My favorite newspaper had an excellent article this week about my current homeland. Check it out here.
I have many thoughts on this article and on the general concept of German identity. I'm not German, of course, but I've been musing recently about why it seems most Germans (per my comments in the last post) have been so friendly and helpful. In Taiwan we were told the people were especially nice to Americans because of their striving to be recognized as a legitimate country in the world community. I've suspected here it has something to do with a national desire to atone to foreigners for the country's history. The article suggests that this has begun to fade as the generation that remembers the war dies out. Something to think about...
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