other random stuff from her life. When I finally got the chance to say smth she picked my accent and said 'wait wait wait - lemme guess, you are from switzerland?' so I checked out the girl - solid 8/10 and said 'yea Im from switzerland' ahaha. that "are you from switzerland" thing happens to me a lot. :D were you speaking english or german? because if your not swiss you won't have a swiss german accent^^
Well i live at a place they call the "3 länder eck" so i am very close to germany and switzerland and people here speak like a mixture of all 3 countries even inside austria people will think i am from switzerland. so it's not a true swiss accent but it comes close ( any person from switzerland would know i guess).
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Im going to Germany to celebrate a new year. I will teach you how to have small talks guys dont worry :" ) and that part with Elevator is epic. keep it up man.
also can i ask how is it possible that so many young germans dont know what Esport is even they are playing on ESL. I saw videos about that.
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Germany meetup one day so all us nerds can pick up chicks with foreign accents imo.
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On December 02 2010 01:52 green.at wrote:Show nested quote +On December 01 2010 22:08 DoXa wrote:On December 01 2010 19:56 green.at wrote:add "and it all ends in an massive drinking orgy" and it sounds like austria xD but maybe it's only here, cause i live in so close proximity to germany(?) I can see the border when looking out the window no, happens alot here in switzerland and i think in germany too. On December 01 2010 21:30 green.at wrote:On December 01 2010 21:11 disciple wrote:
actually I think germans are very talkative, Ive been approached countless times by strangers on bus stations, trains and whatnot. Which is always nice. I had a cool story with a girl the other day on a bus station, she was complaining about her cold and other random stuff from her life. When I finally got the chance to say smth she picked my accent and said 'wait wait wait - lemme guess, you are from switzerland?' so I checked out the girl - solid 8/10 and said 'yea Im from switzerland' ahaha. that "are you from switzerland" thing happens to me a lot. :D were you speaking english or german? because if your not swiss you won't have a swiss german accent^^ Well i live at a place they call the "3 länder eck" so i am very close to germany and switzerland and people here speak like a mixture of all 3 countries even inside austria people will think i am from switzerland. so it's not a true swiss accent but it comes close ( any person from switzerland would know i guess).
then i suppose that you're from Vorarlberg? i know that people near the swiss borders speak some kind of different accent then their fellow people in the country, but atleast i can differ those accents pretty easy.
anyway i found this a pretty fun fact that i've never heard of. didn't want to go offtopic.
i don't know the german habits myself, cause i'm not german. but i think it's very similiar here in switzerland. if you've broken the ice you'll find yourself in very interesting discussions that can last four hours. but we're not so into small-talks.
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Korea (South)1897 Posts
very humorous and insightful, but a very good read, when I was a sushi apprentice, there was an international diplomat's conference and the first night the French ambassador came in to eat and basically as we were talking at the sushi bar he said, 'fucking germans always causing the problems in Europe (this was before the euro)' and then the next night the German ambassador came in and as we're talking he said, 'fucking french always causing the problems in Europe.' lol
but I enjoy talking to Germans when they are drunk, very intense discussions where nothing is really out of bounds but still talked with some depth keke.
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5 stars.
I always love to hear insight about other cultures, keep em comming. I knew that German have pride in what they are and how intelligent they are, but the chit chat hate is the kind of everyday stuff that makes a blog interesting.
There should be more blog like this one and less : "OMFG my girlfriend had sex with 2 others guys b4 me plz help."
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Living in the US (now in the South...) means I get to deal with random people talking to me all the time and they always end up asking "war ya from" cause I'm Taiwanese. Germany sounds much better =/.
/Can you do one about how Germany feels about all these bailouts?
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sounds surprisingly like uchicago, actually
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On December 02 2010 05:46 Milkis wrote:
sounds surprisingly like uchicago, actually
Austrian
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Interesting! I've never really seen any heated discussions in Germany. Most Germans I met are friendly and usually smile, although I've never really tried any small talk myself.
My first time there I walked inside an old office building and while walking in the hallway heard locals talking. I immediately have a mental image of being in an old war movie.
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My dad lived in Germany for two years. He wasn't a huge fan of the culture. I think it clashes too much with West Coast American culture (it seems like it would be okay with East Coast culture). What's acceptable in Germany can kinda make you seem like a jerk where I come from. It's weird how even within Western societies there's a huge difference in cultural expectations. Just traveling to different parts of the US can make a huge difference in how people treat you.
In your next blog you should discuss Germans' disdain for ice in their drinks. Or how they all think Root Beer is disgusting and tastes like medicine.
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No small talk?
I.must.move.
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Nice blog. Never know this before. Now I'm feeling like me and all of my friends are backstab bastard. All we do here is gossip, talk about others, sometime a serious topic will come up but not that often. We dont defense our point that good, very likely to compromise or evade the topic all together.
I think I'll try the German style today when I am in class and see how it goes lol.
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Fascinating some of the little things you can learn from a blog on TeamLiquid.
Thanks for sharing.
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I hate smalltalk, I love discussing.
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