Ja, aber in England schaut sich wiederum niemand an in der U-Bahn zB. Completely ignore people opposite their seats. Das ist strange as well. Anglotzen ist natürlich ätzend, aber in einer Blase sitzen und durch Menschen hindurchschauen auch.🤷♀️
I, as a German, was never aware of this habit. But when I was on vacation in Canada I realized that something was different: Nobody STARED, neither on the street, in restaurants nor in trains or busses. At the same time, people were attentive, offering help when they saw us struggling with our city map etc. I am still impressed by this „human“ combination: Not to stare but still to be aware!
@Jan Alexander ja in manchen ecken ists halt echt schlimmer. Vllt mal eine andere stadt erstmal angucken. Ostfriesland zB sind die leute entspannter vom temperament her find ich..
Just look at the section between their eyes if you get uncomfortable looking directly in their eyes it has the same effect particularly from a distance . It still looks like your staring directly into their eyes.
As a misunderstood creat... eh I mean person I can confirm that this video is 100 percent true. I also feel sad that I missed the opportunity to stare at Liam in Berlin tho... uhm, the sign. I mean the sign.
@Manana Magkoeva I don’t think he said a British people are superior mate stop going on with your little fantasies just to make people hate him- Also please don’t respond again the first comment you posted was very inappropriate.
@Just Aviation "The British are seriously misunderstood crea... I mean people", says a German married to an English girl, enjoying all the rights of the British society, while mocking the Brits. How does that make you feel? Honestly, I like Liam but he shouldn't mistaken insolence for humor and hospitality for weakness, especially with such brotherly nation as Germany who accepted him as one of their own (rightly so).
I quite like the staring in Germany. When I went there I just decided they were staring at me because I was amazing to look at. That attitude set me up for a great holiday. 😂😂
As a German with anxiety and who loves to space out on train or bus rides, it is my constant worry that someone will think I'm staring at them while in reality I'm currently directing an entire anime in my head and have absolutely no idea what is going on around me.
I actually like that we don't keep from string at people. I don't do it, if I know the person has something that they don't want to be stared at, but it is a normal human interaction, a kind of communication. There was a time where I didn't like being stared at, because I had in mind that people were staring, because they thought I was weird. But one day I was talking to my aunt and she asked me, what I think, when I stare a people to which I answered "I think they're an interesting, beautiful individual.". Haven't had a problem with staring ever since.
The staring did my head in. One guy stared so aggressively and so long I actually had to do a two-finger eye-poking gesture in his direction. Very satisfying, he blinked and recoiled immediately 😂
Dont debunk that one! It is true, we love to stare. One of our finer arts of flirting for example. Also your stare can be used in other situations, like approval, disproval, anger, joy, literally your eyes are the most important tools we have.
@Katariina "the eyes are the window to the soul" If it is a firm look, serious or curious (in rare cases even friendly) without any big emotions, chances are high he wants to "see you". If you messed up before and he is angry /disproving, you will feel the difference, don't worry. Don't be intimidated, stare back 🤣 Edit: or just look at him and give him the disproving look yourself, he will understand.
Reasobs why I (a German) am always looking to the ground. And then others complain that I'm coming off as too shy and they disapprove that I never look into other peoples eyes.
@RurijoDejiRikorisu well we are curious people, everyone is. If you can't handle a firm look into your eyes, bad for you. Grow up and handle the pressure. Sorry for being rude but if someone looking into your eyes stresses you out, I have bad news for you. It is a super fast check for spine (Rückgrat), honesty, good or bad intentions. Everything! Guy above saying "words are far superior", imagine having the need to talk to convey all those information. We don't need to ask. We look into your eyes and know 🤣 if you ask someone a question and he can't handle the stare and looks down / away? Liar. Like what kids do. People do get good at it, you know that saying "I read you like a book"? Ofc you can prepare for that by applying our emotionless trademark German stoic facial expression. Which is what you should probably do. Because complaining about people looking into your eyes in a cruel world that doesn't forgive or care about any individuals, you will have a hard time ahead of you lol. Or just wear sunglasses tbh, although I already said denial is a bad way of coping.. 😅
I experience this a lot in Germany, it makes me so uncomfortable, i finally started staring back and then it's their turn to feel uncomfortable! so satisfying to see that! 😂, Sometimes I even go one step further and give them a cunning smirk 😅
Actually that's the way to resolve this in my (German) opinion. If somebody stares at you just look them in the eyes. There will probably be a split-second of direct eyecontact and they will look away. If they continue to stare you in the eyes I would look around for a reason or ask them why they are looking at me. Probably they just want to tell you something and they are too shy and "froze" (your shoe laces are untied or your backpacks zipper is open or something).
In the Netherlands too, whenever i'm in the tram i notice people staring at one another a lot, i mostly just look at the floor or out of the windows/door to look at the territory
This started to weird me out when I first started doing on site repair work, often in busy retail spaces with strangers everywhere. Only thing that works reliably is to stare back at them and thinking of deathrays
This is so true. I've lived here my whole life and I'm still not used to that and really don't like it. I can even drive my car and when I randomly look at someone SOMEHOW they are also looking at me too when they are just walking at the side of the road.
On a full bus or train it's super hard to let your mind wander & just stare randomly without looking at someone OR without giving them the impression you are. I usually try to aim somewhere between people but I still notice people checking if I'm actually looking at them. There's no real solution for this.
As a Swiss I may help you: - look down at your feet, the floor - look up at the ceiling - look out a window (yes, even when there's no view) - look at your phone
@AmarthwenNarmacil ceiling and floor are no option for me, because of my neck. I also hate staring at my phone on busses & windows have reflectionsof people.
They DO STARE! Physically I am East Asian, and I mean if you look different from them, even more! XD I used to shake my hands to them, then their faces turned to red... Once visited a museum in Leipzig. ALL THE STAFF knew when I entered into a museum and where I dropped my ticket and what locker I did not properly locked. They picked up my ticket and kept my bag inside the office and followed me everywhere. Such nice(?) people.
I hate it looking directly at strangers, and I hate them staring at me. Which is why I am doing my utmost to look elsewhere, which sometimes ends in funny situations. Once I was coming home on the bicycle while passing 2 people under a streetlight. I had music in the ear and rode along, not wasting a though and certainly not looking at them. 5 minutes later, 2 friends arrived at my apartment and complained, why I would ignore them this hard. XD But this whole behaviour makes life easier. Sometimes when some stranger is saying or yelling something, that I couldn't understand, I would nevermind and assume, it wasn't for me. Didn't look at them, wouldn't know where they were looking at when yelling. Is a whole lot more relaxing than getting pissed by some idiot venting his bad day at me.
Everytime I walk down the street to the supermarket I am being stared at by a random person making me think I might be the spawn of the devil or something is wrong with my attire. But no nothing. Some people just dont know any personal boundaries and like to stare for no reason at all.
Wow... that is an interesting perception of reality- if, possibly, not very healthy. Maybe, just maybe, these people do not actually think *what you project onto them*. Remember: 1. mind-reading requires other psychological pre-requisites than inadequate sense of self 2. Wie mer in'd Wald ruft, so schallt's au' heraus Lastly, if you start setting your personal boundaries inside your own consciousness,.... you're not alone, but it's just another version of some Proll barking at you:"Was glotztn so!! Auffe Fresse oder was!?".. which, if he did, would constitute an *actual* crossing of personal boundaries.
Honestly though, as a German I never noticed the staring until I went to Japan for half a year and when I returned I got super confused, because it seemed like everyone was staring at me. That's when I realized that that's a thing we do apparently 😅
As a German I can confirm that some stare and the best way to deal with it is to stare back until they notice 😂 it's rude a.f. but sometimes ppl don't see well (especially very old ones) ore some are lost in thoughts. Either way: stare back! Be confident 😉
@Diarrhea of Anne Frank Yes, in follow a leader they are brothers in mind. But in all good things, only japanese are fine-we are rotten, cause nippon is 99,9% japanese, and germany...
When my mom came to germany the staring thing wqs the first thing she noticed. Its fr the truth. If i feed ducks with my little sister smt 5 people come and stare at us for 10 min straight or even make videos of us. If my friends take a picture of me people will literally stop their convo, they will stop walking just to watch how we make pictures 😂
I live in Romania, and here, people stare at you all the time. Especially in trains😂 When i was visiting Germany, i was surprised people don't hit you with the judgy gaze 😂😂😂 I guess I was the one staring at them 😅
😂 I actually really struggled with this when I was in Germany. I mean, I knew, before I went but..... because of past personal history, it made me really nervous and on edge. At least next time I go, I am thoroughly prepared. 😅
Liam, I am African American. Activity in the restaurant I was in stopped like something out of a farcical movie. It wasn't insulting, just odd. No signs to read anywhere. Trust me; they stare!
As a Native American can confirm. We LOVE, LOVE, LOVE staring at people. Especially if your a non Native. Even our babies will stop what they're doing and stare at the other. Hard.
A regular problem of mine. Mostly while using public transport i'm just staring at simple things but people often think i'm starting at them because they are standing in front of what i'm trying to look at
The worst thing is that when you are passing someone while on your bike and you both just hold eye contact for way too long😭 like if someone notices you staring they won't look away, they just stared back and it becomes a 'who will look away first' fight
I'm from Belgium, I had lots of Germans staring at me in the last few years courtesy of my Maskenbefreiung / mask exemption. Luckily we are a trilingual country and I was able to stare back in fluent German.
I had my American boyfriend visit me in Germany, we had to wait at the train station and then use the train to get home and he was like „Is something wrong with me? They keep staring at me.“ 😂
German here. When I use public transportation I just sort of phase out, go by auto-pilot and look, glassy eyed, in a random direction. I don't know how many people I made uncomfortable by staring and not seeing anything at the same time.
When I was in Berlin with the school, something absurd happened. A girl while we were getting on the bus pushed my friend because he was going up to the right and she was going down to the left. We basically had to wait for everyone to get off and then be able to go up. The strength of that girl was phenomenal. My friend was particularly tall and muscular and literally flew away on all of us. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
German grandpa will never get older. He will stare at the "signs" over people in the Deutsche Bahn forever and ewig! P.s.: beeing called a "misunderstood creature" is music to my ears. Darauf erstmal ein Radler.
Go to the Philippines, staring at people is on a whole new level there when you realize somebody keeps staring at you and after a while you look at that staring person like "What's up with you?" . And suddenly u see this weird suprised expression in their eyes totally wondering why that foreigner is looking at them...!
I found in Munich this happened to me several times & I learnt that people don’t smile back or nod if you accidentally make eye contact so I stopped lol
Yes, the German stare. 👀 I’m guilty of it. In Germany it is considered to be polite and respectful to look people in the eye. If you let your eyes wander, you come across as secretive or not trustworthy. In other countries looking someone in the eye has the exact opposite meaning, could even be considered menacing. 😮
I have been "accused" of that and I am not even German. But there is that twist that I can speak (write and obviously understand) German. So I am a misundersood creat...person, too.
I wanna visit Germany and have staring contest with the first person that stares at me lol. I wonder if it'll break eye contact or if they'll think I'm German myself (I look pretty Northern European)
See also: the Dutch. Though the Dutch are actually staring at you in judgement, as confirmed by all the Dutch people I know out here. There’s a strict unspoken code of “mind ya business” in public, but if a Dutch stranger finds you particularly strange, they’ll just stare at you until your time in the same space is over lmao.
As a German I can confirm that we love to study the signs in trains.
As an Austrian i can confirm that I really do that sometimes xD
@mz 00956 thats a german speaking tradition! like a Rare Might Which only DEUTSCH SPRECHER have
Thats correct? When we see a sign we must study it.👌
Confirmed German myth
@Leices true its our passion
As a German I can confirm that this is totally real.
Lawd he thicc
Ja ist real
Ja, aber in England schaut sich wiederum niemand an in der U-Bahn zB. Completely ignore people opposite their seats. Das ist strange as well. Anglotzen ist natürlich ätzend, aber in einer Blase sitzen und durch Menschen hindurchschauen auch.🤷♀️
Genau! Kekeke
@Tom D U M P Y
As a German I never noticed anyone starring. And I really looked carefully at people for a long long time. Still, didn't notice anything.
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As a German I really like it that someone finally explaines this to the rest of the world...
right! We Germans are wonderful creatures :)
@Emiii We slay 🥔
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@potato yeahhh we dooo
@stefan Ostmeier ^^
I, as a German, was never aware of this habit. But when I was on vacation in Canada I realized that something was different: Nobody STARED, neither on the street, in restaurants nor in trains or busses. At the same time, people were attentive, offering help when they saw us struggling with our city map etc. I am still impressed by this „human“ combination: Not to stare but still to be aware!
You Germans do love Canada!
But... But how?? Dear Canada, please teach me
Easy. Glance once then use your peripheral vision to monitor the situation 😂
@Devon Powell We definitely do!
@Sam That’s it 👍!
German staring: It's not a bug - it's a feature!
Its so horrible tbh xD but good to take it with humor.
I lived here all my life and it still annoys me every day bruh..
@Padda Ich hasse es hier so sehr. Jeden Tag wirst du angeschaut als hättest du jemandes Mutter umgebracht. Nächstes Jahr bin ich hier weg. Es reicht.
@Jan Alexander 💀
@Jan Alexanderwas bruder
@Jan Alexander ja in manchen ecken ists halt echt schlimmer.
Vllt mal eine andere stadt erstmal angucken.
Ostfriesland zB sind die leute entspannter vom temperament her find ich..
I am also an expat living in Germany. When they stare, I stare back. And then we have a competition.
Yes i find that only this way they become self aware that they are actually staring! 😅
Stimmt genau. Just stare back
Just look at the section between their eyes if you get uncomfortable looking directly in their eyes it has the same effect particularly from a distance . It still looks like your staring directly into their eyes.
Well, start a competition with the wrong person and the „Digga was hast du mich angeschaut? Willst du Stress oder was?“ Shenanigans start…
@Noel Christus ahja
As a misunderstood creat... eh I mean person I can confirm that this video is 100 percent true. I also feel sad that I missed the opportunity to stare at Liam in Berlin tho... uhm, the sign. I mean the sign.
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*”Germans are seriously misunderstood crea- I meant people.”*
I’m dying 💀💀💀
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Liam looks completely Anglo-Saxon, i.e. North German, he better look in the mirror before starting this "sharp" British supremacy non-sense...
@Manana Magkoeva ...
@Manana Magkoeva I don’t think he said a British people are superior mate stop going on with your little fantasies just to make people hate him-
Also please don’t respond again the first comment you posted was very inappropriate.
@Just Aviation "The British are seriously misunderstood crea... I mean people", says a German married to an English girl, enjoying all the rights of the British society, while mocking the Brits. How does that make you feel? Honestly, I like Liam but he shouldn't mistaken insolence for humor and hospitality for weakness, especially with such brotherly nation as Germany who accepted him as one of their own (rightly so).
@Manana Magkoeva erm bros taking it to serious 💀💀
It's because of your shirt, they find it really disturbing that it compliments your eyes so perfectly.
In der Tat.
How smooth!
REALLY DISTURBING is such a funny descriptor I never expected it coming
A German guy stared at me directly with a serious for so long. So I gave him the smooch kiss gesture. I'm sure he was disgusted after that
I quite like the staring in Germany. When I went there I just decided they were staring at me because I was amazing to look at. That attitude set me up for a great holiday. 😂😂
He found an excuse for everyone to stare....that's a typical german thing itself 😂😅
As a German with anxiety and who loves to space out on train or bus rides, it is my constant worry that someone will think I'm staring at them while in reality I'm currently directing an entire anime in my head and have absolutely no idea what is going on around me.
Can we just appreciate the fact he used Ghostbusters theme in a Mythbuster videos?
@feuriger Stern yes I'm aware of it, i find it funny that he is confusing the busters on purpose
I actually like that we don't keep from string at people. I don't do it, if I know the person has something that they don't want to be stared at, but it is a normal human interaction, a kind of communication.
There was a time where I didn't like being stared at, because I had in mind that people were staring, because they thought I was weird. But one day I was talking to my aunt and she asked me, what I think, when I stare a people to which I answered "I think they're an interesting, beautiful individual.". Haven't had a problem with staring ever since.
The staring did my head in. One guy stared so aggressively and so long I actually had to do a two-finger eye-poking gesture in his direction. Very satisfying, he blinked and recoiled immediately 😂
I can totally relate! Hahaha
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He was totally daydreaming xD
We can look you in the eyes, but our brains are in Hawaii for example. 😄
I've actually caught myself studying signs and noticing that the person next to them might feel stared at. 😂😂😂
Nah, I wouldn't worry. You can totally feel the difference between when someone is staring at you and something next to you... Haha.
Devoted man. He's ready to wait for eternity for another train just to bust this myth
Haha I live here and it is true. Especially old people like to stare and judge you with their death stare 😂
Dont debunk that one!
It is true, we love to stare.
One of our finer arts of flirting for example.
Also your stare can be used in other situations, like approval, disproval, anger, joy, literally your eyes are the most important tools we have.
So if a German guy is staring at me, how can I tell if he's flirting with me or just demonstrating his disapproval and anger at me?
@Katariina
"the eyes are the window to the soul"
If it is a firm look, serious or curious (in rare cases even friendly) without any big emotions, chances are high he wants to "see you".
If you messed up before and he is angry /disproving, you will feel the difference, don't worry.
Don't be intimidated, stare back 🤣
Edit: or just look at him and give him the disproving look yourself, he will understand.
I would say verbal language is far superior. Requires less interpretation than facial expressions
Reasobs why I (a German) am always looking to the ground. And then others complain that I'm coming off as too shy and they disapprove that I never look into other peoples eyes.
@RurijoDejiRikorisu well we are curious people, everyone is. If you can't handle a firm look into your eyes, bad for you. Grow up and handle the pressure. Sorry for being rude but if someone looking into your eyes stresses you out, I have bad news for you. It is a super fast check for spine (Rückgrat), honesty, good or bad intentions. Everything! Guy above saying "words are far superior", imagine having the need to talk to convey all those information.
We don't need to ask. We look into your eyes and know 🤣 if you ask someone a question and he can't handle the stare and looks down / away? Liar. Like what kids do. People do get good at it, you know that saying "I read you like a book"?
Ofc you can prepare for that by applying our emotionless trademark German stoic facial expression.
Which is what you should probably do.
Because complaining about people looking into your eyes in a cruel world that doesn't forgive or care about any individuals, you will have a hard time ahead of you lol.
Or just wear sunglasses tbh, although I already said denial is a bad way of coping.. 😅
I experience this a lot in Germany, it makes me so uncomfortable, i finally started staring back and then it's their turn to feel uncomfortable! so satisfying to see that! 😂, Sometimes I even go one step further and give them a cunning smirk 😅
Like Liam's?
@Rosaura Díaz yessss 😂😂
yeah I do this too. Just stare back at them until they give up
Actually that's the way to resolve this in my (German) opinion. If somebody stares at you just look them in the eyes. There will probably be a split-second of direct eyecontact and they will look away. If they continue to stare you in the eyes I would look around for a reason or ask them why they are looking at me. Probably they just want to tell you something and they are too shy and "froze" (your shoe laces are untied or your backpacks zipper is open or something).
You probably look like an alien to the Germans, or hot looking... That's what they stared. They tend to stare at ethnic ppl alot
In the Netherlands too, whenever i'm in the tram i notice people staring at one another a lot, i mostly just look at the floor or out of the windows/door to look at the territory
Noooo in NL is rude to stare!
This started to weird me out when I first started doing on site repair work, often in busy retail spaces with strangers everywhere.
Only thing that works reliably is to stare back at them and thinking of deathrays
That disapproving head shake from Old Liam always gets me 😄
This is so true. I've lived here my whole life and I'm still not used to that and really don't like it. I can even drive my car and when I randomly look at someone SOMEHOW they are also looking at me too when they are just walking at the side of the road.
On a full bus or train it's super hard to let your mind wander & just stare randomly without looking at someone OR without giving them the impression you are.
I usually try to aim somewhere between people but I still notice people checking if I'm actually looking at them.
There's no real solution for this.
As a Swiss I may help you:
- look down at your feet, the floor
- look up at the ceiling
- look out a window (yes, even when there's no view)
- look at your phone
@AmarthwenNarmacil ceiling and floor are no option for me, because of my neck. I also hate staring at my phone on busses & windows have reflectionsof people.
I don't know why we stare. But we stare at everyone. Literally
I am studying your souls. 😄
I think it would make me shy.
We don't stare, we just look out for each other.
In my whole life as a German, never has someone stared at me. This thing is new to me and so weird! 😂
You are clearly living on another "german" planet.
because you are german.
But we stare at everything different.
@Raffael Schraut does it mean good or bad to be stared at? asking bc i want to visit germany
@chel no just different.
We just curious.
I always stare at people in public transportation. 🥸
They DO STARE! Physically I am East Asian, and I mean if you look different from them, even more! XD I used to shake my hands to them, then their faces turned to red...
Once visited a museum in Leipzig. ALL THE STAFF knew when I entered into a museum and where I dropped my ticket and what locker I did not properly locked. They picked up my ticket and kept my bag inside the office and followed me everywhere. Such nice(?) people.
Was it the Stasimuseum? Then it is folklore and the personal acted as agents.
As a German, we tend to identify BS and stare at it intensively for others to recognise it as well. No misunderstanding, your busting has been busted
Finally someone that understand us germans
As a german with a RBF I used to get often in trouble even with other Germans for "staring". Smartphones and books changed my life! 😂
Amen brother
I missed judgmental old guy. Thanks for featuring him again!
More German myths pls ! Maybe sth about our non existing humor xD
I hate it looking directly at strangers, and I hate them staring at me. Which is why I am doing my utmost to look elsewhere, which sometimes ends in funny situations. Once I was coming home on the bicycle while passing 2 people under a streetlight. I had music in the ear and rode along, not wasting a though and certainly not looking at them. 5 minutes later, 2 friends arrived at my apartment and complained, why I would ignore them this hard. XD
But this whole behaviour makes life easier. Sometimes when some stranger is saying or yelling something, that I couldn't understand, I would nevermind and assume, it wasn't for me. Didn't look at them, wouldn't know where they were looking at when yelling. Is a whole lot more relaxing than getting pissed by some idiot venting his bad day at me.
I would hate this. I can't deal with people staring at me, it always feels so invading and makes me wanna square up 😂
Everytime I walk down the street to the supermarket I am being stared at by a random person making me think I might be the spawn of the devil or something is wrong with my attire. But no nothing. Some people just dont know any personal boundaries and like to stare for no reason at all.
Wow... that is an interesting perception of reality- if, possibly, not very healthy.
Maybe, just maybe, these people do not actually think *what you project onto them*. Remember:
1. mind-reading requires other psychological pre-requisites than inadequate sense of self
2. Wie mer in'd Wald ruft, so schallt's au' heraus
Lastly, if you start setting your personal boundaries inside your own consciousness,.... you're not alone, but it's just another version of some Proll barking at you:"Was glotztn so!! Auffe Fresse oder was!?".. which, if he did, would constitute an *actual* crossing of personal boundaries.
Honestly though, as a German I never noticed the staring until I went to Japan for half a year and when I returned I got super confused, because it seemed like everyone was staring at me. That's when I realized that that's a thing we do apparently 😅
Just smile at them, give them a nod or say "Guten Tag". Many if not most of them will reply in kind. :)
As a German I can confirm that some stare and the best way to deal with it is to stare back until they notice 😂 it's rude a.f. but sometimes ppl don't see well (especially very old ones) ore some are lost in thoughts. Either way: stare back! Be confident 😉
Gen Z German be staring at their phones like 👀
French people of all ages be staring at their phone because they don't wanna make eye contact with anyone
That was such a boomer thing to say
@Justme This is true and I am gen x. Some are intensively staring out of the window.😄
Japanese are very good at this. They won't directly stare at you, they will look at you through the reflection of windows.
I see they have the refined German technique )
Germany and Japan reunited as bros again!
Funny but true
@Diarrhea of Anne Frank Yes, in follow a leader they are brothers in mind. But in all good things, only japanese are fine-we are rotten, cause nippon is 99,9% japanese, and germany...
When my mom came to germany the staring thing wqs the first thing she noticed. Its fr the truth. If i feed ducks with my little sister smt 5 people come and stare at us for 10 min straight or even make videos of us. If my friends take a picture of me people will literally stop their convo, they will stop walking just to watch how we make pictures 😂
Maybe you are just acting suspicious and need further examination ;)
I live in Romania, and here, people stare at you all the time. Especially in trains😂 When i was visiting Germany, i was surprised people don't hit you with the judgy gaze 😂😂😂 I guess I was the one staring at them 😅
Whenever I was stared at, I would wave enthusiastically. If you've lived in Germany or are German, you know.
I mean.. who wouldn’t stare at Liam..😏😂
As a German I can confirm...we are seriously misunderstood creatures.
actually they were staring at you, they’re just really quick at refocusing 😂😂😂
My thoughts when a German stares at me:
The thoughts of the german staring at you:
😂 I actually really struggled with this when I was in Germany. I mean, I knew, before I went but..... because of past personal history, it made me really nervous and on edge. At least next time I go, I am thoroughly prepared. 😅
Liam, I am African American. Activity in the restaurant I was in stopped like something out of a farcical movie. It wasn't insulting, just odd. No signs to read anywhere. Trust me; they stare!
It used to bother me a lot as well, but I just realized that I've grown immune to it.
Good thing we have signs everywhere. Perfect excuse :)
Very true. 😂 But then there are also a lot of people like me, German, unable to make eye-contact even in conversation....
I'm Irish, I've lived in Germany for 39 years now. I have never felt stared at.
Actually depends where you live. Some of them stare in your soul and some just dont give a fk, even if you grow another hand.
No, they really DO stare--especially in small towns. And I mean, it's an _Invasion of the Body Snatchers_ level of staring.
As a German I can confirm that I start to get uncomfortable once outside, especially in the ÖPNV
As a Native American can confirm. We LOVE, LOVE, LOVE staring at people. Especially if your a non Native. Even our babies will stop what they're doing and stare at the other. Hard.
A regular problem of mine. Mostly while using public transport i'm just staring at simple things but people often think i'm starting at them because they are standing in front of what i'm trying to look at
As a German, I definitely study the signs often, until I catch myself and then worry that the people near them will think I was staring at them 😅
The worst thing is that when you are passing someone while on your bike and you both just hold eye contact for way too long😭 like if someone notices you staring they won't look away, they just stared back and it becomes a 'who will look away first' fight
“Germans are seriously misunderstood crea-I mean people”
I’m officially dead from that remark
They like to look in your direction, "not" at you 😂😂
We Germans are like cats. We don't staring, we are watching. We are very social and check if someone needs help.
I'm from Belgium, I had lots of Germans staring at me in the last few years courtesy of my Maskenbefreiung / mask exemption. Luckily we are a trilingual country and I was able to stare back in fluent German.
I had my American boyfriend visit me in Germany, we had to wait at the train station and then use the train to get home and he was like „Is something wrong with me? They keep staring at me.“ 😂
Lost it at the end when he missed the train 💀
If other Germans didn't stare at me, would I truly exist?
No!
German here. When I use public transportation I just sort of phase out, go by auto-pilot and look, glassy eyed, in a random direction. I don't know how many people I made uncomfortable by staring and not seeing anything at the same time.
As an Indian who compulsively reads all the signs, I find this absolutely believable
When I moved to the US I found people stared at me a lot more than in Germany
As an American who went to Highschool in Germany. This was the hardest cultural difference to understand.
When I was in Berlin with the school, something absurd happened. A girl while we were getting on the bus pushed my friend because he was going up to the right and she was going down to the left. We basically had to wait for everyone to get off and then be able to go up. The strength of that girl was phenomenal. My friend was particularly tall and muscular and literally flew away on all of us. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Bro als ein Deutscher liebe ich deine Videos weil sie uns einfach alle Klischees zeigen die andere von uns haben und die sind 1000% true 😂
German grandpa will never get older. He will stare at the "signs" over people in the Deutsche Bahn forever and ewig!
P.s.: beeing called a "misunderstood creature" is music to my ears. Darauf erstmal ein Radler.
Enjoy the Radler. Wird bei mir auch mal wieder Zeit
The way the first guy tracks him with his eyes as he leaves, lol
No they are not looking at you they are studying you😂😂😂😂.I m also running away their eyes are still fixed on me😁😁 you can't break it through.
Go to the Philippines, staring at people is on a whole new level there when you realize somebody keeps staring at you and after a while you look at that staring person like "What's up with you?" . And suddenly u see this weird suprised expression in their eyes totally wondering why that foreigner is looking at them...!
I found in Munich this happened to me several times & I learnt that people don’t smile back or nod if you accidentally make eye contact so I stopped lol
Yes, the German stare. 👀 I’m guilty of it. In Germany it is considered to be polite and respectful to look people in the eye. If you let your eyes wander, you come across as secretive or not trustworthy. In other countries looking someone in the eye has the exact opposite meaning, could even be considered menacing. 😮
I mean in Berlin literally no one is looking at each other. Everyone and everything will be ignored. These people do not care.
I dunno to me it seems easier to just acknowledge ppl at this point the German angst of catching someone’s eye is real
Now for the next myth: Bus and train drivers waiting for someone to come running to close the door just right in front of them and drive off...😂
I don’t stare at people.
Actually, I try my best not to look at anyone in the Bus..
I’m german though-
As an Asian with a German boss, we often almost get in to fights because my German boss’ habit of staring and Asians absolutely hate that.
I actually always stufy signs and forget them 2 days later 👍
I have been "accused" of that and I am not even German. But there is that twist that I can speak (write and obviously understand) German. So I am a misundersood creat...person, too.
He starts tracking you as you move.😂
As a German I can confirm we are a life form of our own
And to be sure nobody feels stared at, we put signs everywhere.
I wanna visit Germany and have staring contest with the first person that stares at me lol. I wonder if it'll break eye contact or if they'll think I'm German myself (I look pretty Northern European)
Oh my God I had been living there for 8 years & I've never understood this rude act that they suffer from, especially older people
As a German I can confirm we are definitely humans
You have to look them in the eyes and say 'Servus!'.. So they get confused 😂👌
See also: the Dutch. Though the Dutch are actually staring at you in judgement, as confirmed by all the Dutch people I know out here. There’s a strict unspoken code of “mind ya business” in public, but if a Dutch stranger finds you particularly strange, they’ll just stare at you until your time in the same space is over lmao.
It feels like wherever I go, the signs follow me! 😅
In Berlin we're actually mostly trying to ignore other people, especially the lots and lots of unpleasant ones.
I'll just use this myth as an excuse when I get caught staring at people.