Differences Between German Culture And American Culture

Have you ever wondered how High Schools are in other countries? Despite sharing some minor similarities, the differences between Nicaraguan and American High School education are clear. Such as, note-taking methods, grading system, classroom environment.

In this paper I will begin by defining personal culture and national culture. After, I will then elaborate my own personal and national culture. I will continue to talk about the subject with the person that I have chosen for my cultural group, my mother, and I will identify her personal and national culture. Lastly, I will talk about my own personality and how it has a connection with my own natural culture; knowing this is important, it lets us know who we are, and how we act with people who are from different cultures.

A lot of us partake in traditions and incorporate things from German culture in our daily lives without evening knowing it. For example, you might not have known that the tradition of putting up and decorating a tree in celebration of Christmas every year is actually a tradition started in Germany (CITATION HERE). This is just one small piece of German culture; there is so much more to this rich and vast style of life. It is things like social norms, food, and annual celebrations that make up German culture and make its heritage so interesting. Being someone with German ancestry and living in a city with one of the richest German histories in all of America connects me to and has given me an idea of what this culture is all about. In the following, I will talk about the different pieces that make up German culture based on both my own personal knowledge and experience with the culture and through additional research, starting with social norms.

Germany is country shaped by many instances of disorder and chaos throughout its existence and especially in the 20th century. During these chaotic times Germans came to realize that the only way to prevent disorder and chaos was Ordnung or order. This philosophy of Ordnung is fundamentally different than the culture in the United States in which the people are trusted to do the right things rather than being forced by a set of written and unwritten rules that regulate social behavior. There are three significant differences between American culture and German culture: rules and regulations, the bureaucracy, and categorization. These differences help explain why German and American culture are so different.

At first glance, there could not be two ethnic groups that are more diverse than German Americans and African Americans. They both vary from the reasons that brought them to America to their physical appearance. Regardless of these differences, they are part of a melting-pot that makes up this country. Both ethnic groups had to overcome life changing struggles and contributed to this country in numerous ways.

There are a lot of of differences when it comes to comparing two nations together, there is a lot to think about. For example what could we compare? You could compare money intake for each household, you could just compare two nations just using something as simple as culture or maybe race. When comparing Germany to America you still have a lot of differences like the fact that in Germany you are legally allowed to drink and gamble anywhere in Germany at the age of 18. Germany has very small families, most families in Germany only have one kid, a big family would be considered at around maybe 2-3 people.

After going to a different culture learning their way of living, belief, customs, language, laws, art, social life, values, family bonding’s, feelings, religion, and importantly behavior. All this elements of life make culture or a society with one belief. “The fact that has been one of the most profound contributions to English language” (Savan 435). She tries to explain that the black culture is dominant on white culture giving example of language. When international student come here the face a change in language as they going to a culture which will be dominant on them and they speak different

The two cultures is a time from time of how you can find inner peace. One of the cultures is that during war, there were at least fifteen million american that joined the military. In WW2, they virtually accept that is five feet and weigh than at least 110 pound. So they were desperately need more men. Then the second culture is the German Nazi. They killed a lot a Jews because of the Germany think that the jews are responsible of losing WW1, so Adolf told the other that the Jew has caused some problem,and they bevelied him,so they created the nazi and kill a lot of Jews.

The groups project I will be analyzing is German and my partner will analyze Iranian. I will be doing research on the first, second, and third waves of German. I will explore the three major themes: why German migration to U.S, Assimilation, and what did the contributions or how did they influence American culture. From this research I learned that German immigrants and their children identity meant maintenance of their language and religious institutions. That the Germans left their homeland for freedom from military, religious, political oppression, and for economic reason. Since German was overpopulation that individual who lived in rural communities can’t get jobs in the cities. Which made many German to leave Germany to America. Upon

In order to fully understand the cultural differences within China, Ethiopia, Germany and the United States of America, it is of utmost importance to examine Hofstede’s six cultural dimensions and how they are

Throughout the early years of German history, economic and cultural destabilization was prevalent resulting in the divide of cultural altruism and a shift of interests and social structure. Furthermore, cultural, language and economic divide; rendered Germany a vulnerable nation open to new powers and authoritative structures. According to the Merriam-Webster definition of culture, “culture is the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group or the characteristic features of everyday existence shared by people in a place or time.” (2017) The generational and cultural shifts can most likely be seen within contemporary German culture. With the German population currently identifying as one specific cultural and social group, characteristics of a unified socio-economic and cultural background was not idealized until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. In specific, characteristics of a culture are ones that are learned, shared, symbolic, integrated and dynamic. (“Chapter 9: The Characteristics of Culture”) With the large economic shifts from the communist ideals to a more socialistic approach; art, science, and society became a great Allied power.

European French and German don’t look different regarding culture, personalities. First of all: French is (partly) a Mediterranean country, this has a huge difference on the personalities culture, etc. Mediterranean countries and people tend to share a lot in culture temperament etc. Also, French is a strong Latin influence, as a former part of the Roman empire sprawling from Egypt and Minor Asia to England. This does make a difference while Germans do also have been part of the Roman Catholic world for ages, they do have a different level of integration with this distinct Roman culture that shaped the western civilization. French is seemed to be a little bit more approachable (although with the barrier of language) on average from most Germans (Huwaë & Schaafsma, 2017). Not so direct or easy going but again they do have a Mediterranean “flavor” on them. Similarly, France maintains a tradition of secularism and has not officially collected data on religious affiliation since the 1872 national census, which complicates assessments of France's religious composition while Germans have Roman Catholic 29%, Protestant 27%, Muslim 4.4%, Orthodox Christian 1.9%, other 1.7%, none or members of unrecorded religious groups 36%

7.442 billion is the number of people in the world today, but out of all of those people each is uniquely different in many ways such as gender, height, personality, sexuality, and even by their culture. Within culture there lie 4 components that make up a culture which includes values, beliefs, behaviors and norms. Each culture is different in its own way which means there is always something new to learn about other cultures that you have never experienced, and it’s important to have knowledge about other cultures because you will have a better understanding of how people do things differently around the world. Today I will be discussing Germany and many different aspects of its culture and why it’s important including geography, languages, religions etc.

Before we can understand the culture of any country or people, we must first define what culture is and what influences culture to change. Culture is simply the shared characteristics or “common ground” within a group of individuals. These characteristics can include anything from religion to how a business operates. Culture is not stagnate; it will evolve and change as the people of the area develop new ideas, technologies, and views of the future. For example, Germany has developed its own unique culture over the course of a few millenniums. When visiting Germany for the first time, having an understanding of the country’s history, territorial regions, political environment, and customs of the people may keep a person from unintentionally offending a German citizen and make the adventure much more enjoyable.

German culture is a unique blend of the old and new. The large separation between the formal professional life and the informal private life amongst its people creates a country that is steeped in tradition, but also very forward thinking and evolving.