Moroccan on Biggest Culture Shock Living in Germany 🇲🇦🇩🇪

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• A huge factor has to do with abundance, wealth and social factors. In more wealthy countries people tend to be more self centered, pragmatic and see things as a yes or no.
  This approach actually led to capital and production progress and abundance.

  In less wealthy and therefore structured countries people tend to be way more into informal gatherings and share what they have, going until the last thing they can offer sometimes. It can low key be respect not to abuse of your host's good manners, but also low key a way of saying "I'm okay, I'm doing fine with my resources" with the first refusal, as the second offer can be the host saying "I know you're fine buddy, but it tho I really want you to try this".

  That, if you're reading it as an instructions manual might look stupid, but it flows way better in real life. Even tho it might not make sense, it carries a lot of tradition in suffering, helping others, and sharing what you can. But the german division of work, being self centered and therefore contribute to everyone's success might make more sense nowadays. It's just not that easy to change a whole culture from day to night!
  The german here are the Netherlands, denmark, sweden, etc and the morocco are the whole latino culture and south/central America.

  Comment written by a Portuguese somewhere in the middle, but closer to the Moroccan culture. 😊

• Moroccan hospitality ❤

• Wao appreciate my German friends who always offer too many snacks when I visit their house.

• Well girl it is about time you are honest when they offer you something!! Some people wont beg

• The thing with the cake: I'm Austrian and the young generation is much more used to say directly if they'd want to eat something or rather not. The idea is not to force a guest to eat something they might not like cause they're full or it's not their taste. My Indian husbands family had to get used to this 😂 I now sometimes try to force them when we have indian guests and they are happy about it 😂 But- my parents and grandparents generation is more like that s as well. They won't say yes initially but get disappointed if they didn't get the cake anyways 😇

• It stems from the fact that hospitality is so important in eastern cultures that often hosts will offer you their last piece of food left in their house, if you are their guest. As a guest, it’s good to be cognisant of the fact that your host will go to great lengths to cater to you, and therefore it’s best not to be too demanding. Hence the little dance. Sometimes, the host may stop insisting after the first or second offer, and that might be a sign that perhaps you should cut your visit short, or that perhaps it is difficult for them to provide you with that refreshment. It lets them off the hook, while still having offered you something. I hope I’ve been able to provide some perspective for those thinking it is useless, but these gestures actually communicate a lot of information, without anyone having to be directly rude. At the same time, if you do decide to take up your host on their first offer, no one will hold it against you!

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  • I just wanna say I loved your comments. People around you are lucky to have such a profound and wise person as their friend or family.

• As a moroccan i was invited to a german woman's home at noon (lunch time with a Big meal usually in morocco) she offered me a cup of coffee 😂

• This is so true about middle eastern too.

• Moroccans are very very generous people ❤❤

• I absolutely love morrocan women