Negotiator wrote:Wait, what ? "Cultural suicide" ? Lolz !!
Thats the good old "homosexual marriages threaten heterosexual marriages" line of argument all over again. No they dont. No heterosexual marriage was ever influenced by the fact if homosexuals could marry or not, either.
Likewise I havent changed my culture one bit just because theres some refugees here. I dont think any other german has.
If at all our culture got even more diverse. But german culture has always has been diverse. We're in the center of europe, no less than nine different countries have borders to us.
Diversity is power, not a weakness.
I dont view Germany as being unique from its neighbors, but it does have its own style and history. Part of culture is recognizing your history. Germany does a fine job recognizing the evils of the Nazis, but the good of the last few centuries (education, art, productivity, work ethic) seems to be taken for granted and left aside for the cultural norms of foreigners. Taking it for granted and embracing new oddities is normal the world over, but those old cultural norms built a society that functions, and that is generally a good thing. Now it seems like you are vilifying those that want to keep the old ways, and while I am fine with vilifying the militaristic past, you are grouping all the old ways together, including the productive ones that laid the foundation for the modern productive progressive society. At the same time you are fetishizing foreign culture, and seem to be oblivious to those that are less productive and less tolerant than the native German one, and ones that dont look at evil in their own past. In a hundred years society will be different, I dont want that German society to be one that doesnt care for retrospection, tolerance and productivity. I view current Germany as a nice country heading down a path where your new society will ignore/detach itself from past evils, is intolerant and non-productive.. a GDR v2.0, but with less moral and political constraints.
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