Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 15:21:58 11/12/00
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On November 12, 2000 at 13:34:52, Thorsten Czub wrote: >>>To you, the US is all popular culture. I have to believe that you think this >>>way because it supports your political point of view, and because you are, if >>>not a provicial German, at least a provincial European. >>> >>>If you visited here you wouldn't like it, but at least your reasons wouldn't be >>>so stereotypical. You sound like someone would sound if they decided they >>>didn't like Germany, based upon watching a whole bunch of episodes of Hogan's >>>Heroes and a day spent at Yad Yashem. >>> >>>bruce >> >>I sometimes get the feeling Thorsten is against all forms of monopoly >>and you can relate his feelings and opinions all the way back to this >>item. I could be wrong but then I just hope Thorsten will tell me. >> >>Ed > >right. >i am for variety. i like the multi-culti. >i am against microsoft because they kill all other companies with unfair >and to a certain point - illegal actions. >i am against chessbase because they have a monopol too. >somehow the american culture is a very aggressive virus-infection, >like an pc-virus. In opposite to e.g. the russian culture, the american >culture invades other countries. they make anything the same. >everywhere mc_donalds, everywhere coke, everywhere microsoft and >walt disney and ketchup. >but the other countries and the variety of specific cultures have so much to >give. here in europe, we live in very small countries. and each country >has a special behaviour. and a different culture. and in each part of >the small countries, there is another variety of cultures. and in the small >parts there live many different people. >this is what i like. >spock calls it (in the german translation) UMUK, how is it in >english ? > >i like e.g. travelling to netherlands. when there was the aegon tournament e.g. >netherland is very small in relation to germany. if you travel into it, the >first thing (from my subjective point of view as a german) i register >is that the way they drive on their motorways is completely different >to the german way. the germans give speed. almost full speed. and when there >comes something in their way, they use the brakes. >then, the germans, give again full speed. so this is stop and go. stop and go. >the faster ones drive stop and go on the left track, the slower ones drive >stop and go on the right track. nobody lets you from the slow track onto the >fast track, because they know: i will have to slow down. > >in netherlands they have a speed-limit. and also they drive like a river. >everything is fluently. you can change the tracks. its completely different. >and the difference continues. everything there is very little. they have small >houses. small traffic-signs. then you feel that the people are more open to >different races and different point of views than the germans. >they are not that narrow. >they are really cool people. you can also see this when walking through their >little towns. walking through den haag e.g. is really nice. >the next thing is: they drive on bikes. you see so many nice girls on bikes >in the summer. i could sit the whole day on those "grachten" (small channels) >and watch the girls , cause the netherland girls have nice legs. of course they >have, all the day they drive those bikes !! the society there is multi-cultural. >this seems the result of old colonial-politics. >the dutch people are cool bruce. and it is nice to see them beeing completely >different than the germans. if any country arround germany would be the >same like germany, i would instantly commit suicide :-)) >it is the difference that makes fun. to go into a foreign country and eat >what they like to eat their ! the mc_donalds idea and the american invading >every country destroys this typical cultural things. i don't want to drive >to paris to eat at mc_donalds. i have mc_donalds here in any town. >when i am in paris i like the french culture. the french guys are so >unbelievable different than the germans. they don't care about technic e.g. >do you remember the AMD guy in paris ? he was unable supply enough AMD machines. >french are no technic fetichists. they like to eat and they love girls. >for the germans e.g. a car is a holy thing. don't ever touch a german car. >the driver will kill you. his car is more important than his wife. >he would love to sleep in the car instead in the living room, if this stops >any person to come near to his car over night. >germans clean their cars like hell. they don't use them. they make a kind of >holy-pilgrimage when they drive with it. >and now the french guys. for them a car is something to USE like a part of the >cloth. if it is broken, they buy another one. >when a german drives to france, he is almost any minute shortly before a >heartstroke. because the french guys do not treat his car like something holy, >but like an old pullover. they touch his car. they even bump in it when they >want to park in front of him or behind the german. >isn't that completely funny ? all the different cultural stuff ? >the germans e.g. like cars that have almost no suspension. the germans like >to feel the street. since ralf schumacher they all want to be little car-pilots. >french people don't see the car as a rocket, they want to drive convinient. >therefore french cars are very springy, they have a good suspension. > >i have seen something in paris (you remember, championship). >a french guy comes with his car to a street-cross-point (how is the right name, >where 2 streets cross each other). >he walks out of the car. behind him mans other cars have to wait. >the door of the car is OPEN !! he walks into a cafe and gets a nespaper, drinks >a coffee (or whatever - i can only guess) takes a baguette and, meanwhile >outside the hell happens, all other people behind his car are on the street, >he send these people a few little wishes, jumps into his car, and drives away. >unbelievable ! a german would never do this. germans follow the german law. >always. even when the traffic light is out, germans wait for the signal ! >i have seen people (germans) die behind a broken traffic-light. they wait >until the light gets green, they will not drive over it when it is red. > >no - what we need is variety. if anything is the same, its boring. >not ONE chess program but many many different chess programs. > >ed is right. >i don't like monopols. Would you turn against CSTAL if Oxford Software would have had a monopoly position? If I understand you well enough through the years the answer is yes. Ed
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