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You have a caricature of Germany in your head if you believe people yell at you for crossing at red on an empty road.
by koshnaranek 5y ago
You have a caricature of Germany in your head if you believe people yell at you for crossing at red on an empty road.
- nautilius 5y agoNo, it's pretty accurate in my experience.
- dkdk8283 5y agoDE has strong vigilante culture
- watwut 5y agoYeah and pedestrians still cross red light I the night fairly regularly.
- bserge 5y agoFFS, do you even understand that word? DE has the opposite of vigilante culture. People always rely on some governmental authority. When it affects them, that is. Otherwise, no one gives a shit about anything.
- andrew_eit 5y agoI don't think it's vigilante culture. People value order and organisation and this coupled with the direct nature of communication, feel completely within their right (I would say feel duty bound) to say "hey, you're not supposed to do that". It is also custom here to voice one's opinion in extreme precision or detail. "Hinterfragen" question things, criticise, always down to the details. Not in an emotional way but very in a very matter-of-fact sense. So think of it from the perspective of "if the rule is that you don't cross on red, then why are you crossing on red? It's against the rule". It's not personal at all.
- andrew_eit 5y agoI actually have been yelled at and told off in the streets for various mistakes such as this one. And this is not just my personal experience but my German friends also verify such stereotypes.