READ ALSO: Will the German love affair with cash ever end? You can't be in a rush in many German restaurants, as the waiter will often pay you zero attention - and expect them to argue back if they get your order wrong. They waste no time in sending threatening, Kafkaesque lettersDon't panic if you get a letter from a German bureaucrat threatening the absolute worst. Germans love making everything official by what many foreigners may consider to be an outdated system - postal mail - and they love even more writing terrifying letters. For example, German citizens whose parents or even grandparents came from Turkey are still often referred to simply as "Turks" rather than Germans.

Source: The Local November 18, 2019 12:54 UTC