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Germany was a bunch of seperate states until 1871 when Prussia finished conquering its neighbours. I don't understand how that could be a high-trust monocultura

• sangnoir 4y ago
  > I don't understand how that could be a high-trust monocultural society in the 1800s. It makes sense if you squint hard, and understand that "culture" in such arguments, is being used as a proxy of something else that is no longer acceptable to say out loud in polite company. So it was a bunch of disparate states with different traditions, but the same European "culture" (wink, wink, nudge, nudge).
  • TimedToasts 4y ago
    This is an extremely bad faith take. The person you are replying to said nothing of the sort and now you're implying that they're a bad person. But not saying it out loud, of course. Just "the implications"...
    • sangnoir 4y ago
      I'd love to hear your good faith answer to gp's question on fractured polities that are now present-day Germany >> I don't understand how that could be a high-trust monocultural society in the 1800s.
  • llanowarelves 4y ago
    Bad faith. And it goes the other way, if you want to play that game. If what you were saying were true then "whiteness" couldn't possibly refer to things such as purely abstract cultural-norms (either don't exist or is weasel-word according to you). So then what are they referring to?
    • sangnoir 4y ago
      If my intepretation is in bad faith, I'm assuming you can answer GPs question then: how were the many pre-unification bavarian princedoms whose independent histories went back 100s of years monocultural?