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its not only Germany, overall all major West-European countries are facing an identity crisis. None of the developed west-european countries (UK,France,Spain,I
by slt2021 2y ago
its not only Germany, overall all major West-European countries are facing an identity crisis.
None of the developed west-european countries (UK,France,Spain,Italy,Germany) do have any ideology or a civic idea, similar to the American Dream. By rejecting religion and ethnicity as a basis for identity, and importing millions of people from the third world - they don't know what to do with them and how to integrate them.
smaller countries like Poland have ethnic and religious basis, but what is the German identity, anyways? not even Germans themselves have an answer, because the last guy to have an answer caused a world war
- skwjqnsnkq 2y agoYou can’t have it both ways: America even according to the most nationalist was a melange of ethnicities and religious confessions from the founding, often from very impoverished places. Edit I should note “ethnicities” has this shifting quality. But English, Dutch, German, Irish, etc groups that first came and later Slavs, Italians, etc in the USA often were coming from some place where those differences were very large. Certainly greater than what you’re advocating for with Germany here.
- slt2021 2y agoAmerica doesn't need ethnicity as a basis, it has a spirit. But European countries lost their spirit. The only thing they have is a giant pan-european bureaucracy without purpose and soul