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> even those nations with substantial minorities tend to have an ‘official’ culture < Does that mean you claim that the US don't have an 'official culture'? If this is so, then I have to tell you, that you're wrong, at least when regarding the US from outside. Seen from outside the US Culture is exremely homogenous and doesn't show any trace of diversity. It looks compact!
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Name : Alexander, Gender : M, City : Berlin, State : NA, Country : Germany,It was a war crime, similar to the Japanese massacres in China, but it convinced the Japanese to end the war. But what do old crimes have to do with modern ones? Is it justified to take any historic atrocity as an excuse for a modern crime? If yes, then how long are you allowed to go back to find an appropriate human catastrophy to justify the actual?
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Name : Alexander, Gender : M, City : Berlin, State : NA, Country : Germany,That is a very complex question. How the individual lives were affected depends on the part people live in. Western Germans hardly noticed anything, except of a rise in taxes. Eastern Germans’ (Easty Beasties) lives were turned over completely. That resulted in an enormous loss of jobs. Many moved to West Germany, many of those who stayed have difficulties to find work (I think it’s about 25% in several regions). One major change, that I noticed (as a former West German) is the increase of general xenophobia in public. In former Eastern Germany people don’t like foreigners very much and the more foreign you are the more a noticeable part of the local population regards you as a kind of walking punchingball. It don’t have to be many people to make your life miserable. I think this is one of the reasons that it becomes more and more acceptable in all of Germany to say things like:’I don’t have anything against foreigners but..’ But East and West Germany also developed a less negative hobby together: complaining at the top of the voice. Bridge between East and West? I think Germany has to be this for I don’t have the impression that other members of the EU take an interest in the peoples east of the EU’s border. Perhaps the gouvernments do but are British people really interested in todays life in Poland or Hungarya? Well, Germany should do this but how I don’t know. Germany most definitely is no European super-state! It’s economically big (large??) but Europe is more than just a big pile of money. Super-states (as I understand) tend to think in hegemonies, something I never experienced here. The politicians here are too confused (or intelligent) to do so and the population (ie all my friends and the people I know) either don’t know this concept oder think it’s something to be avoided. For all I know, this is different in for example France or the UK. Being a European super-state is mostly a reproach from countries, that think certain parts of the world are reserved for them and their interest. All these views are of course very personal and you shouldn’t take them as an objective description, please..
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Name : Alexander, Gender : M, City : Berlin, State : NA, Country : Germany,
