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Originally Posted by Damien
The German psyche is no more controlling or dominating than others.
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No offence Damien,I was raised in Germany from the age of 6 and had a German step-dad who's father came back from the Eastern Front a paranoid schizophrenic who,in his clearer moments,told me why he went to war and what it was about for him and his fellow soldiers.
I've lived and worked among the Krauts and rest assured it is inherent to the German spirit to win and dominate,and to a bloody fault indeed. National Socialism didn't happen to the Germans by coincidence,but rather to a Nation that has looked up to and believed in superior authority emanating from a single leader/ruler for over a Thousand Years....
A Nation that has an inherent inferiority complex since it only really came into existence as a whole in 1871 and secretly felt that it was lacking in relation to other countries and their achievements.
quite frankly,Germany has only had Democracy for a tad over sixty years and they're still just warming to it. Just look at what happened to the Weimar Republic and how miserably that failed.
It's no accident that Germany once more is in a position where other's must bow to it's model and way of life.
There is a saying in German : 'Am Deutschen Wesen soll die Welt genesen.'
the German spirit shall heal the world.... in German it's even more ominous and many Germans do believe their system and way of Life to be the best. Well,it is a good system in many ways but in many other's doesn't leave much room for compromise,which is now visible in it's dealings with the Eurozone.
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Originally Posted by Damien
It always amuses me when people bring that up, usually in connection with the war, conveniently forgetting that one of the biggest Empires that the world has ever known was British. We came, we saw, we conquered and took their resources.
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Well,but Britain also spread Democracy,spread it's educational system,helped build economies and did indeed found that Commonwealth that many countries today are happy to be a member of. The Empire did a lot of good as well as some bad.
What however wasn't the case was that the British believed that they were so much better than anybody else that other's must bow to it's bloody regime of fear and accept the King as the Leader,the one and only.And MOST CERTAINLY did Britain not make out one race or religion that was so inferior that it must be killed on an Industrial scale and wiped off the face of the earth.....
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Originally Posted by Damien
The Germans aspire for power no more than we do. It's also pretty faulty logic to assume such traits are genetically passed down the generations. Countries use the circumstances to their advantage and we do the same.
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Who's talking genetics? I'm talking about psychological traits and patterns that do indeed get passed on from generation to generation,and every Nation has inherent strengths and weaknesses...
British are great at Music,French do Cuisine,Italians design and Germans are top Engineers.... just like people,and Nation's are indeed the sums of their people,we all have our little strengths.
and yes,everyone tries to use circumstances to their advantage but with Germans it just always seems like they alienate everybody else to the extreme while doing so.