{"id":5180,"date":"2023-11-03T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/?p=5180"},"modified":"2023-11-02T16:44:05","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T14:44:05","slug":"traffic-culture-driving-habits-cultural-prejudice-absolutely-intercultural-288","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/?p=5180","title":{"rendered":"Traffic Culture +++ Driving Habits +++ Cultural Prejudice +++ Absolutely Intercultural 288 +++"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-5180-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/podcast\/absolutely_intercultural_show_288.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/podcast\/absolutely_intercultural_show_288.mp3\">http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/podcast\/absolutely_intercultural_show_288.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5184 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cover-Picture-Show-288-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cover-Picture-Show-288-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cover-Picture-Show-288-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cover-Picture-Show-288-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cover-Picture-Show-288-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cover-Picture-Show-288-144x144.jpg 144w, https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cover-Picture-Show-288.jpg 1186w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hello dear listeners and welcome to show 288 of our podcast \u201cAbsolutely Intercultural\u201d. Today&#8217;s topic is all about traffic. I&#8217;m Laurent Borgmann, and my wife and I, both in our early sixties, made a significant decision when we hit 40 \u2013 we decided to get rid of both our cars. Now, this might come as a surprise, given that we&#8217;re from Germany, a country renowned for its love of cars. On top of that, we both have 60-kilometer commutes in different directions. But the transition from private vehicles to public transport turned out to be remarkably smooth for us. For the last twenty years we have \u00a0happily immersed ourselves in books or worked on our laptops during our daily commutes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>absolutely racing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In our opening story &#8220;absolutely racing&#8221;, we&#8217;ll tune in to Jung from South Korea. As an external observer in Germany, Jung offers us a unique perspective on traffic culture, both, as a pedestrian and as a driver. She observes, that the typically patient and disciplined Germans, who readily give to pedestrians in the city, somehow transform into impatient, speedy daredevils when they hit the Autobahn \u2013 Germany&#8217;s iconic high-speed highway.<\/p>\n<p><strong>absolutely honking<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In our next part &#8220;absolutely honking&#8221;, we&#8217;ll hear from Rindi, originally from Albania, now living in Germany. Rindi says he can spot young Albanian drivers in Germany just by the sounds of their cars on the streets.<\/p>\n<p><strong>absolutely discriminated<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In our final story &#8220;absolutely discriminated&#8221;, we&#8217;ll hear from Natalia, originally from Ukraine and now a resident of Germany for the past four years. Natalia opens up about the cultural prejudices she encounters in car-centric Germany as a woman who doesn&#8217;t drive.<\/p>\n<p>Now, we\u00b4re curious about your experiences with traffic culture. Are you a pedestrian, driver, or passenger? Are you patient or always in a hurry? We\u00b4d especially love to hear from those who want to challenge and change the existing traffic culture. Get in touch, feel free to share your unique story with us here on the podcast.<\/p>\n<p>Share your story with us via comment or email, and you might feature in one of our upcoming shows. For more information and previous episodes, visit our website at absolutely-intercultural.com. If you enjoyed the show, please give us a thumbs-up on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, did you know we are also on iTunes or Apple Podcasts? You can subscribe to us there for free and give us a rating and a comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Our next show will be coming to you on 1 December from Anne Fox in Denmark<\/p>\n<p>Until then \u2013 drive, ride, or walk safely! \u00a0and<\/p>\n<p>Bleiben Sie absolut interkulturell!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The host of this show is:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.laurent-borgmann.de\/\">Dr. Laurent Borgmann<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chief Editor: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/natasha.obikhod\">Natalia Obikhod<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Assistant Editors: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Mbilge13\/\">Mariam Bilge<\/a>, Sebastian Berg<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-wp-editing=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/poddownico.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/podcast\/absolutely_intercultural_show_288.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/podfeedico.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/absolutely-intercultural\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Podcast-Feed<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/podaboico.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/podcast-absolutely-intercultural\/id137617215\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple podcasts<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello dear listeners and welcome to show 288 of our podcast \u201cAbsolutely Intercultural\u201d. Today&#8217;s topic is all about traffic. I&#8217;m Laurent Borgmann, and my wife and I, both in our early sixties, made a significant decision when we hit 40 \u2013 we decided to get rid of both our cars. Now, this might come as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/?p=5180\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Traffic Culture +++ Driving Habits +++ Cultural Prejudice +++ Absolutely Intercultural 288 +++&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1561,1560,21,1559,1383,1563,5,315,1562,81,6,997,262,1558,1370],"class_list":["post-5180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast","tag-absolutely-discriminated","tag-absolutely-honking","tag-absolutely-intercultural","tag-absolutely-racing","tag-albania","tag-cultural-prejudice","tag-culture","tag-dr-elmar-laurent-borgmann","tag-driving-habits","tag-germany","tag-intercultural","tag-podcast","tag-south-korea","tag-traffic-culture","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5180"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5204,"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5180\/revisions\/5204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}