More Myths About Germans
June 21st, 2007 by Olga VictorovnaGerman drive fast
“Yes – can’t deny it.”
They drive fast but very safe. Only 5300 people died in car accidents in German roads last year. The numbers in Russia are 7 (seven!) times as much! By the way, according to statistics the safest roads are in France.
Eco car on the pic:)
Germans love safety and insurance. “Yes, there certainly is a mentality to mitigate against any possible risk and have someone else (preferably the government) to be responsible for any problems. This as well as your point against order probably relate to Hofstede’s Uncertainty Avoidance Index.”
Did you know that there are 20 000 000 of road signs in Germany? Sometimes you can meet 20 road signs in a 100 meters distance. Very safe indeed!
Germans get out early in the morning to block the best places at the pool with their towels
“I don’t know about it. The British complain we do it. I never did it but I don’t spend much time at the pool nor am I an early bird”
He-he, I personally experienced that in Turkey. My hotel was full of Germans and they indeed blocked the best seats near the pool every morning. But who didn’t? 
What surprised me more was the fact that Germans prefer to spend vacations near a chlorinated pool rather than go to the beach and enjoy the sea. This is absolutely incredible with Russians. They travel to the sea not to the pools or hotels, and the sea is supposed to the the most valuable thing in the vacation. We are different;)
There are certainly still many people to think of Germans as being racist
“I would like to say this isn’t true at all, but there certainly is still a hard core of right-wing idiots and a potential of maybe around 10% to subscribe to their ideas to various degrees depending on the current situation. However, I think this potential exists in most countries I know – maybe except for Canada (English speaking part) and Britain – if there are any exceptions at all. So I do not consider Germans as exceptionally racist, although I appreciate that we constantly have to fight these tendencies and keep the memory alife of what the consequences of racist ideologies can be. ”
The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history. Friedrich Hegel
Germans travel a lot
The German are thought to be the most traveling nation in the world. And many think they are the best tourists: not exacting, very friendly, caring about others.
If you take all the people who sailed round the world you probably will be surprised to find that the majority are Germans. Otto von Kotzebue, Ferdinand von Wrangell, Friedrich/Friz Lutke are very famous seafarers.
Today many Germans prefer bicycles. People on bikes make 10% of all the German traffic. Guess the nationality of the cyclist in the Guinnes World Records book;) Everything that a German soldier failed to conquer surrendered at German tourist’s discretion.
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Special thanks to Sven Ringling