The Fascinating Personality Traits of German Women🇩🇪 Admiration from a New Zealander

hey guys welcome back to my channel and if you're new here it is so great to have you I'm Antonette a New Zealander living in the beautiful wine region of lower Franconia Germany so in this video today I'm going to be focusing on German women certain things I've noticed that set German women apart from women in other countries things that make them unique in no way am I implying that every German woman is the same Germany is a country of over 80 million so obviously German women are going to vary throughout Germany but I'm going to be talking about common patterns and characteristics personality traits that I believe are very common in German women so with that being said let's get into it so in no particular order something I have noticed about German women that I really admire is the fact that many German women really Embrace natural beauty I would say and feel free to correct me if I'm wrong but I would say that the majority of German women prefer the natural look over the heavily madeup sort of fake look the majority of women I see here in Germany just embrace the natural look and I think this is amazing I love this and this is something I really admire it's not often you'll see a German woman with makeup plased on their face like really thick sort of cakey makeup you know you know fake eyelashes um like drawn on eyebrows just really heavy makeup and you know hair extensions and just super super like styled here and you just you see it but you don't see it very often I personally believe that the natural look is so much more beautiful than somebody trying to hide the features with a lot of makeup and not just makeup but you know plastic surgery and Botox and that kind of thing I am not against somebody getting plastic surgery or a little bit of Botox if that's what makes them feel confident but you don't often see this in Germany many German women just have this quiet confidence where they want you to see who they are the real them instead of hiding behind you 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age of say 50 many German women in this age group don't dye their hair they Embrace their natural hair color so you will see a lot of German women with gray hair or salt and paper hair and I think that's amazing this is something I really admire the confidence of these women being able to just embrace their natural hair color I think it's beautiful we live in a society where women everywhere are trying to look younger and hide the fact they have gray hair and get BOTOX and filler and all of that kind of thing to hide the fact that they are getting older which is inevitable every person on this Earth is going to get older it's a natural part of human existence I think it's amazing that German women feel confident enough to just be who they are and just let their Grays shine through I have nothing against older women dying their hair it is a choice it's something that you can decide on but I love the fact that it is a choice and something that is not frowned upon here in Germany my mom's in her early 70s and just recently in the last few months she's decided to just let her natural gray here shine through and stop dying her ha and she looks amazing and and she feels amazing too she just said it is the best thing she could have done and she is just so at peace with having gray hair she looks so good and I think she even looks younger actually with her natural gray hair because I don't know it just suits her skin tone more she dresses really nicely she always looks really modern and put together and I just think she can really pull off the gray hair and she's just rocking it and I'm so proud of her and I don't know whether her decision had anything to do with her time in Germany and seeing so many women in her age group just rocking the gray hair and looking fabulous I don't know whether that influenced her decision but either way she looks awesome and when I get to that age who knows maybe I will feel confident enough to let my gray hair shine through let's wait and see but it's definitely something that I admire about German women Okay so moving on something else I really admire about German women and this is actually something I noticed well before I moved to Germany believe it or not it is really common for German women to be solo Travelers so to travel to different countries alone and I think this is so cool I honestly do not know if I would have had the confidence in my 20s to travel on my own across the other side of the world I just don't think I could have done that but so many German women do this and really young German women in their 20s older German women too but you will often see German solo Backpackers in New Zealand it's just something I got used to seeing when I lived in New Zealand especially when I met my German husband he was backpacking around New Zealand and he would often hang out with other Backpackers or he would meet other Backpackers and hosts and things like that there would often be solo female German Travelers and I just remember thinking that is so cool they must be so confident to be able to do this and I remember just really admiring the fact that they could do this what actually got me thinking about this topic was a German woman that I met a couple of years ago actually but we've become friends in the last 6 months or so my youngest son and her youngest son have become really good friends at kindergarten and we will often have playdates together we'll meet at the playground and she invited me over to her place for the boys to have a little play date and for us to hang out and she actually showed me when I was there her album her travel album from New Zealand so I was looking through her travel album it was amazing the photos were so beautiful and I noticed that she was on her own in a lot of pictures and I asked her did you travel to New Zealand on your own and she said yes I did and I was like that is awesome that is amazing so she told me she was in her 20s she was finished with her studies and before she was going to be jumping into the workforce she just wanted to travel on her own and experience what true Freedom felt like before you know being tied down to a job she even had a serious boyfriend at the time who is now her husband and he didn't come with her she wanted to travel on her own to the other side of the world to New Zealand she went to a few other countries on the way but she ended up in New Zealand she stayed there for 3 months I think it was and she had an absolute blast solo traveling in New Zealand she has seen more of New Zealand than I have seen and I'm a New Zealander and I just thought that was awesome I just have so much respect for her being able to do that and as I said I don't think at that age I would have had the confidence to do that she's just such a lovely person she has this gentle quiet confidence about her and I just love that and I notice this kind of trait or characteristic in a lot of German women that I meet especially the German women who travel and especially the German women who travel solo so that's something I think is amazing and something I really admire about German women something else I really admire about German women and this definitely ties in to what what I talked about with the solo traveling I love the fact that so many German women are very confident and sure of themselves they are very ambitious career-wise there are a lot of German women in very high powerered corporate roles when I say that I mean it in the way that throughout history if you look way back in history you will see that women have not always been considered equal to men and you know I can go down a rabbit here this deserves its own video in many other cultures females are still not considered equal to males I know in Germany there are still some issues with women fighting for Equal Pay right you know men in certain positions are still getting paid higher and that type of thing but it doesn't stop German women from getting to the top and there are just as many females in high powerered positions as there are males here in Germany German women in general are very ambitious and competitive and confident in the workplace and I think this is amazing okay so last but not least this point here it is very much related to the first point but it kind of contradicts what I talked about in a way as I said German women are very independent they like to be thought of as equal and especially in the workplace you know careerwise and they don't let anything stop them from getting right up there in their careers but many German women they are prepared to take a huge break from their career to raise their children and so you will meet a lot of stay-at-home moms here in Germany which is very surprising it was surprising to me so according to the German economic Institute 69% of mothers with children under the age of three in Germany stay at home with their children so 27% of these mothers have chosen to stay home fulltime with their children under the age of three with 21% of these mothers working just 20 hours a week so I found that super interesting and I would have thought it would be the opposite with a lot of German women wanting to jump straight back into the work force they don't want it to affect their you know their career prospects but it is the complete opposite and I think that's amazing I am in no way judging any Mother's decision when it comes to whether they go straight back to work or you know whether they stay home for the first 3 years that is a very personal decision and there are many different circumstances and reasons for you know the choices of parents um I'm just focusing on the mothers obviously you know the fathers that's a different story Al together but I am just saying that I think it is just wonderful that Germany allows women and mothers to be able to do this and I think it's amazing that many German mothers are choosing to you know stay at home and nurture their children for the first 3 years because the first 3 years of a child's life is so incredibly important and it'll set that child up for life so a mother staying at home with her child for the first 3 years that is absolutely ideal and in many other countries basically unheard of but in Germany it's something that is embraced whether it's staying at home full-time with their child or you know working just 20 hours a week I just think it's amazing to be able to have that option and the fact that the German government allows this and supports it and I do think the reason why so many German women are willing to have a break from their career and and concentrate on bringing out their children is the fact that they are able to step into their job after this maternity time is over you know it's not going to affect their job prospects I think it's amazing that their job position is secured and protected and they're not penalized for simply being a mother and wanting to spend time with their child and raise their child at home I just really love the balance of the strong independent career driven woman but at the same time they're embracing motherhood and their important role as a mother so anyway guys I really hope you enjoyed this video as usual I would love to hear your feedback and my comments section below once again thank you so much to Via for partnering with me in this video today I will link all three pairs of my via shoes in my video description along with a 12% discount code especially for subscribers I really hope you enjoyed this video If you enjoyed it then don't forget to give it a big thumbs up it really helps out my channel it's actually one of the biggest ways you can support my channel if you haven't already subscribed I would love you to consider subscribing I know that so many of you who watch my videos and not actually subscribed so if you would consider subscribing that would mean so much to me also feel free to connect with me on Instagram and I will see you again really 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