The World Beyond The West
Dear friends who love the European Union, I used to be, just like you are now, a very passionate Europhile and I was full of enthusiasm for the idea of a united Europe. Having grown up with the teachings of history from half a century earlier still very present in my mind, I thought that … Continue reading Letter to the friends who love the European Union
Nietzsche was born in 1844, the son of a Lutheran pastor, in a provincial town in Thuringia. In 1866 Prussia united the whole of Northern Germany and in 1871, after the victory of Sedan against the French, the German unification was completed. Germany, which had been for centuries a loose coalition of many little independent … Continue reading Nietzsche and the rise of Germany
We live in a thriving democracy. We enjoy the benefits of an open and tolerant society, our system of government is transparent. The highest positions and the highest honors are accessible to those who display enough merit. The process of political decision making is the result of the pressures and needs of our civil society, which … Continue reading Open Germany is a dead-end
تمت ترجمة هذه المقالة تلقائيًا. يرجى الاعتذار لنا عن أي خطأ في ألمانيا ، لا يبدو أي شخص قلقًا بشأن مشكلة الهجرة. يُعتبر التعبير عن أدنى قدر من القلق بشأن إمكانية دمج العديد من الشباب من ثقافة مختلفة تمامًا علامة على التخلف الذي لا لبس فيه ، وأوجه القصور العقلي الخطيرة المحتملة والميل السياسي الخطير … Continue reading ألمانيا ليست جنة
Many years ago, for some reason I started to fancy studying some Finnish. Before I had gone further than the everyday greetings, I met a Finnish young woman and with the typical Nordic straight talk, she just said: "Nobody should study Finnish". Fine. Exactly the same happened the time I made the mistake of expressing … Continue reading 8 reasons why you should NOT study German
Everybody loves Berlin. Especially if you are a cool person you just have to love Berlin, it is young, dynamic, creative, sexy, well, you know the list. Yes, everybody loves Berlin, except Kristjan Knall. Kristjan Knall does not love Berlin, in particular he does not love the Berliners, in particular the hipsters (this subspecies of … Continue reading The tyranny of coolness – or not? Book review: 111 reasons to hate Berlin
In Germany nobody seems to be concerned about the problem of immigration anymore. Expressing the slightest worry about the possibility of integration of many young men from a very different culture is regarded as a sign of unequivocal backwardness, possible grave mental deficiencies and dangerous and intolerable political leanings. Not even the sexual assualts of Cologne on New … Continue reading Why Germany is not a multicultural paradise
EAST AND WEST 