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5. GERMANS WEAR LEATHER PANTS AND TRADITIONAL COSTUMES

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5. GERMANS WEAR LEATHER PANTS AND TRADITIONAL COSTUMES

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And Brazilians wear Bahian skirts. Neither is true. The leather pants are one of the typical costumes of the Bavarian region, and are still worn in festivities or in villages by more traditional people. Other than that, you will not see people dressed this way in the cities, just as you will hardly see someone wearing a baiana skirt walking on Avenida Paulista.

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PRIMARK: LOJA DE ROUPA BARATA NA EUROPA | Alemanha

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Germany is known for high quality beers and the per capita consumption in the country is high, but this does not mean that you will walk down the street and see almost everyone with a bottle of beer in hand.
In fact, Germans consume more coffee than beer. 80% of Germans drink at least one cup of coffee a day, on average 3.5 cups/day. This amounts to more than 150 liters of coffee per year per person. Beer consumption averages 102 liters per year per person.

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And Brazil is not? The first impression of Brazilians in Germany is that everything is extremely bureaucratic. I myself had this impression when I came to Berlin in 2010. Now imagine that all the documents you had a lifetime to get in Brazil, here you need to have in hand in a few months. This makes forms, public agencies, appointments a mandatory part of your routine when you arrive here. And when you arrive in any other country.

Here you need a visa (like in any other country), a bank account (like in any other country), health insurance (like in many other countries). Living abroad includes bureaucracies that are not unique to Germany. To say that Germany is extremely bureaucratic would be unfair, because other countries (including Brazil) are too. Yes, there is bureaucracy here, but this is part of the legal procedure for living anywhere in the world.

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2. IN WINTER, THE COLD IS EXTREME AND THE STREETS ARE DESERTED.

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2. IN WINTER, THE COLD IS EXTREME AND THE STREETS ARE DESERTED.

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Are you talking about Siberia? Well, because here in Germany it is not quite like that, in the south of the country (which includes Bavaria and the Alps region) the cold is more intense, with temperatures below minus 10 degrees Celsius, and in winter it falls a lot more snow. In the north of the country (which includes Berlin and Hamburg) the winter is relatively milder and sometimes we have an entire winter with few snow days. I have lived in Berlin since 2010 and the lowest temperature I have experienced here was -21 degrees (exactly in my first winter, in 2010). That year also saw the highest snowfall in the city (27 to 30 cm) in a 100-year period! But that was an exception.

And as they say here in Germany:

"There is no such thing as bad weather, what there is is unsuitable clothing."

Here in Germany we have proper clothes for winter and so we continue life normally: going to work, college, walking, shopping...winter does not stop life from continuing.

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Reflexões - Um dia de Inverno na Alemanha - Como é a Depressão de inverno

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Or is it the Brazilians who are too open? Those who have traveled around the world know that Brazilians' behavior is the exception, not the rule. And here in Germany it is no different, as well as in other European countries. Germans are direct and objective in a general context, but with family and friends, for example, they are much more open and close.

In larger cities like Berlin, people also place a high value on work-life balance. Germans generally work in a focused way, but after Feierabend (end of work) they rush to the parks, bars and restaurants to meet friends, laugh and relax.