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Polish-German Relations in the Present [697]
I had nothing to do with what that generation did! Why do I have to tip toe around on eggshells? To hell with this! This is MY life and I will live it my way. (Of course this would get me in a LOT of trouble in Germany). So what would happen?
agree.
in my case it lead to me leaving germany and being proud to be a german in england. and you know what... people here appreciate me for this.
the good thing for me now is that i can be proud of living in england embracing their way og live and if i feel like i can be "the german" at any given time. it's great...
a pressure cooker eventually blows
as i said somewhere earlier. germany is not going to blow in an aggressive way anymore. so much we learnt from our history...
i don't feel the pressure and holding back thing in germany as something that urges to eventually burst...
(we can and do say say pretty much anything, idiot or not!)
i bellieve you glorify slightly in saying this but that would be again material for another thread...
Was it really so? Was it really 50-50? Is it really always so relative that there are no those who are worse and better in given circumstances?
not in any given circumstances (ie historical period) but overall i would agree that we are very close to 50-50. maybe 49.8-50.2 but still i believe we should look into the future and respect each others past...
going back further andf further in history will eventually show that once we were running through the forrests with sticks hunting mammooths... ;-) you know what i mean.
you are American and the view conveniently justifies the conduct of the United States towards many nations, such as Native Indians, Vietnamese, Latin Americans, Iraqis
touché! ;-)
But in the US, Canada, UK, national flags are put out everywhere.
which is a good thing, isn't it? a HEALTHY identification with your heritage should be normal. remember the world cup last year in germany? i wasn't there but for the first time since ages german flags were waved like that without being a threat. i believe the germans were good hosts... now we should build on that...
EDIT:
As the result some Polish organizations started to count how much Germans should pay for what they did ...
today nobody should pay anymore for what happened at ww2....
if Germans try after 60 years get some properties, why the hell we shouldnt try to get sth ... (way of thinking)
absolutely right. which proves that this (small) minority of backward thinking germans should shut up! and yes our gov fails to make a point in this...
We have to solve this issue.
agree
Yes most of nowadays Germans dont live in the past but this part which live in the past is really annoying
couldn't agree more.
you know me by now. this issue does us both no good in looking forward to live with each other. i simply hope that in poland are people genarally thinking "yes there is a small group of silly germans, but the rest seems to be okay"...
you know what i mean.
don't let this issue ruin or hinder a growing relationship between our nations within europe...