RE: Ask a German anything.
January 8, 2013 at 3:33 pm
(This post was last modified: January 8, 2013 at 3:37 pm by Something completely different.)
(January 8, 2013 at 1:30 pm)Annik Wrote: What language do you speak?
(lol)
French
(January 8, 2013 at 2:03 pm)Brian37 Wrote: How many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop?
7
(January 8, 2013 at 2:27 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: Do you think how many bananas that BGChuckLee eats, combined with his rather plump pouty lips has a deeper meaning?
absolutly
(January 8, 2013 at 2:31 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: Could you eat a kilo of rice?
Do you think that not paying people a wage they can live on is good for the economy?
Do you believe six impossible things before breakfast?
I think the stomache has only limited cpacity to store food.
yes
nope 7
(January 8, 2013 at 1:59 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Here's the thing I find very odd about postwar German culture.
It makes sense that after World War II, Germans would be, to say the least, very touchy about the subject of the Third Reich.
It makes sense that a good portion of Germany's art after the war would involve it in some way.
What doesn't make sense to me is that simultaneously, the Nazis are the elephant in the room, and yet, if the literature and films that reach American shores is any indication, it seems like it's the only thing they seem to want to talk about; I mean, it seems like 85% of German cinema these days is about the Nazis, and an additional 10% is about how fucked up East Germany was.
There's got to be some sort of explanation for this, but since you're a German, and a clearly intelligent one, you may have the answer. Of course, this may be just as extreme a national paradox as to why Americans are so squeamish about sex but not violence that nobody can answer it.
We make alot of other movies, but no one is interested in those other movies.
Ever heard of Bang Boom Bang?
Or the novels by Herman Hesse and Heinrich Böll?
Our relationship with the past is not only dominated by WW2, we enslaved the Polish people for 200 years and were pritty brutal in our treatment of the French and others.
It is the state of selfdenial when confronted with fashism, racism and antisemitism in Germany today which is worrying, not how we confront ourselves wtith our past.
Some deny to themselves that some problems exist simply because they believe that they can no longer exist.
