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Errorist76 on 14 December 2017
Ka-pi96 said:
Because German sounds terrible and few people outside Germany speak it? I mean, I guess it might sound good to German speakers, but to me it just sounds terrible.

Are you sure?! Or have you just watched to many Hitler parodies. ;D

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Farsala on 14 December 2017
ithis said:
Farsala said:

And ironically lose to tiny countries like Moldavia, where talent should be surely lacking.

WTF? You mean because of the smaller selection pool, right, not in the "big western Europeans be superior to small eastern Europeans" kind of way you make it sound, right?

Yeah I mean population wise, I loved some of the music to come from Moldavia during Eurovision especially compared to Germany.



Errorist76 on 14 December 2017
Pagan said:

Thata because the germans are not casual and cool people. All? Maybe. They dont know how to show their feelings. Look at their movies. The only funny german movies are fuk yu göte. And that guy is from iran.

If you look ar hollywood and compare it with the germans you will understand. Talking with a german is like talking to a wall. Berlin changed the people alittle bit because its a mixed City with turks kurds and so on. People who grew up in berlin are different as people from the east. Germans from Berlin are cool and casual.

Generalising though?!

I really don't wanna know where you come from...

Berlin has not been become cool because of the Turks and Arabs, it has always been an liberal and influencial capital...but also because it's basically the city and symbol of freedom these days, basically the New York of the 80ies..a melting pot. Not sure if necessary the Arabs and Turks did do much to improve that liberal thinking, honestly. 



outlawauron on 14 December 2017

Because German is an ugly language and the country isn't known for any cool or trendy things. Germany is famous for beer and auto engineering. Those are good things to be known for, but that also means you won't be very big in pop culture.



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MrRoops on 14 December 2017
outlawauron said:
Because German is an ugly language and the country isn't known for any cool or trendy things. Germany is famous for beer and auto engineering. Those are good things to be known for, but that also means you won't be very big in pop culture.

Are they, id say they are known more for drinking it then their own beers.   World wide their beer is not that well know nor sold in massive numbers.  

Other than their cars they are universally known for their murderous genocides.

And yahh their langies sounds nasty.  



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Peh on 14 December 2017

I just leave it hear...it's only a small fraction of what germany is known for...

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7ten on 14 December 2017

I think language - Of course Japanese is potentially an even bigger barrier but they are famous for being no1 in technology and games. And until the last decade, most Asian pop was considered Japanese (regardless of origin) until the Korean wave took over.



VGPolyglot on 14 December 2017

Well, I guess I could post some German HEAVY METAL to alleviate that:



Mr Puggsly on 14 December 2017

I think Nazi culture has been pretty successful. German porn is weird, but not terrible.

I think if Germans spoke English we would embrace them more.

Speak American or fuck off. I feel the Japanese at least try.



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VGPolyglot on 14 December 2017
Mr Puggsly said:
I think Nazi culture has been pretty successful. German porn is weird, but not terrible.

I think if Germans spoke English we would embrace them more.

Speak American or fuck off. I feel the Japanese at least try.

Over 50% already do