comparing it to the German reisepassport. why do I keep saying reisepassport?!
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this video I present to you the most
patriotic item I own which you might
think would be my American flag
sunglasses or perhaps my American flag
sweatpants... yes I do own both of those
things because I am your classic
American basic girl... I'm not necessarily
proud of that.. but no it is my US
passport and I'll show you guys what's
inside of this and I will be comparing
it to the German Reisepass which is the
German passport. so right off the bat you
can tell they're entirely different
colors. we've got blue for the u.s.
passport and this dark red for the German
passport. I'm sure you guys can see that
with your eyes. the u.s. passport just
says passport and then it says the
United States of America and it has the
little emblem...icon here which shows that is a biometric document and the German
passport says European Union in German
of course it says bundesrepublik
deutschland the Republic of Germany and
it says Reisepass which I hope I'm
pronouncing that correctly. and it's also
about this little icon denoting that it
is a biometric document. we've also got
the u.s. passport has the
great seal of the US which is a bald eagle
with an olive branch and some arrows and
it has a lot of symbology behind it that
I'm not going to go over and then there
is the coat of arms for the German
passport which is their eagle. this is my
boyfriend's old passport and you know
it's an old passport because it actually
has this cut taken out of it right here
so that anybody looking at it or trying
to scan you or whatever would know
immediately that this thing is expired
or no longer in use for whatever reason.
I tried to find my old passport and
couldn't but from what I remember the
way that we denote that it is no longer
a passport within use is that we punch
a hole right here through the important
stuff that if anyone was trying to scan
they would notice it and I think
actually the hole also will go through
the cover itself. okay so when you first
open up the u.s. passport, guys, I'm not
kidding this thing is so patriotic like
it it's really pretty insane every time
I look at it I'm just like okay so we
have the beginning of our national
anthem over here with a very patriotic
scene. we've got the background with like
the red and white stripes again with our
seal, and it says "and that government of
the people by the people for the people
shall not perish from the earth" which is
a very well-known quote from Abraham
Lincoln our 16th president and then it
is translated in both French and Spanish.
okay so in the German passport on the
first page they've got their coat of
arms again and then it has a European
Union written in like every single
language, I mean it's not every language
guys I get it, but it's a lot of
languages and then it says
Bundesrepublik Deutschland that's also
translated into many,
many different languages and then Reisepass
which means passport again
translated into a lot of different
languages. okay so when you go to the
next page again, guys so patriotic. we've
got "we the people" and it has the flag
and the eagle and all of these symbols
that mean a lot to the US history and it
has my signature here and then it has
all of my important information that you
would need for identity purposes and I
covered the important stuff with duct
tape. but it has the type of passport, P,
I'm guessing means it's a tourist
passport. it has my name, what my
nationality is, it has my date of birth
the state I was born in which is
Colorado... love Colorado. it has the date
of issue, date of expiration, that I'm a
female, and it obviously most importantly
has my picture. the German passport on
the next page has a similar little setup.
it's a lot darker than ours, I feel like...
like whenever my boyfriend handed this
to me I was like is this like a relic
like this thing looks really old but
it's not and this is not me making
fun of the German passport guys okay
this is just my observations everybody
calm down.
so it's got his photo right here.
it also has type of passport it's also P
it's gotta mean tourist Passport.
it has his name, it has that he's German,
that he's male, his place of birth but
actually it just has the city which is
interesting to me because he was not
born in Germany but yet it still only
has the city not the city and country
whereas mine has both the state and the
country which is Colorado is in the US if
you did not know. it has the date of
issue, the date of expiration.. over here
it says the city that it was issued in which was
Magdeberg and on this page right here
so whereas ours is just like my
signature his signature by the way would
be right here..I covered it up in duct tape.
um on this page it has this stamp that
says Mainz and then it has City Mainz
stamped right there and I asked him why
that is and he told me that every time
you move to a new city in Germany you're
supposed to go and have that updated in
your passport which I found really
interesting because we don't do that in
the u.s. we just have place of birth, it
doesn't even say ...I got this passport
when I was living in Texas, and nowhere
on here does it even say that I got the
passport in Texas so that's a pretty big
difference. and it has his eye color here
and his height which that is on our
drivers licenses in the US but it's not
on our passports. so earlier I mentioned
that ours is translated into its English
and then it's French and then it's
Spanish. with his passport it is in
German and then it's in English and then
it's in French on the next page of my
passport
we've got personal data and emergency
contact which I did not fill out at all
and then it kind of tells you some rules
regarding the passport and this is where
you start seeing quotes on every single
page that are you know referencing the
US history so it says "the principle of
free governments adhere to the American
soil it is embedded in it immovable as
its mountains" by Daniel Webster. so
that's what you start seeing on every
single page is like an extremely like
patriotic quote spanning across the two
pages. you don't find that in the German
passport it's much more straightforward
and less... less patriotic we'll just say that
which is very indicative of Germany
compared to the US. so on his next page
it looks like it just has some more
information about where it was and when
it was issued then he has a bunch of
information regarding the passport and
it is translated into many many many
many many many different languages again.
okay so on my passport on the 8th page
is where you start getting to where all
the passport stamps are and like I said
the quotes that are on every single page
and then you'll have like this American
scene in the background of like some
city or something you know like the
Eagle something that represents the US
or maybe a specific location whereas in
Germany it's just the exact same every
single time. it's this coat of arms eagle
that you see. and just a side note about
visas is I heard that the German
passport is stronger than the US
passport which is completely true. so as
of May 2018 there are 188 countries
that a German passport will be able to
admit the German citizen into without a
visa whereas I can only get into 166
countries without a visa so that's a
pretty significant difference. 22
different countries if I'm doing math
right. I call it math my boyfriend
reminds me that it's counting when it's
just simple subtraction in addition. so
my passport actually has quite a few
passport stamps I've been really really
fortunate to be able to do as much
travel as I have both for work and just
my normal life so it is quite quickly
filling up and I know that I'm able to
basically get additional pages for the
passport without having to get an
entirely new passport and that will make
this thing like extremely thick. I might
have to look at doing that. I'm not sure
if Germans have that option. I would
assume so but I don't know so if you're
German and you're watching this can you
let me know what happens if you were to
like fill up all of the stamp space...
little visa space in your passport. oh
another thing I just remembered when I
was looking at the little biometric
symbol is that I was always flying into
Frankfurt Airport when I lived in
Germany because I lived in the city
mines which was only like 20 minutes
away from the airport which was really
lucky um and every time I would come
back from traveling wherever I would get
in this huge snaking long line of people
that are trying to get into Germany and
they're waiting for their passport stamp
from border security and I was always so
jealous looking to my left and seeing
all the EU citizens being able to just
take their passport you know like I said
it's biometric and have it scanned at
these automatic machines and that's all
they had to do to get admitted assuming
there were no issues with their
passports they didn't have to get them
stamped or anything which is you know a
pretty big benefit of being an EU
citizen is just having that more freedom
of travel between EU countries. alright
guys! that's all I've got for you today. I
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things that I've missed regarding the
differences between the two passports or
more information about one or the other
I was trying to keep it light and not so
technical and boring I'm sure that there
is so much more information out there
especially about the history between the
two documents I just find it interesting
how different they are despite the fact
that they're for the exact same purpose.
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