Kultur 10

I have actually heard about the movie, "Dinner For Who?." However, I never knew that there was such a following in German. I watched the attached youtube video, and the film is funny. The slapstick humor is a little outdated to current comedy, but the short film had its moments of humor. I definitely do not understand why it is such a tradition in Germany, though. It was comical, but for every person to know so much about the short film that there have been trivial games created, is a little crazy. I guess it does correlate to America's tradition of watching "A Christmas Story" or "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation" every year. I guess each country has its own idea of comedy for traditions. Going off of that, I remember from a Kultur reading in 101 that Germany is divided up in sections that all have different ideas of humor. The article said that something that would be hilarious in one area would not be funny at all in another. Does "Dinner For Who?" just break this rule?

Another article that I read is "Sorry, We're Closed: The Challenge of Spending Money in German." I actually was not that shocked to find about this cultural aspect in Germany. It makes sense from previous articles that Germany would take Sunday off from shopping. It actually sounds quite nice to be practically forced to take a day off to relax because you cannot do anything else. That being said, however, I pity all the German kids that have missed out on 4 am Taco Bell runs.