Victor David had better have a care lest he like Icarus, with whom Hanson as a classical scholar is well acquainted, flies too close to the truth and gets burned.
Posted on 12/15/2011 2:21:36 AM PST by Kaslin
German Americans have been influential in almost every field in American society, including science, architecture, industry, sports, entertainment, theology, government, and the military. German American generals Baron von Steuben, John Pershing, Dwight Eisenhower, and Norman Schwarzkopf commanded the United States Army in the American Revolutionary War, World War I, World War II, and the Persian Gulf War, respectively. Many German Americans have played a prominent role in industry and business, including John D. Rockefeller, William Boeing, Walter Chrysler, George Westinghouse, and Donald Trump. Some, such as Brooklyn Bridge engineer John A. Roebling and architect Walter Gropius, left behind visible landmarks. Others, including Albert Einstein and Wernher von Braun, set intellectual landmarks. Still others, such as Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jack Nicklaus, Doris Day, and Leonardo DiCaprio, became prominent athletes or actors.[7]
German Americans established the first kindergartens in the United States,[8] introduced the Christmas tree tradition,[9][10] and originated popular American foods such as hot dogs and hamburgers.
... For the record I am not German. I am first generation American, born in NYC. My father was Irish and my mother was Dutch. But I am married to a German and my daughter is German. :)
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My father’s mother was from London. I need to put that in there! (in case anyone cared)
Germany runs a large trade surplus every year. Germany became rich via exporting. They made what the rest of EU Europe wanted to buy. Chemicals and well made manufactured goods. Germans have hi-IQ and have their shyte together.
This is how they got to where they are. By being better at producing upscale tech items and selling to their neighbors. Ethnic Germans (part and full) are responsible for a lot of our Midwest manufacturing. Just last week Wisconsin was called the state with the highest percentage of workers in manufacturing. Wisconsin is heavily ethnic German
If the deadbeats in Europe don’t like the terms, then they don’t have to take the money.
Ping.
I am a naturalized citizen from Germany
Rhinelander, WI comes to mind
So what? Those are the common people and don’t have very much to do, if anything at all, with the elite. And if they came here, their bloodlines may prove to have been very different from other German folk besides.
No, that’s not it. Forgot that it was eight years ago that they were the “sick man of Europe”? Not even their large manufacturing base was helping them. It was the euro, and the shenanigans involved in setting that up. They control its central bank.
Good article, I wonder what the great thinkers on campus will say about this.
Victor David had better have a care lest he like Icarus, with whom Hanson as a classical scholar is well acquainted, flies too close to the truth and gets burned.
I hope you enjoy your next hamburger. :)
Germany has never been the "sick man of Europe". That honor fell to Britain in the sixties and seventies till Thatcher came along. Germany has been the economic power in the EU since it rebuilt after the War.
It was Germany's economic success that frightened the French into creating the Euro in the first place. France, in schizophrenic fashion, as so often in the past, alternately lashes out at Britain for abandoning it and fawns on Germany to appease it.
Whatever their sins in the past, since 1945, the Germans have kept their heads down and worked their butts off. And, in typical human fashion, they are now criticized and envied for it.
I love reading VDH and respect him highly. That being said, he failed in the first sentence of this article. Yikes!
The German century started in either 1865 or 1870-71, depending on your point of view.
The Germany century reached it’s first pinnacle in 1912-14,...
but anyways, not a bad article.
If you wish to live like a German, then you must work and save like a German...
Live like a German? You call that life? I want to live like an Italian and work and save like one. If you look at the statistics (export, home ownership, gold reserves, past honoring of debts, and others) you might be surprised. Sorry if we work to live and don’t live to work. In any case Italian credit institutions barely participated in the 700,000 billion dollar loan boondoggle that poisoned the market. No housing bubble here. That’s a New York, London, Paris, Frankfurt creation. Actually, playboy Berlusconi had improved the debt situation somewhat vis-a-vis past years (which oddly was never tragic). And now it seems that it all hinges on Italy... And to solve the problem we must live like Germans. How about those financial geniuses copying the caution of the Italian banking system?
I did buy a Weedeater blower-vac from the base exchange and subsequently went around vacuuming up all their little piles of dirt and leaves for which they were very amused.
Still, I have seen my share of German welfare cheats (and their welfare is much more generous than ours) and Swartz-Arbeiteren (black workers) who take cash money on the side....
That was a kind of weird display of the German work effort mixed with laziness... Guys who didn't have a real job, collecting unemployment/welfare benefits, busting their chops every day painting houses, hanging wallpaper, setting tile, fixing cars, etc., on the sly, so the Federal republic wouldn't/couldn't tax them.
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