Cash only in Berlin
The author of this article seems to make some very obscure points here.
First and foremost:
&quot;You have to work pretty hard to find a bar serving traditional Germanic beverages and food.&quot; 
What does the author define as &quot;Germanic&quot; beverages and food? As a german that has lived for some time in Berlin I&#x27;m quite sure that there are more than enough places to grab &quot;Germanic&quot; beverages and food at. They just don&#x27;t stand out much. [EDIT: For those who don&#x27;t know, Germanic doesn&#x27;t mean German. Germanic means something different]<p>Then he continues to discuss how &quot;fortunately, there seems to be a grassroots pushback against such globalising trends&quot; which I find equally weird. He comments about the existence of burger joints and ramen bars as if these are literally destroying the city&#x27;s economy. How are german restaurants (which definitely exist in Berlin) and foreign restaurants mutually exclusive?<p>I also like to mention that many places prefer cash only in Germany for tax evasion reasons, not because of some made-up &quot;grassroots pushback&quot; against the big, scary globalism of.. foreign restaurants. (???)<p>Another obscure point is that &quot;eager-looking under 18s try to get in [beer breweries], only to be politely turned away without any fracas.&quot; which is again, a very stupid point to make, since you are allowed to buy beer at 16 in Germany already.<p>Then he quotes a person of supposedly Eritrean descent saying “But the people coming now, they don’t learn German and they don’t want to work.” which sounds pretty much like your average alt-right talking point, that has been disproven over and over again.<p>I&#x27;m really sorry, but this person seems to know literally absolutely nothing about Berlin, Germany, or life in Germany in general. This article is mediocre at most and a farce.