anti-individualist

• I thought maybe karstadt owned wal-mart, they own most of german retail, besides maybe metro, aldi and lidl. I don't mean so much how things look, although germans look mostly uniformly 'unauffaellig' it's not a fashion country, but how some Germans shy away from responsibility - which is what I understand as indvidualism. I have an experience of this almost every day. I remember telling an employee of a government department that she WAS her department for me. She was so shocked that anyone would thrust this responsbility on to her. In other places like the UK or New World countries, this would be a completely normal thing to say or assume - you would not even have to say it. That's an example of what I mean by anti-indvidualism, there's still only a weak culture of taking responsibility in Germany. The classic is of course May 8th 1945, when suddenly there were no nazis in the country, Germans had just been "doing what they were told" all along, like it had nothing to do with them - this is opportunism.

  Ted 23 Jan 2009, 07:00 - Report

germany sucks