After moving to Germany and living in Germany, we started noticing freedoms that Germans have that we didn’t have in the US. In the United States, we are taught that we are the “Land of the Free” and you have more freedoms there than you can have anywhere else in the world. But, is that so? Do we feel more free in Germany or in America? 😊
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00:00 – Freedom
1:45 – Freedom 1
3:39 – Freedom 2
4:36 – Freedom 3
8:56 – Freedom 4
9:44 – Freedom 5
12:20 – Where Do We Feel Most Free?
14:00 – Bloopers
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#3 I'd say public transport or the lack of is also a big point.
Freedom defined as "collective" is no real freedom, that's rather a communist idea. Freedom is individual. As a German I've always felt unfree and restricted as an individual. Want to defend yourself? You can't legally own a firearm not even certain forms of knives. Freedom of speech and opinion? Try holocaust denial in Germany, 5 year sentence awaits like you're a rapist, ridiculous and totalitarian. I like the AMERICAN way better, which unfortunately because of leftism and wokeism is crumbling today, thank God there are still the red states. I left Germany years ago for many reasons and a major one being the lack of freedom and the government's blatant and despicable bolshevism.
To get services for free has nothing to do with freedom btw. The freedom to go to university doesn't mean it's supposed to be FREE to do so. Freedom means nobody prevents you from attending, but it's not about money. Same holds for healthcare. And one thing about Germany is you're not allowed to leave state healthcare even if you can afford private healthcare, only really rich people can do that thus German mandatory health care will make middle class pay DOUBLE if they want private healthcare (because public sucks). That's anti freedom and communism for rich people where the middle class is forced to pay for society's sediment slackers who don't contribute and just use services paid by working class people. Think about it. The American system is in favor of the middle class and earners while Germany favors dregs and is pure communism.
The US ranks in 15th place in the Global Freedom Index.
At the USA you're free to die if you can't pay medicines, to be killed by a cop because your skin colour,…. I prefer not to be so free in Europe
Germans are free to break out of prison
The incarceration rate in the US is about 360 per 100000 inhabitants, while it is about 60 in Germany. That's about a 6-fold difference. Either the people of the US are more violent, less trustworthy, thiefs, murders and rapists – what I doubt, OR it is more easy for the authorities to incarcerate an inhabitant. The later is literally the opposite of freedom.
The US incarceration rate is roughly the same as in Russia and 3 times that of China (at least according to official numbers).
Stats seldom lie…
a somewhat selffulfilling prophecie is the freedom to have a car, has become the need to have a car in the US
After every revolution we start off free, then we elect politicians that restrict those freedoms and as the bureaucracy grows, freedom dwindles.
Freedom, historically speaking, has always been the freedom to choose your religious and political beliefs and the right to criticize the elite/king. The American angst (called German angst in USA) comes from the many social tensions and economical insecurity.
Is not "land of the free", is the "land of the fee".
Also, is not "and the home of the Brave", but "and the home of the Greed"
Land of the free, my foot. Americans are no longer permitted to travel to North Korea. This was an unilateral decision of the AMERICAN government! … And I can no longer travel to the U.S. visa free because I was in North Korea as a tourist in 2015. That was BEFORE that law was passed!
I didn't know people outside Germany thought the Autobahn is one specific street. That sounds kind of wild as an assumption, but I can see how this might come to be.
To me the US is the country where you are more free with a very neat definition of freedom. I do prefer living in Germany by a long shot because it feels safer, for me but also for others. Germany in many places trades in freedom for the individual for safety that makes living in society more comfortable and nice. Owning guns is a freedom we don't have here. The fact you told about parental leave also might make you feel more free, but actual freedom for everyone involved is if your employer is free to give you whatever amount of parental leave they seem fit and you are free to negotiate on that.
This is the thing with freedom – it usually ends up playing into the hands of those who already have the most power and resources. Germany regulates and restricts a lot of things to level the playing field at least a little and to create a sustainable society. If you don't enforce parental leave and support families with kids, a big lot of people won't have children simply because they can't afford it. And children are a basic need to sustain a society, otherwise at some point there won't be enough young people anymore to care for the old and to act as the staple of the work force.
Germany did pick some freedoms that we have here and in the US you don't because they just don't negatively affect others so much. Drinking in public is a bit on the edge, because drunk people have a tendency to get aggressive or to vandalise things, but e.g. more relaxed rules on nudity don't hurt anyone.
Overall I think the US is the land with more freedom, but I don't think that is a good thing. It just makes the powerful even more powerful and the vulnerable even vulnerable. If you value freedom over everything else, the US certainly is the better place to be. But it just turns out, freedom as the ultimate value isn't the best way to make people feel safe. People feel safe in a soceity with overall lower crime rates and fewer people who are so desperate that they are ready to commit crimes in order to survive. Not in countries with all of these problems but the right to carry a gun.
Most boring sport to watch… I think golf? But I find most sports pretty boring to watch.
One you don't realize until you become a citizen, VOTING! Voting is more free in Germany. Voter registration doesn't exist. You are automatically registered once you get your citizenship.
And it's not just that. Elections are help on Sunday when people don't have to work, and the voting center is normally very close. Mine is literally a 2 minute walk from my apartment. If for any reason you can't vote on the Sunday, Mail in ballots are very easy to use and readily available.
When I got my German passport, I asked how I register to vote, and I kid you not, I had to spend 10 minutes explaining to the clerk what I was talking about because she had no concept of what I was talking about. Then when telling this story later to a family member, he literally just said in total surprise, "You mean you just go and vote?!?!?!".
IN USA FREEDOM IS TO BUY GUNS NOT ALCOHOL!!!😮
Most boring sport to watch is luge.
I feel many US Americans understand freedom as an absolute concept and to me that's just astonishing. Sure, if you decide to live in a log cabin somewhere in the Rockies your freedom is absolute but then again what point does freedom have in this scenario? It doesn' have any meaning at all because there is nothing that limits you.
When you decide to live in a society, however, freedom has a meaning and if you want to live in a well functioning society freedom inevitably is a relative concept. So when talking about freedom it can only go so far as to not violating the freedom of others. In the US I feel it's first of all entirely about your freedom to do things you want to do them and if someone doesn't like it they are supposed to just eat it.
The only freedom I might actually be a little jealous of is the actual freedom of speech in the US that goes much further than freedom of opinion in Germany. Still, also this can be explained with the relativety of freedom and in the end I've never felt that I couldn't voice anything I actually wanted to because of a lacking freedom to speak here. It's also hard for me to see what the freedom to deny the holocaust can actually be worth to a society.
Wer hier ist auch deutsch?
Not being able to buy beer until 21? Oh Booo Hoo! …what the Hell has that got to do with real freedom vs. Germany
I would not like to live in a country where I would be afraid to send my children to school.
Europeans are more like subjects of the state than actual citizens
An interesting conversation that has become still more relevant a year later, especially as the US heads into a presidential election. I would encourage US citizens (wherever you go live) to think carefully about what sort of freedom is important to YOU, and to vote! The two options are much more clearly delineated this year than in most elections, in my opinion.
Technically, according to all the data, America ranks 17th in 2024 of most free country. It has been falling a spot over the past couple of years…..and depending on the election results, coming up could fall further if a certain guy wins….
Baseball is the most boring to watch.
Press Freedom Index says that Germany has more freedom of the press