I have no clue how to look into it to provide the correct term, but while this sounds odd, it is all about the relevant experience/lifestyle that someone is accustomed to or believes that is entitled to, based on what they have experienced or what they have heard that previous generations had.
What a person from my village might consider “amazing luxury”, a person from Athens might consider “dilapidated infrastructure”. This means that depending on the people’s background and experiences, the same thing can have a totally different reaction, ranging from the most positive to the most negative, even if it can be deemed as “objectively far above average”.
It does seem though that young people are not very happy with the state of things in Germany and that seems an issue that is being reported by DW:
Moving to Austria or Switzerland might be easier for them due to the language, but choices like Tokyo are of dubious convenience. Considering that many people fail to adjust from moving from one place to another within the same country, adjusting to a totally different culture is not an easy feat and it is not something that everyone can achieve.
Be that as it may, while that fellow on the video could move anywhere in the world, most young Germans do not have the financial ability to do so, exactly because their starting conditions are already very high and there are fewer places for them that could provide such a significant improvement for their way of life that would warrant the cost and risk of immigrating.
It makes me think of people who complain about their job, there are also statistics like x% are thinking of changing job. Most don’t, and among those who do, many realize afterwards that their old job wasn’t so bad after all.
I totally agree with you, but I have to point out that sometimes the numbers might be getting better overall, but life might be getting worse or be getting harder, for a lot of people living within those countries.
If you are still unemployed despite the unemployment rate falling from 20% to 5% (fictional examples), the chart got better, but your life didn’t.
This is a good analogy, but it isn’t just the news that claim that such a thing is happening.
Germany urgently needs a better understanding of why people leave the country – and often don’t return. Only then can policymakers and business take effective countermeasures.
The article in your link is excessively alarmist (“it is more urgent than ever for Germany to stem the exodus”) and fails to compare people going out with people coming in, as if all immigration is necessarily “bad”. For instance it says that “the highest occurrence is among those aged 20 to 29, likely including many students”, and conveniently forgets that many students in Germany come from other countries.
Let’s hope that’s true, because I totally agree with you that there aren’t many countries in the world that are currently a better place to live than Germany.
It is a very interesting paradox, which is getting more paradoxical as the people get altogether less and less tolerant.
The people that can afford to leave for a better place, usually do so.
It is a reasonable and less-risky choice, after all.
Politics now is a business and a very demanding one, at that, which is so absurd that few people can stomach.
If you do not have the training/know-how, the money and the connections, it is like opening a restaurant without knowing how to cook. That’s not a very reasonable choice.
I don’t really see the inherent interest in the moon being both far away and full for the second time in a calendar month (apparently an alteration of the original definition of “blue” which was also a calendar artifact).
The following statements in the article are funny to me:
The “blue” part in the phrase “blue moon” has nothing to do with the colouring of the Moon.
But the Moon has appeared to be blue in colour before, with NASA pointing to a famous example from 1883.
They really needed to pad this one out I guess.
At the end of the day I enjoy looking at the moon and approve of articles celebrating her beauty and intrigue.
After a win, people stay outside to celebrate, and a few of them take advantage of the crowd to break things. I feel the situation has worsened over the years, although celebration after the world cup in 1998 wasn’t without violence:
Yeah, we had something similar in 2004 for the Euro cup and the whole country was out in the streets after the semi-final and the final. I happened to be in Thessaloniki at the time and it was something really special. Even my friends that didn’t watch football walked all the way to the town center to the moss pit, but other than the usual “standard flares”, nothing really burned and noone really got hurt (even though the standard victory celebration in the countryside here involves shotguns and all the ammo you can find at home ).
Locals, tourists, young people, old people, mothers holding babies, radical leftists holding national flags and hugging priests and monks holding icons and praising God , posers with motorcycles, hooligans breaking into their emergency flare reserve, punks and metalheads headbanging, all in a huge pile jumping around and yelling football chants and limericks. Someone even appeared on a horseback, at the center of the town, God knows where that dude came from. I’ve never seen anything like this and probably never will again.
Be that as it may, I remember that there was no issue at all (even the thieves where having a day off) and indeed I can find no article about any police trouble or arrests. It was so much fun that nothing happened.
Had we lost, I guess all that jubilation might have turned ugly instead, in some places, but breaking stuff when you win? Seems so odd.
I’m not even sure that people who break stuff are the same as those who celebrate. They do the same at New Year’s eve, National day,… They don’t care about what is celebrated, they want to break and think that they are more difficult to catch in the crowd.
We have to be careful on the media these days because many of them are focused on making people afraid, in a fake need for security.
Especially for France with elections for president coming next year.
Sports riots by winners were commonplace in the U.S. for a long time. They occurred both in cities or universities after a won championship. That behavior seems to have declined here in the last 10 years or so, though it still happens, I suppose. Not sure whether it declined due to a tougher response, or because people got bored with being asses.
Yes, I think that is certainly true. That is also the idea behind flash-crowd looting, which is the “new” U.S. trend.
I think around 2004 there was a sports riot where a university student got killed by a rubber bullet. After that schools started taking more responsibility for deterring disorderly assemblies and vandalism.
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