>"Having lived in Germany and experienced the wonderful Deutche Bahn, I wouldn't really associate punctuality with being German."
This is relative. In Germany, people complain when the train is late. Everywhere else, the train is just late.
This is relative. In Germany, people complain when the train is late. Everywhere else, the train is just late.
You think people don't complain when the train is late in other countries? That's hardly a uniquely German thing
And outside of trains, my german friends run the gamut of being always on time to systematically being 30 minutes late. Don't really see much of a correlation between being German and punctual.
Japan on the other hand I do associate with punctuality, when I worked there I was made to sit in the seiza postion for the m9rniny meeting if I was late by even 3 minutes. My friends there were overwhelmingly ontime except (and proving my point) for a German coworker I had there :)