What do you hate/strongly dislike about German culture?

The mentality that they shouldn't get involved/interfere with things.

They're happy to shut down a large part of town to have a protest march, but when it comes to everyday incidences where people need help, they're so god damn risk averse they don't do anything.

My husband explained it to me that sometimes people here are worried about how they might make a situation worse, or how they might become liable if something goes wrong, but it just goes against every instinct that has been instilled in me since I was a child.

My best example is, one day in the middle of a "heatwave" in Germany, I was walking home from the supermarket. A guy in a park I was walking past had a heart attack and fell to the ground, cracking his head open on the ground when he fell. There were people standing around looking, but only one guy was there next to him - at this point my German was not great, and thankfully, the guy there also spoke English. The man who was having the heart attack, was turning blue, and the guy told me he didn't know what to do but would help me, so we started rolling him over so I could commence CPR - the guy was a big a guy, and it was really hard for us to move him, but no one helped. At this point, there were people standing around watching, with kids - and there is blood everywhere, but has anyone called the ambulance? No, everyone is pretending like it's not happening.

I start compressions and continue doing them for what feels like foreverrrrr until the ambulance turns up. And then I'm just left there, covered in blood and crying, and everyone just staring at me. The one guy that was helping me thanked me, saying he had no idea what to do and no one else was willing to help him.

The police asked me to go to the hospital afterwards, because I had his blood all over me. At the hospital, the clerical staff treated me like a freak for having involved myself, asking why on earth I would do such a thing when I'm not a doctor. Because I'm human, and I knew how? It made me so mad, if I had been in my home country, I never would've even had the chance to get involved because there would've already been a bunch of people doing exactly what I did.

The following months were terrible, with the public insurance hounding me for an explanation as to why I would do something where I knew there could be a risk to my safety, and I literally had to explain why I tried to save someone's life.

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