Yeah, I can't think of any either. What I find really baffling though is how in US media Germans have this image of hardworking efficiency and such, this protestant work ethic thing, when it is so much more intense in the US itself than here.
Not just in the realities of work hours, family leave time and vacations and such, but in their political rhetoric you hear about "hardworking Americans" every other sentence it seems, when some politician talks about how their audience should deserve something, so it is clear they expect their audience to identify with that label and be proud to work a lot too. Politicians here don't seem to do that nearly as much (address people as "fleissig" or "hart arbeitend" or whatever). The closest you come is in various envy discourses when people are disgruntled that others seemingly have managed to work less yet get the same or more benefits and feel taken advantage of, which isn't quite the same thing, because the underlying sentiment is that you should work the least amount you can get away with.
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Not just in the realities of work hours, family leave time and vacations and such, but in their political rhetoric you hear about "hardworking Americans" every other sentence it seems, when some politician talks about how their audience should deserve something, so it is clear they expect their audience to identify with that label and be proud to work a lot too. Politicians here don't seem to do that nearly as much (address people as "fleissig" or "hart arbeitend" or whatever). The closest you come is in various envy discourses when people are disgruntled that others seemingly have managed to work less yet get the same or more benefits and feel taken advantage of, which isn't quite the same thing, because the underlying sentiment is that you should work the least amount you can get away with.