Hi! My name is Paul Taylor, I'm English
and for the past 9 years, I’ve been living in France
and making fun of the you and your stereotypes on stage and on TV.
And people started to say to me :
“Bah Paul why don’t you leave us alone and try doing the same thing with other countries ?”
Except in order to make fun of a country and its people,
I first need to understand their culture.
and what better place to start than with their stereotypes.
So I’m going to travel to several European countries
to get to know them better,
But instead of 9 years, this time,
I only have 1 week!
My name is Abdelkarim and I'm a German comedian
One day when I was in Brussels
I was looking for the theatre and I thought to myself
"I should probably ask a German person"
I waited at the traffic light,
To see who didn't cross at the redo light
and I found a German.
"Hello, where's the theatre?"
"It's this way!"
We recognise each other!
In Paris I could cross a street
4 lanes wide with my eyes closed
without getting run over
because motorists are always alert.
They're ready for anything
But in Germany we don't cross the street in this way
Yeah, you should wait!
I wouldn't, no,
but a lot of Germans
might have said something to you.
Yeah, it's pretty frequent.
The Germans often observe what others are doing
Sometimes we feel bad
We want to be cool,
but deep down we say "yeah, he's right"
It's true
but the French are a bit...
Indivualistic.
They say "If I really want to live my life,
I just need to feel good in my own boots"
The Germans worry more about
living in harmony with others.
We talk about a collective intelligence:
If everyone adopts a behaviour
that's good for society,
it will also be good for the individual.
Germans think that there are rules
and that they're there for a reason
and that someone's thought about it.
Yes, of course
and German history has shown this.
During the Nazi period, some people said
"I only followed orders"
So you're right. When you don't know whether
the rules are justified
and you just follow them blindly,
it can be very dangerous.
Is there a naked guy in the park over there?
No, that's why he's doing it.
There probably still is
a certain obedience to authority.
On the other hand
I think that in teaching
there's a real effort to prepare the students
for their future lives
in a free and self-determined way.
You're already here!
There needs to be a bit of chaos!
I'm a bit weird.
I cross the red light even when there aren't cars.
Chaos
Lots of chaos
I'm used to
people looking at me strangely.
People who stand out from the crowd are surprising.
And when people come to my place,
and say that it's a mess,
it's actually a compliment for me.
Follow me!
I don't need this anymore.
Come into my universe!
This is my workshop.
Frames, frames, frames!
I'm a frame fanatic!
I live in Germany, but that doesn't mean
that I have to do everything that the state tells me to do.
I need to think.
If it doesn't make sense, then why do it?
