That’s not what I mean by complaining. I mean people complaining about the smallest thing like if they criticize someone in public wearing an outfit they don’t like

I see you’ve asked this very thing and it didn’t go over well for you in the other instance.

I’ve noticed that, it’s kinda weird. It’s like for every upvote I get here I get a downvote on the other instance. I wonder what the reason behind that is.

What’s there to be grateful for when YOUR country is the one offering free healthcare, when America has pressurized it’s people in a ‘pay or die’ situation?

Exactly that’s why I’m wondering why people here are still so ungrateful on a daily basis. They don’t see what luxury they have and instead focus on every little life situation by seeing it negatively

That’s not what I mean. I mean complaining about these small every day things like the weather, foreigners and so forth even though there are way worse things in life.

That might be true. Maybe it’s a global trend?

I don’t mean just social media. I’m particularly focusing on actual life here in Germany. They don’t just complain about bigger things like work but seem to be dissatisfied with every littlest thing

Yea I’m not too worried about constructive criticism of things that can really matter to a certain extend. But I’m experiencing many people in life who constantly complain about the smallest things. No matter if in grocery stores the workers are complaining if someone asks them where a specific item is or people in every day life always focusing on something negative and pointing out what they don’t like

Exactly! But they keep complaining even though they don’t know what the real struggle is like

That’s true. But I definitely also encounter loads of complaining irl and rarely see people being positive. At least here in northern Germany there are so many people that seem to constantly focus on the negative and search for things they can complain about. It’s almost like their every day habit. Instead of going outside and pointing out something positive they just always have stuff to criticize

Oh yea my bad I think I now understand what you mean. Online the majority is definitely English but I think if you look into each country locally like Germany you will see that they also constantly complain irl in German and not just online. That’s what I meant

What do you mean English speaking? Not all Western countries speak English. For example here in Germany we speak German and people constantly complain in German

Yeah that’s what I was aiming for, probably should’ve specified that empirical part more. I was kinda expecting this to be expected in this sub (I edited that into the disclaimer part now)

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I’m not trying to blame anyone here. Just want to understand including understanding my own country of course.

Like I said this is not what this was meant to be for. I was looking for some educated explanations of the matter from an objective/scientific perspective to also widen my horizon on the matter. I don’t want a bate or finger pointing here.

Like I mentioned in my post I wasn’t trying to downplay the racism that’s also still prevalent in Germany at all.

From my view and from other Germans I talked to who even lived in America it just seems like Americans overly focus on ethnicity and these stereotypes linked to that on a daily basis that’s dividing these people to a bigger extent than in Germany.

Maybe I’m wrong here and I don’t want to discard any personal experiences with this that are different especially for people who were more directly affected by this. And I’m very open for thoughtful and fair education about it.

But generally it seemed like to me that Germany is pretty open for migrants and refugees. Currently 17% of the German population are first-generation immigrants where in America it’s only 13% of the population with the plan to also soon mass deport illegal immigrants.

55% of all Muslims also have German citizenship and to me it felt like that many of them are very well integrated with many even living here for more than one generation and are pretty much being treated like any other German.

I think the clash might be more with immigrants/refugees who aren’t from Germany and can barely speak the language. Because when you’re living here since birth no one really questions your ethnicity whereas in America it seems to be a thing of daily occurrence where people are divided by just their skin color even though all of these people involved are as equally American and lived there for multiple generations.

From what I understood there are even schools for only black people. These such things are unthinkable from a Germans perspective. I don’t think we have schools that are only for black, or Jews, or Arab, or Muslim people.

I’ll give you an example as well: I know a German girl who has Asian ethnicity. She told me that her ethnicity basically never was a thing in Germany where she was just another German. But when she was doing an exchange year in America she noticed how big of a thing it is in America to make a deal out of someones ethnicity like when it’s Asian which felt very weird to her.

Like I mentioned in my post I’m not at all trying to downplay any of the racism that also still exists in Germany. To me and other Germans I know who even lived in America it just seems that Americans overly focus on ethnicity and these stereotypes linked to that on a daily basis that’s dividing these people to a bigger extent than in Germany.

Maybe I’m wrong here and my personal experience might be different from yours but I would love to understand more generally about this topic in a scientific way. That’s why I asked this here.

So correct me if I’m wrong but please be thoughtful and fair in your answers.

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Very interesting read, gives a lot of perspective. Thanks!

Yea unfortunately there is way too much across the world. I hope it will become better. I and my family at least don’t care about someone’s religion or what country they migrated from and I don’t personally know one who does so that’s a good thing.