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Re:Why do all these 20-somethings have closed captions turne... by bowsamic on Sunday September 18, 2022 @06:30AM (#32886249)
Have you spent much times in other countries? I just spent a week in the UK with a German who had culture shock that strangers were actually talking to each other, that waiters called him "sir", and that the trains were so high-tech.

Mainly I find that Germans who disagree with these things have not lived in other countries, and those that do immediately agree.

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Re:Why do all these 20-somethings have closed captions turne... by Semaphor on Sunday September 18, 2022 @06:57AM (#32886415)
Yeah, you prefer the forced fake-friendlyness of anglo countries, most of us actually do not want that. And yes, I have lived in other countries.
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Re:Why do all these 20-somethings have closed captions turne... by bowsamic on Sunday September 18, 2022 @07:36AM (#32886646)
The fact that you think the friendliness of people in anglo countries is fake is very sad...

EDIT: trust me the banter between two strangers chatting in the UK is not fake. We are not americans. We are simply willing to talk to people we don't know. Germans do not do this. Isolating yourself from strangers is not something to be proud of.

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