and it's a world-beating exporter what's

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more the Germans earn more than us and
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work fewer hours so how do they do it
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I'm Justin roller a journalist you speak
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English
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and I'm fearow lats a writer and we are
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on a mission to discover the secrets of
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German success it's like a heaven we're
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taking the kids with us and we're going
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in yes they'll be beer and sausages but
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this is no holiday we're going to work
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with one text no sorry no no I live it's
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loud what we are throughout your clothes
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and play just like average ordinary
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Germans because our challenge is to
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become German you want sue you've got I
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live in North London with my wife B and
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our four children we are they have socks
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in Germany really they probably have you
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know better socks than we've got there's
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quite a kind of tradition of you know
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two world wars one World Cup you know
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that kind of attitude to Germany and
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Britain and I can be quite interesting
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to see what the Germans think of us you
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know I mean we've obviously suffered
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terrible industrial decline since the
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Second World War the Germans have done
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you know pretty well that's done a major
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industrial nation and we quite
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interesting to see what they think of
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Britain blows okay can you put them in
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there for me oh yeah thank you
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I'm actually half German but I never
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grew up there I grew up in this country
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and my dad's Joan would buy my parents
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separated when I was little I don't want
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to be disloyal you know there's nothing
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wrong with being half German so it's not
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a problem but maybe there is like I know
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there are a few kind of sort of Teutonic
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qualities that she has I can't believe
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I'm ashamed like sitting on the toilet
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with the door open and I'll just you
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know have a merry exchange with anyone
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who passes by I just the things that's
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really German I just think that's the
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way I grew up
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what's also really German is small
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families the German birth rate is low
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and falling just one point four children
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per couple so the first step in making
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us German is to leave our eldest to Eva
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and Zola at home
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with granny I'm gonna miss them there's
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quite nice house break sometimes from
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all the loudness and everything I think
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it's a new brilliant and I'm not gonna
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miss them at all
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first often we need somewhere to live
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we've moved to Nuremberg in the heart of
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Bavaria it's famous for its gingerbread
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its sausages and it's an artsy history
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hello are you mrs. Pollock yes
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we've rented a flat from mrs. Haller we
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Brits may be obsessed with buying
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property but Germans aren't more than
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half of them rent compared to just a
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third of us and I can see why rents are
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cheap this to bed flat costs a hundred
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and thirty five euros a week I can look
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in that oak in a bit get a woman Wonka
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no go talking about speaking in Britain
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I think we're possessed with ownership
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and here in Germany they seem happy to
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rent and they rent for like you know a
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really long time she was saying people
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would stay for 10 20 years in a rented
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property in Britain this is real kind of
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pressure and expectation that if you can
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you'll buy and I do you know on I think
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it seems a lot healthier it means that
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Germans don't saddle themselves with
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huge debt in Britain the average family
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owes 53,000 pounds including mortgages
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in Germany it's just under 30,000 pounds
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the kids are making themselves at home
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and I'm expecting our first German
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visitor hi hi I'm PJ PJ PJ is an
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advertising guru his ad agency
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specialises in knowing exactly what the
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average German does every minute of
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every day we did a quite a lot of
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research on how the typical German lives
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yeah I I brought to some things to learn
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about typical German in this area he
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done it off the ocean it's touching and
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according to the film the typical German
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is called moolah
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the nation's most common surname and
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lives in a 1970s apartment block Mueller
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like this a flatus just like ours
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mutters Urbina nila Sabina is the most
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common female name so that's me
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and here's me Thomas Muller is the most
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common male males is the Hafiz to
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determiner for the mullahs only have one
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child unlike us at deloitte tradition
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its Familia Azeri Annan's or German
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certainly get up early 20 minutes
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earlier than the average brit often born
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note let's talk about tomorrow morning
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how are you prepared to go a bit earlier
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than than usual I don't know um 6:23
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let's see early that's when you have to
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get up and then good thing is you can
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take a bit of time in the bathroom
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the video goes into extraordinary detail
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no claw no surprise that I pee standing
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up but then I sit down and read the
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sports section of the paper German men
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sit on the loop for twice as long as
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German women and when it comes to loo
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paper the Germans aren't Fuller's not
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Crumpler such as and in fact I get nine
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twenty four point six minutes and up in
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the bathrooms me who's issue NZ Optima I
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get to sleep a bit longer and spend
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twenty eight point one minutes in the
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bathroom
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with two little children being being in
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the unfamiliar not in school the typical
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German wife would not go to work
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actually really yep spend time at home
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of the kids bring you know house but
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also to teach kids proper table manners
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it's also Jenna W highly actually yeah
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yeah yeah there's a certain certain
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amount of the behavior and how you do
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things in a certain structure in order
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still is very important PJ gives us a
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German rule book which he wants us to
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follow a checklist telling us everything
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from the amount of housework to our
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daily pork intake
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I just don't believe the most women want
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to do four hours and 11 minutes of
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cooking washing cleaning I'll give it a
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go I'll definitely try I'm gonna do my
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best
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it doesn't you get to sleep then you get
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to go out and eat loads of potato port
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white cheese when you get so I get brown
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bread and you get white but you get the
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same amount of pork same amount of
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potatoes I'd say another thing that's
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very good but your life looks normal to
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me that just doesn't look like a normal
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life but it could be that you know I'm
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not typical I'd often
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maybe far as always we've rented an
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average German car
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VW Golf is right there bang in the
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middle of water Germans would drive it's
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kind of rock solid it's not flash but
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it's kind of well-made and of course
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they buy German which is quite
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interesting as their Germany has one of
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the most successful car industries in
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the world and here success certainly
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starts at home
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two-thirds of all the cars on the road
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are German well-chosen eggs this one
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yours Elsa time to discover a bit more
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about Nuremberg history imperial castle
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it was one of medieval germany's most
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important centres but most of the old
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city was destroyed by Allied bombing
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during the war since then the city has
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been rebuilt and many of the ruined
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buildings restored really sharp rose
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other.they the city was a center of the
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Nazi regime the Nazi mayor called it
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Germany's most German city and it is
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here
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that Hitler held his infamous Nuremberg
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rallies hello hello we meet historian
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hands Christian hybrid we are on the
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former Nazi Party rally grounds a huge
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area covering some 11 square kilometers
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it was created in 1933 even Hitler
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designed Nuremberg as the city of the
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party rallies the high ups the leaders
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of the Tea Party would be here yeah
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looking out on this College for right
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ground that's it I'm standing where on
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all fitness to yes I want to look at
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this because obviously it's probably a
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Loring Park isn't it and I wonder
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whether that doesn't reflect the kind of
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ambivalence about what you do with a
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historical site right there this is not
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a memorial site now the whole grounds in
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the last decades have always been used
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and for most profane profane purposes
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for example parking lorries here
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racecars are touring around here they
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have festivals Bob Dylan have been
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playing here and the Rolling Stones in
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Britain we still seem to be obsessed by
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our victory in the Second World War
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it's so interesting to see here at the
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rally ground how Germany is still
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wrestling with the ghosts of its past
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you can't help but feel that losing the
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war then Germany had to pull together as
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a nation to rebuild it couldn't be
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complacent and while Britain's economy
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has faltered Germany's has thrived
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the wild things William like the
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Mueller's after our daily limit of 0.27
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litres of beer we're tucked up in bed at
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exactly 11:15 for a bit of average
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German sleep
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I'm working two German timetables now
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all right now it's seven minutes eight
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minutes maybe
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nothing more than that I don't do that
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are they looking for 20 minutes we're
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gonna get some pork products though I've
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got to eat 1.1 kilos of pork a week
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Nuremberg is an important manufacturing
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center the Siemens the electrical
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company added us and Puma churning out
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trainers I'm going to be a trainee
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supervisor at Father Castel the world's
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oldest pencil manufacturer it produces a
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sip of the world's pencils
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small and medium-sized businesses like
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father cows fell at a backbone of the
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German economy employing almost
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two-thirds of the German workforce
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they're known as the Mickler stunt and a
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mostly family-owned the average German
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starts work at 7:49
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already I'm below average hello Justin
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hi
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fine are you yeah very good I'm you're
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late I know ambition spit this seems to
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be the fish but I'm very sorry I had to
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catch public transport and I got kind of
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them are they lost
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I'm doing an eight-hour day and that
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includes an hour for lunch that's almost
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an hour less than we Brits work how come
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they work less than us yet I'm more
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productive any Danny Lerner I have no
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German not so Manoj oh okay where do we
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where do I start
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shop for you is to check if those
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pencils might have made stick together
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are there okay going to try this one
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back and green button okay now your job
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is just to keep an eye on the Panthers
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and the Machine I work in the lacquering
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department my job is to watch over the
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machines in case something goes wrong
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you've got to stay focused
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by the Messiah but if I don't leave
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until unknown then further for you about
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the basket so it's making 336 pencils a
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minute I mean already I've Maggie I've
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made 1,500 pencils
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it's all going quite smoothly although
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it seems I'm not paying enough attention
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are you daddy's word yeah I see it
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yeah you know and normally normally
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normally and we'll go around
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yeah bishop
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but please oh no no no you don't rest
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you know you're here to work and you
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should be sweeping the floor and he said
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if I see you doing that I'll just give
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you another machine and then you'll be
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really busy he's going oh but he's a bit
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slow I think he will run into trouble
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there's a lot to do right now he isn't
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doing much outside it's snowing
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unlike Justin I've had a bit of a lie-in
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hot milk the average German mother with
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children under three is a stay-at-home
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mum my task is to become more like mrs.
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mother the average housewife she does
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precisely four hours in 11 minutes of
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housework a day this is very different
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to my London life and Tomales four hours
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of housework is a lot should I be so
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hoovering the ceiling or something to
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teach me some of the tricks of becoming
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a German housewife I've got someone from
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the house well blunt coming round the
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German version of the Women's Institute
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and God as I hope oh yeah
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to be honest I'm a little bit on the
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defensive I'm expecting to be charged so
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anyway too late to do anything about all
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our booze what hello hello very nice to
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meet you nice time B this is a big bag
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yes for all the things we need to cook
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Oh typical German meal the English says
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to the chairman the crowds the crowds
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yeah that's our house
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yes all right nice but they do have a we
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cook crowd all right my name is if
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appearing and I am a master yes of
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housekeeping detail to manage yes time
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manner to you correctly yes the speeches
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are planning money so first you plan
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that your time yeah then you plan your
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budget and your money yeah right
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planning your plan where are the cooking
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for a week or for one day wizzy for a
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week for a week you plan your clear for
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a whole week ahead yeah I hear I'm
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learning how to make a local noodle dish
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efficiently excellent
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our light isn't shame
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like falafel a movie type t visa to this
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- yeah I'm not much of a domestic
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goddess but I'm happy to learn
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we go to lunch yeah yeah it was very
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very very book I didn't see it
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I'm honest to score game over uh-huh I
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notice a big difference down in the
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canteen all the meals are subsidized my
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labor case are only cost and euro was
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like a whipped form I'm discovering that
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building staff loyalty generating a
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sense of common purpose is an important
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part of the mission and I sit next to
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Timo who's 22 I began to grow at 2008
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learn cha like yeah they're like an
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apprentice we caught a break yeah you
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started to only to learn to learn yeah I
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learn a mechanic so is this a good place
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to work very good players I love it
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how long have you been doing 10 years 10
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years you see you're quite an expert mmm
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very young yeah when Timo and Danny were
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15 years old they went to Abu roof Shula
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an apprenticeship school in Britain the
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emphasis is on going to university but
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manufacturing skills are highly regarded
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in Germany and more than half of young
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Germans join an apprenticeship scheme
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most young trainees will land a job in
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the Middle East and often for life
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kind of sound of industry is just going
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on on this emphasis on training industry
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certainly seems to work Germany is the
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world's third biggest exporter after
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China and the USA
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this factory is a case in point I'm
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amazed that Germany can still leave the
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world in a technology as simple and easy
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to copy as the pencil
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oh I could just fuckin feel it I can
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feel it my legs you know standing up the
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whole time
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yeah I really felt that people come in
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and work hard there was very little chat
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and what there was when they talk to
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each other it's always about what always
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about what and really really focused
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on my way home I meet the current head
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of the family pencil dynasty he is the
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graph of a direct descendent of the
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founder I stick to handheld products
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whatever has to do with manufacturing
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computers would be suicidal because we
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are medium-sized smaller company and we
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should focus on the traditional products
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where we are really good at so it's like
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a secret of these German businesses that
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they focus on one tiny bit of business
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but do it on a world exactly that's
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typical for Middle Eastern companies
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that they don't stick only to the German
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market they transfer their know our into
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other markets and they try to act
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properly the Mitchell stunt philosophy
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seems to pay off the graphs business is
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doing well and I know you get to go home
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early
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it's nice to have more family time so
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listen babe how much house what could be
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done because we do not know how much
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less I see you've done some bad Canadian
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yeah have you really a bird in the kids
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bath and about - huh - oh you got loads
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go back to the house get back and start
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cleaning well your cooking yikes got the
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oven on I've invited the neighbors
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around for some German hospitality I'm
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trying out a German menu nuremberg
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sausages and my granny's potato salad
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Justin's nipped out with the kids and
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this is the anointing just is really
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good at cooking much better than meat
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normally if we were entertaining having
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actual people and especially people we
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don't know he would do all this hello
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I don't come ahead and come in by our
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guests are our landlady Frau Haleh and
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her partner Verna who's a decorator
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thank you very much German yella softly
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uh-huh there's granny known as Alma
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hello
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I am Justin Jurgen a policeman hyah hyah
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hyah Tania and students Tania and Alex
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dancers for sausages for you would you
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say that Nuremberg is a kind of typical
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German city yeah it is me Assateague
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kind of our neighborhood is this it
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seems good I like it uh it's difficult
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there are many different cultures your
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number times there are many trends where
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do they come from
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um Sarah Turkish is taking my
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photographers and why is that that make
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it difficult living here a little bit
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but it's not a problem
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can I ask what do you think of Britain
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you know is it doing well how successful
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is buzzing it's raining and pouring oh
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don't hold back yeah you're not gonna
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fuck with me you don't you don't hear
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anything about 100 kilometres ready
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sometimes so hopefully she was in the
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hospital that's right that's right
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that's all of you
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what about things like hard work German
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work hard yes
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so we work the same hours as you but
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we're not a system or yeah yeah we
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weren't morose and we produce less what
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are we doing right that wasn't a man I
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wasn't in there for a strange exchanger
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and I was in the office and the people
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are talking all the time about the
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private things
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so also thingy yeah it so whatever you
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do or did you at the weekend
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oh what's the plan for tonight on all
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the time and drinking coffee and in
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Britain it's quite common for people to
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be doing Facebook in the office it's
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more of oh it's not allowed okay but if
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you lose you're probably never
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female that's really only what I think
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oh really not are you free Emma really 9
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it's honey it was obviously horrified
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when she'd come on to Britain to see how
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little British people work on the fact
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they're on Facebook and they're kind of
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texting their friends emailing their
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friends you know on making personal
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phone calls from work and she clearly
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thought that was really bad discipline
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and that was you know I'm very good to
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me ordinary Germans are just hear what
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they have to say at work I'm checking
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out the German attitude towards texting
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and calls
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just in I don't need to care for your
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work look for your cell phone ringing
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it's your phone
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no just one text no no sorry no no it
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you're here to work
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no never gave about pencils not for
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example
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only one pack
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I've managed to find Elsa who's six a
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place in a vault kindergarten just
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outside Nuremberg it's a forest
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kindergarten a particularly German
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approach to education I'm going to be
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about quarter mile later home is going
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to be acceptable the German kindergarten
21:58
one thing German success is not based on
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is hot housing young children German
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kids don't even have to go to school
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until they're six hours are mostly in
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class by four and what timing to the
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children arrive yeah a bathua from 8
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o'clock they arrive at 8 o'clock
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yeah so they have lunch here yeah and
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it's all outside Alison Alison yeah
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there are no primary school SATs here
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children spend the day out in a forest
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whatever the weather and even go to the
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toilet in the woods toys are banned and
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children create their own games and
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interact with nature this is just great
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for Elsa she want to go back to a normal
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centrally heated classroom I love like a
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train full of children that's fantastic
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if I could heaven how much does it cost
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for a child to come to vult kindergarten
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and the prize in the month is 159 euros
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every day coming every day that's for a
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British person that's astonishing you're
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cheap
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that's the interaction of what we pay
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for nursery for private notes we need
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house just over 25 pounds a week I'm
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beginning to see a definite upside to
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life here good morning hello I'm Justin
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I need all the analog of all the money
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yes so you're going to give me a checkup
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if it hurts you tell me please this
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morning I'm reporting to the company
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doctor for a health check no it's okay I
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hope so yeah I want to look at your legs
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very cool this you don't have all of our
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gooses you don't have no no it's okay
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well it's a good they are not yes there
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but yeah could you try
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to do this oh yeah
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the possible if your left leg is a
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little bit shorter no no do smoke no and
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how is it was I good it's good yeah
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do you drink it every day yeah everybody
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follow me every day most days not every
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day but mostly I drink probably too much
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everything I did was okay okay thank you
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very much Andy thank you doctor
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thank you that was much more thorough
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than I expected then I'm reporting to HR
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to discuss my salary all right
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so Justin if you look here you can see
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your basic salary it's around about two
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thousand two hundred fifty years mm-hmm
24:32
yes all that transport allowance and
24:34
money for working and shift mm-hmm all
24:36
in all it's two thousand eight hundred
24:38
two euros it's you that's a month it
24:41
just happens to be the average full-time
24:44
salary in Germany so I'm bang on the
24:46
average and how much holiday how much
24:47
holiday knowing it thirty days thirty
24:50
six weeks six weeks all of you that's
24:52
right we good I see this tact here so
24:54
we've got what first of all you have to
24:55
pay income taxes health insurances
24:58
pension insurance and unemployment
25:00
insurance into the hospital this year a
25:02
flavorful appeal means some nursing care
25:05
insurance that seems quite a good
25:07
package to me I pay less tax because
25:09
bees not working and because we've got
25:11
kids and there's a decent pension and
25:13
nursing care when I'm old you were
25:15
receiving additional bonus it depends on
25:19
the performance of the entire production
25:21
team
25:24
I wonder if this is part of that mixed
25:27
and communal ethos collective
25:29
responsibility rewarded with a shared
25:31
team bonus William and I have been
25:35
invited to a mother and toddlers group
25:37
by one of the moms at nursery I want to
25:40
understand why so few mothers with young
25:41
children here work thanks for thanks for
25:44
having us here so it's really nice and
25:45
can we ask don't do any of you work at
25:48
all do any Roman I think it's um German
25:53
mothers don't want to to give their
25:55
children and in Rosemarie Zork
25:58
immigrants for the whole day right and
26:01
they want to to keep them at at home I
26:03
think it's a traditional problem of
26:06
German mothers in Germany two thirds of
26:09
mothers with children under three a
26:11
stay-at-home mums compared to a third in
26:13
Britain friends of mine who don't work
26:14
who are mums in in Britain have
26:17
sometimes said that when people are you
26:19
know that they hate the question are so
26:20
you know what do you do cuz they feel
26:21
that saying oh I'm a mum is not enough
26:23
you have to organise the whole life of a
26:26
family and this is is a hard job so you
26:29
want to go over this tomorrow no you got
26:32
it all I know yeah exactly yeah
26:34
it's great that motherhood is the source
26:36
of pride here in Germany but there is a
26:38
stigma attached to being a working
26:39
mother
26:40
they're called Harvin mutters Raven mums
26:42
that neglect their young the German
26:45
school day doesn't help working moms
26:46
either it's not possible my daughter and
26:49
I think a school starts at 8 o clock and
26:53
three times in the the week she comes
26:56
back um at a quarter past 11 seriously
27:01
hard work part time and that's not
27:02
nursery that's school
27:03
let's Paul visit there's a big contrast
27:05
with with Britain but actually
27:08
financially is much better not to work
27:10
as a mum here than in Britain you get
27:13
good tax breaks and you get benneferre
27:16
when I go to work you have hope pays so
27:18
much tech then it's nothing at the end
27:22
of months - yeah in my hands there's
27:24
nothing left no nothing left
27:26
yeah really laughs so as I stay at home
27:28
and be with my kids
27:31
that kindergarten is amazing but there's
27:33
something that's still bothering me and
27:34
it's that German women on what
27:36
specifically German mothers aren't
27:38
getting back into the workforce they
27:39
work less than all of their European
27:41
counterparts and even more alarmingly
27:43
I've read that a boardroom at CEO level
27:45
representation of women is 2% in Germany
27:49
and in Britain we manage I think about
27:50
14% so I find out really shocking and I
27:53
think that whatever the push-pull
27:55
factors are that keep women at home be
27:57
it financial incentives or the strange
27:59
German school day that starts only but
28:01
finishes at lunchtime Germany needs to
28:03
address this so that women can can have
28:05
a fulfilling career to keep up with
28:08
Sabina Muller
28:09
I've still got three of my four hours of
28:11
housework to do
28:21
Germans are well known for their
28:23
recycling half of all municipal waste is
28:26
recycled twice as much as in the UK the
28:30
rule are a paper paper yes
28:37
I've done a bit of hoovering and I touch
28:40
a few things on the sink
28:41
I've definitely Humber doing my four and
28:42
a half hours or four point two eight
28:44
hours a day
28:45
not even close so that's a big fat fail
28:48
on the house for our front it's tea time
28:53
and I'm already on my way home you can
28:57
learn quite a lot about a culture when
28:59
you get behind the wheel yeah it
29:01
obviously is a new car and I'm a little
29:02
bit nervous and other drivers are really
29:05
on your case if you make even a slight
29:07
mistake you leave your indicator on for
29:08
too long they'll start beeping their
29:09
horns and telling you you know which you
29:12
know you don't want to read too much
29:13
into but I think says a lot about the
29:15
way that German society is ordered you
29:17
know if you you transgress if you make a
29:19
mistake then people will point it out to
29:20
you and that's one of the reasons why it
29:22
works so well you know it's a bit of my
29:25
anglo-saxon nature which doesn't want to
29:27
be told you know because my challenge is
29:40
to be more German I've got to do what
29:42
Germans do and that means joining a club
29:44
there are over half a million of them
29:46
across the country I'm trying out one of
29:48
the most traditional a singing club I'm
29:51
not even hi I'm Justin I'm Justin thank
29:54
you very much for letting me join you
29:55
tonight the problem is I'm not much of a
29:58
singer Justin do you want to sing in the
30:00
bass sorry in the bus or in the Tipton's
30:03
or you know I think I'm probably a tenor
30:06
Janet oh yeah
30:44
yeah I got really knows
30:48
so how popular at clubs like this mm-hmm
30:54
if you want here in the arab Vyner
30:57
Brooke I see then 100 a hundred clubs
31:01
just an amazing Iceland just around
31:03
America no don't go home I go to bed and
31:06
go to work go to bed you go with you
31:08
here and have some fun and yeah and also
31:12
sing is good for the few things and it's
31:15
nice you like it also because there's
31:17
something purpose fun about you're not
31:18
just coming and having a drink or that
31:20
we have that anyway yeah you do that
31:22
anything so you like the sense of
31:23
purpose
31:24
communal purpose it seems this is about
31:29
more than just singing I get the sense
31:32
there's also something about wanting to
31:33
be part of a community doing something
31:36
together with a group of like-minded
31:37
people
31:41
yes Britain seems a lot less community
31:44
orientated much more individualistic
31:47
yonder
31:52
I hope my voice isn't ruin a great
31:56
evening
32:10
to be honest I think I'm beating about
32:13
and bear noid I mean normally the kids
32:15
have bit nursery and she would have to
32:17
look after them every day she would have
32:18
to do this four and a half hours of
32:20
housework and I think it's getting a bit
32:21
tedious when she's getting a bit bored
32:22
of it all I'm a bit annoyed to be honest
32:27
tensions are rising in the role after
32:30
family where should I go which one this
32:36
one for me
32:38
where should I work decided Easter okay
32:41
just like at the choir the emphasis is
32:43
on the team not the individual and
32:45
they're giving me more responsibility
32:47
I'm now looking after three machines
32:49
under the supervision of Danny
32:53
it does give a sense of common purpose
32:55
and pride in what they do in a in a way
32:57
that you know does make it feel it makes
32:59
you want to work hard yourself you know
33:01
you don't want to let down you know
33:02
Danny and Brigitta by kind of slacking
33:05
because they're working hard and putting
33:06
a lot into it
33:15
you
33:21
Germany's relationship to money has its
33:23
roots in the past the memory of post-war
33:26
hardships lives on and even now they're
33:28
cautious about spending
33:37
you
33:40
much more than we do 10% of the family
33:43
budget compared to the 1% we Brits
33:45
manage that means German banks have more
33:47
capital more money to lend out to German
33:49
companies which has helped them invest
33:51
and expand over decades
33:54
but actually was quite as decent value
33:56
you know ten sweating like nappies and
33:57
toothpaste bought a few beers as well I
33:59
was surprised thought it's gonna cost
34:01
more getting home early gives me plenty
34:05
of time to catch up with my TV quota
34:10
hello are you doing al Santino time he's
34:16
really meant time after bargain-hunting
34:20
in the shops there's still work to do to
34:22
meet those demanding German targets for
34:24
housework
34:33
my house once it's time to check our
34:39
guidebook we're trying to be averaged
34:41
Germans so how a ver egde are we I'm
34:44
going to I cut no absolutely I failed to
34:47
spend 4 hours 11 minutes doing cooking
34:48
washing and cleaning I just don't see
34:49
how anyone can I mean there seems to be
34:51
a real emphasis on parent spending time
34:52
with their kids in Germany and that's
34:55
you know I think that's really
34:55
impressive and that seems to be
34:56
encouraged by the states as well
34:58
it's know encouraging moms to stay with
35:00
the kids not so much nice especially
35:02
moms here especially ones but but that's
35:04
you know it's not a bad thing is it to
35:06
offer women the choice not not to work
35:08
and to be at home it's about prescribing
35:10
other people's lives you CLE don't have
35:11
a problem with that because it hasn't
35:12
happened to you your life has not been
35:14
prescribed or dictated by someone else
35:16
or dictated by society so you seem quite
35:18
happy to impose that on others what I'm
35:20
saying is I'm not entirely convinced
35:21
that they all want to stay at home some
35:22
of them I don't if people wanting us
35:23
great go for it if you know but can you
35:26
see that if you provide the money you'll
35:28
turn nearly that support for women by
35:30
giving them money and subsidized
35:32
childcare and wholly open their jobs
35:34
you give them freedom of choice so they
35:36
can choose that's what I'm saying it's a
35:37
freedom of choice you know coming from
35:39
you I think that's like for me I get a
35:42
wicked person well it is personal
35:43
political personal isn't it from from
35:46
that from the little boy who said to his
35:47
mother you're not as important to study
35:48
because daddy goes out to work you said
35:49
that to your own mum didn't you Justin
35:52
yes
35:52
oh you just want some ass to pay for it
35:55
you think a state pays for then that's a
35:57
good thing well you know I I put it that
35:59
women should be just some funny members
36:01
of society so but you know you know
36:03
you're not get you know you're not
36:04
debating
36:12
Oh gross danke son it's time for me to
36:23
get personal with my colleagues - I want
36:25
to know how much they earn the German
36:28
economy is doing very well
36:30
worldwide compared to the rest of the
36:32
world right how our wage is what wages
36:35
won't you a late is going up rapidly as
36:37
the German economy grows and not really
36:39
no no no it's roughly a correction of
36:43
the inflation but more right so there is
36:45
I don't know on a win
36:47
I don't see any moon or since that's
36:51
right now that's true for most German
36:54
workers the German economy may be doing
36:56
well internationally but in real terms
36:58
wages haven't gone up in 20 years
37:03
one reason is reunification the West had
37:07
to bear the burden of modernizing the
37:09
economy of East Germany it affected
37:10
everyone in Germany often workers traded
37:14
wage increases for job security
37:18
now German taxpayers are picking up the
37:21
tab for the debts of the eurozone
37:25
ever since Danny came over from the east
37:28
he's had a steady job when did you come
37:31
here
37:31
not enough systemize no question kitchen
37:35
I don't know when the wool first Canaria
37:37
you came you came got there II don't
37:40
know no money no no no either lower
37:44
teeth hundred marks demise 100 knocks
37:47
it's not get on it for purpose and a
37:51
person yep from slow on the ankle and
37:54
super interesting are the exact angle
37:56
critiques on either invest compared once
37:59
the outward and fashioned a wide I will
38:03
see you go
38:06
reunification is another example of the
38:09
Germans ability to overcome adversity
38:11
but it seems their sense of community
38:14
does not apply to all Germans we live in
38:18
Boston Hoth a trendy area of Nuremberg
38:20
that's often called goho like Soho in
38:23
New York it's multicultural 40% of
38:26
residents here aren't ethnic Germans
38:29
there's been a lot of immigration to
38:31
Germany over the years nine point one
38:33
percent of the population are from
38:34
abroad compared to 7.6 in the UK most
38:40
immigrants to Germany a Turkish they
38:42
first came over in the 60s as gastar
38:44
vitae or guest workers when Germany and
38:46
a labor shortage
38:50
I'm meeting a Lev a local writer who was
38:53
born here two Turkish parents what was
38:56
the attitude when you did do Turks I
38:59
mean they're uneducated they don't speak
39:01
German very well criminals
39:05
lower class it was actually pretty
39:08
difficulty because I was born as a
39:10
Turkish citizen because Germany didn't
39:12
claim as at the time only when I was
39:14
like 20 80 or so you're somebody great
39:15
yeah despite being born in Germany
39:17
definitely so you didn't have proper
39:19
rights as a German citizen until you
39:21
were 28 years old in Germany it is a
39:23
country that space on this exclusion
39:25
well I mean mother exclusion is in do
39:27
you like to separate they like to select
39:30
the best but I mean it's German it's a
39:32
multicultural society right I mean the
39:33
people who are here we're here but are
39:36
we represented in the top positions are
39:38
represented in organizations are we
39:40
represented in politics absolutely not
39:42
we are excluded mass emigration has been
39:46
a challenge for many European countries
39:47
and it's certainly causing tension here
39:50
now it's my turn to do some housework
39:53
even Thomas Muller does an hour a day
39:55
I'm cooking one of Germany's most
39:58
celebrated national dishes no less
40:00
sauerkraut ready-made sauerkraut some
40:03
wannabe gourmet cuisine
40:06
Wow andreas kalcker is an economist at a
40:09
local university his wife is a teacher
40:11
I've invited them round because I still
40:14
don't fully understand why German
40:16
workers are so productive we have some
40:19
app statistics about Germans and we
40:21
learned how much pork and potatoes
40:23
Germans eat a kilo a week of each yeah
40:26
so we need to get our pork and potatoes
40:28
in according to do we have to fall no
40:30
it's a different attitude I want that
40:32
kind of industrial work I know that the
40:36
label made in Germany is not what it
40:37
used to be but even I think many people
40:40
still have that image of belonging make
40:43
it to a company that produces something
40:45
that is really good and you really
40:47
competitive on the mark they're proud of
40:49
working there and other people if the
40:52
company has a good name then they're
40:53
proud to work for them you look at the
40:55
steady growth of the German economy but
40:57
that hasn't been reflected in real
40:58
incomes so ordinary Germans haven't seen
41:01
you know then feel wealthy because in
41:03
the end the ordinary German would say
41:06
I'm happy to keep my job I just have
41:10
additional income a view of 1% is very
41:13
secure so steady this is how Germans
41:16
want to have a steady calculable I think
41:19
they won't go for for the 10% security
41:23
is important that I think they'd rather
41:24
go for the steady steady accrue it's
41:27
like the companies no big no there's no
41:29
Apple there's no Amazon no so instead of
41:32
Amazon or Microsoft you have the midrash
41:34
time remember these small businesses
41:35
that do little things very well also
41:39
this this emphasis on on really quality
41:41
of things work but unfortunately
41:43
something isn't working my sauerkraut if
41:47
the sauerkraut is there a reason why you
41:49
start this cold are we supposed to set a
41:51
whole I know I do
41:54
I thought it was supposed to be called
42:02
it's the weekend I'm beginning to get a
42:06
handle on why the Germans fetus in the
42:08
workplace but what about on the pitch
42:14
I'm off to Munich to watch The Footy
42:16
Bayern Munich vs. Hamburg I'm meeting my
42:21
workmates Dani and Timo at the match
42:24
German football was really interesting
42:26
because it's yet another German success
42:28
story look at this I've got tickets for
42:30
this big games 15 euros for really good
42:33
seats I mean that's way cheaper than the
42:36
Premier League
42:37
unlike the freewheelin world of the
42:39
English Premier League where anyone can
42:41
own anything the German Bundesliga is a
42:44
bit more restrained a bit like German
42:46
Mitchell stunt companies like father
42:48
Castel who owns the cockpit who owns
42:50
Baron I mean the the members to really I
42:52
mean it is possible to sell shares off
42:55
the top not only to a certain extent so
42:57
we have the so-called 50 plus one rule
42:59
which means the 50% plus one share have
43:01
to be owned in by members of the matter
43:05
so if I Ordinaries band so how does that
43:07
change the way you think the decision to
43:08
make well I think things like what's
43:10
happening in English football teams
43:12
billionaire from Russia or Viet Malaysia
43:14
or wherever can't change everything
43:16
about the football team it has full
43:18
control and in Germany this isn't so
43:20
easy to do for the people with money so
43:23
it's more of a fan-based
43:25
structure so I just got a chilly NACA
43:27
it's like a chili sausage typical
43:29
football weather to be honest cool
43:31
exhausting ts fault - not vs fault
43:35
which support are you awesome
43:38
I have been there room yeah you there no
43:42
no arsenal Oh God awesome awesome army
43:48
Hey Teemo
43:51
I hate very good hey Danny we're okay
43:53
what about the weather it's cold
43:55
oh yeah it's very cool
44:06
it was a historic game 9 - to Bayern
44:10
Munich
44:20
Sunday still plays a special role in
44:23
German life over half of Germans are
44:25
religious and according to German law
44:27
sunday is a day of rest and virtually
44:30
all the shops are shut
44:39
hi hey good morning
44:42
Jurgen the policemen we had over to
44:44
dinner has come to call because I'm here
44:46
we're a little problem a morning it's
44:50
too loud what we are to your cloud
44:53
especially your children they will try
44:56
it was too loud the neighbor said to me
44:58
that she heard and all the time since 6
45:00
o'clock
45:01
well they did get up quite early yeah I
45:03
actually have been quite good they were
45:05
just kind of playing and jumping around
45:06
yeah it's a little problem it you don't
45:09
understand me a folder but it's a good
45:11
behavior in Germany on Sunday to be
45:13
quiet because it's a holy day and it
45:16
offends other people yes also are there
45:19
rules that you aren't allowed to do
45:21
words like drilling or which make noise
45:26
and or is it now house right now
45:27
cleaning it cleaning us ok but you're
45:30
nothing which make noise Saturday so
45:35
it's an offence in law do people really
45:37
observe it yes it does
45:39
people really good attention justice
45:41
really people you would be called out as
45:43
a policeman yes sometimes it costs 50
45:46
euros until to 2500 euros
45:49
really you have come to arrest ourselves
45:51
yeah who said to you friendly yeah of
45:55
course yeah that's very good advice but
45:57
here in the city zero we said many
45:59
foreigners and they don't know sis law
46:02
and they sometimes not don't blow there
46:04
as a neighbor and usually don't care and
46:07
improve whatever they want that must
46:09
cause in a trouble between neighbors yes
46:12
trouble begins with little things like
46:15
the kinder shouting all their Cheung
46:17
know that you're also bladed music
46:19
instrument that's lower than it goes
46:22
absolutely escalates more and more so
46:24
it's a question
46:25
respect yes I'm just respecting the
46:27
traditions the conventions yeah that
46:29
sense that's okay okay okay thank you
46:31
very much indeed to keep the neighbors
46:35
and the children happy we're going to
46:37
Germany's largest amusement park Europa
46:40
Park during my time in Germany you know
46:42
we've we started with the kind of
46:43
stereotypes the average German and you
46:46
know I suppose the experience has been a
46:47
move away so it's quite ironic really
46:48
that we've ended up here at your Oprah
46:50
part which is a celebration of European
46:52
stereotypes but brilliant wonderful and
46:54
kind of loving of Europe as well
47:19
there's an Easter egg hunt at the vault
47:21
kindergarten
47:24
oh yeah look it's going to eat
47:30
I want to find out how else it got on I
47:33
would like to keep her here I'm so happy
47:36
it makes me wish I was a child I think
47:39
it's really beautiful there's a strong
47:42
environmentalist message in this it's
47:43
about respecting nature so you know
47:45
there's no trace left behind they don't
47:47
drop it
47:47
any rubbish so I think that's a very
47:48
typically German thing and also I think
47:51
there's a sense of an idealized version
47:54
of childhood you know without the being
47:56
measured for their literacy and their
47:57
maths and without being you know place
48:00
to know sort of artificially lit flow
48:02
enclosed environment but I think is
48:04
quite quite typical in Germany it's my
48:08
last day at the factory and time to hang
48:10
up my pencil dress I've got quite eh try
48:13
French fire and you know I can run the
48:16
free machine two point one so I'm hoping
48:18
that they're pleased with me the only
48:20
problem I think is being there of an
48:22
issue with punctuality it has been quite
48:25
hard to get on time
48:29
sighs my my yeah
48:34
I think you improve you did well with
48:37
this three machines we had lots of help
48:40
but any little visual palliative Pascal
48:44
is called what a better landing at this
48:46
example God touches everything shows on
48:50
the booth Esther Martin okay I got you
48:53
Thank You Danny thank you thank you it
48:55
was really get was so helpful yeah
48:57
helping me with the machine get me
48:59
better gonna oh no that's good it was
49:01
really good thank you Alex how did I do
49:03
was i okay yeah it was it they really
49:05
okay yeah good good longer hi how are
49:12
you just before we leave
49:14
PJ the admin is back and he wants to
49:17
know how successful we've been at
49:18
becoming average Germans
49:20
so the like the the big goal in this
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behaving a bit like the Milus I didn't
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excel in the house for our steaks I I
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like to go out and work you know I find
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my work-life balance somehow I don't
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think that really fits into the mold
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house was set out to me did you become
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Thomas snow you have to look at our
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diary of being a German to see that we
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didn't achieve that I'll tell you the
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things I managed to achieve religiously
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without fail I hit my pork quotas and I
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hit my potato quotas and I exceeded my
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beer and wine grocers good man
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we're not quite the mullahs yet but we
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have learned a lot about being German
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about how their hard work efficiency and
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orderliness spring from a deep sense of
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community and responsibility towards
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each other but something else has really
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impressed me too and this maybe to do
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with their country's history they don't
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take their success for granted and I
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think that's why the country is so good
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at focusing on the long term we did it
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sunny day
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