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Only 31% German despite being German. Maybe I'm not German after all.
by croemer 6mo ago
Only 31% German despite being German. Maybe I'm not German after all.
- tosie 6mo agoI feel you ... only got 44%.
- flohofwoe 6mo agoSame here, 27%, I am disappoint (although maybe the test doesn't account for East-German-ness)
- aswegs8 6mo agoI would argue East Germans are more German than average Germans
- embedding-shape 6mo agoSometimes you're born in the "wrong country". My life was essentially a mess until I moved across the continent to a country that much better follows what I personally want out of life, then suddenly a bunch of seemingly unrelated issues just solved themselves.
- tayo42 6mo agoWhat country? I feel like moving never solves personal problems, surpsing to hear it did for me someone
- gunapologist99 6mo agoTexas
- croemer 6mo agoBased on your username I assume you moved to Texas rather than from there. Correct?
- MetalSnake 6mo agohe is not op.
- pfannkuchen 6mo agoWell he considers Texas to be a country, so maybe he’s from there.
- gunapologist99 6mo agoYes :)
- embedding-shape 6mo agoFrom Sweden to Spain, basically as polar opposites it can get while remaining on the same continent :)
- blensor 6mo ago58% German / 27% Autistic As an Austrian I am not sure how to feel about that
- GTP 6mo agoMakes sense to me. As an Italian currently in Austria, you are close to being German, without being one fully.
- pfannkuchen 6mo agoIsn’t Austria culturally basically German? My understanding is that Austria was the Germans who ended up running a multi ethnic empire ruling over Slavs also, while Germany was the Germans who didn’t do that. Then once the Austrian empire fell apart only the German part was left in “Austria” and it basically has no reason to be separate from Germany anymore because the Slavs are no longer part of the same territory and there is no “top of the caste system” benefit anymore to the Germans there. Feel free to chime in if I’m wrong. I’ve found topics related to Germany to be hard to actually figure out due to a lot of morality noise that gets injected into those topics (the Nazis wanted to unify and Nazis bad etc stuff like that).
- jjtwixman 6mo agoBoth Prussia and Austria made their names outside of the historically German lands and ruled over non-Germans. It was in the end Prussia that unified Germany in 1871 having previously defeated Austria. Both settlements following WWs 1 and 2 forbade Germany from unifying with Austria. And now in any case there is no appetite for it regardless of legality.
- GTP 6mo agoI can say that the German spoken in Germany and the one spoken in Austria aren't exactly the same; there are some regional differences. But they still understand each other without issues.
- masswerk 6mo agoAs a Viennese, I missed appropriate options, like rules and their mutual negotiability by lateral maneuvers (AKA dissimulation) and a general sense for disgruntledness. Moreover, smalltalk as the core of any negotiations (which should be understood more as mundane paperwork after the fact) isn't even mentioned! Now I do need some coffee, for real. ;-)
- eigenspace 6mo agoMore like "31% German according to stereotypes about Germans formed by some random foreigner who read some 19th century German philosophy texts, and has an affinity for Russian neo-fascis"