re: #173 Bert’s House of Beef and Obdicuts

I think we honestly disagree: You seem to think that there’s some remnant of German culture from pre-Roman times that is significant in some way in modern German culture.

That is the point we disagree on, then. I see a lot of deep-seated Germanicism expressed not only in Germany but in Anglo-Saxon British (and ultimately American) culture.

National characteristics are not monolithic, unchangeable to determinative, they are just trends that seem to express themselves in different degrees in different societes.