Thanks again for the great feedback and the nice storys.
The only contact I had with americans was a few years ago when I lived in a small village near Herzogenaurach (it's a small city). In the house were living 3 famalies one from switzerland, one from the US and our famaly so it has a very international atmosphere. What I like is that the amercian people are very direct and open for example the weather was nice and he came to our apartment and asked "Hey the weather outside is great come one let's take our bikes and enjoy the great weather." and situations like these were often the case another example he wanted to watch a DVD with his son and a few seconds later he knocked on our door and asked me if I like to watch a DVD. He was working for adidas (a german sports wear company - don't know if it's so popular in the US) and often it was the case that he gave me new sport shoes, pullovers and T-Shirts for free. Often I spend my freetime with his son and on new year's eve we shot some fireworks to another house - it was more a mistake because we put to many rockets in one bottle and than suddenly the bottle felt down and the rockets were aiming the house next to instead of flying in the air. After the explosion we heard a women who was screaming but she was only scared and nothing else happend. So when I look back they were very nice people so my experience with americans is very positive.
Sadly I wasn't until now in the US but when I'm ready with studying I'll take a trip over the big pond.
Here a little correction of the statement in my first posting:
I think the message was a little bit misunderstood (that's why I wrote here in german direct to the user). Here in Germany the media is transporting the message that most of the americans especially people who live in the southern states like Texas, Arizona, Mississippi and so one have a great gun collection (as you can see in this video: this guy has 5 guns and the media says he is not the only one who has so many guns). So I was a little bit ashamed because I thought the people here in this forum would think "Oh he has only 3 guns what is he doing here ..." but here in Germany it's very rare because we haven't such a gun culture like the US. After a history of dictatorship people here still haven't realized that private gun ownership is connected to freedom and after some school shootings the goverment is sharpen the law and trys to grap the guns. There are just 1,4 million people here who have a firearm license (which is necessary here for legal gun ownership) and these group of people are owning 5,5 million guns. The facts are in this article (http://www.focus.de/politik/deutsch...besitzen-5-5-millionen-waffen_aid_889085.html). So with 82 million citizens only 1,15% of the people here are legal private gun owners and when you add the number of illegal owners (which are higher because 2 world wars left behind many guns) plus people from the goverment like police and so one you get maybe a percentage of 10.
The only contact I had with americans was a few years ago when I lived in a small village near Herzogenaurach (it's a small city). In the house were living 3 famalies one from switzerland, one from the US and our famaly so it has a very international atmosphere. What I like is that the amercian people are very direct and open for example the weather was nice and he came to our apartment and asked "Hey the weather outside is great come one let's take our bikes and enjoy the great weather." and situations like these were often the case another example he wanted to watch a DVD with his son and a few seconds later he knocked on our door and asked me if I like to watch a DVD. He was working for adidas (a german sports wear company - don't know if it's so popular in the US) and often it was the case that he gave me new sport shoes, pullovers and T-Shirts for free. Often I spend my freetime with his son and on new year's eve we shot some fireworks to another house - it was more a mistake because we put to many rockets in one bottle and than suddenly the bottle felt down and the rockets were aiming the house next to instead of flying in the air. After the explosion we heard a women who was screaming but she was only scared and nothing else happend. So when I look back they were very nice people so my experience with americans is very positive.
Sadly I wasn't until now in the US but when I'm ready with studying I'll take a trip over the big pond.
Here a little correction of the statement in my first posting:
I think the message was a little bit misunderstood (that's why I wrote here in german direct to the user). Here in Germany the media is transporting the message that most of the americans especially people who live in the southern states like Texas, Arizona, Mississippi and so one have a great gun collection (as you can see in this video: this guy has 5 guns and the media says he is not the only one who has so many guns). So I was a little bit ashamed because I thought the people here in this forum would think "Oh he has only 3 guns what is he doing here ..." but here in Germany it's very rare because we haven't such a gun culture like the US. After a history of dictatorship people here still haven't realized that private gun ownership is connected to freedom and after some school shootings the goverment is sharpen the law and trys to grap the guns. There are just 1,4 million people here who have a firearm license (which is necessary here for legal gun ownership) and these group of people are owning 5,5 million guns. The facts are in this article (http://www.focus.de/politik/deutsch...besitzen-5-5-millionen-waffen_aid_889085.html). So with 82 million citizens only 1,15% of the people here are legal private gun owners and when you add the number of illegal owners (which are higher because 2 world wars left behind many guns) plus people from the goverment like police and so one you get maybe a percentage of 10.
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