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What is the national idea of the other listed countries in comparison? Also: a "national idea" isn't the only reason people do cutting edge research.



you need an idea in order to mobilize the energy of the population.

German passionary patriotism has been artificially subverted and shut down, and the nation instead has been flooded with non-Germanic elements, thus completely destroying the very definition of German.

Ask any German on the street, and nobody will be able to answer: What defines being a German, who are the Germans, what is their history, and what awaits German people in the future.

Complete void of any ideology, national idea, any energy that could propel the nation in the great leap forward.


> German passionary patriotism has been artificially subverted and shut down, and the nation instead has been flooded with non-Germanic elements, thus completely destroying the very definition of German.

> Ask any German on the street, and nobody will be able to answer: What defines being a German, who are the Germans, what is their history, and what awaits German people in the future.

I don't think so, you will meet plently people that will be able to tell you about Germany's history, or at least recent history. And what defines being German, you might get different answers, but is that so bad, and where wouldn't you? Hasn't multiculturalism just become a big part of Germany's identity, and not destroyed it as you claim? Döner just as the simplest example.


Are you seriously claiming that Döner is a German culture???? Not schnitzel, not bratwurts, but doner??

Your post highlights all the problems with modern Germany


> the great leap forward

... doesn't sound very desirable, with how things by that name have gone historically.




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