From Fri Oct 13 12:43:42 GMT 1989
Article: 944 of soc.culture.misc
Newsgroups: soc.culture.misc
Subject: Re: European VS American mentality: My hallucination or what?
Keywords: Collectivism/Mysticism vs. Individualism/Rationality
In article <22...@erix.ericsson.se> eua...@euas10.ericsson.se (Magnus Kempe) writes:
:Probably offensive to many Germans, and collectivists. You have been warned.
^^^^^^^?!
:Environmentalists may probably be offended.
:In article <10...@cbnews.ATT.COM> w...@cbnews.ATT.COM (Win Pruttinan) writes:
:: [West Germany is]
:: 1. More group oriented
:Right. They are, philosophically, collectivists. So were the Nazis.
:: 2. Less materialistic
:Right. West Germans are heirs of Kant, who said, among other things, that
:the material world is a mere distortion of a higher reality. In fact, West
:Germans have, in majority, a thoroughly anti-industrial revolution set of
:premises. They call it being "Green."
:: 3. People there have more *depth* culturally, socially, intellectually!
:Right. Their level is extremely low, in arts, in social ideals, and in
:intellectual ideals. For example, they long for a reunification of both
:Germanies, but they don't care what kind of political system is *appropriate*
:and would thus prevent a repetition of their history of attacks against the
:rest of Europe.
:: 5. Their way of living is more down-to-earth, honest, and natural
:Right. They want to return to the prehistorical level of survival. Look
:at the party platforms of the greens and socialists, and you'll see what I
:mean.
:: 8. Less racist: one's personality over one's race!
:You dare say that of the people who killed millions of *Jews*, and who,
:today, still consider that they are the best *people* in Europe?
Phew!! Ah well, it just goes to show that not all Europeans are not racist!
Magnus is the perveyor of the Ranroid religion in Eunet.politics. He has
shown racist tendancies before - describing black Africans as savages. I
just hope that his version of racist based freedom never comes to pass.
:-- Magnus eua...@euas10.ericsson.se
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