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The difference is that most tribes don't fall as easily as Germans for madman's tales of nation's superiority and greatness. Every nation has its nationalistic/
by taway_1212 10y ago
The difference is that most tribes don't fall as easily as Germans for madman's tales of nation's superiority and greatness. Every nation has its nationalistic/rightwing nuts. Not every nation sets out to conquer the world and murder tens of millions of civilians.
- pygy_ 10y agoIt is not inherent to the German people, more to circumstances that lead to WW2. The stigmatization of tribal identity leads to its reinforcement. The German nation was punished far too harshly after WW1. Germany post WW2 had a bad hangover, but the hand that was extended to them post WW2 helped a lot in quelling their past madness.
- TeMPOraL 10y agoNot every nation has opportunity to do so, but many do, and they tend to follow it. There's nothing special about Germany here.
- duncanawoods 10y agoI experience a unique German deference to rules and authority working in multinational engineering teams e.g. the Chinese engineer won't own a rule book, the Brits will ignore rules they deem irrelevant/unhelpful, the Germans will follow every rule precisely and cannot comprehend anyone not doing the same. This trait is sometimes the invaluable discipline that leads to an exceptional level of trust and quality... and sometimes infuriating when the rules they follow unquestioningly are idiotic.
- dang 10y agoIf there's one last thing we need in threads like this it's more national slurs. Please don't do anything like this on HN. We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14192000 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14192000 and marked it off-topic.
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