Kultur 6 - Tabloids, Privacy and Recycling

The first article regarding das Bild Zeitung did not surprise me a lot. Tabloids and newspapers exist everywhere. In fact, in Greece, there is one newspaper (called Espresso) dealing with all the "shocking scandals" but you would not call it a tabloid. It provides information but at the same time functions as a tabloid that reveals every shocking aspect of our society. The Daily Mirror functions in a similar way, and I do not see why we could not find something similar in Germany. I believe that people get more interested in this kind of subjects than in the usual news that's posted every day.

Regarding closed doors, it is something I have dealt with in the past, and even if open doors are something common, they are not that common back home. I always remember myself at a young age being told to knock the door and walk in after permission is given. I find it funny (maybe simply typical German) that when you walk in a door you have to seem confident. I always saw closed doors as a privacy issue, nothing more, nothing less, so I do not understand this necessity to seem confident apart from just knocking the door to be let inside the room. As far as I understand the article, it is possible that Germans tend to keep the doors closed at all times. It matches all the stereotypical German characteristics, so locked doors are also not a surprise for me.

When I read the article regarding recycling, for once more I told to myself what a country Germany is and they seem to prove why they are considered the top country of Europe right now at every single aspect. The fact that people care so much about recycling and want to do it as neat and clean as they can impresses me. I honestly would not expect to see that from any other place and the fact that Germans keep the recycling process complex, but always follow it carefully, shows me one more reason that Germany is the most organized country in Europe.