Wonder if the relative lack of a Colonial past plays a role in the German experience today. The Brits, French, Spanish, Portuguese all had a long-term personal

Wonder if the relative lack of a Colonial past plays a role in the German experience today. The Brits, French, Spanish, Portuguese all had a long-term personal all-class interaction with the rest of the world. The rest of the world might not have been all that pleased, but intermarriage, educational opportunities, economic investment made “the Other” (or at least some Others) acceptable and even desirable. Granted it took 100-200 years to have that happen…and the Europeans were basically living a Peace Corps experience (sometimes War Corps but still) collocated with the Natives in their Countries. That does something to a person, and thus to a society. Germans, not so much.