It just also came to my mind that whilest you talk about "founding fathers", here we use the term "Gründermütter" = "founding mothers".
Because most of the people who wrote our constitution in the early 1950s were women.
On the political field we actualy hardly have such generalising categorisations.
We have a racist social democrat, greens who oppose gay marriege, a homosexual conservative representative in parlaimant, a green governor who is devoutly catholic, a conservative minister of finance who works in the style of authoritarian prussian tradition - who speaks fluent french
I dont know how to give you a better picture of it, but it is safe to say that our political system avoids generalisation. Political debates in our parlaimant are for most a boring thing to watch, there is no party line or ideological line which is set to be followed by all members of a party. Instead subjects are discussed by representatives and individuals bring fourth their opinions and interpretation to the presented facts.
Our country went through 3 different forms of dictatorship in the last century - absolute monarchy, fascism and communism - all of which governed with generalisations as one method of keeping power. So I guess that generalisations are simply something which is frowned upon in todays republic.
Because most of the people who wrote our constitution in the early 1950s were women.
On the political field we actualy hardly have such generalising categorisations.
We have a racist social democrat, greens who oppose gay marriege, a homosexual conservative representative in parlaimant, a green governor who is devoutly catholic, a conservative minister of finance who works in the style of authoritarian prussian tradition - who speaks fluent french
I dont know how to give you a better picture of it, but it is safe to say that our political system avoids generalisation. Political debates in our parlaimant are for most a boring thing to watch, there is no party line or ideological line which is set to be followed by all members of a party. Instead subjects are discussed by representatives and individuals bring fourth their opinions and interpretation to the presented facts.
Our country went through 3 different forms of dictatorship in the last century - absolute monarchy, fascism and communism - all of which governed with generalisations as one method of keeping power. So I guess that generalisations are simply something which is frowned upon in todays republic.
