• teichflamme@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I think you’re missing the point. NYC doesn’t have cowboys or anything but it’s representative of other aspects of American culture.

    Berlin is in fact the least German town in Germany. It has its own kind of culture that is vastly different from the rest.

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      1 year ago

      Berlin is just as German as NYC is American, both have big city cultures that don’t really fit with life outside them.

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      1 year ago

      Lived in NY for a while (manhattan) and travelled to a lot of other states. The comparison rings true for me, NY has it’s own culture for sure.

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      No, I fully understand the point. By “German” you mean Fachwerkhäuser, Oktoberfest, Lederhosen and Dirndls, Bier Steins and Weißwurst, and you’re correct, these cultural symbols are not characteristic of Berlin - these are Bavarian. There is so much more to German culture than Bavaria though, despite what the Bavarians think.

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        Fachwerkhäuser are not Bavarian, it’s just that Bavaria has many old townships that kept them intact. You see them all over Germany tho.

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            Because you don’t know anything about German culture apparently.

            Berlin is an extreme cultural outlier and thus not somewhere you should go to experience German culture in general.

            How you don’t understand despite me trying to explain it to you multiple times is beyond me