After a late night out, a man in an English town walks up to a traffic crossing at 2 AM. After waiting a couple minutes for the cross walk light to turn green,

After a late night out, a man in an English town walks up to a traffic crossing at 2 AM. After waiting a couple minutes for the cross walk light to turn green, he looks both ways and notices no cars are coming. He turns to the man next to him and asks "So, you're German too?" I feel like this simple joke highlights your point about some distinct cultural differences that allow a system to work in Germany that would utterly fail in America.