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And then you go to the media and file a law suit against the bus company for being reckless. You deny ever asking to get out and say the driver instructed you to get off. You probably wouldn't do this, but the company needs to protect itself against the people who would.
I think "Good thing that is not your problem." includes inability to do such a thing.
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The absurdity [as I see it] is that people like you think you know what is or isn't other peoples problem. You only get to say that when you live on an island.
> you think you know what is or isn't other peoples problem. I don’t think that at all. All I said was that if I absolve the driver of whatever responsibility he believes he has for me, then if something happens as I step out, it is indeed should not be his problem, legally speaking. He might not like it, of course - which is not my problem, to be honest. edit: this is all linguistics, however. The initial issue was…
Except that you are not authorized to do that, so it doesn't have any effect and it is still his problem.
> The initial issue was that the driver is unable to open the door even if we both assess the risk as negligible.
If he assesses the situation to be safe, he just opens the door. He routinely does exactly that (outside of normal stops). If he didn't open the door, he did not consider it safe.
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German culture is very functional, rigid, and dry, and it serves people with that kind of mindset very well. However, it clashes strongly with typical Southern cultures, so it is no surprise that the parent mentioned this. People who value the "softer" aspects of life are not going to feel at home. There are certainly exceptions, and YMMV.
The question is... what about the german culture do you know? Do you know the "functional" Brother Grimm's tales? Or the "dry" humor of Dieter Hallervorden if you're a bit older? (okay, Christian Ehring from extra3 is perhaps really dry ...) Do you know the rigid songs of, say Nena or Einstürzende Neubauten? Or is the music of BAP functional to you? Are the books of Andreas Eschbach dry? Or the lyrics of Ingeborg Bac…
For those who also lived in southern countries, what I mean with "rigid" and "humorless" (among the other things) will sound very familiar. I've talked about this topic recently with a few friends from southern cultures, and they also shared the fact that (among the other things) expressing themselves the same way they did in their own culture, would be considered crass/inappropriate (to say the least), and in some contexts even abusive (happened to me).
Sibling poster highlighted how culture can be intended "in the sense of "expected norms and behaviors"; that's also part of it.