Author: Ritter Rost
Date: 03:00:07 11/11/00
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> >I think your attitude about the US is strange. You'd probably react the same >way if I developed a Nazi fixation which caused me to bring this particular >topic up every time Germany is mentioned. I'm sure it'd be really funny if I >kept doing this amongst my friends, assuming they had a problem with Germans, >which they don't. But this crowd is international, and when you do this you >just sound narrow, and I wonder if you've done sufficient travelling. > >Perhaps Europeans are more anti-American than Americans are anti-European. I'd >like to think not. > Thorsten and I come from a country which efficiently and deliberately murdered millions of people 60 years ago. The unimaginable human sufferings which Germans have created in that time produce hot shame which is not easily put aside. Germans today react in different ways to manage their feelings about this. One irrational compensatorical mechanism of leftists which are also more sensible about history is anti-americanism. Some Germans do not cope with the question why the nation as a whole was not severely punished by victorious America but rather got huge economic help to prosper brilliantly after the war. They cannot reconcile this with their black and white view of the world where everything must be either good or bad. Antiamericanism was rather fashionable in the 70s/80s but has petered out today. You cannot generalize this to "Europeans". Apologies for the OT stuff.
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