re: #179 Sol Berdinowitz
Some distinctions: the Germans as individualistic, decentralized, rural and agrarian, close to nature and their surroundings and not prone to wander too far unless extreme circumstances drove them to it.
And why don’t those attributes just come from the HRE period, since they describe life during that time pretty well?
“individualistic” is a weird word, and I’m not at all sure what you mean by it, especially when we’re talking about a group attribute.