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Date of upload: Jan 21, 2024 ^^
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Hi, comment from France regarding water in restaurant :
Funny thing that happened in France is that McDonald tried to sell « McWater » for one euro. But in France, restaurant are legally obliged to give you free tap water if you ask (they don’t have a choice), so you could, in a McDo be like : « Also can I have water please.
- Yes it will be one euro more.
- No no, FREE tap water.
- Yes… of course… »
They even talked about this in the news 😂
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I have the feeling that in America such a percentage of tips is unfair because regardless of the quality of the service, it turns out that the customer has to pay the difference between an unworthy salary and a decent salary instead of the employer. A tip should be a reward for extra effort or pleasant courtesy on top of a normal salary, it's not up to me as a customer to pay extra just because you came to work.
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For everybodys information: The german girl actually confused maternity leave (parental leave actually) with maternal protection time.
- Maternal protection is several weeks before due date and several weeks after birth. When a woman gets pregnant though, she gets closely monitored by her doctor. That doctor can prolong that maternal protection through an employment ban by a lot - depending on the womans job, her mental and physical health and actual pregnancy or birth complications. I have met women who went into that maternal protection the day they learned about their pregnancy (like 2nd month or so) and for 8 weeks after birth. That time the woman get paid full income and e.g. vacation days can not expire and other stuff.
- Parental leave is what follows after maternal protection and can be used by either the mother or the father or both. The duration for one person is 12 months at least with a percentage of the payment (65% minimum), and lasts up to 3 years (rather the 3rd birthday of the child). The payment is only for the first year though and can be split into 2 years, by receiving only half of it. In that time, no matter if with or without payment, social security is covered without payment as 'qualification time' - means you have no gaps in your retirement or unemployment insurance. If both parents want to use parental leave, then only one parent can use all of it, the other parent only a fraction of that time additionally. The payment is not the income but one of the many social 'income replacing payments' that is done by the government or government controlled institutions (though sometimes it is done through the employer, who then get reimbursed)
- While maternal protection has a minimum that mothers HAVE to take, without exception, they can cut it short before birth. Parental leave can be completely cut off if they wish.
That being said, this is for employed people. Self employed people of any kind have it a bit harder in many ways.
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I’m from Italy and what the Italian girl said about kissing is a little strange. It’s true that we kiss each other on the cheek as greetings, but we usually just press our cheeks together, mimicking the smacking sound of a kiss in a dramatic manner for the flare of it. Never once in my life a had someone greeting me plantings their lips on my cheek in a full on moist kiss with saliva as the cherry on top, except perhaps some elderly relative 😂😂😂😂
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In Germany, maternity leave is 6 weeks before and 8 weeks after due day, after that you get 12 months of paid leave if you take them on your own, if the partner does as well, it’s 14 months, you both can choose how long you want to stay at home. You can share 7+7 or 12+2 or 8+6, you can take the month together at once or after each other.
You get almost 70 % of your salary you had a year before pregnancy, but at least 300 € monthly if you didn’t work.
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Nudity in German (and some other countries in Europe) was the reaction of the young against the very strict regime of their parents and granparents (the WW1 and WW2 generation). These people are today in the 70ies and older and for them this was a symbol of freedom. This is also the name for it, Freikörperkultur (free-body-culture). But iaside of beaches, you see a lot less skin at the street, compared to US.
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That "restroom ticket" is NOT for public restrooms. It's for restrooms managed by a private company, which are in publically-accesible but privately-owned areas such as train stations (depending on the country, they may or may not be able to operate in highway stops). And the ticket always has a same-amount discount at the stores in the same place, so you can go to the toilet, pay whatever much it is, then take the ticket and it's a voucher for part of your drink, your meal or your magazine.
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I'm Croatian and a bit shocked at how short the maternity leave is in other EU countries. :/ Here it's a year and a half to two years long if it gets extended. It's also obligatory for at least 3 months, you're required to take the maternity leave by law, but I don't know a single person who didn't just take a year and a half off. Dads also get a paternity leave. And you can't get fired during it.
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As someone who ACTUALLY lived in America I can tell you that the difference from a 3rd world country is NOT that far...Europeans have BY LAW maternity leave, universal healthcare, paid vacations and other benefits that DO NOT exist in America...Americans have been brainwashed by politicians to think that all of these benefits are COMMUNISM when in fact is a basic right in ALL DEVELOPED COUNTRIES...THE FACT that all of these European women could carry on a conversation in another language other than their own tells you that the education system in their countries actually works...
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I have traveled to the United States several times. Every time I came back from there, I had the impression that all Europeans, no matter what nation they belong to, are closer in mentality than a citizen of the United States and a citizen of any European nation. And that even applies to the British.
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the weirdest thing with america is the amount of states who ban abortion and all but there's zero help for pregnant woman, maternity leave, free or affordable health care, affordable day care for when the mother has to go back to work immediately after giving birth,...
As a Belgian, when I moved to Germany, I "scared" a few people by trying to kiss them hello, like they took a step back XD Now I'm good with just hugging.
Tipping, I have a feeling it's more usual to tip in Germany than in Belgium, but it's not much anyway. Maybe because waiters,... are paid a living wage...
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I dig this kind of video! But I also think they could keep going with some more intriguing topics, like the difference between the concept of boundaries, tradition/folklore, the perception of self, how people react to strangers' interactions, etc. Based on my personal experience these are the things I found most different between the two.
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@hannesschwan6284
3 months ago
as a European you mostly see the differences between you and your neighboring countries, but from this outside perspective it’s nice to see that on a higher cultural level we have so much in common .. plus, it’s nice that no one acted if their way was somehow better than the other
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