Problem is, American media doesn’t just show violence, it glorifies violence, whereas perfectly normal behaviors are being censored out.

This of course has a rather obvious explanation, but HN prohibits mentioning it for political reasons.

I think you have the causality backwards. In both cases, the publishers are trying to maximize profit.

A movie full of violence won't sell as well in Germany. It isn't want Germans want to go see. Vice versa for Americans and sex.

Culture dictates what kind of media is desirable, not the other way around.

I don't dispute the cultural aspect, in fact that's a center point of my post. But Germany does have (to the best of my knowledge) a special rating board that even used to enforce censorship in games. E.g. games sold in Germany had to have blood removed.

Again, the cultural aspect is core to the entire thing, but nevertheless the overarching theme is that both countries apply a sort of self censorship.

America has ratings and similar censorship for games too. They also have strong cultural/economic taboos that work on top of it. They censor different things and different topics tho.

Every country has something that rates or censors entertainment for popular consumption. Some are overbearing or carry criminal offenses (Iran, Russia) and some are more off economic (store wont sell your game).

> Both say: people are not capable of making a sound moral choice on their own, they must be protected from seeing things that could negatively influence their character.

Germany became strongly anti-violence after WWII cause the normalization of violence in that period and level of it was extraordinary high in Germany.